AK Press, 2018. — 253 p. The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative, and influential, changing European politics to this day. Students demonstrated, workers went on general strike, and factories and universities were occupied. Before it was all over, children, homemakers, and the elderly were swept up in the life-changing events that...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 282 p. The Algerian War 1954-1962 was one of the most prolonged and violent examples of decolonization. Bringing to an end 132 years of French rule, the Algerian struggle caused the fall of six French prime ministers, the collapse of the Fourth Republic, and expulsion of one million French settlers. This volume, bringing together leading experts in the...
Routledge, 2000. — 288 p. An essential guide to the role of women in the political life of France under the Fifth Republic. It shows that the unique political history of France ensures that it remains an important and exceptional example of women's participation in the politics of a Western European country. Its study is essential in order to have a complete understanding of...
Verso, 2021. — 192 p. This book analyses the French political crisis, which has entered its most acute phase in more than thirty years with the break-up of traditional left and right social blocs. Governing parties have distanced themselves from the working classes, leaving behind on the one hand, craftsmen, shop owners and small entrepreneurs disappointed by the timidity of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 275 p. This is an up-to-date political history of the French Fifth Republic, a regime whose obituary has been written several times over, but which stubbornly refuses to die. Adopting a chronological framework, the book examines how the regime emerged out of the chaos of the Algerian crisis and how its political evolution has been very different from...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 275 p. This is an up-to-date political history of the French Fifth Republic, a regime whose obituary has been written several times over, but which stubbornly refuses to die. Adopting a chronological framework, the book examines how the regime emerged out of the chaos of the Algerian crisis and how its political evolution has been very different from...
Enigma Books, 2004. — 205 p. This book is particularly relevant to the current debate on terrorism. That story constitutes the main part of this book. It details the methods used, including torture and summary executions, and the results obtained by the special paratrooper commando units.
Routledge, 2020. — 189 p. Ever since the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958, France has believed its strategic independence to be predicated on self-sufficiency in modern weapons. In order to maintain the requisite defence-industrial base, in the context of limited domestic orders, successive governments have prioritised the export of French arms on a large scale. In...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 295 p. This is the most authoritative account available of the presidency of Georges Pompidou. Pompidou consolidated the constitutional changes made by de Gaulle, to the extent that he is now regarded as the Fifth Republic's second founding father, and continued his haughty attitudes to foreign policy. He also launched a program of...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 280 p. The Republic of De Gaulle covers the momentous eleven-year ascendancy of Charles de Gaulle as President of the newly established Fifth Republic. Serge Berstein analyzes important constitutional, political and socio-economic changes and De Gaulle's remarkable foreign policy. He concludes with an examination of De Gaulle's eventual fall,...
Springer Internat. Publishing & Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 190 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-03834-2 This book, the first on the growing phenomenon of private full-time K-12 Muslim schools in France, investigates whether these schools participate in the communautarisme (or ethnic/cultural separatism) that Muslims are often accused of or if their founding is a sign of integration, given...
The History Press, 2013. — 288 p. Containing previously unpublished material from the Paris and Washington archives, an all new, controversial account of France's role post-World War II. Throughout D-Day, French soldiers were mysteriously absent during the invasion on their own soil. Although General Charles De Gaulle commanded 400,000 Free French soldiers, President Roosevelt...
University of Toronto Press, 2015. — 288 p. Thinking Radical Democracy is an introduction to nine key political thinkers who contributed to the emergence of radical democratic thought in post-war French political theory: Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Pierre Clastres, Claude Lefort, Cornelius Castoriadis, Guy Debord, Jacques Ranciere, Etienne Balibar, and Miguel...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 372 p. This book fills a gap in the literature on economic liberalism in France as it strives to resolve a paradox. How do we reconcile the fact that while France has been among the most fertile of soils for the liberal intellectual tradition, the theoretical ideas it has produced has little impact on its own public debate and public policies? Using...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 400 p. At the end of World War II, France’s greatest challenge was to repair a civil society torn asunder by Nazi occupation and total war. Recovery required the nation’s complete economic and social transformation. But just what form this “new France” should take remained the burning question at the heart of French political combat until the...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 400 p. At the end of World War II, France’s greatest challenge was to repair a civil society torn asunder by Nazi occupation and total war. Recovery required the nation’s complete economic and social transformation. But just what form this “new France” should take remained the burning question at the heart of French political combat until the...
Routledge, 2021. — 208 p. Books on gaullism – or, more precisely, books on General de Gaulle – are not uncommon. Originally published in English in 1971, this claimed to be the first book of this sort on gaullism as a political force within the French political system. Since the publication of his work on the Union pour la nouvelle République Jean Charlot had become known as...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 256 p. The enfranchisement of women in Charles de Gaulle's France in 1944 is considered a potent element in the nation's self-crafted, triumphant World War Two narrative: the French, conquered by the Germans, valiantly resisted until they rescued themselves and built a new democracy, honoring France's longstanding liberal traditions. Kelly...
Routledge, 1999. — 289 p. This provocative and non-polemic study explores the value system of the National Front movement in France, and explains the way in which the movement's ideology has been formulated and articulated in the 1980s and 1990s. Also discussing the crucial role of Le Pen, this book provides a fascinating enquiry into the most controversial political party in...
