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The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944
Henry Rousso
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Description for The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944
Paperback. This text examines how the French nation has dealt with "les annees noires" of defeat, occupation and repression, specifically studying what this proud nation has chosen to remember and what it has chosen to conceal. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 400 pages, 7 halftones , 7 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 584.
From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a memory of defeat, occupation, and repression. In this provocative study, Henry Rousso examines how this proud nation-a nation where reality and myth commingle to confound understanding-has dealt with les annees noires. Specifically, he studies what the French have chosen to remember-and to conceal.
From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a memory of defeat, occupation, and repression. In this provocative study, Henry Rousso examines how this proud nation-a nation where reality and myth commingle to confound understanding-has dealt with les annees noires. Specifically, he studies what the French have chosen to remember-and to conceal.
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
Weight
584g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674935396
SKU
V9780674935396
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About Henry Rousso
Henry Rousso is a researcher at the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Present (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Paris. Stanley Hoffmann (1928-2015) was Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University.
Reviews for The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944
Rousso has set out to provide not just another narrative of les annees noires
the years of defeat, occupation, of the phantom 'French State' and the civil war
but a study of the way the Vichy episode has been perceived and perverted by the French ever since. The result is a brilliant and intemperate book that is also a tract for the times. The Economist Succeeds as a practical demonstration, for a particularly vivid case, of how to study a people grappling with a past. It is remarkable how few similar works there are...One understands a historian's hesitation before the poorly documented and ill-defined wider popular memory as a subject. Rousso shows us, however, how dramatic and revealing this genre can be.
Robert O. Paxton New York Review of Books This is an original and thought-provoking work, a 'must' for anyone interested in the political and cultural psychology of post-war France.
Nelly Wilson Jewish Quarterly
the years of defeat, occupation, of the phantom 'French State' and the civil war
but a study of the way the Vichy episode has been perceived and perverted by the French ever since. The result is a brilliant and intemperate book that is also a tract for the times. The Economist Succeeds as a practical demonstration, for a particularly vivid case, of how to study a people grappling with a past. It is remarkable how few similar works there are...One understands a historian's hesitation before the poorly documented and ill-defined wider popular memory as a subject. Rousso shows us, however, how dramatic and revealing this genre can be.
Robert O. Paxton New York Review of Books This is an original and thought-provoking work, a 'must' for anyone interested in the political and cultural psychology of post-war France.
Nelly Wilson Jewish Quarterly