France since 1870 Culture, Society and the Making of the Republic

by Sowerwine, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780230573390
• ISBN10: 0230573398
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Widely praised when it was first published, this new edition has been brought up to the present and thoroughly revised to take into account the latest research. It now includes maps and more coverage of topics such as: racial strife, colonial difficulties, France's role in post-war European integration (including the EU), and women and gender.

Author Biography

CHARLES SOWERWINE is Professor of History at University of Melbourne, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Maps Preface Preface to Second Edition Abbreviations French Regimes since 1789 PART ONE: THE BIRTH OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC, 1870-1885 France in 1870 The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune (1870-71) The Triumph of Republicanism, 1871-1885 The Social and Cultural Bases of Republicanism PART TWO: TESTING TIME FOR THE REPUBLIC, 1885-1918 Challenges to the Republic (1): Constructing the Modern Right Challenges to the Republic (2): Constructing the Modern Left The Cultural Revolution of the Belle Epoque The Great War 1914-1918 PART THREE: THE DECLINE OF THE REPUBLIC, 1919-1940 France after the War 1919-28 France in the Depression 1929-35 The Popular Front 1936-37 Culture Between the Wars The Fall of France 1938-1940 PART FOUR: THE VICHY INTERLUDE AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1940-46 Vichy in Power, 1940-4 Resistance and Liberation, 1942-4 Liberated France 1944-46 Existentialism: Culture of the Resistance? PART FIVE: THE FOURTH REPUBLIC, 1946-58 Cold War, Vietnam War, 1946-58 The 1950s - Of Coke and Culture The Algerian War Erupts, 1954-57 The Fall of the Fourth Republic,1958 PART SIX: THE FIFTH REPUBLIC UNDER DE GAULLE, 1958-69 De Gaulle's Republic 1958-68 Cultural Explosion: New Theory, New Cinema, New Novel Social Explosion: May '68 PART SEVEN: THE FIFTH REPUBLIC AFTER DE GAULLE, 1969- Pompidou and Giscard's Republic 1969-81 Mitterrand's Republic I: 'Socialist France'? 1981-8 Mitterrand's Republic II: Decline and Fall, 1988-95 France Since 1995 Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Index