France''s New Deal - From the Thirties to the Postwar Era

Zusatztext "Nord's work is a masterfully constructed challenge to our conventional understanding of the postwar state agenda as a new beginning in France. It invites further inquiry into the political roots and the dynamics at the origin, and the divergent developments, of 'new deals' elsewhere." ---Kenneth Mouré, French Politics, Culture & Society Informationen zum Autor Philip Nord is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. His books include Paris Shopkeepers and the Politics of Resentment (Princeton), The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France , and Impressionists and Politics: Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century . Klappentext "Authoritative, subtle, and persuasive, this book is a major advance in conceptualizing the transformation of the French state in the mid-twentieth century. It will supersede any current literature on the subject." --Richard F. Kuisel, Georgetown University "In this splendid book, Nord takes a big topic, and addresses it with infectious enthusiasm, rigor, and humor. Nobody else knows as much about the interconnections between the lives and careers of the midcentury elite of French administrators, experts, and intellectuals, who from the 1930s to 1950s, emerged as the ruling class of the reshaped French state." --Martin Conway, University of Oxford Zusammenfassung France's New Deal is an in-depth and important look at the remaking of the French state after World War II, a time when the nation was endowed with brand-new institutions for managing its economy and culture. Yet, as Philip Nord reveals, the significant process of state rebuilding did not begin at the Liberation. Rather, it got started earlier, in

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Philip Nord, Philip G. Nord
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 26.08.2012
• EAN: 9780691156118
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15611-8
• Seiten: 480
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1950 to c 1959, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), C 1945 To C 1960