| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xx, 740 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2005, under title: La vie en bleu : France and the French since 1900. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of illustrations -- List of maps -- Preface -- Introduction -- pt. 1. The primacy of the republic, 1900s-1931-- Introduction to part one -- 1. The use and abuse of reason, 1900-1906 -- 1) Republicans and reason -- 2) Defining civilization : colonized and colonizers -- 3) Citizenship, rights and religion -- 2. New forces : socialism and syndicalism, 1900-1909 -- 1) Workers and working lives -- 2) Representing the workers -- 3) Strikes and social conflict -- 3. New forces : nationalism and patriotism, 1900-1914 -- 1) Reformulations of nationalism -- 2) Republican nationalism/patriotism -- 4. Total war, 1914-1918 -- 1) The war of movement -- 2) Defining the nation -- 3) The limits of endurance -- 4) War to the end -- 5. The republic at war and peace, 1914-1920s -- 1) The meanings of the war -- 2) Peacemaking -- 3) Post-war power struggles -- 4) The politics of peace, 1919-1929 -- 6. A distinctive society, 1920-1931 -- 1) Ruralism and the peasantry -- 2) Immigration -- 3) Divisions of labour -- 4) Affinity with modernism -- 5) Structures at the centre -- |
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pt. 2. The spiral of ideology, 1920s-1969 -- Introduction to part two -- 7. Manipulating crisis, 1920s-1934 -- 1) Calls for renewal -- 2) World depression, French crisis -- 3) Public projects, scandal and riot -- 8. Confrontations, 1934-1936 -- 1) The making of ideological conflict -- 9. Popular front, 1936-1938 -- 1) The summer of reform -- 2) Roots, regions and nation -- 3) Popular front and nonconformity -- 4) Peace, anti-fascism and Spain -- 5) Counter-offensive -- 10. Not another war? Shattered illusions, 1930s-1940 -- 1) The tangled ideologies of peace -- 2) What kind of war? -- 3) The débâcle of May-June 1940 -- 11. Occupied France (1). Vichy and collaboration, 1940-1944 -- 1) Living under occupation -- 2) Opportunities in defeat -- 12. Occupied France (2). Resistance and liberation, 1940-1944 -- 1) Individual refusal and dissent -- 2) Collective defiance -- 3) Basic structures of resistance -- 4) Politics and ideology of resistance -- 5) Home and fighting fronts -- 6) Liberation : end and beginning -- 13. Ending war...not in Indo-China or Algeria, 1944-1962 -- 1) The meanings and sequel of occupation and liberation -- 2) The larger France -- 3) The war of Indo-China, 1946-1954 -- 4) The Algerian war, 1954-1962 -- 14. The chequered imperative of change, 1940s-1958 -- 1) The urgency of social change -- 2) Polarization and the Cold War -- 3) Peace : the European alternative -- 4) Economic boom, political fall-out -- 15. De Gaulle's ascendancy, 1950s-1968 -- 1) De Gaulle and Gaulism -- 2) Two phrases : marrying the century ; dependent participation -- 3) The search for self-management -- 16. May-June, 1968 -- 1) Revolt -- 2) Counter-events : June '68 -- |
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pt. 3. Issues of identity, 1960s-2000s -- Introduction to part three -- 17. Whose new society?, 1960s-1979 -- 1) The ea of '68 ('les années '68') -- 2) Enter the economy (centre stage) -- 18. Ideological rupture and retreat, 1970s-1984 -- 1) The return of politics : the contest for president, 1981 -- 2) Socialism in power : promise and problems -- 3) Issue politics -- 19. Pressures for consensus, 1980s-1993 -- 1) Swing to the right, but... -- 2) ...a republic of post-socialism? -- 3) Identity in Europe and beyond -- 4) 'The end of ideology' and 'the limits of consensus' -- 20. The challenge of plurality, 1990s-2000s (1) -- 1) Issues of difference -- 2) Market highways -- 21. Political oscillation, 1990s-2000s (2) -- 1) Mitterrand to Chirac, Juppé to Jospin -- 2) A viable post-socialism -- 3) Pursuit of equilibrium -- 22. Memory and identity, 1990s-2000s (3) -- 1) Memory and judgement -- 2) Shifting patterns of identity -- Notes -- Abbreviations and glossary -- Selected further reading -- Index. |
| Subject |
France -- History -- 20th century.
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France -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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France -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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| Added Title |
Vie en bleu
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| ISBN |
1585677337 |
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9781585677337 |
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