Modern France and the World

ISBN-13: 9781138846180 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 400 str.

Darcie Fontaine

Opis

Modern France and the World provides an engaging global history of the key events of modern France and its empire. It moves beyond the traditional political narrative of the development of the French Republican nation-state to offer both national and international perspectives of its evolution.

Spis treści

1. Globalizing France in the Era of Enlightenment  2. Radical Revolutions and Rights of Man  3. The Napoleonic Empire  4. Restoration and the Liberal Order  5. Social and Political Revolutions  6. New Imperial Designs: The Second Empire  7. The Imperial Third Republic  8. The Fin de Siècle and its Discontents  9. Global France at War, 1914-1919  10. Illusions of Peace, 1920-1939  11. War and Occupation, 1939-1944  12. Postwar Reconstruction and Imperial Deconstruction, 1944-1962  13. The Politics of Grandeur: The Fifth Republic in a New Europe  14. Globalized France  15. The Legacy of Empire in Twenty-First Century France

O autorze

Darcie Fontaine is a historian of the modern French empire, focusing on North Africa, and is the author of Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria (2016).