TY - JOUR
AU - Webster, Andrew
AB - French History, Vol. 24, No. 2 doi:10.1093/fh/crq032, available online at www.fh.oxfordjournals.org I NT r O d UCTION ‘ F r A N C E A M I d S T T H E W O r L d W A r S : A C ANA d IAN S CHOOL ?’ A N dr EW W EBSTE r * ‘Would you like to change neighbours? Take ours and give us your Canadians.’ (Jules Jusserand, French ambassador to the United States, in New York, 1921) This special issue of French History arose out a rather whimsical observation by Julian Wright at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of French History in July 2008, held at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. Looking at the programme of papers, he noted the surprisingly large proportion of contributions on France in the era of the two world wars that came from Canadian scholars. ‘Is there a “Canadian school” in the study of interwar France?’, became the (no doubt deliberately) provocative question. Yet it was not an entirely fanciful one, for such observations have been made before in a related context. The publication in 1991 of a special issue of the 
TI - France Amidst the World Wars: A Canadian School?
JF - French History
DO - 10.1093/fh/crq032
DA - 2010-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/france-amidst-the-world-wars-a-canadian-school-Z2p0sflc5D
SP - 138
EP - 143
VL - 24
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -