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France's Long Reconstruction - In Search of the Modern Republic (Hardcover)
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At the end of World War II, France's greatest challenge was to
repair a civil society torn asunder by Nazi occupation and total
war. Recovery required the nation's complete economic and social
transformation. But just what form this "new France" should take
remained the burning question at the heart of French political
combat until the Algerian War ended, over a decade later. Herrick
Chapman charts the course of France's long reconstruction from 1944
to 1962, offering fresh insights into the ways the expansion of
state power, intended to spearhead recovery, produced fierce
controversies at home and unintended consequences abroad in
France's crumbling empire. Abetted after Liberation by a new elite
of technocratic experts, the burgeoning French state infiltrated
areas of economic and social life traditionally free from
government intervention. Politicians and intellectuals wrestled
with how to reconcile state-directed modernization with the need to
renew democratic participation and bolster civil society after
years spent under the Nazi and Vichy yokes. But rather than
resolving the tension, the conflict between top-down technocrats
and grassroots democrats became institutionalized as a way of
framing the problems facing Charles de Gaulle's Fifth Republic.
Uniquely among European countries, France pursued domestic recovery
while simultaneously fighting full-scale colonial wars. France's
Long Reconstruction shows how the Algerian War led to the further
consolidation of state authority and cemented repressive
immigration policies that now appear shortsighted and
counterproductive.
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