IFS-GA 1620, HIST-GA 1620
Prof. Herrick Chapman
Spring Semester 2013
Wed. 9:30-12:00
Office hours Tues. 3-5
hc3@nyu.edu
TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRANCE
This course will explore central issues in the history of France from the late nineteenth
century to the first decades of the Fifth Republic. We begin with an examination of the
Dreyfus Affair, an extraordinary national convulsion over anti-Semitism and a
miscarriage of justice that left a powerful legacy for the rest of the twentieth century. We
then turn to issues of race, religion, and gender in the French Empire and their
implications for how we understand the Third republic as an imperial regime. With this
foundation we then look at the First World War, giving special attention to its effects on
the economy, government, social classes, and the relationship between men and women,
and between colonial peoples and the French empire. Our focus then shifts to the 1930s,
when the country was shaken by the Great Depression and the struggle to forge a
“popular front” against fascism. We then spend several weeks exploring the Second
World War, its anticipation, the French defeat of 1940, the Occupation, Resistance,
Liberation, and postwar reconstruction amid the early years of the Cold War. The
Second World War also had an enormous impact on the Empire. We turn our attention to
the wars over decolonization after 1945, especially in Algeria. The course concludes
with a focus on Gaullism, the rebellion of May 1968, postcolonial immigration, the rise
of the anti-immigrant National Front, and controversies over gender, ethnicity, religion,
and globalization in the final decades of the century.
Although the course is organized around a chronological examination of the political
history of France, we will stress social, cultural, and economic history as well. After all,
the century of total wars also brought France its period of most rapid social and economic
change. We will investigate issues that call for crossing the usual boundaries between
these several kinds of history. We will also repeatedly consider French developments
within three wider international contexts: Europe, the French Empire, and trans-Atlantic
relations.
Because this is mainly a discussion course, its quality depends on everyone preparing
the material and participating in class. Two papers are also required. The first will
address the reading for one week during the course. This short analytical paper should be
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five to six pages long. The final paper (due May 15) should be twelve to fifteen pages on
a topic of your own choosing. Grading in the course will be as follows:
Class discussion
Short paper
Final paper
30%
20%
50%
Articles and documents for required reading are available on My Classes. Books for
required reading are available for purchase at the NYU Bookstore and are on reserve at
Bobst Library. These books include:
Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky, France and Its Empire Since
1870 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Michael Burns, ed., France and the Dreyfus Affair (New York: St. Martin’s, 2000).
J. P. Daughton, An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French
Colonialism, 1880-1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008),
Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of
France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).
Leonard V. Smith, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, and Annette Becker, France and the
Great War, 1914-1918 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Class Schedule
Week 1 (Jan. 30) – Introduction
Required:
*Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky, France and Its Empire Since
1870, chs. 1-4.
Recommended:
J. E. S. Hayward, “The Official Social Philosophy of the French Third Republic: Léon
Bourgeois and Solidarism,” International Review of Social History 6 (1961): 19-48.
Debora L. Silverman. Art Nouveau in Fin-De-Siècle France: Politics, Psychology, and
Style, esp. ch. 2 (“Aristocratic Ralliement and Social Solidarité”).
Judith Stone, The Search for Social Peace: Reform Legislation in France, 1890-1814.
Christophe Charle, Les Elites de la République.
Herman Lebovics, The Alliance of Iron and Wheat in the Third French Republic, 18601914: Origins of the New Conservatism
Sanford Elwitt, The Making of the Third Republic.
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Sanford Elwitt, The Third Republic Defended: Bourgeois Reform in France, 1880-1914.
William Irvine, The Boulanger Affair Reconsidered.
Mary Louise Roberts, Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siècle France.
Week 2 (Feb. 6) – The Dreyfus Affair
Required:
*Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky, France and Its Empire Since
1870, ch. 5.
*Michael Burns, ed., France and the Dreyfus Affair.
*Herrick Chapman and Laura L. Frader, “Race in France,” in Race in France:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference, pp. 1-19.
*Ruth Harris, Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century, pp. 135-68.
*Steven Englund, “Antisemitism, Judeophobia, and the Republic,” in The French
Republic: History, Values, Debates, ed. Edward Berenson, Vincent Duclert, and
Christophe Prochasson (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011), 278-88.
Recommended:
Nancy Fitch, “Mass Culture, Mass Parliamentary Politics, and Modern Anti-Semitism:
The Dreyfus Affair in Rural France,” American Historical Review 97, 1 (February 1992).
