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Smith shows that France's most important social legislation to date - providing medical insurance, maternity benefits, modest pensions, and disability benefits to millions of people - was passed in 1928 (and amended and put into practice in 1930). This law, misrepresented in textbooks as being an utter failure, covered over 50 percent of the population by 1940. Few other nations could have claimed this sort of social insurance success. As well, by 1937 the centuries-old public assistance residency requirements had been transferred from the local to the departmental (regional) level. France's success in introducing important social reforms may require us to rethink - or at least modify - the common view of interwar France as a time of utter political, economic, and social failure.

PAPER ARGUES THAT, EVEN IN SETTLERLESS, FINANCIALLY SELF-RELIANT (SINCE 1915) UGANDA, AFRICAN POTENTIAL WAS SEVERELY STIFLED THROUGH THE EDUCATIONAL POLICY OF THE COLONIAN GOVERNMENT. THE AUTHOR PROVIDES A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF MAKERERE COLLEGE, AND THE SUBORDINATE UGANDA CIVIL SERVICE DESIGNED TO STAFF IT, IN SUPPORT OF HIS THESIS.

The beginning of the fascist era, 1922-1925 -- Domestic checks and international balances, 1925-1929 -- Military constraints and diplomatic restraint, 1929-1932 -- Moving towards aggression, 1932-1934 -- The trial of force: Abyssinia, 1935 -- Wars, arms and the Axis, 1936-1937 -- The year of true 'realism', 1938 -- 'Speak of peace and prepare for war', 1939-1940

L'administration du contrôle économique, pierre angulaire de la répression des infractions économiques en France tout au long des années 1940, illustre parfaitement les continuités qui ont pu exister entre la fin de la III e République, l'Occupation, la Libération et la période de reconstruction. Instaurée au départ dans un but de régulation économique et de justice sociale (favoriser la meilleure répartition possible des produits disponibles dans un contexte de pénurie exacerbée et lutter contre l'inflation), elle se trouva rapidement prise dans le piège de la collaboration décidée par le régime de Vichy, ce qui la fit apparaître comme un instrument au service de l'occupant allemand, permettant notamment de lutter contre les fuites et dissimulations qui auraient pu saboter sa politique de prélèvements. Le fait que cette administration ait été considérée comme antipatriotique explique en grande partie sa très forte impopularité tout au long de la période, y compris après la Libération, alors qu'elle devait pourtant renouer avec sa mission originale et ne servir que les intérêts de la France.

This book is a detailed and original look at the radical reorganisation of French heavy industry in the turbulent period between the establishment of the Vichy regime in 1940 and the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the forerunner to the European Union, in 1952. By studying institutions ranging from Vichy's Organisation Committees to Jean Monnet's Commissariat Général du Plan (CGP), Luc-André Brunet challenges existing narratives and reveals significant continuities from Vichy to post-war initiatives such as the Monnet Plan and the ECSC. Based on extensive multi-archival research, this book sheds important new light on economic collaboration and resistance in Vichy, the post-war revival of the French economy, and the origins of European integration.