France Since the Popular Front

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This book meets the widely-felt need for a comprehensive but readable history of contemporary France that sets the changing fortunes of
government and people in a broad, international context. The country's economic performance and social and political record are compared with those of her European neighbours, and her foreign policy is assessed in the light of the opportunities afforded by the international circumstances of the time.
Maurice Larkin is Richard Pares Professor of History, University of
Edinburgh.
France Since the Popular Front was first published in 1988. Some reviewers' comments:
'The first textbook to cover its period in one volume . . . An enormous amount of material is presented with clarity and elegance a volume which cannot fail to become a standard textbook'. English Historical Review
'lively and often amusing the interaction of people, government and material change is set most illuminatingly in its comparative, international context, with much... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This book meets the widely-felt need for a comprehensive but readable history of contemporary France that sets the changing fortunes of
government and people in a broad, international context. The country's economic performance and social and political record are compared with those of her European neighbours, and her foreign policy is assessed in the light of the opportunities afforded by the international circumstances of the time.
Maurice Larkin is Richard Pares Professor of History, University of
Edinburgh.
France Since the Popular Front was first published in 1988. Some reviewers' comments:
'The first textbook to cover its period in one volume . . . An enormous amount of material is presented with clarity and elegance a volume which cannot fail to become a standard textbook'. English Historical Review
'lively and often amusing the interaction of people, government and material change is set most illuminatingly in its comparative, international context, with much useful statistical data.' Times Higher Education Supplement
'a remarkable achievement, based on massive research and usefully illustrated with tables and other statistical details . . . This will undoubtedly become an important reference for all working in the field
in this country.' Modern and Contemporary France
'bien ordonné, d'un ton vif une bonne synthese en somme qui a le mérite de mettre l'accent sur la comparaison avec les autres pays.'
Cahiers d'Histoire
'a superb contribution to the literature on contemporary France . Larkin writes with such wit and verve, and he offers such thoughtful judgements in passing, that even the most informed reader is likely to find the book an absorbing exploration of the well-known territory.'
Journal of Social History
'urbane and humorous in his judgements'. London Review of Books
'Larkin has accomplished a tour de force; there is no equivalent work in English or French that covers the history of France during the last fifty years with such depth and originality will be much appreciated by specialists and generalists alike.' American Historical Review
Cover photograph reproduced by permission of Viva, Paris. Vissza