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Olivier Wieviorka - Divided Memory: French Recollections of World War II from the Liberation to the Present - 9780804774444 - V9780804774444
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Divided Memory: French Recollections of World War II from the Liberation to the Present

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Description for Divided Memory: French Recollections of World War II from the Liberation to the Present Hardback. A history of the memory of the Occupation and the Resistance in the changing political circumstances of France from the Liberation to the present. Translator(s): Holoch, George. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 456.

France's experience of World War II was not primarily one of armed conflict, but rather of occupation, collaboration, resistance, and persecution. Since the end of the war, France has struggled with how to understand and remember that experience. In Divided Memory, Olivier Wieviorka recounts the role that the memory of the Occupation and the Resistance has played in shaping the sense of the past held by various segments of French society. He explores the way in which memory can focus political and social conflict. Each administration since the war has taken a different approach to responding to these memories and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804774444
SKU
V9780804774444
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About Olivier Wieviorka
Olivier Wieviorka is Professor at the Institute of Political Social Sciences of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. His books previously published in English include: Normandy. The Landings to the Liberation of Paris (2008) and Orphans of the Republic? The Nation's Legislators in Vichy France (2009).

Reviews for Divided Memory: French Recollections of World War II from the Liberation to the Present
"Olivier Wieviorka accomplishes a staggering amount in the 179 pages that constitute Divided Memory: French Recollections of World War II from Liberation to the Present. Indeed, one cannot help but be awed by the efficiency of this accomplished historian. He is in control of his sources and his narrative from the outset of the book, and presents a tight and ... Read more

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