France Since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society

France Since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society by Sowerwine, Charles. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780333658376.

This fascinating, authoritative history describes the great political, economic, cultural, and social events that have defined the period, from the convulsive establishment of a French republic to the apotheosis of French national culture in World War I, from the acrimonious failure of the 1930s and the Occupation to Frances resurgence as a central focus of postwar Europe. The book ends with President Mitterands retirement, an epochal event that marked the severing of Frances last link with the Vichy government and the Fourth Republic.