The right in France
Subtitle: from Revolution to Le Pen
By: edited by Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett.
Contributors: Atkin, Nicholas.; Tallett, Frank.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Conservatism -- France -- History.; Right and left (Political science); France -- Politics and government -- 1789-
Description: "This revised and updated work shows how the resurgence of the French Far Right has a long pedigree and has entered into all areas of political, social, cultural and religious life, flourishing on concepts of race and nationhood. While the French Right, like most political movements and sets of ideas, may not have a coherent, consistent and dogmatic structure with a single ideology, there are powerful connecting links throughout modern French history. These stretch from Legitimatist support for the Bourbon monarchy, a nostalgia for imperialism, the occasional craving for a 'man of order', to the kind of rabid anti-semitism that produced the Dreyfus affair, and support for Petain's pro Nazi Vichy regime or the right-wing zealotry over Algeria which challenged de Gaulle. Le Pen's Front National is just the latest incarnation of a familiar demon. The Right in France is vital reading for anyone concerned with its re-emergence."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.