Synopses & Reviews
The Republic of De Gaulle covers the momentous eleven-year ascendancy of Charles de Gaulle as President of the newly established Fifth Republic. Serge Berstein analyzes important constitutional, political and socio-economic changes and De Gaulle's remarkable foreign policy. He concludes with an examination of De Gaulle's eventual fall, with an entire chapter on 1968. The work contains all the standard features that have helped this series to establish itself as the premier multivolume account of modern France.
Review
"...detailed and comprehensive account of de Gaulle's Republic...." Douglas Johnson, Times Literary Supplement
Synopsis
The latest volume to appear in the successful âCambridge History of Modern Franceâ, and covers the momentous eleven-year ascendancy of Charles de Gaulle as President of the newly-established Fifth Republic. The work contains all standard features which have helped this series to establish itself as the premier multi-volume account of modern France.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-255) and index.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Chronological summary; Part I. The Two Foundings of the Fifth Republic: 1. The compromise of 1958; 2. The problem of Algeria; 3. The political evolution of the regime and the crisis of 1962; Part II. Charles de Gaulle and 50 Million French People: 4. The institutional and political framework; 5. The golden age of growth; 6. The birth of a consumer society; 7. The policy of grandeur: a world design?; Part III. The Twilight of de Gaulle's Republic: 8. Early symptoms of a waning power; 9. The crisis of 1968; 10. Failed recovery and the end of de Gaulle's Republic; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.