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HIST 276: France Since 1871

HIST 276: France Since 1871 (Fall 2007, Open Yale Courses). This consists of 24 video lectures given by Professor John Merriman. This course covers the emergence of modern France. Topics include the social, economic, and political transformation of France; the impact of France's revolutionary heritage, of industrialization, and of the dislocation wrought by two world wars; and the political response of the Left and the Right to changing French society. (from oyc.yale.edu)

Introduction


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

References
HIST 276: France Since 1871
Instructor: Professor John Merriman. Class Sessions. Downloads. Syllabus. This course covers the emergence of modern France. Topics include the social, economic, and political transformation of France.