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Au Nom de la Patrie : Southern identities and patriotic mobilisation in First World War France
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Purseigle, Pierre (2023) Au Nom de la Patrie : Southern identities and patriotic mobilisation in First World War France. English Historical Review, 138 . pp. 773-805. doi:10.1093/ehr/cead103 ISSN 0013-8266.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead103
Abstract
At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, many French commentators doubted that France had the strength to withstand the trials of war. Yet the national mobilisation for war was an indisputable success that surprised military planners and political leaders alike. Despite inauspicious beginnings and the unprecedented material and human costs of war, France held out, and the Republican nation-state emerged victorious and to a large extent reinforced by the war. However, the subsequent failure to mobilise successfully in 1939–40 begs the question of the nature and transformation of French patriotism in the First World War. Interestingly, in a field characterised by its vibrant, sophisticated and highly contentious debates, French historians appear to have skirted around the problem of patriotic mobilisation. This article reconsiders this question by investigating social mobilisation in the country’s southern periphery, focusing on the town of Béziers. It underlines the need to locate patriotism by considering its valence in the particular social and geographic contexts that determined the war experience at the front or at home. It also suggests the necessity to re-politicise the idea of national sentiment while maintaining the necessary distinction between patriotism and nationalism. Finally, it argues that the analysis of wartime mobilisation in France must be part of a larger reflection on the mobilisation of space and place in the era of the Great War.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DC France H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Nationalism -- France -- History -- 20th century, Group identity -- France -- History -- 20th century, Armed Forces -- Mobilization, World War, 1914-1918 -- France | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | English Historical Review | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0013-8266 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | August 2023 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 138 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 773-805 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/ehr/cead103 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Re-use Statement: | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in English Historical Review following peer review. The version of record [insert complete citation information here] is available online at: xxxxxxx [insert URL and DOI of the article on the OUP website]. | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 2 December 2021 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 September 2023 | ||||||||||
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