Twentieth-century France : politics and society 1898-1991 / James F. McMillan

Author: McMillan, James F., 1948-2010
Uniform Title: Dreyfus to de Gaulle
Published: London ; New York : E. Arnold ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA by Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1992.
Physical Description: ix, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

1. The belle epoque. France and the Dreyfus affair -- The republic of the radicals -- The challenge of the left -- The right and nationalism -- The road to war -- A belle epoque? 2. The stalemate society. A nation at war -- The aftermath of war -- The game of politics in post-war France -- The depression and its consequences -- The popular front era -- The strange defeat. 3. The new France. The Vichy regime 1940-1944 -- The resistance -- The fourth republic -- De Gaulle's republic -- Economic and social change 1945-1969 -- May 1968 -- After de Gaulle: the presidencies of Pompidou and Giscard 1969-1981 -- France under Mitterrand 1981-1991.

Summary

Offers a survey of 20th-century French history. Originally published as "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this book also includes an examination of the politics of the period 1969-1991, the extent of social and economic change since the 1960s and the place of France in the modern world.

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0340522399
9780340522394

Note

"Chapters 1-18 first published in Great Britain as Dreyfus to de Gaulle, 1985"-

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-252) and index.

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