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Andre Siegfried (1875-1959) was a leading figure in French academic
and cultural life for over five decades. A world traveller who
trained as a geographer, Siegfried became a leading political
scientist and prominent newspaper columnist. As a long-time
professor at Sciences Po, he shaped generations of his country's
elite. France in the World explores the life and career of Andre
Siegfried. An innovator in the field of political science, he
established himself as France's leading interpreter of the
English-speaking world. Often likened to Alexis de Tocqueville,
Siegfried published influential studies of the United States,
Canada, Great Britain, and New Zealand, striving to understand
France's place in a changing global context. Siegfried was a
cosmopolitan promoter of liberalism and individual freedom. But at
the same time he perceived France to be the core of a Western
civilization whose leadership and values were threatened by
Americanization, anti-imperial nationalism, and non-white
immigration. By following Siegfried's long career and examining the
breadth of his writings, Sean Kennedy shows how his racial and
ethnic essentialism was a unifying aspect of his life's work. That
these ideas were considered unremarkable for most of his lifetime
offers a powerful illustration of how racist thinking permeated
mainstream French republicanism. Exploring the many facets of
Siegfried's career, France in the World examines the entanglement
of liberal and racist thinking during an era that witnessed
political extremism and a rapidly changing international order.
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