Vichy France and Everyday Life

Confronting the Challenges of Wartime, 1939-1945

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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This wide-ranging volume brings together a blend of experienced and emerging scholars to examine the texture of everyday life for different parts of the wartime French population. It explores systems of coping, means of helping one another, confrontations with people or events and the challenges posed to and by Vichy’s National Revolution during this difficult period in French and European history.The book focuses on human interactions at the micro level, highlighting lived experience within the complex social networks of this era, as French civilians negotiated the violence of war, the restrictions of Occupation, the shortages of daily necessities and the fear of persecution in their everyday lives. Using approaches drawn mostly from history, but also including oral history, film, gender studies and sociology, the text peers into the lives of ordinary men, women and children and opens new perspectives on questions of resistance, collaboration, war and memory; it tells some of the stories of the anonymous millions who suffered, coped, laughed, played and worked, either together at home or far apart in towns and villages across Occupied and Vichy France.Vichy France and Everyday Life is a crucial study for anyone interested in the social history of the Second World War or the history of France during the twentieth century.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-12-26
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt376 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350143791

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List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Lindsey Dodd (University of Huddersfield, UK) and David Lees (University of Warwick, UK)Part I – Coping and Helping in Wartime France1. Children and Play in Occupied France, Camille Mahé (Center for History, Sciences Po, France)2. Coping in the Classroom: Adapting Schools to Wartime, Matthieu Devigne (Sorbonne, France)3. Reconstructing the Daily Life of a Lyonnaise Family, Isabelle von Bueltzingsloewen (Lyon II, France)4. The Daily Lives of French Railway Workers, Sylvère Aït Amour (Rails et Histoire, France)5. Helping the Most Needy: The Role of the Secours National, Jean-Pierre Le Crom (Nantes, CNRS, France)6. The American Friends Service Committee and Wartime Aid to Families, Shannon L. Fogg (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)7. Urban Lives, Rural Lives and Children’s Evacuation, Lindsey Dodd (University of Huddersfield, UK)Part II – Confrontation and Challenge in Wartime France8. Colonial Prisoners of War and French Civilians, Sarah Frank (International Studies Group, University of the Free State, South Africa) 9. Wehrmacht Brothels, Prostitution and Venereal Desire, Byron Schirbock (University of Cologne, Germany)10. Madeleine Blaess: An Emotional History of a Long Liberation, Wendy Michallat (University of Sheffield, UK) 11. Counter-Revolution? Resisting Vichy and the National Revolution, Mason Norton (Edge Hill University, UK) 12. Vichy Cinema and the Everyday, Steve Wharton (University of Bath, UK) 13. Defining Everyday Frenchness under Vichy, David Lees (University of Warwick, UK)Select Bibliography

[A] welcome addition to a growing literature about everyday life in wartime France and, as the editors point out, should be read alongside those works … [The] editors should be praised for their dedication to bringing together scholars who work in both English and French and for ensuring the French scholarship was translated into English. This feature makes the collection particularly valuable for people who teach in English, but want to include contemporary French scholarship.