![]() | France''s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic Subjects: France -- Politics and government -- 1945–; France -- Social conditions -- 1945–1995; France -- Economic conditions -- 1945–; At 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. |
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