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France since 1870 : culture, society and the making of the republic / Charles Sowerwine.
LIBRA DC335 .S66 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sowerwine, Charles, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- France--History--Third Republic, 1870-1940.
- France.
- History.
- France--Politics and government--1870-1940.
- Politics and government.
- France--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 541 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Summary:
- Frances since 1870 is a complete history of modern France which focuses on the emergence of a lasting Republic in the decades after 1870, its survival through war, occupation and social upheaval, and its recent evolution. Widely Praised when it was first published, this new edition has been brought up to the present with additional chapters covering events such as 9/11, recent riots, the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President in 2007, and the country’s racial difficulties. Charles Sowerwine puts all of these issues in historical perspective, liking them not only to the rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Front National but also to the colonial past.
- The second edition of this authoritative and lively text:
- takes into account the latest research
- provides deeper coverage of key topics, such as the Vichy regime, the Holocaust and its memory, immigration, colonialism, racism, and the French extreme right
- features new maps to aid understanding
- retains its emphasis on women’s history and developments in art, music, literature and social thought.
- Written for students and general readers alike, this thoroughly revised, updated and expanded new edition is an ideal introduction for anyone with an interest in modern France and its fascinating political, cultural and social history.
- Contents:
- Part I The Birth of the Third Republic, 1870-85 1
- Chapter 1 France in 1870 3
- Paris, 'capital of the nineteenth century 3
- An economy in transition 5
- French society in 1870: nobles and bourgeois 5
- French society in 1870: workers from farm to factory 8
- Chapter 2 The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, 1870-1 11
- The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1 11
- The proclamation of the Third Republic, 4 September 1870 12
- The siege of Paris, September 1870-February 1871, and the end of the war 13
- The struggle for Paris, 1-18 March 1871 15 15
- Paris under the Central Committee of the National Guard, 18-28 March 1871 17
- 'The days of the Commune': 28 March-21 May 1871 19
- La Semaine sanglante {the Week of Blood): 21-28 May 1871 22
- Chapter 3 The Triumph of the Republicans, 1871-85 25
- Thiers in power, 1871-3 26
- The monarchists in power: 'Moral Order' vs the republicans, 1873-6 27
- The republicans come to power, 1876-9 30|
- The Republic of Jules Ferry I: republican liberties 33
- The Republic of Jules Ferry II: republican education 34
- The Republic of Jules Ferry IH: republican colonization 36
- Chapter 4 The Cultural Bases of Republicanism 39
- Reason and the republican project 39
- Materialism and anticlericalism 40
- Freemasonry and the Republic 43
- Masculinity and the Republic 44
- From Realism to Impressionism in the visual arts 45
- Time and narrative 48
- History and the Republic 49
- Part II Testing Time for the Republic, 1885-1918 53
- Chapter 5 Challenges to the Republic (1): Constructing the Modern Right 55
- Origins of the new nationalism and anti-Semitism 55
- The new nationalism and the Boulanger Affair, 1885-9 57
- The apogee of 'peasant France'? 59
- The Panama Affair, 1889-93 62
- The Church, the Republic and the social question, 1889-96 63
- Dreyfus, from Case to Affair, 1894-7 64
- The Dreyfus Affair and mass politics, 1898-1902 66
- Chapter 6 Challenges to the Republic (2):Constructing the Modern Left 70
- The conditions of life and the development of social movements 70
