France And The Republic

Author : Edward G. Berenson,Vincent Duclert,Christophe Prochasson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801461125

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The French Republic by Edward G. Berenson,Vincent Duclert,Christophe Prochasson Pdf

In this invaluable reference work, the world’s foremost authorities on France’s political, social, cultural, and intellectual history explore the history and meaning of the French Republic and the challenges it has faced. Founded in 1792, the French Republic has been defined and redefined by a succession of regimes and institutions, a multiplicity of symbols, and a plurality of meanings, ideas, and values. Although constantly in flux, the Republic has nonetheless produced a set of core ideals and practices fundamental to modern France's political culture and democratic life. Based on the influential Dictionnaire critique de la république, published in France in 2002, The French Republic provides an encyclopedic survey of French republicanism since the Enlightenment. Divided into three sections—Time and History, Principles and Values, and Dilemmas and Debates—The French Republic begins by examining each of France’s five Republics and its two authoritarian interludes, the Second Empire and Vichy. It then offers thematic essays on such topics as Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity; laicity; citizenship; the press; immigration; decolonization; anti-Semitism; gender; the family; cultural policy; and the Muslim headscarf debates. Each essay includes a brief guide to further reading. This volume features updated translations of some of the most important essays from the French edition, as well as twenty-two newly commissioned English-language essays, for a total of forty entries. Taken together, they provide a state-of-the art appraisal of French republicanism and its role in shaping contemporary France’s public and private life.

Author : Julian Wright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137028310

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Pluralism and the Idea of the Republic in France by Julian Wright Pdf

The idea of the centralized State has played a powerful role in shaping French republicanism. But for two hundred years, many have tried to find other ways of being French and Republican. These essays challenge the traditional account, bringing together new insights from leading scholars.

Author : Antoine Vauchez,Pierre France
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781501752568

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The Neoliberal Republic by Antoine Vauchez,Pierre France Pdf

The Neoliberal Republic traces the corrosive effects of the revolving door between public service and private enrichment on the French state and its ability to govern and regulate the private sector. Casting a piercing light on this circulation of influence among corporate lawyers and others in the French power elite, Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France analyze how this dynamic, a feature of all Western democracies, has developed in concert with the rise of neoliberalism over the past three decades. Based on interviews with dozens of public officials in France and a unique biographical database of more than 200 civil-servants-turned-corporate-lawyers, The Neoliberal Republic explores how the always-blurred boundary between public service and private interests has been critically compromised, enabling the transformation of the regulatory state into either an ineffectual bystander or an active collaborator in the privatization of public welfare. The cumulative effect of these developments, the authors reveal, undermines democratic citizenship and the capacity to imagine the public good.

Author : Philip Nord
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780300190687

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France 1940 by Philip Nord Pdf

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.

Author : Karen Offen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107188044

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Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920 by Karen Offen Pdf

A magisterial reconstruction and analysis of the heated debates around the 'woman question' during the French Third Republic.

Author : Guy Chapman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1962-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349004638

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Third Republic of France by Guy Chapman Pdf

Author : William Fortescue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351540018

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The Third Republic in France, 1870-1940 by William Fortescue Pdf

An essential introduction to the major political problems, debates and conflicts which are central to the history of the Third Republic in France, from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 to the fall of France in June 1940.It provides original sources, detailed commentary and helpful chronologies and bibliographies on topics including:* the emergence of the regime and the Paris Commune of 1871* Franco-German relations* anti-Semitism and the Dreyfus Affair* the role of women and the importance of the national birth-rate* the character of the French Right and of French fascism.

Author : Christopher Guyver
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137597403

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The Second French Republic 1848-1852 by Christopher Guyver Pdf

This book follows the story of the Second French Republic from its idealistic beginnings in February 1848 to its formal replacement in December 1852 by the Second Empire. Based on original archival research, The Second French Republic gives a detailed account of the internal tensions that irrevocably weakened France’s shortest republic. During this short period French political life was buffeted by strong and often contrary forces: universal manhood suffrage, fear of socialism, the President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, and the political ambitions of the military high command for the restoration of the monarchy.

