Vichy S Double Bind

Author : Karine Varley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009368308

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Vichy's Double Bind by Karine Varley Pdf

Vichy's Double Bind advances a significant new interpretation of French collaboration during the Second World War. Arguing that the path to collaboration involved not merely Nazi Germany but Fascist Italy, it suggests that the Vichy French government was caught in a double bind. On the one hand, many of the threats to France's territory, colonial empire and power came from Rome as well as Berlin. On the other, Vichy was caught between the irreconcilable yet inescapable positions of the two Axis governments. Unable to resolve the conflict, Vichy sought to play the two Axis powers against each other. By exploring French dealings with Italy at diplomatic, military and local levels in France and its colonial empire, this book reveals the multi-dimensional and multi-directional nature of Vichy's policy. It therefore challenges many enduring conceptions of collaboration with reference to Franco-German relations and offers a fresh perspective on debates about Vichy France and collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

Author : Karine Varley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009368292

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Vichy's Double Bind by Karine Varley Pdf

Proposes a new interpretation of French collaboration during the Second World War, placing Fascist Italy at centre stage.

Author : Brendan Simms,Charlie Laderman
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541619081

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Hitler's American Gamble by Brendan Simms,Charlie Laderman Pdf

A riveting account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States By early December 1941, war had changed much of the world beyond recognition. Nazi Germany occupied most of the European continent, while in Asia, the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned China into a battleground. But these conflicts were not yet inextricably linked—and the United States remained at peace. Hitler’s American Gamble recounts the five days that upended everything: December 7 to 11. Tracing developments in real time and backed by deep archival research, historians Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman show how Hitler’s intervention was not the inexplicable decision of a man so bloodthirsty that he forgot all strategy, but a calculated risk that can only be understood in a truly global context. This book reveals how December 11, not Pearl Harbor, was the real watershed that created a world war and transformed international history.

Author : Rogelia Pastor-Castro,Martin Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351123495

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Embassies in Crisis by Rogelia Pastor-Castro,Martin Thomas Pdf

Embassies are integral to international diplomacy, their staff instrumental to inter-governmental dialogue, strategic partnerships, trading relationships and cultural exchange. But Embassies are also discreet political spaces. Notionally sovereign territory ‘immune’ from local jurisdiction, in moments of crisis Embassies have often been targets of protest and sites of confrontation. It is this aspect of Embassy experience that this collection of essays explores and Embassies in Crisis revisits flashpoints in the recent lives of Embassies overseas at times of acute political crisis. Ranging across multiple British and other embassy crises, unusually, this book offers equal insights to international historians and members of the diplomatic community.

Author : Marco Maria Aterrano,Karine Varley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351329989

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A Fascist Decade of War by Marco Maria Aterrano,Karine Varley Pdf

From the invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 through to the waning months of the World War II in 1945, Fascist Italy was at war. This Fascist decade of war comprised an uninterrupted stretch of military and political engagements in which Italian military forces were involved in Abyssinia, Spain, Albania, France, Greece, the Soviet Union, North Africa and the Middle East. As a junior partner to Nazi Germany, only entering the war in June 1940, Italy is often seen as a relatively minor player in World War II. However, this book challenges much of the existing scholarship by arguing that Fascist Italy played a significant and distinct role in shaping international relations between 1935 and 1945, creating a Fascist decade of war.

Author : Karine Varley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040046128

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The Franco-Prussian War by Karine Varley Pdf

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71 has traditionally been seen as a limited conflict between French and German forces. This edited volume challenges this view and shows that it was a war of ideas, values, and perceptions, which transformed the political, diplomatic, and military culture across Europe. Based on interdisciplinary research, the book suggests that the war raised new questions about power, the nation, violence, and notions of civilization, which brought about a decisive shift in how warfare was experienced and perceived. While the Franco-Prussian War may have begun as a traditional dynastic struggle, it became a modern war and an important precursor to the First World War in its use of new weaponry and industrialized warfare. At the same time, the development of humanitarian movements and international law on the conduct of war meant that the fighting was subjected to unprecedented scrutiny, while new technologies accelerated the pace at which narratives about the war were constructed and consumed. This volume will appeal to scholars in the fields of war studies, international relations and diplomacy, and intellectual and cultural history. It will also be a useful addition to undergraduate and postgraduate courses on nineteenth-century European history and cultural studies.

Author : D. J. B. Trim,Brendan Simms
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805262206

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Harfleur to Hamburg by D. J. B. Trim,Brendan Simms Pdf

Britain has historically been seen as an upholder of international norms, at least in its relations with western powers. This has often been contrasted with the violence perpetrated in colonial contexts on other continents. What is often missed, however, is the extent to which the state with its capital in London—first England, then Great Britain—inflicted extreme violence on its European neighbours, even when still using the rhetoric of neighbourliness and friendship. This book comprises eleven case-studies of Anglo-British strategic violence, from the siege of Harfleur in 1415 to the fire-bombing of Hamburg in 1943. Chapters examine actions that were top-down and directed, and perpetrated for specific geopolitical reasons—many of them at, or well beyond, the bounds of what was sanctioned by prevailing international norms at the time. The contributors look at how these actions were conceived, executed and perceived by the English/British public, by the international legal community of the time, and by the victims. This history of English violence in Europe complicates not only easy notions of England/Britain as a champion of the ‘standards of civilisation’ or of the ‘liberal international order’, but also of the supposed distinction between ‘European’ and ‘extra-European’ warfare.

