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| List of Illustrations, Figures, Maps, Tables and Boxes | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Map of France | |
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| Introduction | |
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| History and Legacies | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Making of the French Nation State | |
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| The Postwar Transformations of France | |
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| Gaullist France in the Cold War Years | |
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| Change and Continuity: Fran�ois Mitterrand's France | |
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| From Jacques Chirac to Nicolas Sarkozy: France Enters the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| France and the French | |
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| Introduction | |
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| La terre, territory and le terroir | |
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| Who are the Twenty-First-Century French? | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Politics and Political Culture | |
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| Introduction | |
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| French Political Culture | |
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| French Political Parties in a Bipolar Party System | |
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| French Politics and Twenty-First-Century Problems | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Government, Policy-Making and the Republican State | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Semi-Presidential Regime of the Fifth French Republic | |
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| The State and the Republic: Grand Ideas into Policy | |
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| Decentralization and Local Democracy | |
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| France in Europe, Europe in France | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| A Social French Republic | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Social Structures and Social Policy | |
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| A Secular State in a Diverse Society | |
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| Education, Class and Opportunity | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Culture and Identity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Politics of French Culture | |
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| International Cultural Diplomacy | |
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| Contemporary Culture and Cultural Identities | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Economy and Business | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The French Republic in the Global Economy | |
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| Dirigisme, the State and the Market | |
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| France in the European (EU) Economy | |
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| Labour, Capital and the State | |
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| The French Business Environment in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| France in the World | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Weight of the Past | |
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| The Challenge of the Future: Post-Cold War Review | |
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| The European Union | |
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| France and the 'Anglo-Saxons' | |
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| France in the Wider World | |
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| Remembering the Past, Shaping the Future | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |