"This book will change the way that historians think about the
recent history of France. It challenges not only conventional
narratives of the origins and nature of the French 'economic
miracle', but the very categories that have been used to make sense
of the social, economic and cultural history of the interwar years,
Vichy and beyond. No longer will it be possible forhistorians to
use terms such as 'modernisation', 'technocracy' or even
'expertise' without careful reflection on their problematic meaning
and their context. All that in a brilliantly written, accessible
book" Kevin Passmore, University of Cardiff
..".a very good piece of historical scholarship. The book offers
a fresh perspective on the relationship between science, culture
and politics in interwar France. The author challenges in
convincing ways current historiography through a reinterpretation
of an impressive array of published and unpublished sources. It is
well written, coherently structured and persuasively argued."
Andr?'s H. Reggiani, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos
Aires
"This is an original and important book. Jackie Clarke has
written a fresh, arresting history of a network of advocates of
'scientific rationalization' in interwar France, and in so doing
she has developed a new way of thinking about French elites in the
era straddling the Second World War." Herrick Chapman, New York
University
In interwar France, there was a growing sense that
"organization" was the solution to the nation's perceived social,
economic and political ills. This book examines the roots of this
idea in the industrial rationalization movement and its
manifestations in areas as diverse as domestic organization and
economic planning. In doing so, it shows how experts in fields
ranging from engineering to the biological sciences shaped visions
of a rational socio-economic order from the 1920s to Vichy and
beyond.
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