France and Europe from the French Revolution to Eurodisney

Course Requirements:  Students will do all of the general readings, write a two-page, double-spaced review about the common readings, and then we will discuss the general readings in class.  Everyone will read four additional books and write a 4-page double-spaced book review during the weeks that we have no common readings, then present the books to the rest of us for discussion.  Finally, everyone will write a 20-25-page review essay on some theme of particular interest.

Common Readings:
Edward Berenson, The Trial of Madame Caillaux (California, 1992)
Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution (California, 1994)
David P. Jordon, Transforming Paris:  The Life and Times of Baron Haussmann (Chicago, 1996)
Richard Kuisel, Seducing the French (California, 1993)
Mary Jo Maynes, Taking the Hard Road (North Carolina, 1995)
Robert Paxton, Vichy France (Columbia, 1973)
Philippe Perrot, Fashioning the Bourgeoisie:  A History of Clothing in the 19th Century (Princeton, 1996)
Mary Louise Roberts, A Civilization without Sexes (Chicago, 1994)
Henri Rousso, The Vichy Syndrome:  History and Memory in France since 1944 (Harvard, 1991)
Eugen Weber, Peasants Into Frenchmen (Stanford, 1976)
Gordon Wright, France in Modern Times (Norton, 1995)

*I've asked the Bookstore to order all of these books (which are in paperback), but PLEASE DO NOT feel obliged to buy them.  You can Ohiolink them in advance, just in case someone else has the copy from Bierce. Unlike the others, the book by Wright is a survey that provides background.  If you need a general coverage of French history, read Wright along with the readings for each week.

Grades:
30% Book reviews, their oral presentation, and discussion of others' work
35% Review essay
35% Class discussion of general readings and the weekly reviews of common readings
 

I.  Course Introduction and the Revolution
 
General reading:  Lynn Hunt, The Family Romance of the French Revolution, Berkeley, 1994

Optional:
Keith Baker, Inventing the French Revolution.  Cambridge, 1990.
William Doyle, Origins of the French Revolution, Oxford, 1980.
Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst, Paris as Revolution:  Writing the Nineteenth-Century City.  Berkeley, 1994.
Paul Hanson, Provincial Politics in the French Revolution:  Caen and Limoges, 1789-1794, Baton Rouge, 1989
Lynn Hunt, Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, Berkeley, 1984.
Gary Kates, The Cercle Social, the Girondins, and the French Revolution, Princeton, 1985.
Emmet Kennedy, A Cultural History of the French Revolution, New Haven, 1989.
Georges Lefebvre, The Great Fear
Dorinda Outram, The Body and the French Revolution:  Sex, Class, and Political Culture.  New Haven, 1989.
George Rudé, The Crowd in the French Revolution, Oxford, 1959.
Albert Soboul, Understanding the French Revolution, New York, 1988.
Simon Schama, Citizens:  A Chronicle of the French Revolution, New York, 1989.
 Morris Slavin, The Hébertistes to the Guillotine:  Anatomy of a "Conspiracy" in Revolutionary France, Baton
Rouge, 1994.
Timothy Tackett, Becoming Revolutionary:  The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence
of a Revolutionary Culture, 1789-1790.  Princeton, 1996.
Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Michel Vovelle, The Fall of the French Monarchy, 1787-1792, Cambridge, 1984.
Isser Woloch, The New Regime:  Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s, New York, 1994.
 

II.  Urbanization and the Second Empire

General reading: David P. Jordon, Transforming Paris

Optional:
John Merriman, French Cities in the Nineteenth Century.  New York, 1981.
John Merriman, The Margins of City Life:  Explorations on the French Urban Frontier, 1815-1851, New York,
1991.
John Merriman, The Red City:  Limoges and the French Nineteenth Century, New York, 1985.
David Pinkney, Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris. Princeton, 1958.
 

