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The Return of Alsace to France, 1918-1939

Author : Alison Carrol
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198803915
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Return of Alsace to France, 1918-1939 written by Alison Carrol and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1918, the end of the First World War triggered the return of Alsace and Lorraine to France after almost fifty years of annexation into the German Empire. Enthusiastic crowds in Paris and Alsace celebrated the return of the 'lost provinces, ' but return proved far more difficult than expected. Over the following two decades, politicians, administrators, industrialists, cultural elites, and others grappled with the question of how to make the region French again. Differences of opinion emerged, and reintegration rapidly descended into a multi-faceted struggle as voices at the Parisian centre, the Alsatian periphery, and outside France's borders offered their views on how to introduce French institutions and systems into its lost borderland. Throughout these discussions, the border itself shaped the process of reintegration, by generating contact and tensions between populations on the two sides of the boundary line, and by shaping expectations of what it meant to be French and Alsatian. Borderland is the first comprehensive account of the return of Alsace to France which treats the border as a driver of change. It draws upon national, regional, and local archives to follow the difficult process of Alsace's reintegration into French society, culture, political and economic systems, and legislative and administrative institutions. It connects the microhistory of the region with the macro levels of national policy, international relations, and transnational networks, and with the cross-border flows of ideas, goods, people, and cultural products that shaped daily life in Alsace as its population grappled with the meaning of return to France. In revealing the multiple voices who contributed to the region's reintegration, it underlines the ways in which regional populations and cross-border interactions have forged modern nations.

Alsace to the Alsatians?

Author : Christopher J. Fischer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845458060
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Alsace to the Alsatians? written by Christopher J. Fischer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The region of Alsace, located between the hereditary enemies of France and Germany, served as a trophy of war four times between 1870–1945. With each shift, French and German officials sought to win the allegiance of the local populace. In response to these pressures, Alsatians invoked regionalism-articulated as a political language, a cultural vision, and a community of identity-not only to define and defend their own interests against the nationalist claims of France and Germany, but also to push for social change, defend religious rights, and promote the status of the region within the larger national community. Alsatian regionalism however, was neither unitary nor unifying, as Alsatians themselves were divided politically, socially, and culturally. The author shows that the Janus-faced character of Alsatian regionalism points to the ambiguous role of regional identity in both fostering and inhibiting loyalty to the nation. Finally, the author uses the case of Alsace to explore the traditional designations of French civic nationalism versus German ethnic nationalism and argues for the strong similarities between the two countries' conceptions of nationhood.

The Question of Alsace-Lorraine in 1918 as Viewed by and [!] American

Author : Herbert Adams Gibbons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Question of Alsace-Lorraine in 1918 as Viewed by and [!] American written by Herbert Adams Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of the Great War, 1914–1918

Author : C.R.M.F. Cruttwell
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 0897336607
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Great War, 1914–1918 written by C.R.M.F. Cruttwell and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid, detailed history of World War I presents the general reader with an accurate and readable account of the campaigns and battles, along with brilliant portraits of the leaders and generals of all countries involved. Scrupulously fair, praising and blaming friend and enemy as circumstances demand, this has become established as the classic account of the first world-wide war.

Wine and War

Author : Donald Kladstrup
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767904486
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Wine and War written by Donald Kladstrup and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable untold story of France’s courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country’s most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II. "To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine." –Claude Terrail, owner, Restaurant La Tour d’Argent In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the tale of their extraordinary efforts has remained largely unknown–until now. This is the thrilling and harrowing story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious, daring measures to save their cherished crops and bottles as the Germans closed in on them. Wine and War illuminates a compelling, little-known chapter of history, and stands as a tribute to extraordinary individuals who waged a battle that, in a very real way, saved the spirit of France.

The Return of Alsace to France, 1918-1939

Author : Alison Carrol
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192525905
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Return of Alsace to France, 1918-1939 written by Alison Carrol and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1918, the end of the First World War triggered the return of Alsace and Lorraine to France after almost fifty years of annexation into the German Empire. Enthusiastic crowds in Paris and Alsace celebrated the return of the 'lost provinces,' but return proved far more difficult than expected. Over the following two decades, politicians, administrators, industrialists, cultural elites, and others grappled with the question of how to make the region French again. Differences of opinion emerged, and reintegration rapidly descended into a multi-faceted struggle as voices at the Parisian centre, the Alsatian periphery, and outside France's borders offered their views on how to introduce French institutions and systems into its lost borderland. Throughout these discussions, the border itself shaped the process of reintegration, by generating contact and tensions between populations on the two sides of the boundary line, and by shaping expectations of what it meant to be French and Alsatian. Borderland is the first comprehensive account of the return of Alsace to France which treats the border as a driver of change. It draws upon national, regional, and local archives to follow the difficult process of Alsace's reintegration into French society, culture, political and economic systems, and legislative and administrative institutions. It connects the microhistory of the region with the 'macro' levels of national policy, international relations, and transnational networks, and with the cross-border flows of ideas, goods, people, and cultural products that shaped daily life in Alsace as its population grappled with the meaning of return to France. In revealing the multiple voices who contributed to the region's reintegration, it underlines the ways in which regional populations and cross-border interactions have forged modern nations.

The Rhine: National Tensions, Romantic Visions

Author : Manfred Beller
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004344063
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Rhine: National Tensions, Romantic Visions written by Manfred Beller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents documents and analyses, from various specialisms and perspectives, the cultural, political and national investments and appropriations of the Rhine, from Byron to Lucien Febvre, and from tourism to war propaganda. It includes a comprehensive anthology of original Rhine-related texts (historical, poetical and polemical).

