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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813208403321

Autore

Prost Antoine <1933->

Titolo

Republican identities in war and peace : representations of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / / Antoine Prost ; translated by Jay Winter with Helen McPhail

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berg, 2002

ISBN

1-4725-7809-0

1-282-66229-5

9786612662294

1-84520-896-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 354 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Legacy of the Great War

Altri autori (Persone)

WinterJ. M

McPhailHelen

Disciplina

944.081

Soggetti

France History 1914-1940

France History German occupation, 1940-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Maps; Preface; Introduction; I. National Identity; 1 War Memorials of the Great War; 2 Verdun; 3 The Contribution of the Republican Primary School to French National Identity; 4 Representations of War in the Cultural History of France, 1914-1939; 5 The Algerian War in French Collective Memory; II. Identities and Civil Society; 6 The People of Paris; 7 Celebrating Joan; 8 Marriage, Youth and Society in Orleans in 1911; 9 Youth in France Between the Wars; III. Identities and the Discourse of Political Conflict; 10 Votes and Words; 11 Workers, Others and the State; 12 The French Contempt for Politics; 13 The Strikes of 1936; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Presents a collection of articles by Antoine Prost. This book covers: an account of war memorials; the troubled history of commemorating the Algerian war; republican representations of war and peace; and, discourse and social conflict in republican France. It offers an understanding of the history of nineteenth and twentieth century France. Please note that images or diagrams have been excluded from this text due to copyright restrictions.