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This book explores the eight-month wave of mutinies that struck the
French infantry and navy in 1919. Based on official records and the
testimony of dozens of participants, it is the first study to try
to understand the world of the mutineers. Examining their words for
the traces of sensory perceptions, emotions and thought processes,
it reveals that the conventional understanding of the mutinies as
the result of simple war-weariness and low morale is inadequate. In
fact, an emotional gulf separated officers and the ranks, who
simply did not speak the same language. The revolt entailed
emotional sequences ending in a deep ambivalence and sense of
despair or regret. Taking this into account, the book considers how
mutineer memories persisted after the events in the face of
official censorship, repression and the French Communist Party's
co-option of the mutiny. -- .
Prisoners of Want examines the experience of the unemployed and
their protests in France in the interwar years. Little has been
written on the experience of unemployment in France despite the
wealth of material - social and medical investigations, government
reports, novels, memoirs and newspapers - that can be used to
reconstruct the representation and reality of the experience.
Assessing the impact of unemployed protest upon the authorities (in
terms of policy and the longer term development of the welfare
state) this book places the role of the unemployed in the wider
context of European social movements in the 1930s, as well as
considering the significance of unemployed protests upon the French
collective memory. The part played by the French Communist Party in
the creation and leadership of the movements of the unemployed, and
the range of activities these movements undertook, is also
explored. From self-help to protests, hunger marches,
demonstrations, relief work, school strikes, town hall occupations
and riots; all were strategies that the unemployed utilised to draw
attention to their plight. Crucial to explaining the
characteristics of these movements is an understanding of the
dynamics of protest and how different tactics were selected during
their development, particularly the extent to which tactical shifts
were related to the nature of the response of the authorities. By
exploring these under-researched facets of political life, a much
fuller understanding of French society during the turbulent
interwar years is offered.
Prisoners of Want examines the experience of the unemployed and
their protests in France in the interwar years. Little has been
written on the experience of unemployment in France despite the
wealth of material - social and medical investigations, government
reports, novels, memoirs and newspapers - that can be used to
reconstruct the representation and reality of the experience.
Assessing the impact of unemployed protest upon the authorities (in
terms of policy and the longer term development of the welfare
state) this book places the role of the unemployed in the wider
context of European social movements in the 1930s, as well as
considering the significance of unemployed protests upon the French
collective memory. The part played by the French Communist Party in
the creation and leadership of the movements of the unemployed, and
the range of activities these movements undertook, is also
explored. From self-help to protests, hunger marches,
demonstrations, relief work, school strikes, town hall occupations
and riots; all were strategies that the unemployed utilised to draw
attention to their plight. Crucial to explaining the
characteristics of these movements is an understanding of the
dynamics of protest and how different tactics were selected during
their development, particularly the extent to which tactical shifts
were related to the nature of the response of the authorities. By
exploring these under-researched facets of political life, a much
fuller understanding of French society during the turbulent
interwar years is offered.
Unearthing new evidence to provide a richer understanding of her
life, this study, now available in paperback, delves beyond the
familiar image of Ellen Wilkinson on the Jarrow Crusade. From a
humble background, she ascended to the rank of minister in the 1945
Labour government. Yet she was much more than a conventional Labour
politician. She wrote journalism, political theory and novels. She
was both a socialist and a feminist; at times, she described
herself as a revolutionary. She experienced Soviet Russia, the
Indian civil disobedience campaign, the Spanish Civil War and the
Third Reich. This study deploys transnational and social movement
theory perspectives to grapple with the complex itinerary of her
ideas. Interest in Wilkinson remains strong among academic and
non-academic audiences alike. This is in part because her principal
concerns - working-class representation, the status of women,
capitalist crisis, war, anti-fascism - remain central to
contentious politics today. -- .
This textbook examines Marxism's enormous impact on the way
historians approach their subject. Tackling current
historiographical questions in an accessible way, the author offers
a clear introduction to Marxist views of history, key Marxist
historians and thinkers, and the relevance of Marxist theory and
history to students' own work. This is a concise, thorough overview
of an important area of historiography. The second edition
incorporates significant new developments in research, including
Marxist contributions to the emergence of global, maritime and
transnational history; the discovery of Marx's ecologism and the
historical critique of fossil capitalism as a source of
environmental disaster; a reassessment of gender oppression through
social reproduction theory; and the contribution of Marxism to
debates on race, Eurocentrism and whiteness.
This book explores the eight-month wave of mutinies that struck the
French infantry and navy in 1919. Based on official records and the
testimony of dozens of participants, it is the first study to try
to understand the world of the mutineers. Examining their words for
the traces of sensory perceptions, emotions and thought processes,
it reveals that the conventional understanding of the mutinies as
the result of simple war-weariness and low morale is inadequate. In
fact, an emotional gulf separated officers and the ranks, who
simply did not speak the same language. The revolt entailed
emotional sequences ending in a deep ambivalence and sense of
despair or regret. Taking this into account, the book considers how
mutineer memories persisted after the events in the face of
official censorship, repression and the French Communist Party's
co-option of the mutiny. -- .
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Crown of Vengeance (Hardcover)
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Crown of Vengeance (Paperback)
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