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HIST 276: France Since 1871

Lecture 03 - Centralized State and Republic. Despite various attempts at reform, France remains the most centralized state in Europe. The organization of the country around the Parisian center was originally a consequence of the French Revolution, which gave birth to the departmental regions. These regions have retained an oppositional relationship towards the metropolitan center. In 1875, an enduring republic was formed despite the competing claims of the Comte de Chambord and the Orleanists. This republic owed its founding largely to support from workers and peasants in the various non-Parisian departments. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Lecture 03 - Centralized State and Republic

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. Paris: The Importance of the Capital in a Centralized State
[00:09:59] 2. Centralization over Centuries: France from 1500 to Present
[00:29:01] 3. Comte de Chambord: The "Miracle Baby"
[00:36:06] 4. Royalism and Religious Revival
[00:44:31] 5. Birth of the Third Republic

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Lecture 3 - Centralized State and Republic
Instructor: Professor John Merriman. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov].

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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - The Paris Commune and Its Legacy
Lecture 03 - Centralized State and Republic
Lecture 04 - A Nation? Peasants, Language, and French Identity
Lecture 05 - The Waning of Religious Authority
Lecture 06 - Workshop and Factory
Lecture 07 - Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left
Lecture 08 - Dynamite Club: The Anarchists
Lecture 09 - General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus
Lecture 10 - Cafes and the Culture of Drink
Lecture 11 - Paris and the Belle Epoque
Lecture 12 - French Imperialism (Guest Lecture by Charles Keith)
Lecture 13 - The Origins of World War I
Lecture 14 - Trench Warfare
Lecture 15 - The Home Front
Lecture 16 - The Great War, Grief, and Memory (Guest Lecture by Bruno Cabanes)
Lecture 17 - The Popular Front
Lecture 18 - The Dark Years: Vichy France
Lecture 19 - Resistance
Lecture 20 - Battles For and Against Americanization
Lecture 21 - Vietnam and Algeria
Lecture 22 - Charles De Gaulle
Lecture 23 - May 1968
Lecture 24 - Immigration