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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460675203321

Titolo

France after 2012 / / edited by Riccardo Brizzi and Gabriel Goodliffe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : berghahn, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78238-549-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Disciplina

944.084/12

Soggetti

Presidents - France - Election - History - 21st century

Political leadership - France - History - 21st century

Political parties - France - History - 21st century

Electronic books.

France Politics and government 2012-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Chapter 7 � In Search of the Center""""Chapter 8 � The Resurgence of the Front National""; ""Part III � The Electoral Campaign and Hollande's Challenges""; ""Chapter 9 � Hollande's Economic Agenda""; ""Chapter 10 � Europe in the 2012 French Presidential Election""; ""Chapter 11 � Hollande and Sarkozy's Foreign Policy Legacy""; ""Chapter 12 � Immigration and the 2012 Elections in France""; ""Conclusion: Assessing the Hollande Presidency One Year into Office""; ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

In May 2012, French voters rejected the liberalizing policies of Nicolas Sarkozy and elected his opponent, the Socialist Francois Hollande, president. In June 2012, the incumbent president's center-right UMP party was swept out of government in the ensuing parliamentary elections, giving way to a new center-left majority in the National Assembly. This book analyzes the contexts and results of the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections in France. It assesses the legacies of the Sarkozy presidency that informed the 2012 electoral campaigns, scrutinizing his domestic social and economic p



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787783003321

Autore

Collie Craig

Titolo

The reporter and the warlords / / Craig Collie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney : , : Allen & Unwin, , 2013

ISBN

1-74269-470-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (591 p.)

Disciplina

324.2510750924

Soggetti

Australians - China

Journalists - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

COVER PAGE; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; MAP: CHINA IN THE TIME OF DONALD; PEOPLE FEATURED IN THIS BOOK; CHAPTER 1: A DIFFERENT WORLD; CHAPTER 2: HIDE-AND-SEEK; CHAPTER 3: THE VICEROY; CHAPTER 4: FALL OF THE MANCHUS; CHAPTER 5: HOW WE TOOK PURPLE MOUNTAIN BY STEALTH; CHAPTER 6: AN UNSHINING SUN; CHAPTER 7: 21 DEMANDS; CHAPTER 8: THE DAY OF THE WARLORD; CHAPTER 9: THE YOUNG MARSHAL; CHAPTER 10: THE CURE; CHAPTER 11: MADAME AND THE GENERALISSIMO; CHAPTER 12: THE SI'AN INCIDENT; CHAPTER 13: DISILLUSIONED; CHAPTER 14: ESCAPE AND CAPTURE

CHAPTER 15: YESTERDAY'S MANEPILOGUE; AUTHOR'S NOTE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER NOTES

Sommario/riassunto

Set against a background of the birth of modern China, this is the true story of Australian journalist, Bill Donald, and his role in those turbulent events in the first half of the 20th century. With no agenda other than an unshakeable belief in China's potential, Donald was drawn into the republican revolution as it swept aside the last imperial dynasty, becoming advisor to a succession of idiosyncratic political figures: Sun Yat-sen, a Manchurian warlord and the Chiang Kai-sheks. In his relentless pursuit of China's destiny, he tracked down Russia's Baltic Fleet, cured the warlord of his opi