Showing papers in "Vingtieme Siecle-revue D Histoire in 1987"
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TL;DR: The cultural history of contemporary France is the social history of representations as mentioned in this paper, and it is the history of representation itself, rather than the content itself of this representation, as discussed in this paper.
Abstract: The cultural history of contemporary France. Questions and questioning, Pascal Ory. ; Although fashionable contemporary cultural history still suffers from conceptual in determinacy « culture » should be defined precisely, and specified vis-a-vis « politics » and « economic ». The author postulates that cultural history is the social history of representations. However, the historian deals more with what is measurable, quantifiable in other words, with forms less than with the very content itself of this representation. No serious cultural history can be conceived without knowledge of the broad outlines of the history of science and communication techniques. The result would be a study of the varieties of logic of experience, presented as relative to each society and conferring meaning to it.
TL;DR: In the French society of the interwar period, still close to the 19th century, the social organization of passage from childhood to adulthood, which defines youth, differed greatly as between the bourgeoisie and the remaining strata, working class or peasants.
Abstract: Youth and society in interwar France, Antoine Prost. In the French society of the interwar period, still close to the 19th century, the social organization of passage from childhood to adulthood, which defines youth, differed greatly as between the bourgeoisie and the remaining strata, working class or peasants. There was no single youth, but two youths. Neither the bourgeois youth nor the youth of the masses were at odds with society. Integration mechanisms proved stronger than generational conflicts.
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TL;DR: The Blum-Byrnes agreements, France's modernization and the Cold War, Irwin M. Wall as mentioned in this paper, have been viewed as a step in the " alienation of national independence", a premise to the cold war.
Abstract: The Blum-Byrnes agreements, France's modernization and the Cold War, Irwin M. Wall. ; The financial agreements signed on 1946 May 28 between France and the United States are sometimes viewed as a step in the « alienation » of national independence, a premise to the Cold War. American archives allow that interpretation to be changed. Far from being a one-way negotiation, the Blum-Byrnes agreements reflected the context of 1946. On the French side, economic modernization was the main concern, along with strategic considerations. For the Americans, financial aid was part of a policy applied to other countries, including the USSR, previously to the Marshall plan. Disappointing for both sides, the agreements were in no way an episod of American interference in French affairs.