Nouveau Monde Editions, 2014. — 622 p. D'une ampleur inédite, ce panorama brosse l'histoire des grandes affaires de corruption en France depuis le retour au pouvoir du général de Gaulle en 1958 jusqu'aux plus récents scandales. Inflation des campagnes électorales, financement des partis politiques, comptes en Suisse, emplois fictifs, résidences d'élus. On découvre ici une...
Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2019. — 278 p. Comment résoudre l’énigme de l’élection d’Emmanuel Macron, ce jeune homme politique dépourvu des ressources qui expliquent habituellement la victoire à une présidentielle? Pour comprendre ce succès et saisir sa portée, l’ouvrage revisite la campagne et la mobilisation électorales, part à la recherche des électeurs de La...
Manchester University Press, 2017. — 352 p. From empire to exile explores the commemorative afterlives of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), one of the world's most iconic wars of decolonisation. It focuses on the million French settlers - pieds-noirs - and the tens of thousands of harkis - the French army's native auxiliaries - who felt compelled to migrate to...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 502 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–280350–4 Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers , Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from Normandy or Brittany. The depth and scale of the colonization...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 304 p. Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers , Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from Normandy or Brittany. The depth and scale of the colonization process explains why the...
New York: State University of New York Press, 2001. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 0791449653; ISBN13: 978-0791449653. More than a history, this book is a passionate reliving of the French May Events of 1968. The authors, ardent participants in the movement in Paris, documented the unfolding events as they pelted the police and ran from the tear gas grenades. Their account is imbued with...
Arcade, 2014. — 448 p. This completely revised and fully updated edition of the book Bill Bryson called “superb” presents a sharply insightful, authoritative portrait of France today as it struggles to live up to its vision of itself amid storm clouds that won’t go away. France on the Brink was chosen as a New York Times book of the year and hailed by the Wall Street Journal as...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2013. — 707 p. No leader of modern times was more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle. In his twenties, he fought for France in the trenches and at the epic battle of Verdun. In the 1930s, he waged a lonely battle to enable France better to resist Hitler’s Germany. Thereafter, he twice rescued the nation from defeat and decline by extraordinary...
Routledge, 2021. — 277 p. In this volume, distinguished French and U.S. historians, economists, and political scientists explore the dimensions of France's current crisis of identity. Although every European nation has been adjusting to the dramatic transformations on the continent since the end of the Cold War, France's struggle to adapt has been particularly difficult....
Paris: Massot Éditions/Blast, 2023. — 115 p. En 2017, Emmanuel Macron a été élu président de la République française grâce aux voix de millions d’électeurs qui ont voté pour lui parce que c’était le seul moyen d’empêcher la victoire de Marine Le Pen, candidate du Rassemblement national. Le nouveau chef de l’État français avait alors déclaré que cette victoire l’“engageait”....
Routledge, 2000. — 408 p. In one stimulating source this successful text provides a rigorous analysis of the political, economic and social developments in post-war France. The analysis is supported by specially selected French language texts and exercises. This text is suitable for undergraduate students of French (especially within a languages, social science, or business...
Routledge, 2018. — 322 p. An intelligent and highly readable account of the Mitterrand years that, Friend argues, have changed the political landscape of France. A very good example of instant history. In this informed and balanced treatment of recent French history, Julius Friend analyzes the changes, successes, and failures in the long and checkered record of the former...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 282 p. Gaffney analyzes how de Gaulle came to power in 1958: The drama surrounding the Fourth Republic's collapse, and the focus upon an exceptional individual meant that de Gaulle was able to confer a particular style of leadership on the Fifth Republic. The five Presidents who came after him have each capitalized on their own political 'persona.'
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. — 152 p. The wars of the twentieth century uprooted people on a previously unimaginable scale to the extent that being a refugee became an increasingly widespread experience. With the arrival of refugees, governments of host countries had to mediate between divided national populations: some wished to welcome those arriving in search of...
Routledge, 2017. — 228 p. The New Custodians of the State uses contemporary France to reassess sociological theories of political and policymaking elites. Based on detailed case studies drawn from social policy and national defense sectors, it concludes that a new type of sectorally-based elite has risen to prominence in France since the 1980s. Genieys suggests that...
Michigan State University Press, 2016. — 256 p. Decolonizing the Republic is a conscientious discussion of the African diaspora in Paris in the post–World War II period. This book is the first to examine the intersection of black activism and the migration of Caribbeans and Africans to Paris during this era and, as Patrick Manning notes in the foreword, successfully shows how...
Editions Flammarion, 2016. — 848 p. — ISBN: 9782081280120 «J'ai rencontré Jacques Chirac pour la première fois en 1972 et je l'ai ensuite suivi de près pendant quatre décennies, mais je ne suis pas sûr d'avoir percé sa vérité, tant elle a toujours couru vite. De Jacques Chirac, on a dit tout et son contraire. Qu'il était faible et autoritaire, populiste et technocrate,...
Editions Flammarion, 2016. — 848 p. — ISBN: 9782081280120 «J'ai rencontré Jacques Chirac pour la première fois en 1972 et je l'ai ensuite suivi de près pendant quatre décennies, mais je ne suis pas sûr d'avoir percé sa vérité, tant elle a toujours couru vite. De Jacques Chirac, on a dit tout et son contraire. Qu'il était faible et autoritaire, populiste et technocrate,...
