HIST 209 - France in the 19th and 20th Centuries

FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2011 and alternate years

Historical study of France from the Revolution through the present, tracing France’s revolutionary tradition and the continuing “Franco-French” war it spawned, and the construction of and challenges to French national identity. Topics include the successive revolutions of the 19th century, the acquisition and loss of two empires, and the transformations in French society brought by wars, industrialization, and immigration. Horowitz.