The Popular Front in France: Defending Democracy, 1934-38

by Julian T. Jackson

Book Overview

This is the first full-length study in English of the Popular Front, the left-wing coalition which emerged in France during the 1930s in response to the threat of fascism and which went on to win the elections of 1936, giving France her first socialist premier, L on Blum. After a brief narrative history of the Popular Front the book is organised thematically around the main historiographical debates to which the Popular Front has given rise. Among...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521312523
• ISBN13: 9780521312523
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"