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  • Fascism, Liberalism and Europeanism in the Political Thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce

    by Daniel Knegt ...
    Series series War, Conflict and Genocide Studies
    Despite the recent rise in studies that approach fascism as a transnational phenomenon, the links between fascism and internationalist intellectual currents have only received scant attention. This book explores the political thought of Bertrand de Jouvenel and Alfred Fabre-Luce, two French intellectuals, journalists and political writers who, from 1930 to the mid-1950s, moved between liberalism, ... Read more

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  • France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944

    by Julian Jackson ...
    The French call them 'the Dark Years'... This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history. Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration, resistance, and liberation, it uncovers the conflicting memories of occupation which ensure that even today France continues to debate the legacy of the Vichy ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Dreyfus

    Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century

    by Ruth Harris ...
    The definitive, award-winning history of the infamous Dreyfus Affair, a scandal that shook nineteenth-century France and stunned the world.National Jewish Book Awards WinnerIn 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully convicted of being a spy for Germany and was imprisoned on Devil's Island. Over the following years, attempts to correct this injustice tore France ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Past Imperfect

    French Intellectuals, 1944-1956

    by Tony Judt ...
    A "marvelously readable" critique of Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir, and other French postwar intellectuals that "consistently entertains and provokes" ( The Washington Post).The uniquely prominent role of French intellectuals in European cultural and political life following World War II is the focus of this book by the acclaimed author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Tony Judt analyzes ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fire in the Minds of Men

    Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

    by James Billington ...
    This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Lies, Passions & Illusions

    The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century

    by François Furet ...
    Translated by Deborah Furet ...
    A critical history of 20th century political movement by the Hannah Arendt Prize-winning author of Interpreting the French Revolution.Widely considered one of the leading historians of the French Revolution, François Furet was hailed as "one of the most influential men in contemporary France" by the New York Review of Books. In Lies, Passions, and Illusions, Furet's presents a cohesive, late ... Read more

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  • The Burden of Responsibility

    Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century

    by Tony Judt ...
    A historian explores how three noted French intellectuals maintained their moral principles despite the difficult political pressures of their era.Through the prism of the lives three outstanding twentieth century French intellectuals—Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron—history professor Tony Judt examines pivotal issues in the history of contemporary French society—antisemitism and the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe

    A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, 1872-1905

    by Timothy Snyder ...
    Timothy Snyder opens a new path in the understanding of modern nationalism and twentieth-century socialism by presenting the often overlooked life of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz, an important Polish thinker at the beginning of the twentieth century. During his brief life in Poland, Paris, and Vienna, Kelles-Krauz influenced or infuriated most of the leaders of the various socialist movements of Central ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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  • The Collaborator

    The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction—a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in chief of the fascist weekly Je Suis Partout, in whose pages he regularly printed wartime denunciations of Jews and resistance ... Read more

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  • Generation Stalin

    French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality

    by Andrew Sobanet ...
    A look at how four French writers of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s contributed to the rise of Stalin in their country and abroad.Generation Stalin traces Joseph Stalin's rise as a dominant figure in French political culture from the 1930s through the 1950s. Andrew Sobanet brings to light the crucial role French writers played in building Stalin's cult of personality and in disseminating Stalinist ... Read more

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  • The First Socialist Schism

    Bakunin vs. Marx in the International Working Men's Association

    by Wolfgang Eckhardt ...
    The First Socialist Schism chronicles the conflicts in the International Working Men's Association (First International, 1864-1877), which represents an important milestone in the history of political ideas and socialist theory. This can be seen as a decisive moment in the history of political ideas: the split between centralist party politics and the federalist grassroots movement. The separate ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Lost Children

    Reconstructing Europe's Families after World War II

    by Tara Zahra ...
    "This impressive . . . study charts the history of [post WWII] humanitarian relief . . . demonstrating how the institutions of the family became politicized." ( Library Journal)During the Second World War, an unprecedented number of families were torn apart. As the Nazi empire crumbled, millions roamed the continent in search of their loved ones. The Lost Children tells the story of these families ... Read more

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