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'You've Got To Be Modernistic': The Myth of Pierre Mendes France and the Modernization of France.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	'You've Got To Be Modernistic': The Myth of Pierre Mendes France and the Modernization of France./
Author:	Watkins, Matthew.
Description:	296 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-07A(E).
Subject:	History, European. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3614911
ISBN:	9781303806087

'You've Got To Be Modernistic': The Myth of Pierre Mendes France and the Modernization of France.
Watkins, Matthew.

'You've Got To Be Modernistic': The Myth of Pierre Mendes France and the Modernization of France. - 296 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2014.

With the horizon-obscuring exception of Charles de Gaulle, Pierre Mendes France (1907-1982) is arguably the most mythologized French politician of the post-World War Two era, a figure now reflexively linked by historians and journalists alike to the ecumenical virtues of modernization and a far-seeing economic rigor. Yet given the brevity of his period of rule--he was Premier for a handful of disappointing months in the mid-1950s--the elevation of the center-left Mendes to the status of avuncular national icon requires explanation. How do we square the resilient, and productive, Mendes France myth with its ambitious subject's actual thwarted career? Exploring this paradox casts a unique light, not only on France's turbulent postwar decades, but on the contemporaneous obsession with "the modern" and belief in the millenarian promise of a freshly-invented economic science that was ascendant in Western Europe and North America more broadly.

ISBN: 9781303806087Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

'You've Got To Be Modernistic': The Myth of Pierre Mendes France and the Modernization of France.
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520 $a With the horizon-obscuring exception of Charles de Gaulle, Pierre Mendes France (1907-1982) is arguably the most mythologized French politician of the post-World War Two era, a figure now reflexively linked by historians and journalists alike to the ecumenical virtues of modernization and a far-seeing economic rigor. Yet given the brevity of his period of rule--he was Premier for a handful of disappointing months in the mid-1950s--the elevation of the center-left Mendes to the status of avuncular national icon requires explanation. How do we square the resilient, and productive, Mendes France myth with its ambitious subject's actual thwarted career? Exploring this paradox casts a unique light, not only on France's turbulent postwar decades, but on the contemporaneous obsession with "the modern" and belief in the millenarian promise of a freshly-invented economic science that was ascendant in Western Europe and North America more broadly.
520 $a Relying upon an extensive investigation of the archives of Mendes and his principal collaborators, along with a wide reading of contemporary published sources, this dissertation examines the early 1950s origins of the myth, charting its effects and the practices it facilitated, reading it as part of a social enterprise far bigger and more successful than its namesake. Mendes' elite supporters were key opinion-makers--journalists, senior civil servants, and "experts" of various stripes--who were indispensable to the flourishing of an enduring postwar discourse of "modernization": a kind of magical thinking associated with technocratic expert leadership, the panacea of productivity, and the elevation of the economy into the master-realm from which all other social change would necessarily flow.
520 $a A consideration of Mendes's strangely celebrated career also allows for useful reflection on how his, and France's postwar, history have been told and to what ends. This is true not only because the success of the initial mythmaking licensed many later historians to merely reproduce, rather than take apart, the myth's most hyperbolic claims. Even more suggestively, the extent to which Mendes's myth was enlisted to serve what became the larger organizing myth of de Gaulle and the necessity of a transcendent executive is an exemplar of the political capture of historiography.
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