France and Its Spaces of War: Experience, Memory, Image

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
War and Its Spaces: Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Moralizing War: Military Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France....Pages 13-27
“Unfortunate Necessities”: Violence and Civilization in the Conquest of Algeria....Pages 29-44
Spaces of War: Rural France, Fears of Famine, and the Great War....Pages 45-58
The Search for Civilian Safe Spaces: Re-evacuating Nord and Pas de Calais in Response to British Bombing, September 1940-March 1941....Pages 59-72
The Anglo-American Troops as Seen by French Labor Conscripts: Forms of Ambivalent Critical Support....Pages 73-86
De-Prussianizing the Saar: Lessons from the Second World War and the French Path to European Integration....Pages 87-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Pain and Memory: The War Wounds of Blaise de Monluc....Pages 105-119
From the Chemin des Dames to Verdun: The Memory of the First World War in War Memorials in the Red Zone....Pages 121-132
National Sacrifices, Local Losses: Politics and Commemoration in Interwar Alsace....Pages 133-148
A Disembodied Memory: The Contemporary Legacy of the Great War Viewed through the Lens of the Political....Pages 149-162
“Pedestals Dedicated to Absence”: The Symbolic Impact of the Wartime Destruction of French Bronze Statuary....Pages 163-178
Reflections on the Literary Vichy Syndrome since 1990: Contexts, Chronologies, Metamorphoses....Pages 179-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Newspapers, Novels, and the Comic Book War....Pages 193-209
The Impact of the Great War on the Writing of Fernand Léger....Pages 211-224
Artists, Commemorations, and Political Culture: The Example of the Great War....Pages 225-235
La Victoire en chantant: The Cinematographic Transfer of World War I in Equatorial Africa, between Colonialism, Patriotism, and Politics....Pages 237-246
Making Space for War: L’Action française, Je suis partout, and French Right-Wing Understandings of the Spanish Civil War....Pages 247-261
American Audiovisual Propaganda in France, 1948–1955....Pages 263-276
Two Films and Two Wars in the Public Sphere....Pages 277-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-305