HISTORY 385: MODERN FRANCE: FRENCH REVOLUTION TO
THE PRESENT
Fall 2000
Professor
Joe Lunn, Department of Social Sciences - History
Room: 2119 CX
Telephone: 436-9184; Home:
(734) 741-4465
Office hours: Tuesday 11:30-12 and
3-6; Thursday 11:30-12 and 3-3:30 or by appointment
TEXT: Jeremy Popkin, A History of Modern France, Prentice Hall
READINGS:
J.
J. Rousseau, A Discourse on Inequality.
Penguin.
A. France, The
Gods Will Have Blood. Penguin.
H. Balzac, Old Goriot.
Penguin.
E. Zola, Germinal.
Penguin.
L. F. Celine, Journey to the End of the
Night. New Directions.
A. Camus, The Plague. Modern Library.
FILMS: Grand Illusion, Battle of Algiers
SCHEDULE:
Week
Topics
Text(Chapters)
Readings/Films
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9/12 |
Intro:
The Significance of French History |
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9/19 |
The
Ancièn Regime |
1-5 |
Rousseau |
|
9/26 |
The
French Revolution |
6-9 |
France |
|
10/3 |
The
Napoleonic Era |
10 |
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10/10 |
The
Restoration and July Monarchy |
11-13 |
Balzac |
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10/17 |
1848-1871
*First Readings Exam |
14-16 |
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10/24 |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION: In Class |
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10/31 |
The
Third Republic |
17-19 |
Zola |
|
11/7 |
The
Fin-de-Siècle |
20-22 |
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11/14 |
The
Great War |
23-24 |
Grand Illusion |
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11/21 |
Interwar
Culture |
25-26 |
Céline |
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11/28 |
Defeat,
Occupation, and Liberation |
27-29 |
Camus |
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12/5 |
Collapse
of the Empire and Birth of a New Nation *Second Readings Exam Take-home
Final distributed |
30-34 |
Battle of Algiers |
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12/12 |
TAKE-HOME
FINAL DUE IN MY MAILBOX OR OFFICE BY 6:00
pm |
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