Boulanger Affair Reconsidered - Royalism, Boulangism, and the Origins of the Radical Right in France

Zusatztext 'a valuable contribution to our understanding of the reactions of the royalist leadership to Boulangism'Sharif Gemie! College of St Paul and St Mary! Cheltenham! French History Informationen zum Autor Author of "French Conservatism in Crisis", Louisiana State University Press Klappentext Recent scholarship on General Boulanger's 1888-89 bid for power in France's Third Republic has focused on the combination of socialism and national chauvinism in the movement supporting Boulanger's campaign! seeing in this alliance the left-wing origins of 20th-century fascism. In this groundbreaking new study! Irvine challenges that analysis! arguing that royalist and conservative supporters provided the crucial financial and electoral backing to the Boulanger movement. This places the origins of the exploitation of mass politics by extreme rightists in a much earlier period than has been supposed. Based on archival materials only recently made available to scholars! including the private papers of the French royal family! Irvine's book makes a major contribution to the debates in European history and sociology regarding the relationship between conservative interests and anti-democratic mass movements. Zusammenfassung The most serious threat to the stability of France's Third Republic was General Boulanger's bid for power in 1888-89. Most recent scholarship of the Boulanger Affair has focused on the combination of socialism and national chauvinism in the movement supporting Boulanger's campaign, and has seen in this alliance the left-wing origins of twentieth-century fascism. William Irvine challenges that analysis, arguing that it was royalist and conservative support which provided the crucial financial and electoral backing to the Boulanger movement. This places the origins of the exploitation of mass politics by extreme rightists in France much earlier than had previously been supposed. Irvine's book is based on previously unused archive materials, including the private papers of the French royal family, which have only recently been made available to scholars....

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• Authors: William D Irvine, William D. Irvine, William D. (Associate Professor Irvine, Irvine William D.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.04.1989
• EAN: 9780195053340
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505334-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, European History, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Political ideologies and movements