III.  Politics in Nineteenth-Century France

Read one of the following and write a review:

The Restoration:

G. Bertier de Sauvigny, The Bourbon Restoration. Philadelphia, 1966.
Robert Bezucha, The Lyon Uprising of 1834.  Cambridge, 1974.
Roger Boesche, The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville. Ithaca, 1987.
Brian Fitzpatrick, Catholic Royalism in the Department of the Gard, 1814-1852.  Cambridge, 1983.
Lloyd Kramer, Lafayette in Two Worlds:  Public Cultures and Private Identities in an Age of Revolutions,
Chapel Hill, 1996.
Sylvia Neely, Lafayette and the Liberal Ideal, 1814-1824: Politics and Conspiracy in an Age of Reaction.
Carbondale, IL, 1991,
David Pinkney, The Decisive Years in France. 1987.
David Pinkney, The French Revolution of 1830. 1972.
Peter Sahlins, Forest Rites:  The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France.  1994.
Alan B. Spitzer, The French Generation of 1820. Princeton, 1987.
Stendhal, The Red and the Black

The Revolution of 1848 and Second Empire:
Stuart Campbell, The Second Empire Revisited: A Study in French Historiography.  New Brunswick, NY, 1978.
Thomas R. Forstenzer, French Provincial Police and the Fall of the Second Republic. Princeton, 1981.
David P. Jordan, Transforming Paris:  The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann The Free Press, 1995.
Ted W. Margadant, French Peasants in Revolt: The Insurrection of 1851.  Princeton, 1979.
Peter McPhee, The Politics of Rural Life: Political Mobilization in the French Countryside, 1846-1852. Oxford,
1992.
John Merriman, Agony of the Republic: The Repression of the Left in Revolutionary France, 1848-51.  New
Haven, 1978.
Theodore Zeldin, The Political System of Napoleon III. New Haven, 1952.

 The Third Republic:
Maurice Agulhon, Marianne Into Battle: Republican Iconography. New York, 1981.
R. D. Anderson, France, 1870-1914: Politics and Society. London, 1977.
Jack D. Ellis, The Physician-Legislators of France: Medicine and Politics in the early Third Republic, 1870-1914.
Sanford Elwitt, The Making of the Third Republic: Class and Politics in France, 1868-1884.  1975.
Sanford Elwitt, The Third Republic Defended: Bourgeois Reform in France, 1880-1914.  1986.
Marjorie Milbank Farrar, Principled Pragmatist: The Political Career of Alexandre Millerand.  New York, 1991.
H. S. Jones, The French State in Question: Public Law and Political Argument in the Third Republic.
Cambridge, 1993.
Jacques Olle Laprune, La stabilité des ministres sous la Troisième République, 1879-1940. Paris, 1962.
Benjamin F. Martin, Crime and Criminal Justice Under the Third Republic: The Shame of Marianne.  1990.
John F. McManners, Church and State in France. London, 1972.
Allan Mitchell, The Divided Path: The German Influence on Social Reform in France after 1870.  Chapel Hill,
1991.
Allan Mitchell, The German Influence in France after 1870 Chapel Hill, 1979.
Allan Mitchell, Victors and Vanquished: Army and Church in France.  Chapel Hill, 1984.
Robert Nye, Crime, Madness, and Politics in Modern France:  The Medical Concept of National Decline.  1984.
René Rémond, L'anticlericalisme en France de 1815 à nos jours. 1976.
Judith F. Stone, The Search for Social Peace: Reform Legislation in France 1890-1914.  Albany, NY, 1985.
Robert J. Young, Power and Pleasure: Louis Barthou and the Third Republic. Buffalo, 1992.
 