Editions Flammarion, 2016. — 848 p. — ISBN: 9782081280120 «J'ai rencontré Jacques Chirac pour la première fois en 1972 et je l'ai ensuite suivi de près pendant quatre décennies, mais je ne suis pas sûr d'avoir percé sa vérité, tant elle a toujours couru vite. De Jacques Chirac, on a dit tout et son contraire. Qu'il était faible et autoritaire, populiste et technocrate,...
Editions Flammarion, 2016. — 848 p. — ISBN: 9782081280120 «J'ai rencontré Jacques Chirac pour la première fois en 1972 et je l'ai ensuite suivi de près pendant quatre décennies, mais je ne suis pas sûr d'avoir percé sa vérité, tant elle a toujours couru vite. De Jacques Chirac, on a dit tout et son contraire. Qu'il était faible et autoritaire, populiste et technocrate,...
Editions Flammarion, 2016. — 848 p. — ISBN: 9782081280120 «J'ai rencontré Jacques Chirac pour la première fois en 1972 et je l'ai ensuite suivi de près pendant quatre décennies, mais je ne suis pas sûr d'avoir percé sa vérité, tant elle a toujours couru vite. De Jacques Chirac, on a dit tout et son contraire. Qu'il était faible et autoritaire, populiste et technocrate,...
Editions Flammarion, 2016. — 848 p. — ISBN: 9782081280120 «J'ai rencontré Jacques Chirac pour la première fois en 1972 et je l'ai ensuite suivi de près pendant quatre décennies, mais je ne suis pas sûr d'avoir percé sa vérité, tant elle a toujours couru vite. De Jacques Chirac, on a dit tout et son contraire. Qu'il était faible et autoritaire, populiste et technocrate,...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 364 p. The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy, searching for a stable political system. It has also been a time of anxiety and doubt. The French have had to come to terms with the legacy of the German Occupation, the loss of Empire, the...
Carroll and Graf Publishers, 1994. — 459 p. Prelude. The General Comes and Goes. A Difficult Birth, and an Unwelcome Christening Present. A Brush with Civil War. Fighting on Three Fronts. Light over Europe, Storm-clouds Elsewhere. The Shadow of German Rearmament. The annus mirabilis of Mendès-France. A Donkey’s Kick. The Significance of Tomatoes. Plots and Plotters. Journeys of...
University of Nebraska Press, 2017. — 281 p. As part of France’s opposition to the independence of its former colonies in the years following World War II, its army remained deeply invested in preventing the decolonization of the territories comprising French West Africa (FWA). Even as late as the 1950s, the French Army clung to the hope that it was possible to retain FWA as a...
Princeton University Press, 1967. — 336 p. The basic concern of the author is to find the reason for the persistent leftist character of French working-class politics in a period of rapid industrialization and improving living standards. Reanalyzing material from surveys made by two French organizations, he finds that increased affluence is correlated with changes in social...
Liverpool University Press, 2014. — 289 p. Francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to the decolonisation were faced with an impossible dilemma. How could they redefine their culture, and the 'humanity' they felt had been denied by the colonial project, in terms that did not replicate the French thinking by which they were formed? Figures such as Senghor, Césaire,...
Harvard University Press, 1963. — 460 p. Foreword. Paradoxes of the French Political Community. The Postwar Resurgence of the French Economy. Social Change At the Grass Roots. Continuity and Change in Bourgeois France. Changes in French Foreign Policy Since 1945. Six Authors in Search of a National Character. The Authors. Notes.
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 375 p. The massacre of Algerian demonstrators by the Paris police on the night of 17 October 1961 is one of the most contested events in contemporary French history. This book provides a multi-layered investigation of the repression through a critical examination of newly opened archives, oral sources, the press and contemporary political...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 261 p. The decolonization of Algeria represents a turning point in world history, marking the end of France’s colonial empire, the birth of the Algerian republic, and the appearance of the Third World and pan-Arabism. Algeria emerged from colonial domination to negotiate the release of American hostages in Iran during the Carter administration. Radical...
Faber and Faber, 2014. — 464 p. A provocative rethinking of France’s long relationship with the Arab world. To fully understand both the social and political pressures wracking contemporary France—and, indeed, all of Europe—as well as major events from the Arab Spring to the tensions in Mali, Andrew Hussey believes that we have to look beyond the confines of domestic horizons. As...
Penguin Books, 2018. — 887 p. A life of the greatest French statesman of modern times. In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he...
Penguin Books, 2018. — 887 p. A life of the greatest French statesman of modern times. In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he...
Harvard University Press, 2023. — 480 p. In July 1945, France’s disgraced former head of state was on trial. As head of the Vichy regime, Philippe Pétain was a lightning rod for collective guilt and retribution. But he has also been a conservative icon ever since. Julian Jackson blends courtroom drama and brilliant narrative history to examine one of history’s great moral dilemmas.
