France since the 1970s : History, Politics and Memory in an Age of Uncertainty

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Introduction. French politics in an age of uncertainty Emile Chabal (University of Edinburgh, UK) Part I: French politics beyond right and left 1. The great upheaval: left and right in contemporary French politics Pascal Perrineau (Sciences Po, Paris, France) 2. The Front National since the 1970s: electoral impact and party system change Jim Shields (Aston University, UK) 3. Class, class conflict and the left: the place of the people in French politics Nick Hewlett (University of Warwick, UK) 4. The melancholy of post-Communism: Francois Furet and the 'passions' Christophe Prochasson (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France) Part 2: The politics of postcolonialism in contemporary France 5.The cost of decolonisation: compensating the pieds-noirs Yann Scioldo-Zurcher (CNRS, Universite de Poitiers, France) 6. From militancy to history: Sans Frontiere and immigrant memory at the dawn of the 1980s Daniel A. Gordon (Edge Hill University, UK) 7. Algeria in Paris: 50 years on Isabel Hollis (Queen's University, Belfast, UK) 8. France's nostalgias for empire Patricia M. E. Lorcin (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA) Part 3: Republicanism, liberalism and the changing contours of French intellectual life 9. Justifying capitalism in an age of uncertainty: L'Association pour la Liberte Economique et le Progres Social, 1969-1973 Michael C. Behrent (Appalachian State University, USA) 10. France's anti-68 liberal revival Iain Stewart (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 11. Republicanism and the critique of human rights Camille Robcis (Cornell University, USA) 12. Cultural insecurity and political solidarity: French republicanism reconsidered Sophie Guerard de Latour (Universite Paris 1 - Pantheon Sorbonne, France) Conclusion. France: the eternal crisis? Sudhir Hazareesingh (University of Oxford, UK) Index