Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Perks, Ryan, Thesis advisor (ths): Cazorla-Sanchez, Antonio, Degree committee member (dgc): Kay, Carolyn, Degree committee member (dgc): Andriewsky, Olga, Degree committee member (dgc): Irvine, William D, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Utilizing pre-existing scholarship on post-conflict reconstruction in twentieth-century Europe, as well as a variety of French primary sources, this thesis explores the concept of national-moral reconstruction as utilized by French political leaders in the wake of their country's defeat by Nazi Germany in June 1940. In particular, this study analyzes the competing discourses… more Full Text: After the Fall: The Rhetoric of National-Moral Reconstruction in Occupied France, 1940-1944 Ryan Perks A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of …
