The Popular Front in France (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
388
Utgivningsdatum
1990-05-01
Upplaga
New e.
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Medarbetare
Julian, Jackson
Illustratör/Fotograf
glossary illustrations index
Illustrationer
Ill. glossary, index
Dimensioner
230 x 150 x 25 mm
Vikt
700 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780521312523

The Popular Front in France

Defending Democracy, 1934-38

av Julian Jackson
Häftad,  Engelska, 1990-05-01
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This is the first full-length study in English of the Popular Front, the left-wing coalition which emerged in France during the 1930s in response to the threat of fascism and which went on to win the elections of 1936, giving France her first socialist premier, Lon Blum. After a brief narrative history of the Popular Front the book is organised thematically around the main historiographical debates to which the Popular Front has given rise. Among the issues considered are the origins of the strikes of 1936, the reasons for the failure of the Popular Front economic policy, the relationship between culture and politics in France in the 1930s and the causes of France's policy of non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War. The book views the Popular Front at three levels - as a mass movement, political coalition and government - and argues that it must not be seen just as a narrowly political phenomenon but as a political, social and cultural explosion which attempted to break down the barriers between all areas of human activity in the highly compartmentalised society of France in the 1930s. Even if the Popular Front ultimately failed in this aim it has acquired legendary status in France, and the epilogue to the book briefly examines the 'myth' of the Popular Front from 1936 to the present day.
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' ... the book is by far the best-researched and most significant account of the Popular Front to appear on either side of the Channel for the last two decades. All it requires is for CUP to issue a paperback edition for it to become established as the main (or indeed the only) student text on the subject for the next decade.' Modern and Contemporary France

'This book provides the first history of the French Popular Front in English, and fills that surprising gap with scholarly distinction ... The author modestly disclaims any ambition to offer a work of sustained original research, but his mastery of the immense literature on the Popular Front is remarkable, and his analyses of rival interpretations are models of lucidity.' International Affairs

' ... a comprehensive and detached corrective to partisan diatribes and eulogies ... a well-balanced and readable assessment.' The Times Literary Supplement

Innehållsförteckning

List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Prelude to Power: 1. The origins of the Popular Front; 2. The leaders; Part II. The Explosion: 3. The social explosion; 4. The cultural explosion; Part III. The Exercise of Power: Peace, Bread And Liberty: 5. 'Liberty': defending democracy; 6. 'Bread': the Blum new deal; 7. 'Peace': the contradiction; Part IV. Coalition and Opposition: 8. The mystique of unity; 9. The view from the right; Part V. The End of the Popular Front: 10. Post-mortem; Appendices; Glossary; Notes; Bibliographical note; Index.

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