The Moral Disarmament of France

Mona L. Siegel is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento. She has published in The Journal of Modern History and in French Historical Studies.

• List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. 'Raise their hearts to the Fatherland': patriotism, pacifism, and primary school education during the First World War; 2. 'Little French children, do not forget!' - immediate postwar lessons and French collective memory of the Great War; 3. 'There are only false victories and great miseries' - socialist internationalism, feminist pacifism, and the forging of a new ideological consensus; 4. 'War is atrocious for all fatherlands' - pacifist scholastic narratives of the Great War; 5. 'To love France is to love all humanity' - patriotic education between the wars; 6. 'We do not want war!' - schoolteachers confront fascism and international conflict, 1933 to 1940; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Review of the hardback: 'We found this book was an excellent example of how a history of education could address a broad historiographical question, namely the role of French schoolteachers in shaping pacifist and patriotic attitudes in the interwar period. We were also impressed with the quality of research, the range and variety of sources, and the careful development of the argument. We found this book to be a model of how to write the history of education …' History of Education Society