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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792324603321

Autore

Nord Philip G. <1950->

Titolo

France's New Deal [[electronic resource] ] : from the Thirties to the Postwar era / / Philip Nord

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-58080-9

9786612580802

1-4008-3496-1

Edizione

[Core Textbook]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (474 p.)

Disciplina

944.081/6

Soggetti

Social change - France - History - 20th century

Economic development - France - History - 20th century

Political culture - France - History - 20th century

Arts, French - 20th century

France Politics and government 1914-1940

France Politics and government 1940-1945

France Cultural policy History 20th century

France History German occupation, 1940-1945

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

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION Postwar Stories -- Part I: THE FRENCH MODEL -- CHAPTER 1. The Crisis of the Thirties -- CHAPTER 2. The War Years -- CHAPTER 3. The Liberation Moment -- Part II: A CULTURE OF QUALITY -- CHAPTER 4. Art and Commerce in the Interwar Decades -- CHAPTER 5. Culture in Wartime -- CHAPTER 6. The Culture State -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

France's New Deal is an in-depth and important look at the remaking of the French state after World War II, a time when the nation was endowed with brand-new institutions for managing its economy and culture. Yet, as Philip Nord reveals, the significant process of state rebuilding did not begin at the Liberation. Rather, it got started earlier, in the waning years of the Third Republic and under the Vichy regime.



Tracking the nation's evolution from the 1930's through the postwar years, Nord describes how a variety of political actors--socialists, Christian democrats, technocrats, and Gaullists--had a hand in the construction of modern France. Nord examines the French development of economic planning and a cradle-to-grave social security system; and he explores the nationalization of radio, the creation of a national cinema, and the funding of regional theaters. Nord shows that many of the policymakers of the Liberation era had also served under the Vichy regime, and that a number of postwar institutions and policies were actually holdovers from the Vichy era--minus the authoritarianism and racism of those years. From this perspective, the French state after the war was neither entirely new nor purely social-democratic in inspiration. The state's complex political pedigree appealed to a range of constituencies and made possible the building of a wide base of support that remained in place for decades to come. A nuanced perspective on the French state's postwar origins, France's New Deal chronicles how one modern nation came into being.