France since 1870

Culture, Society and the Making of the Republic

Charles Sowerwine (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

576 Seiten

2009 | 2nd ed. 2009
Palgrave (Verlag)
978-0-230-57338-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Widely praised when it was first published, this new edition has been brought up to the present with new final chapters, and thoroughly revised to take into account the latest research. It now includes maps and more coverage of key topics such as: racial strife, colonial difficulties, the Vichy regime, and the nature of the French extreme right.

Autor

Charles Sowerwine, Professor of History, University of Melbourne, Australia

Inhalt

List of Maps .- Preface .- Acknoweldgements .- Abbreviations .- French Regimes since 1789 .- Maps .- PART I: THE BIRTH OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC, 1870-1885 .- France in 1870 .- The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, 1870-71 .- The Triumph of the Republicans, 1871-85 .- The Cultural Bases of Republicanism .- PART II: 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 1914-18 .- PART III: THE DECLINE OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC, 1919-40 .- France after the War 1919-28 .- France in the Depression 1929-35 .- The Popular Front 1936-7 .- Culture Between the Wars .- The Fall of France 1938-1940 .- PART IV: THE VICHY INTERLUDE AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1940-6 .- Vichy in Power, 1940-2 .- Resistance and Liberation, 1942-4 .- Liberated France 1944-6 .- Existentialism: Culture of the Resistance? .- PART V: THE FOURTH REPUBLIC, 1946-58 .- Vietnam War, Cold War, 1946-54 .- The 1950s Of Coke and Culture .- The Algerian War Erupts, 1954-7 .- The Fall of the Fourth Republic,1958 .- PART VI: THE GAULLIST REPUBLIC, 1958-81 .- De Gaulle in Power, 1958-68 .- Cultural Explosion: New Theory, New Cinema, New Novel .- Social Explosion: May '68 .- The Gaullist Republic Under Pompidou and Giscard, 1969-81 .- PART VII: THE GAULLIST REPUBLIC AFTER DE GAULLE, 1981-95 .- 'Socialist France'? 1981-8 .- Mitterrand in Decline, 1988-95 .- From Juppe to Jospin, 1995-2002 .- Toward Sarkozy's Republic, 2002-7 .- Conclusion: The End of 'the French Exception'? .- Notes .- Suggestions for Further Reading .- Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.1.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 576 p.
• Verlagsort: Basingstoke
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 234 mm
• Gewicht: 979 g
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-230-57338-X / 023057338X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-230-57338-3 / 9780230573383
• Zustand: Neuware