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2012-2014 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HS 3440 - Modern France

(3)
A survey of French history after the Revolution of 1789 and the fall of Napoleon I through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Central to the course will be the social and political impact of the Great Revolution and France’s evolution toward liberal democracy. The main topics of the course may include the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, Bonapartism as a political movement, industrialization, the rise of left-wing political forces, colonialism, the two world wars, and the demise of the French Empire from 1945 to 1962. The course will conclude with post-World War II developments such as the rise of Gaulism and the advent of the Fifth Republic.

(HSII)