HIST 276
France Since 1871
Fall 2007
Topics
- Introduction
- Centralized State and Republic
- The Waning of Religious Authority
- Workshop and Factory
- Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left
- Dynamite Club: The Anarchists
- General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus
- Cafés and the Culture of Drink
- Paris and the Belle Époque
- French Imperialism (Guest Lecture by Charles Keith)
- The Origins of World War I
- Trench Warfare
- The Home Front
- The Great War, Grief, and Memory (Guest Lecture by Bruno Cabanes)
- The Popular Front
- The Dark Years: Vichy France
- Resistance
- Battles For and Against Americanization
- Vietnam and Algeria
- Charles De Gaulle
- May 1968
- Immigration
Readings
- Barbusse, Henri. Under Fire. London: Penguin Books, 2004.
- Bloch, Marc. Strange Defeat. New York: Norton, 1999.
- Carles, Emilie. A Life of Her Own. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
- Farmer, Sarah. Martyred Village. Berkley: University of California Press, 2000.
- Sowerwine, Charles. France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
- Zola, Emile. Germinal. London: Penguin Books, 2004.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical Open Yale Courses
- Historical Open Yale Courses offering. Texts and lecture titles are reproduced as bibliographic and topic information; reading requirements vary by the linked syllabus.