French history since Napoleon / edited by Martin S. Alexander.
| Other author | Alexander, Martin S. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London : Arnold, 1999. |
| Description | xiii, 434 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Historians and the pecularities of French history / Martin S. Alexander -- Revolution, restorations(s) and beyond: continuities and the enduring legacies of 1789 / Pamela Pilbeam -- Inventing politics: from Bourbon Restoration to republic monarchy / Robert Tombs -- Society and people in the Nineteenth Century / Colin Heywood -- Paris versus the provinces: regionalism and decentralization since 1789 / Alan Forrest -- Outsiders by birth? : Women, the republic, and political history / Sian Reynolds -- The Catholic Church and the politics in the Twentieth-Century France / Maurice Larkin -- The 'Jewish question' from Dreyfus to Vichy / Vicki Carson -- The clash of ideas: political thought, intellectuals and the meaning of 'France', 1890-1945 / Jeremy Jennings -- 1940 and the crisis of interwar democracy in France / Julian Jackson -- Renewal, repression and Resistance; France under the Nazi occupation, 1940-1944 / Nicholas Atkins -- Defending France: foreign policy and the quest for security 1850s-1990s / Martin S. Alexander and J.F.V. Keiger -- France's cultural clashes: arts and taste since the impressionists / Charles Rearick -- What about the workers? : the trade unions' 'short century' / Susan Milner -- 'Not backward but different'? : the debate on French 'economic retardation' / Roger Magraw -- The French economy since 1930 / Kenneth Moure -- From colonialism to post-colonialism: the French empire since Napoleon / Martin Evans. |
| Abstract | This major new exploration of France since Napoleon offers a route map over the main contours of French history. Political history is strongly represented, with chapters that focus on the character of each regime from 1815 to the present. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 00699179 |
| ISBN | 0340677325 |
| ISBN | 9780340677322 |
| ISBN | 0340677317 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780340677315 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | DC251 .F74 1999 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |