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Course Description
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.
Lectures
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1. Introduction to France Since 1871
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2. The Paris Commune and Its Legacy
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3. Centralized State and Republic
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4. A Nation? Peasants, Language, and French Identity
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5. Workshop and Factory
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6. The Waning of Religious Authority
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7. Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left
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8. Dynamite Club: The Anarchists
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9. General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus
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10. Cafes and the Culture of Drink
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11. Paris and the Belle Epoque
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12. French Imperialism
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13. The Origins of World War I
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14. Trench Warfare
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15. The Home Front
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16. The Great War, Grief, and Memory
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17. The Popular Front
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18. The Dark Years: Vichy France
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19. Resistance
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20. Battles For and Against Americanization
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21. Vietnam and Algeria
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22. Charles De Gaulle
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23. May 1968
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24. Immigration
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Discussion