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France Since 1871

Yale,, Fall 2007 , Prof. John Merriman

Updated On 02 Feb, 19

Overview

Introduction - The Paris Commune and Its Legacy - Centralized State and Republic - A Nation? Peasants, Language, and French Identity - The Waning of Religious Authority - Workshop and Factory - Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left - Dynamite Club: The Anarchists - General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus - Cafs and the Culture of Drink - Paris and the Belle poque - French Imperialism (Guest Lecture by Charles Keith) - The Origins of World War I - Trench Warfare - The Home Front - The Great War, Grief, and Memory (Guest Lecture by Bruno Cabanes) - The Popular Front - The Dark Years: Vichy France - Resistance - Battles For and Against Americanization - Vietnam and Algeria - Charles De Gaulle - May 1968 - Immigration

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Lecture 15: The Home Front

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France Since 1871 (HIST 276)

1917 is a critical moment in World War I, as the Bolsheviks seize power in Russia and Woodrow Wilson leads the U.S. into war on the side of the Allied powers. Although morale held steady on the home front in France, there were multiple mutinies and strikes as the war progressed. These mutinies were not in favor of German victory; rather, they were in protest of corruption at home, in the form of incompetence and profiteering. Literary and historical records of World War I bear witness to the difficulty faced by soldiers in reentering civilian life after returning home.

0000 - Chapter 1. Advice for the Midterm Exam
0448 - Chapter 2. The Turning Point in 1917 The Russian Revolution and American Involvement
1705 - Chapter 3. Social Tensions of War Profiteers, Women and Refugees
2419 - Chapter 4. Mutinies and Strikes Popular Revolt on the Front and at Home
3653 - Chapter 5. Ludendorffs Last Push The German Offensive of 1918
4130 - Chapter 6. The End at Last The Human Cost of War

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This course was recorded in Fall 2007.