Berghahn Books, 2007. — 236 p. At the end of the twentieth century France found itself in the midst of another scandalous fin de siecle, awash with rumors and revelations of wrongdoing in high places. As the millennium expired, the Republic's servants, some sitting, others retired, received much condemnation, whether welcomed or resented. When taken together, surely les...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1991. — 300 p. — ISBN 978-1-349-21289-7 The general aim of this work is to evaluate the evolution of PCF policies towards the question of Algeria during the Algerian war. The more specific object of the research will be the 'debate' on Algeria within the PCF, or, to be more accurate, the divergences between the Party's official political line and a possible...
University of Illinois Press, 2019. — 260 p. Black women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century. Thinkers and activists, these women lived lives of commitment and risk that landed them in war zones and concentration camps and saw them declared enemies of the state. Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel mines published writings...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 515 p. An innovative account of how the concept of the 'Third World' emerged in France from the mid-1950s through to the mid-1970s alongside a new leftist movement. The book reveals how, in an age of Cold War, decolonization and development thinking, French activists rose to prominence within the political Left, established transnational...
Berg Publishers, 1995. — 370 p. Due to its potent mix of triumph and controversy, the Liberation of France from Nazi Occupation continues to reverberate in the post-war politics and culture of France. Presenting new research by leading specialists in the fields of history, literature and film studies, this stimulating volume is the very best in interdisciplinary scholarship and...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. — 377 p. In this definitive history, William R. Keylor traces the tumultuous relationship between Charles de Gaulle and a host of other key twentieth-century figures: his former mentor Marshal Philippe Pétain, who headed the collaborationist government in the southern French city of Vichy as the German army occupied the northern two-thirds of the...
Yale University Press, 1993. — 267 p. — ISBN 0-300-05745-8 For thirty years after the Second World War, the French intellectual Left dominated cultural and political life in France as well as achieving immense influence and prestige internationally. Yet during the 1970s, a remarkable change occurred: Marxist and Leftist arguments dramatically collapsed; France's intellectuals,...
Princeton University Press, 1987. — 546 p. France ranks as the world's third largest arms exporter and supplies arms and military technology to over a hundred countries. This book exposes the compelling aims and interests--national independence, security, economic welfare, foreign influence, grandeur--that explain the nation's successes in arms production and...
Princeton University Press, 2011. — 544 p. There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. And American-inspired vocabulary such as le weekend has been absorbed into the French language. But as former French president Jacques Chirac put it: The U.S. finds France unbearably pretentious. And we find the U.S....
Fernand Braudel. La dynamique du capitalisme. Les Editions Arthaud, Pllris, 1985 - 121 pp ISDN : 2-08-08 1192-4 Ce petit ouvrage de quelques cent vingt pages réunit les textes de trois conférences données par Fernand Braudel au moment même où il achevait, à la fin des années 1970, son maître ouvrage Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme [1]. Le premier peut donc passer...
Oxford University Press, 1997. — 521 p. This comprehensive and readable history of contemporary France sets the changing fortunes of government and people in a broad, international context. Larkin details the evolution of French political life from the short-lived Third and Fourth Republics to the greater stability of the Fifth Republic; charts the decline of old divisive...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 298 p. During the first half of the twentieth century, movements seeking political equality emerged in France's overseas territories. Within twenty years, they were replaced by movements for national independence in the majority of French colonies, protectorates, and mandates. In this path-breaking study of the decolonization era, Adria...
Albin Michel, S,A,, 1985. — ISBN: 2-226-02233-3. Sommaire Introduction : Un débat enfin ouvert Identité nationale et immigration Les trois vagues de l’immigration , La " fin des immigrés " ou la fin de la France? Le choc de l’Islam La crise des institutions nationales La paix civile en question Le double déracinement La préférence nationale Naturalisation ou départ Souveraineté...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 352 p. Economic liberalization has been contested and defeated in France to an unparalleled extent in comparison to other leading political economies in Western Europe. Levy offers a historical explanation, centered on the legacies of France's postwar statist or dirigiste economic model. Although this model was dismantled decades ago, its...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 310 p. How is it that the modest pace of change which typified the French economy a century ago gave way after 1945 to a new, revived capitalism and a superior economic performance? Mairi Maclean argues that the new French capitalism of the 21st century is the product of an ideological struggle in which the forces of modernization triumphed over the old...
Albin Michel, 2005. — 656 p. Dans les années 1950, l'empire colonial apparaissait comme l'un des principaux piliers de la puissance française. Or, dans la décennie qui suivit les indépendances, jamais la croissance du capitalisme français n'a été aussi vigoureuse. C'est ce constat qui mérite réflexion. A quoi, en fait, ont « servi » les colonies ? Ont-elles été une « bonne...
Faber, 1969. — 400 p. As the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the rights of French citizens. Moreover, they did not have to conform to the French civil code that regulated marriage and inheritance. One could, in principle, be a citizen and different too. This...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 258 p. This volume explores how France’s ‘modernising mission’ unfolded during the post-war period and its reverberations in the decades after empire. In the aftermath of the Second World War, France sought to reinvent its empire by transforming the traditional ‘civilising mission’ into a ‘modernising mission’. Henceforth, French claims to rule would be...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 290 p. This book explores the following: What is the art of power? What is the art of French power? How did French President and general Charles de Gaulle understand and assert power, establishing the Fifth Republic and breaking centuries of political instability? How well or poorly have his successors wielded the art of French power to define, defend,...