Jean-Denis Bredin, The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus.
Michael Burns, Dreyfus: A Family Affair, 1789-1945.
Vincent Duclert, Alfred Dreyfus: l’honneur d’un patriote.
Norman Kleeblatt, ed., The Dreyfus Affair.
Vicki Caron, Between France and Germany: The Jews of Alsace-Lorraine, 1871-1918.
Edward Berenson, The Trial of Madame Caillaux.
Philip Nord, Paris Shopkeepers and the Politics of Resentment.
Roger Shattuck, The Banquet Years.
Christophe Prochasson, Les Années électrique, 1880-1910.
Week 3 (Feb. 13) – The Third Republic as Empire
Required:
*J. P. Daughton, An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Makin of French
Colonialism, 1880-1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
*Edward Berenson, Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of
Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), intro., ch. 5.
*Raoul Girardet, L’Idée coloniale en France de 1871 à 1962 (Paris: Hachette, 1972), 77107.
Recommended:
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Alice Conklin, A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West
Africa, 1895-1930.
Owen White and J. P. Daughton, eds., In God’s Empire: French Missionaries and the
Modern World.
Sarah A. Curtis, Civilizing Habits: Women Missionaries and the Revival of the French
Empire.
William B. Cohen, The French Encounter with Africans: White Response to Blacks,
1530-1880.
Robert Aldrich, Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion.
Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in
a Bourgeois World.
Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics
of Difference, esp. chapters 10 and 11.
Week 4 (Feb. 20) – The First World War
Required:
*Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky, France and Its Empire Since
1870, ch. 6.
*Leonard V. Smith, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, and Annette Becker, France and the
Great War, 1914-1918.
* Martha Hannah, Your Death Would Be My Own: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great
War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006), 1-25, 78-174.
Recommended:
Alistair Horne, The Price of Glory: Verdun, 1916.
Jean-Jacques Becker, The Great War and the French People.
Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, Men at War, 1914-1918: National Sentiment and Trench
Journalism in France during the First World War.
Leonard V. Smith, Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth
Infantry Division during World War One.
John F. Godfrey, Capitalism at War: Industrial Policy and Bureaucracy in France,
1914-1918.
Laura Lee Downs, Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and British
Metalworking Industries, 1914-1939.
Kenneth E. Silver, Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First
World War, 1914-1925.
Mary Louise Roberts, Civilization Without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar
France, 1917-1927.
Antoine Prost, In the Wake of War: “Les Anciens Combattants” and French Society,
1914-1939.
Margaret H. Darrow, French Women and the First World War: War Stories of the Home
Front.
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Karen Offen, “Body Politics: Women, Work and the Politics of Motherhood in France,
1920-1950,” in Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European
Welfare States, 1880s-1950s, ed. by Gisela Bock and Pat Thane.
Essays by Michelle Perrot and Steven C. Hause in Behind the Lines: Gender and the
Two World Wars, ed. by Margaret Randolph Higonnet et al.
Marie-Monique Huss, “Pronatalism in the Inter-War Period in France,” Journal of
Contemporary History 25 (1990).
Françoise Thébaud, La Femme au temps de la guerre de 14.
Daniel J. Sherman, The Construction of Memory in Interwar France.
Gregory Mann, Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth
Century.
Robert Wohl, French Communism in the Making, 1914-1924.
Richard S. Fogarty, Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army,
1914-1918.
Week 5 (Feb. 27) – The First World War as Racialized Experience
Required:
*Richard S. Fogarty, Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army,
1914-1918 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), selected pages.
*Richard S. Fogarty, “Race and Empire in French Posters of the Great War,” in World
War One Posters and Visual Culture, ed. Pearl James (Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 2009).
* Ruth Ginio, “French Officers, African Officers, and the Violent Image of African
Colonial Soldiers,” Historical Reflections 36, 2 (Summer 2010): 59-75.
*Gregory Mann, Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth
Century, 15-24, 63-107.
*John Horne, “Immigrant Workers in France during World War I,” French Historical
Studies 14, 1 (Spring 1985): 57-88.
http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:2063/stable/286414
*Tyler Stovall, “The Color Line Behind the Lines: Racial Violence in France during the
Great War,” American Historical Review 103, 3 (1998): 737-69.
http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:2063/stable/pdfplus/2650570.pdf
*Illustrations from Chantal Antier-Renaud and Christian Le Corre, Les Soldats des
colonies dans la Première Guerre mondiale (Rennes: Editions Ouest-France,2009).
