French Colonial Empire and the Popular Front: Hope and Disillusion

by Amanda Sackur

In revisiting the Popular Front some sixty years on, this book explores the link between metropolitan France and the empire at a defining moment in their history. One of the most significant events of the twentieth century is the end of empire, yet the importance of the empire in shaping contemporary France has traditionally been ignored by historians. By extending our perspective to empire, this book widens our understanding of the Popular Front...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333729730
• ISBN13: 9780333729731
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"