Andrew Knapp

Charles de Gaulle (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this new biography, Andrew Knapp concisely dissects each of the major controversies surrounding General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French during the Second World War and President of France from 1959 to 1969.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000215038
• Artikelnr.: 60137234

Autorenporträt

Andrew Knapp is Emeritus Professor of French Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Reading. He is author of Gaullism since de Gaulle (1994) and Parties and the Party System in France (2004), joint author of The Government and Politics of France (2006) and Forgotten Blitzes: France and Italy under Allied Air Attack (2012), and editor of The Uncertain Foundation: France at the Liberation, 1944-47 (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

1 De Gaulle before Gaullism
1890-1940 2 Allies and rivals: De Gaulle
the Free French
and their partners 3 Free France: foundations
1940-1942 4 Towards a provisional government
1942-1944 5 Liberation and recognition
June-October 1944 6 The Liberation Government
October 1944-January 1946 7 A Study in failure
1946-1958 8 The return
1958 9 Setting an example? De Gaulle
decolonisation
and the Third World 10 De Gaulle's Constitution and the politics of presidential primacy 11 Superpowers and bombs 12 De Gaulle's Europe 13 May 1968: economy
society
and the limits of presidential power 14 Departure
death
afterlives
1968-2020