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Book SynopsisCharles Sowerwine is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Table of ContentsList of Maps Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations French Regimes European Union Member States by Date of Accession Eurozone Member States by Date of Accession PART I: THE RISE OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC, 1870-85 1. France in the Nineteenth Century 2. The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, 1870-71 3. The Triumph of the Republicans, 1871-85 4. The Cultural Bases of Republicanism PART II: TESTING TIME FOR THE REPUBLIC, 1885-1918 5. Challenges to the Republic (1): Constructing the Modern Right 6. Challenges to the Republic (2): Constructing the Modern Left 7. The Cultural Revolution of the Belle Époque 8. The Great War 1914-18 PART III: THE DECLINE OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC, 1919-40 9. France after the War 1919-28 10. France in the Depression 1929-35 11. The Popular Front 1936-37 12. Culture Between the Wars 13. The Fall of France 1938-40 PART IV: VICHY AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1940-6 14. Vichy in Power, 1940-42 15. Resistance and Liberation, 1942-44 16. Liberated France 1944-46 17. Existentialism: Culture of the Resistance? PART V: THE FOURTH REPUBLIC, 1946-58 18. Vietnam War, Cold War, 1946-54 19. The 1950s: Coke, Culture and the French Economic Miracle 20. The Algerian War Erupts, 1954-7 21. The Fall of the Fourth Republic,1958 PART VI: THE FIFTH REPUBLIC I, 1958-69 22. De Gaulle's Presidency, 1958-68: Algeria vs 'Grandeur' 23. Cultural Explosion: New Theory, New Cinema, New Novel 24. Social Explosion: May '68 PART VII: THE FIFTH REPUBLIC II, 1969-95 25. Pompidou and Giscard's Presidencies, 1969-81: May's Aftershocks and the End of the Trente Glorieuses 26. Mitterrand's Presidency, 1981-88: 'Socialist France'? 27. Mitterrand's Presidency, 1988-95: Stalemate 28. Culture after '68: Conflicting Trends PART VIII: THE FIFTH REPUBLIC III, 1995-2017 29. Chirac's Presidency, 1995-2002: From Juppé to Jospin 30. Chirac's Presidency, 2002-7: Sarkozy Rising 31. Sarkozy's Presidency, 2007-12: Neo-Liberalism and GFC 32. Hollande's Presidency, 2012-17: Socialism or Neo-Liberalism? 33. Racism, Pessimism, Despair: A Culture for the 21st Century Conclusion Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Index.
