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Défense de la France entre 1941 et 1944 : une réponse au discours extrémiste sous l'Occupation
This study aims to analyse the response to the extremist discourse of the German occupier by the clandestine resistance periodical Defense de la France of which forty-two issues published between 1941 and 1944 are considered. For the first time, a clandestine periodical is analysed by means of close reading and computational techniques, through which it is possible to identify discourse elements related to the key words Allemand(s), allemande(s) and Allemagne. The analysis focuses on the rhetorical strategies employed to consolidate a resistant community by reinforcing positions against the adversary, understood as occupier and as German in general. Through the study of the (counter-)propaganda techniques employed in the discourse, it is observed how Defense de la France combats extremist discourse by means of an equally extremist discourse based on anti-Germanism and Germanophobia.
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One-Party Government in the Ivory Coast
Professor Zolberg brings the factual material about the Ivory Coast's social, economic, and political development since 1961-1962.
Originally published in 1964.
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Hemingway’s Driver in Wartime France: A Matter of Loyalties
French Resistance member Jean Decan was Hemingway’s driver and bodyguard during World War II. In late 1945, Decan was denounced as a German collaborator, and both Hemingway and his friend General Buck Lanham wrote in his defense. Decan was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years hard labor, leaving Hemingway furious about his lie. In 1951, Decan appeared at Lanham’s command headquarters, indicating he had betrayed a Resistance teammate in order to save his Jewish family. Lanham enlisted a prominent journalist to help, and the latter would write three books featuring Decan’s moral dilemma, the first one withdrawn over quoting Hemingway’s words.
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Ambush at Thorame-Haute: archaeological traces of a fifteen minute Ambush by the French resistance
On 18 July 1944, a convoy of German trucks was ambushed by the French Resistance near the village of Thorame-Haute in SE France. According to reports by French witnesses, the first German truck exploded. After a brief firefight, the Resistance pulled out without casualties, claiming that 58 Germans had been killed in the attack, including a high-ranking officer. The current project used witness interviews, archives materials, and metal detecting to validate the descriptions of the ambush. The project confirmed that at least nine German soldiers had been killed in the attack. The metal detecting survey recovered numerous small artefacts whose condition and dispersal indicated that a violent explosion had indeed occurred and had probably been preceded or followed by a fire. A grouping of fired cartridge casings was found in the former Resistance positions. The project was able to confirm the French accounts apart from the casualty figures.
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Colonial Subjects and Citizens in the French Internal Resistance, 1940-1944
In recent decades historians have done a lot to reveal the social and political diversity of the people who participated in the French Resistance. But little has been said about non-white resisters who were among the 200,000 men and women from the colonies living in the French metropole during the Occupation. This article shows that many of them were entangled in the Resistance as early as the summer of 1940 and that they became involved in the most political and violent forms of defiance. Resistance, however, was not a “natural” decision for many of the colonial workers or prisoners, whose daily struggles could bring them into tension with the Free French as well as Vichy. So, if this study aims to rectify misconceptions of the Resistance as an entirely Eurocentric affair, it also probes the complicated relationship between colonial subjects and the metropole during the war.
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French Peasants in Revolt
The triumphant rise of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte over his Republican opponents has been the central theme of most narrative accounts of mid-nineteenth-century France, while resistance to the coup d'état generally has been neglected. By placing the insurrection of December 1851 in a broad perspective of socioeconomic and political development, Ted Margadant displays its full significance as a turning point in modern French history. He argues that, as the first expression of a new form of political participation on the part of the peasants, resistance to the coup was of greater importance than previously supposed. Furthermore, it provides and appropriate testing ground for more general theories of peasant movements and popular revolts.
Using manuscript materials in French national and departmental archives that cover all the major areas of revolt, the author examines the insurrection in depth on a national scale. After a brief discussion of the main characteristics of the insurrection, he analyzes its economic and social foundations; the dialectic of repression and conspiracy that fostered the political crisis; and the armed mobilizations, violence, and massive arrests that exploded as the result. A final chapter considers the implications of the insurrection for larger issues in the social and political history of modern France.
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International Cooperation, Transnational Circulation
The rescue of downed Anglo-American aircrews in France during the Second World War highlights the transnational nature of this kind of resistance. From their training to their evasion, flight crews themselves experienced the Second World War without traditional national borders. Moreover, their successful rescue in Occupied France depended on the ability of civilian helpers to think transnationally and to operate with little regard for the nation-state. This article focuses on evasion training, rescue, and postwar attempts to honor civilians for their assistance to highlight these themes of transnational resistance.
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