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Transnational France: The Modern History of a Universal Nation book cover

2nd Edition

Transnational France The Modern History of a Universal Nation

By Tyler Stovall Copyright 2022
458 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

458 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

458 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Now in its second edition, Tyler Stovall’s Transnational France takes a transnational approach to the history of modern France that draws the reader into a key aspect of France’s political culture: universalism. Beginning with the French Revolution and its aftermath, Stovall traces French history right up to the present day and examines France’s relations with three other areas of the world:... Read more

Introduction

1. French Revolution, World Revolution

2. Restoration, Revolution, and Empire: France, 1815–1852

3. Imperial Democracy? France under the Second Empire, 1852–1870

4. Paris: The Making of a World Capital

5. The Universal Republic

6. The Republican Empire

7. The Universal Nation in a World at War

8. From One War to Another: The Universal Nation in Crisis

9. France in the Second World War: Defeat and Rebirth of the Universal Nation

10. The Fourth Republic: New Challenges for the Transnational Nation

11. The Fifth Republic: A New Era for France

12. Postcolonial France: A New Universal Nation?

13. Into the Present: France in the Twenty-First Century

Conclusion

Biography

Tyler Stovall is the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University in New York, USA. He is a historian of modern France and his most recent book is White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea (2021).

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