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xxv, 505 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Part I: The Birth of the Third Republic, 1870-85 1 -- -- Chapter 1: France in 1870 3 -- Paris, 'capital of the nineteenth century' 3 -- An economy in transition 5 -- French society in 1870: nobles and bourgeois 6 -- French society in 1870: workers from farm to factory 8 -- -- Chapter 2: The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, -- 1870-1 12 -- The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1 12 -- The proclamation of the Third Republic, 4 September 1870 13 -- The siege of Paris, September 1870-February 1871 14 -- The struggle for Paris, 1-18 March 1871 16 -- Paris under the Central Committee of the National Guard, -- 18-28 March 1871 19 -- 'The days of the Commune': 28 March-21 May 1871 21 -- La Semaine sanglante (the Week of Blood): 21-28 May 1871 24 -- -- Chapter 3: The Triumph of the Republicans, 1871-85 27 -- Thiers in power, 1871-3 28 -- The monarchists in power, 1873-6 29 -- The republicans come to power, 1876-9 32 -- The Republic of Jules Ferry I: republican liberties 35 -- The Republic of Jules Ferry II: republican education 36 -- The Republic of Jules Ferry III: republican colonisation 38 -- -- -- -- Chapter 4: The Social and Cultural Bases of Republicanism 40 -- Reason and the republican project 40 -- Materialism and anticlericalism 41 -- Freemasonry and the Republic 44 -- Masculinity and the Republic 46 -- Realism in the visual arts 47 -- Time and narrative 50 -- History and the Republic 51 -- -- Part II: Testing Time for the Republic, 1885-1918 55 -- -- Chapter 5: Challenges to the Republic (1): Constructing the -- Modern Right 57 -- Origins of the new nationalism and antisemitism 57 -- The new nationalism and the Boulanger Affair, 1885-9 60 -- The apogee of 'peasant France'? 62 -- The Panama Affair, 1889-93 65 -- The Church, the Republic and the social question, 1889-96 66 -- The Dreyfus Case, 1894 67 -- The Dreyfus Affair, 1894-7 69 -- The Dreyfus Affair and mass politics, 1898-1902 69 -- -- Chapter 6: Challenges to the Republic (2): Constructing the -- Modern Left 74 -- The development of social movements 74 -- Feminism 78 -- Anarchism 80 -- From anarchism to syndicalism 81 -- Freemasonry faces challenges 82 -- The Dreyfus Revolution 83 -- Clemenceau and the Radical ministries, 1906-10 85 -- Towards war, 1898-1914 88 -- -- Chapter 7: The Cultural Revolution of the Belle Epoque 94 -- New cultural space: the Montmartre cafes 95 -- The erosion of realism 96 -- The erosion of objective time 99 -- Impressionism 101 -- The fragmentation of perception 102 -- -- Chapter 8: The Great War, 1914-18 106 -- From war of movement to stationary war, 1914 106 -- The war of the trenches 107 -- The home front 109 -- The evolution of the war 110 -- -- -- -- Pacifist movements during the war 112 -- Wild cards: Russia, America and Clemenceau 113 -- Victory 115 -- Counting the losses 117 -- -- Part III: The Decline of the Third Republic, 1919-40 119 -- -- Chapter 9: France after the War, 1919-28 121 -- Class struggle 121 -- The elections of 1919 123 -- Gender struggle: repression 124 -- Gender struggle: liberation? 126 -- Class struggle again 129 -- The left after Tours 131 -- National and international affairs: from peace to crises 133 -- From early fascism to the Poincare years 136 -- -- Chapter 10: France in the Depression, 1929-35 138 -- France and the Depression 138 -- Politics and polarisation 141 -- The Stavisky Affair and the riots of 6 February 1934 144 -- Republican response to 6 February 1934 145 -- -- Chapter 11: The Popular Front, 1936-7 148 -- Origins of the Popular Front 148 -- The Popular Front and the strikes of May-June 1936 150 -- The Popular Front and women 153 -- The Matignon Agreements and Popular Front reforms 154 -- The challenge of Spain 156 -- The 'wall of money'? 157 -- -- Chapter 12: Culture between the Wars 161 -- Dadaism and Surrealism 161 -- Early French cinema 163 -- The revolt in music 164 -- Surrealism, art, and art deco 166 -- The literature of war and despair 167 -- The literature of reform and revolt 170 -- Cinema and politics 172 -- -- Chapter 13: The Fall of France, 1938-40 174 -- Foreign policy, 1924-38 174 -- The Anschluss, 1938 176 -- Munich, 1938 177 -- The death of the Popular Front 181 -- -- -- -- The rise and fall of indigenous fascism 182 -- Gender struggle 183 -- The fall of France 184 -- The French army and the Blitzkrieg 185 -- The Armistice and the death of the Republic 189 -- -- Part IV: The Vichy Interlude and its Aftermath, 1940-6 193 -- -- Chapter 14: Vichy in Power, 1940-2 195 -- Was Vichy fascist? 196 -- The Vichy government 198 -- The cult of personality and the New Order 199 -- Vichy's New Order 202 -- Vichy's search for collaboration 204 -- The politics of exclusion 207 -- French cooperation in the Holocaust 209 -- Explaining French participation in the Holocaust 211 -- -- Chapter 15: Resistance and Liberation, 1942-4 213 -- Charles de Gaulle and the call 214 -- The beginnings of resistance in France 216 -- The stakes are raised, 1940-2 218 -- The stakes are raised again, 1942-3 219 -- The Liberation of France 222 -- -- Chapter 16: Liberated France, 1944-6 226 -- The struggle for authority 226 -- The purge 228 -- The price of war 232 -- Reform and reconstruction 233 -- Rebuilding the Republic 235 -- The parties write a Constitution 238 -- -- Chapter 17: Existentialism: Culture of the Resistance? 