France, history/Bibliography

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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