*Éric Deroo, “Mourir, l’Appel à l’empire (1913-1918),” in Culture coloniale en France
de la Révolution française à nos jours, pp. 163-72.
Week 6 (March 6) – Social and Culture Change in “Greater France” in the 1920s
Required:
*Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky, France and Its Empire Since
1870, ch. 7.
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*Mary Louise Roberts, “Samson and Delilah Revisited: The Politics of Women’s
Fashion in 1920s France,” American Historical Review 98, 3 (June 1993): 657-84.
http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:2063/stable/pdfplus/2167545.pdf?acceptTC=true
*Victor Margueritte, The Bachelor Girl, selected pages.
*Steve Ungar, “L’Exposition coloniale (1931),” in Culture coloniale en France de la
Révolution française à nos jours, pp. 259-68.
*Pascal Blanchard, “L’union nationale: la ‘rencontre’ des droites et des gauches autour
de l’Exposition coloniale (1931),” in Culture coloniale en France de la Révolution
française à nos jours, pp. 269-86.
*Elisa Camiscioli, “Intermarriage, Independent Nationality, and the Individual Rights of
French Women: The Law of 10 August 1927,” in Race in France: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on the Politics of Difference, ed. Herrick Chapman and Laura L. Frader.
*Emmanuelle Saada, “The Republic and the Indigène, in The French Repubilc: History,
Values, Debates, ed. Edward Berenson, Vincent Duclert, and Christophe Prochasson.
*Emmanuelle Saada, Empire’s Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French
Colonies, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), 1-9,
243-60.
Recommended:
Antoine Prost, In the Wake of War: “Les Anciens Combattants” and French Society,
1914-1939.
Karen Offen, “Body Politics: Women, Work and the Politics of Motherhood in France,
1920-1950,” in Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European
Welfare States, 1880s-1950s, ed. By Gisela Bock and Pat Thane.
Essays by Michelle Perrot and Steven C. Hause in Behind the Lines: Gender and the
Two World Wars, ed. by Margaret Randolph Higonnet et al.
Marie-Monique Huss, “Pronatalism in the Inter-War Period in France,” Journal of
Contemporary History 25 (1990).
Françoise Thébaud, La Femme au temps de la guerre de 14.
Susan Pedersen, Family Dependence and the Origins of the Welfare State in Britain and
France, 1914-1945.
Daniel J. Sherman, The Construction of Memory in Interwar France.
Alice Conklin, “Redefining ‘Frenchness’: Citizenship, Race Regeneration and Imperial
Motherhood in France and West Africa, 1914-40,” in Domesticating the Empire: Race,
Gender, and Family Life in French and Dutch Colonialism, ed. Julia Clancy-Smith and
Francis Gouda (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1998).
Martin Thomas, The French Empire Between the Wars: Imperialism, Politics and
Society.
Elizabeth Ezra, “Colonialism Exposed,” in The Colonial Unconscious.
Owen White, Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in
French West Africa, 1895-1960.
Week 7 (Mar. 13) – Fascism and the Popular Front
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*Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky, France and Its Empire Since
1870, ch. 8.
*Robert O. Paxton, “The Five Stages of Fascism,” Journal of Modern History 70, 1
(March 1998): 1-23.
*René Rémond, The Right Wing in France from 1815 to de Gaulle, 273-99.
*William D. Irvine, “Fascism in France and the Strange Case of the Croix de Feu,”
Journal of Modern History 63, 2 (June 1991).
*Julian Jackson, The Popular Front in France: Defending Democracy 1934-1938, chs. 2
and 4.
*Siân Reynolds, “Women, Men and the 1936 Strikes in France,” in The French and
Spanish Popular Fronts: Comparative Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1989).
Recommended on fascism and the Right:
Robert O. Paxton, French Peasant Fascism: Henry Dorgères’s Greenshirts and the
Crises of French Agriculture, 1929-1939.
Philippe Burrin, La Dérive fasciste: Doriot, Déat, Bergery, 1933-1945.
Ralph Schor, L’Opinion française et les étrangers, 1919-1939.
Kevin Passmore, From Liberalism to Fascism: The Right in a French Province, 19281930.
Zeev Sternhell, Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1986), pp. 1-31.