IV.  The Third Republic, continued

General Reading:  Edward Berenson, The Trial of Madame Caillaux
 

Optional:

The Left and Communism:

Kathryn Amdur, Syndicalist Legacy: Trade Unions and Politics in Two French Cities in the Era of World War I.
Urbana, IL, 1986.
Edward Berenson, Populist Religion and Left-Wing Politics in France, 1830-1852.  1984.
Daniel R. Brower, The New Jacobins: The French Communist Party and the Popular Front. Ithaca, NY, 1968.
Joel Colton, Léon Blum: Humanist in Politics.  Durham, NC, 1987
Harvey Goldberg, The Life of Jean Jarrès. Madison, WI, 1962.
Louis Greenberg, Sisters of Liberty: Marseille, Lyon, Paris and the Reaction to a Centralized State, 1868-1871.
Cambridge, 1971.
Nathanael Greene, Crisis and Decline: French Socialism in the Popular Front Era. 1968.
Patrick H. Hutton, The Cult of the Revolutionary Tradition:  The Blanquists.
Christopher Johnson, Utopian Communism in France: Cabet and the Icarians, 1839-1851. Ithaca, NY, 1974.
Tony Judt, Marxism and the French Left, 1830-1981.  Oxford, 1986.
Tony Judt, Socialism in Provence, 1871-1914.  Cambridge, 1979.
Annie Kriegel, Aux origines du communisme français: Histoire du mouvement ouvrier français (1914-1920). 2
vols. Paris, 1964.
Albert S. Lindemann, A History of European Socialism. 1984.
William Logue, Léon Blum: The Formative Years, 1872-1914. Dekalb, IL, 1973.
William Logue, From Philosophy to Sociology: The Evolution of French Liberalism, 1870-1914.  Dekalb, IL,
1983.
Bernard Moss, The Origins of the French Labor Movement: The Socialism of Skilled Workers, 1830-1903.
Ithaca, NY, 1974.
 Nicholas Papayanis, The Emergence of Reformism in Revolutionary Syndicalism, 1871-1925.  Dordrecht, 1985.
Tyler Stovall, The Rise of the Paris Red Belt. Los Angeles, 1990.
K. Steven Vincent, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and the Rise of French Republican Socialism.  Oxford, 1984.
K. Steven Vincent, Between Marxism and Anarchism: Benoit Malon and French Reformist Socialism. Berkeley,
1992.
Irwin Wall, French Communism in the Era of Stalin: The Quest for Unity and Integration, 1945-1962.
Westport, CT, 1983.
Paul Warwick, The French Popular Front: A Legislative Analysis. Chicago, 1977.
Robert Wohl, French Communism in the Making.  Stanford, 1966.

The Right and Fascism:

Michael Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair.  New York, 1989.
Allen Douglas, From Fascism to Libertarian Communism: Georges Valois Against the Third Republic.  Berkeley,
1992.
John Hellman, Emmanuel Mounier and the New Catholic Left, 1930-1950.  Toronto, 1981.
William D. Irvine, The Boulanger Affair Reconsidered.  1989.
William D. Irvine, French Conservatism in Crisis: The Republican Federation in France in the 1930s.  Baton
Rouge, LA, 1979.
Steven D. Kale, Legitimism and the Reconstruction of French Society, 1852-1883.  Baton Rouge, LA, 1992.
Herman Lebovics, The Alliance of Iron and Wheat: Origins of the New Conservatism of the Third French
Republic.  Baton Rouge, LA, 1987.
Herman Lebovics, True France: The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900-1945. Ithaca, 1992.
John Rothney, Bonapartism after Sedan.  Ithaca, 1969.
Peter M. Rutkoff, Revanche and Revision: The Ligue des Patriotes and the Origins of the Radical Right in
France. Athens, OH, 1981.
Frederick H. Seager, The Boulanger Affair. Ithaca, 1969.
Robert J. Soucy, Fascist Intellectual: Drieu La Rochelle.  Los Angeles, 1979.
Robert J. Soucy, French Fascism: The First Wave, 1924-1933.  New Haven, 1986.
Zeev Sternhell, La droite révolutionnaire, 1885-1914. Paris, 1978.
Zeev Sternhell, Ni droite, ni gauche: L'idéologie fasciste en France. Paris, 1983.
Eugen Weber, Action Française. Stanford, 1962.
Stephen J. Wilson, Ideology and Experience: Antisemitism in France at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair.  1982.
Michel Winock, Edouard Drumont et Cie: l'antisemitisme et le fascisme en France. Paris, 1982.
 

