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Author:
Millington, Chris, author.
Title:
Fighting for France : violence in interwar French politics / Chris Millington.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xxxvii, 218 pages ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Political violence--France--History--20th century.
Radicalism--France--History--20th century.
France--History--1914-1940.
France--Politics and government--1914-1940.
Political violence.
Politics and government.
Radicalism.
France.
1900-1999
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index.
Contents:
5. Fighting for the Factory Floor. 2. Duelling in the Meeting Hall -- 3. Mob and the Mass: Demonstrations, Parades and Riots -- 4. Brutes and Bludgeoners: The Police -- 5. Fighting for the Factory Floor.
Summary:
'Fighting for France' is the first book to examine violence between political extremists in interwar France and the ways in which contemporaries understood it. This has important implications for understanding twentieth-century French politics, not least the French experience of collaboration with the Nazis during the Second World War.
Series:
A British Academy monograph
ISBN:
0197266274
9780197266274
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1004762242
LCCN:
2018288572
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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