France since 1945
(see also France 1870-1940, France: Vichy Regime, France: Corsica, Algeria, Vietnam before 1965, Muslims in Europe)
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Background information on Jean Marie Le Pen & French National Front
French
dissent voting 'banned'. BBC News (5/3/02).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
BBC site on 2002 French elections.
French National Front.
In the Library: Articles
An Observer. "The French left: background to elections," Monthly Review 29,9 (2/78):8-18.
Ellwood, David. “French anti-Americanism & McDonald’s,” History Today (2/01):34-36.
Johnstone, Diana. "Reformer seeks to build new left movement," In These Times (3/30/88):9.
Independent candidacy of Pierre Juquin for president.
Kramer, Jane. "Taking the veil," New Yorker (11/22/04):59-71. On France's prohibition of religious paraphernalia in public schools.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Bess, Michael. The Light-Green Society: Ecology & Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000 (Chicago: U. of Chicago, 2003).
Brogi, Alessandro. A Question of Self-Esteem: The US & the Cold War Choices in France & Italy, 1944-1958 (Westport CT: Praeger, 2002).
Chesneaux, Jean. Le PCF: un art de vivre (Paris: Maurice Nadeau, 1980).
Evans, Martin. Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War 1954-62 (London: Berg, 1997).
Larkin, Maurice. France Since the Popular Front: Government & People 1936-1996 (NY: Oxford, 1997).
McMillan, James F. Twentieth-Century France: Politics & Society in France 1898-1991 (NY: Oxford, 1992).
Singer, Daniel. Deserter from Death: Dispatches from Western Europe, 1950-2000 (NY: Nation Books, 2005).
In the Library: Fiction
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In the Library: Poetry
In the Library: Drama
In the Library: Photography
CD & Audio
Film & Video
"Caribbean in Paris (Antilles sur Seine)" [2001], dir. Pascal Legitimus, 134m.
"Drowning by Bullets" [1992], dir. Philip Brooks & Alan Hayling, 52m. From First Run/Icarus. Massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris during war for Algerian independence, 10/17/61.