Author : Peter Carrier
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (Berlin, Germany).
ISBN : 1571819045

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Holocaust Monuments and National Memory Cultures in France and Germany Since 1989 by Peter Carrier Pdf

Since 1989, two sites of memory with respect to the deportation and persecution of Jews in France and Germany have received intense public attention: the Veĺ d'Hiv in Paris and the Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Why is this so? Both monuments, the author argues, are unique in the history of memorial projects.

Author : Peter Carrier
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782389613

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Holocaust Monuments and National Memory by Peter Carrier Pdf

Since 1989, two sites of memory with respect to the deportation and persecution of Jews in France and Germany during the Second World War have received intense public attention: the Vélo d'Hiver (Winter Velodrome) in Paris and the Monument for the Murdered Jews of Europe or Holocaust Monument in Berlin. Why is this so? Both monuments, the author argues, are unique in the history of memorial projects. Although they are genuine "sites of memory", neither monument celebrates history, but rather serve as platforms for the deliberation, negotiation and promotion of social consensus over the memorial status of war crimes in France and Germany. The debates over these monuments indicate that it is the communication among members of the public via the mass media, rather than qualities inherent in the sites themselves, which transformed these sites into symbols beyond traditional conceptions of heritage and patriotism.

Author : James Herbst
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110610161

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The Politics of Apoliticism by James Herbst Pdf

In 1942, the dictatorial regime of occupied France held a show trial that didn‘t work. In a society from which democratic checks and balances had been eliminated, under a regime that made its own laws to try its opponents, the government‘s signature legal initiative – a court packed with sympathetic magistrates and soldiers whose investigation of the defunct republic‘s leaders was supposed to demonstrate the superiority of the new regime – somehow not only failed to result in a conviction, but, in spite of the fact that only government-selected journalists were allowed to attend, turned into a podium for the regime‘s most bitter opponents. The public relations disaster was so great that the government was ultimately forced to cancel the trial. This catastrophic would-be show trial was not forced upon the regime by Germans unfamiliar with the state of domestic opinion; rather, it was a home-grown initiative whose results disgusted not only the French, but also the occupiers. This book offers a new explanation for the failure of the Riom Trial: that it was the result of ideas about the law that were deeply imbedded in the culture of the regime’s supporters. They genuinely believed that their opponents had been playing politics with the nation’s interests, whereas their own concerns were apolitical. The ultimate lesson of the Riom Trial is that the abnegation of politics can produce results almost as bad as a deliberate commitment to stamping out the beliefs of others. Today, politicians on both sides of the political spectrum denounce excessive polarization as the cause of political gridlock; but this may simply be what real democracy looks like when it seeks to express the wishes of a divided people.

Author : E. Weitz,A. Fenner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137041227

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Fascism and Neofascism by E. Weitz,A. Fenner Pdf

The dramatic transformations of the the 1990s - the end of the Cold War, the establishment of political liberties and market economies in Eastern Europe, German unification - quickly led commentators to proclaim the end of all ideologies and the complete triumph of liberal capitalism. Just as quickly, however, right-wing extremism began a surge in Europe that has not significantly abated to this day. Fascism and Neofascism is a collection of essays that is distinctive in two important ways. First, unlike most volumes, which cover either historical fascism or the recent radical right, Fascism and Neofascism spans both periods. Secondly, this volume also aims to bring newer modes of inquiry, rooted in cultural studies, into dialogue with more 'traditional' ways of viewing fascism. The editors' approach is deliberately interdisciplinary, even eclectic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UOM:39015005550077

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Wide Angle by Anonim Pdf

Author : K. Varley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230582347

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Under the Shadow of Defeat by K. Varley Pdf

Based on extensive archival research, this book is the first wide-ranging analysis of how memories of the Franco-Prussian War shaped French political culture and identities. Examining war remembrance as an emerging mass phenomenon in Europe, it sheds new light on the relationship between memories and the emergence of new concepts of the nation.

Author : Nancy J. Membrez
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476676074

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War, Revolution and Remembrance in World Cinema by Nancy J. Membrez Pdf

Two World Wars engulfed Europe, Asia and the United States, leaving indelible scars on the landscape and survivors. The trauma of civil wars in Spain (declared) and Latin America (tacit) spanned decades yet, contradictorily, bind parties together even today. Civil wars still haunt Africa where, in more recent years, ethnic cleansing has led to wholesale genocide. Drawing on the emerging field of Memory Studies, this book examines narrative and documentary films, made far from Hollywood, that address memory--both traumatic and nostalgic--surrounding these conflicts, despite attempts by special interests to erase or manipulate history.

Author : Neville Wylie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0521643589

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European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents During the Second World War by Neville Wylie Pdf

A comprehensive English-language survey of neutral and non-belligerent states during the Second World War.