![]() ![]() The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century Late Lessons from Early WarningsĮdited by Poul Harremoës David Gee Malcolm MacGarvin Andy Stirling Jane Keys Brian Wynne Sofia Guedes Vazįirst published in the UK and USA in 2002 by Earthscan Publications Ltd Copyright © European Environment Agency, 2002 All rights reserved ISBN: 1 85383 893 4 paperback 1 85383 892 6 hardback DISCLAIMER ‘By opening our eyes to these diverse sources, and especially by offering a perceptive analysis of the pertinent monuments and commemorative ceremonies, Nord succeeds admirably in recasting the memory of the deportation and the Holocaust.The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century ‘Exhaustively researched and admirably synthesizing a vast scholarly literature, After the Deportation marks a culminating, late-if-not-last word on the scholarly debates on French memory that have been underway since the 1980s.’ For the first time, memoirs by Jews, Communists, Resistance figures and Holocaust survivors are considered together in an analysis that sheds new light on the polyphonic voices battling to recover history.'Ĭlaire Zalc - author of Denaturalized: How Thousands Lost Their Citizenship and Lives in Vichy France ‘Philip Nord offers a fascinating account of the diverse ways France's wartime deportations have been remembered. Paxton - author of Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 Philip Nord takes a fresh and probing look at how the French later reckoned with this searing experience.' While nearly all the 76,000 Jews among them perished, about half the others survived the camps. ‘The Germans forcibly deported about 160,000 people from occupied France during 1940-1944. Robert Gildea - author of Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance A masterly work by a historian at the top of his game.' ![]() New angles and new voices are constantly thrown up. ‘A fascinating and sensitive exploration of France's memory wars over the wartime deportation of resisters and Jews, in which the resistance legend ultimately lost out to the Holocaust. John Connelly - author of From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933–1965 In this riveting work, Nord brings their desperate efforts to life, and he does so with a moral urgency that is rare in any writing, prose or poetry.' ‘After Auschwitz, French survivors wrote poetry – and they staged plays, published memoirs, and built monuments – hoping to awaken minds and consign fascist barbarism to the past. ![]() His book explains the evolving memories of resistance heroes and martyrs and victims of the Holocaust with unmatched political, intellectual, cultural and artistic subtlety.'Īnnette Becker - author of Messengers of Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski and Genocides ‘American historians of France strike again, as Philip Nord has powerfully unsettled our history. ![]()
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