International Library of Historical Studies
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v. 15
The French Right is a constant, evolving and continuing theme in all aspects of the political life of the French nation - shaping much of this country's nation-state from the Revolution to the present - and is now a burning contemporary issue. The authors show how the influence of the French Right has entered into all areas of political, economic, social, cultural, religious and especially, radical aspects of Bonapartism, the Vichy experience and the World Wars, Gaullism, post-Gaullism and the resurgence of the Right under Le Pen. This edition updates the story and demonstrates that the French Right, despite electoral defeat, remains a potent force ans an underlying constant in French political experience.
v. 28
The Catholic Church has always been a major player in European and world history. Whether it has enjoyed a religious dominance or existed as a minority religion, Catholicism has never been divorced from political life.
The alliance between altar and crown had been an established fact for several centuries. 'Priests, Prelates and People' records the Church struggling to adapt to the new political landscape ushered in by the French Revolution and shows how the formation of national states and identities was both helped and hindered by the Catholic establishment. Faced with the emergence of modern mass politics, the Catholic Church has frequently diverged from lay opinion. Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett show the Vatican increasingly out of step in the wake of world war, Cold War and the massive expansion of the developing world, with its problems of population growth and under-development.
Few historians have tried to undertake a full-scale history of European Catholicism, preferring to focus on individual countries or particular aspects of the Church's political dealings. Atkin and Tallett here tackle that history in all its complexity, recognising its national and regional differences and exploring its ever-shifting ground.
The alliance between altar and crown had been an established fact for several centuries. 'Priests, Prelates and People' records the Church struggling to adapt to the new political landscape ushered in by the French Revolution and shows how the formation of national states and identities was both helped and hindered by the Catholic establishment. Faced with the emergence of modern mass politics, the Catholic Church has frequently diverged from lay opinion. Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett show the Vatican increasingly out of step in the wake of world war, Cold War and the massive expansion of the developing world, with its problems of population growth and under-development.
Few historians have tried to undertake a full-scale history of European Catholicism, preferring to focus on individual countries or particular aspects of the Church's political dealings. Atkin and Tallett here tackle that history in all its complexity, recognising its national and regional differences and exploring its ever-shifting ground.