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Background Reading:
Popkin, Modern France, 125-150.
Readings for Discussion:
Ernest Renan, "What is a Nation?" (1882 speech), on-line.
Jules Ferry, extracts from "The State must be Secular" (1876) and "Letter to Teachers" (1883), on-line.
Jules Ferry, extracts from 1884 speech on colonial policy, on-line.
Further Reading:
S. Hollis Clayson, Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (2002).
Alice Conklin, A Mission to Civilize: the Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 (1997).
Alain Corbin,Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870 (1992 translation).
Caroline Ford, Creating the Nation in Provincial France (1993).
Stéphane Gerson, The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France (2003).
Gay Gullickson, Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune (1996).
James Lehning, Peasant and French: Cultural Contact in Rural France during the Nineteenth Century (1995).
Alisa Luxenberg, "Creating Désastres; Andrieu's Photographs of Urban Ruins in the Paris of 1871," Art Bulletin 80 (1998), 113-137.[JSTOR]
Jo Burr Margadant, Madame le Professeur: Women Educators in the Third Republic (1990).
Jeannene Przyblyski, "Revolution at a Standstill: Photography and the Paris Commune of 1871," Yale French Studies 101 (2001).[JSTOR]
Graham Robb, The Discovery of France (2007).
Bertrand Taithe, Citizenship and Wars : France in Turmoil 1870-1871 (2001).
Robert Tombs, The Paris Commune, 1871 (1999).
Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen (1980).
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