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This class is designed as both a narrative of French society,
politics and culture from roughly the 1750s to the 1950s
and an advanced study of the methods and arguments of cultural
historiography.The class will consist of weekly readings
and discussions; each week, the assigned reading will consist
of one monograph (more or less in its entirety) representing
a specific time period and a specific issue or problem in
cultural historiography. Students will be expected to volunteer
to lead the discussion of at least one (and in all likelihood,
two) books over the course of the term; this will involve
preparing a discussion of the work, reviews (if available)
and its place in the relevant historiography (based on references
to be supplied by the instructor). Every student is expected
to be prepared each week to discuss each work in its entirety.
These presentations will be the basis for a short book review
essay (due by the end of the term). Each student will also
select one topic in the field of French cultural history
(not necessarily limited to the topics discussed in class)
as the basis for a longer (10 to 15-page) historiographical essay, to be due at the end of the term
(May 14). Assigned readings for the course (all available
at the UNLV bookstore and, whenever possible, on reserve
at Lied Library) are as follows:
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Assigned Readings
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Gorrara and Langford, France
Since the Revolution (or
Wright, France in Modern Times)
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Bell, The Cult of the Nation in France:
Inventing Nationalism, 1660 - 1800
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Sophie Rosenfeld, A
Revolution in Language: The Problem of Signs in Late
Eighteenth-Century France
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Jill Harsin, Barricades:
The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris, 1830
- 1848
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Jeremy Popkin, Press,
Revolution and Social Identities in France,
1830 – 1855
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Jennifer Hecht, The
End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism and Anthropology
in France
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Laura Lee Downs, Childhood in the Promised Land:
Working Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France,
1880 - 1960
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Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican
Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French
Syria
and Lebanon
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Phillippe Burrin,
France Under
the Germans: Collaboration and Compromise
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Maud S. Mandel, In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians
and Jews in Twentieth-Century France
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Jeffrey H. Jackson, Making Jazz French: Music and
Life in Interwar Paris
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Tony Chafer, The
End of the Empire in French West Africa: France’s
Successful Decolonisation?
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Robert Gildea, The
Past in French History
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