1: French Revolution, world revolution
France and Europe in 1789
From crisis to revolution
Rise and fall of the radical revolution
2: Restoration, revolution, and Empire: France, 1815-1852
Life in early nineteenth century France
The Restoration and France overseas
Winners and losers : The new Industrial society
Beyond liberty? : New paths to reform and revolution
3: Imperial Democracy? : France under the Second Empire, 1852-1870
Europe and the world in the mid-nineteenth century
France confronts a changing world
The Franco-Prussian War and the fall of the Empire
4: Paris : The making of a world capital
The Haussmannization of Paris
Paris and the cultures of modernity
The Franco-Prussian War and the siege of Paris
Paris, world capital of consumer culture
Montmarte and the rise of a New Bohemia
Paris on display to the world
5: The Universal Republic
Global change : The second Industrial revolution and the rise of mass society
Universalism and the Third Republic
The "Republicanization" of the Republic
The republicanization of France
Jules Ferry le tonkinois and the new French Empire
France and the scramble for Africa
The old colonies and the new Empire
Ideas and realities of Empire
7: The universal nation in a world at war
France, Europe, and the world face a new century
France in the Belle Epoque
Battle and survival in the trenches
The final year of the war
8: From one war to another : The universal nation in crisis
The Peace of Paris and the Versailles treaty
Prosperity and anxiety in the Interwar years
Interwar politics and diplomacy
The crazy years : New dimensions in avant-garde and popular culture
One Hundred million Frenchmen : Imperial France between the wars
France and the world depression
Foreign affairs and the end of the peace
9: France in World War II : Defeat and rebirth of the universal nation
Vichy and the national revolution
Vichy, Germany, and the Jews
Empire by association : Vichy and the colonies
The resistance and the decline of Vichy
10: The Fourth Republic : New challenges for the transnational nation
From the liberation to the Fourth Republic
Cold War and Coca-colonization : France between superpowers
The revolt against Empire
The revolt against Empire
The Algerian War and the end of the Fourth Republic
11: The Fifth Republic : A new era for France
Building the Fifth Republic
La Gloire : de Gaulle, France, and the world
Prosperity and consumer society
The end of postwar prosperity
The socialists take power
12: Postcolonial France : A new universal nation?
The new globalism and the end of the "Short" twentieth century
The Rose Revolution : Achievements and discontents
Immigration and race at the end of the twentieth century
Memories and legacies of war
France, Europe, and the world at the end of the twentieth century
France enters a new millennium
