Moral Disarmament of France Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940

Name: Moral Disarmament of France Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940
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ISBN: 9780521839006

ISBN-10: 0521839009

ISBN-13: 9780521839006

Edition: 2004

Authors: Mona L. Siegel, Jay Winter, Paul Kennedy, Antoine Prost, Emmanuel Sivan

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While French schoolteachers of the late nineteenth century have been widely celebrated for converting 'peasants into Frenchmen', their interwar counterparts have enjoyed little such acclaim. Both contemporary critics and subsequent scholars have condemned French pacifist schoolteachers of the interwar decades for cultivating antipatriotism and facilitating the defeat of 1940. Mona L. Siegel challenges such equations of teachers' pacifism with national betrayal. Drawn to pacifist ideals in the aftermath of World War I, schoolteachers sought to 'morally disarm' the nation by purging their classrooms of the militaristic images, symbols, narratives, and values that had led their generation to…

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List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/2/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 334
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Introduction



'Raise Their Hearts to the Fatherland'


Patriotism, pacifism, and primary school education during the First World War



'Little French Children, Do Not Forget!'


Immediate postwar lessons and French collective memory of the Great War



'There are Only False Victories and Great Miseries'


Socialist internationalism, feminist pacifism, and the forging of a new ideological consensus



'War is Atrocious for All Fatherlands'


Pacifist scholastic narratives of the Great War



'To Love France is to Love All Humanity'


Patriotic education between the wars



'We Do Not Want War!'


Schoolteachers confront fascism and international conflict, 1933 to 1940