A History of Modern France
Author | : Alfred Cobban |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alfred Cobban |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeremy D. Popkin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2020-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 135136667X |
A History of Modern France offers a framework to understand modern French history through a survey of the dramatic events that have punctuated its history from the eighteenth century to the present day. Covering events such as the French Revolution, the two World Wars and the more recent election of Emmanuel Macron and the "yellow vest" movement, the book takes a balanced approach to the competing interpretations of modern France inspired by its history. This edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the most recent scholarship on topics including French imperial history and the empire’s postcolonial legacy, the history of women and gender, and the French experience of World War I. A new section extends the narrative into mid-2019, and additional emphasis has been given to the role of historical memory in the making of French identity. Taking a chronological approach, the book is approachable for students and provides a clear and understandable picture of the history of modern France. Supported by further reading that has been updated to include the most recent publications, the book is the ideal introduction to the history of modern France for students of this fascinating country.
Author | : Alfred Cobban |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alfred Cobban |
Publisher | : Penguin (Non-Classics) |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeremy D. Popkin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 2016-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1315508192 |
Organized chronologically, A History of Modern France presents a survey of the dramatic events that have punctuated French history, including the French Revolution, the upheavals of the 19th century, the world wars of the 20th century, and France's current role in the European Union. Written for today's undergraduate students, the text presents scholarly controversies in an unbiased manner and reflects the best of contemporary scholarship in French history.
Author | : Jonathan Fenby |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 717 |
Release | : 2015-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1471129314 |
With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby provides an expert and riveting journey through this period as he recounts and analyses the extraordinary sequence of events of this period from the end of the First Revolution through two others, a return of Empire, three catastrophic wars with Germany, periods of stability and hope interspersed with years of uncertainty and high tensions. As her cross-Channel neighbour Great Britain would equally suffer, France was to undergo the wrenching loss of colonies in the post-Second World War as the new modern world we know today took shape. Her attempts to become the leader of the European union is a constant struggle, as was her lack of support for America in the two Gulf Wars of the past twenty years. Alongside this came huge social changes and cultural landmarks but also fundamental questioning of what this nation, which considers itself exceptional, really stood - and stands - for. That saga and those questions permeate the France of today, now with an implacable enemy to face in the form of Islamic extremism which so bloodily announced itself this year in Paris. Fenby will detail every event, every struggle and every outcome across this expanse of 200 years. It will prove to be the definitive guide to understanding France.
Author | : Paula E. Hyman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520919297 |
The Jews of Modern France explores the endlessly complex encounter of France and its Jews from just before the Revolution to the eve of the twenty-first century. In the late eighteenth century, some forty thousand Jews lived in scattered communities on the peripheries of the French state, not considered French by others or by themselves. Two hundred years later, in 1989, France celebrated the anniversary of the Revolution with the largest, most vital Jewish population in western and central Europe. Paula Hyman looks closely at the period that began when France's Jews were offered citizenship during the Revolution. She shows how they and succeeding generations embraced the opportunities of integration and acculturation, redefined their identities, adapted their Judaism to the pragmatic and ideological demands of the time, and participated fully in French culture and politics. Within this same period, Jews in France fell victim to a secular political antisemitism that mocked the gains of emancipation, culminating first in the Dreyfus Affair and later in the murder of one-fourth of them in the Holocaust. Yet up to the present day, through successive waves of immigration, Jews have asserted the compatibility of their French identity with various versions of Jewish particularity, including Zionism. This remarkable view in microcosm of the modern Jewish experience will interest general readers and scholars alike.
Author | : William Beik |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2009-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521883091 |
A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France. Using colorful examples and incorporating the latest scholarship, William Beik conveys the distinctiveness of early modern society and identifies the cultural practices that defined the lives of people at all levels of society. Painting a vivid picture of the realities of everyday life, he reveals how society functioned and how the different classes interacted. In addition to chapters on nobles, peasants, city people, and the court, the book sheds new light on the Catholic church, the army, popular protest, the culture of violence, gendered relations, and sociability. This is a major new work that restores the ancien régime as a key epoch in its own right and not simply as the prelude to the coming Revolution.
Author | : Vanessa R. Schwartz |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2011-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195389417 |
The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.
Author | : James B. Collins |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1995-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521387248 |
A major new textbook examining the nature of the state and the monarchy in early modern France.