1st Edition
National Regeneration in Vichy France Ideas and Policies, 1930–1944
By Debbie Lackerstein
Copyright 2012
280 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Realities of Power under Occupation; Chapter 2 Decadence; Chapter 3 Order; Chapter 4 New Order; Chapter 5 Action; Chapter 6 Action under Occupation; Chapter 7 Realism; Chapter 8 Realism under Occupation; Chapter 9 Imagining the New Man; Chapter 10 Creating the New Man; Chapter 11 Defending the New Man; Chapter 101 Conclusion Appeals to Renewal and Sirens of Decline;
Biography
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.
