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Author Woloch, Isser, 1937- author.

Title The postwar moment : progressive forces in Britain, France, and the United States after World War II / Isser Woloch
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (515 pages) : illustrations
Series Yale scholarship online
Contents Part I. Facing depression, fascism, and war. 1. Britain: Labour's long apprenticeship -- 2. The travails of the French Left -- 3. The Roosevelt era: from the New Deal to D-Day -- Part II. Descent from victory: charting new paths. 4. Labour's moment: the election of 1945 and after -- 5. Starting over, with De Gaulle or without him -- 6. Postwar prospects in the U.S. -- Part III. Struggles and outcomes. 7. Building socialism British style -- 8. Tripartism and its aftermath -- 9. The United States: divided government, divided nation
Summary An incisive, comparative study of the development of Post-World War II progressive politics in the United States, Britain, and France After the end of World War II, Britain, France, and the United States were faced with two very different choices: return to the civic order of pre-war normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. In this ambitious and original work, Isser Woloch assesses the progressive agendas that crystalized in each of the three allied democracies, tracing their roots in the interwar decades, their development during wartime, the struggles to establish them after the war's end, and the mixed outcome in each country. A fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Woloch is a highly regarded scholar who adds the United States to a discussion that is usually focused solely on Europe. His enlightening work successfully argues that the postwar moment deserves a more prominent place in the history of progressive politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Politics and government
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056922
France -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051488
United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140455
Subject France
Great Britain
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300242683
0300242689