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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454949703321

Autore

Goubert Pierre

Titolo

The course of French history / / Pierre Goubert ; translated by Maarten Ultee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991

ISBN

1-134-91928-X

1-280-32282-9

0-203-41468-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

944

Soggetti

Electronic books.

France History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprint. Originally published: New York : F. Watts, 1988.

Translation of: Initiation a l'histoire de la France.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-318) and Index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of genealogies; List of maps; France under the early Capetians: 987  1180; The apogee of medieval France: the thirteenth century, 1180  1314; The misfortunes of the fourteenth century; The fifteenth century: a kingdom reborn from the ashes; The 'beautiful' sixteenth century: 1494  1552; Difficult times: 1560  1610; From Good King Henry to the Sun King: 1598  1661; The pleasant seasons of a great reign: 1661  1688; Autumn of the great century: 1689  1715; The age of Louis XV: 1715  1774; Louis XVI: 1774  1792; The Revolution during peacetime: 1789  1792

Revolution and war: 1792  1799France against Europe: the Napoleonic era, 1800  1815; France in the nineteenth century: a panorama; France under Napoleon III: 1851  1870; From debacle to revenge: 1870  1914; From the Great War to the near present (1914  1987); Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

`Lively, well-written, satirical and profound.' - Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieThis stimulating one-volume history traces the social and economic evolution of France as a nation from 987 to the present day.