HIST 276: France Since 1871 (Fall 2007, Open Yale Courses) | History and Human Culture

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.