Background
Wall, Irwin M. was born on April 21, 1940 in New York City. Son of Jacob B. and Eva Wall.
(French Communism in the Era of Stalin: The Quest for Unit...)
French Communism in the Era of Stalin: The Quest for Unity and Integration, 1945-1962 (Contributions in Afro-American & African Studies #97) French Communism in the Era of Stalin: The Quest for Unity and Integration, 1945-1962 (Contributions in Afro-American & African Studies #97) by Wall, Irwin M ( Author ) Hardcover Apr- 1983 Hardcover Apr- 29- 1983
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( In this pioneering book, Irwin M. Wall unravels the int...)
In this pioneering book, Irwin M. Wall unravels the intertwining threads of the protracted agony of France's war with Algeria, the American role in the fall of the Fourth Republic, the long shadow of Charles de Gaulle, and the decisive postwar power of the United States. At the heart of this study is an incisive analysis of how Washington helped bring de Gaulle to power and a penetrating revisionist account of his Algerian policy. Departing from widely held interpretations of the Algerian War, Wall approaches the conflict as an international diplomatic crisis whose outcome was primarily dependent on French relations with Washington, the NATO alliance, and the United Nations, rather than on military engagement. Wall makes extensive use of previously unexamined documents from the Department of State, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and heretofore secret files of the Archives of the French Army at Vincennes and the Colonial Ministry at Aix-en-Provence. He argues convincingly that de Gaulle always intended to keep Algeria French, in line with his goal to make France the center of a reorganized French union of autonomous but depen- dent African states and the heart of a Europe of cooperating states. Such a union, which the French called Eurafrica, would further France's chance to be an equal partner with Britain and the United States in a reordered "Free World." In recent years the Algerian War has reclaimed its place in popular memory in France. Its interpreters have continued to view the conflict as a national, internal drama and de Gaulle as the second-time savior who ended French participation in a ruinous colonial war. But by analyzing the conflict in terms of French foreign policy, Wall shows the pivotal role of the United States and counters certain political myths that portray de Gaulle as an emancipator of colonial peoples. Wall's interpretation of the Algerian conflict may well spark controversy and will open important new avenues of debate concerning postwar international affairs.
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(This is the first study of French-American relations in t...)
This is the first study of French-American relations in the critical postwar period, 1945-1954, which makes use of recently opened diplomatic archives and personal papers in France and the United States. Wall examines the American role in French diplomacy, economic reconstruction, military policy, politics, and the reshaping of French society from labor unions to consumer tastes and films. Particular emphasis is placed on American attempts to combat the influence of French Communism and achieve a stable, centrist regime avoiding the extremes of right and left.
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Wall, Irwin M. was born on April 21, 1940 in New York City. Son of Jacob B. and Eva Wall.
Bachelor, Columbia College, 1961. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1968.
Instructor Illinois State University, Normal, 1963-1964, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 1964-1968. Assistant professor Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1968-1970. Professor University California, Riverside, since 1970.
Department chair history department University California, Riverside, 1990-1992.
(French Communism in the Era of Stalin: The Quest for Unit...)
(This is the first study of French-American relations in t...)
( In this pioneering book, Irwin M. Wall unravels the int...)
President Temple Beth El, Riverside, 1988-1990. Member American History Association, Society for French History Studies (Gilbert Chinard prize 1992), Western Society for French History (president 1992-1994).
Married Sarah Wall; 1 child, Alexandra.