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The Right Wing in France
The Gaullist regime in France has aroused much interest in the nature of French politics. This stimulating analysis of the conservative faction in France, revised by the author to include the government of General de Gaulle, should be of interest not only to students of that country's history and politics but also to general readers who would understand France's political tradition and where de Gaulle fits into it. This work is translated from the second and revised edition of La Droite en France: de le Première Restauration á la Ve République, published in Paris in 1963.
René Rémond, historien
Spécialiste de l'époque contemporaine, René Rémond (1918-2007) est l'auteur d'une oeuvre majeure qui a largement contribué au renouveau de l'histoire politique et religieuse en France. Il a approfondi la réflexion sur la dialectique des faits et des représentations. Il a pris une part éminente dans les débats civiques de son temps. Cet ouvrage rassemble les témoignages d'historiens qui l'ont côtoyé, qui se sont enrichis de son influence et qui ont collaboré avec lui. A quoi s'ajoutent des analyses d'aspects particuliers de son oeuvre. Cet hommage collectif permet de mieux comprendre l'itinéraire, le parcours intellectuel, le rayonnement multiforme de René Rémond. Il fait pleinement mesurer l'empreinte profonde qu'il a laissée.
The Latest Catastrophe
The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today’s historians can find themselves researching the same events that they themselves lived through. This book reflects on the concept and practices of what is called “contemporary history,” a history of the present time, and identifies special tensions in the field between knowledge and experience, distance and proximity, and objectivity and subjectivity. Henry Rousso addresses the rise of contemporary history and the relations of present-day societies to their past, especially their legacies of political violence....
Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain
During the twentieth century, Britain turned from one of the most deeply religious nations of the world into one of the most secularised nations. This book provides a comprehensive account of religion in British society and culture between 1900 and 2000. It traces how Christian Puritanism and respectability framed the people amidst world wars, economic depressions, and social protest, and how until the 1950s religious revivals fostered mass enthusiasm. It then examines the sudden and dramatic changes seen in the 1960’s and the appearance of religious militancy in the 1980s and 1990s. With a focus on the themes of faith cultures, secularisation, religious militancy and the spiritual revolution of the New Age, this book uses people’s own experiences and the stories of the churches to display the diversity and richness of British religion. Suitable for undergraduate students studying modern British history, church history and sociology of religion.
René Rémond, un historien dans le siècle
Le 29 novembre 2006, la Bibliothèque nationale de France, à laquelle il avait confié en don l'ensemble de ses manuscrits et archives personnelles, lui consacrait une journée de colloque, réunissant autour de lui plusieurs de ses proches, amis ou disciples, sous la présidence de Jean-Noël Jeanneney, Jean-Jacques Becker, Jean Boissonnat, Alain Duhamel, Nlarie Odile Germain, Alain Lancelot, Philippe Levillain, Ilenri Madelin, Pierre Nora, Jacques Prévotat, Jean-François Sirinelli. Ce volume, préfacé par Bruno Racine, reprend les diverses contributions d'une rencontre particulièrement féconde avec ce grand témoin du XXe siècle.
Vichy
A plea for a more moderate, balanced, and accurate view of the Vichy regime.
Comrades-in-arms
A World War I memoir by a French cavalry officer which details daily life on the Western Front from January 1915 to August 1916. Lecluse commanded an elite cavalry unit during campaigns in Artois, Champagne and Alsace, and he regarded the men who served under him as comrades and heroes.
Imagining Fascism
The role and influence of intellectuals is one of the flashpoints in the recurring debate on the nature and dimensions of French fascism. At the forefront of this debate are a group of emerging writers, collectively known as the Young Right. Though thoroughly schooled in the reactionary nationalism of Charles Maurras' Action francaise, whose orbit they entered in the early 1930s, they were soon seduced by the mobilizing force of neighboring fascist movements and regimes. Led by two precocious literary talents, Robert Brasillach and Thierry Maulnier, the Young Right set themselves to rejuvenating French nationalism and winning a place for France in an emerging new Europe. Their project - an attempt to graft lessons from foreign sources onto a native language of French generational and cultural politics - was one of several efforts to create a distinctive French fascism.
Paul Ricoeur
Reagan combines different genres to supplement and enhance the central biographical essay. A personal memoir recalls the turbulent student protests of the 1960s and Ricoeur's controversial resignation as head of the faculties at the University of Paris-Nanterre. A penetrating philosophical exposition draws together the essential themes of Ricoeur's philosophical anthropology. And a collection of four substantive interviews offers privileged access to Ricoeur's own remarkably clear explication of his most challenging and stimulating ideas. The result of this innovative mix of genres is a multidimensional and astonishingly perceptive portrait of a seminal philosopher's life and work.
French Historians 1900-2000
French Historians 1900-2000: The New Historical Writing inTwentieth-Century France examines the lives and writings of 40of France’s great twentieth-century historians. Blends biography with critical analysis of major works, placingthe work of the French historians in the context of their lifestories Includes contributions from over 30 international scholars Provides English-speaking readers with a new insight into thekey French historians of the last century
