Modern History of France and Spain, 1789-1982
Reading List for Oral Exams with Leora Auslander and Mauricio Tenorio
Major Questions
Historiography and Broad Themes:
 How has the study of French and Spanish history changed in recent decades?
 What have been the major themes?
 What are the benefits and perils of transnational, comparative, and entangled histories?
Politics and the State:
 What were the causes and effects of the French revolution?
 How did the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars reshape Europe, and particularly
Spain?
 Across the upheavals and changes of government in the 19th century, did a liberal and
republican consensus emerge in France and Spain by the 1870s and the III
Republic/Restoration?
 Why did politics polarize in interwar France and Spain?
 Why did the Civil War break out and how was it prosecuted?
 How do we understand Vichy in relationship to the Third and Fourth Republics?
 How did the transition to democracy happen after Franco?
Society, Culture, Race, and Nation:
 How did changing economic patterns of production create new ways of living and
consuming in France and Spain?
 What have been the forces responsible for creating national identity?
 How did migration and naturalization affect understandings of the nation?
 What role has race played in histories of inclusion and exclusion?
 When, why, and where have the internal configuration of France and Spain, i.e., the role
of regions and provinces, been major political issues?
 In particular, why have Catalan and Basque national aspirations been a dominant theme
in ‘the problem of Spain’?
 How was postwar French society transformed during the Trente Glorieuse, by 1968, by
decolonization?
 How did Franco initially attempt to organize society, and how was that transformed from
the late 1950s/1960s through the transition to democracy?
Empire and the Mediterranean:
 What do histories of the Atlantic tell us about the Mediterranean?
 How have French and Spanish intellectuals and politicians understood the
Mediterranean?
 How have French and Spanish conflicts in Morocco and Algeria been transMediterranean conflicts?
 What has been the impact of decolonization in 1898 for Spain and during the 50s-70s for
France and Spain?
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Number of Books and Articles: 102
Major Themes in Western European History and Historiography
1. Budde, Gunilla-Friederike, Sebastian Conrad, and Oliver Janz, eds. Transnationale
Geschichte: Themen, Tendenzen und Theorien. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,
2006.
2. Burton, Antoinette M., ed. After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and Through the
Nation. Durham, [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 2003.
3. Carr, Raymond. Spain: 1808-1975, 2nd edition. Oxford, 1982.
4. Cohen, Deborah and Maura O’Conner, eds. Comparison and History: Europe in CrossNational Perspective. New York: Routledge, 2004.
5. Dubois, Laurent. “La république métissée: citizenship, colonialism and the borders of
French history.” Cultural Studies 14, No. 1 (Jan 2000): 15-34.
6. Dueck, Jennifer M. “The Middle East and North Africa in the Imperial and Post-Colonial
Historiography of France.” Historical Journal 50, no. 4 (Dec2007): 935-949.
7. Goldstein, Jan. “The Future of French History in the United States: Unapocalyptic
Thoughts for the New Millennium,” in French Historical Studies 24, no. 1 (2001): 1-10.
8. Mazower, Mark. Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century. New York: A.A. Knopf,
1999.
9. Popkin, Jeremy. History of Modern France. 2005.
10. Shubert, Adrian, and José Alvarez Junco, eds. Spanish History Since 1808.
11. Werner, Michael and Bénédicte Zimmerman. "Beyond Comparison: Histoire Croisée and
the Challenge of Reflexivity." History and Theory 45 (February 2006): 30-50.
Politics and the State
1. Auslander, Leora. Cultural Revolutions: Everyday Life and Politics in Britain, North
America, and France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
2. Furet, François. Interpreting the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1981.
3. Hunt, Lynn. Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1984.
4. Lefebvre, Georges. The Coming of the French Revolution. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1988.
5. Sewell, William. “Le Citoyen / La Citoyenne: Activity, Passivity, and the Revolutionary
Concept of Citizenship,” in The French Revolution and the Creation of the Modern
Political Culture, ed. by Colin Lucas.
6. Bergeron, Louis. France Under Napoleon. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press,
1981.
7. Broers, Michael. Europe under Napoleon, 1799-1815. London: Hodder Arnold, 1996.
8. Esdaile, Charles J. Fighting Napoleon: guerrillas, bandits and adventurers in Spain,
1808-1814. New Haven Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004.
9. Agulhon, Maurice. The Republican Experiment, 1848-1852. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1983.
10. Hazareesingh. From Subject to Citizen: the Second Empire and the Emergence of
Modern French Democracy. 1988
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11. Nord, Philip G. The Republican Moment: The Struggle for Democracy in NineteenthCentury France. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1995.
12. Mayeur, Jean-Marie and Madeleine Rebérioux. The Third Republic from its Origins to
the Great War. Cambridge;York: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Maison des
sciences de l'homme, 1984.
