Frédéric Rousseau

Frédéric Rousseau is a French historian, specializing in the social history of soldiers in World War I.^[1][2] He is notable as one of the first historians to discuss the suppression of sexuality in combatants,^[3] and early use of the term and view "demodernization" (2000).^[4] He teaches at the University of Montpellier, and is a director of Laboratoire CRISES (or Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en sciences humaines et sociales).

see Frederick Rousseau, for the French new age musician, Frederic Rousseau for the Flemish biologist

Publications

• La Guerre censurée. Une histoire de combattants européens, le Seuil, 1999, rééd. Points Seuils 2003 ;
• Le Cri d'une génération, Privat, 2001 ;
• Le Procès des témoins de la Grande Guerre : L'Affaire Norton Cru, Le Seuil, 2003 ;
• La Grande Guerre : En tant qu'expériences sociales, Ellipses, 2006;
• L'Enfant juif de Varsovie : Histoire d'une photographie, Seuil, 2009.

References

1. Military service, combat, and American identity in the Progressive Era - Page 15 Sebastian Hubert Lukasik, Duke University. History - 2008 "The epitaph French historian Frédéric Rousseau wrote for the millions of European soldiers of the Great War is an outstanding example of this historiographical trend: “What [was] a soldier, if not a man oppressed, bullied, dehumanized, ..."
2. Michael Dorland -Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust 2009 Page 197 "23 In the same collection, historian Frédéric Rousseau returns to Jean Norton Cru's 1929 book, Witnesses: An Essay of Analysis and Critique of the Memoirs of Combatants Published in French, 1915-1928. 24 The book caused a scandal at the ..."
3. The Great War in history: debates and controversies Page 103 J. M. Winter, Antoine Prost - 2005 "Frederic Rousseau (1999) included in his study of European combatants a treatment of their suppressed sexuality."
4. Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema - Page 251 Antoine De Baecque - 2011 "It is in this sense that some historians of the Great War use the term demodernization, notably Frédéric Rousseau in an article published in 2000, in which he explains that between 1914 and 1918 men had to renounce most of the "