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Mona L Siegel
Cambridge University Press

The Moral Disarmament of France

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AuthorMona L Siegel
PublisherCambridge University Press
PublishedJun 05 2012
Book FormatHardcover
ISBN-139780521839006
Dimensions9.15 X 6.09 X 1.01 inches
Weight 1.44 pounds
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CategoriesHistory > Europe - France
LanguageEnglish

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While French schoolteachers of the late nineteenth century have been widely celebrated for converting 'peasants into Frenchmen', their interwar counterparts have enjoyed little such acclaim. Both contemporary critics and subsequent scholars have condemned French pacifist schoolteachers of the interwar decades for cultivating antipatriotism and facilitating the defeat of 1940. In this book, Mona L. Siegel challenges such equations of teachers' pacifism with national betrayal. Drawn to pacifist ideals in the aftermath of World War I, schoolteachers sought to 'morally disarm' the nation by purging their classrooms of the militaristic images, symbols, narratives, and values that had led their generation to accept war without question in 1914. At the same time, however, their teaching remained rooted in longstanding patriotic and republican traditions. Siegel argues that interwar schoolteachers ultimately solidified French citizens' patriotic loyalties in an era when economic hardship and political extremism threatened to undermine those very ideals.

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Mona L. Siegel is professor of history at California State University, Sacramento. She is the author of The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914–1940 (2004).

She was awarded Outstanding Scholarly and Creative Activity Award, California State University, Sacramento (2014-15),DeBenedetti Prize in Peace History for the best article on a topic related to peace history (2011-12), History of Education Society Outstanding Book Award (2006), and Women's Studies University League Award for Excellence in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin (1993).

Research Interests

Western Civilization, 1500-Present
World Civilizations, 1500-Present
Democracy and Human Rights in the Era of the French Revolution
Women in Western History, 1500-Present
Pacifists, Warriors, Suffragists and Spies: International Female Activism in the Early Twentieth Century
Graduate Seminar - History and Theory
Graduate Readings Seminars (topics vary by semester and touch on themes in modern European history and gender history)
Graduate Seminar - History and Memory
Graduate Seminar - Teaching of History in College

Source: California State University, Sacramento

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