V.  Workers and Industrialization

General readings: Mary Jo Maynes, Taking the Hard Road, Chapel Hill, 1996; David Landes, "Business and the
Business Man: A Social and Cultural Analysis," in E. M. Earle, ed., Modern France.  Princeton, 1951;
Robert Aldrich, "Late Comer or Early Starter?" Journal of European Economic History 16 (Spring
1987): 89-100.

Optional:

WORKERS

Elinor Accampo, Industrialization, Family Life, and Class Relations: Saint-Chamond, 1815-1914.  Los
Angeles, 1989.
Lenard R. Berlanstein, The Working People of Paris, 1871-1914. 1984.
Louis Chevallier, Laboring Classes and Dangerous Classes. New York, 1973.
Michael Hanagan, The Logic of Solidarity: Artisans and Industrial Workers in Three French Towns, 1871-1914.
 Urbana, IL, 1980.
Christopher Johnson, Economic Change and Artisan Discontent: The Tailors' Industry, 1800-1848
Katherine Lynch, Family, Class, and Ideology in Early Industrial France.  Madison, WI, 1988.
Leslie Page Moch, Paths to the City: Regional Migration in 19th Century France.  1983.
Donald M. Reid, The Miners of Decazeville: A Geneaology of Deindustrialization.  Cambridge, MA, 1985.
Joan Scott, The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a 19thc. City.  Cambridge,
MA, 1974.
William Sewell, The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848.  1980.
George J. Sheridan, The Social and Economic Foundations of Association among the Silk Weavers of Lyon,
1852-1870. 1981.
Mark Traugott, ed., The French Worker:  Autobiographies from the Early Industrial Era, California, 1993.
Steven M. Zdatny, The Politics of Survival: Artisans in 20th Century France. Oxford, 1990.
 

INDUSTRIALIZATION:

Lenard Berlanstein, Big Business and Industrial Conflict in 19thc France.  1991.
Herrick Chapman, State Capitalism and Working-Class Radicalism in the French Aircraft Industry.  Berkeley,
1991.
C. R. Day, Education for the Industrial World: The Ecoles d'Arts et Métiers and the Rise of French Industrial
Engineering. Cambridge, MA, 1987.
Charles E. Freedman, The Joint-Stock Enterprise in France, 1807-1867.  1979.
Jack E. S. Hayward, The State and the Market Economy: Industrial Patriotism and Economic Intervention in
France. 1985.
William A. Hoisington, Taxpayer Revolt in France: The National Taxpayers Federation 1928-1939. Stanford,
1973.
Christopher H. Johnson, The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc 1700-1920.  Oxford, 1989.
Tom Kemp, The French Economy, 1913-1939. London, 1972.
Richard Kuisel, Capitalism and the State in Modern France, Cambridge, 1981.
James M. Laux, In First Gear: The French Automobile Industry to 1914.  1976.
Leo Loubère, The Red and the White: Wine in France and Italy in the 19th Century.  1977.
Guy Palmade, French Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century. New York, 1972.
Roger Price, An Economic History of Modern France, 1730-1914. New York, 1981.
William Reddy, The Rise of Market Culture: The Textile Trade and French Society, 1750-1900. Cambridge,
1984.
Michael S. Smith, Tariff Reform in France, 1860-1900: The Politics of Economic Interest.  Ithaca, 1980.
 