241 -- Beauvoir, Camus and Sartre before the war 241 -- The effect of the war 244 -- From the Liberation to the Second Sex 249 -- From hope to despair 250 -- -- Part V: The Fourth Republic, 1946-58 253 -- -- Chapter 18: Cold War, Vietnam War, 1946-54 255 -- The colonial heritage 255 -- An autonomous Vietnam in the French Union? 257 -- -- -- -- The eruption of the Cold War in French politics 260 -- Social explosion, 1947 264 -- The beginnings of European institutions 266 -- The 'Third Force' and the 1951 elections 267 -- On to Dien Bien Phu 269 -- Pierre Mendes France and the Geneva conference 271 -- -- Chapter 19: The 1950s - Of Coke and Culture 274 -- The basis of the French economic miracle 274 -- 'Fast Cars, Clean Bodies' 275 -- Modernisation or Americanisation? 279 -- France versus America: the culture wars 281 -- Culture in the 1950s: the theatre of the absurd 282 -- -- Chapter 20: The Algerian War Erupts, 1954-7 284 -- Algeria in historical perspective 284 -- The fall of Mendes France 287 -- Fallout in Paris: the 1956 elections 289 -- Guy Mollet escalates the war 291 -- The Suez invasion 292 -- The use of torture and the Battle of Algiers 293 -- -- Chapter 21: The Fall of the Fourth Republic, 1958 296 -- From international incident to national crisis 296 -- 'The thirteen plots of 13 May' 298 -- Rebuilding the state in Algeria 302 -- Rebuilding the state in France 304 -- -- Part VI: The Fifth Republic under de Gaulle, 1958-69 307 -- -- Chapter 22: De Gaulle's Republic, 1958-68 309 -- De Gaulle and the Algerian crisis 309 -- Politics under de Gaulle 316 -- The Fifth Republic and economic growth 319 -- The Fifth Republic and the politics of grandeur: industry -- and foreign policy 321 -- The politics of grandeur: urbanism and culture 325 -- -- Chapter 23: Cultural Explosion: New Theory, New Cinema, -- New Novel 328 -- New French theory and post-modernism 328 -- Three precursors: Saussure, Lacan, Levi-Strauss 330 -- Roland Barthes (1915-80) 333 -- Michel Foucault (1926-84) 333 -- -- -- -- Jacques Derrida (1930-) 335 -- The 'new novel' 336 -- 'New wave' cinema 339 -- -- Chapter 24: Social Explosion: May '68 343 -- A crisis in higher education 343 -- A critique of consumerism, inequality and Vietnam 345 -- Preparing the explosion 346 -- Detonating the explosion 348 -- The workers join 350 -- -- Part VII: The Fifth Republic after de Gaulle, 1969 359 -- -- Chapter 25: Pompidou and Giscard's Republic, 1969-81 361 -- Politics: the struggle for de Gaulle's mantle 361 -- Politics under Pompidou 362 -- Pompidou and Paris 365 -- Economic and technological success 366 -- The new industrial revolution and women 367 -- The politics of women's and gay rights 369 -- The new theory and feminism 371 -- Politics under Giscard d'Estaing: reform from the centre? 375 -- Oil crisis, political crises 377 -- -- Chapter 26: Mitterrand's Republic I: 'Socialist France'? 1981-8 381 -- Creating 'Socialist France', 1981-2 381 -- The lasting reforms 383 -- Technology 385 -- Mitterrand and women: almost all the way to the altar 386 -- The 'wall of money' again? The right regains the initiative, -- 1982-3 388 -- Treading water, 1984-6 389 -- The rise of the National Front 390 -- The elections of 1986 and the revenge of the right 392 -- Cohabitation, 1986-8 393 -- -- Chapter 27: Mitterrand's Republic II: Decline and Fall, 1988-95 398 -- Michel Rocard's government, 1988-91 398 -- Scarves and multiculturalism 400 -- From Berlin to Maastricht: foreign policy and Europe, 1989-92 401 -- The Socialists in decline 403 -- Cultural issues: celebrating revolution, exposing collaboration 405 -- Mitterrand, Chirac and Paris 408 -- Balladur Prime Minister 411 -- -- -- -- Toward the presidential election of 1995 414 -- Epilogue: the end of the Mitterrand era 415 -- -- Chapter 28: France since 1995 417 -- Chirac's presidency: beginning with a bang 417 -- The surprise elections of 1997 421 -- Lionel Jospin Prime Minister 422 -- Toward homosexual liberation: 'Gay Pride' and the PACS 424 -- Women and feminism in France 425 -- Remembering Vichy: toward resolution 426 -- The FN, racism, immigration and unemployment 428 -- The poor and social structure in France 430 -- Scandals, state and culture 431 -- Notes 435 -- Suggestions for Further Reading 461 -- Index 480 |
| Analysis |
France - History - Third Republic, 1870-1940 |
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France - History, Military - 20th century |
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France - Politics and government - 20th century |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| SUBJECT |
France -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051496
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France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051483
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France -- History -- Third Republic, 1870-1940.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051411
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France -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051484
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France -- History, Military -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051435
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Military history.
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| LC no. |
00034522 |
| ISBN |
0312237499 |
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0312237502 paper |
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0333658361 cloth |
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033365837X paperback |
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