France Since 1871

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Lecture 1. Introduction
Lecture 2. The Paris Commune and Its Legacy
Lecture 3. Centralized State and Republic
Lecture 4. A Nation? Peasants, Language, and French Identity
Lecture 5. The Waning of Religious Authority
Lecture 6. Workshop and Factory
Lecture 7. Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left
Lecture 8. Dynamite Club: The Anarchists
Lecture 9. General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus
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France Since 1871

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The Home Front: Questions/Thoughts?	Ashish Gupta (13)
Trench Warfare: Questions/Thoughts?	Ashish Gupta (13)
The Origins of World War I: Questions/Thoughts?	Ashish Gupta (13)

About This Course

This course covers the emergence of modern France. Topics include the social, economic, and political transformation of France; the impact of France's revolutionary heritage, of industrialization, and of the dislocation wrought by two world wars; and the political response of the Left and the Right to changing French society.

Instructor: John Merriman
Source: Yale OpenCourseWare
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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