Author : William G. Andrews,Stanley Hoffmann
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1984-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791494969

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The Impact of the Fifth Republic on France by William G. Andrews,Stanley Hoffmann Pdf

The French have searched for five generations through five republics and several other regimes for a stable political system. The Fifth Republic, born in 1958, seems to be succeeding where many others have failed. What are the reasons and conditions for the French consensus on a system of government for the first time since the ancien regime? The first twenty years of the Fifth Republic encompass four presidential elections, alternating political control of the National Assembly, and years of rapid economic growth and contraction. Thus a variety of events now allow an evaluation of the efficacy of the Fifth Republic. The chapters of this book examine: the governmental framework and various political groups that have vied for control of it; industrial development and modernization; education and culture; and foreign policy. Containing both favorable and critical assessments, the book provides a comprehensive balance sheet on the Fifth Republic and the influence of Charles DeGaulle.

Author : Leslie Derfler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : France
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080838399

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The Third French Republic, 1870-1940 by Leslie Derfler Pdf

Brief documentary survey of the major political and social decisions of the Third French Republic.

Author : Jeremy Klar
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680480238

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The French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Republic by Jeremy Klar Pdf

The catalysts, major events, and consequences of one of history’s bloodiest revolutions are presented in a thrilling and academically rigorous way in this guide to the French Revolution. The stories of this historic episode’s key players are narrated, including the tales of such well-known characters as Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte. There is a thorough treatment of France’s economy, government, and social life both before, during the various phases of, and after the Revolution. Napoleon’s post-Revolutionary European conquests and subsequent downfall and exile are also narrated in this title sure to captivate all readers.

Author : William L. Shirer
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 1948 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780795342479

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The Collapse of the Third Republic by William L. Shirer Pdf

The National Book Award–winning historian’s “vivid and moving” eyewitness account of the fall of France to Hitler’s Third Reich at the outset of WWII (The New York Times). As an international war correspondent and radio commentator during World War II, William L. Shirer didn’t just research the fall of France. He was there. In just six weeks, he watched the Third Reich topple one of the world’s oldest military powers—and institute a rule of terror and paranoia. Based on in-person conversations with the leaders, diplomats, generals, and ordinary citizens who both shaped the events and lived through them, Shirer constructs a compelling account of historical events without losing sight of the human experience. From the heroic efforts of the Freedom Fighters to the tactical military misjudgments that caused the fall and the daily realities of life for French citizens under Nazi rule, this fascinating and exhaustively documented account brings this significant episode of history to life. “This is a companion effort to Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, also voluminous but very readable, reflecting once again both Shirer’s own experience and an enormous mass of historical material well digested and assimilated.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Author : Mary Dewhurst Lewis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0804757224

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The Boundaries of the Republic by Mary Dewhurst Lewis Pdf

In this first comprehensive history of immigrant inequality in France, Mary D. Lewis chronicles the conflicts arising from mass immigration between the First and Second World Wars, the uneven rights arrangements that emerged during this time, and their legacy for contemporary France.

Author : Gilbert D. Chaitin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443809290

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Culture Wars and Literature in the French Third Republic by Gilbert D. Chaitin Pdf

The articles assembled in Culture Wars and Literature in the French Third Republic describe and analyze the ever-widening attempts in the early years of the Third Republic (1870-1914) to mobilize literary phenomena for the purposes of political and social warfare. Literature became the preferred site in which the human implications of the fiercest and most widespread of these culture wars, the battles over national identity waged between proponents of secular and religious education, were articulated, dramatized and appraised. In studies of Erckmann-Chatrian and Vallès, Rachilde and Colette, the Goncourt brothers and Marcelle Tinayre, La Fontaine and Corneille, the song-writer Jules Jouy and the theater critic Francisque Sarcey among others, some of these essays open up new perspectives on well-known issues such as education, the definition of national classics, Boulangism and women’s liberation, while others bring to light hitherto unsuspected connections between apparently disparate problems like decadence, anarchism and feminism, the mystery of literariness and the ban on Muslim headscarves, or the posthumous publication of private letters and the State’s interest in cultural and literary heroes. The final piece crystallizes the fundamental conflict of democratization: the tension between the republican desire for popular participation and the fear of the consequences of that participation by an uncultured public.

Author : Catherine Raissiguier
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804757614

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Reinventing the Republic by Catherine Raissiguier Pdf

This book chronicles the struggles of undocumented migrant women in France as they fight to become rights-bearing citizens, revealing how concepts of citizenship and nationality intersect with gender, sexuality, and immigration.