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Organized chronologically, A History of Modern France presents a survey of the dramatic events that have punctuated French history, including the French Revolution, the upheavals of the 19th century, the world wars of the 20th century, and France's current role in the European Union. Written for today's undergraduate students, the text presents scholarly controversies in an unbiased manner and reflects the best of contemporary scholarship in French history.
Contents
Chapter 1DocumentsVoltaire, on Social Conditions in Eighteenth Century FranceLouis XIV Writes to His Son (1661) King Louis XIV, "The Code Noir" (French), 1685MapFrance Under Louis XIVAudioLouis XIVChapter 2DocumentsFrench Peasants, Cahiers de doleancesJean-Jacques Rousseau, EmileJacques-Louis Menetra, Journal of My LifePetition of Women of the Third EstateEmmanuel Joseph Sieyes, What is the Third Estate?Chapter 3DocumentsThe Marquis de Mirabeau, The Friend of Men, or Treatise on Population, 1756Black Death (1349) Henry KnightonMapsMap Discovery: Grain Supply and Trade in Sixteenth Century EuropeMap Discovery: Cereal Crops in EuropeImageSlave Revolt in Saint Domingue, 1791Chapter 4DocumentsVoltaire, Letters On EnglandVoltaire, "On Universal Toleration"Baron de Montesquieu, Excerpt from The Spirit of the LawsVoltaire on the Relation of Church and State (Mid-18th Century) VoltaireDenis Diderot, Preliminary Discourse from the Encyclopedia (France), 1751ImageNecker Concealing the Deficit - Cartoon, 1789Chapter 5DocumentsJean Baptiste Colbert, "Mercantilism: Dissertation on Alliances"Louis XVI, "A Royal Reform Proposal"The Execution of DamiensRichelieu on the Ancien Regime (1904) RichelieuMapsMap Discovery: The Seven Years WarInteractive Map: The Seven Years' WarAtlas Map: French America, 1608-1763Chapter 6DocumentsRobespierre "Speech to National Convention: The Terror Justified" (France), 1794Thomas Jefferson, Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence (1776)MapsMap Discovery: Revolutionary FranceMap Workbook Activity: Abolutism: France, England, and Russia 1600-1700Image"Cult of the Supreme Being," French RevolutionChapter 7DocumentsDe Stael on the Ancien Regime (1789) De StaelJean Domat, On Social Order and Absolutist MonarchyThe Bill of Rights (1789)MapRevolutionary FranceChapter 8DocumentsThe National Convention, "Law on Suspects (1793)" and "Law of 22 Prairial Year II (1794)"Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female CitizenMapMap Discovery: The Expansion of PrussiaImagesDeath of MaratFrench RevolutionExecution by guillotine, France 1929Chapter 9DocumentsLouis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Memoirs of Napolean BonaporteCharles Parquin, "Napolean's Army"Madame de Remusat on the Rise of NapoleonMapRussia's Holdings by 1800ImagePrussian SoldiersChapter 10DocumentThomas Jefferson, Letter on the Louisiana PurchaseMapsMap Discovery: Napoleon's EmpireNapoleonic EuropeAtlas Map: Louisiana Purchase and Exploration of the Trans-Mississippi WestInteractive Map: The Louisiana Purchase and Early Exploration of the WestChapter 11DocumentNapoleon's Exile to St. Helena (1815)MapsGeographic Tour: Europe in 1815Religious Diversity in Western EuropeEuropean Centers of Rebellion and Revolution, 1820-1848Map Discovery: Population Growth in Europe, 1800-1850Chapter 12DocumentsDeclaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in AmericaMapsMap Workbook Activity: Economic Transformation in Europe 1750-1850European IndustrializationThe European Linen IndustryChapter 13DocumentRichard Guest, The Creation of the Steam LoomMapsMap Discovery: Industrial Revolution on the ContinentMap Discovery: Unrest of the 1820s and 1830s: Centers of Revolutionary ActionIndustrial Development in Key Regional Centers, ca. 1900Industrialization in Europe, ca. 1850Chapter 14DocumentsMetternich on the Revolutions of 1848Capitalism Challenged: The Communist Manifesto (1848) Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsMapsInteractive Map: World Colonial Empires 1900European Colonial Territories Before and After 1800Centers of Revolution, 1848ImageLouis Napoleon v. General Cavaignac - British Cartoon, 1848Chapter 15DocumentsMichel Chevalier, Society, Manners, and Politics in the United StatesKarl Marx on the Question of Free Trade (1848) Karl MarxAn Ottoman Government Decree Defines the Official Notion of the "Modern" Citizen, June 19, 1870MapsMap Discovery: The Crimean WarVideoThe Ottoman Tanzimat Period (1839-1876): The Middle East Confronts ModernityThe Decline of the Ottoman EmpireChapter 16DocumentsAugust Comte, "Course of Positive Philosophy"A Letter from Otto von Bismarck (1866) Otto von BismarckJohn Stuart Mill on Enfranchisement of Women (1869) John Stuart MillMapAtlas Map: The Civil War, 1861-1862ImageCotton plantation, United States of AmericaChapter 17MapsMap Discovery: The Expansion of PrussiaUnification of GermanyThe Unification of Germany, 1815-1871The Unification of Germany, 1866-1871Chapter 18DocumentsJules Ferry, from Le Tonkin et La Mere-PatrieMary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa, (Great Britain and Africa), 1893 and 1895MapVietnam: Divisions in the Nguyen and French