VI.  Nobility, Bourgeoisie, and Petite Bourgeoisie

General Reading:  Philippe Perrot, Fashioning the Bourgeoisie, Princeton, 1996

Optional:

Adeline Daumard, La bourgeoisie parisienne de 1815 à 1848. Paris, 1963.
Nicholas Green, The Spectacle of Nature:  Landscape and Bourgeois Culture in Nineteenth-Century France,
New York, 1990.
Jean Lhomme, La grande bourgeoisie au pouvoir. Paris, 1960.
Michael Miller, The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store, 1869-1920.  Princeton, 1981.
Philip Nord, Paris Shopkeepers and the Politics of Resentment. Princeton, 1986.
Bonnie Smith, Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoisie of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century.
Princeton, 1981.
 A.-J. Tudesq, Les grands notables en France, 1840-1849. 2 vols.  Paris, 1964.
Whitney Walton, France and the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth
Century. Berkeley, 1992.
William Weber, Music and the Middle Classes.
Emile Zola, Au bonheur des dames/ Ladies' Delight
SEE ALSO INTELLECTUAL/ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL SECTIONS BELOW.
 

VII.  Peasants and the Provinces

General reading: Eugen Weber, Peasants Into Frenchmen

Optional:

Michael Burns, Rural Society and French Politics: Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair, 1886-1900. Princeton,
1984.
Alain Corbin, The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870. Cambridge, MA, 1992.
Caroline Ford, Creating the Nation in Provincial France:  Religion and Political Identity in Brittany. Princeton,
1993.
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Histoire de la France rurale. Vol. 3.  Paris, 1975.
Jack Reece, The Bretons Against France. 1977.
Martine Segalen, Love and Power in the Peasant Family.
Barnett Singer, Village Notables in 19th c. France.  Albany, 1983.
Gordon Wright, Rural Revolution in France. 1964.
 

VIII.  Imperialism

Read one of the following and write a book review:

Robert Aldrich, France and the South Pacific since 1940, Honolulu, 1993.
Robert Aldrich, The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842-1940, New York, 1990.
Robert Aldrich, Greater France:  A History of French Overseas Expansion.  New York, 1996.
Christopher M. Andrew and A.S. Kanya-Forstner, The Climax of French Imperial Expansion, 1914-1924,
Stanford, 1981.
Thomas G. August, The Selling of the Empire:  British and French Imperialist Propaganda, 1890-1940,
Westport, CT, 1985.
Raymond F. Betts, Tricouleur:  The French Overseas Empire, London, 1978.
Henri Brunschwig, French Colonialism, 1871-1914:  Myths and Realities, London, 1966.
Anthony Clayton, The Wars of French Decolonization, New York, 1994.
William B. Cohen, The French Encounter with Africans:  White Response to Blacks, 1530-1880, Bloomington,
1980.
Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize:  The Repulican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-
1930, Stanford, 1997.
D. K. Fieldhouse, Black Africa, 1945-1980:  Economic Decolonization and Arrested Development, London, 1986
Henri Grimal, Decolonization:  The British, French, Dutch and Belgian Empires, 1919-1963.  Boulder, CO, 1978
Stephen Henningham, France and the South Pacific:  A Contemporary History, Honolulu, 1992.
Herman Lebovics, True France:  The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900-1945.  Ithaca, 1992.
Robert S. Lee, France and the Exploitation of China, 1885-1901:  A Study in Economic Imperialism, Oxford,
1989.
Michael A. Osborne, Nature, the Exotic, and the Science of French Colonialism.  Bloomington, 1994.
Stuart Michael Persell, The French Colonial Lobby, 1889-1938.  Stanford, 1983.
 Martin Shipway, The Road to War:  France and Vietnam, 1944-1947, Providence, 1996.
Tony Smith, The French Stake in Algeria, 1945-1962, Ithaca, 1978.
Patrick J.N. Tuck, French Catholic Missionaries and the Politics of Imperialism in Vietnam, 1857-1914:  A
Documentary Survey.  Liverpool, 1987.
 

