SCHOOL OF DIVINITY, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY
ACADEMIC SESSION 2016-2017
HI304M Power and Traditions: France 1799–1900
30 credits 11 weeks
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COURSE CO-ORDINATOR/COURSE TEAM
Dr Elizabeth C. Macknight [email protected]
Office telephone: 01224 272297
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Questions about who exercised power and why resonated at every level of
nineteenth-century French society. The Revolution of 1789 had brought about
fundamental reforms to the political and social order in France. It set down the
roots of the French republican tradition whose supporters became locked in an
ongoing ideological struggle against conservative political and social elites. This
course examines the myriad forms that power took in French society, from
Napoleon’s coup d’état of 18 Brumaire to the early Third Republic. It deals with
the power of political and military leaders to legislate and lead armies. It
investigates the gendered implications of power operating within families and
between men and women. It also unpacks the ways in which class shaped
power relations, and the significance of class-based traditions, within the social
fabric of nineteenth-century France. All essential sources for the course are
available in English.
INTENDED AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
The course aims to provide an introduction to key events, themes, and issues in
the history of modern France, focussing on the period from 1799 to 1900.
By the end of this course you will be able to:
• show familiarity with political, social, and cultural developments in the
history of nineteenth-century France;
• appreciate different historiographical approaches;
• evaluate the strength of an argument;
• identify and analyse a range of primary and secondary sources;
• articulate a convincing argument based on use of evidence
This course will encourage the development of IT and related skills by requiring
word-processed essays and seminar presentations that may employ
illustrations, graphics, recorded speech or music, videos, etc. You are
encouraged to use the Internet but also to exercise discrimination with regard
to the material available. The course will encourage the development of
analytical skills by introducing you to the use, criticism and comparison of
primary documents.
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Practical skills fostered by the course include the ability
• to build bibliographies on specific topics;
• to locate and gather primary and secondary sources;
• to demonstrate a detailed appreciation of the recent historical
scholarship in connection with a chosen essay topic;
• to give an oral presentation on a specific topic;
• to retain, recall and apply relevant information in examination
conditions.
This course should help to build transferable skills including the ability
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to listen carefully to others;
to speak to a group;
to read slowly and attentively;
to take effective notes;
to synthesise a range of information;
to construct and present coherent arguments both orally and in written
form;
to develop teamwork skills required for effective interaction in a seminar
situation;
to motivate oneself to work autonomously and to meet deadlines;
to provide and receive academic criticism in a constructive fashion.
LECTURE/SEMINAR PROGRAMME
Week 1
S1
Introduction
S2
Napoleonic France
Week 2
S3
War and ‘French Europe’
S4
Legacies of Empire
Week 3
S5
The Bourbon Restoration, 1814–30
S6
Views on the emancipation of women
Week 4: Election of Class Representatives
S7
The 1830 Revolution
S8
The July monarchy, 1830–48
Week 5: Class Meeting
S9
The 1848 Revolution
S10 The Second Republic 1848–52
Week 6
S11 The Second Empire, 1852–70
S12 Haussmann’s Paris
Week 7 Reading week; no classes
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Week 8: Level Meeting / Essay due, Wednesday no later than 3 p.m.
S13 The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1
S14 The Paris Commune
Week 9
S15 Establishing the Third Republic
S16 Republican reforms
Week 10: Student Course Evaluation Form Exercise
S17 French imperialism
S18 The Dreyfus Affair, 1894–1906
Week 11: Staff-Student Liaison Committee Meeting
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S19
S20
A ‘belle époque’?
World Exhibition, Paris 1900
SEMINAR READINGS
Week 1
No set readings
Week 2
primary
‘Justifying the coup of Brumaire’
‘The Concordat, 10 September 1801’
‘The Consulate for Life, 1802’
‘Founding the Empire, 1804’
‘The Civil Code, March 1803─March 1804’
‘Imposing the Code Napoléon on the Empire’
in Philip G. Dwyer and Peter McPhee, eds, The French Revolution and Napoleon:
A Sourcebook (London, 2002): 136–9, 149–56, 165–8.
secondary
Hazareesingh, Sudhir, The Legend of Napoleon (London, 2004): 1─14
Week 3
primary
‘Prosper Enfantin, 1831’
‘Charles Fourier, 1832’
‘La Femme Libre [“Jeanne-Victoire”], 1832’
‘Joseph de Maistre, 1821’
‘Jules Michelet, 1845’
in Susan Groag Bell & Karen M. Offen, eds, Women, the Family, and Freedom:
The Debate in Documents vol. 1, 1750–1880 (Stanford, 1983): 143–7,
169–73.
secondary
Grogan, Susan K. French Socialism and Sexual Difference (Houndsmills, 1992):
1─19.
