UID:
almahu_9949385804802882
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 393 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
Fifth edition.
ISBN:
9781315150727
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1315150727
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9781351366663
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1351366661
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9781351366670
,
135136667X
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9781351366687
,
1351366688
Content:
"This book offers a framework to understand modern French history through a survey of the dramatic events that have punctuated its history from the eighteenth century to the present day. It takes a chronological approach that is approachable for students and gives them a clear and understandable picture of the history of modern France. This edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate the most recent scholarship and extend coverage into the present day. Supported by further reading that has been updated to include the most recent publications, the book is the ideal introduction to the history of modern France for students of this fascinating country."--
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "The Oldest Nation of Europe" -- A Variegated Hexagon -- The Historical Heritage -- 2. Eighteenth-Century French Society and Economy -- Villages and Peasants -- Cities and the Urban Population -- Nobles -- Clergy -- A Changing Economy -- The Growth of Population -- The Agricultural Sector -- Manufacturing and Commerce -- 3. Culture and Thought in Eighteenth-Century France -- The French Enlightenment -- The Eighteenth-Century Public
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4. A Government under Challenge -- The Absolutist System and Its Weaknesses -- The Breakdown of Absolutism, 1750 to 1774 -- The Reign of Louis XVI, 1774 to 1787 -- France and the European State System -- 5. Collapse of the Old Monarchy -- From Failed Reforms to Revolutionary Crisis -- Meeting of the Estates-General -- The Parliamentary Revolution -- The Storming of the Bastille -- 6. Successes and Failures of the Liberal Revolution -- The "Abolition of Feudalism" and the Declaration of Rights -- The October Days -- A New Political Culture
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The Accomplishments of the National Assembly, 1789 to 1791 -- The Revolution and the Reform of the Church -- The King's Flight and the Crisis of 1791 -- 7. The Radical Revolution -- The Legislative Assembly and the War -- The Revolt against Slavery -- The Move toward War -- The Overthrow of the Monarchy -- The Convention and the Republic -- Girondins and Montagnards -- The Dictatorship of the Jacobins -- Revolutionary Culture -- The Great Terror and Thermidor -- 8. The Return to Order -- The Thermidorian Reaction -- The Directory -- 9. The Napoleonic Years -- The Consul and the Consulate
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The Napoleonic Empire -- Elements of Opposition -- The End of the Empire -- 10. The Restoration -- France in 1814 -- The Return of the Bourbons and the Hundred Days -- The Consolidation of Constitutional Monarchy -- Postrevolutionary France -- The Revolution of 1830 -- 11. The July Monarchy and Its Critics -- The Bourgeois Monarchy and Its Foes -- The Regime's Opponents -- Prophetic Voices -- Orléanist Liberalism -- 12. A New Social World -- The Beginnings of French Industrialization -- Bourgeois Society -- The New Urban World -- Cultural Trends
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13. The Revolution of 1848: The Crisis of Bourgeois Society -- The February Revolution -- The Provisional Government -- The June Days and the Conservative Republic -- The Troubled Republic -- 14. The Second Empire's Decade of Prosperity -- The Empire's New Clothes -- Haussmann's Rebuilding of Paris -- Foreign Adventures -- 15. The Second Empire in Difficulties -- Domestic Policies in the Empire's Second Decade -- The Cultural Climate -- The Gamble of the Liberal Empire -- The Franco-Prussian War -- 16. The Paris Commune and the Origins of the Third Republic -- The Government of National Defense
Additional Edition:
Print version: Popkin, Jeremy D., 1948- A history of modern France. New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 ISBN 9781138557185
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315150727
