France Since 1945

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France Since 1945

France Since 1945

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Robert Gildea presents an ambitious and wide-ranging but succinct history of France from 1945 to 2024, which seeks to provide a sympathetic understanding of the forces that have shaped a country that is so close to Britain and yet so different. This third edition, following the second in 2002 and first in 1996, takes into account twenty more years of French history, history writing, and changing historical approaches, notably in colonial history and gender history. France Since 1945 explores France's bid to restore political stability and international greatness after the Second World War which was marked by defeat and occupation, and the loss of greatness and crisis of democracy that began in the 1990s. These chapters are interleaved by eight thematic chapters, on the legacy of the Second World War and the Algerian War, which arguably continues in France to this day; on the economy and society; on French culture; and on gender and sexuality.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780198825777
ISBN10 0198825773
Number Of Pages 384
Item Weight 336 g
Product Dimensions 130 x 197 x 30 mm
Publisher / Reseller Oxford University Press
Format paperback
Edition 3rd Revised edition
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Review from previous edition Gildea's account of history and France Since 1945 offers an authoritative, stimulating, and highly readable introduction. * James McMillan, Times Literary Supplement *
This is an impressive study of French national identity, culture, obsessions, and aspirations since the end of the Second World War. An excellent introduction to the France of today. * Sunday Telegraph *
A masterly cultural, social, and political study * Scotsman *

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Author's Bio

Robert Gildea is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford, and a specialist on French and European history in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2003 he won the Wolfson Prize for History. He is the author many books including What is History for? (2024), Empires of the Mind (2020), and Europe's 1968. Voices of Revolt (2013).

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