1st Edition
The Third Republic in France, 1870-1940 Conflicts and Continuities
By William Fortescue
Copyright 2000
268 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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An essential 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
* the character of the French Right and of French fascism.
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)
Biography
William Fortescue