INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. INTRODUCTION 3
5. PART I. THE FRANCO-GERMAN CONFLICT
6. Ι. THE CULTURAL BACKGROUND: NATIONALISM, ROMANTICISM, DEMOCRACY 29
7. II. THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: THE RHINE, ALSACELORRAINE, LA REVANCHE 49
8. III. THE PEACE THAT FAILED: FRANCE, WILSON, AND VERSAILLES 69
9. IV. THE LOSING FIGHT FOR PEACE: THE RUHR, LOCARNO, HITLER 88
10. V. ABDICATION, REVANCHE, OR RECONCILIATION? CAN FRANCE ABANDON "GREAT POWER" POLITICS? 110
11. PART II. DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE
12. VI. THE PROBLEM 133
13. VII. THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE MIDDLE CLASS 141
14. VIII. PARLIAMENTARISM UNRESTRAINED 163
15. IX. SOCIAL PRAGMATISM AND THE BLUM EXPERIMENT 182
16. Χ. LIBERTY WITHOUT PARLIAMENT, EFFICIENCY WITHOUT DICTATOR 205
17. PART III. FRANCE FREE IN A UNITED EUROPE
18. XI. CULTURE AND TERRITORY: THE FALLACY OF THE TERRITORIAL STATE 223
19. XII. THE KEY TO COOPERATION: LIBERTY AND EQUALITY FOR ALL CULTURES 239
20. XIII. THE UNITY OF EUROPE 254
21. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 275
22. INDEX 277