Bibliography of France


This is a list of works which deal with France and its geography, history, inhabitants, and culture.

General

  • "France." in Europe, edited by Ferdie McDonald and Claire Marsden, Dorling Kindersley, pp. 144–217. .
  • Carls, Alice-Catherine. "France." in World Press Encyclopedia, edited by Amanda C. Quick,, pp. 314–337. .
  • Chabal, Emile, France. .
  • Dephalese, Arnaud. France : Dictionnaire critique de civilisation contemporaine.
  • Gildea, Robert. France Since 1945.
  • Goodliffe, Gabriel, and Riccardo Brizzi, eds. France After 2012.
  • Haine, W. S. Culture and Customs of France.
  • Kelly, Michael, ed. French Culture and Society: The Essentials.
  • Raymond, Gino. Historical Dictionary of France.
  • Jones, Colin. Cambridge Illustrated History of France.
  • of France from the Eran Laor Cartographic Collection. National Library of Israel.

History

Surveys and reference

  • French textbook
  • textbook
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Social, economic and cultural history

  • economic and business history
  • Essays on female artists, "printer widows," women in manufacturing, women and contracts, and elite prostitution
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Middle Ages

  • An examination of the social divisions in medieval France.
  • survey by a leader of the Annales School
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Early Modern

  • historiography
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Old Regime

Enlightenment

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Revolution

  • survey of political history
  • history of ideas
  • biography
  • hundreds of short entries
  • short essays by scholars
  • narrative
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Long-term impact

  • 38 short essays by leading scholars on the political values of the French Republic
  • comparative history
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Napoleon

  • succinct coverage of life, France and empire; little on warfare
  • political biography
  • maps and synthesis
  • popular history stressing empire and diplomacy
  • stress on military
  • evaluation of major books on Napoleon & his wars
  • biography
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Restoration: 1815–1870

  • Survey of political history
  • historiography
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Third Republic: 1871–1940

  • topical approach

World War I

  • argues that the extremely high casualty rate in very first month of fighting permanently transformed France
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Vichy (1940–1944)

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Fourth and Fifth Republics (1944 to present)

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Historiography

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Primary sources

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Scholarly journals

Politics

Foreign relations

  • Aldrich, Robert, and John Connell. France and World Politics
  • Bell, P.M.H. France and Britain, 1940–1994: The Long Separation
  • Berstein, Serge, Jean-Pierre Rioux, and Christopher Woodall. The Pompidou Years, 1969–1974
  • Berstein, Serge, and Peter Morris. The Republic of de Gaulle 1958–1969
  • Bozo, Frédéric. "'Winners' and 'Losers': France, the United States, and the End of the Cold War", Diplomatic History Nov. 2009, Volume 33, Issue 5, pages 927–956,
  • Bozo, Frédéric. French Foreign Policy since 1945: An Introduction.
  • Cerny, Philip G. The Politics of Grandeur: Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle's Foreign Policy.. 319 pp.
  • Chassaigne, Phillipe, and Michael Dockrill, eds. Anglo-French Relations 1898–1998: From Fashoda to Jospin
  • Chipman, John. French Power in Africa
  • Cogan, Charles G. Oldest Allies, Guarded Friends: The United States and France since 1940
  • Cole, Alistair. Franco-German Relations .
  • Costigliola, Frank. France and the United States: The Cold Alliance since World War II
  • Fenby, Jonathan. The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France he saved.
  • Feske, Victor H. "The Road To Suez: The British Foreign Office and the Quai D’Orsay, 1951–1957" in The Diplomats, 1939-1979 pp. 167–200;
  • Johnson, Douglas, et al. Britain and France: Ten Centuries
  • Keiger, J.F.V. France and the World since 1870 ; 261pp; topical approach emphasizing national security, intelligence & relations with major powers
  • Krotz, Ulrich. "Three eras and possible futures: a long-term view on the Franco-German relationship a century after the First World War." International Affairs 20#2 pp 337–350.
  • Lane, Philippe. French scientific and cultural diplomacy
  • Lequesne, Christian. "French foreign and security challenges after the Paris terrorist attacks." Contemporary security policy 37.2 : 306–318.
  • Moravcsik, Andrew et al. "De Gaulle Between Grain and Grandeur: The Political Economy of French EC Policy, 1958–1970" Journal of Cold War Studies. 2#2 pp 3–43; 2#3 pp 4–142.; two part article plus critics plus rejoinder
  • Moravcsik, Andrew. "Charles de Gaulle and Europe: The New Revisionism." Journal of Cold War Studies 14#1 pp: 53–77.
  • Nuenlist, Christian, Anna Locher, and Garret Martin, eds. Globalizing de Gaulle: International Perspectives on French Foreign Policies, 1958 to 1969
  • Paxton, Robert O., ed. De Gaulle and the United States
  • Soutou, Georges-Henri. "France and the Cold War, 1944-63." Diplomacy & Statecraft. 12#4 pp 3–52.
  • Sharp, Alan, and Glyn Stone, eds. Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century: Rivalry and Cooperation
  • Simonian, Haig. The Privileged Partnership: Franco-German Relations in the European Community 1969–1984
  • Tombs, Robert and Isabelle Tombs. That Sweet Enemy: Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship 1688 to present
  • Williams, Philip M. and Martin Harrison. De Gaulle's Republic

