This book offers a critical study of the cultural and social phenomena of war in the French and French-speaking world through a number of lenses, including memory, gender, the arts, and intellectual history.

Autorentext
PATRICIA M. E. LORCIN is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, USA. **** DANIEL BREWER is Professor of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota, USA.

Inhalt
War and Its Spaces: Introduction; P.Lorcin PART I: WAR EXPERIENCED Moralizing War: Military Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France; C.Pichichero Unfortunate Necessities: Violence and Civilization in the Conquest of Algeria; J.E.Sessions Spaces of War: Rural France, Fears of Famine, and the Great War; M.Hanna The Search for Civilian Safe Spaces: Re-evacuating Nord and Pas de Calais in Response to British Bombing, September 1940-March 1941; N.Dombowski-Risser The Anglo-American Troops as Seen by French Labor Conscripts: Forms of Ambivalent Critical Support; P.Arnaud De-Prussianizing the Saar: Lessons from the Second World War and the French Path to European Integration; B.Long PART II: WAR REMEMBERED OR FORGOTTEN Pain and Memory - The War Wounds of Blaise de Monluc; M.Wolfe From the Chemin des Dames to Verdun: Features of the Memory of the First World War in the Monuments to the Fallen in the Red Zone; A.Niess National Sacrifices, Local Losses: Politics and Commemoration in Interwar Alsace; C.Fischer A Disembodied Memory: The Contemporary Legacy of the Great War From a Political Perspective; J.Fragnon Pedestals Dedicated to Absence: The Symbolic Impact of Wartime Destruction of French Bronze Statuary; K.Freeman Reflections on the Literary Vichy Syndrome since 1990: Contexts, Chronologies, Metamorphoses; R.Golsan PART III: WAR IMAGINED Newspapers, Novels, and the Comic Book War; L.Murphy The Impact of the War in the Writing of Fernand Léger; B.Vernier-Larochette Artists and the Legacy of the Great War; A.Becker La Victoire en Chantant and the Cinematographic Depiction of World War I in Equatorial Africa: Between Colonialism, Patriotism, and Politics; F.Jiménez Aguilera Making Space for Spain: L'Action Française, Je suis Partout, and French Right-Wing Visions of the Spanish Civil War; P.Shue Audivisual Propaganda in the American Administration in France Between 1948 and 1955; A.Durand Out of the Past: Philippe Faucon's La Trahison and the Subject of Betrayal;S.Ungar