The extreme right in France, 1789 to the present : from de Maistre to Le Pen /
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| Author / Creator: | Davies, Peter, 1966- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2002. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 209 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11296987 |
| Summary: | The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present surveys the history of a fascinating but contentious political and intellectual tradition. Since 1789 the far right has been an important factor in French political life and in different eras has taken on a range of guises including traditionalism, ultra-royalism, radical nationalism, anti-Semitism and fascism.<br>This book is structured around the five main phases of extreme right activity, and the author explores key questions about each: <br>* Counter-revolution - what was the legacy of Joseph de Maistre's writings?<br>* Anti-Third Republic protest - how was the 'new right' of the 1880s and 1890s different from the 'old right' of previous decades?<br>* Inter-war fascism - how should we characterise the phenomenon of fascisme francaise?<br>* Vichy - why did Petain and Laval collaborate with the Nazis?<br>* The Post-war far right - what is the relationship between Poujadism, Algerie Francaise and Le Pen's FN? |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 209 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585452148 9780585452142 0415239826 9780415239820 0415239818 9780415239813 0203495241 9780203495247 0203803485 9780203803486 1134552971 9781134552979 1280316632 9781280316630 |