France's response to the rise of European fascism during the
1930s, and subsequently to the Nazi occupation 1940-44, has been a
difficult subject for the nation's historians. The consensus
amongst leading French authorities on the period has been the claim
that France was largely 'immune' to fascism in the 1930s, and that
the Vichy regime was an aberration produced by defeat and
occupation. Over the last 30 years, this position has gradually
been undermined, mainly through the work of foreign scholars, but
it nonetheless remains intact. This volume brings together for the
first time the leading critics of the standard French
interpretation, who have used these essays to refine and update
their positions, or to move the debate onto new terrain.
Brian Jenkins is Research Professor in the Department of French
at the University of Leeds. His doctoral thesis was on the Paris
riots of February 6th 1934, and he has recently returned to the
study of the French extreme Right between the world wars. He has
also written extensively on French nationalism, and on theories of
nationalism, notably as the author of "Nationalism in France: Class
and Nation since 1789" (1990) and as co-editor of "Nation and
Identity in Contemporary Europe" (1996). He is co-editor of the
"Journal of Contemporary European Studies."
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