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Author : John Maynard Keynes
Publisher : Simon Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781931541138
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Economic Consequences of the Peace written by John Maynard Keynes and published by Simon Publications. This book was released on 1920 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sever economic critique of the 1920 Treaty of Versailles written by the famous economist, who was a member of the British peace delegation until he quit with disgust.

Cartophilia

Author : Catherine Tatiana Dunlop
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617302X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Cartophilia written by Catherine Tatiana Dunlop and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between the French Revolution and the Second World War saw an unprecedented proliferation of mapmaking and map reading across modern European society. This book explores the age of cartophilia through the story of mapmaking in the disputed French-German borderland of Alsace-Lorraine. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, both French and Germans claimed Alsace-Lorraine as part of their national territories, fighting several bloody wars with each other that resulted in four changes to the borderland s nationality. In the process, the contested territory became a mapmaker s laboratory, a place subjected to multiple visual interpretations and competing topographies. And the mapmakers were not just professional border surveyors but rather people from all walks of life, including linguists, ethnographers, historians, priests, and schoolteachers. Empowered by their access to affordable new printing technologies and motivated by patriotic ideals, these popular mapmakers redefined the meaning and purpose of European borders during the age of nationalism."

The Purpose of the First World War

Author : Holger Afflerbach
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110435993
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Purpose of the First World War written by Holger Afflerbach and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly fourteen million people died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? Already many contemporaries saw the Great War as a "pointless carnage" (Pope Benedict XV, 1917). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and military decision makers? How did they justify the losses, and why did they not try to end the war earlier? In this volume twelve international specialists analyses and compares the hopes and expectations of the political and military leaders of the main belligerent countries and of their respective societies. It shows that the war aims adopted during the First World War were not, for the most part, the cause of the conflict, but a reaction to it, an attempt to give the tragedy a purpose - even if the consequence was to oblige the belligerents to go on fighting until victory. The volume tries to explain why - and for what - the contemporaries thought that they had to fight the Great War.

What We Demand from France

Author : Heinrich von Treitschke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What We Demand from France written by Heinrich von Treitschke and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Collapse of the Third Republic

Author : William L. Shirer
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795342470
Total Pages : 1948 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Collapse of the Third Republic written by William L. Shirer and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 1948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award–winning historian’s “vivid and moving” eyewitness account of the fall of France to Hitler’s Third Reich at the outset of WWII (The New York Times). As an international war correspondent and radio commentator during World War II, William L. Shirer didn’t just research the fall of France. He was there. In just six weeks, he watched the Third Reich topple one of the world’s oldest military powers—and institute a rule of terror and paranoia. Based on in-person conversations with the leaders, diplomats, generals, and ordinary citizens who both shaped the events and lived through them, Shirer constructs a compelling account of historical events without losing sight of the human experience. From the heroic efforts of the Freedom Fighters to the tactical military misjudgments that caused the fall and the daily realities of life for French citizens under Nazi rule, this fascinating and exhaustively documented account brings this significant episode of history to life. “This is a companion effort to Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, also voluminous but very readable, reflecting once again both Shirer’s own experience and an enormous mass of historical material well digested and assimilated.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

France Under Fire

Author : Nicole Dombrowski Risser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110702532X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book France Under Fire written by Nicole Dombrowski Risser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social, military and political history of the French refugee crisis tracing the impact of government responses upon civilian lives.

Air Force Combat Units of World War II

Author : Maurer Maurer
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915850
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reinventing French Aid

Author : Laure Humbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108831354
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing French Aid written by Laure Humbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original insight into how occupation officials and relief workers controlled and cared for Displaced Persons in the French zone.

Defending National Treasures

Author : Elizabeth Karlsgodt
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804777829
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Defending National Treasures written by Elizabeth Karlsgodt and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defending National Treasures explores the fate of art and cultural heritage during the Nazi occupation of France. The French cultural patrimony was a crucial locus of power struggles between German and French leaders and among influential figures in each country. Karlsgodt examines the preservation policy that the Vichy regime enacted in an assertion of sovereignty over French art museums, historic monuments, and archeological sites. The limits to this sovereignty are apparent from German appropriations of public statues, Jewish-owned art collections, and key "Germanic" works of art from French museums. A final chapter traces the lasting impact of the French wartime reforms on preservation policy. In Defending National Treasures, Karlsgodt introduces the concept of patrimania to reveal examples of opportunism in art preservation. During the war, French officials sought to acquire coveted artwork from Jewish collections for the Louvre and other museums; in the early postwar years, they established a complicated guardianship over unclaimed art recovered from Germany. A cautionary tale for our own times, Defending National Treasures examines the ethical dimensions of museum acquisitions in the ongoing noble quest to preserve great works of art.

To Lose a Battle

Author : Alistair Horne
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141937726
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book To Lose a Battle written by Alistair Horne and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-06-28 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940, the German army fought and won an extraordinary battle with France in six weeks of lightning warfare. With the subtlety and compulsion of a novel, Horne’s narrative shifts from minor battlefield incidents to high military and political decisions, stepping far beyond the confines of military history to form a major contribution to our understanding of the crises of the Franco-German rivalry. To Lose a Battle is the third part of the trilogy beginning with The Fall of Paris and continuing with The Price of Glory (already available in Penguin).