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9780521580618

The Pompidou Years, 1969–1974

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521580618

  • ISBN10:

    0521580617

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-03-13
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

This is the latest volume to appear in the successful Cambridge History of Modern France series, and is the most authoritative account available of the presidency of Georges Pompidou. Pompidou consolidated the constitutional changes made by de Gaulle, to the extent that he is now regarded as the Fifth Republic's second founding father, and continued his haughty attitudes to foreign policy. He also launched a programme of modernisation and industrialisation: under Pompidou France saw both the climax and the end of the post-war boom. Serge Berstein and Jean-Pierre Rioux analyse the politics of the period, and also give an overview of France's economy, culture and society. Their comprehensive study contains all the standard features, such as maps, chronology, and tables, which have helped this series to establish itself as the premier multi-volume account of modern France. Students, scholars and teachers in history and political studies will find this volume invaluable.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
xi
List of tables
xii
List of abbreviations
xiii
Chronological summary xvi
1 The republic of Georges Pompidou 1(98)
Changes and continuity
3(19)
A decisive test for the Fifth Republic
3(2)
The candidature of Georges Pompidou
5(1)
Support from the right and `opening' to the centre
6(2)
The left in tatters
8(1)
The candidature of Alain Poher
9(1)
The 1969 election campaign
10(4)
Georges Pompidou's electoral victory
14(2)
Georges Pompidou's conception of government
16(3)
The Chaban-Delmas government takes shape
19(3)
The `New Society', 1969--1971
22(26)
Foreign policy: holding the line
22(3)
The enlargement of the EEC
25(2)
A buoyant economy amid danger signals
27(2)
The economic policy of Georges Pompidou
29(4)
The `New Society'
33(3)
Policies for social progress
36(3)
A drive for political liberalization
39(2)
Maintaining order and fighting the remnants of leftism
41(3)
Policies crowned with success
44(4)
The government in crisis, 1971--1972
48(22)
Tensions at the heart of government
48(2)
Tensions within the majority: the Gaullists
50(5)
Tensions within the majority: the Independent Republicans
55(2)
The ambiguities of centrism
57(3)
The opposition: the Epinay congress and the foundation of the new Parti socialiste
60(2)
The opposition: leftism and communism
62(2)
The government runs out of steam and into scandals
64(2)
The April 1972 referendum
66(2)
The dismissal of Chaban-Delmas
68(2)
Endgame, 1972--1974
70(29)
The Messmer government
70(2)
Preparing for the 1973 elections: the opposition
72(2)
Preparing for the 1973 elections: the majority
74(2)
The 1973 elections
76(7)
A conservative crackdown
83(2)
Discontent within the UDR and the issue of the presidential succession
85(2)
The failure to introduce five-year presidential terms
87(2)
A skipperless ship?
89(3)
The death of Georges Pompidou
92(7)
Conclusion to part 1
94(5)
2 France under Georges Pompidou 99(124)
The growth-rate society
101(40)
The industrial imperative
102(9)
The rise of the groupe central
111(10)
Urban dynamism
121(12)
The reprieve of rural France
133(8)
The outbreak of prosperity
141(39)
Rising incomes and widening disparities
142(7)
Consumption takes off
149(10)
Leisure and private life
159(9)
The supply and demand of teaching
168(12)
A splintered culture
180(43)
The deconstruction of culture cultivee
180(9)
The advent of mass culture
189(13)
Fragmented beliefs and values
202(7)
The emergence of a public culture
209(14)
Conclusion to part 2
216(7)
Notes 223(25)
Bibliography 248(12)
Index 260

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