Marché Noir

The Economy of Survival in Second World War France

Kenneth Mouré (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

325 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-20769-0 (ISBN)

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Marché Noir explains how and why black markets in France became essential to ordinary consumers and to businesses to survive scarcity and German exploitation. Drawing on archival evidence and diverse records of personal experience, Kenneth Mouré explains the black market's critical role in everyday life in Vichy France.

Kenneth Mouré shows how the black market in Vichy France developed not only to serve German exploitation, but also as an essential strategy for survival for commerce and consumers. His analysis explains how and why the black market became so prevalent and powerful in France and remained necessary after Liberation. Marché Noir draws on diverse French archives as well as diaries, memoirs and contemporary fiction, to highlight the importance of the black market in everyday life. Vichy's economic controls set the context for adaptations – by commerce facing economic and political constraints, and by consumers needing essential goods. Vichy collaboration in this realm seriously damaged the regime's legitimacy. Marché Noir offers new insights into the dynamics of black markets in wartime, and how illicit trade in France served not only to exploit consumer needs and increase German power, but also to aid communities in their strategies for survival.

Kenneth Mouré is Professor of History at the University of Alberta, and has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in twentieth century French history, with particular interest in the policy responses to economic crises. His published works include Managing the Franc Poincaré (1991) and The Gold Standard Illusion (2002).

1. The black market in wartime France; 2. L'économie de misère; 3. Curing the thermometer: price controls and the black market; 4. La terre, elle, ne ment pas: agriculture and the black market; 5. Market forces: industry and commerce; 6. Consumers in a world of scarce goods; 7. Illegality normalized; 8. Liberating markets and consumers; 9. Justice for les profiteurs de la misère publique; 10. Black markets in wartime.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.1.2025
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-009-20769-5 / 1009207695
ISBN-13	978-1-009-20769-0 / 9781009207690
Zustand	Neuware