Shanghai on the Metro - Spies, Intrigue, and the French Between the Wars (Paperback)

Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, and con men-they all play a part in Michael B. Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, Shanghai on the Metro shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literature emerged between the two world wars, reflecting the atmosphere and concerns of these years. Miller argues that French fascination with intrigue between the wars reveals a far more assured and playful national mood than historians have hitherto discerned in the final decades of the Third Republic. But the larger history set in motion by World War I and the subsequent reading of French history into global history are the true subjects of this work. Reconstituting through his own narratives the histories of interwar travel and adventure and the willful turning of contemporary affairs into a source of romance, Miller recovers the ambience and special qualities of the age that produced its intrigues and its tales of spies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2020
First published:	1994
Authors:	Michael B. Miller
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	466
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-30236-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-30236-2
Barcode:	9780520302365

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