The Postwar Moment: Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II
An incisive, comparative study of the development of Post–World War II progressive politics in the United States, Britain, and France

After the end of World War II, Britain, France, and the United States were faced with two very different choices: return to the civic order of pre-war normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. In this ambitious and original work, Isser Woloch assesses the progressive agendas that crystalized in each of the three allied democracies, tracing their roots in the interwar decades, their development during wartime, the struggles to establish them after the war’s end, and the mixed outcome in each country.
 
A fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Woloch is a highly regarded scholar who adds the United States to a discussion that is usually focused solely on Europe. His enlightening work successfully argues that the postwar moment deserves a more prominent place in the history of progressive politics.
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The Postwar Moment: Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II
An incisive, comparative study of the development of Post–World War II progressive politics in the United States, Britain, and France

After the end of World War II, Britain, France, and the United States were faced with two very different choices: return to the civic order of pre-war normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. In this ambitious and original work, Isser Woloch assesses the progressive agendas that crystalized in each of the three allied democracies, tracing their roots in the interwar decades, their development during wartime, the struggles to establish them after the war’s end, and the mixed outcome in each country.
 
A fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Woloch is a highly regarded scholar who adds the United States to a discussion that is usually focused solely on Europe. His enlightening work successfully argues that the postwar moment deserves a more prominent place in the history of progressive politics.
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The Postwar Moment: Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II

The Postwar Moment: Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II

by Isser Woloch
The Postwar Moment: Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II

The Postwar Moment: Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II

by Isser Woloch

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An incisive, comparative study of the development of Post–World War II progressive politics in the United States, Britain, and France

After the end of World War II, Britain, France, and the United States were faced with two very different choices: return to the civic order of pre-war normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. In this ambitious and original work, Isser Woloch assesses the progressive agendas that crystalized in each of the three allied democracies, tracing their roots in the interwar decades, their development during wartime, the struggles to establish them after the war’s end, and the mixed outcome in each country.
 
A fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Woloch is a highly regarded scholar who adds the United States to a discussion that is usually focused solely on Europe. His enlightening work successfully argues that the postwar moment deserves a more prominent place in the history of progressive politics.

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ISBN-13: 9780300242683
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 01/22/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 512
File size: 20 MB
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About the Author

Isser Woloch is the Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His books include Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship and The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789–1820s.

Table of Contents

Prologue ix

Introduction xv

List of Abbreviations xix

Part I Facing Depression, Fascism, And War

1 Britain: Labour's Long Apprenticeship 3

2 The Travails of the French Left 41

3 The Roosevelt Era: From the New Deal to D-Day 86

Part II Descent From Victory: Charting New Paths

4 Labour's Moment: The Election of 1945 and After 139

5 Starting Over, with de Gaulle or without Him 170

6 Postwar Prospects in the U.S. 210

Part III Struggles And Outcomes

7 Building Socialism British Style 255

8 Tripartism and Its Aftermath 302

9 The United States: Divided Government, Divided Nation 343

Conclusion: Three Scenarios, One Story? 405

Acknowledgments 435

Notes 439

Index 491

Illustrations follow page 252

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