Much of the French department of the Nord was occupied during the First World War. This book considers the ways in which occupied locals responded to and understood their situation, focusing on key behaviours adopted by locals and the beliefs surrounding such conduct. Key topics examined include forms of complicity, disunity, criminality, resistance, and the memory of the occupation. This local case study calls into question overly-patriotic readings of this experience, and suggests a new conceptual vocabulary to help understand certain civilian behaviours under military occupation. Drawing on extensive primary documentation, this book proposes that a dominant 'occupied culture' existed among locals: a moral-patriotic framework, born of both pre-war socio-cultural norms and daily interaction with the enemy, that guided conduct and was especially concerned with what was considered acceptable and unacceptable behaviour.
An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC) licence. -- .
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'The mastery of the conceptual stakes, of a now-abundant historiography and the affirmation of a strong thesis [...] guide the dive into departmental and municipal archives, which are the principal sources drawn upon alongside numerous printed sources published during and after the four years of the occupation of the Nord during the First World War.'
Stephane Lembre, Lecturer in Modern History, Institute of Historical Research of the North, Lille 3 University. Revue du Nord -- .
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978-1-5261-1781-6 (9781526117816)
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