France since the Popular Front Government and People 1936-1996 [Paperback]

This is a comprehensive but readable history of contemporary France that sets the changing fortunes of both people and government in a broad, international context. Larkin looks at the country's economic performance and social and political records, comparing them with those of France's European neighbors. He also assesses foreign policy in light of the opportunities afforded by the international circumstances of the time.

Preface
1. France in the 1930s
2. `La R?publque des D?put?s': Politics in the 1930s
3. The Popular Front: Legend and Legacy
4. The Road to Compi?gne: Diplomacy and War, 1936-1940
5. The Occupation
6. Resistance and Liberation
7. Retribution and the New Jerusalem: The CNR Charter
8. The Constitution of the Fourth Republic
9. The Pattern of Politics, 1946-1954
10. Economic Growth and Social Change, 1947-1973
11. France Overseas, 1944-1954
12. Janus and Cassandra: The Mend?s-France Ministry and What Followed, 1954-1955
13. Impasse, 1956-1958
14. `La R?publique des Dupes'
15. `La R?publique des Citoyens'
16. De Gaulle's Foreign Policy
17. Challenge and Response, 1968-1974
18. Reform and Recession: The Giscardian Era, 1974-1981
19. Keynesianism in One Country: The Socialist Experiment
20. The Regime on Trial: Cohabitation and Its Consequences, 1986-1988
21. Further Trials: From Rocard to Jupp?, 1988-1996
22. The Cold Peace and the Shadow of Germany: International Relations 1986-1996
23. L'Avant-Fin-de-Si?cle
Appendices: I Figures; II Tables; III French Governments 1939-1986; IV The Arts and the Public in the 1930s
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Praise for the first edition: Maurice Larkin has accomplished a kind of tour de force; there is no equivalent work in English or French that covers the history of France during the last fifty years with such depth and originality....It will inevitably find its way onto graduate reading lists and may wl&