Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1 1. The Vichy Regime: A Laboratory for the Extreme Right 2. The Vichy Legacy: The Extreme Right in Post-War France 3. The Poujadist Movement: A False Dawn for the Extreme Right 4. Algeria: Another War, Another ‘Fascism’ 5. The Extreme Right in the 1960s: Ideology and Politics 6. Divergent Paths Towards the New: The Nouvelle Droite and Ordre Nouveau Part 2 7. Embracing Democracy: The Front National 1972-81 8. Electoral Breakthrough and Consolidation: The Front National 1981-88 9. From Strength to Strength: The Front National 1988-95 10. Pushing the Bounds: The Front National 1995-2002 11. Looking Back and Forward: The Front National Since 2002

About the Author

J.G. Shields is Reader in French Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the first holder of the American Political Science Association's Stanley Hoffmann Award (2007) for his writing on French politics.

Reviews

'...Shields has without doubt produced an excellent all round reference text, which is extremely well researched. In terms of a history of the FN in English, it may now certainly lay claim to being one of the best if not the reference text on the subject.'Tim Peace, European University Institute

'...a truly original, scholarly and valuable book on the subject which significantly enriches French Studies.'Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University, UK