Vichy, Resistance, Liberation : New Perspectives on Wartime France.
Title:
Vichy, Resistance, Liberation : New Perspectives on Wartime France.
Author:
Diamond, Hanna.
ISBN:
9781845207144
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (220 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 One Historian and his Occupation: Rod Kedward -- 2 H.R. Kedward: an Oral Profile -- Part I: Collective Trajectories -- 3 Pacifists into Resisters? A Biographical Approach to Women in Wartime France: the Peace Petitioners of 1938 -- 4 'Quite simply, Colonel…': Gender and The Second World War -- 5 Conflicting Identities in a Mining Community on Strike 1930-50 -- 6 Talk which was not Idle: Rumours in Wartime France -- 7 Grammatical Notes: Surviving, and Memories of Jewish Life in Nice, 1939-43 -- 8 'Fraternity among listeners'. The BBC and French Resistance: Evidence from Refugees -- 9 'Meeting Private Ryan': a Franco-American Liberation Community -- Part II: Individual Trajectories -- 10 Film and Cultural Demobilization after the Great War: the Two versions of J'Accuse by Abel Gance (1918 and 1938) -- 11 'Like a wisp of straw amidst the raging elements?' Daniel Guérin in the Second World War -- 12 'Mal embarqué bien arrivé': the Strange Story of François Perroux -- 13 Homecomings: Paulette Bernège, Scientific Management and the Return to the Land in Vichy France -- 14 Demography at Liberation: Using History to Forget the Past -- Rod Kedward and his Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Bringing together key international scholars, Vichy, Resistance, Liberation: New Perspectives on Wartime France offers original insight into this critical period of modern France. It shifts the focus away from straightforward political history to reflect the current interest in socio-cultural aspects of the Second World War and breaks down traditional chronological barriers. In seeking to understand war from a social perspective, the contributors focus on individuals and communities. Wars are moments which forever alter the emphasis of social expression. Rumours emerge as a major aspect of daily life. Wars are also periods offering new possibilities to individuals. Several contributors explore the lives of previously little known individuals in Vichy France Paulette Bernge, Daniel Gurin, Georges Mauco, Franois Perroux. Other contributors emphasize some of the forgotten actors of the period, most notably the anarchists. Other contributors uncover new information about womens experience in Vichy France. Vichy, Resistance, Liberation moves away from the trend of synthesis history and presents path-breaking research and new trajectories of interest in the field. The collection pays tribute to the work of H.R. Kedward, the world-renowned specialist on Occupied France.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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