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Author Passmore, Kevin

Title From liberalism to fascism : the Right in a French province, 1928-1939 / Kevin Passmore
Published New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 333 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents From France to the Rhône -- Urban society in the Rhône -- Rural society in the Rhône -- The crisis of the right I: 1928-1932 -- The impact of the economic crisis -- The crisis of the right II: 1932-June 1936 -- The Croix de Feu -- The right and the Popular Front
Summary The Croix de Feu and its successor the Parti Social Français stood at the centre of political conflict in the turbulent final years of the French Third Republic. Membership peaked at 750,000 in 1937, and at the time the movement was widely regarded as the counterpart of fascism in Germany and Italy. However, only recently has the view that fascism also has roots in France become a serious topic for debate. From Liberalism to Fascism is based largely on archival research, and shows that contemporary perceptions of the Croix de Feu and the PSF as fascist were in fact correct. Dr Passmore places French fascism in the wider context of the history of French conservatism through a micro-study of a crisis of the liberal-conservative tradition in Lyon. This 1997 book was the first to place the emergence of French fascism in the wider political and social context. In the process, received views of the nature of French society and politics are contested
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-326) and index
Notes English
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Subject Croix de feu (Organization : France) -- History
Parti social français -- History
SUBJECT Croix de feu (Organization : France) fast
Parti social français fast
Subject Fascism -- France -- Lyon Region -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY.
Fascism
Politics and government
SUBJECT Lyon Region (France) -- Politics and government
France -- History -- 1914-1940. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051417
Subject France
France -- Lyon Region
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585032726
9780585032726
0511582102
9780511582103
0511000928
9780511000928