FR336 Further Reading
General
- Anderson, Perry, (ed.), Mapping the West European Left, London, Verso, 1994.
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Bell, David, Parties and Democracies in France, Dartmouth, 2000.
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Becker, Jean-Jacques and Candar, G. (eds.), Histoire des Gauches en France, Paris, La Découverte, 2002. (2 vols.).
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Cerny, P, (ed.), Social movements and protest in France, Longwood, 1982.
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Cole, Alistair, French Politics and Society, London, Longman, 2004.(2nd edn.)
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Dupin, Eric, Dupin, E. (2007) A Droite toute, Fayard, Paris.
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Eley, Geoff, Forging Democracy. The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000, Oxford, OUP, 2002.
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Eribon, Didier, D’une revolution conservatrice et de ses effets sur la gauche française, Paris, L. Scheer, 2007.
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Forbes, Jill., Hewlett, Nick and Nectoux, François, Contemporary France. Politics, Economics and Society since 1945, Longman, 2001.
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Halimi, Serge, Quand la Gauche essayait. Les Leçons de l’exercise du pouvoir 1924, 1936, 1944, 1981, Paris, Arléa, 2000.
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Hatzfeld, Hélène, et al, Dictionnaire de la Gauche, Paris, Larousse, 2007.
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Hazareesingh, Sudir, Political Traditions in Modern France, Oxford, OUP, 1994.
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Hewlett, Nick, Modern French Politics. Analysing Conflict and Consensus since 1945, Cambridge, Polity, 1998.
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Hewlett, Nick, Democracy in Modern France, London, Continuum, 2003.
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Jenson, Jane, `The French Left, 1945-1988’, New Left Review no 171, Sept/Oct 1988
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Johnson, RW, The Long March of the French Left, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1981.
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Lefranc, Georges, Les gauches en France 1789-1973, Payot, 1974.
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Mouriaux, René, Le Syndicalisme en France, Paris, PUF/Que sais-je, 2005.
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Noblecourt, Michel, Les Syndicats en Questions, Paris, Editions Ouvrières, 1992.
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Portelli, Hugues, La politique en France sous la Ve République, Paris, Grasset,1987.
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Sassoon, Donald, One Hundered Years of Socialism. The West European Left in the Twentieth Century, New Press, 1998.
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Sirinelli, JF, (ed.), Dictionnaire historique de la vie politique française au XXe siècle, Presses Universitaires de France, 2003.
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Touchard, Jean, La Gauche en France depuis 1900, Paris, Points/Histoire, 1989. Recommended for purchase.
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Ysmal, Colette, Les Partis politiques sous la Ve République, Montchrestien, 1989.
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Portelli, Hugues, Le Parti Socialiste, Paris, Montchrestien, 1992.
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Winock, Michel, La Gauche en France, Paris, Perrin, 2006.
Week 1. Introduction: what is the left?
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Lukes, Steven, ‘Qu’est-ce que la gauche?’, in Lazar 1996, op. cit., pp. 369-388.
Week 2. Key moments in the history of the French left: 1936, 1968, 1981.
(a) Front populaire:-
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Bernstein, Serge, La France des années 1930, Armand Colin, 1988.
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Halimi, S, op.cit.
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Jackson, Julian, The Popular Front in France: Defending Democracy 1934-38, Cambridge, CUP, 1988.
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Noiriel, Gérard, Les Ouvriers dans la société française, Paris, Seuil, 2002.
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Lefranc, Georges, Le Front populaire, Paris, Presses Univesitaires de France, 1984.
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Kergoat, Jacques, La France du Front populaire, Paris, La Découverte, 2006.
(B) May 1968:-
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Hanley, David and Kerr, Patricia (eds.), May 1968: Coming of Age, 1989.
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Harman, Christopher, The Fire last time: 1968 and after, London, Bookmarks, 1988.
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Joffrin, Laurent, Mai 68. Histoire des événements, Paris, Seuil, 1988.
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Pouvoirs No 39, 1988 (Special issue on May 1968).
