France 1815-2003 Modern History for Modern Languages,9780340761403

France 1815-2003 Modern History for Modern Languages

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ISBN13: 9780340761403
ISBN10: 0340761407
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-05-13
Publisher(s): Hodder Education Publishers
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Summary

Written in an accessible style and assuming no prior knowledge, the books in this series address the specific needs of students in language courses. France 1815-2003 focuses on the main events in French political history, including major socio-economic themes when relevant. The book will be supplemented by a specialized website that will include links, interviews with key historians and further documents.

Author Biography

Emmanuel Godin is Senior Lecturer in French Studies in the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth.

Table of Contents

List of figures
x
List of maps
xi
Preface xiii
Abbreviations xv
The French Revolution: history, memory, politics
1(18)
Causes
4(5)
Phases
9(8)
Legacy
17(2)
The Bourbon Restoration, 1814-30
19(14)
The Charter and the foundations of constitutional monarchy
20(2)
1816-20: `Union and forgetfulness'?
22(1)
Charles X and the Ultras
23(3)
Polarisation and the 1830 revolution
26(7)
The July Monarchy, 1830-48
33(14)
A repressive liberal monarchy
35(2)
The reign of the bourgeosie
37(4)
Thiers and Guizot: from instability to stalemate
41(2)
The 1848 Revolution
43(4)
The Second Republic, 1848-52 and the Second Empire, 1852-70
47(16)
A social and democratic republic? February-June 1848
48(2)
A conservative republic, June 1848-December 1851
50(2)
The authoritarian empire, 1852-60
52(2)
Economic expansion
54(2)
A new international role?
56(1)
Towards a liberal empire, 1860-70
57(6)
The Third Republic, 1870-1914
63(16)
The Paris Commune, March-May 1871
63(1)
The monarchist republic, 1871-79
64(2)
The opportunist republic, 1879-99
66(3)
Challenges from the right and the left
69(3)
The Dreyfus Affair
72(1)
The radical republic, 1989-1914
73(6)
France, 1914-31
79(18)
The international situation, 1871-1914
79(2)
The outbreak of war
81(1)
Union sacree
82(3)
Versailles Peace Treaty, 28 June 1919
85(3)
Reparations
88(3)
The Colonial Exhibition, May 1931
91(6)
France, 1931-39
97(16)
The impact of the Depression in France
98(1)
The institutional crisis
99(1)
The Popular Front
100(3)
The Popular Front in power
103(3)
Path to war, 1937-39
106(7)
Occupied France, 1940-44
113(18)
The Phoney War
113(2)
The Vichy regime
115(6)
Vichy and the Holocaust
121(1)
Survival
122(1)
Collaboration
123(1)
Resistance
124(3)
Liberation and the purge
127(4)
The Fourth Republic, 1944-58
131(18)
Fourth Republic politics
133(5)
Economic and social change
138(2)
Decolonisation and the end of the Fourth Republic
140(9)
The Gaullist Revolution, 1958-69
149(16)
Decolonisation and the end of the Algerian War
150(4)
Constitutional reform
154(1)
Foreign policy
155(1)
Economic and social change
156(2)
The roots of May 1968
158(3)
The events of May 1968
161(4)
After de Gaulle: Pompidou, 1969-74 and Giscard, 1974-81
165(14)
From Gaullism to conservatism? France under Pompidou
166(3)
La petite alternance under Giscard
169(1)
Liberal reforms and their limits
170(2)
Economic crisis and political polarisation
172(2)
Foreign policy
174(1)
Fin de regne
175(4)
1981-2003: From la grande alternance to normalisation?
179(22)
La grande alternance, 1981-86
180(5)
La cohabitation, 1986-88
185(3)
Mitterrand's second term, 1988-95
188(5)
Chirac's first term, 1995-2002 and la gauche plurielle, 1997-2002
193(8)
Further reading 201(6)
Index 207

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