Michel Dobry, “February 1934 and the Discovery of French Society’s Allergy to the
‘Fascist Revolution’,” in France in the Era of Fascism: Essays on the French
Authoritarian Right, ed. Brian Jenkins (New York: Berghahn Books, 2005).
Laura Lee Downs, “’Each and Every One of You Must Become a Chef’: Towards a
Social Politics of Working-Class Childhood on the Extreme Right in 1930s France,”
Journal of Modern History 81, 1 (March 2009).
Kevin Passmore, “The Construction of Crisis in Interwar France,” in France in the Era of
Fascism, ed. Brian Jenkins.
Recommended on the Popular Front and the Left:
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, “The Popular Front and the Colonial Question. French
West Africa: An Example of Reformist Colonialism,” in French Colonial Empire and
the Popular Front: Hope and Disillusion, ed. Tony Chafer and Amanda Sackur (New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), 155-69.
Siân Reynolds, France Between the Wars: Gender and Politics.
Jean Lacouture, Léon Blum.
Tony Judt, Marxism and the French Left.
Tony Judt, The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth
Century.
Eugen Weber, The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s.
Ingo Kolbloom, La Revanche des patrons: Le Patronat français face au front populaire.
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Susan B. Whitney, “Embracing the Status Quo: French Communists, Young Women and
the Popular Front,” Journal of Social History 30, 1 (Fall 1996).
Herrick Chapman, State Capitalism and Working-Class Radicalism in the French
Aircraft Industry.
Mary Dewhurst Lewis, “The Strangeness of Foreigners: Policing Migration and Nation
in Interwar Marseille,” in Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics
of Difference, ed. Herrick Chapman and Laura L. Frader.
Panivong Norindr “The Popular Front’s Colonial Policies in Indochina: Reassesing the
Popular Front’s ‘Colonisation Altruiste’,” in French Colonial Empire and the Popular
Front, 230-48.
Jessica Wardhaugh, In Pursuit of the People: Political Culture in France, 1934-39.
Week 8 (March 27) – Vichy’s National Revolution and Life in Occupied France
Required:
*Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky, France and Its Empire Since
1870, ch. 9.
*Robert Paxton, Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 51-63,136-45, 210-20, 33052.
*Philippe Burrin, France under the Germans: Collaboration and Compromise, 177-209.
*Richard Vinen, The Unfree French: Life under the Occupation, 157-81.
*Philippe Pétain’s speeches of 17 June 1940.
*“Marshall Pétain and the ‘New Order’,” Foreign Affairs 19, 3 (April 1941).
*E-text: Philippe Pétain’s speech of 12 August 1941
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1941/410812a.html
*Texts of Vichy laws regarding the status of Jews.
*Selections from France During the German Occupation, 1940-1944 (Stanford: The
Hoover Institution, 1957), a collection of materials gathered by René Chambrun, Pierre
Laval’s son-in-law (including Hubert Lagardelle on labor and René Bousquet on the
police).
*Michael Marrus and Robert Paxton, Vichy France and the Jews, 343-72.
Recommended:
On the defeat of 1940:
Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat.
Arthur Koestler, Scum of the Earth.
Vicki Caron, “The Missed Opportunity: French Refugee Policy, 1938-39,” in The
French Defeat of 1940: A Reassessment, ed. Joel Blatt (New York: Berghahn Books,
1998).
Ernest May, Strange Victory: Hitler’s Conquest of France.
Robert Frankenstein, Le Prix du réarmement français (1935-1939).
Stephen A. Schuker, “France and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland, 1939,” French
Historical Studies 14, 3 (Spring 1986): 299-338.
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Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, La Décadence, 1932-1939.
Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, L’Abîme, 1939-1945.
L. Mysyrowicz, Autopsie d’une défaite: Origines de l’effondrement militaire français de
1940.
Andrew Shennan, The Fall of France, 1940.
Carole Fink, Marc Bloch: A Life in History.
Julian Jackson, The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940.
Peter Jackson, “Returning to the Fall of France: Recent Work on the Causes and
Consequences of the ‘Strange Defeat’ of 1940,” Modern and Contemporary France 12, 4
(2004): 513-36.
On the Vichy regime and the Occupation:
Robert O. Paxton, Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order.
Julian Jackson, France: The Dark Years, 1940-44.
Richard Vinen, The Unfree Free France: Life Under the Occupation.
