Transnational France : the modern history of a universal nation
By extending his view beyond the metropole, Stovall brings a transnational perspective to the history of modern France since the Revolution, including French colonies in the mix
| 1. Verfasser: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
| Veröffentlicht: |
Boulder : Westview Press,
2015
|
| Schlagworte: | Cultural pluralism -- France -- History France -- History -- 1789- Nationalism -- France -- History Political culture -- France -- History Popular culture -- France -- History Transnationalism -- Political aspects -- France -- History Transnationalism -- Social aspects -- France -- History Political culture Popular culture Transnationalism mehr... |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 500 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | By extending his view beyond the metropole, Stovall brings a transnational perspective to the history of modern France since the Revolution, including French colonies in the mix Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Mission Impossible? A Transnational History of the Nation -- Eternal France -- A Long and Rich History -- The Sun King and the Age of French Glory -- 1. French Revolution, World Revolution -- France and Europe in 1789 -- Enlightening the World -- From Crisis to Revolution -- The Liberal Revolution -- Rise and Fall of Radical Revolution -- The First Empire -- 2. Restoration, Revolution, and Empire: France, 1815-1852 -- Life in Early-Nineteenth-Century France -- The Restoration -- The Struggle for Liberty -- The Restoration and France Overseas -- The Revolution of 1830 -- Industrial Revolution -- Winners and Losers: The New Industrial Society -- The July Monarchy -- Beyond LIberty? New Paths to Reform and Revolution -- The Revolutions of 1848 -- 3. Imperial Democracy? France Under the Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Europe and the World in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- The Authoritarian Empire -- France Confronts a Changing World -- New VIsions of Empire -- The Liberal Empire -- The Franco-Prussian War and the Fall of the Empire -- 4. Paris: The Making of a World Capital -- The Rise of World Cities -- the Haussmannization of Paris -- Paris and the Cultures of Modernity -- The Franco-Prussian War and the Siege of Paris -- The Paris Commune -- Paris: World Capital of Consumer Culture -- Montmartre and the Rise of a New Bohemia -- Paris on Display to the World -- 5. The Universal Republic -- Global Change: The Second Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Mass Society -- Universalism and the Third Republic -- The "Republicanization" of the Republic -- The Republicanization of France -- The Republic in Danger -- The Dreyfus Affair -- The Radical Republic -- 6. The Republican Empire -- The New Imperialism -- Jules Ferry Le Tonkinois and the New French Empire -- Fance and the Scramble for Africa The Old Colonies and the New Empire -- Ideas and Realities of Empire -- France in the Colonies -- The Colonies in France -- 7. The Universal Nation in a World at War -- France, Europe, and the World Face a New Century -- France in the Belle Epoque -- The Road to War -- France Goes to War -- France Adjusts to War -- Battle and Survival in the Trenches -- The Empire Goes to War -- The Crisis of 1917 -- The Final Year of the War -- 8. From One War to ANother -- The Universal Nation in Crisis -- The Peace of Paris and the Versailles Treaty -- Prosperity and Anxiety in the Interwar Years -- Interwar Politics and Diplomacy -- The Crazy Years: New Dimensions in Avant-Garde and Popular Culture -- One Hundred Million Frenchmen: Imperial France Between the Wars -- France and the World Depression -- Foreign Affairs and the End of the Peace -- 9. France in World War II: Defeat and Rebirth of the Universal Nation -- Phony War and Collapse -- Vichy and the National Revolution -- Vicy, Germany, and the Jews -- Empire by Association: Vichy and the Colonies -- Life in Wartime: France -- The Resistance and the Decline of Vichy -- Liberation -- 10. The Fourth Republic: New Challenges for the Transnational Nation -- From LIberation to the Fourth Republic -- Cold War and Coca-Colonization: France Between the Superpowers -- Building a New France -- The Revolt Against Empire -- The Algerian War and the End of the Fourth Republic -- 11. The Fifth Republic: A New Era for France -- Building the Fifth Republic -- From Decolonization to a Francohone World -- La Gloire: De Gaulle, France, and the World -- Prosperity and Consumer Society -- Revolution in France? -- The End of Postwar Prosperity -- The Socialists Take Power -- 12. Postcolonial France: A New Universal Nation? -- The New Globalism and the End of the "Short" Twentieth Century The Rose Revolution: Achievements and Discontents -- Immigration and Race at the End of the Twentieth Century -- Memories and Legacies of War -- France, Europe, and the World at the End of the Twentieth Century -- France Enters a New Millennium -- Thunder on the Right -- Conclusion -- Index |
|---|---|
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 500 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9780813348124 0813348129 9780813348117 0813348110 |