IX.  Children and Education
 
Read one of the following and write a book review:

Robert D. Anderson, Education in France, 1848-1870.  Oxford, 1975.
Philippe Ariès, Centuries of Childhood. 1962.
Linda Clark, Schooling the Daughters of Marianne (Albany, 1984)
Maurice Crubellier, L'enfance et la jeunesse dans la sociétéfrançaise, 1800-1950. Paris, 1979.
Rachel Fuchs, Abandoned Children: Foundlings and Social Welfare in Nineteenth-Century France.  Albany, NY,
1983.
François Furet and Jacques Ozouf, Reading and Writing. Cambridge, 1982.
Robert Gildea, Education in Provincial France, 1800-1914: A Study of Three Departments. 1983.
Raymond Grew and Patrick J. Harrigan, School, State, and Society: The Growth of Elementary Schooling in
Nineteenth-Century France; A Quantitative Analysis. Ann Arbor, MI, 1992.
Stephen Harp, Learning to Be Loyal:  Primary Schooling as Nation Building in Alsace and Lorraine, 1850-1940,
Dekalb, IL, 1998.
Patrick J. Harrigan, Elites and Education in French Society of the Second Empire. 1980.
Sandra Horvath-Peterson, Victor Duruy and French Education: Liberal Reform in the Second Empire.  Baton
Rouge, LA, 1984.
Jo Burr Margadant, Madame le Professeur: Women Educators in the Third Republic.  Princeton, 1990.
Mary Jo Maynes, Schooling for the People: A Comparative Local History of Schooling in France and Germany,
1750-1850. New York, 1985.
RR Palmer, The Improvement of Humanity:  Education and the French Revolution.  Princeton, 1985.
Antoine Prost, Histoire de l'enseignement en France, 1800-1967. Paris, 1968.
Robert Smith, The Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Third Republic.  Albany, NY, 1982.
Phyllis Stock-Morton, Better than Rubies: A History of Women's Education.  New York, 1978.
George Sussman, Selling Mother's Milk: The Wet-Nursing Business in France, 1715-1914.  Urbana, IL, 1982.
Lee Shai Weissbach, Child Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century France.  Baton Rouge, LA, 1989.
George Weisz, The Emergence of Modern Universities in France. Princeton, 1983.
 

IX.  Intellectual and Artistic Life

Read one of the following and write a review:

James Smith Allen, Popular French Romanticism: Authors, Readers, and Books in the 19th Century. Syracuse,
1981.
Susanna Barrows, Distorting Mirrors: Visions of the Crowd in 19thc. France 1981.
Marilyn Brown, Gypsies and Other Bohemians: The Myth of the Artist in Nineteenth-Century France. Ann
Arbor, MI, 1985.
Linda L. Clark, Social Darwinism in France.  Tuscaloosa, AL, 1984.
Terry N. Clark, Prophets and Patrons: French Universities and the Emergence of the Social Sciences. 1978.
Claude Digeon, La crise allemande de la pensée française, 1870-1914. Paris, 1959.
David James Fisher, Romain Rolland and the Politics of Intellectual Engagement.  1988.
Jane Fulcher, The Grand Opera: Politics and Politicization of Music
Arthur Hisch, The French New Left: An Intellectual History from Sartre to Gorz (1981).
 H. Stuart Hughes, Consciousness and Society. New York, 1959.
H. Stuart Hughes, The Obstructed Path. New York, 1966.
Tony Judt, Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956. Berkeley, 1992.
Richard Lebrun, Joseph de Maistre: An Intellectual Militant. Montreal, 1988.
Patricia Mainardi, The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Third Republic.  Cambridge, 1993.
Michael Marrinan, Painting Politics for Louis Philippe: Art and Ideology in Orléanist France, 1830-1848.
A. David Pace, Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Bearer of Ashes.  1983.
Roberts, Warren, Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist.  Chapel Hill, 1989.
Robert Shattuck, The Banquet Years: The Arts in France, 1885-1918. New York, 1958.
Daniel Sherman, Worthy Monuments: Art Museums and the Politics of Culture in Nineteenth-Century France.
Cambridge, Mass., 1989.
Deborah Silverman, Art Nouveau in Fin de Siècle France. Berkeley, 1989.
Anne M. Wagner, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Sculptor of the Second Empire. 1986.
William Weber, Music and the Middle Class. 1975.
William Weber, Wagnerism in European Culture and Politics. 1984.
Carol Zemel, The Formation of a Legend: Van Gogh Criticsim, 1890-1920.  1980
 

