The One and Indivisible French Republic - Jack Hayward - Bog

This original and absorbing book uses geography (in the classic terminology of Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre' to make room for sociology') to explain the widely recognized but never systematized duality of French politics. In the process it develops models that are valid in other times and places as well as in France, and that challenge many prevailing interpretations of the political and economic development of Europe.