Mutinous Memories by Matt Perry
This book explores the eight-month wave of mutinies that struck the French infantry and navy in 1919. Based on official records and the testimony of dozens of participants, it is the first study to try to understand the world of the mutineers. Examining their words for the traces of sensory perceptions, emotions and thought processes, it reveals that the conventional understanding of the mutinies as the result of simple war-weariness and low morale is inadequate. In fact, an emotional gulf separated officers and the ranks, who simply did not speak the same language. The revolt entailed emotional sequences ending in a deep ambivalence and sense of despair or regret. Taking this into account, the book considers how mutineer memories persisted after the events in the face of official censorship, repression and the French Communist Party's co-option of the mutiny.-
Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being
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Fertile expectations
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Religious masculinity
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Generation Moulinex
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Make cheese not war
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Aristocratic Families in Republican France, 1870-1940
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Death and the Crown
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From Empire to Exile
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Terror and Terroir
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The Republican Line
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Confiscating the common good
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The Routes to Exile
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Psychoanalysis and the Family in Twentieth-Century France
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The Stadium Century
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In Pursuit of Politics
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Emile and Isaac Pereire
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Catholicism and Children's Literature in France
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Herminie and Fanny Pereire
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Inventing the modern region
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Republican Passions
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Conquest and resistance in West Africa
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Sport and Physical Culture in Occupied France
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Time and Radical Politics in France
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Nobility and Patrimony in Modern France
'This is a fascinating and well-researched study that offers an original analysis of a well-worn tale of military protest, and it will be of interest to military, political, social and cultural historians alike'
Social History
‘The mutinies of 1919 have been neglected for far too long. Perry’s lasting achievement is rescuing their memory from the dustbin of history, so future generations can reevaluate their significance as memories and motives fade. Mutinous memories is a masterpiece of historical scholarship covering a momentous event long forgotten, but one that still has relevance today.'
Choice Connect
'profoundly original and ambitious ... Mutinous memories should inspire those who read it to think afresh about how history might be written.'
Labour History Review
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781526114112 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526114119 |
| Title | Mutinous Memories |
| Author | Matt Perry |
| Series | Studies In Modern French And Francophone History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2021-11-02 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |