History 714
Studies in French History Since 1815
Professor Rothney
Aims of the Course
History 714 aims to acquaint graduate students, through reading of standard works and recent scholarship, with the chief interpretive problems of modern French history in the nineteenth century.
Evaluation
Evaluation will be based upon class participation and on the one page book reviews to be handed in each week. Each review should contain a concise (e.g. one paragraph) statement of the author's viewpoint, thesis and conclusion. This should be followed by an appropriate critique of the thesis. These papers will serve two purposes:
To share written information on the book each student has read with other members of the class; and
To develop the skill of digesting, summarizing, and assessing works of scholarship.
Background
The most satisfactory and comprehensive textbook about modern France is Gordon Wright, France in Modern Times (Third edition, 1981).
Office House
To be listed and by appointment: 292?447
SCHEDULE OF TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. INTRODUCTORY MEETING
2. THE LEGACIES OF THE GREAT REVOLUTION AND THE NAPOLEONIC REGIME
Crane Brinton, A Decade of Revolution
Alfred Cobban, The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution
Paul Farmer, France Reviews its Revolutionary Origins
Fran?is Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution
Norman Hampson, A Social History of the French Revolution
Jeffrey Kaplow, ed., New Perspectives on the French Revolution
Georges Lefebvre, The French Revolution also in French)
Robert R. Palmer, The Age of Democratic Revolution, vol. I
R. B. Rose, The Making of the Sans?ulottes
George Rude, The Crowd in the French Revolution
Albert Soboul, The Parisian sans?ulottes and the French Revolution 1793?974
J. M. Thompson, Robespierre and the French Revolution
Leaders of the French Revolution
Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the Revolution
Pieter Geyl, Napoleon, For and Against
Robert B. Holtman, The Napoleonic Revolution
Georges Lefebvre, Napoleon
Felix Markham, Napoleon and the Awakening of Europe
3. THE REGIME CENSITAIRE (1815?848 AND THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF NINETEENTH?ENTURY FRENCH POLITICS
Ronald Aminzade, Class, Politics and Early Industrial Capitalism
J. M. S. Allison, Monsieur Thiers
E. B. Artz, France Under the Bourbon Restoration
S. Charlety, La monarchie de juillet
Douglas Johnson, Guizot: Aspects of French History
Sherman Kent, Electoral Politics under Louis Philippe
P. M. de la Gorce, La Restauration
Jean Lhomme, La grande bourgeoisie au pouvoir
Charles Moraze, La France bourgeoise
P. Barral, Les Perier dans l'Isere
R. Remond, La vie politique en France, I
P. Vigier, La monarchie de juillet
P. L. R. Higonnet and T. B. Higonnet, Class, Corruption, and Politics in the French Chamber of Deputies, 1846?," FHS, V (Fall, 1967) 204?24
David Pinkney, Decisive Years in France, 1840?847
4. THE MECHANISM OF REVOLUTION, 1830?871
Georges Bourgin, La Commune
Louis Girard, Etude comparee des mouvements revolutionnaires en France 1830?871, 2 vols.
F. Jellinek, The Paris Commune of 1871
Edward S. Mason, The Paris Commune
K. Marx, Class Struggles in France 1848?850
Roger Price, ed., Revolution and Reaction: 1848 and the Second French Republic
Donald C. McKay, The National Workshops
John M. Merriman, ed., 1830 in France
David Pinkney, The Revolution of 1830
G. de Bertiev de Sauvigny, La revolution de 1830
J. P. Plamenatz, The Revolutionary Tradition in France
R. L. Williams, The French Revolution of 1870?871.
de Tocqueville, The Recollections
G. Duveau, 1848: The Making of a Revolution (also in French)
5 THE PERSONALITIES OF THE SECOND EMPIRE
J. M. and Brian Chapman, The Life and Times of Baron Haussman
T. A. B. Corley, Democratic Despot: A Life of Napoleon III
Adrien Dansette, Louis?apoleon a la conquete du pouvoir
A. L. Guerard, Napoleon III
Ernest d' Hauterive, ed., Correspondence inedite de Napoleon III et Prince Napoleon (also in English)
Jean Maurain, Un bourgeois francais du XIXe siecle: Baroche . . .
