List of Maps and Figures

Preface

Introduction: Antoine Prost and the History of Civil Society

Jay Winter

I. National Identity

War Memorials of the Great War: Monuments to the Fallen

Verdun: The Life of a Site of Memory

The Contribution of the Republican Primary School to French National Identity

Representations of War in the Cultural History of France, 1914-1939

The Algerian War in French Collective Memory

II. Identities and Civil Society: Urban Space, Social Identities and Youth

The People of Paris: The Eighteenth Arrondissement in 1936

Celebrating Joan: A Feast of Collective Identity in Orleans Since the French Revolution

Marriage, Youth and Society in Orleans in 1911

Youth in France Between the Wars

III. Identities and the Discourse of Political Conflict

Votes and Words

Workers, Others and the State: A Comparison of the Discourse of the French, German and British Labour Movements at the End of the Nineteenth Century

The French Contempt for Politics: The case of Veterans in the Inter-War Period

The Strikes of 1936: The Occupation of Factories and the Decline of Deference

Index