The Cultural and Intellectual Rebuilding of France After the Second World War

by Michael Kelly and Michael Kelly

Book Overview

This book reveals how France reinvented itself in the aftermath of World War Two. After foreign military interventions, the French political and intellectual elites embraced regime change and launched an urgent programme of nation building. They rebuilt French national identity with whatever material was available, and created a vibrant new cultural and intellectual life. The cost to subordinated groups, however, especially women, still casts a long...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349516848
• ISBN13: 9781349516841
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"