13. Alvarez-Junco, José. The Emergence of Mass Politics in Spain: Populist Demagoguery
and Republican Culture, 1890-1910. Brighton: Sussex Academic, 2002.
14. Payne, Stanley G. Spain’s First Democracy: The Second Republic, 1931-1936. Madison:
University of Wisconsin, 2000.
15. Townson, Nigel. The Crisis of Democracy in Spain: Centrist Politics Under the Second
Republic, 1931-1936. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2000.
16. Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. New York: Harper, 1961.
17. Graham, Helen. The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005.
18. Preston, Paul. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge. New York:
W.W. Norton & Co, 2007.
19. Jackson, Julian. France : the dark years, 1940-1944. Oxford ; New York: Oxford
University Press, 2001.
20. Rousso, Henry. The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991
21. Payne, Stanley G. The Franco Regime, 1936-1975. Madison, 1987.
22. Townson, Nigel, ed. Spain Transformed: The Late Franco Dictatorship, 1959-75.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
23. Carr, Raymond and Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurúa. Spain: Dictatorship to Democracy.
London: Allen & Unwin, 1981.
Society, Culture, Race, and Nation
1. Abrate, Laurent. Occitanie 1900/1968, des idées et des hommes: l'émergence et l'histoire
de la revendication occitane. [Puylaurens]: Institut d'estudis occitans, 2001.
2. Accampo, Elinor. Industrialization, Family Life, and Class Relations: Saint Chamond,
1815-1914 Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
3. Agulhon, Maurice. The Republic in the Village: The People of the Var from the French
Revolution to the Second Republic. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University
Press, 1982.
4. Auslander, Leora. Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1996.
5. BIRNBAUM, Pierre. The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898.
6. Bonmatí Antón, José Fermín. Los Españoles en el Magreb: siglos XIX y XX. Madrid:
Editorial MAPFRE, 1992.
7. Bourdieu, Pierre. « Espace social et genèse des ‘classes’ » in Actes de la recherche en
sciences sociales. No. 52-53 (June 1984): 3-14.
8. Camiscioli, Elisa. Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and
Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.
9. Cazorla Sánchez, Antonio. Fear and Progress: Ordinary Lives in Franco's Spain, 19391975. Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
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10. Conversi, Daniel. The Basques, the Catalans and Spain. London, 1997.
11. Dreyfus-Armand, Geneviève. L'exil des républicains espagnols en France: De la Guerre
civille à la mort de Franco. Paris: Albin Michel, 1999.
12. Ford, Caroline C. Creating the Nation in Provincial France: Religion and Political
Identity in Brittany. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
13. Fradera, Josep Maria. Cultura nacional en una sociedad dividida: Cataluña, 1838-1868.
Translated by Carles Mercadal Vidal. Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2003.
14. Harris. Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age. (1999)
15. Jonas, Raymond A. Industry and Politics in Rural France: Peasant of the Isère 18701914. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 1994.
16. Keaton, Trica Danielle. Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, &
Social Exclusion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.
17. Kuisel, Richard F. Seducing the French: the Dilemma of Americanization. Berkeley;
Los Angeles: University of California Press, c1993. A32
18. Lebovics, Herman. True France: The Wars Over Cultural Identity, 1900-1945. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1992.
19. Lewis, Mary Dewhurst. The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits
of Universalism in France, 1918-1940. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007.
20. MacMater, Neil. Colonial Migrants and Racism. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.
21. Marrus, Michael Robert, and Robert O. Paxton. Vichy France and the Jews. New York:
Basic Books, 1981.
22. Noiriel, Gérard. La tyrannie du national: le droit d'asile en Europe, 1793-1993. Paris:
Calmann-Lévy, 1991.
23. Noiriel, Gérard. Le creuset français: Histoire de l’immigration, XIXe-XXe siècles. Paris :
Seuil, 1988.
24. Oyón, José Luis, and Juan José Gallardo Romero. El cinturón rojinegro: radicalismo
cenetista y obrerismo en la periferia de Barcelona (1918-1939). Barcelona: Ediciones
Carena, 2004.
25. Peabody, Sue and Tyler Stovall. The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.
26. Pedersen, Susan. Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and
France, 1914-1945. Cambridge University Press, 1993;
27. Peer, Shanny. France on Display Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore in the 1937 Paris
World's Fair. SUNY series in national identities. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 1998.
28. Roberts, Mary Louise. Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar
France, 1917-1927. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
29. Rohr, Isabelle. The Spanish Right and the Jews, 1898-1945: Antisemitism and
Opportunism. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2007.
30. Rosenberg, Clifford. Policing Paris: The Origins of Modern Immigration Control
between the Wars. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.
