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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798137403321

Titolo

France in the era of fascism : essays on the French authoritarian right / / edited by Brian Jenkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2005

ISBN

1-57181-537-6

1-78238-956-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

320.53/3/094409041

Soggetti

Fascism - France - History - 20th century

Right-wing extremists - France - History - 20th century

France Politics and government 1914-1940

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 (pages [219]-226) and index.

Nota di contenuto

France in the Era of Fascism; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction: Contextualising the Immunity Thesis; 2. Morphology of Fascism in France; 3. Fascism in France: Problematising the Immunity Thesis; 4. The Five Stages of Fascism; 5. February 1934 and the Discovery of French Society's Allergy to the 'Fascist Revolution'; 6. The Construction of Crisis in Interwar France; 7. Conclusion: Beyond the 'Fascism Debate'; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

France's response to the rise of European fascism during the 1930s, and subsequently to the Nazi occupation 1940-44, has been a difficult subject for the nation’s historians. The consensus amongst leading French authorities on the period has been the claim that France was largely 'immune' to fascism in the 1930s, and that the Vichy regime was an aberration produced by defeat and occupation. Over the last 30 years, this position has gradually been undermined, mainly through the work of foreign scholars, but it nonetheless remains intact. This volume brings together for the first time the leading critics of the standard French interpretation, who have used these essays to refine and update their positions, or to move the debate onto new terrain.