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National Regeneration in Vichy France: Ideas and Policies, 1930–1944 1st Edition

by Debbie Lackerstein (Author)
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The creators of the Vichy regime did not intend merely to shield France from the worst effects of military defeat and occupation; rather the leaders of Vichy were inspired by a will to regenerate France, to establish an authoritarian new order that would repair the degenerative effects of parliamentary democracy and liberal society. Their plan to effect this change took the form of a far-reaching programme they called the National Revolution. This is the first study of the National Revolution as the expression of Vichy's ideology and aims. It reveals the variety and complexity of both right wing and other strands of French thought in the context of the turbulent years of the 1930s - when Vichy's history really begins - and under the Occupation, when internal rivalries and divisions, as well as the pressures of war, doomed Vichy's programme of national regeneration. The book is structured around a consideration of the rhetoric of right-wing ideology and such key catchwords as 'decadence', 'action', 'order', 'realism' and 'new man', and shows how these phrases only served to mask the political and ideological incoherence of the Vichy government.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0754667219
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0754667216
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Routledge
  5. Publication date
    March 28, 2012
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6.25 x 0.8 x 9.25 inches
  8. Print length
    278 pages
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Dr Debbie Lackerstein is a lecturer in history in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. Her main areas of research and teaching are the Second World War and Genocide Her next research project concerns different perspectives on the liberation of the German concentration and labour camps in the final weeks of the European war in 1945.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (March 28, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 278 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0754667219
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0754667216
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.8 x 9.25 inches

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