Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture

by Dudley Andrew and Steven Ungar

Book Overview

The story of Paris in the 1930s seems straightforward enough, with the Popular Front movement leading toward the inspiring 1936 election of a leftist coalition government. The socialist victory, which resulted in fundamental improvements in the lives of workers, was then derailed in a precipitous descent that culminated in France's capitulation before the Nazis in June 1940. Yet no matter how minutely recounted, this "straight story" clarifies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674027167
• ISBN13: 9780674027169
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.8"