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050 00 $aDC404$b.C464 2018
082 00 $a944.082$223
100 1 $aChapman, Herrick,$eauthor.
245 10 $aFrance's long reconstruction :$bin search of the modern republic /$cHerrick Chapman.
264 1 $aCambridge, Massachusetts :$bHarvard University Press,$c2018.
264 4 $c©2018
300 $ax, 405 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $aAt the end of World War II, France's greatest challenge was to repair a civil society torn asunder by Nazi occupation and total war. Recovery required the nation's complete economic and social transformation. But just what form this "new France" should take remained the burning question at the heart of French political combat until the Algerian War ended, over a decade later. Herrick Chapman charts the course of France's long reconstruction from 1944 to 1962, offering fresh insights into the ways the expansion of state power, intended to spearhead recovery, produced fierce controversies at home and unintended consequences abroad in France's crumbling empire. Abetted after Liberation by a new elite of technocratic experts, the burgeoning French state infiltrated areas of economic and social life traditionally free from government intervention. Politicians and intellectuals wrestled with how to reconcile state-directed modernization with the need to renew democratic participation and bolster civil society after years spent under the Nazi and Vichy yokes. But rather than resolving the tension, the conflict between top-down technocrats and grassroots democrats became institutionalized as a way of framing the problems facing Charles de Gaulle's Fifth Republic. Uniquely among European countries, France pursued domestic recovery while simultaneously fighting full-scale colonial wars. France's Long Reconstruction shows how the Algerian War led to the further consolidation of state authority and cemented repressive immigration policies that now appear shortsighted and counterproductive.--$cProvided by publisher
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aLiberation authorities: legitimizing the state from above and below -- Available hands: from manpower crisis to immigration control -- Shopkeeper turmoil: tax rebels and state reformers in the postwar marketplace -- Family matters: expertise, gender, and voice in the social security state -- Enterprise politics: the postwar nationalizations -- Reformer dilemmas: Pierre Mendès France and Michel Debré as renovators of the republic -- Algerian anvil: war and the expansion of state authority.
651 0 $aFrance$xPolitics and government$y1945-
651 0 $aFrance$xSocial conditions$y1945-1995.
651 0 $aFrance$xEconomic conditions$y1945-
650 7 $aEconomic history.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00901974
650 7 $aPolitics and government.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919741
650 7 $aSocial conditions.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919811
651 7 $aFrance.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204289
648 7 $aSince 1945$2fast
852 00 $bglx$hDC404$i.C464 2018