Tourism

  • Bauer, Michel. "Cultural tourism in France." in Cultural tourism in Europe : 147–164.
  • Cawley, Mary, Jean-Bernard Marsat, and Desmond A. Gillmor. "Promoting integrated rural tourism: comparative perspectives on institutional networking in France and Ireland." Tourism Geographies 9.4 : 405–420.
  • Clarke, Alan. "Coastal development in France: Tourism as a tool for regional development." Annals of Tourism Research 8.3 : 447–461.
  • Corne, Aurélie. "Benchmarking and tourism efficiency in France." Tourism Management 51 : 91–95.
  • Cró, Susana, and António Miguel Martins. "Foreign Direct Investment in the tourism sector: The case of France." Tourism Management Perspectives 33 : 100614.
  • d'Hauteserre, Anne-Marie. "The role of the French state: Shifting from supporting large tourism projects like Disneyland Paris to a diffusely forceful presence." Current Issues in Tourism 4.2-4 : 121–150.
  • Eade, John. "Pilgrimage and tourism at Lourdes, France." Annals of Tourism Research 19.1 : 18-32 .
  • Endy, Christopher. Cold war holidays: American tourism in France.
  • Frochot, Isabelle. "Wine tourism in France: a paradox?." in Wine tourism around the world : 67–80.
  • Furlough, Ellen. "Making mass vacations: tourism and consumer culture in France, 1930s to 1970s." Comparative Studies in Society and History 40.2 : 247-286 .
  • Gay, Jean-Christophe. "Why is tourism doing poorly in overseas France?" Annals of Tourism Research 39.3 : 1634–1652.
  • Gordon, Bertram M. War Tourism. Second World War France from Defeat and Occupation to the Creation of Heritage
  • Harp, Stephen L. Au naturel: Naturism, nudism, and tourism in twentieth-century France.
  • Lamont, Matthew, and Jim McKay. "Intimations of postmodernity in sports tourism at the Tour de France." Journal of Sport & Tourism 17.4 : 313–331.
  • Pickel-Chevalier, Sylvine. "Can equestrian tourism be a solution for sustainable tourism development in France?." Loisir et Société/Society and Leisure 38.1 : 110–134.
  • Seraphin, Hugues, et al. "Tourism education in France and sustainable development goal 4." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes.
  • Seraphin, Hugues. "Terrorism and tourism in France: the limitations of dark tourism." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 9.2 : 187–195.
  • Young, Patrick. Enacting Brittany: Tourism and culture in provincial France, 1871–1939.

Demographics

  • Diebolt, Claude, and Perrin Faustine. Understanding Demographic Transitions. An Overview of French Historical Statistics 176 pages.
  • Dyer, Colin L. Population and Society in 20th Century France
  • Henry, Louis. "The population of France in the eighteenth century." in Population in History. pp 441+
  • Spengler, Joseph J. France Faces Depopulation
  • Van de Walle, Etienne. ''The female population of France in the nineteenth century: a reconstruction of 82 départements''