Robert Gildea, Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the
German Occupation.
Miranda Pollard, Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France.
Marc Olivier Baruch, Servir l’Etat français: L’Administration en France de 1940 à
1944.
Roger Bourderon, “Was the Vichy Regime Fascist? A Tentative Approach to the
Question,” in Contemporary France, ed. by John Cairns.
Alan S. Milward, The New Order and the French Economy.
Francine Muel-Dreyfus, Vichy et l’éternel féminin.
Pierre Laborie, L’Opinion française sous Vichy.
John F. Sweets, Choices in Vichy France: The French Under Nazi Occupation.
Henry Rousso, The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944.
Jean-Pierre Azéma and François Bédarida, eds., Vichy et les français.
Brett Bowles, “Newsreels, Ideology, and Public Opinion under Vichy: The Case of La
France en Marche,” French Historical Studies 27, 2 (Spring 2004): 419-63.
Eric Jennings, Vichy in the Tropics: Pétain’s National Revolution in Madagascar,
Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940-1944.
Film: Claude Chabrol, “L’Oeil de Vichy” (“The Eye of Vichy”)
Film: Marcel Ophul, “The Sorrow and the Pity.”
On Vichy and the Holocaust:
Vicki Caron, “French Public Opinion and the ‘Jewish Question,’ 1930-1942: The Role
of Middle-Class Professional Associations,” in Nazi Europe and the Final Solution, ed.
David Bankier and Israel Gutman (Jerusalem: The International Institute for Holocaust
Research, 2003), 374-410.
Renée Poznanski, Jews in France during World War II.
Susan Zuccotti, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews.
Sarah Kofman, Rue Ordener, rue Labat.
Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française.
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Donna Ryan, The Holocaust and the Jews of Marseille: The Enforcement of Anti-Semitic
Policies in Vichy France.
Week 9 (April 3) – Resistance and Liberation
Required:
*Charles De Gaulle’s speeches of 18 June 1940, 6 June 1944, 25 August 1944, and 2
February 1945.
*Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat, 126-78 (“A Frenchman Examines His Conscience”)
*Julian Jackson, France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944, chapter 20 “Resistance in
Society,” 475-505, 601-32
*H. R. Kedward, In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France 19421944 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 73-115.
*Program of the Conseil National de la Resistance, reprinted in Peter Novick, The
Resistance versus Vichy: The Purge of Collaborators in Liberated France.
*Jean-Paul Sartre, “The Republic of Silence.”
*Claire Duchen, “Opening Pandora’s Box: The Case of Femmes tondues, in Problems in
French History, ed. Martyn Cornick and Ceri Crossley (New York: Palgrave, 2000), pp.
213-32.
*Jane Jenson, “The Liberation and New Rights for French Women,” in Behind the Lines:
Gender and the Two World Wars, ed. Margaret Randolph Higonnet et al. (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1987), pp. 272-84.
Recommended:
On the Resistance
Claire Andrieu, “Les Résistantes, perspectives des recherches,” Le Mouvement social 180
(July-September 1997): 69-96.
Paula Schwartz, “Defining Resistance: Women’s Activism in Wartime France,” in
Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars, ed. Margaret Randolph Higonnet,
Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel, and Margaret Collins Weitz (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1987), 141-153.
H. R. Kedward, Resistance in Vichy France: A Study of Ideas and Motivation in the
Southern Zone 1940-1945.
Margaret Collins Weitz, Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France,
1940-1945.
Lucie Aubrac, Outwitting the Gestapo.
Daniel Cordier, Jean Moulin: La République des catacombs.
Donald Reid, “Resistance and Its Discontents: Affairs, Archives, Avowals, and the
Aubracs,” Journal of Modern History 77 (March 2005): 97-137.
Johns Sweets, The Politics of Resistance in France, 1940-1944.
France’s Uncensored Press” (excerpts from Resistance newspapers).
On the Liberation
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Fabrice Virgili, Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France.
Albert Camus, Camus at Combat.
Ronald Aronson, Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that
Ended It.
Michael Kelly, “The Reconstruction of Masculinity at the Liberation,” in The Liberation
of France: Image and Event, ed. H. R. Kedward and Nancy Wood (Oxford: Berg
Publishers, 1995), pp. 117-28.
Corran Laurens, “’La Femme au Turban’: les Femmes tondues,” in The Liberation of
France: Image and Event, ed. H. R. Kedward and Nancy Wood (Oxford: Berg
Publishers, 1995), 155-79.
