The town of Vichy and the politics of identity : stigma, victimhood and decline / Kirrily Freeman.
Freeman, Kirrily, author.
2022
DC801.V63 F74 2022
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Title The town of Vichy and the politics of identity : stigma, victimhood and decline / Kirrily Freeman.
Author Freeman, Kirrily, author.
ISBN 9783030931971 (electronic bk.)
3030931978 (electronic bk.)
9783030931964
303093196X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93197-1
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-93197-1 doi
Call Number DC801.V63 F74 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 944.597
Summary This book explores the contours of civic identity in the town of Vichy, France. Over the course of its history, Vichy has been known for three things: its thermal spa resort; its products (especially Vichy water and Vichy cosmetics); and its role in hosting the Etat Francais, Frances collaborationist government in the Second World War. This last association has become an obsession for the residents of Vichy, who feel stigmatized and victimized by the widespread habit of referring to Frances wartime government as the 'Vichy regime'. This book argues that the stigma, victimhood, and decline suffered by Vichyssois are best understood by placing Vichys politics of identity in a broader historical context that considers corporate, as well as social and cultural, history. Kirrily Freeman is Professor of History at Saint Marys University in Halifax, Canada. Her publications include Bronzes to Bullets: Vichy and the Destruction of French Public Statuary (2009) and Reading the Postwar Future: Textual Turning Points from 1944 (2019), edited with John Munro.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 18, 2022).
Series Palgrave pivot.
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1. Introduction
2. Stigma
3. Victimhood
4. Decline
5. Renewal and Defiance
6. Conclusion.

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