France in the Era of Fascism: Essays on the French Authoritarian Right

Couverture
Brian Jenkins
Berghahn Books, 2005 - 232 pages

France's response to the rise of European fascism during the 1930s, and subsequently to the Nazi occupation 1940-44, has been a difficult subject for the nation's historians. The consensus amongst leading French authorities on the period has been the claim that France was largely 'immune' to fascism in the 1930s, and that the Vichy regime was an aberration produced by defeat and occupation. Over the last 30 years, this position has gradually been undermined, mainly through the work of foreign scholars, but it nonetheless remains intact. This volume brings together for the first time the leading critics of the standard French interpretation, who have used these essays to refine and update their positions, or to move the debate onto new terrain.

 

Table des matières

Morphology of Fascism in France
22
Problematising the Immunity Thesis
65
intro
81
materia
92
The Five Stages of Fascism
105
February 1934 and the Discovery of French Societys Allergy
129
The Construction of Crisis in Interwar France
151
The Construction of Crisis in Interwar France
187
Beyond the Fascism Debate
200
Select Bibliography
219
Index
227
Droits d'auteur

Autres éditions - Tout afficher

Expressions et termes fréquents

À propos de l'auteur (2005)

Brian Jenkins is Research Professor in the Department of French at the University of Leeds. His doctoral thesis was on the Paris riots of February 6th 1934, and he has recently returned to the study of the French extreme Right between the world wars. He has also written extensively on French nationalism, and on theories of nationalism, notably as the author of Nationalism in France: Class and Nation since 1789 (1990) and as co-editor of Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe (1996). He is co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies.

Informations bibliographiques