American forces in France
Communist representations of US deployment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12695756 |
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| Authors | Hilary Footitt (0000-0002-6297-1764, University of Reading, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-98 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cold War History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2745 • E-ISSN: 1743-7962 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14682745.2011.545601 |
| OpenAlex | W1987236735 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Over 98,000 American military personnel were stationed in France by the mid-1950s. Most studies of these US forces in France have taken an intercultural perspective, assessing how the two communities related to each other ‘on the ground’. This article seeks to explore how American deployment was received and represented within the increasingly polarised context of French national politics. It examines the role played by the American military presence in the creation of Cold War narratives in France, in the very initial phases of US deployment (1950–52), with particular reference to cultural representations developed in these two years by the French Communist Party
Archaeology · Cold war · Communism · Context (archaeology · Narrative · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Software deployment · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Engineering · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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