The Uncertain Foundation
France at the Liberation 1944-47
1st Edition
Published on 27. June 2007
XV, 263 pages
978-0-230-22290-8 (ISBN)
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France's liberation was expected to trigger a decisive break both with the Vichy régime and with the pre-war Third Republic. What happened was an untidy patchwork of unplanned continuities and false starts. This volume analyses the complex process of regime change, economic renewal, social transformation, and adjustment to a fast-evolving world.
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NICHOLAS ATKIN Professor of Modern European History, University of Reading, UK
PHILIPPE BUTON Professor of Contemporary History, University of Reims, France
EMMANUEL CARTIER Lecturer in Public Law, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
HERRICK CHAPMAN Associate Professor of History, New York University, USA
CHARLES COGAN Senior Associate Fellow, the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA
HILARY FOOTITT Senior Research Fellow in French, the University of Reading, UK
DAVID GOLDEY Emeritus Fellow in Politics at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK
ANDREW KNAPP Professor of French Politics and Contemporary History, University of Reading, UK
NATALIA NAOUMOVA Senior Lecturer in European History, Lomonossov University, Moscow, Russia
MARTIN SHIPWAY Lecturer in French Contemporary History and Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
PAUL SMITH Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham, UK
OLIVIER WIEVIORKA Professor of Contemporary History, École Normale Supérieure, Cachan, France
Content
Introduction: France's 'Long' Liberation, 1944-47; A.Knapp The Liberation and the Institutional Question in France; E.Cartier 'Sénat ou pas Sénat?' - The 'First' Council of the Republic; P.Smith De Gaulle and the Paradox of Post-War French Politics; D.Goldey Replacement or Renewal? The French Political Élite at the Liberation; O.Wieviorka 'The Politics of Political Women': Reassessing the First Députées ; H.Footitt France's Liberation Era, 1944-47: A Social and Economic Settlement?; H.Chapman Catholics and the Long Liberation: The Progressive Moment; N.Atkin Whose Liberation? Confronting the Problem of the French Empire, 1944-1947; M.Shipway Moscow, the Parti Communiste Français, and France's Political Recovery; N.Naoumova Washington at the Liberation, 1944-1947; C.Cogan & A.Knapp The Half-Open Window: France and Britain, 1944-1947; A.Knapp Occupation, Liberation, Purges: the Changing Landscape of French Memory; P.Buton
