France since 1945

Title Page......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures and Tables......Page 9
Abbreviations......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
In Search of Lost Greatness......Page 19
A Love/Hate Relationship With the United States......Page 21
The Fear of German Resurgence......Page 25
Attempts at a European Solution......Page 27
In Search of a Lost Empire......Page 32
Folies De Grandeur:  Syria-Lebanon and Indo-China......Page 34
Algeria:  The War Without a Name......Page 37
Algeria:  The Impossible Memory......Page 46
A Revolutionary Situation......Page 48
The Risk of Dictatorship......Page 50
The Parliamentary Republic......Page 54
The \'System\' Under Fire......Page 59
A Coup D\'etat or Not a Coup D\'etat?......Page 63
Towards a Republican Dictatorship......Page 66
A New Public Sphere......Page 70
The Revolution of May 1968......Page 73
3:  Echoes of the Occupation......Page 78
The Purge......Page 80
Rivalry in the Liberation Camp......Page 81
Return of the Ghosts of Vichy......Page 84
The Myth of Resistance......Page 87
The Mirror Cracked......Page 88
The Holocaust Factor......Page 90
Barbie and Touvier:  The Trivialization of Evil......Page 94
\'What is Left of the Resistance?\'......Page 97
The Papon Affair......Page 103
Baby Boom and Immigration......Page 106
Urbanization......Page 108
The Plan......Page 109
A Burst of Growth......Page 113
The End of the Peasantry?......Page 115
The New Working Class......Page 119
The New Middle Classes:  The Cadres......Page 121
The Oil Crisis and Other Problems......Page 123
Government Policy:  Deflation or Reflation?......Page 127
Modernization and De-Industrialization......Page 134
The End of the Working Class......Page 136
A Rural France Without Peasants......Page 138
The Decline of Family Life, Immigrants, and the New Poor......Page 140
5:  The One and Indivisible Republic?......Page 145
Democracy and Inequality in Education......Page 146
Social Mobility and the French Elite......Page 151
The Liberation and Women......Page 156
A New Look for Women......Page 157
Women and Liberation......Page 160
Persistent Inequalities......Page 164
Jacobins and Regionalists......Page 167
Towards a Decentralized Republic?......Page 172
Catholics......Page 176
Jews......Page 177
Muslims......Page 179
National Identity and Racism......Page 183
The Politics of Race......Page 186
Intellectuals in France......Page 191
Sartre and His Generation......Page 192
From Marxism to Gauchisme......Page 195
The Gurus of Structuralism......Page 197
The New Philosophers......Page 201
The End of the French Intellectual?......Page 202
The Culture Industry......Page 204
Cinema and Television......Page 205
The Written Word......Page 207
Music......Page 209
Sport......Page 211
The Old Cultural Policy......Page 212
The New Cultural Policy......Page 214
7:  The Republic of the Centre......Page 218
The \'New Society\' of Chaban-Delmas......Page 219
The \'Advanced Democracy\' of Giscard D\'estaing......Page 221
The Union of the Left and the \'Break With Capitalism\'......Page 224
The Modernization of Socialism......Page 227
Cohabitation and Consensus......Page 231
The Agony of Socialism......Page 234
The Rupture of the Right......Page 237
The Challenge of the Extremes......Page 245
The National Front......Page 246
The Greens......Page 249
Political Alienation and the New Politics......Page 252
Standing Up to America......Page 259
Going Along With America......Page 264
Europe in the Image of France......Page 270
Europe in the Image of Germany......Page 274
From Colonialism to Neocolonialism......Page 278
Defending the Last Colonies:  New Caledonia......Page 283
Last Incarnation of the Civilizing Mission:  Francophonie......Page 285
Conclusion:  The Challenges Facing France......Page 292
Notes......Page 299
Brief Chronology......Page 306
Further Reading......Page 315
Index......Page 340