Uncertain Foundation

NICHOLAS ATKIN Professor of Modern European History, University of Reading, UKPHILIPPE BUTON Professor of Contemporary History, University of Reims, FranceEMMANUEL CARTIER Lecturer in Public Law, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, FranceHERRICK CHAPMAN Associate Professor of History, New York University, USACHARLES COGAN Senior Associate Fellow, the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USAHILARY FOOTITT Senior Research Fellow in French, the University of Reading, UKDAVID GOLDEY Emeritus Fellow in Politics at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UKANDREW KNAPP Professor of French Politics and Contemporary History, University of Reading, UKNATALIA NAOUMOVA Senior Lecturer in European History, Lomonossov University, Moscow, RussiaMARTIN SHIPWAY Lecturer in French Contemporary History and Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UKPAUL SMITH Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham, UKOLIVIER WIEVIORKA Professor of Contemporary History, École Normale Supérieure, Cachan, France

• Introduction: France's 'Long' Liberation, 1944-47; A.Knapp The Liberation and the Institutional Question in France; E.Cartier 'Sénat ou pas Sénat?' - The 'First' Council of the Republic; P.Smith De Gaulle and the Paradox of Post-War French Politics; D.Goldey Replacement or Renewal? The French Political Élite at the Liberation; O.Wieviorka 'The Politics of Political Women': Reassessing the First Députées ; H.Footitt France's Liberation Era, 1944-47: A Social and Economic Settlement?; H.Chapman Catholics and the Long Liberation: The Progressive Moment; N.Atkin Whose Liberation? Confronting the Problem of the French Empire, 1944-1947; M.Shipway Moscow, the Parti Communiste Français, and France's Political Recovery; N.Naoumova Washington at the Liberation, 1944-1947; C.Cogan & A.Knapp The Half-Open Window: France and Britain, 1944-1947; A.Knapp Occupation, Liberation, Purges: the Changing Landscape of French Memory; P.Buton