Much of the French department of the Nord was occupied during the First World War. This book considers the ways in which occupied locals responded to and understood their situation, focusing on key behaviours adopted by locals and the beliefs surrounding such conduct. Key topics examined include forms of complicity, disunity, criminality, resistance, and the memory of the occupation. This local case study calls into question overly-patriotic readings of this experience, and suggests a new conceptual vocabulary to help understand certain civilian behaviours under military occupation. Drawing on extensive primary documentation, this book proposes that a dominant 'occupied culture' existed among locals: a moral-patriotic framework, born of both pre-war socio-cultural norms and daily interaction with the enemy, that guided conduct and was especially concerned with what was considered acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC) licence.
| ISBN: | 9781526117809 |
| Publication date: | 1st May 2018 |
| Author: | James E Connolly |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Series: | Cultural History of Modern War |
| Genres: |
European history: medieval period, middle ages First World War Social and cultural history |
Much of the French department of the Nord was occupied during the First World War. This book considers the ways in which occupied locals responded to and understood their situation, focusing on key behaviours adopted by locals and the beliefs surrounding such conduct. Key topics examined include forms of complicity, disunity, criminality, resistance, and the memory of the occupation. This local case study calls into question overly-patriotic readings of this experience, and suggests a new conceptual vocabulary to help understand certain civilian behaviours under military occupation. Drawing on extensive primary documentation, this book proposes that a dominant 'occupied culture' existed among locals: a moral-patriotic framework, born of both pre-war socio-cultural norms and daily interaction with the enemy, that guided conduct and was especially concerned with what was considered acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC) licence.
The Experience of Occupation in the Nord, 1914-18 features in the following genres: European history: medieval period, middle ages, First World War, Social and cultural history
The Experience of Occupation in the Nord, 1914-18 is available in Hardback
The Experience of Occupation in the Nord, 1914-18 was written by James E Connolly and published by Manchester University Press
The Experience of Occupation in the Nord, 1914-18 has 352 pages
Yes it is part of Cultural History of Modern War series
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