University of Michigan, 1970. — 100 p. Excellent history, evaluation and critique, from two militants who were there. Includes a wealth of graphics and reprinted material from the events themselves.
Nouveau Monde, 2008. - 390 p. ISBN: 2847363858
Histoire des relations entre la France et ses anciennes colonies africaines depuis leur indépendance en 1960. L'analyse montre que Paris n'a pas cessé d'y imposer sa tutelle et d'y maintenir ses intérêts économiques et politiques. Les gouvernements français successifs auraient ainsi utilisé de nombreux moyens et porteraient même la...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 312 p. Will Islam be able to adapt to France's secularity and its strict separation of public and private spheres? Can France accommodate Muslims? In this book, Frank Peter argues that the debate about “Islam” and “Muslims” is not simply caused by ignorance or Islamophobia. Rather, it is an integral part of how secularism is reasoned. Islam and the...
Public Affairs, 2023. — 352 p. A French-Algerian journalist, born and brought up in a neglected Paris suburb, offers unique insight into crisis-ridden France from a very different perspective to the establishment elites. France, the romanticized, revolutionary land with an enlightened historical mission—Liberty, Equality, Fraternity for all—is failing its own citizens and its...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1987. — 166 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-18581-8 Lacan, Althusser, Derrida, Foucault the currency of these names in the world of modern thought is widespread. But all too often in the English-speaking world their work and ideas are considered without reference to the context in which they were produced, and this is the gap that this new study sets out to fill. The...
University of Wales Press, 2011. — 199 p. — ISBN 978-0-7083-2415-8 This book sheds new light on one of the most significant periods in recent French history, the student revolts of May 1968. These events saw a strictly student-based revolt quickly become an all-out social crisis that threatened the political status quo of the time. In its exposure of a deep-seeded malaise, 1968...
Éditions du Seuil, 1980. — 324 p. Si vous avez à travailler sur l'histoire de la IVe République, notamment sous un angle politique, cet ouvrage est pour vous. L'une de ses grandes qualités est de coller d'assez près aux revirements politiques et d'éclaircir ses mécanismes de fonctionnement. Il témoigne également d'un régime qui assura, plus qu'on n'a voulu le dire, le retour de...
Harvard University Press, 1991. — 384 p. From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a vivid memory of defeat, occupation, and repression. How has this proud nation dealt with les annees noires? What is the collective memory of those few years: what have the French chosen to remember, what have they chosen to...
Lexington Books, 2011. — 125 p. The essays in this volume examine selected national, regional European, and international policies of Charles de Gaulle, giving consideration to their significance in his own time, and today. Not everything de Gaulle did withstands the test of time. Nor, obviously, was everything beyond criticism in his own time. Nonetheless, a main finding, in...
Harper and Row, 1968. — 296 p. About the post-WW2 trial of Marshal Petain, French general who was installed as head of the Vichy regime after the German occupation of France from 1940-1945. The provisional government, headed by de Gaulle, placed Pétain on trial for treason, which took place from 23 July to 15 August 1945. Dressed in the uniform of a Marshal of France, Pétain...
Berghahn Books, 2004. — 310 p. The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated. He concludes the student movement changed little that had not already been challenged and altered in...
Cornell University Press, 2008. — 304 p. In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separation of Algeria from France was truly a revolutionary event with lasting consequences for French social and political life. For more than a century, Algeria had been legally and administratively...
Pluto Press, 2018. — 221 p. France is a bellwether for the postcolonial anxieties and populist politics emerging across the world today. This book explores the dynamics and dilemmas of the present moment of crisis and hope in France, through an exploration of recent moral panics. Taking stock of the tensions as they have emerged over the last quarter of a century, Paul...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 224 p. This engaging, knowledgeable book traces the American path France has followed since resolving its searing Algerian conflict in 1962. Barnett Singer convincingly demolishes two pervasive clichés about modern France: first, that the country never has been fit to fight wars, including wars on terror; and second, that the French...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 240 p. Paul Smith examines how the Senate has attempted, since 1958, to locate itself within the French (semi-) presidential system, how it asserts its place in relation to the President, Government and National Assembly and how it has sought, in recent years, to develop an autonomous and particular sense of identity.
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 310 p. Timothy Smith argues that the French economic and social model is imploding on itself despite good intentions. Bad policies and vested interests that exploit the rhetoric of "solidarity" and the specter of globalization have prevented necessary changes from being effected. Making frequent comparisons with the U.S., U.K., Canada,...
New York: Springer, 2017. — 115 p. In light of the transformation of the Front National (FN) to a major player in French politics, this book examines how the unprecedented boost in positive opinions towards the FN as well as its increasing membership and electoral success have been possible. Using a supply and demand framework and a mixed methods approach, the author investigates...
Routledge, 2012. — 220 p. National Identities in France explores nationalism, national identities, and the various ways in which these concepts are accepted, adapted, discarded, or internally disputed across ideological divides. The popular assumption that automatically regards nationalism as a largely right-wing concern, occludes the many ways in which nationalism and national...
