France, the Dark Years 1940-1944

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-820706-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 684 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1180 g

In this monumental new account of the Vichy years, Julian Jackson examines French experiences of Occupation during the 'Black Years' of 1940-4. Pulling together previously separate 'histories' of occupation, resistance, and collaboration he presents a definitive history of the period. This is a more complex history than the traditional dichotomy between 'collaboration' and 'resistance', one in which the ideological frontiers between Vichy and the Resistance were often blurred. This study ranges from the politics of Marshal Pétain's regime to the experiences of the ordinary French people, from surrender in 1940 to the purges of liberation. The author restores the organized Resistance to a more central role than has been customary in recent years and presents a new social history of the resistance which takes in the roles of foreigners, women, Jews, and peasants. He uncovers the long term roots of the Vichy regime in political and social conflict and cultural crisis stretching back to the Great War and concludes by tracing the lasting legacy and memory of Occupation since 1945.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Julian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Historians and the Occupation

- Anticipations

- 1: The Shadow of War: Cultural Anxieties and Modern Nightmares

- 2: Rethinking the Republic 1890-1934

- 3: Class War/Civil War

- 4: The German Problem

- 5: The Daladier Moment: Prelude to Vichy or Republican Revival

- 6: The Debacle

- The Regime: National Revolution and Collaboration

- 7: The National Revolution

- 8: Collaboration

- 9: Collaborationism

- 10: Laval in Power 1942-43

- The Regime, the Germans, and Administration

- 11: Propaganda,Policing, and Administration

- 12: Public Opinion, Vichy, and the Germans

- 13: Intellectuals, Artists, and Entertainers

- 14: Reconstructing Mankind

- 15: Vichy and the Jews

- The Resistance

- 16: The Free French 1940-1942

- 17: The Resistance 1940-1942

- 18: De Gaulle and the Resistance 1942

- 19: Power Struggles

- 20: Resistance in Society

- 21: The New France

- Liberation and After

- 22: Towards Liberation: January to June 1944

- 23: Liberations

- 24: A New France?

- 25: Remembering the Occupation