France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis is the first English-language book to examine the most significant political event in int

In the inter war era, the rise of the largest political movement in modern French history, the powerful Croix de Feu (1927–1936), and its successor, the Parti

In 1920s France the far-right peasantry wanted an authoritarian and agrarian society. This study examines their singular lack of success and the enduring French

This is the first book to provide a sustained critical analysis of the literary-aesthetic dimension of French fascism--the peculiarly French form of what Walter

During the interwar years France experienced severe political polarization. At the time many observers, particularly on the left, feared that the French right h