- Feminism 75
- Anarchism and syndicalism 77
- The Dreyfus Revolution|79
- Clemenceau and the defeat of labor, 1906-10 81
- Colonies, alliances and the origins of the Great War, 1898-1914 83
- Chapter 7 The Cultural Revolution of the Belle Epaque 89
- New cultural space: the Montmartre cafes 89
- The erosion of realism 91
- The erosion of objective time 94
- The fragmentation of perception 96
- Chapter 8 The Great War, 1914-18 100
- From war of movement to stationary war 100
- The trenches 101
- The home front 103
- The evolution of the war 105
- Peace movements during the war 106
- Wild cards: Russia, America and Clemenceau 108
- Victory 100
- Counting the losses 111
- Part III The Decline of the Third Republic, 1919-40 155
- Chapter 9 France after the War, 1919-28 117
- Class struggle and the elections of 1919 117
- Gender struggle: repression 119
- Gender struggle: liberation? 121
- Class struggle again 124
- National and international affairs: from peace to crises 128
- From first-wave fascism to the Poincare years 131
- Chapter 10 France in the Depression, 1929-35 133
- Everyday life in the Depression 133
- Politics and second-wave fascism 134
- The Stavisky Affair and the riots of 6 February 1934 138
- Republican response to the 6 February 1934 140
- Chapter 11 Popular Front, 193 6-7 143
- Origins of the Popular Front 143
- The Popular Front and the strikes of May-June 1936 144
- The Popular Front and women 147
- The Matignon Agreements and Popular Front reforms 148
- The challenge of Spain 150
- The 'wall of money'? 152
- Chapter 12 Culture between the Wars 155
- Dadaism and Surrealism 155
- Early cinema 157
- The revolt in music 158
- Surrealism, art, and art deco 159
- The literature of war and despair 160
- The literature of reform and revolt 163
- Cinema and politics 164
- Chapter 13 The Fall of France, 1938-40 167
- Foreign policy, 1924-38 167
- The Anschluss and Munich, 1938 169
- The death of the Popular Front and the rise of fascism 173
- Gender struggle 174
- Toward war, 1939 176
- The French army and the Blitzkrieg 176
- The Armistice and the death of the Republic 180
- Part IV The Vichy Interlude and its Aftermath, 1940-6 183
- Chapter 14 Vichy in Power, 1940-2 185
- Was Vichy fascist? 186
- The Vichy government 188
- The cult of personality 190
- Vichy's New Order 192
- Vichy's search for collaboration 194
- The politics of exclusion 196
- French participation in the Holocaust 199
- Explaining French participation in the Holocaust 200
- Chapter 15 Resistance and Liberation, 1942-4 203
- Charles de Gaulle and the call 204
- The beginnings of resistance in France 205
- The stakes are raised, 1940-2 208
- The stakes are raised again, 1942-3 209
- The Liberation of France 212
- Chapter 16 Liberated Prance, 1944-6 216
- The struggle for authority 216
- The purge 218
- The price of war 222
- Reform and reconstruction 223
- Rebuilding the Republic 225
- The parties write a Constitution 228
- Chapter 17 Existentialism: Culture of the Resistarice? 230
- Beauvoir, Camus and Sartre 230
- The effect of the war 233
- From the Liberation to Le Deuxieme Sexe 238
- From hope to despair 239
- Part V The Fourth Republic, 1946-58 241
- Chapter 18 Vietnam War, Cold War, 1946-54 243
- The colonial heritage 243
- An autonomous Vietnam in the French Union? 245
- The eruption of the Cold War in French politics 247
- Social explosion, 1947 251
- The beginnings of European institutions 253
- The 'Third Force' and the 1951 elections 255
- On to Dien Bien Phu 256
- Pierre Mendes France and the Geneva conference 258
- Chapter 19 The 1950s - Of Coke and Culture 261
- The French economic miracle 261
- 'Fast Cars, Clean Bodies 262
- Modernization or Americanization? 265
- France versus America: the culture wars 267
- Culture in the 1950s: the theater of the absurd 26812 Chapter 20 The Algerian War Erupts, 1954-7 270
- Algeria in historical perspective 270
