War and Society in 20th Century France

Michael Scriven Lecturer in French Studies,University of Bath Peter Wagstaff Lecturer in French Studies, University of Bath

Part 1 The French people and war 1914-1945: August 1914 - nationalism, internationalism and the French working class, Susan Milner; the reserve army of labour? French women in the First World War, Judith Still; the everyday experience of women during the Second World War, Hanna Diamond. Part 2 Resistance and collaboration: the Maquis, whose history?, Roderick Kedward; problems of collaboration in Alsace, Kate Glazier; the politics of liberation - France 1943-45, Hilary Footitt and John Simmonds. Part 3 Colonial war: French public opinion and the war in Indochina 1945-54, Alain Ruscio; France's military involvement in Algeria - the PCF and the oppositionnels, Daniele Joly; the French army and the Algerian war - crisis of identity, Martin Evans. Part 4 War, the military and the state: the defence consensus and French political culture, Jolyon Howorth; the military-industrial complex and European armaments collaboration, Margaret Blunden. Part 5 Social control and the art of persuasion: control of integration? information and propaganda under Vichy, Denis Peschanski; martyrs and militants - painting and propaganda 1944-54, Sarah Wilson. Part 6 The language and discourse of war: discourses of resistance, Andrea Cady; Sartre's phoney war diaries, Michael Scriven. Part 7 Internecine war: la guerre franco-francaise, Jean-Pierre Rioux.