K. H. Adler, Jews and Gender in Liberation France.
Herrick Chapman, “The Liberation as a Moment in State-Making,” in Crisis and Renewal
in France, 1918-1962, eds. Kenneth Mouré and Martin S. Alexander (New York:
Berghahn Books, 2002), pp. 174-198.
James D. Wilkinson, The Intellectual Resistance in Europe.
J. Robert Lilly and François Le Roy, “L’Armée américaine et le viols en France, juin
1944-mai 1945,” Vingtième siècle 75 (July-September 2002): 109-21.
Patrick Weil, “Racisme et discrimination dans la politique française de l’immigration:
1938-1945/1974-1995, Vingtième siècle 47 (July-September 1995): 77-102
Priscilla E. Prestwich, “Modernizing Politics in the Fourth Republic: Women in the
Mouvement républicain populaire, 1944-1958,” in Crisis and Renewal in France, 19181962, ed. Mouré and Alexander, pp. 199-220.
Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach.
Marguerite Duras, The War.
Dominique Veillon, Vivre et survivre en France, 1939-1947.
Sarah Farmer, “Postwar Justice in France: Bordeaux 1953,” in The Politics of
Retribution in Europe, ed. Istvan Deak, Jan T. Gross, and Tony Judt (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2000), 194-211.
Hilary Footitt, War and Liberation in France: Living with the Liberators (New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), 66-94, 175-92.
Tony Judt, “The Past is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Postwar Europe,” in The
Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and Its Aftermath, eds. Istvan Deak, Jan
T. Gross, and Tony Judt (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. 293-323.
Week 10 (Apr. 10) – Reconstruction: Postwar France as a New Society?
Required:
*Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky, France and Its Empire Since
1870, ch. 10.
*Philip Nord, France’s New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era, ch. 6.
*Robert Frost, “The Flood of Progress: Technocrats and Peasants at Tignes (Savoy),
1946-1952, French Historical Studies 14, 1 (Spring 1985): 117-40.
http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:2063/stable/pdfplus/286416.pdf
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*Richard Jobs, Riding the New Wave: Youth and the Rejuvenation of French after the
Second World War, ch. 4.
*Jean-Pierre Rioux, “Mendésisme or “Poujadisme”?, in The Fourth French Repuvblic,
1944-1958, 245-53.
*Rosemary Wakeman, The Heroic City: Paris, 1945-1958, 106-61.
*Gabrielle Hecht, “Peasants, Engineers, and Atomic Cathedrals: Narrating
Modernization in Postwar France,” French Historical Studies 20, 3 (1997): 381-418.
Recommended:
Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins.
Charles de Gaulle, Memoirs of Hope: Renewal and Endeavor..
Sarah Fishman, The Battle for Children: World War II, Youth Crime, and Juvenile
Justice in Twentieth-Century France.
Richard Kuisel, Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanizatiomn.
Richard Kuisel, “Coca Cola and the Cold War: The French Face Americanization, 19581953,” French Historical Studies 17, 1 (Spring 1991), pp. 96-116.
Sylvie Chaperon, Les Années Beauvoir.
Deirdre Bair, Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography.
Judith G. Coffin, “Historicizing The Second Sex,” French Politics, Culture & Society 25,
3 (Winter 2007).
Claire Duchen, Women’s Rights and Women’s Lives in France 1944-1968.
Tony Judt, Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956.
Gisèle Sapiro, La Guerre des écrivains 1940-1953.
William I. Hitchcock, France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for
Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954.
Richard Vinen, Bourgeois Politics in France, 1945-1951.
Herrick Chapman, “France’s Liberation Era, 1944-47: A Social and Economic
Settlement?” in Revisiting the Liberation, ed. Andrew Knapp.
Herrick Chapman, “Réformateurs et contestataires de l’impôt après la seconde guerre
mondiale,” in L’impôt en France aux XIXe et XXe siècles, ed. Maurice Lévy-Leboyer,
Michel Lescure et Alain Plessis.
Michael M. Harrison, “French Anti-Americanism under the Fourth Republic and the
Gaullist Solution,” in The Rise and Fall of Anti-Americanism: A Century of French
Perceptions, eds. Denis Lacorne, Jacques Rupnik, and Marie-France Toinet (New York:
St. Martin’s Press, 1990), pp. 169-178.