X.  Culture and Popular Culture

Read one of the following and write a book review:

Ellen Furlough, Consumer Cooperation in France: The Politics of Consumption, 1834-1930.  Ithaca, 1991.
Thomas A. Kselman, Death and the Afterlife in Modern France. Princeton, 1993.
Thomas A. Kselman, Miracles and Prophecies in 19thc. France. New Brunswick, NJ, 1983.
Robert Nye, Crime, Madness, and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline.
Princeton, 1984.
Charles Rearick, The Pleasures of the Belle Epoque. New Haven, 1985.
Pierre Sorlin, European Cinemas, European Societies, 1939-1990.  1991.
Whitney Walton, France and the Crystal Palace. Berkeley, 1992.
Eugen Weber, Fin-de-Siècle France. Cambridge, 1986.
Alan Williams, A History of French Filmmaking. 1992.
Rosalind H. Williams, Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in late 19th c. France.  1990.
 

XI.  World War I

General reading:  David Londoner, "The French Soldier, 1914-1918," French History I (March 1987): 49-67

Read one of the following and write a book review:

Origins and Conduct of the war:

C. M. Andrew, Théophile Delcassé and the Making of the Entente Cordiale.  New York, 1968.
Denise Artaud, La Reconstruction de l'Europe. Paris, 1973.
Marjorie Milbank Farrar, Conflict and Compromise: The Strategy, Politics and Diplomacy of the French
Blockade, 1914-1918. The Hague, 1974.
Paul G. Halpern, The Naval War in the Mediterranean, 1914-1918. 1987.
Alistair Horne, The Price of Glory. New York, 1962.
Alexander S. Mitrakos, France in Greece during World War I: A Study in the Politics of Power. 1982.
Douglas Porch, The March to the Marne: The French Army, 1870-1914.  New York, 1982.
Charles Rearick, The French in Love and War:  Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars, New Haven,
 1997.
Smith, Leonard V., Between Mutiny and Obedience:  The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division during
World War I. Princeton, 1994.
D. Stevenson, French War Aims against Germany, 1914-1919. New York, 1982.
Eugen Weber, The Nationalist Revival in France.  Los Angeles, 1959.
 

XII.  Interwar France and Gender

General Reading:  Mary Louise Roberts, A Civilization without Sexes

Optional:

Interwar France:
Nicole Jordan, The Popular Front and Central Europe: The Dilemmas of French Impotence, 1918-1940.
Cambridge, 1992.
Charles S. Maier, Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy after WWI.  1975.
Sally Marks, The Illusion of Peace: International Relations in Europe, 1918-1933.  1976.
Walter A. McDougall, France's Rhineland Diplomacy, 1914-1924: The Last Bid for a Balance of Power in
Europe. Princeton, 1978.
Michael Miller, Shanghai on the Metro:  Spies, Intrigue and the French between the Wars, Berkeley, 1994.
Mosse, George, Fallen Soldiers, Oxford, 1990.
Stephen A. Schuker, The End of French Predominance in Europe. Chapel Hill, 1976.
Marc Trachtenberg, Reparations in World Politics. New York, 1980.
Eugen Weber, The Hollow Years:  France in the 1930s, New York, 1994.
Robert Wohl, The Generation of 1914.  Cambridge, MA, 1979.

