The Routledge Handbook of French History / edited by David Andress.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andress, David, 1969- editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks.

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--Civilization.

France.

France--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (672 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England : Routledge, [2024]

Summary:

"Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman 'Francia', through the emergence of a consolidated French monarchy, and the development of both nation-state and global empire into the modern era, forward to the current complexities of a modern Republic, integrated into the European Usnion and struggling with the global legacies of its past. Short, incisive contributions by a wide range of expert scholars offer both a spine of chronological overviews, and a diverse spectrum of up-to-date insights into areas of key interest to historians today. From the ravages of the Vikings to the role of gastronomy in the definition of French culture, from Caribbean slavery to the place of Algerians in present-day France, from the role of French queens in medieval diplomacy to the youth-culture explosion of the 1960s, and the explosions of France's nuclear-weapons programme, this handbook provides accessible summaries and selected further reading to explore any and all of these issues further, in the classroom and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Contributors

List of Maps

Introduction

1 Overview: From Regnum Francorum to Regnum Franciae: Early Medieval France from the Fifth to the Twelfth Centuries

2 Gaul, Francia, and the Wider Early Medieval World

3 The Vikings and Francia, 799-936

4 Regional Magnates and the Last Carolingians

5 The World of the Early Capetian Court: 987-1180

6 The Queens' Reflection: French Consorts as a Mirror of French History

7 History and the Shaping of French Identity in the Later Middle Ages

8 Nationhood and Nationalism in French History Writing: Franks, Gallo-Romans, and the Shaping of the Roman National

9 Overview: Valois France, 1328-1498

10 France and the Crusades in the Later Middle Ages

11 Prince and Principality in the Breton War of Succession

12 Performing Discontent: Politics and Society in the French Satirical Theater of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

13 Overview: France in the Sixteenth Century: Monarchy, Renaissance, and Reformation, 1494-1610

14 Conduit of the Divine: Theocratic Themes in Political Theory in Renaissance and Reformation France

15 Royal Women and the Habsburg-Valois Wars (1494-1559)

16 Festival Cultures in Early Modern France: Elite and Popular Celebrations, c. 1560-c. 1640

17 Overview: Absolutist France to 1715

18 Bureaucracy and Royal Administration in the Seventeenth Century - French Absolutism and the State

19 A Century of Saints? The Catholic Reformation in Seventeenth-Century France

20 The Royal Manufactories of Absolutist France: Luxury Production and the Politics and Culture of Mercantilism

21 Making History in Old Regime France

22 Overview: France, 1715 to 1815: A Century of Dubious Greatness

23 The French Caribbean in the Era of Slavery.

24 The Development of the French Dimension of the Atlantic Slavery System

25 French India in the Eighteenth Century

26 Exploration and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France

27 Enlightenment and the Supernatural: Popular Religious Practice in the Eighteenth Century

28 The "Masterpiece of the National Assembly": Criminal Justice and the Revolution

29 Performance in Paris, 1789-1815: Setting the Stage for Regime Change and Cultural Revision

30 Fugitives from France: Huguenot Refugees, Revolutionary Émigrés, and the Origins of Modern Exile

31 The French Campaign in Egypt (1798-1801)

32 Monarchy, Memory, and the Chapelle Expiatoire

33 Overview: 1815-1905: An Era of Tumult and Change

34 Memory of Lost Empire

35 France and Algeria, 1830-1870

36 Environment and Technology in Global France, 1763-1914

37 The French Periodical Press, 1815-1905

38 From Dictator to Democrat? The "Black Legend" of Louis-Napoleon and Subsequent Historical Revisionism

39 Socialism Up to the First World War

40 French Empire in the Asia-Pacific Region, c. 1800-1914

41 Imperial Variation: Administration and Citizenship in France's Colonies

42 Overview: Two Frances at War and Peace: The Stories of a Nation and its People, 1905-1958

43 Overview: Between Gaullism and Globalization: Opening Up the Fifth Republic, 1958-2020

44 History and Historiography of French Imperialism from 1914

45 French Feminisms: Patriarchy, Populationism, and Progress, 1870-1950

46 Queering France Since the Belle Époque: Between Emancipation and Repression

47 Reconstructing French Relations in the South Pacific after World War I

48 The Popular Front and France's Twentieth Century

49 The Brazzaville Conference and the Future of French Colonialism in Africa

50 The Atomic Republic: Nuclear France Since 1958.

51 Young People and Youth Culture, 1958-1968

52 Sustaining the Nation: A Gastronomic Reading of Contemporary France

53 The Year of the Events: 1968

54 The Algerian Diaspora in France

55 French Museums in the Fifth Republic

56 Erasing Race in France: Social Consequences of Political Idealism

57 The Memory Politics of the First World War at Its Centenary

58 French Historical Writing in the Wake of Decolonization

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-367-80847-1

1-003-82398-X

9780367808471

OCLC:

1393655893