The experience of occupation in the Nord, 1914-18 : living with the enemy in First World War France /

Connolly, James E. (Historian),

The experience of occupation in the Nord, 1914-18 : living with the enemy in First World War France / Living with the enemy in First World War France James E. Connolly. - 1 online resource (xii, 333 pages) : illustrations, map. - Cultural History of Modern War . - Cultural history of modern war. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-318) and index.

Sexual misconduct -- General misconduct and popular reprisals -- Male misconduct -- Une sacree desunion? Conflict continues -- Moral borderlands: Criminality during the occupation -- Notable protests: Respectable resistance (coups de gueule polis) -- Symbolic resistance (coups de cœur) -- Active resistance (coups de poker, coups d'eclat) -- Epilogue: Liberation, remembering and forgetting.

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Much of the French department of the Nord was occupied during the First World War. This book considers the ways in which occupied locals responded to and understood their situation, focusing on key behaviours adopted by locals and the beliefs surrounding such conduct. Key topics examined include forms of complicity, disunity, criminality, resistance, and the memory of the occupation. This local case study calls into question overly-patriotic readings of this experience, and suggests a new conceptual vocabulary to help understand certain civilian behaviours under military occupation. Drawing on extensive primary documentation, this book proposes that a dominant 'occupied culture' existed among locals: a moral-patriotic framework, born of both pre-war socio-cultural norms and daily interaction with the enemy, that guided conduct and was especially concerned with what was considered acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. --

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018838772 Uk


1900-1999


World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--France, Northern.
World War, 1914-1918--France, Northern.
Civilians in war--History--France, Northern--20th century.
France.
First World War.
European history.
Social and cultural history.
Civilians in war.
Social aspects.
Besatzung


France--History--German occupation, 1914-1918.
France.
Northern France.
Frankreich--Nordost

Disunity Complicity Resistance Misconduct Collaboration Criminality Culture Occupation


Electronic books.
History.

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944.081/4