Vichy France and Everyday Life: Confronting the Challenges of Wartime, 1939-1945

Description: Vichy France and Everyday Life by Dr Lindsey Dodd, Dr David Lees This wide-ranging volume brings together a blend of experienced and emerging scholars to examine the texture of everyday life for different parts of the wartime French population. It explores systems of coping, means of helping one another, confrontations with people or events and the challenges posed to and by Vichys National Revolution during this difficult period in French and European history.The book focuses on human interactions at the micro level, highlighting lived experience within the complex social networks of this era, as French civilians negotiated the violence of war, the restrictions of Occupation, the shortages of daily necessities and the fear of persecution in their everyday lives. Using approaches drawn mostly from history, but also including oral history, film, gender studies and sociology, the text peers into the lives of ordinary men, women and children and opens new perspectives on questions of resistance, collaboration, war and memory; it tells some of the stories of the anonymous millions who suffered, coped, laughed, played and worked, either together at home or far apart in towns and villages across Occupied and Vichy France.Vichy France and Everyday Life is a crucial study for anyone interested in the social history of the Second World War or the history of France during the twentieth century. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Lindsey Dodd is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She is the author of French Children under the Allied Bombs (2016).David Lees is Senior Teaching Fellow in French Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is one of the co-editors of The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture (2018). Table of Contents List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Lindsey Dodd (University of Huddersfield, UK) and David Lees (University of Warwick, UK)Part I – Coping and Helping in Wartime France1. Children and Play in Occupied France, Camille Mahé (Center for History, Sciences Po, France)2. Coping in the Classroom: Adapting Schools to Wartime, Matthieu Devigne (Sorbonne, France)3. Reconstructing the Daily Life of a Lyonnaise Family, Isabelle von Bueltzingsloewen (Lyon II, France)4. The Daily Lives of French Railway Workers, Sylvère Aït Amour (Rails et Histoire, France)5. Helping the Most Needy: The Role of the Secours National, Jean-Pierre Le Crom (Nantes, CNRS, France)6. The American Friends Service Committee and Wartime Aid to Families, Shannon L. Fogg (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)7. Urban Lives, Rural Lives and Childrens Evacuation, Lindsey Dodd (University of Huddersfield, UK)Part II – Confrontation and Challenge in Wartime France8. Colonial Prisoners of War and French Civilians, Sarah Frank (International Studies Group, University of the Free State, South Africa) 9. Wehrmacht Brothels, Prostitution and Venereal Desire, Byron Schirbock (University of Cologne, Germany)10. Madeleine Blaess: An Emotional History of a Long Liberation, Wendy Michallat (University of Sheffield, UK) 11. Counter-Revolution? Resisting Vichy and the National Revolution, Mason Norton (Edge Hill University, UK) 12. Vichy Cinema and the Everyday, Steve Wharton (University of Bath, UK) 13. Defining Everyday Frenchness under Vichy, David Lees (University of Warwick, UK)Select Bibliography Review [A] welcome addition to a growing literature about everyday life in wartime France and, as the editors point out, should be read alongside those works … [The] editors should be praised for their dedication to bringing together scholars who work in both English and French and for ensuring the French scholarship was translated into English. This feature makes the collection particularly valuable for people who teach in English, but want to include contemporary French scholarship. * H-France *The authors significantly expand our understanding of ordinary and not-so-ordinary French men and women during the Vichy era and illuminate the lived experiences of people typically elided in political or economic histories … Many of the chapters offer innovative methodological approaches, ask novel questions, or plumb new source bases. * History: Reviews of New Books *This book opens fresh perspectives on Vichy France, reversing the standard focus on elites by approaching the regime from below. It explores ordinary, everyday life under the Occupation with its challenges, privations and daily preoccupations, offering insights into lived experience stretching from the banal and humdrum to the extraordinary and heroic. * James Shields, Professor of French Politics and Modern History, Aston University, UK * Promotional An exploration of how war and occupation shaped daily life for ordinary men, women and children in France between 1939 and 1945. Review Quote This book opens fresh perspectives on Vichy France, reversing the standard focus on elites by approaching the regime from below. It explores ordinary, everyday life under the Occupation with its challenges, privations and daily preoccupations, offering insights into lived experience stretching from the banal and humdrum to the extraordinary and heroic. Promotional "Headline" An exploration of how war and occupation shaped daily life for ordinary men, women and children in France between 1939 and 1945. Feature First interdisciplinary book to examine the everyday social history of France during the Vichy years Details ISBN1350011592 ISBN-10 1350011592 ISBN-13 9781350011595 Format Hardcover Pages 264 Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Subtitle Confronting the Challenges of Wartime, 1939-1945 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by David Lees Illustrations 2 bw illus Affiliation University of Warwick, UK Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-06-28 DEWEY 940.5 Short Title Vichy France and Everyday Life Language English UK Release Date 2018-06-28 NZ Release Date 2018-06-28 Author Dr David Lees Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2018-06-27 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:123331754;

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