Women and Gender::
Linda L. Clark, Schooling the Daughters of Marianne: Textbooks and the Socialization of Girls in Modern
French Primary Schools.  Albany, NY, 1984.
Sarah Fishman:  We Will Wait: Wives of French Prisoners of War, 1940-1945. New Haven, 1991.
Rachel Fuchs, Poor and Pregnant in Paris, New Brunswick, NJ, 1992.
Jill Harsin, Policing Prostitution in 19thc. Paris. Princeton, 1985.
Steven C. Hause, Women's Suffrage and Social Politics in the Third French Republic. Princeton, 1984.
Patricia J. Hilden, Working Women and Socialist Politics in France: A Regional Study.  Oxford, 1986.
Angus McLaren, Sexuality and the Social Order: The Debate over the Fertility of Women and Workers in
France, 1770-1920. 1983.
James F. McMillan, Housewife or Harlot: The Woman Question in France under the Third Republic. New York,
1981.
Marie Marmo Mullaney, Revolutionary Women: Gender and the Socialist Revolutionary Role.  Praeger, 1983.
Robert Nye, Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France.  Oxford, 1992.
Dorinda Outram, The Body and the French Revolution: Sex, Class, and Political Culture.  New Haven, 1989.
Dorinda Outram, Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1972.  New Brunswick, 1987.
Rebecca Rogers, Les Demoiselles de la Légion d'Honneur au XIXe siècle.  Paris, 1990.
Londa Schiebinger, The Mind Has No Sex?  Women in the Origins of Modern Science. 1989.
Bonnie Smith, Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoisie of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century.
Princeton, 1981.
Charles Sowerwine, Sisters or Citizens?  Women and Socialism in France since 1876.  Cambridge, 1982.
Mary Lynn Stewart, Women, Work, and the French State.  Montreal, 1989.
 
XIII.  World War II and Vichy

General reading:  Robert Paxton, Vichy France

Optional:

Anthony Adamthwaite, France and the Coming of the Second World War, 1936-39.  London, 1977.
Robert Aron, France Reborn: The History of the Liberation. New York, 1964.
Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat. New York, 1949.
Robert A. Doughty, The Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-1939.  Hamden,
CT, 1985.
J.B. Duroselle, La Décadence, 1932-1939. Paris, 1979.
Sarah Fishman, We Will Wait: Wives of French Prisoners of War, 1940-1945.  New Haven, 1991.
Bertram Gordon, Collaborationism in France during the Second World War.  1980.
Richard Griffiths. Marshal Pétain. London, 1970.
John Hellman, The Knight Monks of Vichy France, Uriage, 1940-1945.  Montreal, 1993.
Judith Hughes, To the Maginot Line. Cambridge, MA, 1972.
H. R. Kedward, In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France, 1942-1944.  Oxford, 1993.
H. R. Kedward, Resistance in Vichy France. Oxford, 1978.
Herbert R. Lottman, The Purge: The Purification of French Collaborators after World War II.  New York, 1986.
Michael Marrus, Vichy France and the Jews. 1981.
Alan S. Milward, War, Economy, and Society, 1939-1945. Berkeley, 1977.
Peter Novick, The Resistance vs. Vichy: The Purge of Collaborators in Liberated France.  1968.
Henri Rousso, Le Syndrome de Vichy. Paris, 1987.
John F. Sweets, The Politics of Resistance in France. Dekalb, IL, 1976.
John F. Sweets, Choices in Vichy France.  New York, 1986.
Robert J. Young, In Command of France: French Foreign and Military Planning, 1933-1940.  Cambridge, 1978.
 

XIV.  Remembering World War II in Postwar France

General Reading:  Henry Rousso, The Vichy Syndrome:   History and Memory in France since 1944.
Cambridge, MA, 1991.
 

XV.  Postwar France, part 2

General reading:  Richard Kuisel, Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization.  Berkeley, 1993.

Jean Fourastie, Les trentes glorieuses: ou, la Révolution de 1946 à 1975. Paris, 1975.
John Gillingham, Coal, Steel, and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945-1955: The Germans and the French from the Ruhr
Conflict to the European Community.  1991.
Arthur E. Hirsch, The French New Left: An Intellectual History from Sartre to Gorz.  Boston, 1981.
Irwin Wall, The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945-54. Cambridge, 1991.
Tony Judt, Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956. Berkeley, 1992.
Alan S. Milward, The Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1945-1951.  London, 1984.
Alan S. Milward, The European Rescue of the Nation-State. Berkeley, 1993.
Vivien Schmidt, Democratizing France: The Political and Administrative History of Decentralization. Cambridge,
1990.