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Week 4
primary
Stendhal, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 trans. Burton Raffel (New
York, 2003): 359–66.
secondary
Mansel, Philip, Paris between Empires 1814─1852 (London, 2001): 280─306.
Week 5
primary
‘Popular disorder in the provinces’
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‘Popular demonstrations in Paris: 17 March 1848’
‘The election campaign’
‘Disillusioned republicans’
in Price, Roger, ed., Documents on the French Revolution of 1848 (Basingstoke,
1996): 61–71, 100–1.
secondary
McPhee, Peter, The Politics of Rural Life: Political Mobilization in the French
Countryside 1846–1852 (Oxford, 1992): 75–105.
Week 6
primary
Marx, Karl, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (London, 2001): 125–44.
secondary
Jordan, David P., ‘Haussmann and Haussmannisation: The Legacy for Paris’,
French Historical Studies, vol. 27 (2004): 87–113.
Week 7 No classes
Week 8
primary
Document 1.8 The Proclamation of the Paris Commune (28 March 1871)
Document 1.9 The Paris Commune and Popular Democracy (21 March 1871)
Document 1.12 The Defeat of the Paris Commune (29 May 1871)
Document 4.1 Women and the Paris Commune of 1871 (8 May 1871)
in William Fortescue, The Third Republic in France, 1870–1940: Conflicts and
Continuities (London, 2000): 12–15, 19–20, 81.
secondary
Eichner, Carolyn J., Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune
(Bloomington, 2004): 17–35.
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Week 9
primary
Document 2.5 Republicanism and Anti-clericalism (4 May 1877)
Document 2.8 The Republicanism of Jules Ferry: Education (6 June 1889)
Document 3.12 The Separation of Church and State (9 December 1905)
Document 4.6 Secondary School Education for Girls (21 December 1880)
in William Fortescue, The Third Republic in France, 1870–1940: Conflicts and
Continuities (London, 2000): 31–2, 36–7, 73–4, 89–90.
secondary
Stone, Judith F., ‘Anticlericals and Bonnes Soeurs: The Rhetoric of the 1901 Law
of Associations’, French Historical Studies, vol. 23 (2000): 103–28.
Week 10
primary
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Document 3.2 The Bordereau (n.d.)
Document 3.3 The Arrest of Captain Alfred Dreyfus (15 October 1894)
Document 3.4 The Degradation of Dreyfus (5 January 1895)
Document 3.8 Emile Zola’s ‘J’Accuse...!’ (13 January 1898)
in William Fortescue, The Third Republic in France, 1870–1940: Conflicts and
Continuities (London, 2000): 54–7, 65–6.
secondary
Bredin, Jean-Denis, The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus (London, 1987):
245–99.
Week 11
primary
Proust, Marcel, In Search of Lost Time vol. 2 Within a Budding Grove (London,
2002): 425–35.
secondary
Weber, Eugen, France Fin de Siècle (Cambridge, 1986): 51–82.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Further reading is an essential part of any course in History and will deepen your
understanding and enjoyment of the period and the discipline of history. The
select bibliography below provides points of departure for further reading on the
topics covered in the course. The footnotes and bibliographies of these books and
articles are two sources of further reading; the search-features of the library
catalogue, browsing the open shelves, and consulting the course co-ordinator are
other ways forward. A major outcome of a university education should be an
ability to find information on any topic within your field. You are encouraged to
show initiative in developing this ability.
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On-line databases
Modern History Sourcebook
QML History E-Journals
Meta-Lib E-Resources sign-in
J-Stor (Athens sign-in; or access via QML catalogue). Go to advanced search and use
suitable keywords search; this will produce a large number of relevant articles.
Some useful websites:
H-France contains links to book reviews and forum discussion
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. An excellent site containing
historical, political, administrative, and relief maps
Highly recommended as a general work on nineteenth-century France:
McPhee, Peter, A Social History of France, 1789–1914 2 ed. (Basingstoke,
2004) Available on Ebrary and in paperback
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Novels, short stories, and films:
Many works by nineteenth-century French authors have been translated into
English and/or adapted to film. We will read extracts from Stendhal and Proust.
The list below offers further ideas for sampling the literature.
