The moral disarmament of France : education, pacifism, and patriotism, 1914-1940
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The moral disarmament of France : education, pacifism, and patriotism, 1914-1940
(Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare, 18)
Cambridge University Press, c2004
- : hardback
Available at 8 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-306) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
While French schoolteachers of the late nineteenth century have been widely celebrated for converting 'peasants into Frenchmen', their interwar counterparts have enjoyed little such acclaim. Both contemporary critics and subsequent scholars have condemned French pacifist schoolteachers of the interwar decades for cultivating antipatriotism and facilitating the defeat of 1940. In this book, Mona L. Siegel challenges such equations of teachers' pacifism with national betrayal. Drawn to pacifist ideals in the aftermath of World War I, schoolteachers sought to 'morally disarm' the nation by purging their classrooms of the militaristic images, symbols, narratives, and values that had led their generation to accept war without question in 1914. At the same time, however, their teaching remained rooted in longstanding patriotic and republican traditions. Siegel argues that interwar schoolteachers ultimately solidified French citizens' patriotic loyalties in an era when economic hardship and political extremism threatened to undermine those very ideals.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. 'Raise their hearts to the Fatherland': patriotism, pacifism, and primary school education during the First World War
- 2. 'Little French children, do not forget!' - immediate postwar lessons and French collective memory of the Great War
- 3. 'There are only false victories and great miseries' - socialist internationalism, feminist pacifism, and the forging of a new ideological consensus
- 4. 'War is atrocious for all fatherlands' - pacifist scholastic narratives of the Great War
- 5. 'To love France is to love all humanity' - patriotic education between the wars
- 6. 'We do not want war!' - schoolteachers confront fascism and international conflict, 1933 to 1940
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
by "Nielsen BookData"