HIST 22300 - Modern France

Course Credit: 1
A survey of French politics, society, and culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Topics include: the revolutionary tradition and the revolutions of 1848, Napoleon III and the Second Empire, consumer culture, the Franco-Prussian War, the Paris Commune, peasants and workers, the belle époque and the Dreyfus Affair, the First World War, avant-garde culture, the crises of the interwar era, Vichy France, the wars of decolonization, May 1968, Immigration. [C, HSS]