Paris tales: stories trans. Helen Constantine (Oxford, 2004) is an excellent
collection of short stories
George Sand, Indiana
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Balzac, Le Père Goriot [Eng. trans. Old Goriot]
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Emile Zola, Au bonheur des dames [Eng. trans. The Ladies Paradise], Germinal,
Nana, and many others…
Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami
Joris-Karl Huysmans, A rebours [Eng. trans. Against Nature]
Colette, Le Pur et l’impur [Eng. trans. The Pure and the Impure]
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Further reading:
Accampo, Elinor A., Rachel G. Fuchs, and Mary Lynn Stewart, eds., Gender and
the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870–1914 (Baltimore, 1995).
Agulhon, Maurice, Marianne into Battle: Republican Imagery and Symbolism in
France, 1789–1880 Translated by Janet Lloyd (Cambridge, 1981).
———. The Republican Experiment, 1848–1852. Translated by Janet Lloyd, Vol.
2, The Cambridge History of Modern France (Cambridge, 1983).
Aldrich, Robert, Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion
(Basingstoke, 1996).
Aminzade, Ronald, Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican
Politics in France, 1830–1871 (Princeton, 1993).
Atkin, Nicholas, and Frank Tallett, eds., The Right in France: From Revolution to
Le Pen 2 ed. (London, 2003).
Auslander, Leora, Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France (Berkeley, 1996).
Auspitz, Katherine, The Radical Bourgeoisie: The Ligue de l'enseignement and
the Origins of the Third Republic, 1866–1885 (Cambridge, 1982).
Birkett, Jennifer, The Sins of the Fathers: Decadence in France 1870–1914
(London, 1986).
Boime, Albert, The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century
(London, 1971).
———. Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution
(Princeton, 1995).
Bredin, Jean-Denis, The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus (London, 1987).
Broers, Michael, Europe after Napoleon: Revolution, Reaction, and
Romanticism, 1814–1848 (Manchester, 1996).
———. Europe under Napoleon 1799–1815 (New York, 1996).
Brown, Howard G., and Judith A. Miller, Taking Liberties: Problems of a New
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Order from the French Revolution to Napoleon (Manchester, 2002).
Bullard, Alice, Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilisation in Paris and the South
Pacific, 1790–1900 (Stanford, 2000).
Cahm, Eric, The Dreyfus Affair in French Society and Politics (London, 1996).
———. Politics and Society in Contemporary France (1789–1971) (London,
1972).
Carmona, Michel, Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern
Paris Translated by Patrick Camiller (Chicago, 2002).
Chafer, Tony and Amanda Sackur, eds., Promoting the Colonial Idea:
Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France (Basingstoke, 2002).
Charle, Christophe, A Social History of France in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford,
1994).
Chenut, Helen Harden, The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third
Republic France (University Park, 2005).
Clark, Linda L., The Rise of Professional Women in France: Gender and Public
Administration since 1830 (Cambridge, 2000).
———. Schooling the Daughters of Marianne: Textbooks and the Socialization
of Girls in Modern French Primary Schools (Albany, 1984).
Clark, Timothy J., The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His
Followers Revised ed. (Princeton, 1999).
Coffin, J. G., The Politics of Women's Work: The Paris Garment Trades, 1750–
1915 (Princeton, 1996).
Collingham, Hugh, The July Monarchy: A Political History of France, 1830–1848
(London, 1988).
Conklin, Alice L., A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France
and West Africa, 1895–1930 (Stanford, 1997).
Cooper, Frederick and Ann Laura Stoler, Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures
in a Bourgeois World (Berkeley, 1997).
Crook, Malcolm, Napoleon Comes to Power: Democracy and Dictatorship in
Revolutionary France, 1795–1804 (Cardiff, 1998).
Cross, Maíre F., and David Williams, eds., The French Experience from Republic
to Monarchy, 1792–1824: New Dawn in Politics, Knowledge and Culture
(New York, 2000).
Davies, Peter, The Extreme Right in France 1789 to the Present: From De Maistre
to Le Pen (London, 2002).
Desan, Suzanne, The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France (Los Angeles,
2004).
Dwyer, Philip G., and Peter McPhee, eds., The French Revolution and Napoleon:
A Sourcebook (London, 2002).
Eichner, Carolyn J., Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune
(Bloomington, 2004).
Ellis, Jack D., The Physician-Legislators of France: Medicine and Politics in the
Early Third Republic, 1870–1914 (Cambridge, 1990).
