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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| French Regimes | |
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| The Birth of the Third Republic, 1870-85 | |
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| France in 1870 | |
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| Paris, 'capital of the nineteenth century | |
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| An economy in transition | |
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| French society in 1870: nobles and bourgeois | |
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| French society in 1870: workers from farm to factory | |
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| The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, 1870-1 | |
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| The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1 | |
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| The proclamation of the Third Republic, 4 September 1870 | |
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| The siege of Paris, September 1870-February 1871, and the end of the war | |
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| The struggle for Paris, 1-18 March 1871 15 | |
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| Paris under the Central Committee of the National Guard, 18-28 March 1871 | |
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| 'The days of the Commune': 28 March-21 May 1871 | |
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| La Semaine sanglante {the Week of Blood): 21-28 May 1871 | |
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| The Triumph of the Republicans, 1871-85 | |
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| Thiers in power, 1871-3 | |
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| The monarchists in power: 'Moral Order' vs the republicans, 1873-6 | |
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| The republicans come to power, 1876-9 | |
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| The Republic of Jules Ferry I: republican liberties | |
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| The Republic of Jules Ferry II: republican education | |
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| The Republic of Jules Ferry IH: republican colonization | |
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| The Cultural Bases of Republicanism | |
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| Reason and the republican project | |
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| Materialism and anticlericalism | |
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| Freemasonry and the Republic | |
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| Masculinity and the Republic | |
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| From Realism to Impressionism in the visual arts | |
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| Time and narrative | |
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| History and the Republic | |
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| Testing Time for the Republic, 1885-1918 | |
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| Challenges to the Republic (1): Constructing the Modern Right | |
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| Origins of the new nationalism and anti-Semitism | |
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| The new nationalism and the Boulanger Affair, 1885-9 | |
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| The apogee of 'peasant France'? | |
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| The Panama Affair, 1889-93 | |
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| The Church, the Republic and the social question, 1889-96 | |
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| Dreyfus, from Case to Affair, 1894-7 | |
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| The Dreyfus Affair and mass politics, 1898-1902 | |
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| Challenges to the Republic (2): Constructing the Modern Left | |
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| The conditions of life and the development of social movements | |
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| Feminism | |
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| Anarchism and syndicalism | |
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| The Dreyfus Revolution79 | |
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| Clemenceau and the defeat of labor, 1906-10 | |
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| Colonies, alliances and the origins of the Great War, 1898-1914 | |
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| The Cultural Revolution of the Belle Epaque | |
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| New cultural space: the Montmartre cafes | |
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| The erosion of realism | |
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| The erosion of objective time | |
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| The fragmentation of perception | |
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| The Great War, 1914-18 | |
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| From war of movement to stationary war | |
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| The trenches | |
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| The home front | |
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| The evolution of the war | |
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| Peace movements during the war | |
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| Wild cards: Russia, America and Clemenceau | |
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| Victory | |
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| Counting the losses | |
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| The Decline of the Third Republic, 1919-40 | |
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| France after the War, 1919-28 | |
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| Class struggle and the elections of 1919 | |
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| Gender struggle: repression | |
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| Gender struggle: liberation? | |
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| Class struggle again | |
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| National and international affairs: from peace to crises | |
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| From first-wave fascism to the Poincare years | |
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| France in the Depression, 1929-35 | |
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| Everyday life in the Depression | |
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| Politics and second-wave fascism | |
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| The Stavisky Affair and the riots of 6 February 1934 | |
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| Republican response to the 6 February 1934 | |
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| Popular Front, 193 6-7 | |
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| Origins of the Popular Front | |
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| The Popular Front and the strikes of May-June 1936 | |
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| The Popular Front and women | |
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| The Matignon Agreements and Popular Front reforms | |
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| The challenge of Spain | |
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| The 'wall of money'? | |
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| Culture between the Wars | |
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| Dadaism and Surrealism | |
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| Early cinema | |
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| The revolt in music | |
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| Surrealism, art, and art deco | |
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| The literature of war and despair | |
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| The literature of reform and revolt | |
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| Cinema and politics | |
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| The Fall of France, 1938-40 | |
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| Foreign policy, 1924-38 | |
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| The Anschluss and Munich, 1938 | |
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| The death of the Popular Front and the rise of fascism | |
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| Gender struggle | |
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| Toward war, 1939 | |
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| The French army and the Blitzkrieg | |
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| The Armistice and the death of the Republic | |
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| The Vichy Interlude and its Aftermath, 1940-6 | |
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| Vichy in Power, 1940-2 | |
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| Was Vichy fascist? | |
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| The Vichy government | |
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| The cult of personality | |
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| Vichy's New Order | |
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| Vichy's search for collaboration | |
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| The politics of exclusion | |
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| French participation in the Holocaust | |
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| Explaining French participation in the Holocaust | |
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| Resistance and Liberation, 1942-4 | |
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| Charles de Gaulle and the call | |
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| The beginnings of resistance in France | |
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| The stakes are raised, 1940-2 | |
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| The stakes are raised again, 1942-3 | |
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| The Liberation of France | |
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| Liberated Prance, 1944-6 | |
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| The struggle for authority | |
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| The purge | |
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| The price of war | |
