Crisis and Renewal in France, 1918-1962

Crisis and Renewal in France, 1918-1962Since 1914, the French state has faced a succession of daunting and at times almost insurmountable crises. The turbulent decades from 1914 to 1969 witnessed near defeat in 1914, economic and political crisis in 1926, radical political polarization in the 1930s, military conquest in 1940, the deep division of France during the Nazi Occupation, political reconstruction after 1944, de colonization (with threatening civil war provoked by the Algerian

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and gestures in international relations

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The book determines that answers to spiritual Titanism begin not only with the Hindu Goddess religion

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What Schönbohm discovered and recorded in a diary was almost incredible: plans to conquer West Germany's major cities

The essays included are by some of the leading philosophers of religion and scholars in comparative religious thought such as Ninian Smart

Bazzocchi disposes the text of the Tractatus in a user-friendly manner

it brings together histories of the popular and political so as to rewrite the radical canon