The Third Republic in France 1870-1940
Conflicts and Continuities
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An essential introduction to the major political problems, debates and conflicts which are central to the history of the Third Republic in France, from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 to the fall of France in June 1940.
It provides original sources, detailed commentary and helpful chronologies and bibliographies on topics including:
* the emergence of the regime and the Paris Commune of 1871
* Franco-German relations
* anti-Semitism and the Dreyfus Affair
* the role of women and the importance of the national birth-rate
* the character of the French Right and of French fascism.

1 The emergence of the Third Republic, 1870–1 2 The political Right and Left in the early Third Republic 3 The Dreyfus Affair and its aftermath 4 Women and the family 5 The First World War 6 France after the First World War 7 The Popular Front 8 The fall of France ( June 1940)
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William Fortescue is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Kent.