Andrew W M Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3062896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew W M Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew W M |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH A W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chichester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4876-5403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1936 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Make cheese not war
Indians of all colours
Building a French Florida
In the 1960s, the French state began an ambitious tourism project, known as the Mission Racine, to transform the Languedoc-Roussillon coastline into a major tourist destination. The state envisioned modern resorts supported by new infrastructure, reshaping 180 km of the Mediterranean coast. This development responded to both national and regional economic challenges, particularly the region's declining wine industry, and sought to compete with Sp…
Roundtable
One hundred years after Paris last hosted, the Olympic and Paralympic Games were held in the French capital this summer. To mark this centenary, French History gathered a group of academics together to write blog posts in response to different aspects of Paris 2024. Their posts, which were originally hosted on the French History Network Blog, invited readers to delve into the historical, cultural and sporting references being evoked by the openin…
Moving objects
What does it mean to see the history of France through objects? In 1837, Thomas Carlyle chose three things to structure his analysis of the French Revolution: the Bastille, the Constitution and the Guillotine.1 Yet Carlyle used these objects as a kind of shorthand, as symbols for the greater whole, rather than subjects of sustained analysis and reflection. This special issue puts the analysis of objects at the heart of French history, to ask what…
Ovine invasion
In their posters and in their protests, the peasants of the Larzac deployed sheep to help them fight back against the French Army’s plans to expropriate them from the land as part of the expansion of a local military base. In Paris, as in regional courtrooms, sheep served as a visible and disruptive contrast to urban modernity, emblematized in ovine invasions which invited animals to make themselves heard (and smelt) in courtrooms, townhalls and …
The Blood of the Colony
Rural Inventions
As news of an impending COVID-19 lockdown emerged in March 2020, rumours abounded on social media that the A6 autoroute du soleil out of Paris would be gridlocked. Again, in October, as a second lockdown loomed, the southern newspaper La Dépêche fearfully anticipated an epidemic influx of Parisians, noting almost 400km of traffic jams around the capital. This pandemic urban escape story was a lingering symptom of ‘the farmhouse bug’ afflicting ci…
Crises of commemoration
In 1954, international dignitaries and veterans joined the commemoration of the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy, though not everything went according to plan. For the French organizers, chief among them Gaullist deputy Raymond Triboulet, the event was intended to communicate a unifying, pro-Allied message amid a turbulent political climate. By June 1954, France had recently suffered a decisive defeat at Dien Bien Phu and was politicall…
Possible New Solstitial Sightline in the Stonehenge Landscape
The landscape around Stonehenge contains a number of major Early Neolithic monuments dating to the fourth millennium BC, including the Stonehenge Cursus, the Lesser Cursus, Robin Hood’s Ball causewayed enclosure and several long barrows. A previously unsuspected Early Neolithic causewayed enclosure whose northeast rim was uncovered in 2016 on the slopes of Lark Hill, just to the north of the World Heritage Site boundary, represented a major new d…
The Return of Alsace to France, 1918–1939, by Alison Carrol
The Return of Alsace to France, 1918–1939, by Alison Carrol The Return of Alsace to France, 1918–1939, by Alison Carrol (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2018; pp. 230. £60) Andrew W M Smith Andrew W M Smith University of Chichester [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4876-5403 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 135, Issue 576, October 2020, Pages 1366–1367, https://doi.org…
Le Négoce des vins en Languedoc
Le Négoce des vins en Languedoc: L’emprise du marché, 1900–1970 Le Négoce des vins en Languedoc: L’emprise du marché, 1900–1970. By Stéphane Le Bras. Tours: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais. 2019. 495 pp. €24. ISBN: 978 2 86906 692 2. Andrew W M Smith Andrew W M Smith University of Chichester https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4876-5403 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 34, Issue 3, S…
Uprooting Identity
Uprooting productive vines transformed the landscape of the wine growing Languedoc as part of a coordinated European effort to reduce agricultural overproduction, most notably after 1984. The demographic shifts caused by this transformation upset regional political alliances, coinciding with a socialist presidency and electoral gains for the far-right Front National (FN). More traditional syndical bodies lost their ability to accent national chan…
Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: developme…
The Sober Revolution
In 1970, the social reformer Eugène Claudius-Petit complained to his fellow parliamentarians that French airlines ‘allow the crew to drink champagne and whisky when they’re flying’, despite the practice being understandably banned by most other national airlines. The ways in which this exceptional daily drinking culture permeated social spaces, the workplace and the home were all anathema to a group of public health proponents that Bohling dubs t…
Ruth Ginio, The French Army and its African Soldiers
Arguing About Empire
Towards the end of May 1898, we are told, readers of The Times were tempted with the offer of a ‘very handsome’ atlas. Its compilers recounted that ‘constant advances in exploration and the frequent changes resulting from political developments have made this task an exceedingly heavy one’ and declared it an essential purchase for anyone concerned with current affairs. Only a few months later, the savvy Times reader might have turned from his new…
Algeria Revisited
Algeria Revisited frames a story of self-determination not purely in political terms, but as an exercise in shaping narratives about self and nationhood. Aissaoui and Eldridge have skilfully compiled a diverse and cogent volume that offers an interdisciplinary engagement with Algerian national identity in its multiple strands. Challenging perspectives move beyond the binaries of empire, and the focus moves beyond the most prominent moments of vio…
Organic Resistance
Somewhere between Eugen Weber and Henri Mendras, France’s peasants were supposed to have disappeared. The truism holds that modern France, whether defined by Republican centralization or technocratic rationality, would have no need for those that muddied their hands in the soil. Yet, it was never such a binary shift. Eccentric visionaries, crackpot mystics and canny rural entrepreneurs all tilled the soil in the hope of nurturing divergent vision…
Eclipse in the dark years
This article charts the importance of clandestine flights from Britain into Occupied France during the Second World War as a route of resistance. These pick-up flights were coordinated from London and were an example of the inter-Allied cooperation and Franco-British negotiation that took place between the Bureau central de renseignement et d’action (BCRA), the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, or MI6) and Special Operations Executive (SOE). The …
Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust
The mythic representation of France’s Occupation depicted large groups of resisters united behind General De Gaulle, frustrated by small bands of traitors. Following the ‘breaking of the mirror’ that took place in the 1970s, and after nearly fifty years of scholarship in this vein, however, the historian’s gaze seems ever more likely to fall on smaller acts of resistance, and much larger areas of ambiguity across French society. France’s rail wor…
African Dawn
This article addresses the cultural activity of Keïta Fodéba, a popular musician, poet, dramatist, and ultimately prominent member of the independent Guinean government. His experiences during the 1950s reflect emergent trends during this period of profound negotiation, in which the terms of the “postcolonial” world were established. Fodéba was a formative figure in the emergence of Guinean national culture but also played an important role in pr…
Charles Rist, Season of Infamy
At Home in postwar France
From the soil we have come, to the soil we shall go and from the soil we want to live’
During the summer of 1907, France experienced one of its largest social disturbances since the Revolution, as the winegrowers of the Languedoc-Roussillon led a mass protest movement that paralysed the region and challenged the state. Although the Grande Révolte evoked references to the Albigensian Crusade, and juxtaposed North and South, it never fully represented a moment of Occitan regionalist rising. The failure of the cultural organisation th…
Porphyry’s Place in the Neoplatonic Tradition
I Was a Soviet Worker
Of colonial futures and an administrative Alamo
The loi cadre (1956) was not a final submission to the political realities of a moribund empire. Rather, it was an attempt to redefine the way France interacted with her colonies. This was perhaps most telling in French West Africa, where the co-option of political elites was the spearhead of a greater swathe of subtle reforms. Administrators effectively separated the economic governance of French West Africa from political reality. This allowed …
Possible New Solstitial Sightline in the Stonehenge Landscape
The landscape around Stonehenge contains a number of major Early Neolithic monuments dating to the fourth millennium BC, including the Stonehenge Cursus, the Lesser Cursus, Robin Hood’s Ball causewayed enclosure and several long barrows. A previously unsuspected Early Neolithic causewayed enclosure whose northeast rim was uncovered in 2016 on the slopes of Lark Hill, just to the north of the World Heritage Site boundary, represented a major new d…
