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====Restoration: 1815-1870==== | ====Restoration: 1815-1870==== | ||
* Agulhon, Maurice. ''The Republican Experiment, 1848-1852'' (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1983) [http://www.amazon.com/Republican-Experiment-1848-1852-Cambridge-History/dp/0521289882/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197883571&sr=8-7 excerpt and text search] | * Agulhon, Maurice. ''The Republican Experiment, 1848-1852'' (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1983) [http://www.amazon.com/Republican-Experiment-1848-1852-Cambridge-History/dp/0521289882/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197883571&sr=8-7 excerpt and text search] | ||
* Echard, William E. ''Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire, 1852-1870'' (1985) [http://www.questia.com/read/26477439?title=Historical%20Dictionary%20of%20the%20French%20Second%20Empire%2c%201852-1870 online edition] | |||
* Plessis, Alain. ''The Rise and Fall of the Second Empire, 1852 - 1871'' (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) [http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Second-Empire-1852/dp/0521358566/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b excerpt and text search] | * Plessis, Alain. ''The Rise and Fall of the Second Empire, 1852 - 1871'' (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) [http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Second-Empire-1852/dp/0521358566/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b excerpt and text search] | ||
* Price, Roger. ''A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France'' (1987) 403pp. 403 pgs. [http://www.questia.com/library/book/a-social-history-of-nineteenth-century-france-by-roger-price.jsp complete text online at [[Questia]]] | * Price, Roger. ''A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France'' (1987) 403pp. 403 pgs. [http://www.questia.com/library/book/a-social-history-of-nineteenth-century-france-by-roger-price.jsp complete text online at [[Questia]]] | ||
*Zeldin | *Zeldin | ||
====Third Republic: 1871-1940==== | ====Third Republic: 1871-1940==== | ||
* Bernard, Philippe, and Henri Dubief. ''The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914 - 1938'' (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) [http://www.amazon.com/Decline-Third-Republic-1914-Cambridge/dp/052135854X/ref=pd_sim_b_title_2 excerpt and text search] | * Bernard, Philippe, and Henri Dubief. ''The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914 - 1938'' (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) [http://www.amazon.com/Decline-Third-Republic-1914-Cambridge/dp/052135854X/ref=pd_sim_b_title_2 excerpt and text search] | ||
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* Tucker, Spencer, ed. ''European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia'' (1999) | * Tucker, Spencer, ed. ''European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia'' (1999) | ||
* Winter, J. M. ''Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1919'' (1999) | * Winter, J. M. ''Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1919'' (1999) | ||
====Vichy (1940-44) ==== | ====Vichy (1940-44) ==== | ||
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* Williams, Charles. ''The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General De Gaulle'' (1997) [http://www.amazon.com/Last-Great-Frenchman-General-Gaulle/dp/0471180718/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197884687&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search] | * Williams, Charles. ''The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General De Gaulle'' (1997) [http://www.amazon.com/Last-Great-Frenchman-General-Gaulle/dp/0471180718/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197884687&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search] | ||
* Williams, Philip M. and Martin Harrison. ''De Gaulle's Republic'' (1965) [http://www.questia.com/read/54328775 online edition] | * Williams, Philip M. and Martin Harrison. ''De Gaulle's Republic'' (1965) [http://www.questia.com/read/54328775 online edition] | ||
==Historiography== | |||
see also [[Annales School]] | |||
* Offen, Karen. "French Women's History: Retrospect (1789–1940) and Prospect," ''French Historical Studies'' 26, no. 4 (2003): 757+ | |||
* Thébaud, Françoise. "Writing Women's and Gender History in France: A National Narrative?" ''Journal of Women's History'' - Volume 19, Number 1, 2007, pp. 167-172 in [[Project Muse]] | |||
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Surveys and reference
- Goubert, Pierre. The Course of French History (1991), standard French textbook excerpt and text search; also complete text online
- Haine, W. Scott. The History of France (2000), 280 pp. textbook. excerpt and text search; also full text online at Questia
- Jones, Colin, and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. The Cambridge Illustrated History of France (1999) excerpt and text search
- Popkin, Jeremy D. A History of Modern France (2005), 384pp; textbook coverage from 1750s; excerpt and text search
- Price, Roger. A Concise History of France (1993) excerpt and text search
Middle Ages
- see also Annales School
- Duby, Georges. France in the Middle Ages 987-1460: From Hugh Capet to Joan of Arc (1993), survey by a leader of the Annales School excerpt and text search
- Bloch, Marc. Feudal Society: Vol 1: The Growth and Ties of Dependence (1989); Feudal Society: Vol 2: Social Classes and Political Organisation(1989) excerpt and text search
- Bloch, Marc. French Rural History an Essay on Its Basic Characteristics (1972)
- Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village, 1294-1324 (1978) excerpt and text search
- Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. The Peasants of Languedoc (1966; English translation 1974) search
- Potter, David. France in the Later Middle Ages 1200-1500, (2003) excerpt and text search
Early Modern
- Holt, Mack P. Renaissance and Reformation France: 1500-1648 (2002) excerpt and text search
- Potter, David. A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation-State (1995)
Old Regime
- Doyle, William. Old Regime France: 1648-1788 (2001) excerpt and text search
- Goubert, Pierre. Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen (1972), social history from Annales School
- Jones, Colin. The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (2002) excerpt and text search
- Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. The Ancien Regime: A History of France 1610 - 1774 (1999), survey by leader of the Annales School excerpt and text search
- Lynn, John A. The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667-1714 (1999) excerpt and text search
- Wolf, John B. Louis XIV (1968), the standard scholarly biography online edition
Enlightenment
- Baker, Keith Michael. Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics. 1975.
