List of Figures
List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 "The Oldest Nation of Europe"
2 Eighteenth-Century French Society and Economy
3 Culture and Thought in Eighteenth-Century France
4 Government under Challenge
5 Collapse of the Old Monarchy
6 Successes and Failures of the Liberal Revolution
7 The Radical Revolution
8 The Return to Order
9 The Napoleonic Years
10 The Restoration
11 The July Monarchy and Its Critics
12 A New Social World
13 The Revolution of 1848: The Crisis of Bourgeois Society
14 The Second Empire’s Decade of Prosperity
15 The Second Empire in Difficulties
16 The Paris Commune and the Origins of the Third Republic
17 The Republicans in Power
18 Economic Depression and Political Crises
19 The Dreyfus Affair and the Bloc Républican
20 Culture and Society at the Fin De Siècle
21 The Belle Époque
22 The Plunge into War
23 Crisis, Victory, and Disillusionment
24 France between the Wars
25 The Illusion of Normality
26 From the Popular Front to the War
27 France in the Second World War
28 The Road to Liberation
29 The Revival of the Parliamentary Republic
30 From the Fourth to the Fifth Republic
31 Politics and Economy in De Gaulle’s Republic
32 Society and Culture during the "Thirty Glorious Years"
33 May 1968 and the End of the Gaullist Era
34 The Mitterrand Years
35 France Enters a New Millennium
36 A New Age of Instability
Appendix: For Further Reading
Index
Biography
Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky, USA.
