weakening of the worker; and legislative assemblies’ loss of power to the executive branch. In addition, there was widespread cartelisation: the major political parties took control of the state, alternating in power and using electoral laws to prevent new
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Francesco Maria Scanni and Francesco Compolongo
Christine Regan
French Revolution. A Whig theorist, Burke defined a political party as ‘a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle’. 34 But his condemnation of the French Revolution was driven by his
Maureen Mulligan
baker, who had been involved in a political party on the right: “That was his death sentence” (120). We get to know Juan as a sharply defined individual, with his love of the countryside, horses, and agriculture as well as his dislike of “the large
Jesús Tronch
the city’s distance from the front. 22 Several voices from political parties and trade unions, as well as various intellectuals, criticized the repertoire as out of tune with the historical moment. They saw it as preserving a bourgeois decadence at
Beyond Left and Right
New Perspectives on the Politics of the Third Republic
Linda E. Mitchell
The articles in this issue all reflect on the various ways in which political trends during the period of the Third Republic have been categorized by both historians of the period and the political actors themselves. Ranging in topic from political trends in the French military in the years after the Dreyfus Affair to the participation of women in the politics of the extreme Right, these pieces focus especially on the need to transcend categories of Left and Right in order to discuss more accurately the ways in which the political party system developed, in particular during the years between the world wars.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2008
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–3
Landscapes and Races in Early Twentieth-Century Peru
The Travels of José Uriel García and Aurelio Miró Quesada Sosa
Rupert J. M. Medd
that … throughout the streets of Iquitos rolled the pound sterling” (2005: 177). 44 Democracy was won in Amazonas against the ruling elite landowners and speculators by Ricardo Feijoo Reina in 1931, who led the political party the Independent Labour
The Mysterious Mr Le Queux
War Novelist, Defence Publicist and Counterspy
Roger T. Stearn
Giveth This Woman? (1905), he wrote that ‘a knighthood or a baronetcy can be bought in England just as a yard of tape or a pound of lard … you have only to join the political party in power and hand in your cheque’. Le Queux's hero was usually a well
Martin Thomas
Focusing on the gendarmerie forces of the three French Maghreb territories, this article explores the relationships between paramilitary policing, the collection of political intelligence, and the form and scale of collective violence in the French Empire between the wars, and considers what, if anything, was specifically colonial about these phenomena. I also assess the changing priorities in political policing as France's North African territories became more unstable and violent during the Depression. The gendarmeries were overstretched, under-resourced, and poorly integrated into the societies they monitored. With the creation of dedicated riot control units, intelligenceled political policing of rural communities and the agricultural economy fell away. By 1939 the North African gendarmeries knew more about organized trade unions, political parties, and other oppositional groups in the Maghreb's major towns, but they knew far less about what really drove mass protest and political violence: access to food, economic prosperity, rural markets, and labor conditions.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 76–96
The Specificities of French Elites at the End of the Nineteenth Century
France Compared to Britain and Germany
Christophe Charle
Thanks to a comparison of social and educational characteristics of elites in France, Germany and UK at the end of the nineteenth century, this contribution shows the specificities of the French case: a mixture of persistent traditional elites, akin to British and German ones, and the growing domination of a more recent economic and meritocratic bourgeoisie pushing for liberalism and democracy. Nevertheless, evolutions in the same direction as France are also perceptible in the two monarchies and give birth to a new divergence when after WWI the democratization of elites go faster in UK and Germany than in France where the law bourgeoisie remain dominant and blocks the reforms asked by more popular or petit bourgeois groups present in the political parties on the left.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 7–18
“Flattering the Little Sleeping Rooster”
The French Left, de Gaulle, and the Vietnam War in 1965
Bethany S. Keenan
This article examines conflicts concerning French policy on the American phase of the Vietnam War between the French Left and Charles de Gaulle during the 1965 elections. The Left faced a dilemma on a matter of central foreign policy as it found it difficult to differentiate its position on the war from de Gaulle's public statements on it. Through an evaluation of press commentary, I demonstrate that in its attempt to set itself apart from de Gaulle, the French Left challenged not only his interpretation of the war in Vietnam but also his understanding of France and its role in the world, proffering a softer, cooperative conception in opposition to de Gaulle's push for a militant leadership status for France in the international community. The study shows the limits political parties face as part of protest movements, while also situating French debate over the Vietnam War squarely within the ongoing dialogue over French national identity.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 91–106