 | France''s New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era Subjects: France -- Politics and government -- 1914–1940; France -- Politics and government -- 1940–1945; France -- Cultural policy -- History -- 20th century; France -- History -- German occupation 1940–1945; Social change -- France -- History -- 20th century; Ec; France's New Deal is an in-depth and important look at the remaking of the French state after World War II, a time when the nation was endowed with brand-new institutions for managing its economy and culture. Yet, as Philip Nord reveals, the significant process of state rebuilding did not begin at the Liberation. Rather, it got started earlier, in the waning years of the Third Republic and under the Vichy regime. Tracking the nation's evolution from the 1930s through the postwar years, Nord describes how a variety of political actors--socialists, Christian democrats, technocrats, and Gaullists--had a hand in the construction of modern France. Philip Nord is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. His books include Paris Shopkeepers and the Politics of Resentment (Princeton), The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France , and Impressionists and Politics: Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century . |
