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Zusatztext The 'received' narratives of modern French political history remain so powerful that it is difficult to escape them. Informationen zum Autor James F. McMillan is Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of France and Women 1789-1914 (Routledge 2000), and Twentieth Century France (Arnold 1992). Klappentext The concluding volume in the Short Oxford History of France series captures the essence of the huge transformations that have taken place in France since the late nineteenth century. In a set of thematic chapters drawing on recent research! a leading international team of historians has produced a genuine re-evaluation of modern French history. Zusammenfassung This final volume of the Short Oxford History of France explores the huge transformations which have taken place in the areas of politics, society, and culture between the late nineteenth and the end of the twentieth centuries. A leading team of historians provide a re-evaluation of modern French history based on a new, collaborative approach which offers fresh insights on such themes as economic and social change, women, intellectuals and culture, religion and secularization, as well as an authoritative overview of politics and international relations. The book emphasises throughout what was different about the French experience in relation to other western democracies, and what was distinctive about French political culture and the French sense of national identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I. Politics 2: Kevin Passmore: Politics, 1914-1945 3: Richard Vinen: Politics, 1945-2000 4: David Watson: France, Europe, and the Wider World II. Society and Culture 6: Siân Reynolds: The Condition of Women and the Politics of Gender 7: Robert Tombs: Intellectuals and Culture 8: Maurice Larkin: Religion and Secularisation Conclusion Further Reading Chronology Maps ...
