The Third Republic in France, 1870-1940: Conflicts and ContinuitiesAn essential introduction to the major political problems, debates and conflicts which are central to the history of the Third Republic in France, from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 to the fall of France in June 1940.It provides original sources, detailed commentary and helpful chronologies and bibliographies on topics including:* the emergence of the regime and the Paris Commune of 1871* Franco-German relations* anti-Semitism and the Dreyfus Affair* the role of women and the importance of the national birth-rate* the character of the French Right and of French fascism. |
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... economic or cultural history or on the French peasantry. Instead, the focus is on the major political problems, debates and conflicts, particularly those related to FrancoGerman relations, the defence of France against Germany, the ...
... economic or cultural history or on the French peasantry. Instead, the focus is on the major political problems, debates and conflicts, particularly those related to FrancoGerman relations, the defence of France against Germany, the ...
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... economic modernization, and the rebuilding of Paris to the advantage of the wealthy ratherthan the poor all helped to produce a resurgence of working-class consciousness and militancy when the regime liberalized during the 1860s ...
... economic modernization, and the rebuilding of Paris to the advantage of the wealthy ratherthan the poor all helped to produce a resurgence of working-class consciousness and militancy when the regime liberalized during the 1860s ...
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... directed units of production, were to be the new economic model. Capitalism as such was not targeted, with even the Bank of 16 The emergence of the Third Republic, 1870–1 Document 1.10 The Paris Commune and Socialism.
... directed units of production, were to be the new economic model. Capitalism as such was not targeted, with even the Bank of 16 The emergence of the Third Republic, 1870–1 Document 1.10 The Paris Commune and Socialism.
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Contents
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2 The political Right and Left in the early Third Republic | 24 |
3 The Dreyfus Affair and its aftermath | 50 |
4 Women and the family | 80 |
5 The First World War | 106 |
6 France after the First World War | 136 |
7 The Popular Front | 172 |
8 The fall of France June 1940 | 211 |
General bibliography | 252 |
Index | 253 |
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