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Touchard, Jean, op. cit.
Week 3.The rise and fall of the Communist Party.
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Adereth, M., The French Communist Party: a critical history (1920-84), Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1984.
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Bell, David, and Criddle, Byron, The French Communist Party in the Fifth Republic, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994.
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Courtois, Stéphane and Lazar, Marc, Histoire du Parti communiste français, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2002.
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Fauvet, Jacques, Histoire du Parti communiste français, Paris, Fayard, 1978.
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PCF/PS Programme commun de gouvernement, Paris, 1972.
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Ranger, Jean, ‘Le déclin du parti communiste français’, in Revue française de science politique, February 1986.
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Ross, George and Jenson, Jane, ‘The French Left 1945-1988’, New Left Review No 171, Sept/Oct 1988.
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Lazar, Marc, Le Communisme, une passion française, Paris, Perrin, 2002.
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Lazar, Marc Maisons rouges: les partis communistes français et italiens de la Libération à nos jours, Aubier Montaigne, 1992.
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Ross, George, ‘Organisation and Strategy in the Decline of French Communism’, in Socialist Register, London, Merlin Press, 1988.
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Ysmal, Colette, Les partis politiques sous la Ve République, Paris, Montchrestien, 1989.
Week 4.The Socialist current I: 1945-1981
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Bell, David, (ed.), Contemporary French Political Parties, 1981 (chapter on PSU).
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Bell, David, Parties and Democracy in France, Dartmouth, 2000.
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Capdevielle, Jacques and Mouriaux, R, Mai ’68: l’entre-deux de la modernité, Paris, Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1988.
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Cerny, P, (ed.), op. cit.
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Cole, Alistair, François Mitterrand, London, Routledge, 1994.
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Cole Alistair, French Politics and Society, London, Longman, 2004. (2nd edn.)
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Hamon, Hervé and Rotman, Patrick, Génération, Paris, Seuil, tome I, 1987 et tome II, 1988.
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Lazar, Marc, La Gauche en Europe depuis 1945. Invariants et mutations du socialisme européen, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1996.
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Melchior, Eric, Le PS, du projet au pouvoir, De L’atelier, 1993.
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Portelli, Hugues, Le socialisme tel qu’il est, Paris, PUF, 1980.
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Weber, Henri, Vingt ans après: que reste-t-il de mai 1968?, Paris, Seuil, 1988.
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Ysmal, C, op. cit.
Week 5.The Socialist current II: 1981-
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Ambler, J, The French Socialist Experiment, 1985.
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Bell, David and Criddle, Byron, The French Socialist party. The Emergence of a Party of Government, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988. (2nd edn.)
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Bergounioux, Alain and Grunberg, Gérard, Le long remords du pouvoir. Le Parti socialiste française 1905-1992, Paris, Fayard, 1992.
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Colombani, Jean-Marie and Portelli, Hugues, Le double Septennat de François Mitterrand, Paris, Grasset, 1995.
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Daley, Anthony and Pontusson, J., ‘The Left Victory in France’, Socialist Review, Nov/Dec 1981.
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Daley, Anthony, (ed.), The Mitterrand Era. Policy Alternatives and Political Mobilization in France, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1996.
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Favier, Pierre and Rolland, Martin, La Décennie Mitterrand, 2: Les Réconciliations, Seuil, 1992.
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Halimi, Serge, Sisyphe est fatigué. Les échecs de la gauche au pouvoir, 1993.
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Hewlett, Nick 1998, op. cit., Chapter 5.
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Kitschelt, H, The Transformation of European Social Democracy, Cambridge, CUP, 1994.
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Lazar, Marc, (ed.), La Gauche en Europe depuis 1945, Paris, PUF, 1996.
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Maclean, Mairi, (ed.), The Mitterrand Years: Legacy and Evaluation, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 1998.
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Morray, Joseph, Grand Disillusion: François Mitterrand and the French Left, Praeger, 1997.
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Raymond, Gino, (ed.), France during the Socialist Years, Dartmouth, 1995.