- The fall of Mendes France 273
- Fallout in Paris: the 1956 elections 275
- Guy Mollet escalates the war 276
- The Suez invasion 277
- Torture: the Battle of Algiers 278
- Chapter 21 The Pall of the Fourth Republic, 1958 281
- From international incident to national crisis 281
- 'The thirteen plots of 13 May' 283
- Rebuilding the state in Algeria 286
- Rebuilding the state in France 289
- Part VI The Fifth Republic I, 1958-81 293
- Chapter 22 The Fifth Republic under De Gaulle, 1958-68 295
- Putting Down the Generals 295
- Torture and Anti-War Movements 297
- Attempted Putsch and Terror 298
- The Evian Accords 300
- Domestic Politics under de Gaulle 302
- Economic growth 305
- The politics of 'grandeur': industry and foreign policy 307
- The politics of 'grandeur': urbanism and culture 311
- Chapter 23 Cultural Explosion: New Theory, New Cinema, New Novel 314
- New French theory and post-modernism 314
- Three precursors: Saussure, Lacan, Levi-Strauss 316
- Roland Barthes (1915-80) 318
- Michel Foucault (1926-84) 319
- Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) 320
- The 'new novel' 321
- 'New wave' cinema 324
- Chapter 24 Social Explosion: May '68 328
- A crisis in higher education 328
- A new critique of modern society 330
- Preparing the explosion 331
- Detonating the explosion 333
- The workers join 334
- From revolt to revolution? 336
- Defeat 338
- Aftermath 340
- Chapter 25 The Fifth Republic under Pompidou and Giscard, 1969-81 344
- Politics and auto-gestion 344
- Pompidou and Vichy 345
- The Common Market and the renewal of the left 346
- Pompidou and Paris|348
- Last years of the boom 349
- The new industrial revolution and women 350
- Women's rights, gay rights 351
- New theory: feminism, gay rights and 'new philosophers' 353
- Valery Giscard d'Estaing: liberal reform? 357
- Oil, unemployment, and immigration 359
- Politics in the late 1970s 361
- Part VII The Fifth Republic D, 1981-2007 365
- Chapter 26 'Socialist France'? 1981-8 367
- Creating 'Socialist France', 1981-2 369
- The lasting reforms 370
- Technology 372
- Mitterrand and women: almost all the way to the altar 373
- The 'wall of money1 again? 1982-3 374
- Treading water, 1984-6 376
- Integration, Beur culture, and the rise of the National Front 377
- Cohabitation, 1986-8 380
- Chapter 27 Mitterrand in decline, 1988-95 385
- Michel Rocard's government, 1988-91 385
- Integration and foulards 386
- From Berlin to Maastricht: foreign policy and Europe, 1989-92 388
- The Socialists in decline 380
- Celebrating revolution, exposing collaboration 391
- Mitterrand, Chirac and Paris 394
- Balladur Prime Minister: Immigration, education, and free trade 396
- Toward the presidential elections of 1995 398
- Epilogue: the end of the Mitterrand era 400
- Chapter 28 From Juppe to Jospin, 1995-2002 402
- The 1995 strikes 402
- The surprise elections of 1997: Socialist renaissance 405
- The Jospin Experiment, 1997-2002 406
- Opposition to liberalism and globalization 408
- Toward homosexual liberation: the PaCS 410
- Parity 412
- Revising the Constitution: The Quinquennat 414
- Remembering Vichy, Forgetting Algeria 415
- Presidential Elections 2002: Vichy's revenge 417
- Chapter 29 Toward Sarkozy's Republic, 2002-7 420
- The Iraq War: France out in the cold 420
- Integration; the foulard crisis, 2002-4 421
- The Colonial Past: Papon and la querelle des memoires, 2002-7 423
- Rejecting Europe, 2005 424
- Integration: the banlieue riots, October 2005 426
- Neo-Liberalism?: the 'CPE' riots, February-March 2006 428
- Sarko/Sego, 2006-7 430
- Sarkozy's Republic 433
- Conclusion: The End of 'The French Exception'? 435
- Making the Republic 435
- A just society 437
- A culture of universal significance? 438
- The Identity of France 439.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-485) and index.
- ISBN:
- 023057338X
- 9780230573383
- 0230573398
- 9780230573390
- OCLC:
- 226357013
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