The Moral Disarmament of France

Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940

AvMona L. Siegel

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Del 18 i serien Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

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While French schoolteachers of the late nineteenth century have been widely celebrated for converting 'peasants into Frenchmen', their interwar counterparts have enjoyed little such acclaim. Both contemporary critics and subsequent scholars have condemned French pacifist schoolteachers of the interwar decades for cultivating antipatriotism and facilitating the defeat of 1940. In this book, Mona L. Siegel challenges such equations of teachers' pacifism with national betrayal. Drawn to pacifist ideals in the aftermath of World War I, schoolteachers sought to 'morally disarm' the nation by purging their classrooms of the militaristic images, symbols, narratives, and values that had led their generation to accept war without question in 1914. At the same time, however, their teaching remained rooted in longstanding patriotic and republican traditions. Siegel argues that interwar schoolteachers ultimately solidified French citizens' patriotic loyalties in an era when economic hardship and political extremism threatened to undermine those very ideals.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-03-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Antal sidor:334
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521187787

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Review of the hardback: 'We found this book was an excellent example of how a history of education could address a broad historiographical question, namely the role of French schoolteachers in shaping pacifist and patriotic attitudes in the interwar period. We were also impressed with the quality of research, the range and variety of sources, and the careful development of the argument. We found this book to be a model of how to write the history of education …' History of Education Society

Innehållsförteckning

List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. 'Raise their hearts to the Fatherland': patriotism, pacifism, and primary school education during the First World War; 2. 'Little French children, do not forget!' - immediate postwar lessons and French collective memory of the Great War; 3. 'There are only false victories and great miseries' - socialist internationalism, feminist pacifism, and the forging of a new ideological consensus; 4. 'War is atrocious for all fatherlands' - pacifist scholastic narratives of the Great War; 5. 'To love France is to love all humanity' - patriotic education between the wars; 6. 'We do not want war!' - schoolteachers confront fascism and international conflict, 1933 to 1940; Notes; Bibliography; Index.