Modern France and the World provides an engaging global history of the key events of modern France and its empire. It moves beyond the traditional political narrative of the development of the French Republican nation-state to offer both national and international perspectives of its evolution.
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Global focus positioning France centrally within the narrative of its global history, engaging students with the prevalent trends in historiography
Fully illustrated with paintings and photographs, maps and text-boxes, which will help to engage readers
Takes a social and cultural approach rather than focusing solely on political history
Darcie Fontaine is a historian of the modern French empire, focusing on North Africa, and is the author of Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria (2016).
1. Globalizing France in the Era of Enlightenment 2. Radical Revolutions and Rights of Man 3. The Napoleonic Empire 4. Restoration and the Liberal Order 5. Social and Political Revolutions 6. New Imperial Designs: The Second Empire 7. The Imperial Third Republic 8. The Fin de Siecle and its Discontents 9. Global France at War, 1914-1919 10. Illusions of Peace, 1920-1939 11. War and Occupation, 1939-1944 12. Postwar Reconstruction and Imperial Deconstruction, 1944-1962 13. The Politics of Grandeur: The Fifth Republic in a New Europe 14. Globalized France 15. The Legacy of Empire in Twenty-First Century France