Modern France 1880-2002

Name: Modern France 1880-2002
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ISBN: 9780198700593

ISBN-10: 0198700598

ISBN-13: 9780198700593

Edition: 2002

Authors: James McMillan, William Doyle

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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…

Book details

List price: $51.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/18/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

William Doyle is a writer and documentary producer whose previous book, Inside the Oval Office: The White House Tapes from FDR to Clinton, was a New York Times Notable Book. In 1998 he won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best TV Documentary for the A&E special "The Secret White House Tapes," which he cowrote and coproduced. He lives in New York City.



Introduction







Politics Politics, 1880-1914




Politics, 1914-1945




Politics, 1945-2000




France, Europe, and the Wider World







Society and Culture The Transformation of Society




The Condition of Women and the Politics of Gender




Intellectuals and Culture




Religion and Secularisation



Conclusion



Further Reading


Chronology


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