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Nimes at War: Religion, Politics and Public Opinion in the Gard, 1938-44

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Description for Nimes at War: Religion, Politics and Public Opinion in the Gard, 1938-44 paperback. This work is a local study of wartime France under the Vichy regime that considers resistance and collaboration within the context of everyday life. Concentrating on the city of Nimes, it examines wartime reports, official departmental documents, local secular and religious newspapers and letters. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; HBG; HBJD; HBTB; HBW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .

"Vichy will not go away. As I write, France is in the throes of the Paul Touvier affair. . . . The Touvier affair is just the most recent expression of what Henry Rousso has called the Vichy syndrome." So begins Robert Zaretsky's timely study of everyday life in France during the "dark years" of Vichy. While many studies of Vichy France have either focused on specific lives or ideas or covered the period in broad and synthetic terms, local studies such as this promise to nuance our understanding of wartime France. By concentrating on the city of Nîmes and ... Read more

The Gard is well chosen as the focus of this study. From the sixteenth century onward, the region had been a flash point between warring Catholics and Protestants. By the early twentieth century, that tension had eased but not disappeared. Zaretsky examines the dynamics between local Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish communities, arguing that with the advent of Vichy—a regime that, if not clerical, was deeply deferential to the Catholic Church—tension and conflict resurfaced in the Gard. Nîmes at War is based on a wealth of archival materials—police and prefectoral reports, official departmental documents, local secular and religious newspapers, and letters intercepted by the regime's security apparatus—much of which has only recently been opened to researchers. Zaretsky's detailed narrative will undoubtedly provoke further reconsideration of the complex and ambiguous world of Vichy.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271013275
SKU
9780271013275
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About Robert Zaretsky
Robert Zaretsky teaches in the Honors College of the University of Houston.

Reviews for Nimes at War: Religion, Politics and Public Opinion in the Gard, 1938-44
“In this highly interesting book, Robert Zaretsky describes how French men and women in the department of the Gard lived the Vichy regime from day to day. It will be most useful to historians of France, but it will also be welcomed by scholars who deal with the Second World War, the history of the Jews, and the history of ... Read more

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