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Further Reading: General Introductions |
FRE320 is a Level 3 module and, as such, you are expected to read extensively in the target language (i.e. French), rather then relying primarily on resources in English. You should get to know the key historians associated with the different topics covered in the module, e.g. Michel Winock on the history of political ideas, Maurice Agulhon on Republicanism and the Third Republic, Pierre Milza and Phillippe Burrin on the Far Right in France, Ralph Schor and Gérard Noiriel on immigration and so on.
You should also familiarize yourselves with the key introductory works relevant to the module. Éditions du Seuil produce a very readable series on French history called 'histoire de la France contemporaine'. Volumes 12 and 13 cover the period under discussion in this module and are recommended purchases. Presses Universitaires de France (PUF) also publish an excellent series called 'Que sais-je' offering clear introductions to a range of relevant subjects. Jean-Paul Brunet, for example, who teaches history at the Université de Paris VIII, has published three very accessible works in this series on the Front Populaire, the history of socialism in France, and on the French Communist Party.
More detailed bibliographies
are
included at the end of each lecture.
M. Algulhon, La République: 1880-1932 (Paris: Hachette, 1990)M. Algulhon, La République: 1932 à nos jours (Paris: Hachette, 1990)
M. Algulhon, A. Nouschi & R. Schor, La France de 1914 à 1940 (Paris: Nathan Université, 1993)
J-P. Azéma & M. Winock, La Troisième République (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1976) 2nd ed.
J-J. Becker & S. Bernstein, Victoire et frustrations 1914-1929 (Paris: Seuil, 1990)
S. Bernstein, La France des années 30 (Paris: Armand Colin, 1993) 2nd ed.
D. Borne & H.Dubief, La Crise des années 30 (Paris: Seuil, 1989) 2nd ed.
W. Fortescue, The Third Republic in France 1870-1940: Conflicts and Continuities (London: Routledge, 2000)
M. Larkin, France since the Popular Front: Government and People 1936-1986 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988)
J. Macmillan, Twentieth Century France: Politics and Society 1898-1991 (London: Edward Arnold, 1992)
P. Neville, France 1914-1969: The Three Republics (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995)
R. Price, A Concise History of France (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
R. Rémond, Notre Siècle: de 1918 à 1991 (Paris: Fayard, 1991)
C. Sowerwine, France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)
R. Vinen, France 1934-1978 (London: Macmillan, 1996)
E. Weber, The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995)
M. Winock (ed.), Les années 30: de la crise à la guerre (Paris: Seuil, 1990)
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Text
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The
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