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| Reform and reconstruction | |
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| Rebuilding the Republic | |
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| The parties write a Constitution | |
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| Existentialism: Culture of the Resistarice? | |
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| Beauvoir, Camus and Sartre | |
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| The effect of the war | |
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| From the Liberation to Le Deuxieme Sexe | |
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| From hope to despair | |
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| The Fourth Republic, 1946-58 | |
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| Vietnam War, Cold War, 1946-54 | |
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| The colonial heritage | |
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| An autonomous Vietnam in the French Union? | |
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| The eruption of the Cold War in French politics | |
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| Social explosion, 1947 | |
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| The beginnings of European institutions | |
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| The 'Third Force' and the 1951 elections | |
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| On to Dien Bien Phu | |
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| Pierre Mendes France and the Geneva conference | |
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| The 1950s - Of Coke and Culture | |
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| The French economic miracle | |
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| 'Fast Cars, Clean Bodies | |
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| Modernization or Americanization? | |
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| France versus America: the culture wars | |
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| Culture in the 1950s: the theater of the absurd | |
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| The Algerian War Erupts, 1954-7 | |
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| Algeria in historical perspective | |
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| The fall of Mendes France | |
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| Fallout in Paris: the 1956 elections | |
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| Guy Mollet escalates the war | |
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| The Suez invasion | |
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| Torture: the Battle of Algiers | |
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| The Pall of the Fourth Republic, 1958 | |
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| From international incident to national crisis | |
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| 'The thirteen plots of 13 May' | |
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| Rebuilding the state in Algeria | |
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| Rebuilding the state in France | |
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| The Fifth Republic I, 1958-81 | |
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| The Fifth Republic under De Gaulle, 1958-68 | |
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| Putting Down the Generals | |
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| Torture and Anti-War Movements | |
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| Attempted Putsch and Terror | |
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| The Evian Accords | |
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| Domestic Politics under de Gaulle | |
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| Economic growth | |
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| The politics of 'grandeur': industry and foreign policy | |
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| The politics of 'grandeur': urbanism and culture | |
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| Cultural Explosion: New Theory, New Cinema, New Novel | |
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| New French theory and post-modernism | |
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| Three precursors: Saussure, Lacan, Levi-Strauss | |
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| Roland Barthes (1915-80) | |
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| Michel Foucault (1926-84) | |
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| Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) | |
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| The 'new novel' | |
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| 'New wave' cinema | |
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| Social Explosion: May '68 | |
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| A crisis in higher education | |
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| A new critique of modern society | |
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| Preparing the explosion | |
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| Detonating the explosion | |
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| The workers join | |
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| From revolt to revolution? | |
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| Defeat | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| The Fifth Republic under Pompidou and Giscard, 1969-81 | |
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| Politics and auto-gestion | |
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| Pompidou and Vichy | |
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| The Common Market and the renewal of the left | |
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| Pompidou and Paris348 | |
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| Last years of the boom | |
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| The new industrial revolution and women | |
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| Women's rights, gay rights | |
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| New theory: feminism, gay rights and 'new philosophers' | |
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| Valery Giscard d'Estaing: liberal reform? | |
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| Oil, unemployment, and immigration | |
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| Politics in the late 1970s | |
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| The Fifth Republic D, 1981-2007 | |
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| 'Socialist France'? 1981-8 | |
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| Creating 'Socialist France', 1981-2 | |
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| The lasting reforms | |
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| Technology | |
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| Mitterrand and women: almost all the way to the altar | |
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| The 'wall of money1 again? 1982-3 | |
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| Treading water, 1984-6 | |
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| Integration, Beur culture, and the rise of the National Front | |
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| Cohabitation, 1986-8 | |
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| Mitterrand in decline, 1988-95 | |
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| Michel Rocard's government, 1988-91 | |
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| Integration and foulards | |
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| From Berlin to Maastricht: foreign policy and Europe, 1989-92 | |
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| The Socialists in decline | |
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| Celebrating revolution, exposing collaboration | |
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| Mitterrand, Chirac and Paris | |
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| Balladur Prime Minister: Immigration, education, and free trade | |
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| Toward the presidential elections of 1995 | |
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| Epilogue: the end of the Mitterrand era | |
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| From Juppe to Jospin, 1995-2002 | |
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| The 1995 strikes | |
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| The surprise elections of 1997: Socialist renaissance | |
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| The Jospin Experiment, 1997-2002 | |
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| Opposition to liberalism and globalization | |
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| Toward homosexual liberation: the PaCS | |
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| Parity | |
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| Revising the Constitution: The Quinquennat | |
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| Remembering Vichy, Forgetting Algeria | |
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| Presidential Elections 2002: Vichy's revenge | |
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| Toward Sarkozy's Republic, 2002-7 | |
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| The Iraq War: France out in the cold | |
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| Integration; the foulard crisis, 2002-4 | |
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| The Colonial Past: Papon and la querelle des memoires, 2002-7 | |
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| Rejecting Europe, 2005 | |
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| Integration: the banlieue riots, October 2005 | |
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| Neo-Liberalism?: the 'CPE' riots, February-March 2006 | |
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| Sarko/Sego, 2006-7 | |
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| Sarkozy's Republic | |
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| Conclusion: The End of 'The French Exception'? | |
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| Making the Republic | |
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| A just society | |
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| A culture of universal significance? | |
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| The Identity of France | |
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| Notes | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Index | |