A. Knapp 
The Uncertain Foundation 
France at the Liberation 1944-47

France’s liberation was expected to trigger a decisive break both with the Vichy régime and with the pre-war Third Republic. What happened was an untidy patchwork of unplanned continuities and false starts. This volume analyses the complex process of regime change, economic renewal, social transformation, and adjustment to a fast-evolving world.

Table of Content

Introduction: France’s ‘Long’ Liberation, 1944-47; A.Knapp The Liberation and the Institutional Question in France; E.Cartier ‘Sénat ou pas Sénat?’ – The ‘First’ Council of the Republic; P.Smith De Gaulle and the Paradox of Post-War French Politics; D.Goldey Replacement or Renewal? The French Political Élite at the Liberation; O.Wieviorka ‘The Politics of Political Women’: Reassessing the First Députées ; H.Footitt France’s Liberation Era, 1944-47: A Social and Economic Settlement?; H.Chapman Catholics and the Long Liberation: The Progressive Moment; N.Atkin Whose Liberation? Confronting the Problem of the French Empire, 1944-1947; M.Shipway Moscow, the Parti Communiste Français, and France’s Political Recovery; N.Naoumova Washington at the Liberation, 1944-1947; C.Cogan & A.Knapp The Half-Open Window: France and Britain, 1944-1947; A.Knapp Occupation, Liberation, Purges: the Changing Landscape of French Memory; P.Buton

About the author

NICHOLAS ATKIN Professor of Modern European History, University of Reading, UK PHILIPPE BUTON Professor of Contemporary History, University of Reims, France EMMANUEL CARTIER Lecturer in Public Law, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France HERRICK CHAPMAN Associate Professor of History, New York University, USA CHARLES COGAN Senior Associate Fellow, the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA HILARY FOOTITT Senior Research Fellow in French, the University of Reading, UK DAVID GOLDEY Emeritus Fellow in Politics at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK ANDREW KNAPP Professor of French Politics and Contemporary History, University of Reading, UK NATALIA NAOUMOVA Senior Lecturer in European History, Lomonossov University, Moscow, Russia MARTIN SHIPWAY Lecturer in French Contemporary History and Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK PAUL SMITH Associate Professor in French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham, UK OLIVIER WIEVIORKA Professor of Contemporary History, École Normale Supérieure, Cachan, France