True France
Subtitle: The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900-1945 (Wilder House Series in Politics, History, and Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: June 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780801481932
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Warfare & Defence; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; c 1900 - c 1914; Europe - France; History - General History; History: World; Europe
Description: Today as many as 30 percent of French voters would agree with Jean-Marie Le Pen that foreign-born Muslims should be expelled from France. True France is a provocative history of the prototype of this contemporary "France for the French" movement - the conservative, static, intolerant understanding of French identity that became a powerful tool in national politics during the first half of the twentieth century.