War of Words
Britain, France and Discourses of Empire during the Second World War
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 17 April 2025
- ISBN 9781009181006
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages300 pages
- Size 229x152x16 mm
- Weight 437 g
- Language English 646
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Short description:
Analyses the imperial clashes in the Franco-British relationship during the Second World War.
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War of Words argues that the conflicts that erupted over French colonial territory between 1940 and 1945 are central to understanding British, Vichy and Free French policy-making throughout the war. By analysing the rhetoric that surrounded these clashes, Rachel Chin demonstrates that imperial holdings were valued as more than material and strategic resources. They were formidable symbols of power, prestige and national legitimacy. She shows that having and holding imperial territory was at the core of competing Vichy and Free French claims to represent the true French nation and that opposing images of Franco-British cooperation and rivalry were at the heart of these arguments. The selected case studies show how British-Vichy-Free French relations evolved throughout the war and demonstrate that the French colonial empire played a decisive role in these shifts.
'War of Words innovatively analyzes the powerful role played by rhetoric in the strained relations between Britain and France during World War II. As the Free French, Britain, and Vichy clashed over questions of empire, each mounted a public defense of their actions that in turn constrained their policy making.' Alice L. Conklin, Ohio State University
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. From the Dunkirk evacuations to the Franco-German armistice: Renegotiating the Franco-British alliance; 2. The real question at issue.: British policy and the French fleet; 3. A necessary tragedy? The British bombardments of the French fleet at Mers El-K&&&233;bir; 4. Vichy, the free French and the battle for imperial influence at Dakar in September 1940; 5. Promises of independence: Operation exporter and the struggle for the Levant; 6. Operation torch: American influence and the battle for French North Africa; 7. Independence on French terms: The 1943 Lebanese parliamentary crisis; 8. Holding on to empire: The French bombardment of Damascus, May 1945; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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