| Description |
xv, 362 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
"The oldest nation of Europe" -- The structure of eighteenth-century French society -- The preindustrial economy -- Culture and thought in eighteenth-century France -- A government under challenge -- Collapse of the old monarchy -- Successes and failures of the liberal revolution -- The radical revolution -- The return to order -- The Napoleonic years -- The restoration -- The July monarchy and its critics -- A new social world -- The revolution of 1848 : the crisis of Bourgeois society -- The second empire's decade of prosperity -- The second empire in difficulties -- The Paris commune and the origins of the third republic -- The Republicans in power -- Economic depression and political crises -- The troubled years of the fin-de-siècle -- The belle époque -- The coming of the war -- Crisis, victory, disillusionment -- France between the wars -- The illusion of normality -- From the popular front to the war -- France in the Second World War -- The road to liberation -- The revival of the parliamentary republic -- From the fourth to the fifth republic -- A France "married to its century" -- May 1968 and France after De Gaulle -- The Mitterrand years -- An uncertain start to the new millennium |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-344) and index |
| SUBJECT |
France -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051305
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France -- History -- 1789- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051348
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| LC no. |
2004029594 |
| ISBN |
0131932934 |
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