Disarming hatred' : French Catholics and the legacy of the Great War; Marc Sangnier, 1914-33
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William Gerard Gearóid Barry, 'Disarming hatred' : French Catholics and the legacy of the Great War; Marc Sangnier, 1914-33', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2005, pp 336Download Item:
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This study focuses on the cultural legacy of the First World War in France in
the period 1914-1933. Specifically, it examines the processes of cultural mobilization
and cultural demobilization, key concepts that have emerged in the new cultural
history of that conflict. The term 'war culture' is now widely used to identify the
system of representations and beliefs that helped to sustain societies at war. However,
what happened to this 'war culture' and to the phenomenon of 'cultural mobilization'
after the armistice of 1918? Clearly, any 'mobilized' mindset which cast France's
enemy - Germany - as a barbaric and dehumanized foe would not disappear as soon as
peace terms were concluded. This thesis examines the halting process of overcoming
these hatreds in the 1920s from the perspective of French Catholics. Therefore, this is
a study of 'cultural demobilization' and of the attempted 'disarmament of hatred,' to
paraphrase my title. It was decided that the most fruitful methodological approach
would be that of the biographical case-study. While not classic biography, such a
case-study has the advantage of allowing the historian to humanize apparently
amorphous and impersonal historical processes such as demobilizaton and measure
their contemporary impact with reference to individuals and their ideological groups.
Author: Barry, William Gerard Gearóid
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