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The French Republic

Author : Edward G. Berenson

Publisher : Cornell University Press

Page : 390 pages

File Size : 30,52 MB

Release : 2011-10-15

Category : History

ISBN : 0801460646

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In this invaluable reference work, the world’s foremost authorities on France’s political, social, cultural, and intellectual history explore the history and meaning of the French Republic and the challenges it has faced. Founded in 1792, the French Republic has been defined and redefined by a succession of regimes and institutions, a multiplicity of symbols, and a plurality of meanings, ideas, and values. Although constantly in flux, the Republic has nonetheless produced a set of core ideals and practices fundamental to modern France's political culture and democratic life. Based on the influential Dictionnaire critique de la république, published in France in 2002, The French Republic provides an encyclopedic survey of French republicanism since the Enlightenment. Divided into three sections—Time and History, Principles and Values, and Dilemmas and Debates—The French Republic begins by examining each of France’s five Republics and its two authoritarian interludes, the Second Empire and Vichy. It then offers thematic essays on such topics as Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity; laicity; citizenship; the press; immigration; decolonization; anti-Semitism; gender; the family; cultural policy; and the Muslim headscarf debates. Each essay includes a brief guide to further reading. This volume features updated translations of some of the most important essays from the French edition, as well as twenty-two newly commissioned English-language essays, for a total of forty entries. Taken together, they provide a state-of-the art appraisal of French republicanism and its role in shaping contemporary France’s public and private life.



The Collapse of the Third Republic

Author : William L. Shirer

Publisher : Rosetta Books

Page : 1948 pages

File Size : 20,93 MB

Release : 2014-10-22

Category : History

ISBN : 0795342470

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The National Book Award–winning historian’s “vivid and moving” eyewitness account of the fall of France to Hitler’s Third Reich at the outset of WWII (The New York Times). As an international war correspondent and radio commentator during World War II, William L. Shirer didn’t just research the fall of France. He was there. In just six weeks, he watched the Third Reich topple one of the world’s oldest military powers—and institute a rule of terror and paranoia. Based on in-person conversations with the leaders, diplomats, generals, and ordinary citizens who both shaped the events and lived through them, Shirer constructs a compelling account of historical events without losing sight of the human experience. From the heroic efforts of the Freedom Fighters to the tactical military misjudgments that caused the fall and the daily realities of life for French citizens under Nazi rule, this fascinating and exhaustively documented account brings this significant episode of history to life. “This is a companion effort to Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, also voluminous but very readable, reflecting once again both Shirer’s own experience and an enormous mass of historical material well digested and assimilated.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)



Party, Society and Government

Author : David L. Hanley

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 45,27 MB

Release : 2002

Category : History

ISBN : 9781571813374

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According to received wisdom parties have played a mainly destructive role in French political development. Of questionable legitimacy, pursuing narrow sectarian goals, often corruptly, they have brought about division, weakness and the collapse of regimes. A proper reading of history suggests differently. By combining historical research and contemporary political science theory about party, the author shows that for over a century party has irrigated French democracy in often invisible ways, brokering working compromises between groups divided strongly along social, political and cultural lines. The key to this success is the party system, which allowed for a high degree of collusion and cooptation between political elites, rhetoric notwithstanding. This hidden logic has persisted to this day despite the advent of presidentialism and remains the key to the continuing prosperity of French democracy.



Constitution of the Fifth French Republic

Author : Michel Debré

Publisher : DigiCat

Page : 40 pages

File Size : 35,45 MB

Release : 2022-09-15

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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This work presents the Constitution of France that was adopted on 4 October 1958. It regards the separation of church and state, democracy, social welfare, and indivisibility as root principles of the French state. Charles de Gaulle introduced the new constitution and inaugurated the Fifth Republic, and Michel Debré drafted it.



The political culture of the sister republics, 1794-1806

Author : Mart Rutjes

Publisher : Amsterdam University Press

Page : 323 pages

File Size : 13,55 MB

Release : 2015-05-01

Category : History

ISBN : 9048522412

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Experts on the French, Batavian, Helvetic, Cisalpine, and Neapolitan revolutions bridge the gap here between the so-called 'Sister' Republics. They explore political culture as a set of discourses or political practices. Parliamentary practices, the comparability of 'universal' political concepts, late-eighteenth century Republicanism, the relationship between press and politics, and the interaction between the Sister Republics and France are studied from a comparative, transnational perspective.



Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution

Author : Edward James Kolla

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 353 pages

File Size : 10,55 MB

Release : 2017-10-12

Category : History

ISBN : 1107179548

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This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.



The French Party System

Author : Jocelyn Evans

Publisher : Manchester University Press

Page : 236 pages

File Size : 41,83 MB

Release : 2003-11-08

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9780719061202

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This text provides an overview of political parties in France. The social and ideological profiles of all the major parties are analysed, highlighting their principal functions and dynamics within the system. This examination is complemented by analyses of bloc and system features.



Borrowing Constitutional Designs

Author : Cindy Skach

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 168 pages

File Size : 31,98 MB

Release : 2011-02-11

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1400832624

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After the collapse of communism, some thirty countries scrambled to craft democratic constitutions. Surprisingly, the constitutional model they most often chose was neither the pure parliamentary model found in most of Western Europe at the time, nor the presidential model of the Americas. Rather, it was semi-presidentialism--a rare model known more generally as the "French type." This constitutional model melded elements of pure presidentialism with those of pure parliamentarism. Specifically, semi-presidentialism combined a popularly elected head of state with a head of government responsible to a legislature. Borrowing Constitutional Designs questions the hasty adoption of semi-presidentialism by new democracies. Drawing on rich case studies of two of the most important countries for European politics in the twentieth century--Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic--Cindy Skach offers the first theoretically focused, and historically grounded, analysis of semi-presidentialism and democracy. She demonstrates that constitutional choice matters, because under certain conditions, semi-presidentialism structures incentives that make democratic consolidation difficult or that actually contribute to democratic collapse. She offers a new theory of constitutional design, integrating insights from law and the social sciences. In doing so, Skach challenges both democratic theory and democratic practice. This book will be welcomed not only by scholars and practitioners of constitutional law but also by those in fields such as comparative politics, European politics and history, and international and public affairs.



Citizenship in a Republic

Author : Theodore Roosevelt

Publisher : DigiCat

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 29,38 MB

Release : 2022-05-29

Category : Nature

ISBN :

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Citizenship in a Republic is the title of a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States, at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, on April 23, 1910. One notable passage from the speech is referred to as "The Man in the Arena": It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.



The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law

Author : Roger Masterman

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 653 pages

File Size : 34,26 MB

Release : 2019-10-03

Category : Law

ISBN : 1107167817

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Comparing constitutions allows us to consider the similarities and differences in forms of government as well as the normative philosophies behind constitutional choices. The objective behind this Companion is to present the reader with a succinct yet wide-ranging companion to a modern comparative constitutional law course.