French History Since Napoleon

This major new history of France covers the last two hundred years. Within a clear chronological framework, the contributors aim to present diversity while keeping the colors and textures of the time within a recognizable political context. Proper place is given to social and cultural historywith an emphasis on the national and international events which occurred during the period.

List of figures

v

List of maps

vi

List of illustrations

vii

List of tables

viii

Notes on contributors

ix

Acknowledgements

xii

Introduction: historians and the peculiarities of French history

1

(30)

Martin S. Alexander

Revolution, Restoration(s) and beyond: changes, continuities and the enduring legacies of 1789

31

(28)

Pamela Pilbeam

Inventing politics: from Bourbon Restoration to republican monarchy

59

(21)

Robert Tombs

Society and people in the nineteenth century

80

(26)

Colin Heywood

Paris versus the provinces: regionalism and decentralization since 1789

106

(21)

Alan Forrest

Outsiders by birth? Women, the Republic and political history

127

(20)

Sian Reynolds

The Catholic Church and politics in twentieth-century France

147

(25)

Maurice Larkin

The `Jewish question' from Dreyfus to Vichy

172

(31)

Vicki Caron

The clash of ideas: political thought, intellectuals and the meanings of `France', 1890-1945

203

(19)

Jeremy Jennings

1940 and the crisis of interwar democracy in France

222

(22)

Julian Jackson

Renewal, repression and Resistance: France under the Nazi occupation, 1940-1944

244

(22)

Nicholas Atkin

Defending France: foreign policy and the quest for security 1850s-1990s

266

(27)

Martin S. Alexander

J. F. V. Keiger

France's cultural clashes: arts and taste since the impressionists

293

(21)

Charles Rearick

What about the workers? The trade unions' `short century'

314

(22)

Susan Milner

`Not backward but different'? The debate on French `economic retardation'

336

(28)

Roger Magraw

The French economy since 1930

364

(27)

Kenneth Moure

From colonialism to post-colonialism: the French empire since Napoleon

391

(25)

Martin Evans

Index

416

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French History Since Napoleon

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