- Baker, Keith Michael. Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century. 1990. excerpt and text search
- Becker, Carl L. The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers. 1932.
- Blom, Philipp. Enlightening the World: Encyclopédie, the Book That Changed the Course of History. 2005. 416 pp. excerpt and text search
- Chisick, Harvey. Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment. 2005. 512 pp
- Delon, Michel. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (2001) 1480pp
- Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism (1966, 2nd ed. 1995), 952 pp; excerpt and text search vol 1
- Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom, (1969 2nd ed. 1995), a highly influential study excerpt and text search vol 2;
- Goodman, Dena. The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment (1994) 338 pp online edition
- Hazard, Paul. European thought in the eighteenth century: From Montesquieu to Lessing (1965)
- Kaiser, Thomas E. "This Strange Offspring of Philosophie: Recent Historiographical Problems in Relating the Enlightenment to the French Revolution." French Historical Studies 15 (Spring 1988): 549-62. in JSTOR
- Kors, Alan Charles. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (4 vol. 1990; 2nd ed. 2003), 1984pp excerpt and tyext search
- Mason, Haydn Trevor. Voltaire: A Biography. 1981. 194 pp.
- Pearson, Roger. Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom. 2005. 447 pp.
- Roche, Daniel. France in the Enlightenment. 1998. 736 pp.
- Spencer, Samia I., ed. French Women and the Age of Enlightenment. 1984.
- Vovelle, Michel and Cochrane, Lydia G., eds. Enlightenment Portraits. 1997. 456 pp.
- Wilson, Arthur. Diderot. 1972.
Revolution
- Doyle, William. The Oxford History of the French Revolution (1989). online complete edition; also excerpt and text search
- Doyle, William. The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction. (2001), 120pp; online edition
- Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. ed. The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History (ABC-CLIO: 3 vol 2006)
- Frey, Linda S. and Marsha L. Frey. The French Revolution. (2004) 190pp online edition
- Furet, François. The French Revolution, 1770-1814 (1996) excerpt and text search
- Furet, François and Mona Ozouf, eds. A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution (1989), 1120pp; long essays by scholars; conservative perspective; stress on history of ideas excerpt and online search from Amazon.com
- Jones, Colin. The Longman Companion to the French Revolution (1989)
- Jones, Colin. The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon (2002) excerpt and text search
- Neely, Sylvia. A Concise History of the French Revolution (2008)
- Palmer, Robert R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800. (2 vol 1959), highly influential comparative history; vol 1 online
- Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution (1987), hundreds of short entries.
