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Nicholas James Atkin was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, on 18 September 1960.
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It is widely assumed that the French in the British Isles during the Second World War were fully-fledged supporters of General de Gaulle, and that across the channel at least, the French were a "nation of resisters." This highly provocative study reveals that most exiles were on British soil by chance rather than by design, and many were not sure whether to stay. Drawing on little-known archival sources, this study examines the hopes and fears of these communities who were bitterly divided among themselves, some being attracted to Pétain as much as to de Gaulle. It also looks at how they fitted into British life and how the British in turn responded. Illustrated throughout, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the British and French experiences of the Second World War.
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Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett offer the first one-volume historical overview of European Catholicism from the 18th century to 2002. The authors record the Church struggling to adapt to the new political landscape ushered in by the French Revolution and show how the formation of nation states and identities was both helped and hindered by the Catholic establishment. They portray the Vatican increasingly out of step in the wake of world war, Cold War, and the massive expansion of the developing world, with its problems of population growth and under-development. This is not the story of the Church in all its glory, but one of adaptation and change, of decline and resilience as the Church has responded to social, political, and cultural changes over the last 250 years.
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The Catholic Church has always been a major player in European and world history. Whether it has enjoyed a religious dominance or existed as a minority religion, Catholicism has never been diverted from political life. "Priests, Prelates and People" records the Church struggling to adapt to the new political landscape ushered in by the French Revolution, and shows how the formation of nation states and identities was both helped and hindered by the Catholic establishment. It portrays the Vatican increasingly out of step in the wake of world war, Cold War and the massive expansion of the developing world, with its problems of population growth and under-development.
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Nicholas James Atkin was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, on 18 September 1960.
Atkin was appointed lecturer in history at the University of Reading in 1986, having previously taught at the University of London. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 2000 and the personal title of professor of modern European history was conferred on him in 2004. He first made his mark with a monograph on Church and Schools in Vichy France, published in 1991, and followed this up with a biography of Marshal Philippe Pétain in 1997, a popular textbook on The French at War, 1933-1944 in 2001, The Forgotten French, a study of French exiles, in 2003, and a book on the French Fifth Republic in 2004.
He later edited a book on Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth Century Europe.
At the time of his death, he was working on a major study of Franco-British tourism in the nineteenth and twentieth century, and on a Dictionary of Modern European History. Atkin died on 22 October 2009 at the age of 49.
( It is widely assumed that the French in the British Isl...)
(Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett offer the first one-volu...)
(The Catholic Church has always been a major player in Eur...)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)