Vichy France and Everyday Life - Confronting the Challenges of Wartime, 1939-1945

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. V y 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.>

About the author

Lindsey Dodd is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She is the author of French Children under the Allied Bombs (2016).David Lees is Senior TeachingFellow in French Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is one of theco-editors of The Routledge Handbook of French Politicsand Culture (2018).

Product details

• Authors: Lindsey Dodd, Lindsey (University of Huddersfield Dodd, Lindsey (University of Huddersfield Uk) Dodd, David Lees
• Assisted by: Dr Lindsey (University of Huddersfield Dodd (Editor), Lindsey Dodd (Editor), Lindsey (University of Huddersfield Dodd (Editor), David Lees (Editor), David (University of Warwick Lees (Editor), Dr David (University of Warwick Lees (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781350011595
• ISBN: 978-1-350-01159-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; France, European History, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Archaeology, Social and cultural history, History and Archaeology