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  • Cited by 5
  • 3rd edition
  • Roger Price, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2014
Print publication year:
2014
Online ISBN:
9781139084710

Book description

This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive study of French history available ranging from the early middle ages to the present. Amongst its central themes are the relationships between state and society, the impact of war, competition for power, and the ways in which power has been used. Whilst taking full account of major figures such as Philip Augustus, Henri IV, Louis XIV, Napoleon and de Gaulle, it sets their activities within the broader context of changing economic and social structures and beliefs, and offers rich insights into the lives of ordinary men and women. This third edition has been substantially revised and includes a new chapter on contemporary France - a society and political system in crisis as a result of globalisation, rising unemployment, a failing educational system, growing social and racial tensions, corruption, the rise of the extreme right, and a widespread loss of confidence in political leaders.

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Contents

A short guide to further reading
General
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Duby, G., France in the Middle Ages 987–1460. London, 1991.
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Power, D., The Norman Frontier in the 12th and Early 13th Centuries. Cambridge, 2004.
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Early modern France
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Revolutionary and Napoleonic France
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Lyons, M., France under the Directory. Cambridge, 1975.
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Tackett, T., When the King Took Flight. Cambridge, MA, 2004.
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Woloch, I., Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship. New York, 2001.
The nineteenth century
Agulhon, M., The Republican Experiment, 1848–52. Cambridge, 1983.
Collingham, H., The July Monarchy. London, 1988.
Gibson, R., A Social History of French Catholicism. London, 1989.
Harris, R., The Man on Devil’s Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France. London, 2010.
Harvey, D., Paris, Capital of modernity, London, 2005.
Hazareesingh, S., From Subject to Citizen: The Second Empire and the Emergence of French Democracy. Princeton, NJ, 1998.
Hazareesingh, S., (ed.), The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France: Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright. Oxford, 2002.
Hazareesingh, S., The Legend of Napoleon. London, 2005.
Heywood, C., The Development of the French Economy, 1750–1914. Cambridge, 1992.
Lehning, J., To Be a Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early Third Republic. Ithaca, NY, 2001.
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Magraw, R., A History of the French Working Class, 2 vols. Oxford, 1992.
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McMillan, J., (ed.), Modern France, 1880–2002. Oxford, 2003.
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Pinkney, D., The French Revolution of 1830. Princeton, NJ, 1972.
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Price, R., The Modernization of Rural France. London, 1983.
Price, R., A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France. London, 1987.
Price, R., The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power. Cambridge, 2001.
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Tombs, R., The War against Paris, 1871. Cambridge, 1981.
Tombs, R., France, 1814–1914. London, 1996.
Tombs, R., The Paris Commune, 1871. London, 1999.
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A time of crisis: 1914–1945
Adamthwaite, A., Grandeur and Misery: France’s Bid for Power in Europe 1914–40. London, 1995.
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Gildea, R., Marianne in Chains: In Search of the German Occupation 1940–45. London, 2002.
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Horne, J. (ed.), State, Society and Mobilization during the First World War. Cambridge, 1997.
Jackson, J., The Popular Front in France: Defending Democracy, 1934–38. Cambridge, 1988.
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Jackson, J., The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940. Oxford, 2003.
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Kedward, R., Resistance in Vichy France. Oxford, 1978.
Kedward, R., In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in France. Oxford, 1993.
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Sweets, J., Choices in Vichy France: The French under Nazi Occupation. Oxford, 1986.
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Wall, I., French Communism in the Era of Stalin. Westport, CT, 1983.
Reconstruction and renewal: the trente glorieuses
Bell, D., The French Communist Party in the Fifth Republic. Oxford, 1994.
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Evans, M., Algeria: France’s Undeclared War. Oxford, 2011.
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A society under stress
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Cole, A., François Mitterrand: A Study in Political Leadership. London, 1994.
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