Princeton University Press, 1978. — 315 p. Why do some elites survive while others do not? How do certain institutions manage to preserve their importance in the face of crises, instability, and change? How does a democratic society legitimize elitist institutions? Combining the use of important social theories—particularly those of Mosca, Schumpeter, Tocqueville, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 303 p. Divergent Imperialism? Britain and the Restoration of French Power in North Africa, 1945–49. Towards Independence for Morocco and Tunisia: British and American Concerns, 1950–56. The Algerian War as a Colonial Problem: British Responses, 1954–58. 1956: the Algerian War Extended and the Suez Intervention. France Undermined? French International...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 205 p. 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...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 289 p. Building on the idea of latent political potential, this book offers an alternative interpretation of the contemporary far right. Its main thesis is that relations between colonizers and colonized implanted a legacy that, under certain conditions, translated into support for the far right in France. To make this argument, the book offers...
Mimesis, 2021. — 168 p. Populismo e tecnocrazia sono due volti della crisi che attraversa la democrazia occidentale. Entrambe le tendenze segnano una distanza dalla politica come fenomeno collettivo. Ancora fino a pochi anni fa, la democrazia francese sembrava essere una “eccezione”: uno dei pochi sistemi del capitalismo maturo a non essere quantomeno travolto...
Faber and Faber, 2013. — 336 p. At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church, put her children through the French educational system and divorced in a French court of law, Wadham is perfectly placed to explore the differences between Britain and France. Using...
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, 2009. — 416 p. ISBN10: 0226870235
The Heroic City is a sparkling account of the fate of Paris's public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Paris's public landscape became sterile and dehumanized in the 1940s and '50s, Rosemary Wakeman instead finds that the city's...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 224 p. The Franco-Algerian War (1954–1962) remains a powerful international symbol of Third Worldism and the finality of Empire. Through its nuanced analysis of the war's depiction in film, The Franco-Algerian War through a Twenty-First Century Lens locates an international reckoning with history that both condemns and exonerates past generations....
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 208 p. Why does Islamophobia dominate public debate in France? Islamophobia in France is rising, with Muslims subjected to unprecedented scrutiny of what they wear, eat and say. Championed by Marine Le Pen and drawing on the French colonial legacy, France's 'new secularism' gives racism a respectable veneer. Jim Wolfreys exposes the dynamic...
М.: Иностранная Литература, 1956. — 270 с.
Перевод с французского В.И. Колимеева. Под редакцией капитана I ранга Е.Н. Брюханова.
В книге рассматриваются вопросы развития военно-морских сил Франции (и частично других капиталистических стран) и возможности их использования в будущей войне. Автор книги стремится доказать, что в системе вооруженных сил стран - участниц НАТО, ВМС...
М.: Иностранная Литература, 1956. — 270 с.
Перевод с французского В.И. Колимеева. Под редакцией капитана I ранга Е.Н. Брюханова.
В книге рассматриваются вопросы развития военно-морских сил Франции (и частично других капиталистических стран) и возможности их использования в будущей войне. Автор книги стремится доказать, что в системе вооруженных сил стран - участниц НАТО, ВМС...
М.: Школа гражданского просвещения, 2018. — 200 с. — ISBN 978-5-93895-122-8 Это последняя книга выдающегося российского политолога Игоря Михайловича Бунина (1946–2018). Она посвящена теме, которую он любил и прекрасно знал – французской политике. В центре внимания автора — фигура Эмманюэля Макрона, избранного в 2017 году президентом Франции. Это событие стало одной из главных...
М.: Издательство Московского Университета, 1969. - 168 с.
В эпоху империализма государственно-монополистический капитал с абсолютной неизбежностью пронизывает все области общественной жизни, в том числе и прессу. Развитие политической прессы во Франции подчиняется законам капитализма, неизбежно проявляющим себя, подчас вопреки желанию журналистов, редакторов и читателей. Все...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1955. — 363 с.
Изучение основных проблем общего кризиса капитализма и его проявлений в крупнейших капиталистических странах имеет большое теоретическое и политическое значение. В этом отношении представляет интерес предлагаемая вниманию советского читателя книга прогрессивного немецкого экономиста Рольфа Гутермута. Книга Р. Гутермута —...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1955. — 363 с. Изучение основных проблем общего кризиса капитализма и его проявлений в крупнейших капиталистических странах имеет большое теоретическое и политическое значение. В этом отношении представляет интерес предлагаемая вниманию советского читателя книга прогрессивного немецкого экономиста Рольфа Гутермута. Книга Р. Гутермута —...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2008. — 192 с. — (Неприкосновенный запас). — ISBN 978-5-86793-575-7. Что же значит быть «арабом» во Франции? Кем являются эти люди: иммигрантами или равноправными членами общества? Как сами они себя идентифицируют? С какими проблемами они сталкиваются, живя в европейском обществе? Стоит ли бояться «араба», заходящего в вагон поезда, и...
М.: Мысль, 1982. — 431 с. — (Современный монополистический капитализм). На основе новейшего материала дается анализ основных изменений, происшедших в 70-х годах в экономической и политической жизни Франции. Показаны место страны в современном мире, состояние ее производительных сил, структура монополистического капитала, механизм государственно-монополистического регулирования,...
М.: Мысль, 1982. — 431 с. — (Современный монополистический капитализм). На основе новейшего материала дается анализ основных изменений, происшедших в 70-х годах в экономической и политической жизни Франции. Показаны место страны в современном мире, состояние ее производительных сил, структура монополистического капитала, механизм государственно-монополистического регулирования,...