Eclipse in the dark years
This article charts the importance of clandestine flights from Britain into Occupied France during the Second World War as a route of resistance. These pick-up flights were coordinated from London and were an example of the inter-Allied cooperation and Franco-British negotiation that took place between the Bureau central de renseignement et d’action (BCRA), the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, or MI6) and Special Operations Executive (SOE). The …
From the soil we have come, to the soil we shall go and from the soil we want to live’
During the summer of 1907, France experienced one of its largest social disturbances since the Revolution, as the winegrowers of the Languedoc-Roussillon led a mass protest movement that paralysed the region and challenged the state. Although the Grande Révolte evoked references to the Albigensian Crusade, and juxtaposed North and South, it never fully represented a moment of Occitan regionalist rising. The failure of the cultural organisation th…
I Was a Soviet Worker
Porphyry’s Place in the Neoplatonic Tradition
Common Land, Wine and the French Revolution
In attempting to combat a creeping dismissal of the French Revolution's impact on social and economic change, Noelle Plack chooses to focus on the Department of the Gard as an area which defies such an interpretation. She highlights the extent to which the Revolution definitively broke beyond the boundaries of urban experience and impressed itself on the garrigue countryside of the lower Languedoc. Her near exhaustive consultation of the Departme…
Je suis socialiste et quinziste ’
In the Languedoc, the intersections between rugby, wine and socialism give telling insights into the value and significance of regional identity. At the end of the 1970s, the Languedoc's wine industry and rugby were facing up to the challenges of modernisation; the responses which emerged drew upon the principles of regional identity drawn from the ‘banal nationalism’ of wine-drinking, left-voting rugby players in local administrations and at the…
Of colonial futures and an administrative Alamo
The loi cadre (1956) was not a final submission to the political realities of a moribund empire. Rather, it was an attempt to redefine the way France interacted with her colonies. This was perhaps most telling in French West Africa, where the co-option of political elites was the spearhead of a greater swathe of subtle reforms. Administrators effectively separated the economic governance of French West Africa from political reality. This allowed …
From the soil we have come, to the soil we shall go and from the soil we want to live’
During the summer of 1907, France experienced one of its largest social disturbances since the Revolution, as the winegrowers of the Languedoc-Roussillon led a mass protest movement that paralysed the region and challenged the state. Although the Grande Révolte evoked references to the Albigensian Crusade, and juxtaposed North and South, it never fully represented a moment of Occitan regionalist rising. The failure of the cultural organisation th…
At Home in postwar France
African Dawn
This article addresses the cultural activity of Keïta Fodéba, a popular musician, poet, dramatist, and ultimately prominent member of the independent Guinean government. His experiences during the 1950s reflect emergent trends during this period of profound negotiation, in which the terms of the “postcolonial” world were established. Fodéba was a formative figure in the emergence of Guinean national culture but also played an important role in pr…
Charles Rist, Season of Infamy
Algeria Revisited
Algeria Revisited frames a story of self-determination not purely in political terms, but as an exercise in shaping narratives about self and nationhood. Aissaoui and Eldridge have skilfully compiled a diverse and cogent volume that offers an interdisciplinary engagement with Algerian national identity in its multiple strands. Challenging perspectives move beyond the binaries of empire, and the focus moves beyond the most prominent moments of vio…
Organic Resistance
Somewhere between Eugen Weber and Henri Mendras, France’s peasants were supposed to have disappeared. The truism holds that modern France, whether defined by Republican centralization or technocratic rationality, would have no need for those that muddied their hands in the soil. Yet, it was never such a binary shift. Eccentric visionaries, crackpot mystics and canny rural entrepreneurs all tilled the soil in the hope of nurturing divergent vision…
Eclipse in the dark years
This article charts the importance of clandestine flights from Britain into Occupied France during the Second World War as a route of resistance. These pick-up flights were coordinated from London and were an example of the inter-Allied cooperation and Franco-British negotiation that took place between the Bureau central de renseignement et d’action (BCRA), the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, or MI6) and Special Operations Executive (SOE). The …
Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust
The mythic representation of France’s Occupation depicted large groups of resisters united behind General De Gaulle, frustrated by small bands of traitors. Following the ‘breaking of the mirror’ that took place in the 1970s, and after nearly fifty years of scholarship in this vein, however, the historian’s gaze seems ever more likely to fall on smaller acts of resistance, and much larger areas of ambiguity across French society. France’s rail wor…
The Sober Revolution
In 1970, the social reformer Eugène Claudius-Petit complained to his fellow parliamentarians that French airlines ‘allow the crew to drink champagne and whisky when they’re flying’, despite the practice being understandably banned by most other national airlines. The ways in which this exceptional daily drinking culture permeated social spaces, the workplace and the home were all anathema to a group of public health proponents that Bohling dubs t…
Ruth Ginio, The French Army and its African Soldiers
Arguing About Empire
Towards the end of May 1898, we are told, readers of The Times were tempted with the offer of a ‘very handsome’ atlas. Its compilers recounted that ‘constant advances in exploration and the frequent changes resulting from political developments have made this task an exceedingly heavy one’ and declared it an essential purchase for anyone concerned with current affairs. Only a few months later, the savvy Times reader might have turned from his new…
The Return of Alsace to France, 1918–1939, by Alison Carrol
The Return of Alsace to France, 1918–1939, by Alison Carrol The Return of Alsace to France, 1918–1939, by Alison Carrol (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2018; pp. 230. £60) Andrew W M Smith Andrew W M Smith University of Chichester [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4876-5403 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 135, Issue 576, October 2020, Pages 1366–1367, https://doi.org…
Le Négoce des vins en Languedoc
Le Négoce des vins en Languedoc: L’emprise du marché, 1900–1970 Le Négoce des vins en Languedoc: L’emprise du marché, 1900–1970. By Stéphane Le Bras. Tours: Presses universitaires François-Rabelais. 2019. 495 pp. €24. ISBN: 978 2 86906 692 2. Andrew W M Smith Andrew W M Smith University of Chichester https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4876-5403 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 34, Issue 3, S…
Uprooting Identity
Uprooting productive vines transformed the landscape of the wine growing Languedoc as part of a coordinated European effort to reduce agricultural overproduction, most notably after 1984. The demographic shifts caused by this transformation upset regional political alliances, coinciding with a socialist presidency and electoral gains for the far-right Front National (FN). More traditional syndical bodies lost their ability to accent national chan…
Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: developme…
Crises of commemoration
In 1954, international dignitaries and veterans joined the commemoration of the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy, though not everything went according to plan. For the French organizers, chief among them Gaullist deputy Raymond Triboulet, the event was intended to communicate a unifying, pro-Allied message amid a turbulent political climate. By June 1954, France had recently suffered a decisive defeat at Dien Bien Phu and was politicall…
Possible New Solstitial Sightline in the Stonehenge Landscape
The landscape around Stonehenge contains a number of major Early Neolithic monuments dating to the fourth millennium BC, including the Stonehenge Cursus, the Lesser Cursus, Robin Hood’s Ball causewayed enclosure and several long barrows. A previously unsuspected Early Neolithic causewayed enclosure whose northeast rim was uncovered in 2016 on the slopes of Lark Hill, just to the north of the World Heritage Site boundary, represented a major new d…
The Blood of the Colony
Rural Inventions
As news of an impending COVID-19 lockdown emerged in March 2020, rumours abounded on social media that the A6 autoroute du soleil out of Paris would be gridlocked. Again, in October, as a second lockdown loomed, the southern newspaper La Dépêche fearfully anticipated an epidemic influx of Parisians, noting almost 400km of traffic jams around the capital. This pandemic urban escape story was a lingering symptom of ‘the farmhouse bug’ afflicting ci…
Moving objects
What does it mean to see the history of France through objects? In 1837, Thomas Carlyle chose three things to structure his analysis of the French Revolution: the Bastille, the Constitution and the Guillotine.1 Yet Carlyle used these objects as a kind of shorthand, as symbols for the greater whole, rather than subjects of sustained analysis and reflection. This special issue puts the analysis of objects at the heart of French history, to ask what…
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