Product Description: Jean Jaurès was the celebrated French Socialist Party leader, assassinated at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Published just a few years before his death, his magisterial A Socialist History of the French Revolution, has endured for over a century as one of the most influential accounts of the French Revolution ever to be published...read more

Product Description: Since the 1920s, Socialist and Communist parties in Europe and elsewhere have engaged in episodes of both rivalry and cooperation, with each seeking to dominate the European Left. Enemy Brothers analyzes how this relationship has developed over the past century, focusing on France, Italy, and Spain, where Socialists and Communists have been politically important...read more

Product Description: In this major new book, Andre Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economic Reason. Against the background of technological developments which have transformed the nature of work and the structure of the workforce, Gorz explores the new political agendas facing both left and right...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: On entend beaucoup parler de Jaurès. Mais le connaît-on ?On connaît l''homme politique. Il fut d’abord un philosophe, condisciple de Bergson, et sa thèse sur La réalité du monde sensible est une œuvre marquante. Historien magistral de la Révolution française, il fut aussi un éditorialiste percutant et un critique littéraire avisé...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

A valuable edition to the Politics, Culture and Society in the New Europe series, this fascinating book seeks to explain and explore the fortunes of the French Socialist party. The party is employed as a test case to examine the veracity of the 'crisis of social democracy' literature and its predictions for the future direction and fortunes of social democratic parties. Ben Clift extends his analysis in an attempt to define the wider relationship between social democracy and globalization. Topics covered in this seminal account include the ideological redefinition in the French parti socialiste, as well as the changing political economy of French socialism. After an in-depth party profile of the Jospin government, Clift concludes by investigating the political economy of the French Socialist electoral strategy.

Product Description: This work on the decline of French radicalism was conceived after the fall of the Berlin Wall as an essay on the decline and decay of the revolutionary idea in European politics. The theme provided an organizing principle for Roger Kaplan's analysis of the evolution of the French left in the wake of events for which it was politically and intellectually unprepared...read more

Product Description: This text is an attempt to analyze the underlying message of the Eurosceptic discourse in France, by focusing more on the convergence between the actors and their message than on their disagreements. Part one is a description of the movement...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In view of the defeat of the socialists in the legislative elections of March 1993, this book represents a timely endeavour to evaluate how the ambitions of the Socialists in power impacted on France, and how the reactions elicited often modified those ambitions...read more

Product Description: An overview of the Socialist movement espousing a quasi-Marxist ideology before the 1981 election that discusses the conflicts of the 1970s and the 1981 electoral campaign as well as the economic problems that generated a Socialist position of implementing a very limited agenda of reforms once they had gained power...read more

An examination of the ways in which the French Left adapted, through a series of transformations, to the exigencies of presidentialism and the myths which underpin it. The study aims to illustrate the crucial role played by language in the political practice of representative democracy.

Product Description: In 1981, in uneasy alliance with the Communists and amidst a storm of revolutionary rhetoric, the French Socialist party came to power for the first time since the founding of the Fifth Republic. The only full-length study of the subject yet written, this book looks at the realities beyond the rhetoric--how the Left came to power, what the Socialists achieved in the way of social change, where they failed to diverge from policies associated with the Right, and what lasting impact their brief tenure is likely to have on French and European politics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Louis Blanc (1811-1882) was the first socialist to enter a French government. He was a true exponent of Jacobin-socialism and this biography attempts to explain this combination of Jacobin politics and socialist economics.