Пер. с англ. — М.: Рабочая демократия, 1993. — 107 с. — ISBN 1870958 02-0. Политическая история майских событий 1968 года во Франции. Автор книги Клэр Дойл посетила Францию в 1968 году и была непосредственным свидетелем самой большой всеобщей забастовки в истории.
Пер. с англ. — М.: Рабочая демократия, 1993. — 107 с. — ISBN 1870958 02-0. Политическая история майских событий 1968 года во Франции. Автор книги Клэр Дойл посетила Францию в 1968 году и была непосредственным свидетелем самой большой всеобщей забастовки в истории.
М.: Прогресс, 1989. — 440 с., ил. — ISBN 5-01-001569-2. Книга, написанная историком, профессором Оксфордского университета Т. Зэлдиным и первоначально опубликованная в Англии, в 1983 г. была издана во Франции и быстро стала бестселлером. Это яркий социально-психологический портрет современной французской нации. В книге рассказывается о правящей элите Франции и о положении...
М.: Наука, 1999. — 239 с. ISBN 5-02-009900-07
Монография доцента исторического факультета Ярославского государственного университета, д.и.н. Г.Н. Канинской посвящена уникальному явлению во французской истории - радикализму. В центре внимания автора находится очень сложный период в жизни основанной еще в 1901 г. Республиканской партии радикалов и радикал- социалистов, охватывающий...
М.: ИМЭМО РАН, 2022. — 256 с. — ISBN 978-5-9535-0605-2. Коллективная монография содержит комплексный анализ состояния Франции к концу президентского пятилетия Эммануэля Макрона (2017-2022 гг.). В работе показаны цели и результаты социально-экономической политики президента, расклад и перипетии борьбы партийно-политических сил, место Франции на международной арене и ее отношения...
Монография. — Витебск: Витебский государственный университет им. П.М. Машерова (ВГУ), 2023. — 224 с. — ISBN 978-985-30-0066-5. Монография посвящена истории Франции в годы президентства Н. Саркози. Рассмотрены ключевые направления ее внутренней и внешней политики, даны политическая биография и психологический портрет Н. Саркози. Рассчитана на преподавателей, аспирантов,...
М.: Госполитиздат, 1964. — 224 с. Введение. Экспроприация трудящегося крестьянства и концентрация средств сельскохозяйственного производства в кулацко-капиталистических и помещичьих хозяйствах. Концентрация земли в кулацко-капиталистических и помещичьих хозяйствах в результате экспроприации трудящегося крестьянства. Концентрация посевов зерновых, технических и других...
М.: Книжный мир, 2014. — 800 с. Книга рассказывает о самом знаменитом французе XX века, основателе и первом президенте Пятой республики с необычной и неожиданной для российского читателя критической стороны. Автор подробно рассматривает историю возвышения Шарля де Голля, участие «Сражающейся Франции» в антигитлеровской коалиции, первый приход генерала к власти. Автор...
М.: Государственное издательство политической литературы, 1959. — 404 с. Книга Н. Н. Молчанова посвящена анализу внешней политики одной из великих западных держав, играющей важную роль в современной международной жизни. Характеристика внешней политики Франции в первое послевоенное десятилетие представляет большой интерес, ибо именно в указанный период складывался тот...
Сборник статей. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2023. — 580 с. — (Труды исторического факультета МГУ. Исторические исследования). — ISBN 978-5-00-165672-2. Сборник "Очерки истории Франции XX-XXI веков. Статьи Н.Н. Наумовой и ее учеников", приуроченный к юбилею известного российского историка-франковеда Н.Н. Наумовой, хронологически охватывает широкий период с первых десятилетий XX в. по...
Москва: РУСАЙНС, 2022. — 114 с. Монография посвящена истории общественно-политического кризиса мая-июня 1968 года во Франции и его влиянию на последующее развитие страны. Что явилось причиной широкого протестного движения? Каковы были требовния участников митингов и демонстраций? Чем завершились массовые волнения? В исследовании предпринята попытка наиболее точно ответить на...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1989. — 286 с. (114 стр в формате ворд)
Настоящая книга - результат глубокого знакомства с Францией, ее историей, современностью, традициями и культурой. Автор, ученый и дипломат, живо и со знанием дела рассказывает о жизни французов во всем ее многообразии. Отношение к своему прошлому и настоящему, политике и работе, семье, быту, досугу, вкусы, привычки,...
М.: Молодая гвардия, 1989. — 286 с.
Настоящая книга - результат глубокого знакомства с Францией, ее историей, современностью, традициями и культурой. Автор, ученый и дипломат, живо и со знанием дела рассказывает о жизни французов во всем ее многообразии.
Отношение к своему прошлому и настоящему, политике и работе, семье, быту, досугу, вкусы, привычки, национальный характер -...
М.: Мысль, 1973. — 464 с. — (Экономика и политика стран современного капитализма). В коллективном исследовании дается детальный анализ различных аспектов общественной жизни одной из крупнейших стран капиталистической Европы. Отдельные главы посвящены разбору наиболее актуальных проблем государственно-монополистического капитализма, сдвигам в производственной и социальной...
