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Course of French History
Routledge 1991; US$ 42.95`Lively, well-written, satirical and profound.' - Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie This stimulating one-volume history traces the social and economic evolution of France as a nation from 987 to the present day. more...
The Fifth French Republic
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 105.00This is an up-to-date political history of the French Fifth Republic, a regime whose obituary has been written several times over, but which stubbornly refuses to die. more...
Vice And Virtue
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 29.95From the courtesans of Versailles to the back halls of Chiracs government, from Danton revealed to have been a paid agent for England to the shady bankers of Mitterands era, from the buddies of Mazarin to the builders of the Panama Canal, Paul Lomba more...
France Since 1945
Oxford University Press, UK 1996; US$ 22.88In the fifty years since the end of the Second World War, France has had to deal with the legacy of the German occupation, the effects of the Algerian war and the rise of Islam, and more recently the loss of French domination of Europe following the reunification of Germany. Robert Gildea sets these and other issues within their economic, social, and... more...
Adventures in the French Trade
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 21.95This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar/critic of matters French (and a key figure in the naturalization of French "theory" in English) than a series of differently angled fragments, episodes, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called his amour vache, his injured and occasionally injurious love, for... more...
Raymond Poincaré
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 53.00This long-awaited, pioneering biography is a fascinating portrait based on new archival material. more...
The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 19451954
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 46.00A study of the American government's influence in France during the critical postwar period. more...
The Politics of Depression in France 19321936
Cambridge University Press 1985; US$ 53.00This book examines debates about the formation of French economic policy during the Great Depression. more...
Political Leadership in France
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 33.00Gaffney analyzes how de Gaulle came to power in 1958. The drama surrounding the Fourth Republic's collapse, and the focus upon an exceptional individual meant that de Gaulle was able to confer a particular style of leadership on the Fifth Republic. The five Presidents who came after him have each capitalized on their own political 'persona.' more...









