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The Moral Disarmament of France - Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940 (Hardcover)
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The Moral Disarmament of France - Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
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While French schoolteachers of the late nineteenth century have
been widely celebrated for converting 'peasants into Frenchmen',
their interwar counterparts have enjoyed little such acclaim. Both
contemporary critics and subsequent scholars have condemned French
pacifist schoolteachers of the interwar decades for cultivating
antipatriotism and facilitating the defeat of 1940. In this book,
Mona L. Siegel challenges such equations of teachers' pacifism with
national betrayal. Drawn to pacifist ideals in the aftermath of
World War I, schoolteachers sought to 'morally disarm' the nation
by purging their classrooms of the militaristic images, symbols,
narratives, and values that had led their generation to accept war
without question in 1914. At the same time, however, their teaching
remained rooted in longstanding patriotic and republican
traditions. Siegel argues that interwar schoolteachers ultimately
solidified French citizens' patriotic loyalties in an era when
economic hardship and political extremism threatened to undermine
those very ideals.
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