The Third Republic from Its Origins to the Great War, 1871-1914 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521358576)

This book provides a detailed account of French history from the oripins of the Thrid Republic, born out of the collapse of Napoleon III's Second Empire, to the coming of the Great WAr in 1914. Part 1 begins with the fall of the "notables" and the victory of the republicans. Then follows a picture of the economy and society of late nineteenth-century France, and an examination of spiritual and cultural development under the increasing threat from nationalist and socialist forces. The moderates' brief ascendancy at the end of the century followed by the extreme sentiments unleashed at the time of the Dreyfus affair, brings the story in Part 2 to a more passionately political period, when the republic finallynbecame established as a bulwark of bourgeois prosperity, witnessing the rise of the banks and big business, and the dangerous revival of colonial expansion.

Author: Jean-Marie Mayeur, Madeleine Rebirioux
ISBN-10: 0521358574
ISBN-13: 9780521358576
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/29/1988
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.98w x 1.04d