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After The Ruins: Restoring the Countryside of Northern France after the Great War
Contributor(s): Clout, Hugh Prof (Author)

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 ISBN: 0859894916     ISBN-13: 9780859894913
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
OUR PRICE: $117.60  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: September 1996
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Annotation: This is not another book about World War I. Instead, it explores a relatively ignored aspect of recent rural history: how the ordinary environments of fields, farms, villages and market towns of northern France were reconstituted once peace was restored. Using both official reports compiled by prefets and much more critical commentaries by those whose homes and land had been devastated, Hugh Clout charts the geography of destruction and then analyses the work of the state-directed services, the creation of reconstruction cooperatives, the controversial reclamation of the profoundly devastated 'red zone', and ultimately the reconstruction of the countryside across the ten northernmost departements of northern France.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Western Europe - General
- History | Europe - France
- History | Military - World War Ii
Dewey: 944.208
Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6.45" W x 9.52" L (1.54 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Western Europe
- Cultural Region - French
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Chronological Period - 1900-1919
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
 
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After the Ruins uses both official and unofficial records to explore a relatively ignored aspect of recent rural history: how the fields, farms, villages and market towns of Northern France were restored during the 1920s in the aftermath of the Great War. The book contains illustrations and many detailed maps and makes use of both official reports and unofficial critical commentaries.
 
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