PeriodsImageStatue of Liberty RestoredChapter 19DocumentsEmile Zola, NanaPope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (Of New Things), 1891The Great Depression: An Oral Account 1932ImagesBuilding the Panama CanalBreaker Boys, Woodward Coal Mines, Kingston, Pa.Chapter 20DocumentsDoctrine of Fascism (1932) Benito MussoliniBenito Mussolini, from "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism"MapDiplomatic Crises, 1905-1914ImagesThe VaticanRaphael Sanzio, Detail from The School of Athens, fresco, Vatican Palace, Rome 1509-11Chapter 21DocumentsM. Carey Thomas, Higher Education for Women (1901)On Darwin 1860sCharles Darwin, AutobiographyImagesChinese pavilion, 1904 Worlds FairMachine exhibit, 1904 Worlds FairPygmies, 1904 World's FairChapter 22DocumentThomas Edison, The Success of the Electric Light (October 1880)MapsMap Discovery: Jewish MigrationShifting Borders: Eastern Europe After World War IVideoThe Art of Pablo PicassoImagesModel of Bell's TelephoneSuffragist SpeakingChapter 23DocumentsThe Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo 1914 Borijove JevticFrancois Carlotti, from "World War I: A Frenchman's Recollections"Soldiers' Accounts of Battle (World War I)MapsWorld War I, 1914-1918European Alliances on the Eve of World War IMap Discovery: The Schlieffen Plan and France's Plan XVIIBalkansVideoThe Outbreak of World War IChapter 24DocumentsAmerican Troops in the Trenches (1918)Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918)George Clemenceau, "French Demands at the Peace Conference"MapsEurope After World War IThe West and the World: Changes in European Empires After World War IImageWoodrow Wilson on his way to Versailles, 1919Chapter 25DocumentsHenry Cabot Lodge's Objections to Article 10 of the Treaty of Versailles (1919)Bolshevik Seizure of Power, 1917MapEurope in the 1920s and 1930sRevolution and Civil War in Russia, 1914-1920ImagesBolshevik Revolution posterFrance Demands War Reparations - CartoonChapter 26DocumentAdelheid Popp, "Finding Work: Women Factory WorkersMapsAtlas Map: The Great DepressionWorld Distribution of Manufacturing, 1930VideoProsperity of the 1920s and the Great DepressionImagesDepression Era BreadlinesWomen Workers during World War IChapter 27DocumentMussolini Heaps Contempt on Political Liberalism, 1923ImagesGerman persecution of the JewsSpanish Civil War posterHitler and Chamberlain, 1938Hitler at Nuremberg Rally ca. 1928Chapter 28DocumentsThe Holocaust: Memoirs from the Commandant of Auschwitz (1940s) Rudolf HoessWinston Churchill, "Their Finest Hour"MapsWorld War II in Europe, 1939-1945Interactive Map: World War II in EuropeImagesHitler and Chamberlain, 1938Hitler celebrating French surrenderHitler and Mussolini in Munich, 1940Chapter 29MapsAtlas Map: World War II, European TheaterMap Discovery: World War II in EuropeThe Nazi Empire in 1942VideoNormandy Beach, June 6, 1944ImagesD-DayEisenhower and Paratroopers in World War IIOperation Overlord, Normandy, 1944Chapter 30DocumentsJoseph Stalin, excerpts from the "Soviet Victory" Speech, 1946George C. Marshall, The Marshall Plan, 1947MapPost WW2 Division of Austria and GermanyVideosTruman on the End of World War IIThe Big Three Confer - Yalta ConferenceImagesTruman, Atlee and Stalin at the Berlin ConferenceThe Big Three at YaltaChapter 31DocumentsHo Chi Minh on Self DeterminationVietnamese Declaration of Independence (1945) Ho Chi MinhResolution Establishing the Viet Minh, 1941Lyndon Johnson, Message to Congress and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat (September 6, 1936)Chapter 32DocumentsAmerican Investigators, from The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and NagasakiFranklin Roosevelt, Annual Address to Congress, "The Four Freedoms" (1941)MapGermany After World War IIVideoAtomic Bomb at HiroshimaImagesAtomic bomb mushroom cloudU.S. Hydrogen Bomb Test over Uninhabited Pacific Island, 1952Chapter 33DocumentsA Common Market and European Integration (1960)Fidel Castro Defends the Revolution (1953) Fidel CastroFidel Castro: History Will Absolve Me, 1953Mao Zedong, "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire," 1953MapsSoviet and Eastern European Boundaries by 1948Atlas Map: Cold War in Europe, 1950Chapter 34DocumentsJohnson's Defense of the U.S. Presence in Vietnam (1965)Decision Concerning the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966)MapsAtlas Map: Conflict in the Middle East, 1945-1997Interactive Map: The Vietnam WarVideosNewsreel: Peace March, Thousands Oppose Vietnam WarThe Vietnam WarChapter 35DocumentsAlain Destexhe, from Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth CenturyRonald Reagan, Speech to the House of Commons (1982)Ronald Reagan, Address to the National Association of Evangelicals (1983)MapCold War AlliancesVideoCold War Connections: Russia, America, Berlin and CubaImageRonald ReaganChapter 36DocumentsTreaty on European Union, 1992European criticism of American environmental policies, 2007MapsEvents in Eastern Europe, 1989-1990The European Union in the Europe of 2003Europe in 2004Atlas Map: Present-day EuropeChapter 37DocumentsJustin Vaisse, from "Veiled Meaning"Dirty Politics in the 2008 Election (2007)MapEuropean UnionImageEuropean Union Flag
