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The French Republic

Author : Edward G. Berenson

Publisher : Cornell University Press

Page : 390 pages

File Size : 44,67 MB

Release : 2011-10-15

Category : History

ISBN : 0801460646

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In this invaluable reference work, the world’s foremost authorities on France’s political, social, cultural, and intellectual history explore the history and meaning of the French Republic and the challenges it has faced. Founded in 1792, the French Republic has been defined and redefined by a succession of regimes and institutions, a multiplicity of symbols, and a plurality of meanings, ideas, and values. Although constantly in flux, the Republic has nonetheless produced a set of core ideals and practices fundamental to modern France's political culture and democratic life. Based on the influential Dictionnaire critique de la république, published in France in 2002, The French Republic provides an encyclopedic survey of French republicanism since the Enlightenment. Divided into three sections—Time and History, Principles and Values, and Dilemmas and Debates—The French Republic begins by examining each of France’s five Republics and its two authoritarian interludes, the Second Empire and Vichy. It then offers thematic essays on such topics as Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity; laicity; citizenship; the press; immigration; decolonization; anti-Semitism; gender; the family; cultural policy; and the Muslim headscarf debates. Each essay includes a brief guide to further reading. This volume features updated translations of some of the most important essays from the French edition, as well as twenty-two newly commissioned English-language essays, for a total of forty entries. Taken together, they provide a state-of-the art appraisal of French republicanism and its role in shaping contemporary France’s public and private life.



The Second French Republic 1848-1852

Author : Christopher Guyver

Publisher : Springer

Page : 372 pages

File Size : 37,24 MB

Release : 2016-06-09

Category : History

ISBN : 1137597402

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This book follows the story of the Second French Republic from its idealistic beginnings in February 1848 to its formal replacement in December 1852 by the Second Empire. Based on original archival research, The Second French Republic gives a detailed account of the internal tensions that irrevocably weakened France’s shortest republic. During this short period French political life was buffeted by strong and often contrary forces: universal manhood suffrage, fear of socialism, the President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, and the political ambitions of the military high command for the restoration of the monarchy.



The Men of the First French Republic

Author : Alison Patrick

Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press

Page : 434 pages

File Size : 22,77 MB

Release : 2019-12-01

Category : History

ISBN : 9781421433196

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Patrick looks first at parliamentary behavior, particularly in the tumultuous first eight months, and then analyzes this behavior in terms of the deputies' background.



The Fifth French Republic: Presidents, Politics and Personalities

Author : Philip Thody

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 18 pages

File Size : 36,13 MB

Release : 2002-01-31

Category : History

ISBN : 1134661533

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The Fifth French Republic is a study of modern French politics and history, discussing the five presidents who span from 1959 to the present--Charles de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou, Valry Giscard d'Estang, Francois Mitterand and Jacques Chirac. Philip Thody examines the importance of the similarities between the five men for an understanding of the general and political culture of France; the similarities and differences in the foreign policies pursued by the five presidents, including anti-Americanism; France's role in the European Union and her attitude to the Cold War; French domestic policies and administrative practices, attempts to decentralize the state, the role of the French civil service, the problem of immigration and the rise of the National Front.



The French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Republic

Author : Jeremy Klar

Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Page : 167 pages

File Size : 30,27 MB

Release : 2015-07-15

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1680480235

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The catalysts, major events, and consequences of one of history’s bloodiest revolutions are presented in a thrilling and academically rigorous way in this guide to the French Revolution. The stories of this historic episode’s key players are narrated, including the tales of such well-known characters as Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte. There is a thorough treatment of France’s economy, government, and social life both before, during the various phases of, and after the Revolution. Napoleon’s post-Revolutionary European conquests and subsequent downfall and exile are also narrated in this title sure to captivate all readers.



The Collapse of the Third Republic

Author : William L. Shirer

Publisher : Rosetta Books

Page : 1948 pages

File Size : 49,32 MB

Release : 2014-10-22

Category : History

ISBN : 0795342470

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The National Book Award–winning historian’s “vivid and moving” eyewitness account of the fall of France to Hitler’s Third Reich at the outset of WWII (The New York Times). As an international war correspondent and radio commentator during World War II, William L. Shirer didn’t just research the fall of France. He was there. In just six weeks, he watched the Third Reich topple one of the world’s oldest military powers—and institute a rule of terror and paranoia. Based on in-person conversations with the leaders, diplomats, generals, and ordinary citizens who both shaped the events and lived through them, Shirer constructs a compelling account of historical events without losing sight of the human experience. From the heroic efforts of the Freedom Fighters to the tactical military misjudgments that caused the fall and the daily realities of life for French citizens under Nazi rule, this fascinating and exhaustively documented account brings this significant episode of history to life. “This is a companion effort to Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, also voluminous but very readable, reflecting once again both Shirer’s own experience and an enormous mass of historical material well digested and assimilated.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)



Jacobin Republic Under Fire

Author : Paul R. Hanson

Publisher : Penn State Press

Page : 282 pages

File Size : 20,42 MB

Release : 2010-11-01

Category : History

ISBN : 9780271047928

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Book Description

It is time for a major work of synthetic interpretation, and this is what The Jacobin Republic Under Fire offers.".





Modern France

Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz

Publisher : OUP USA

Page : 153 pages

File Size : 25,75 MB

Release : 2011-10-10

Category : History

ISBN : 0195389417

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The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.



The Neoliberal Republic

Author : Antoine Vauchez

Publisher : Cornell University Press

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 21,88 MB

Release : 2021-01-15

Category : Law

ISBN : 1501752561

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The Neoliberal Republic traces the corrosive effects of the revolving door between public service and private enrichment on the French state and its ability to govern and regulate the private sector. Casting a piercing light on this circulation of influence among corporate lawyers and others in the French power elite, Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France analyze how this dynamic, a feature of all Western democracies, has developed in concert with the rise of neoliberalism over the past three decades. Based on interviews with dozens of public officials in France and a unique biographical database of more than 200 civil-servants-turned-corporate-lawyers, The Neoliberal Republic explores how the always-blurred boundary between public service and private interests has been critically compromised, enabling the transformation of the regulatory state into either an ineffectual bystander or an active collaborator in the privatization of public welfare. The cumulative effect of these developments, the authors reveal, undermines democratic citizenship and the capacity to imagine the public good.