Elwitt, Sanford, The Making of the Third Republic: Class and Politics in France,
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1868–1884 (Baton Rouge, 1975).
Evans, Martin, ed., Empire and Culture: The French Experience (New York,
2004).
Ford, Caroline, Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France (Ithaca,
2005).
Fortescue, William, The Third Republic in France, 1870–1940: Conflicts and
Continuities (London, 2000).
Forth, Christopher E., The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood
(Baltimore, 2004).
Fuchs, Rachel G., Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe, New
Approaches to European History (Cambridge, 2005).
———. Poor and Pregnant in Paris: Strategies for Survival in the Nineteenth
Century (New Brunswick, 1992).
Furet, François, Revolutionary France, 1770–1880 Translated by Antonia Nevill
(Oxford, 2005).
Gluck, Mary, Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in NineteenthCentury Paris (Cambridge, MA, 2005).
Gorrara, Claire and Rachel Langford, eds., France since the Revolution: Texts and
Contexts (London, 2003).
Gould, Roger V., Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris
from 1848 to the Commune (Chicago, 1995).
Griffiths, Richard, The Use of Abuse: The Polemics of the Dreyfus Affair and Its
Aftermath (Oxford, 1991).
Grogan, Susan K., French Socialism and Sexual Difference: Women and the New
Society, 1803–44 (London, 1992).
Gullickson, Gay L., Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune (Ithaca,
1996).
Harrison, Carol E., The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender,
Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation (Oxford, 1999).
Harriss, Joseph, The Eiffel Tower: Symbol of an Age (London, 1976).
Harsin, Jill, Barricades: The War of the Street in Revolutionary Paris, 1830–1848
(New York, 2002).
Hazareesingh, Sudhir, From Subject to Citizen: The Second French Empire and
the Emergence of Modern French Democracy (Princeton, 1998).
———. Political Traditions in Modern France (Oxford, 1994).
Higgs, David, Nobles in Nineteenth-Century France: The Practice of
Inegalitarianism (Baltimore, 1987).
Hilden, Patricia, Working Women and Socialist Politics in France, 1880–1914: A
Regional Study (Oxford, 1986).
Holmes, Diana, French Women's Writing, 1848–1994 (London, 1996).
Horne, Alistair, The French Army and Politics, 1870–1970 (London, 1984).
———. Seven Ages of Paris (London, 2002).
Hustvedt, Asti, ed., The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from
Fin-de-Siècle France (New York, 1998).
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Johnson, Martin P., The Paradise of Association: Political Culture and Popular
Organizations in the Paris Commune of 1871 (Ann Arbor, 1996).
Jones, Kathleen and Françoise Verges, ‘Women of the Paris Commune’,
Women's Studies International Forum vol. 14 (1991): 491–503.
Jordan, David P., Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann
(New York, 1995).
Kete, Kathleen, The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century
Paris (Berkeley, 1994).
Kroen, Sheryl, Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration
France, 1815–1830 (Berkeley, 2000).
Larkin, Maurice, Church and State after the Dreyfus Affair: The Separation Issue
in France (London, 1974).
———. Religion, Politics and Preferment in France since 1890: La Belle Époque
and Its Legacy (Cambridge, 1995).
Lehning, James R., To Be a Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third
Republic (Ithaca, 2001).
Magraw, Roger, France, 1800–1914: A Social History (London, 2002).
Mansel, Philip, Paris between Empires: Monarchy and Revolution, 1814–1852
(New York, 2003).
Margadant, Jo Burr, ed. The New Biography: Performing Femininity in
Nineteenth-Century France (Berkeley, 2000).
Marrinan, Michael, Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe: Art and Ideology in
Orléanist France, 1830–1848 (New Haven, 1988).
Mayeur, Jean-Marie, and Madeleine Réberioux, The Third Republic from Its
Origins to the Great War, 1871–1914 Translated by J. R. Foster
(Cambridge, 1984).
Maza, Sarah, The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social
Imaginary, 1750–1850 (Cambridge, MA, 2003).
McMillan, James F., France and Women, 1789–1914: Gender, Politics, and
Society (London, 2000).
———. Housewife or Harlot: The Place of Women in French Society, 1870–1940
(Brighton, 1981).
———. Napoleon III (London, 1991).
McPhee, Peter, The Politics of Rural Life: Political Mobilization in the French
Countryside 1846–1852 (Oxford, 1992).
———. A Social History of France, 1789–1914 2 ed. (Basingstoke, 2004).
