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Servants of social progress: Democracy, capitalism and social reform in France, 1914--1940.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Servants of social progress: Democracy, capitalism and social reform in France, 1914--1940./
Author:	Humphreys, Joshua M.
Description:	593 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-12, Section: A, page: 4682.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-12A.
Subject:	History, European. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3157829
ISBN:	0496902709

Servants of social progress: Democracy, capitalism and social reform in France, 1914--1940.
Humphreys, Joshua M.

Servants of social progress: Democracy, capitalism and social reform in France, 1914--1940. - 593 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-12, Section: A, page: 4682.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2005.

This dissertation explores French attempts to overcome tensions between democracy and capitalism in the early twentieth century. Based on extensive research in organizational records, personal papers and rare publications, the study examines an overlapping network of social scientists, reformers and critics involved in the French Association for Social Progress; the Nimes School of consumer cooperation; and the Centre de Documentation Sociale, a social research center affiliated with the University of Paris from the early 1920s until the collaborationist Vichy regime shut it down during the Second World War. Unlike many of their contemporaries whose faith in progress collapsed in the trenches of the Western Front, the figures explored here remained buoyant about the prospects for "social progress," I argue, because of their attachment to traditions of French thought dating back to the Enlightenment and the post-revolutionary writings of social thinkers long derided as utopian, including Saint-Simon, Fourier and Proudhon.

ISBN: 0496902709Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

Servants of social progress: Democracy, capitalism and social reform in France, 1914--1940.
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