М.: Мысль, 1973. — 464 с. — (Экономика и политика стран современного капитализма). В коллективном исследовании дается детальный анализ различных аспектов общественной жизни одной из крупнейших стран капиталистической Европы. Отдельные главы посвящены разбору наиболее актуальных проблем государственно-монополистического капитализма, сдвигам в производственной и социальной...
Свердловск: Средне-Уральское Книжное изд-во, 1979. — 178 с. В работе рассмотрены место и роль бюрократического аппарата «исполнительной власти» в политической системе современной Франции. Показаны сущность и назначение аппарата президента республики, премьер-министра, министров и государственных секретарей, механизм его взаимоотношений с различными государственными институтами....
Свердловск: Средне-Уральское Книжное изд-во, 1979. — 178 с. В работе рассмотрены место и роль бюрократического аппарата «исполнительной власти» в политической системе современной Франции. Показаны сущность и назначение аппарата президента республики, премьер-министра, министров и государственных секретарей, механизм его взаимоотношений с различными государственными институтами....
Учеб. пособие для ВУЗов по спец. "История". — М.: Высшая школа, 1989. — 199 с. — ISBN 5-06-000018-4. В пособии излагается история страны за период с 1958 по 1988 год: её социально-экономическое развитие, особенности государственного устройства, общественно-политическая жизнь. Специальный раздел освещает современный этап жизни Франции, в том числе советско-французские отношения....
Учеб. пособие для вузов по спец. «История». — М.: Высшая школа, 1989. — 199 с. В пособии излагается история страны за период с 1958 по 1988 год: ее социально-экономическое развитие, особенности государственного устройства, общественно-политическая жизнь. Специальный раздел освещает современный этап жизни Франции, в том числе советско-французские отношения. Книга снабжена кратким...
К.: Политиздат Украины, 1990. — 205 с. — ISBN: 5-319-00372-2. В научно-популярной книге рассказывается о судьбе прогрессивного идейного наследия французской революции, 200-летие которой отмечается в 1989 году, о политической борьбе вокруг него, а главное — о различных сторонах общественной и политической жизни современной Франции. Широко освещаются важнейшие социальные проблемы...
М.: Наука, 1979. — 282 с. Монография посвящена бурным, драматическим событиям, происходившим во Франции с середины 50-х до середины 60-х годов. Автор раскрывает взаимосвязь подъема ультраправых сил во Франции в 50-х годах и их краха в начале 60-х годов с распадом французской колониальной империи, рассказывает о свержении Четвертой республики в мае 1958 г., о «неделе баррикад» в...
М.: Наука, 1979. — 282 с. Монография посвящена бурным, драматическим событиям, происходившим во Франции с середины 50-х до середины 60-х годов. Автор раскрывает взаимосвязь подъема ультраправых сил во Франции в 50-х годах и их краха в начале 60-х годов с распадом французской колониальной империи, рассказывает о свержении Четвертой республики в мае 1958 г., о «неделе баррикад» в...
М.: Наука, 1979. — 282 с. Монография посвящена бурным, драматическим событиям, происходившим во Франции с середины 50-х до середины 60-х годов. Автор раскрывает взаимосвязь подъема ультраправых сил во Франции в 50-х годах и их краха в начале 60-х годов с распадом французской колониальной империи, рассказывает о свержении Четвертой республики в мае 1958 г., о «неделе баррикад» в...
М.: Наука, 1984. — 242 с.
В монографии исследуется эволюция крупнейшей буржуазной партии Франции (голлистской), обусловленная развитием политической борьбы в стране, с 1958 по 1981 г. Автор рассматривает в этой связи идейные истоки голлизма, политическую философию и практическую политику президентов Ш. де Голля, Ж. Помпиду, В. Жискар д'Эстена, влияние этой политики на...
М.: Наука, 1984. — 242 с.
В монографии исследуется эволюция крупнейшей буржуазной партии Франции (голлистской), обусловленная развитием политической борьбы в стране, с 1958 по 1981 г. Автор рассматривает в этой связи идейные истоки голлизма, политическую философию и практическую политику президентов Ш. де Голля, Ж. Помпиду, В. Жискар д'Эстена, влияние этой политики на...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2018. — 400 с. — ISBN: 978-5-907030-16-9. В монографии исследуется история французской христианской демократии во второй половине XX века: 1960-е годы, когда имеют место структурные изменения и широкий плюрализм движений христианско-демократического толка; 1970-е годы, когда христианская демократия тесно взаимодействует с жискардизмом, 1980-е годы - период...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2018. — 400 с. — ISBN: 978-5-907030-16-9. В монографии исследуется история французской христианской демократии во второй половине XX века: 1960-е годы, когда имеют место структурные изменения и широкий плюрализм движений христианско-демократического толка; 1970-е годы, когда христианская демократия тесно взаимодействует с жискардизмом, 1980-е годы - период...
Монография. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2018. — 400 с. — ISBN 978-5-907030-16-9. В монографии исследуется история французской христианской демократии во второй половине XX века: 1960-е годы, когда имеют место структурные изменения и широкий плюрализм движений христианско-демократического толка; 1970-е годы, когда христианская демократия тесно взаимодействует с жискардизмом, 1980-е годы -...
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