Experience of Occupation in the Nord, 191418 - Living With the Enemy in First World War France

A study of actual and perceived French civilian behaviours under German military occupation in 1914-18, from complicity and criminality to forms of resistance. Providing a new conceptual vocabulary, the book posits that an 'occupied culture' existed and guided civilian responses to the German presence, and each other.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I: 'Misconduct' and disunity
1 Sexual misconduct
2 General misconduct and popular reprisals
3 Male misconduct
4 Une Sacrée désunion? Conflict continues
5 Moral borderlands: Criminality during the occupation
Part II: Popular patriotism and resistance avant la majuscule
6 Notable protests: respectable resistance (coups de gueule polis)
7 Symbolic resistance (coups de coeur)
8 Active resistance (coups de poker, coups d'éclat)
Epilogue: Liberation, Remembering and Forgetting
Index

About the author

James E. Connolly is a Lecturer in Modern French History in the French Department at University College London

Summary

A study of actual and perceived French civilian behaviours under German military occupation in 1914-18, from complicity and criminality to forms of resistance. Providing a new conceptual vocabulary, the book posits that an ‘occupied culture’ existed and guided civilian responses to the German presence, and each other. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Dr James E. Connolly, James Connolly, James E Connolly, James E. Connolly
• Assisted by: Penny Summerfield (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781526117809
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1780-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Cultural History of Modern War; Cultural History of Modern War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Frankreich, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Europäische Geschichte, 1910 bis 1919 n. Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte