The Third Republic in France 1870-1940 : Conflicts and Continuities

ISBN-13: 9780415169448 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 272 str.

William Fortesque

Opis

An introduction to the major political problems, debates and conflicts which are central to the history of the third republic in France, from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 to the fall of France in June 1940. It provides original sources, detailed commentary and helpful chronologies and bibliographies on topics including: the emergence of the regime and the Paris Commune of 1871; Franco-German relations; anti-Semitism and the Dreyfus Affair; the role of women and the importance of the national birth-rate; and the character of the French Right and of French fascism.

Spis treści

1 The emergence of the Third Republic, 1870–1 2 The political Right and Left in the early Third Republic 3 The Dreyfus Affair and its aftermath 4 Women and the family 5 The First World War 6 France after the First World War 7 The Popular Front 8 The fall of France ( June 1940)

O autorze

William Fortescue is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Kent.