The Fourth Republic, 1944–1958
Part of The Cambridge History of Modern France
- Author: Jean-Pierre Rioux
- Translator: Godfrey Rogers
- Date Published: September 1989
- availability: Unavailable - out of print October 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521389167
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The combination of political uncertainty, external crisis and internal economic expansion that characterized the French Fourth Republic renders the period 1944–1958 one of unusual complexity, and in this masterly survey Jean-Pierre Rioux unravels its often torturous rise and fall. Growing consumerism and demographic change were the most striking manifestations of the successful reconstruction of the war-ravaged French economy, yet the political foundations of the Fourth Republic became ever more fragile, as a series of unstable and short-lived ministries proved incapable of confronting the twin challenge presented by domestic indifference and bitter, often violent, interference from French colonist abroad. When, in 1958, the Algerian crisis threatened to provoke a full-scale military coup, the existing political orders swiftly crumbled, its authority either derided or ignored. The coexistence of prosperity and chronic instability is not the least intriguing aspect of the history of the Fourth Republic, and Professor Rioux's duly rounded account gives due weight to the cultural and social context in which such a paradox became possible.
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- Date Published: September 1989
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521389167
- length: 548 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 32 mm
- weight: 0.77kg
- availability: Unavailable - out of print October 2009
Table of Contents
List of maps
Foreword
List of abbreviations
Part I: The needs of the moment, 1944–46
1. Victory
2. Survival
3. The purges
4. Restoration
5. Production
6. France in the world
Part II: The republic of the lesser evil, 1946–52
7. The parties take charge
8. The double fracture of 1947
9. France under the American umbrella
10. The third force
11. Reconstruction and modernisation
Part III: The republic in decline, 1952–58
12. Governing without choosing
13. The impossible renewal
14. The Algerian snare
15. The collapse
Part IV: Ambitious France
16. The stimulus of growth
17. An unequal prosperity
18. The fluid society?
19. Towards the 'polyculture'
Conclusion
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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