France - Government and Society

First published in 1957, France is a collection of essays which cover the interaction of government and society over the whole range of French history from the earliest times to the 1950s.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Prehistory and the Gaulish Peoples 2. Roman Gaul 3. Frankish Gaul 4. Capetian France 5. France of the Hundred Years War and the Renaissance 6. The Making of Absolute Monarchy (1559-1683) 7. The Decline of Absolute Monarchy (1683-1774) 8. The Revolution and its Antecedents (1774-1794) 9. Napoleonic France 10. From Restoration to Republic 11. From Dreyfus to Vichy 12. The Fourth Republic (1945-1955)

About the author

J. M. Wallace-Hadrill and J. McManners

Summary

First published in 1957, France is a collection of essays which cover the interaction of government and society over the whole range of French history from the earliest times to the 1950s.

Product details

• Assisted by: J. McManners (Editor), J.M. Wallace-Hadrill (Editor), Wallace-Hadrill J.M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032357966
• ISBN: 978-1-032-35796-6
• No. of pages: 286
• Weight: 426 g
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, Political structure & processes, Political structure and processes, Public Opinion & Polls, Public opinion and polls, France;government;society;politics;Oxford lectures