Emile Chabal is a Chancellor’s Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

A fantastic collection of essays providing a much-needed update of numerous areas that will be of great interest to students and scholars of France, no less so through how it opens up so many new avenues for us all to explore.

• Introduction. French politics in an age of uncertainty Emile Chabal (University of Edinburgh, UK)Part I: French politics beyond right and left1. The great upheaval: left and right in contemporary French politics Pascal Perrineau (Sciences Po, Paris, France)2. The Front National since the 1970s: electoral impact and party system change Jim Shields (Aston University, UK) 3. Class, class conflict and the left: the place of the people in French politics Nick Hewlett (University of Warwick, UK) 4. The melancholy of post-Communism: François Furet and the ‘passions’ Christophe Prochasson (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France) Part 2: The politics of postcolonialism in contemporary France5.The cost of decolonisation: compensating the pieds-noirs Yann Scioldo-Zürcher (CNRS, Université de Poitiers, France) 6. From militancy to history: Sans Frontière and immigrant memory at the dawn of the 1980s Daniel A. Gordon (Edge Hill University, UK) 7. Algeria in Paris: 50 years on Isabel Hollis (Queen’s University, Belfast, UK)8. France’s nostalgias for empire Patricia M. E. Lorcin (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA) Part 3: Republicanism, liberalism and the changing contours of French intellectual life9. Justifying capitalism in an age of uncertainty: L’Association pour la Liberté Économique et le Progrès Social, 1969-1973 Michael C. Behrent (Appalachian State University, USA) 10. France’s anti-68 liberal revival Iain Stewart (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 11. Republicanism and the critique of human rights Camille Robcis (Cornell University, USA) 12. Cultural insecurity and political solidarity: French republicanism reconsidered Sophie Guérard de Latour (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, France) Conclusion. France: the eternal crisis? Sudhir Hazareesingh (University of Oxford, UK)Index

Emile Chabal is a Chancellor’s Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

A fantastic collection of essays providing a much-needed update of numerous areas that will be of great interest to students and scholars of France, no less so through how it opens up so many new avenues for us all to explore.

• Introduction. French politics in an age of uncertainty Emile Chabal (University of Edinburgh, UK)Part I: French politics beyond right and left1. The great upheaval: left and right in contemporary French politics Pascal Perrineau (Sciences Po, Paris, France)2. The Front National since the 1970s: electoral impact and party system change Jim Shields (Aston University, UK) 3. Class, class conflict and the left: the place of the people in French politics Nick Hewlett (University of Warwick, UK) 4. The melancholy of post-Communism: François Furet and the ‘passions’ Christophe Prochasson (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France) Part 2: The politics of postcolonialism in contemporary France5.The cost of decolonisation: compensating the pieds-noirs Yann Scioldo-Zürcher (CNRS, Université de Poitiers, France) 6. From militancy to history: Sans Frontière and immigrant memory at the dawn of the 1980s Daniel A. Gordon (Edge Hill University, UK) 7. Algeria in Paris: 50 years on Isabel Hollis (Queen’s University, Belfast, UK)8. France’s nostalgias for empire Patricia M. E. Lorcin (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA) Part 3: Republicanism, liberalism and the changing contours of French intellectual life9. Justifying capitalism in an age of uncertainty: L’Association pour la Liberté Économique et le Progrès Social, 1969-1973 Michael C. Behrent (Appalachian State University, USA) 10. France’s anti-68 liberal revival Iain Stewart (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 11. Republicanism and the critique of human rights Camille Robcis (Cornell University, USA) 12. Cultural insecurity and political solidarity: French republicanism reconsidered Sophie Guérard de Latour (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, France) Conclusion. France: the eternal crisis? Sudhir Hazareesingh (University of Oxford, UK)Index

Emile Chabal is a Chancellor’s Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

A fantastic collection of essays providing a much-needed update of numerous areas that will be of great interest to students and scholars of France, no less so through how it opens up so many new avenues for us all to explore.

• Introduction. French politics in an age of uncertainty Emile Chabal (University of Edinburgh, UK)Part I: French politics beyond right and left1. The great upheaval: left and right in contemporary French politics Pascal Perrineau (Sciences Po, Paris, France)2. The Front National since the 1970s: electoral impact and party system change Jim Shields (Aston University, UK) 3. Class, class conflict and the left: the place of the people in French politics Nick Hewlett (University of Warwick, UK) 4. The melancholy of post-Communism: François Furet and the ‘passions’ Christophe Prochasson (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France) Part 2: The politics of postcolonialism in contemporary France5.The cost of decolonisation: compensating the pieds-noirs Yann Scioldo-Zürcher (CNRS, Université de Poitiers, France) 6. From militancy to history: Sans Frontière and immigrant memory at the dawn of the 1980s Daniel A. Gordon (Edge Hill University, UK) 7. Algeria in Paris: 50 years on Isabel Hollis (Queen’s University, Belfast, UK)8. France’s nostalgias for empire Patricia M. E. Lorcin (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA) Part 3: Republicanism, liberalism and the changing contours of French intellectual life9. Justifying capitalism in an age of uncertainty: L’Association pour la Liberté Économique et le Progrès Social, 1969-1973 Michael C. Behrent (Appalachian State University, USA) 10. France’s anti-68 liberal revival Iain Stewart (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 11. Republicanism and the critique of human rights Camille Robcis (Cornell University, USA) 12. Cultural insecurity and political solidarity: French republicanism reconsidered Sophie Guérard de Latour (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, France) Conclusion. France: the eternal crisis? Sudhir Hazareesingh (University of Oxford, UK)Index