Empire, War, and Modernity: France and the World in the 20th Century

Undergraduate credit

In the fall of 2005, people all over the world were shocked to see images broadcast on television of young men in France burning cars and schools in their own neighborhoods and battling with heavily armored police on the outskirts of many French cities. With the help of autobiographies, novels, and works of history written by French people who lived in metropolitan France, as well as Senegal, Algeria, and Martinique, we examine the painful trajectory of French history across this period.