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Fragmented France - Two Centuries of Disputed Identity (Hardcover)
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Fragmented France - Two Centuries of Disputed Identity (Hardcover)
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For a thousand years France has struggled to impose unity upon its
diverse components. For most of the time its leaders have sought to
define its identity by opposition to the 'Anglo-Saxons': first
England, then Britain and the USA. The prologue explores France's
self-image by contrast with the Anglo-American counter-identity.
Part one deals with the unfinished Revolution from 1789 to 1878
when the Third Republic achieved relative stability. After
examining the variety of symbolic representatives of Frenchness in
the search for democratic legitimacy and national unanimity, the
enduring divisions in French society are explained in their
ideological, social, religious, territorial and political aspects.
Emphasis is given to the role of writers and intellectuals in
expressing these cleavages before analyzing how parliamentary
democracy was established by the Third Republic.
Part two starts by relating French political paralysis to the
slowness of socio-economic modernization before turning to the
polarizing role of intellectuals in perpetuating varieties of Left
and Right battles over who personified anti-France. The adversarial
character of French party politics is then considered as it
fluctuated up to the present in terms of the fragmented Left and
Right, between the rhetorical revolutionary and reactionary
extremes and the conservative or timidly reformist realities. The
colonial and international role of France is described, stressing
Franco-German European Union leadership. The protectionist aversion
to competitive global capitalism results in reluctant adaption to
forces beyond French control.
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