Moulin, Annie, Peasantry and Society in France since 1789 Translated by M.C.
and M.F. Cleary (Cambridge, 1991).
Nelms, Brenda, The Third Republic and the Centennial of 1789 (New York, 1987).
Noiriel, Gérard, The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National
Identity (Minneapolis, 1996).
———. Workers in French Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
(New York, 1990).
Nora, Pierre, ed., Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past 3 vols. (New
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York, 1996–98).
Nord, Philip G., The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in
Nineteenth-Century France (Cambridge, MA, 1995).
Nye, Robert A., Crime, Madness, and Politics in Modern France: The Medical
Concept of National Decline (Princeton, 1984).
———. Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France (Oxford, 1993).
Peabody, Sue, and Tyler Stovall, eds., The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in
France (Durham, 2003).
Perrot, Michelle, ed., From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War, Vol. 4, A
History of Private Life (Cambridge, MA, 1990).
Pilbeam, Pamela, Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century France (Basingstoke,
1995).
Pinkney, David H., Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris (Princeton, 1958).
Plessis, Alain, The Rise and Fall of the Second Empire, 1852–1871 Translated by
Jonathan Mandelbaum (Cambridge, 1985).
Porch, Douglas, The Conquest of Morocco (London, 1986).
———. The French Foreign Legion: A Complete History of the Legendary
Fighting Force (New York, 1991).
Price, Roger, A Concise History of France 2 ed. (Cambridge, 2005).
———. The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power (Cambridge,
2001).
———. A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (London, 1987).
Przyblyski, Jeannene M. and Dean de la Motte, eds., Making the News:
Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France (Amherst,
1999).
Reynolds, Siân, ed., Women, State and Revolution: Essays on Power and Gender
in Europe since 1789 (Brighton, 1986).
Sauvigny, Guillaume de Bertier de, The Bourbon Restoration Translated by Lynn
M. Case. (Philadelphia, 1966).
Scott, Joan W., Gender and the Politics of History (New York, 1988).
———. Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man
(Cambridge, MA, 1996).
Shafer, David A., The Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the
Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition (New York, 2005).
Simon, Walter M., ed., French Liberalism 1789–1848 (New York, 1972).
Skuy, David, Assassination, Politics, and Miracles: France and the Royalist
Reaction of 1820 (Montreal, 2003).
Smith, Bonnie G., Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern
France in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, 1981).
Sowerwine, Charles, France since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society
(Basingstoke, 2001).
———. Sisters or Citizens? Women and Socialism in France since 1876
(Cambridge, 1982).
Spitzer, Alan, The French Generation of 1820 (Princeton, 1987).
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Stewart, Mary Lynn, Women, Work and the French State: Labour Protection and
Social Patriarchy, 1879–1919 (London, 1989).
Stora, Benjamin, Algeria, 1830–2000: A Short History (Ithaca, 2001).
Stovall, Tyler and Georges Van den Abbeele, eds., French Civilization and Its
Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism, Race (Lanham, 2003).
Strumingher, Laura S. What Were Little Girls and Boys Made Of? Primary
Education in Rural France, 1830–1880 (Albany, 1983).
Waelti–Walters, Jennifer, and Steven C. Hause, eds., Feminisms of the Belle
Époque: A Historical and Literary Anthology (Lincoln, 1994).
Walter, Jakob, and Marc Raeff, The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier (New
York, 1991).
Walton, Whitney, Eve's Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and
Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France (Stanford, 2000).
Weisberg, Gabriel P., and Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu, eds., The Popularization
of Images: Visual Culture under the July Monarchy (Princeton, 1994).
Willms, Johannes, Paris, Capital of Europe: From the Revolution to the Belle
Epoque. Translated by Eveline L. Kanes (New York, 1997).
Woloch, Isser, Napoleon and His Collaborators (New York, 2001).
Woolf, Stuart, Napoleon's Integration of Europe (London, 1991).
Wright, Gordon, France in Modern Times: From the Enlightenment to the
Present 3 ed. (New York, 1981).
Zanten, David Van, Building Paris: Architectural Institutions and the
Transformation of the French Capital, 1830–1870 (Cambridge, 1994).
ASSESSMENT
Assessment is based on:
• one written examination at 50% of the final assessment;
• one 3,000-word essay at 40%;
• one 20-minute presentation at 10% of the final assessment (of which 5% is
decided by the course co-ordinator and the other 5% is from peer assessment).
