Home
The Basque Series
history
social science
War, Judgment, and Memory in the Basque Borderlands, 1914-1945

War, Judgment, and Memory in the Basque Borderlands, 1914-1945

by Sandra Ott

Series: The Basque Series

280 Pages, 6 x 9.25 in, 9 b-w photos, 3 maps

Paperback
9780874170085
Published: September 1, 2016

$29.95

BUY

Hardcover
9780874177381
Published: March 28, 2008

$39.95

BUY

eBook (Epublication 'content package')
9780874177428
Published: March 28, 2008

$29.95

BUY Rent

Other Retailers:

Amazon

Description
Authors
Praise

During the first half of the twentieth century, the French Basque province of Xiberoa was a place of refuge, conflict, and foreign occupation. With the liberation of France in 1944, many Xiberoans faced new conflicts arising from legal and civic judgments made during Vichy and German occupation. War, Judgment, and Memory in the Basque Borderlands traces the roots of their divided memories of the era to local and official interpretations of judgment, behavior, and justice during those troubled times.

In order to understand how the Great War affected the Xiberoan Basques’ perceptions of themselves, Ott contrasts the experiences of people in four different communities located within a fifteen-mile radius. The author also examines how the disruption during the interwar years affected intracommunity relations during the Occupation, the Liberation, and its aftermath. This narrative reveals the diverse ways in which Basques responded to civil war, world war, and displacement, and to one another.

Sandra Ott is an associate professor in the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has an MLitt and a DPhil in social anthropology from Oxford University and lived in Europe for thirty years before returning to the United States in 2002. She is the author of a widely acclaimed monograph, The Circle of Mountains: A Basque Shepherding Community; and numerous articles about Basque culture and, most recently, Franco-Basque-German relations during the Occupation. In 2007, she received a national award in French history, the Millstone Prize.

"An outstanding, deeply humane work of local history. Highly recommended." —Choice

"Ott has produced a carefully written, thought-provoking book which approaches its subject with enormous respect." —European History Quarterly

"This is an interesting book that offers a fascinating complement to the existing literature on the experience of occupation during the Second World War, adding nuance and character to the more general histories of the occupation." —French History

"Ott has worked hard in a variety of archives. The long list of interviewees, most of them repeatedly visited, is exemplary. Her tale is a well-told, at times moving story, written in an unpretentious prose. For Basque and modern French studies, it is a valuable addition to an understandably, but undeservedly neglected topic." —Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“A fascinating complement to the existing literature on the experience of occupation during the Second World War, adding nuance and local character to the more general histories of occupation.”
—French History

Books

Authors

On The Site

War, Judgment, and Memory in the Basque Borderlands, 1914-1945

War, Judgment, and Memory in the Basque Borderlands, 1914-1945

Related Books