France Since 1871
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This course covers the emergence of modern France. Topics include the social, economic, and political transformation of France; the impact of France's revolutionary heritage, of industrialization, and of the dislocation wrought by two world wars; and the political response of the Left and the Right to changing French society.
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- Workshop and Factory
- The Anarchists
- Trench Warfare
- Resistance
- Vietnam and Algeria
Course programme
Lecture 2 The Paris Commune and Its Legacy
Lecture 3 Centralized State and Republic
Lecture 4 A Nation? Peasants, Language, and French Identity
Lecture 5 The Waning of Religious Authority
Lecture 6 Workshop and Factory
Lecture 7 Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left
Lecture 8 Dynamite Club: The Anarchists
Lecture 9 General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus
Lecture 10 Cafés and the Culture of Drink
Lecture 11 Paris and the Belle Époque
Lecture 12 French Imperialism (Guest Lecture by Charles Keith)
Lecture 13 The Origins of World War I
Lecture 14 Trench Warfare
Lecture 15 The Home Front
Lecture 16 The Great War, Grief, and Memory (Guest Lecture by Bruno Cabanes)
Lecture 17 The Popular Front
Lecture 18 The Dark Years: Vichy France
Lecture 19 Resistance
Lecture 20 Battles For and Against Americanization
Lecture 21 Vietnam and Algeria
Lecture 22 Charles De Gaulle
Lecture 23 May 1968
Lecture 24 Immigration
France Since 1871