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This is the first study of French-American relations in the critical postwar period, 1945-1954, which makes use of recently opened diplomatic archives and personal papers in France and the United States. Wall examines the American role in French diplomacy, economic reconstruction, military policy, politics, and the reshaping of French society from labor unions to consumer tastes and films. Particular emphasis is placed on American attempts to combat the influence of French Communism and achieve a stable, centrist regime avoiding the extremes of right and left.
This is a study of French-American relations in the critical post-war period, 1945-1954, which makes use of recently opened diplomatic archives and personal papers in France and the United States. Wall examines the American role in French diplomacy, economic reconstruction, military policy, politics, and the reshaping of French society from labour unions to consumer tastes and films. Particular emphasis is placed on American attempts to combat the influence of French Communism and achieve a stable, centrist regime avoiding the extremes of right and left."
In this pioneering book, Irwin M. Wall unravels the intertwining
threads of the protracted agony of France's war with Algeria, the
American role in the fall of the Fourth Republic, the long shadow
of Charles de Gaulle, and the decisive postwar power of the United
States. At the heart of this study is an incisive analysis of how
Washington helped bring de Gaulle to power and a penetrating
revisionist account of his Algerian policy. Departing from widely
held interpretations of the Algerian War, Wall approaches the
conflict as an international diplomatic crisis whose outcome was
primarily dependent on French relations with Washington, the NATO
alliance, and the United Nations, rather than on military
engagement.
Diaspora, considered as a context for insights into Jewish
identity, brings together a lively, interdisciplinary group of
scholars in this innovative volume. Readers needn't expect,
however, to find easy agreement on what those insights are. The
concept "diaspora" itself has proved controversial; "galut, "the
traditional Hebrew expression for the Jews' perennial condition, is
better translated as "exile." The very distinction between diaspora
and exile, although difficult to analyze, is important enough to
form the basis of several essays in this fine collection.
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