Years of Plenty, Years of Want: France and the Legacy of the Great War - Hardcover

Martin, Benjamin Franklin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0875804683 ISBN 13: 9780875804682

Verlag: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013

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Book by Martin Benjamin Franklin

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Martin provides an elegant, fast-paced narrative of the political and social history of France from the early 1900s to 1939, covering the political and diplomatic lead-up to the First World War to the beginning of the Second World War. William Hoisington, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author, most recently, of "The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil: A Frenchman between France and North Africa "" Few historians of modern France navigate the troubled waters of the Third Republic with a steadier hand than Benjamin Martin, or with more style." Michael Burns, Professor Emeritus of Modern European History at Mount Holyoke College and author of the award-winning" Dreyfus: A Family Affair from the French Revolution to the Holocaust "" "Years of Plenty" . . . humanizes some of the prominent individuals in France from the Belle Epoque through the Second World War and will appeal to a wide audience, including undergraduates. "History: Reviews of New Books" "Martin (Louisiana State Univ.) is very good at conveying a sense of the indirection that marked the final decades of the Third Republic and prepared the way for the Vichy era. He also succeeds in illuminating the mood of France in this period by considering the ways in which leading writers, particularly Roger Martin du Gard, portrayed France as a nation in political and moral crisis. This work of historical interpretation is both original and lucid. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Scholars and students alike." "CHOICE"" "Martin provides an elegant, fast-paced narrative of the political and social history of France from the early 1900s to 1939, covering the political and diplomatic lead-up to the First World War to the beginning of the Second World War." -William Hoisington, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author, most recently, of "The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil: A Frenchman between France and North Africa " "Few historians of modern France navigate the troubled waters of the Third Republic with a steadier hand than Benjamin Martin, or with more style." -Michael Burns, Professor Emeritus of Modern European History at Mount Holyoke College and author of the award-winning" Dreyfus: A Family Affair from the French Revolution to the Holocaust " "Martin (Louisiana State Univ.) is very good at conveying a sense of the indirection that marked the final decades of the Third Republic and prepared the way for the Vichy era. He also succeeds in illuminating the mood of France in this period by considering the ways in which leading writers, particularly Roger Martin du Gard, portrayed France as a nation in political and moral crisis. This work of historical interpretation is both original and lucid. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Scholars and students alike." -- CHOICE

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For France, the decade and a half before the Great War were years of plenty. In contrast, the two decades after - with over one million of its people dead and one million wounded - were years of want, loss, misery, and fear. In 1914, France went to war convinced of victory. In 1939, France went to war again, this time dreading defeat. Benjamin Franklin Martin examines daily life, the prevailing national mood, and the attitudes of France's prime ministers in July 1914 and August 1939, the months preceding the two world wars. In distinctive and vividly compelling prose, Martin recounts how the legacy of the Great War led to a struggle for the very soul of France.

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• Verlag: Northern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0875804683
• ISBN 13: 9780875804682
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240