Irwin Wall, The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945-1954.
Simone de Beauvoir, America Day by Day.
Frank Costigliola, France and the United States: The Cold Alliance since World War II.
Philippe Roger, L’Ennemi américain: généalogie de l’antiaméricanisme français.
Kristin Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French
Culture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995).
Gabrielle Hecht, The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after
World War II
Vanessa R. Schwartz, It’s So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan
Film Culture
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Steven Kaplan, Le Pain maudit: retour sur la France des années oubliées, 1945-1958.
Georges Perec, Things, selected pages.
Week 11 (Apr. 17) – Postwar as Colonial War
Required:
*Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky, France and Its Empire Since
1870, ch. 11.
*Martin Evans, “Algeria and the Liberation: Hope and Betrayal,” in The Liberation of
France: Image and Event, eds. H.R. Kedward and Nancy Wood.
*John Ruedy, Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1992), chapter 6.
* Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (New York: Modern Library, 1963),
81-115.
*Frantz Fanon, “Unveiling Algeria,” in A Dying Colonialism (New York: Grove Press,
1965).
*Mouloud Feraoun, Journal 1955-1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War
(Lincoln, NE: Nebraska University Press, 2000), ix-xiii, xl-xlv, 84-87, 152-53, 248-52,
294-98, 309-15.
*Judith Surkis, “Ethnics and Violence: Simone de Beauvoir, Djamila Boupacha, and the
Algerian War,” French Politics, Culture & Society 28, 2 (Summer 2010): 37-55.
http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:2111/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=854cb7ef-44474567-a839-f5ef9bcda9b2%40sessionmgr14&vid=4&hid=15
*Film: Gillo Pontecorvo, “The Battle of Algiers”
Recommended:
Charles Robert Ageron, Modern Algeria: A History from 1830 to the Present.
John Talbott, The War Without a Name: France in Algeria, 1954-1962.
James D. Le Sueur, Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics during the
Decolonization of Algeria.
Benjamin Stora, Histoire de l’Algérie coloniale (1830-1954).
Miles Kahler, Decolonization in Britain and France: The Domestic Consequences of
International Relations.
Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962.
Tyler Stoval, “The Fire this Time: Black American Expatriates and the Algerian War,”
Yale French Studies 98 (2000).
Albert Camus, The First Man.
Week 12 (April 24) – The Algerian War and the Creation of the Fifth Republic
Required:
*Michel Winock, “De Gaulle and the Algerian Crisis, 1958-1962,” in De Gaulle and
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Twentieth-Century France, ed. Hugh Gough and John Horne (London: Edward Arnold,
1994), pp. 71-82.
*E-text: Speech by Charles de Gaulle in Constantine, Algeria, October 3, 1958
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1958degaulle-algeria1.html
*Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking
of France.
*Joshua Cole, “Remembering the Battle of Paris: 17 October 1961 in French and
Algerian Memory,” French Politics, Culture & Society 21, 3 (Fall 2003).
Recommended:
Irwin M. Wall, France, the United States, and the Algerian War.
Martin Evans, The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War,
1954-1962.
Djamila Amrane, Des femmes dans la guerre d’Algérie: entretiens.
Fadhma A. M. Ambrouche, My Life’s Story : The Autobiography of a Berber Woman.
Daniel Lefeuvre, Chère Algérie: La France et sa colonie, 1930-1962.
Tony Smith, “A Comparative Study of French and British Decolonization,” Comparative
Studies of Society and History 20 (January 1978): 70-102.
Matthew Connelly, A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the
Crisis of the Cold War Era.
Martin S. Alexander, Martin Evans, and J.F.V. Keiger, eds., The Algerian War and the
French Army, 1954-1962: Experiences, Images, Testimonies.
Henri Alleg, The Question.
Jane Kramer, “Les pieds noirs,” in Unsettling Europe (New York: Vintage Books, 1981),
pp. 169-217.
Benjamin Stora, La Gangrène et l’oubli: La mémoire de la guerre d’Algérie.
Antoine Prost, “The Algerian War in French Collective Memory,” in War and
Remembrance in the Twentieth Century, ed. Jay Winter and Emmanuel Sivan
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
William B. Cohen, “The Algerian War and French Memory,” Contemporary European
History (November 2000).
