True France: The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900–1945 (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture) - Softcover

Lebovics, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801481937 ISBN 13: 9780801481932

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Today as many as 30 percent of French voters would agree with Jean-Marie Le Pen that foreign-born Muslims should be expelled from France. True France is a provocative history of the prototype of this contemporary "France for the French" movement - the conservative, static, intolerant understanding of French identity that became a powerful tool in national politics during the first half of the twentieth century.

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Synopsis:

A history of the conservative, static, intolerant understanding of French identity during the first half of the century, when it became a powerful tool of national politics. Lebovics (history, State U. of New York) weaves into the narrative biographies of the politicians and social scientists who took part in the movement. Annotation copyright Book

About the Author:

HERMAN LEBOVICS is Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of True France: The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900'1945, also from Cornell, and Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0801481937
• ISBN 13: 9780801481932
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248