The Popular Front in France: Defending Democracy, 1934-38
"This volume is the most comprehensive study in English, and perhaps in any language, of the French Popular Front...Jackson's book is now the basic work of reference and the fullest guide to more specialized literature on the French Popular Front."  Robert O. Paxton, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"...careful and extremely well-informed survey.  One of the many merits of this judicious book is [the author's] refusal to confine himself to the political, economic and diplomatic aspects of government."   New Statesman and Society"This book provides the first history of the French Popular Front in English, and fills that surprising gap with scholarly distinction...The author modestly disclaims any ambition to offer a work of sustained original research, but his mastery of the immense literature on the Popular Front is remarkable, and his analyses of rival interpretations are models of lucidity."   International Affairs"...an ambitious and original work based on a wide-ranging knowledge of the most recent published and unpublished research..."   Modern and Contemporary France"Julian Jackson has rendered a signal service in providing the first booklength history of the Popular Front in English, in a judicious survey which can serve as both an introduction to the subject and a guide for further exploration."   Canadian Journal of History"This is the first substantial history published in English of the French Popular Front.  Its strengths and fair-mindedness are compelling.  It provides summary, synthesis, and explanation and should serve to stimulate research that will result in the many special studies that are surely needed."   Nathanael Greene, American Historical Review