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ESSAY
Your 3,000-word essay is due Wednesday Week 8 not later than 3 p.m. You
must write on a topic agreed in advance with the course co-ordinator. It is
expected that the essay will be submitted in word-processed format and must be
accompanied by a bibliography and foot- or endnotes conforming to established
academic conventions.
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Essays will be returned with a mark taken from the Common Assessment Scale
with written comments. All essays will be returned individually, providing you
with the opportunity to discuss your essay, techniques of essay writing, and other
aspects of the course with your tutor. It is assumed that you will use the select
bibliography in this guide to assist in constructing your own reading list.
CLASS PRESENTATION
Your 20-minute presentation will take place in the seminar assigned to you in
Week 1. You must choose a topic from the options listed below. You are
expected and encouraged to discuss your presentation, in advance, with the
course co-ordinator during her consultation hours. You may make use of
PowerPoint in your presentation but it is not essential to do so.
The 20-minute presentation constitutes 10% of the final mark for the course.
Half of this mark will be decided by the course co-ordinator, while the other half
will be the result of peer assessment by class members. At the end of each
seminar, the course co-ordinator will collect the anonymous peer assessment
forms and tabulate the results. You may discuss, in general terms, the outcome
of this process with the course co-ordinator after your presentation.
Week 2
i) Why did the French lose the Russian campaign of 1812?
ii) What roles did Napoleon’s siblings play in building the French Empire?
Week 3
i) Who was Madame de Staël and what were her thoughts on the Bourbon
restoration of 1814?
ii) Who was Flora Tristan and what methods did she use to promote her views
on women’s emancipation?
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Week 4
i) What signs were there of the emergence of collective consciousness among
workers around 1830?
ii) Why did Charles X and his ministers decide to attack Algiers in 1830 and what
were some of the consequences of that decision?
Week 5
i) To what extent was the 1848 Revolution a ‘failure’?
ii) Who was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and what were his thoughts on men and
women’s roles in society?
Week 7
i) Why did Napoleon III send troops into Mexico and what happened as a result
of this ‘great idea’?
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ii) In what ways did ‘Haussmannisation’ improve the quality of city living for
Parisians?
Week 8
i) What were the Empress Eugénie’s actions and responsibilities during the
Franco-Prussian War?
ii) How do you explain the extent of violence that marked the Paris Commune?
Week 9
i) What is freemasonry and why did it attract French republicans?
ii) Could a monarchy have been restored in France of the 1870s and 1880s?
Week 10
i) Choose a colony of France and discuss how and why the French pursued a
‘civilising mission’ there.
ii) Why did the trial of Dreyfus escalate into a national Affair?
Week 11
i) Who participated in the French feminist movement at the turn of the century
and what were their aims?
ii) What were some of the scientific and technological innovations that made
daily life in France different in 1900 compared with 1799?
ASSESSMENT DEADLINES
Your 3,000-word essay is due Wednesday Week 8 not later than 3 p.m.
SUBMISSION ARRANGEMENTS
Please submit by the deadline ONE paper copy (cover sheet required) PLUS,
ONE official electronic copy (no cover sheet required) as follows:
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Hard Copy:
Electronic Copy:
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One hard copy typed and double spaced, together with an
Assessment cover sheet – this should have your ID
number CLEARLY written on the cover sheet, with NO
name and NO signature but EVERYTHING ELSE filled in –
and should be delivered to the History Admin Office
[Drop-off boxes located in CB008, 50-52 College
Bounds].
One copy submitted through Turnitin via MyAberdeen.
(For instructions please see
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/eLearning/turnitinuk/students/)
Students are asked to retain the Turnitin receipt so they
are able to provide proof of submission at a later date if
required.
In advance of uploading, please save the assignment with your student ID
number listed in the filename, i.e. 59999999 Viking Essay 1.
When asked to enter a title for the assignment, please enter a title identical to
the name of your saved assignment, i.e. 59999999 Viking Essay 1.
Both copies to be submitted by 3.00pm on the due date
Please note: Failure to submit both an electronic copy to Turnitin and a hard
copy to the school office, by the stated deadline, will result in a zero mark.
N.B Turnitin doesn’t accept Mac documents in Pages. If using a Mac please
go to File and export work as a Word document.
EXAMINATION
The exam paper will contain twelve questions. You must answer three
questions of your choosing. The duration of the exam is three hours.
Past exam papers can be viewed at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/learning-
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and-teaching/for-students/exam-papers/.
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