Napoleon III, Napoleonic Ideas
Robert Schnerb, Rouher et le Second Empire
R. L. Williams, Gaslight and Shadow: The World of Napoleon III
Theodore Zeldin, Emile Ollivier and the Liberal Empire of Napoleon III
J. P. T. Bury and R. P. Tombs, Thiers 1797?877: A Political Life
B. Le Clere and V. Wright, Les Prefects du Second Empire
6. THE PROBLEM OF THE POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SECOND EMPIRE
M. Blanchard, Le Second Empire
J. P. T. Bury, Napoleon III and the Second Empire
Stuart M. Campbell, The Second Empire Revisited: A Study in French Historiography
Lynn M. Case, French Opinion on War and Diplomacy during the Second Empire
H. A. L. Fisher, Bonapartism
K. Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis?apoleon Bonaparte
R. Remond, La vie politique en France, II
F. A. Simpson, Louis Napoleon and the Recovery of France
J. M. Thompson, Louis?apoleon and the Second Empire
A. J. Tudesq, L'election presidentielle de Louis?apoleon Bonaparte
Theodore Zeldin, The political system of Napoleon III
Louis Girard, ed., Les Elections de 1869
Problems politicks et constitutionnels du Second Empire
Bernard Menager, Les Napol?n du peuple
7 FRANCE AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
H. N. Boon, Reve et realite dans l'oeuvre economique et sociale de Napoleon III
Edward C. Carter II, Robert Forster, and Joseph N. Moody, Enterprise and Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth and twentieth Century France
Rondo E. Cameron, France and the Economic Development of Europe
, "Economic Growth and Stagnation in France 1815?914," Journal of Modern History XXX (1958), 1 ?13
J. Clapham, The Economic Development of France and Germany
Shepherd Clough, France: A History of National Economics
, "French Social Structure, Social Values, and Economic Growth, in E. M. Acomb and M. L. Brown, eds., French Society and Culture since the Old Regime
A. L. Dunham, The Industrial Revolution in France 1815 ?1848
____________, The Anglo?rench Treaty of Commerce of 1860 and the Progress of the Industrial Revolution in France
Louis Girard, La politique des toravaux publiques sous le Second Empire
Charles E. Freedeman, Joint?tock Enterprise in France, 1807?867
David S. Landes, "French Business and the Businessman: A Social and Cultural Analysis," in E. M. Earle, ed., Modern France: Problems of the Third and Fourth Republic
Guy Palmade, Capitalisme et capitalistes francais au XIXe siecle
Roger Price, An Economic History of Modern France, 1730?914
Henri See, Histoire economique de la France, II
8. EXPLORATIONS IN FRENCH SOCIAL HISTORY
R. T. and B. G. Anderson, Bus Stop for Paris
A. Armengaud, Les populations de l'Est?quitain au debut de l'epoque contemporaine
A. Daumard, La bourgeoisie parisienne de 1815 a 1848
Alain Corbin, Archaisme et modernite en Limousin au XIXe siecle, 1845?880
G. Dupeux, Aspects de l'histoire sociale et politque du Loir?t?her, 1848?914
La societe francaise, 1789?960
G. Duveau, Les instituteurs
M. Faure, Les paysans dans la societe francaise
L. Girard, M. Prost, and R. Gossez, Les conseillers?eneraux en 1870
John M. Merriman, ed. Consciousness and Class Experience in 19th Century Europe
L'histoire sociale: sources et methodes?olloque de l'Ecole normale superieure de Saint?loud, 15?6 mai 1965
Jean Rabaut, Histoire des feminismes?rancais
A. J. Tudesq, Les Conseillers?eneraux au temps de Guizot
Charles Tilly, The Vendee
P. Vigier, La Seconde Republique dans la region alpine
Gordon Wright, Rural Revolution in France
A. Siegfried, Tableau politique de la France de l'ouest sous la Troisieme Republique
Claire G. Moses, French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernisation of Rural France
Francois Furet and Jacque Ozouf, Lire et ecrire: 1 'alphabetisation des Francais de Calvin a Jules Ferry, 2 vols.
9. ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC
Katherine Auspitz, The Radical Bourgeoisie: The Ligue de l'Enseignement and the Origins of the Third Republic, 1866?885
Jacques Chastenet, Histoire de la Troisieme Republic, I: L'Enfance de la Troisieme
Daniel Halevy, La fin des notables, 2 vols.
A. Thibaudet, La Republique des professeurs
David Thomson, Democracy in France since 1897
J. H. Jackson, Clemenceau and the Third Republic
Louis Girard, Politique interieure de la Troisieme Republique
G. Chevallier, Clochemerle
R. de Jouvenel, La Republique des camarades
10. THE CHALLENGES OF LEFT AND RIGHT TO THE REPUBLICAN SYSTEM, 1870?914
S. Bernstein, The Beginnings of Marxian Socialism in France
W. C. Buthman, The Rise of Integral Nationalism in France
Robert F. Byrnes, Anti?emitism in Modern France, I
A. Dansette, Le Boulangisme
H. Goldberg, The Life of Jean Jaures
Aaron Noland, The Founding of the French Socialist Party, 1893?905
G. Lefranc, Le mouvement socialiste sous la Troisieme Republique
Rene Remond, The Right Wing in France (also in French)
J. Rothney, Bonapartism after Sedan
Joan W. Scott, The Glassworkers of Carmaux: French Craftsmen and Political Action in a Nineteenth Century City
Zeev Sternhell, La droite revolutionnaire 1885?914: Les origines francaises du fascisme
Frederick Seager, The Boulanger Affair
Alexander Sedgwick, The Railliement in French Politics
E. R. Tannenbaum, Action Francaise
Eugen Weber, Action Francaise
11. CONCLUDING DISCUSSION
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