Jim House and Neil MacMaster, “Une journée portée disparue. The Paris Massacre of
1961 and Memory,” in Crisis and Renewal in France, 1918-1962, ed. Mouré and
Alexander.
Naomi Davidson, Only Muslim: Emboding Islam in Twentieth-Century France.
Week 13 (May 1) – The French Sixties and the Rebellion of May ‘68
Required:
*Andrew Feenberg and Jim Freedman, eds., When Poetry Ruled the Streets: The French
May Events of 1968, 81-91, 123-28, 147-63.
*Julian Jackson, “De Gaulle and May 1968,” in De Gaulle and Twentieth-Century
France, eds. Hugh Gough and John Horne (London: Edward Arnold, 1994), pp. 125-46.
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*Rethinking May 68,” in May ’68: Rethinking France’s Last Revolution, ed. Julian
Jackson, Anna-Louise Milne, and James S. Williams, 3-16.
*Xavier Vigna, “Beyond Tradition: The Strikes of May-June 1968,” in May ’68:
Rethinking France’s Last Revolution, ed. Julian Jackson, Anna-Louise Milne, and James
S. Williams, 47-57.
*Daniel Gordon, “Reaching Out to Immigrants in May 68: Specific or Universal
Appeals?” in May ’68: Rethinking France’s Last Revolution, ed. Julian Jackson, AnnaLouise Milne, and James S. Williams, 93-108.
*Emmanuelle Loyer, “The Politics of Theatre and the Theatre of Politics,: From Paris to
Avignon via Villeurbanne, May-July 1968,” in Rethinking France’s Last Revolution, ed.
Julian Jackson, Anna-Louise Milne, and James S. Williams, 316-339.
*Michael Seidman, The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968,
1-15, 272-85.
*Kristin Ross, May ’68 and Its Afterlives, 1-18,182-215.
*Richard Jobs, “Youth Movements: Travel, Protest, and Europe in 1968,” American
Historical Review 114, 2 (April 2009).
http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:2142/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=ad41fd4c-56964df8-b4ab-ef3a10eb5e7a%40sessionmgr4&vid=4&hid=13
Recommended:
David Goldey, “A Precarious Regime: The Events of May 1968,” in Philip M. Williams,
French Politicians and Elections, 1951-1969 (London: Cambridge University Press,
1970), pp. 226-60.
Dominique Damamme, Boris Gobille, Frédérique Matonti, Bernard Pudal, eds., May-Juin
68.
Christian Delacroix, “L’engagement radical de la rue d’Ulm,” in 68: Une histoire
collective (1962-1981), ed. Philippe Artières and Michelle Zancarini-Fournel.
Jean-Louis Violeau, “Les ‘villes nouvelles’ des Trente glorieuses,” in 68: Une histoire
collective (1962-1981), ed. Philippe Artières and Michelle Zancarini-Fournel.
Vincent Lemire, “Nanterre, les bidonvilles et les étudiants,” in 68: Une histoire
collective (1962-1981), ed. Philippe Artières and Michelle Zancarini-Fournel.
Emmanuelle Loyer, “Les maisons de la culture entre sanctuarisation culturelle et
messianisme politique,” in 68: Une histoire collective (1962-1981), ed. Philippe Artières
and Michelle Zancarini-Fournel.
Michelle Zancarini-Fournel, “Sud-Aviation, Nantes: la première occupation de Mai,” in
68: Une histoire collective (1962-1981), ed. Philippe Artières and Michelle ZancariniFournel.
Philip G. Cerny, The Politics of Grandeur: Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle’s Foreign
Policy.
Arthur Marwick, The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy and the U.S.
Hervé Hamon and Patrick Rotman, Génération, 2 volumes.
Raymond Aron, The Elusive Revolution.
Alain Touraine, The May Movement.
Khurshed Wadia, “Women and the Events of May ’68,” The May 1968 Events in France,
ed. Keith Reader.
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Alain Schnapp and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, The French Student Uprising, November 1967 –
June 1968: An Analytical Record.
Robert Linhart, The Assembly Line (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981).
Sunil Khilnani, Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France.
Michael Scott Christofferson, French Intellectuals Against the Left.
Julian Bourg, From Revolution to Ethnics: May 1968 and Contemporary French
Thought.
Week 14 (May 8) – Research Presentations and Course Wrap-Up
Required:
*Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky, France and Its Empire Since
1870, chs. 12-14.
Papers due 5 p.m. May 15.
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