Religion

  • Aston, Nigel. Religion and Revolution in France, 1780–1804
  • Bowen, John Richard. Why the French don't like headscarves: Islam, the state, and public space
  • Curtis, Sarah A. Educating the Faithful: Religion, Schooling, and Society in Nineteenth-Century France
  • Edelstein, D.. The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Furet, F. Interpreting the French Revolution. Cambridge UP.
  • Gibson, Ralph. A Social History of French Catholicism, 1789-1914 London: Routledge.
  • Hunt, L.. Politics, culture, and class in the French Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Hussey, Andrew. The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and its Arabs London: Granta.
  • Israel, J.. Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre. Princeton University Press.
  • Latourette, Kenneth Scott. Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: Volume I: The Nineteenth Century in Europe: Background and the Roman Catholic Phase passim on Catholics in France.
  • Latourette, Kenneth Scott. Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: Vol II: The Nineteenth Century in Europe: The Protestant and Eastern Churches; pp 224–34 on Protestants in France.
  • Latourette, Kenneth Scott. Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: Vol IV: The Twentieth Century in Europe: The Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Churches pp 128–53 on Catholics in France; pp 375–79 on Protestants.
  • McMillan, James. "Catholic Christianity in France from the Restoration to the separation of church and state, 1815-1905." in Sheridan Gilley and Brian Stanley, eds., The Cambridge history of Christianity 8: 217-232
  • Misner, Paul. "Social catholicism in nineteenth-century Europe: A review of recent historiography." Catholic Historical Review 78.4 : 581–600.
  • Price, Roger, Religious Renewal in France, 1789-1870: The Roman Catholic Church between Catastrophe and Triumph
  • Tallett, Frank, and Nicholas Atkin. Religion, society, and politics in France since 1789
  • Willaime, Jean-Paul. "The cultural turn in the sociology of religion in France." Sociology of Religion 65.4 : 373–389.
  • Zeldin, Theodore. France, 1848-1945: Intellect, taste, and anxiety. Vol. 2. pp 983–1039.

Education

  • Baker, Donald N. and Patrick J. Harrigan, eds. The Making of Frenchmen: current directions in the history of education in France, 1679-1979.
  • Clark, Linda L. "Approaching the History of Modern French Education: Recent Surveys and Research Guides," French Historical Studies 15#1 pp. 157–165
  • Corbett, Anne, and Bob Moon, eds. Education in France: continuity and change in the Mitterrand years 1981-1995
  • Duru-Bellat, Marie. "France: permanence and change." in Yan Wang, ed. Education policy reform trends in G20 members pp. 19–32.
  • Duru-Bellat, Marie. "Recent Trends in Social Reproduction in France: Should the Political Promises of Education be Revisited?" Journal of Education Policy 23#1: 81–95..
  • Foght, H.W. ed. Comparative education, compares United States, England, Germany, France, Canada, and Denmark
  • Harrigan, Patrick. "Women teachers and the schooling of girls in France: Recent historiographical trends." French Historical Studies 21#4: 593–610.
  • Langan, Elise. "The normative effects of higher education policy in France." International Journal of Educational Research 53 : 32–43.
  • Passow, A. Harry et al. The National Case Study: An Empirical Comparative Study of Twenty-One Educational Systems.
  • van Zanten, Agnès and Claire Maxwell. "Elite Education and the State in France: Durable Ties and New Challenges." British Journal of Sociology of Education. 36#1: 71–94..
  • Van Zanten, Agnès. "Widening participation in France and its effects on the field of élite higher education and on educational policy." Policy and Inequality in Education pp. 73–89.

Literature

  • Brereton, Geoffrey. A Short History of French Literature
  • Burgwinkle, William, Nicholas Hammond, and Emma Wilson, eds. The Cambridge History of French Literature
  • Cobb, Richard, Promenades: A Historian's Appreciation of Modern French Literature
  • Harvey, Paul, and Janet E. Heseltine, eds. The Oxford Companion to French Literature
  • Denis Hollier, ed. A New History of French Literature, Harvard University Press, 1989, 1150 pp.
  • France, Peter. The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French,, 926 pp.,
  • Kay, Sarah, Terence Cave, Malcolm Bowie. A Short History of French Literature, 356 pp.,
  • Lemaitre, Georges. From Cubism to Surrealism in French Literature
  • Reid, Joyce M.H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of French Literature
  • an alternative point of view.
  • Sapiro, Gisèle. The French Writers' War 1940-1953 ; highly influential study of intellectuals in the French Resistance

Sport

  • Holt, R. "Women, men and sport in France, c. 1870–1914: An introductory survey," Journal of Sport History
  • Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah. The Making of "Les Bleus": Sport in France, 1958-2010 214 pages; examines the politics of the French state's efforts to create elite athletes in football and basketball at the youth level.
  • Terret, Thierry. "Is there a French sport history? Reflections on French sport historiography." International Journal of the History of Sport 28.14 : 2061–2084.
  • Weber, Eugen. "Gymnastics and sport in fin de siècle France", American Historical Review 76