131-081 France: Napoleon to Republic 1798-1914

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Prof Charles Sowerwine

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of first-year history or first-year European studies, see Prerequisites.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1.5-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

This subject will cover French history from Napoleon's coronation as Emperor in 1804 through the establishment of the Third Republic during the 1870s, to the flowering of French culture in the decades before World War I. Students will explore the meaning of the three great revolutions of the 19th century and the emergence of a republican culture. Students will discuss the class and gendered nature of the evolution and culture of the republican project.

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts

A subject reader will be available.

  • E Kamenka (ed), The Portable Karl Marx. Penguin 1983.
  • C Sowerwine, France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society. Macmillan 2001.


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