France and Its Spaces of War

Chapter 1 War and Its Spaces: Introduction

Chapter 2 Moralizing War: Military Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France

Chapter 3 “Unfortunate Necessities”: Violence and Civilization in the Conquest of Algeria

Chapter 4 Spaces of War: Rural France, Fears of Famine, and the Great War

Chapter 5 The Search for Civilian Safe Spaces: Re-evacuating Nord and Pas de Calais in Response to British Bombing, September 1940-March 1941

Chapter 6 The Anglo-American Troops as Seen by French Labor Conscripts: Forms of Ambivalent Critical Support

Chapter 7 De-Prussianizing the Saar: Lessons from the Second World War and the French Path to European Integration

Chapter 8 Pain and Memory: The War Wounds of Blaise de Monluc

Chapter 9 From the Chemin des Dames to Verdun: The Memory of the First World War in War Memorials in the Red Zone

Chapter 10 National Sacrifices, Local Losses: Politics and Commemoration in Interwar Alsace

Chapter 11 A Disembodied Memory: The Contemporary Legacy of the Great War Viewed through the Lens of the Political

Chapter 12 “Pedestals Dedicated to Absence”: The Symbolic Impact of the Wartime Destruction of French Bronze Statuary

Chapter 13 Reflections on the Literary Vichy Syndrome since 1990: Contexts, Chronologies, Metamorphoses

Chapter 14 Newspapers, Novels, and the Comic Book War

Chapter 15 The Impact of the Great War on the Writing of Fernand Léger

Chapter 16 Artists, Commemorations, and Political Culture: The Example of the Great War

Chapter 17 La Victoire en chantant: The Cinematographic Transfer of World War I in Equatorial Africa, between Colonialism, Patriotism, and Politics

Chapter 18 Making Space for War: L’Action française, Je suis partout, and French Right-Wing Understandings of the Spanish Civil War

Chapter 19 American Audiovisual Propaganda in France, 1948–1955

Chapter 20 Two Films and Two Wars in the Public Sphere