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Ross, George and Jenson, Jane, op. cit.
Week 6.Reading week
Week 7.The far left
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Casseron, Serge, Dictionnaire de l’extrême gauche, Paris, Larousse, 2007.
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Raynaud, Philippe, L’Extrême gauche plurielle. Entre démocratie radicale et révolution, Paris, Autrement/CEVIPOV, 2006.
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Sommier, Isabelle, La France rebelle. Tous les mouvements et acteurs de la contestation, Editions Michalon, 2006.
Week 8.The trade union movement I: 1945-1981.
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Andolfatto, Dominique, Histoire des syndicats (1906-2006), Paris, Seuil, 2006.
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Groux, Guy and Mouriaux René, La CFDT, Paris, Economica, 1989.
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Mouriaux, René, Le sydicalisme en France depuis 1945, Paris, La Découverte, 2004.
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Reynaud, J-D, Les syndicats en France (tomes I et II), Paris, Seuil, 1975.
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Ross, George, Workers and communists in France. From Popular Front to Eurocommunism, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1978.
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Noblecourt, Michel, op. cit.
Week 9. The trade union movement II: 1981-
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Andolfatto, Dominique, 2006, op. cit.
- Bridgeford, G, ‘The Crisis of French Trade Unionism in the 1980s’, Industrial Relations Journal, Vol 21 no 2 Summer 1990.
- Daley, Anthony and Nolan, Melanie (eds.), The Mitterrand Era. Policy Alternatives and Political Mobilization in France, New York, New York University Press, 1996.
- Groux, Guy and Mouriaux, René, La CFDT, Economica, 1989.
- Hoffmann, Stanley, ‘Problèmes politiques et sociaux’, Les transformations du sydicalisme en France, no 801, 10 avril 1998.
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Mouriaux, René, 2004, op.cit.
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Ross, George and Malzacher, Sylvia, The Mitterrand Experiment, Oxford, OUP, 1987.
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Mazey, Sonia and Newman, Michael, Mitterrand’s France, London, Croom Helm, 1987.
Week 10. Intellectuals and the left.
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Anderson, Perry 2005: La Pensée Tiède. Paris, Seuil. (Trans. of ‘Dégringolade’ and ‘Union sucrée’, London Review of Books, 2 September 2004 and 23 September 2004.)
- Christofferson, Michael Scott, French Intellectuals Against the Left. The The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s, Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2004.
- Debray, Michel, Teachers, Writers, Celebrities. The Intellectuals of Modern France, London, Verso, 1981.
- Drake, David, Intellectuals and Politics in Post-War France, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2002.
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Flood, Christopher and Hewlett, Nick, ‘Structure and Change in Contemporary French Intellectual Life’, in Flood and Hewlett (eds.), Currents in Contemporary French Intellectual Life, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2000.
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Hewlett, Nick, op. cit. 1998, ch.8.
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Hewlett, Nick, ‘Marxism’, in Murray, Christopher (ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought, Fitzroy Dearborn/Taylor & Francis, London/New York, 2004, pp.460-464
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Hewlett, Nick, Badiou, Balibar, Rancière: Rethinking Emancipation, London, Continuum, 2007.
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Hamon, H and Rotman, P, op. cit.
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Leymarie, Michel, Les Intellectuels et la politique en France, Paris, Que sais-je, PUF, 2001.
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Ory, Pascal and Sirinelli, Jean-François, Les Intellectuels en France de l’Affaire Dreyfus à nos jours, Armand Colin, 1992.
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Ross, G, ‘Intellectuals against the Left: the case of France’, in Socialist Register, 1990.
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Ross, Hoffmann and Malzacher, (eds.), op. cit.
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Winock, Michel, Le Siècle des intellectuels, Seuil, 1999.
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Wolin, Michael, ‘The Grandeur and Twighlight of French Philosophical Radicalism’, in Flood, Christopher and Hewlett, Nick, (eds.), Currents in Contemporary French Intellectual Life, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2000.