Moral Disarmament of France - Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940

Informationen zum Autor fm.author_biographical_note1 Klappentext Mona L. Siegel challenges assumptions that French schoolteachers undermined national morale in the era between the wars. Zusammenfassung Both contemporary critics and subsequent scholars have condemned French pacifist schoolteachers of the interwar decades for cultivating antipatriotism and facilitating the defeat of 1940. In this book! Mona L. Siegel challenges such equations of teachers' pacifism with national betrayal and argues that interwar schoolteachers ultimately solidified French citizens' patriotism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Mona L. Siegel, Mona L. (California State University Siegel, Siegel Mona L.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521187787
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18778-7
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)