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Author | : Henry Rousso |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a memory of defeat, occupation, and repression. In this provocative study, Henry Rousso examines how this proud nation has dealt with les années noires. Specifically, he studies what the French have chosen to remember--and to conceal.
Author | : Theodore Dalrymple |
Publisher | : Encounter Books |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1594035679 |
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Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at last created an ideal social and political system in which man can live comfortably. In many ways, things have never been better on the old continent. On the other hand, there is growing anxiety that Europe is quickly falling behind in an aggressive, globalized world. Europe is at the forefront of nothing, its demographics are rapidly transforming in unsettling ways, and the ancient threat of barbarian invasion has resurfaced in a fresh manifestation. In The New Vichy Syndrome, Theodore Dalrymple traces this malaise back to the great conflicts of the last century and their devastating effects upon the European psyche. From issues of religion, class, colonialism, and nationalism, Europeans hold a “miserablist” view of their history, one that alternates between indifference and outright contempt of the past. Today’s Europeans no longer believe in anything but personal economic security, an increased standard of living, shorter working hours, and long vacations in exotic locales. The result, Dalrymple asserts, is an unwillingness to preserve European achievements and the dismantling of western culture by Europeans themselves. As vapid hedonism and aggressive Islamism fill this cultural void, Europeans have no one else to blame for their plight.
Author | : Richard Joseph Golsan |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803270947 |
Download Vichy's Afterlife Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the distinctive features of the "Vichy Syndrome"?the persistence of the memory of the Vichy regime in French political and cultural life?is that it has been extremelyødifficult for an authoritative historical discourse to impose itself. Why does Vichy, and all that the name entails, fascinate and even obsess the French, inflecting not only discussions of the past but of the present as well? In Vichy's Afterlife, Richard J. Golsan explores the complexities of some of the most provocative episodes of Vichy's curious persistence in France's national consciousness. He argues that each of these episodes, events, and scandals constitutes a crossroads where history and "counterhistory"?different or competing versions of the past?encounter one another, often with explosive and even destructive consequences.
Author | : Eric Conan |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9780874517958 |
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A plea for a more moderate, balanced, and accurate view of the Vichy regime.
Author | : THEODORE. DALRYMPLE |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781904863533 |
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Author | : Richard Joseph Golsan |
Publisher | : Dartmouth College Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Two cases involving World War II-era crimes against humanity reopen a disturbing chapter in France's Vichy past.
Author | : Henry Rousso |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803290004 |
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In this volume Europe?s leading modern historians offer new insights into two totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century that have profoundly affected world history?Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union. Until now historians have paid more attentionøto the similarities between these two regimes than to their differences. Stalinism and Nazism explores the difficult relationship between the history and memory of the traumas inflicted by Nazi and Soviet occupation in several Eastern European countries in the twentieth century. ø The first part of the volume explores the origins, nature, and organization of Hitler?s and Stalin?s dictatorial power, the manipulation of violence by the state systems, and the comparative power of the dictator?s personal will and the encompassing totalitarian system. The second part examines the legacies of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes in Eastern European countries that experienced both. Stalinism and Nazism features the latest critical perspectives on two of the most influential and deadly political regimes in modern history.
Author | : Henry Rousso |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2002-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812236453 |
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"The Haunting Past is a brief but richly textured treatment of the role of the historian in dealing with information about contemporary political and legal matters."—Libraries and Culture
Author | : Kathy Comfort |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2018-11-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1498561616 |
Download Refiguring Les Années Noires Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Through a close reading of seven literary memoirs of the Nazi Occupation of France, Refiguring Les Années Noires: Literary Representations of the Nazi Occupation shows how the memory of the period has been shaped by political and social factors. An interdisciplinary study incorporating trauma theory, history, and folklore studies, this book examines representations of the Occupation by a diverse group of writers ranging from a female Resistance fighter to one of the first French Roma novelists. The methodological diversity of the volume brings to the fore each author’s unique perspective and demonstrates that their works are at once historically and artistically significant. Above all, this book gives voice to groups whose experiences in occupied France have largely been forgotten.
Author | : Philip Nord |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2015-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0300190689 |
Download France 1940 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this revisionist account of France’s crushing defeat in 1940, a world authority on French history argues that the nation’s downfall has long been misunderstood. Philip Nord assesses France’s diplomatic and military preparations for war with Germany, its conduct of the war once the fighting began, and the political consequences of defeat on the battlefield. He also tracks attitudes among French leaders once defeat seemed a likelihood, identifying who among them took advantage of the nation’s misfortunes to sabotage democratic institutions and plot an authoritarian way forward. Nord finds that the longstanding view that France’s collapse was due to military unpreparedeness and a decadent national character is unsupported by fact. Instead, he reveals that the Third Republic was no worse prepared and its military failings no less dramatic than those of the United States and other Allies in the early years of the war. What was unique in France was the betrayal by military and political elites who abandoned the Republic and supported the reprehensible Vichy takeover. Why then have historians and politicians ever since interpreted the defeat as a judgment on the nation as a whole? Why has the focus been on the failings of the Third Republic and not on elite betrayal? The author examines these questions in a fascinating conclusion.