31. Ross, Kristin. Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French
Culture. Cambrdige, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995.
32. Sahlins, Peter. Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1989.
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33. Sánchez Alonso, Blanca. Las causas de la emigración española (1880-1930). Madrid:
Alianza, 1995.
34. Schildt, Axel and Detlef Siegfried, eds. Between Marx and Coca Cola: Youth Cultures in
Changing European Societies, 1960-1980.
35. Schor, Ralph. L'opinion française et les étrangers en France, 1919-1939. Paris:
Publication de la Sorbonne, 1985.
36. Seidman, Michael. Workers against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona During the
Popular Fronts. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
37. Sewell, William. Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old
Regime to 1848. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.
38. Shubert, Adrian. Social History of Modern Spain. London, 1990
39. Stora, Benjamin. Ils venaient d'Algérie : l'immigration algérienne en France, 19121992. Paris: Fayard, 1992.
40. Ucelay da-Cal, Enric. El imperialismo catalán. Barcelona: Edhasa, 2003.
41. Weber, Eugen. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 18701914. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1976.
42. Weil, Patrick. How to Be French: Nationality in the Making Since 1789. Translated by
Catherine Porter. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
43. Wright, Julian. The Regionalist Movement in France, 1890-1914: Jean Charles-Brun and
French Political Thought. Oxford: Clarendon, 2003.
Empires and the Mediterranean
N.B. Many key texts are found in my Colonial and Postcolonial Africa list with Emily Osborn
1. Armitage, David. “Three Concepts of Atlantic History,” in David Armitage and Michael
J. Braddick, eds., The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (2002)
2. Bailyn, Bernard. “The Idea of Atlantic History,” Itinerario 20 (1996): 19-44
3. Bentley, Jerry. “Seas and Ocean Basins as Frameworks of Historical Analysis,”
Geographical Review 89, no. 2 (April, 1999): 215-224
4. Blackburn, Robin. The Making of New World Slavery.
5. Dubois, Laurent. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution & Slave Emancipation in the French
Caribbean, 1787-1804. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
6. Holt, Thomas. Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain,
1832-1938 (1992)
7. Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1985)
8. Balfour, Sebastian. Deadly Embrace: Morocco and the Road to the Spanish Civil War.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
9. Balfour, Sebastian. The End of the Spanish Empire, 1898-1923. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1997.
10. Bourguet, Marie-Noëlle, et al. L'invention scientifique de la Méditerranée: Egypte,
Morée, Algérie. Paris: Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1998.
11. Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip
II. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
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12. Castro Morales, Federico, ed. Al-Andalus: una identidad compartida : arte, ideología y
enseñanza en el protectorado español en Marruecos. Madrid: Universidad Carlos III de
Madrid, 1999.
13. Costa Ruibal, Oscar. L'imaginari imperial: el Noucentisme català i la política
internacional. Barcelona: Institut Cambó, 2002.
14. Jordi, Jean-Jacques. De l’exode à l’exil: rapatriés et pieds-noirs en France. Histoire et
perspectives Méditerranéennes. Paris: Harmattan, 1993.
15. Jordi, Jean-Jacques. Espagnol en Oranie: histoire d'une migration, 1830-1914.
Calvisson: J. Gandini, 1996.
16. Le Sueur, James D. Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics during the
Decolonization of Algeria. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001.
17. Lewis, Mary Dewhurst . "Geographies of Power: The Tunisian Civic Order,
Jurisdictional Politics, and Imperial Rivalry in the Mediterranean, 1881-1935." The
Journal of Modern History (December 2008): 791-830.
18. Liauzu, Claude. Histoire des migrations en Méditerranée occidentale. Brussels:
Complexe, 1999.
19. Martín Corrales, Eloy, ed. Marruecos y el colonialismo español, 1859-1912: de la guerra
de Africa a la "penetración pacífica". Colección Alborán. Barcelona: Ediciones
Bellaterra, 2002.
20. Nogué i Font, Joan, and José Luis Villanova. España en Marruecos (1912-1956):
discursos geográficos e intervención territorial. Lleida [Spain]: Editorial Milenio, 1999.
21. Rein, Raanan, ed. Spain and the Mediterranean Since 1898. London: F. Cass, 1999.
22. Ruel, Anne. "Línvention de la Méditerranée." Vingtième siècle, no 32 (Oct - Dec 1991),
7-14.
23. Silverstein, Paul A. Algeria in France : Transpolitics, Race, and Nation. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2004.
24. Stora, Benjamin. La gangrene et l’oubli: la mémoire de la guerre d’Algérie. Paris: La
Découverte, 1998 [1991].
25. Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel, and Eduardo González Calleja. La Méditerranée
espagnole. Les représentations de la Méditerranée. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2000.
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