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This book recounts France’s responses to refugees from the liberation of Paris in 1944 to the end of the civil wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1995. It questions whether France fulfilled the promise of asylum for those persecuted for the ‘cause of liberty’ made in its Constitution of 1946. Post-war development and the demand for immigrant workers were favourable to refugees from the Communist east, from Franco’s Spain, from Hungary after insurrection of 1956, and later from Latin America and Indochina. Asylum developed nationally in conjunction with international developments, the interventions of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention. Economic ruptures in the 1970s, however, and the appearance of refugees from Asia and Africa, led to the assertion of national priorities and brought about a sense of crisis, and questions about whether France could continue to fulfil its promise.
Robert Gildea’s penetrating history of France during World War II sweeps aside the French Resistance of a thousand clichés. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its image has been carefully curated through a combination of French politics and pride, ever since jubilant crowds celebrated Paris’s liberation in 1944.
This comparative study of post-war European socialism explores the problems of socio-economic and political reconstruction across the Iron Curtain.
Tra la Conferenza di Helsinki nel 1975 e il crollo dell’Urss nel 1991, due attori transnazionali dotati di missioni universaliste, quali il comunismo e la Chiesa cattolica, si sono confrontati con la questione dei diritti umani. L’avvento di Gorbačëv segna un passaggio fondamentale, liberando il tema dalle logiche della guerra fredda. Il suo rapporto con Sacharov appare emblematico, così come è significativo il suo dialogo con Giovanni Paolo II. Il volume mostra come i diritti umani non abbiano semplicemente sostituito le ideologie universaliste ma siano stati un terreno di conflitto e contaminazione per tutte le culture politiche e religiose in Europa, nel mondo comunista e cattolico, ma anche nella socialdemocrazia e nel cristianesimo riformato.
Retrace l'histoire du parti socialiste, depuis 1905, à travers les personnalités, les dates et les lieux emblématiques. Aborde également des sujets cruciaux comme la conquête de l'égalité homme-femme, la position du parti pendant la guerre, etc.
How American labor leaders came to the rescue of political and Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. Rescue, Relief, and Resistance: The Jewish Labor Committee's Anti-Nazi Operations, 1934–1945 is the English translation of Catherine Collomp’s award-winning book on the Jewish Labor Committee (JLC). Formed in New York City in 1934 by the leaders of the Jewish Labor Movement, the JLC came to the forefront of American labor’s reaction to Nazism and antisemitism. Situated at the crossroads of several fields of inquiry—Jewish history, immigration and exile studies, American and international labor history, World War II in France and in Poland—the history of the JLC is by nature transnatio...
This volume offers a new perspective on the political history of the socialist, communist and alternative political Lefts, focusing on the role of networks and transnational connections. Embedding the history of left-wing internationalism into a new political history approach, it accounts for global and transnational turns in the study of left-wing politics. The essays in this collection study a range of examples of international engagement and transnational cooperation in which left-wing actors were involved, and explore how these interactions shaped the globalization of politics throughout the 20th century. In taking a multi-archival and methodological approach, this book challenges two co...