- Schwab, Gail M., and John R. Jeanneney, eds. The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact (1995) online edition
- Scott, Samuel F. and Barry Rothaus. Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 (2 vol 1984), short essays by scholars
- Schama, Simon. Citizens. A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989), highly readable narrative by scholar excerpt and text search
- Sutherland, D.M.G. France 1789–1815. Revolution and Counter-Revolution (2nd ed. 2003, 430pp excerpts and online search from Amazon.com
Napoleon
- Emsley, Clive. Napoleon 2003 142 pp, very succinct coverage of life, France and empire; little on warfare
- Englund, Steven. Napoleon: A Political Life. (2004). 575 pages; the best political biography excerpt and text search
- Fisher, Herbert. Napoleon (1913) 256pp old classic online edition free
- Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. ed. The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History (ABC-CLIO: 3 vol 2006)
- Grab, Alexander. Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe. (2003), pp. 249, maps; excellent synthesis
- Harold, J. Christopher. The Age of Napoleon (1963) 480pp, popular history stressing empire and diplomacy
- Markham, Felix. Napoleon 1963. 304pp online edition
- McLynn, Frank. Napoleon: A Biography (2003) 752pp, stress on military
- Nafziger, George F. Historical Dictionary of the Napoleonic Era. 2002. 353 pp.
- Nicholls, David. Napoleon: A Biographical Companion. 1999. 300 pp.
- Thompson, J. M. Napoleon Bonaparte: His Rise and Fall (1954), scholarly, well-balanced in topics, but pro-Britain
Restoration: 1815-1870
- Agulhon, Maurice. The Republican Experiment, 1848-1852 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1983) excerpt and text search
- Echard, William E. Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire, 1852-1870 (1985) online edition
- Plessis, Alain. The Rise and Fall of the Second Empire, 1852 - 1871 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) excerpt and text search
- Price, Roger. A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (1987) 403pp. 403 pgs. complete text online at Questia
- Zeldin
Third Republic: 1871-1940
- Bernard, Philippe, and Henri Dubief. The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914 - 1938 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) excerpt and text search
- Lehning, James R.; To Be a Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic (2001) online edition
- Mayeur, Jean-Marie, and Madeleine Rebirioux. The Third Republic from its Origins to the Great War, 1871-1914 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) excerpt and text search
- Price, Roger. A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (1987) 403pp. 403 pgs. complete text online at Questia
- Robb, Graham. The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War (2007)
- Weber, Eugen. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 (1976) excerpt and text search
World War I
- Tucker, Spencer, ed. European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1999)
- Winter, J. M. Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1919 (1999)
Vichy (1940-44)
- Azema, Jean-Pierre. From Munich to Liberation 1938-1944 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1985)
- Berthon, Simon. Allies at War: The Bitter Rivalry among Churchill, Roosevelt, and de Gaulle. (2001). 356 pp.
- Funk, Arthur Layton. Charles de Gaulle: The Crucial Years, 1943-1944 (1959) online edition
- Gildea, Robert. Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation (2004) excerpt and text search
- Jackson, Julian. France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 (2003) excerpt and text search
- Kersaudy, Francois. Churchill and De Gaulle (2nd ed 1990 482pp
- Lacouture, Jean. De Gaulle: The Rebel 1890-1944 (1984; English ed. 1991), 640pp; excerpt and text search
- Paxton, Robert O. Vichy France 2nd ed. (2001) excerpt and text search
Fourth and Fifth Republics (1944 to present)
see also Charles de Gaulle
- Berstein, Serge, and Peter Morris. The Republic of de Gaulle 1958-1969 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (2006) excerpt and text search
- Berstein, Serge, Jean-Pierre Rioux, and Christopher Woodall. The Pompidou Years, 1969-1974 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (2000) excerpt and text search
- Bourg, Julian ed. After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France (2004) 426 pp.ISBN 978-0-7391-0792-8.
- Cerny, Philip G. The Politics of Grandeur: Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle's Foreign Policy. (1980). 319 pp.
- Hauss, Charles. Politics in Gaullist France: Coping with Chaos (1991) online edition
- Kolodziej, Edward A. French International Policy under de Gaulle and Pompidou: The Politics of Grandeur (1974) online edition
- Lacouture, Jean. De Gaulle: The Ruler 1945-1970 (1993)
- Northcutt, Wayne. Historical Dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, 1946-1991 (1992)
- Rioux, Jean-Pierre, and Godfrey Rogers. The Fourth Republic, 1944-1958 (1989) (The Cambridge History of Modern France)
- Williams, Charles. The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General De Gaulle (1997) excerpt and text search
- Williams, Philip M. and Martin Harrison. De Gaulle's Republic (1965) online edition
Historiography
see also Annales School
- Offen, Karen. "French Women's History: Retrospect (1789–1940) and Prospect," French Historical Studies 26, no. 4 (2003): 757+
- Thébaud, Françoise. "Writing Women's and Gender History in France: A National Narrative?" Journal of Women's History - Volume 19, Number 1, 2007, pp. 167-172 in Project Muse