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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808390603321

Autore

Fortescue William <1945->

Titolo

The Third Republic in France, 1870-1940 : conflicts and continuities / / William Fortescue

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-351-54000-9

0-203-13384-6

0-415-16945-3

1-134-74022-0

1-280-32822-3

1-138-17345-2

0-203-17166-7

1-351-54001-7

1-315-08507-0

1-134-74021-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 258 pages)

Collana

Routledge sources in history

Disciplina

944.081

Soggetti

France History Third Republic, 1870-1940

France Politics and government 1870-1940

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series editor's preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; The emergence of the Third Republic, 1870  1; The political Right and Left in the early Third Republic; The Dreyfus Affair and its aftermath; Women and the family; The First World War; France after the First World War; The Popular Front; The fall of France ( June 1940); General bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An essential introduction to the major political problems, debates and conflicts which are central to the history of the Third Republic in France, from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 to the fall of France in June 1940.It provides original sources, detailed commentary and helpful chronologies and bibliographies on topics including:* the emergence of the regime and the Paris Commune of 1871* Franco-



German relations* anti-Semitism and the Dreyfus Affair* the role of women and the importance of the national birth-rate* the character of the French Right and of French fascism