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Hi3408 List 1 France and the First World War Handbook 2 List 1: France and FWW Handbook 2: 2013/14 1 HI3408 LIST 1 FRANCE AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR HANDBOOK 2 (Hilary term) Ossuary of Douaumont, Verdun, built 1920-1932 by private French and international donations. Graves, with the recently-built Islamic shrine for colonial soldiers in the distance. Professor John Horne Department of History, Trinity College Dublin 2013-2014 This Handbook is available on the History School website List 1: France and FWW Handbook 2: 2013/14 2 1. Programme Week 1: The other France. Life under German occupation. Other occupations during the Great War. Lecture: Occupation and resistance during the Great War Seminar: first hour: documents second hour: class themes (i) life in occupied France and/orBelgium (ii) German policy in occupied eastern Europe. Week 2: Home fronts. The social and psychological impact of the war on civilians Lecture: Living standards during the First World War: comparisons. Seminar: first hour: documents second hour: class themes (i) The importance of food (France and Germany) (ii) Moral economies of war Week 3: Crises and endgame: military events, 1917-18. Lecture: The military ‘learning curve’: armies on the western front, 1917-18 first hour: documents second hour: class themes (i) How series were the mutinies in the French army, 1917 (ii) Why did the allies win in 1918? Week 4: Colonial empires and the war. Lecture: Colonial Empires in the Great War. Seminar: first hour : documents second hour : class themes (i) What impact did colonial soldiers and workers have in France? (ii) Did the war change empires? SECOND COURSE ESSAY [ESSAY 3] DUE (TO JH) MONDAY 3 FEBRUARY Week 5: Pacifism and opposition to the war Lecture: The languages of pacifism. Seminar: first hour: documents second hour: class themes (i) working class pacifism (ii) Henri Barbusse’s Le Feu. Week 6: The political crisis of 1917 Lecture: Remobilizing for ‘total’ war: why the Allies won. Seminar: first hour: documents second hour: class themes: (i) the French political crisis of 1917 (ii) Clemenceau in power. Week 7: READING WEEK. Week 8: The Paris Peace Conference and post-war international relations Lecture: ‘Cultural demobilisations’, 1919-39. Seminar: first hour: documents List 1: France and FWW Handbook 2: 2013/14 3 second hour: class themes (i) How much did the Allies disagree with each other at the Paris peace conference (ii) what was at stake in the politics of Locarno (1925-29)? MODERATORSHIP ESSAY [ESSAY 4] DUE (TO OFFICE), MONDAY, 3 MARCH Week 9: The legacy of war: I Lecture: Grief, mourning, and commemoration after the Great War. Seminar: first hour: documents second hour: class themes (i) war memorials and commemoration in France (ii) war memorials and commemoration in Britain, Italy, and Germany Week 10: The legacy of war: II Lecture: Soldiers returning. Seminar: first hour: documents second hour: class themes (i) veterans (ii) gender and the search for normality in the 1920s Week 11: Literature and the memory of war: modernism or traditionalism? Lecture: Literary (re)constructions of the war, 1919-39. Seminar: first hour: documents second hour: class themes (i) Jünger and Remarque (ii) the literature of 'disenchantment' in Britain/ or the veteran as victim (France or comparative) Week 12: Film and the war. Lecture: Cinema and the war Seminar: first hour: documents second hour: class themes (i) Abel Gance (ii) La Grande Illusion – war and the Popular Front. List 1: France and FWW Handbook 2: 2013/14 4 2. France and the First World War, 1914-1920. Bibliography 2 1. Occupied France and Belgium and comparative occupations 1) Further documents. E. Martin-Mamy, Quatre ans avec les barbares. Lille pendant l’occupation allemande (1919) E. Fleury, Sous la botte. Histoire de la ville de Saint-Quentin pendant l’occupation allemande (Saint-Quentin, 1923) A. Rolin, Les Allemands en Belgique, 1914-1918. Conclusions de l’enquête officielle belge (Liege, 1925) J. Massart, Belgians under the German Eagle (1916) J. Massart, The Secret Press in Belgium (1918) F. Passelecq, Les Déportations belges à la lumière des documents alliés (1917) F. Passelecq, La Question flamande et l’Allemagne (1917) 2) Secondary reading. *A. Becker, Oubliés de la grande guerre. Humanitaire et culture de guerre. Populations occupées, déportés civils, prisonniers de guerre (1998), pp. 27-88. *A. Becker, Les Cicatrices rouges 14-18. France et Belgique occupées (2010). *H. McPhail, The Long Silence. Civilian Life under the German Occupation of Northern France (1999) P. Nivet, La France occupée, 1914-1918 (1911) P. Boulin, L’Organisation du travail dans la région envahie de la France pendant l’occupation (1927) P. Collinet and P. Stahl, Le Ravitaillement de la France occupée (1928) G. Rency, La Vie matérielle de la Belgique dans la guerre mondiale (1927) *V. Liulevicius, War Land on the Eastern Front. Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War I (Cambridge, 2000) *S. de Schaepdrijver, La Belgique et la première guerre mondiale (Brussels, 2004), chs. 4, 5 and 8. 2. Home fronts: the social and political impacts of the long war on civilians. 1) Further documents. Reports by the generals commanding France's interior military regions (monthly), August1917-Nov. 1918. DF Prefects' enquiry into civilian morale, June 1917. DF Ministry of the Interior, monthly reps., May & June l9l8. DF M. Corday, L'Envers de la Guerre (l932), trans.into English as The Paris Front: an Unpublished Diary (l933) J. Cavignac (ed.), La classe ouvrière bordelaise face à la guerre l9l4-l9l8, Cahiers de l'Institut Aquitain d' Etudes Sociales, 4, 1976, pp. 87-l37. DF List 1: France and FWW Handbook 2: 2013/14 5 2) Secondary reading. *J. M. Winter, 'Some Paradoxes of the First World War', in R. M. Wall and J. M. Winter (eds), The Upheaval of War. Family, Work and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918 (Cambridge, 1988), pp.9-42. *J. Winter and J.-L. Robert (eds.), Capital Cities at War. London, Paris, Berlin, 1914-1918 (Cambridge, 1998). Chs. 8 and 9. *J. Winter and J.-L. Robert (eds.), Capital Cities at War. London, Paris, Berlin, 1914-1918 (Cambridge, 2007). Chs. 2, 3 and 4 R. Young (ed.), Under Siege. Portraits of Civilian Life in France during World War I (Oxford, 2000) P. Fridenson,'The Impact of the War on French Workers', in R. Wall and J. Winter (eds.), The Upheaval of War. Family, Work and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918 (Cambridge, 1998), pp. 235-48. H. Gerest, 'Problèmes posés par le ravitaillement d'une population ouvrière pendant la grande guerre: le cas de l'agglomération stéphanoise en l9l7-l9l8', 98e Congrès National des Sociétés Savantes, Saint-Etienne, 1973, hist. mod., vol.2, pp.253-7O. AF *G. Hardach, The First World War, chs. 2 & 3 (on economic warfare) L. March, Le Mouvement des prix et des salaires pendant la guerre (1925) *A. Offer The First World War. An Agrarian Interpretation (Oxford, 1990). Esp. part I. *W. Oualid, 'The Effects of the War upon Labour in France' in C. Gide (ed.), Effects of the War upon French Economic Life (1923), pp.139-91. --Revue d'Histoire moderne et contemporaine, l5, l968, sp. no. on l9l7. Esp. *P. Renouvin, 'L'Opinion publique et la Guerre en l9l7', pp.4-23; G. Liens, 'L'Opinion à Marseille en l9l7', p.54-78; and G. Rufin, 'L'Opinion publique en l9l7 dans l'arrondissement de Tournon', pp.79-96 *J.-J. Becker The Great War and the French People (1980; English trans. 1985), parts 3 & 4. *P. J. Flood France 1914-18. Public Opinion and the War Effort (1990). Ch. 5. G. Hatry ‘Shop Stewards at Renault', in. P. Fridenson (ed.), The French Home Front l9l4- l9l8 (Oxford, 1992), pp. 219-37. *J. Horne 'Social Identity in War, 1914-1918', in T. Frazer and K. Jeffery (eds.), Men, Women and War. Irish Historical Studies, XX (Dublin, 1993), pp.119-35. J. Nicot & P. Schillinger 'L'Opinion publique et les grèves de la Loire, mai l9l8', 98e Congrès National des Sociétés savantes, Saint-Etienne, l973, hist. mod.,vol.2, pp.239-52. AF *J.-L. Robert, Les Ouvriers, la patrie et la Révolution, chs. 5 and 15. C. Ridel, Les Embusqués (2007). Ch. 2. F. Bouloc, Les Profiteurs de guerre, 1914-1918 (Brussels, 2008). Ch. 7. J. Kocka, Facing *R. Chickering, Imperial Germany and the Great War 1914-1918 (Cambridge, 1998). Chs. 4 and 5. *J. M. Winter,The Great War and the British People (1985). Ch.4. 3. Crises and Endgame: military events, 1917-18. 1) Further documents. R. Poincaré, Au Service de la France, vol. 9 L’Année trouble (1932), and vol. 10, List 1: France and FWW Handbook 2: 2013/14 6 Armistice (1933) J.-J. Mordacq, Le Ministère Clemenceau. Journal d’un témoin, vol. 1, Novembre 1917-avril 1918 (1930); vol. 2, Mai 1918-novembre 1918 (1930) F. Foch, Memoirs (1931), 2 vols. 2) Secondary reading. *R. Doughty, Pyrrhic Victory. French Strategy and Operations in the Great War (Cambridge, Mass., 2005), chs. 7 and 9. A. Clayton, Paths of Glory. The French Army 1914-18 (2003), chs. 7 and 8. *G. Pedroncini, Les Mutineries de 1917 (1967) *L. Smith, Between Mutiny and Obedience. The Case of the Fifth French Infantry Division during World War I (Princeton, 1994). Chs. 7 and 8. A. Loez, 14-18. Les refus de la guerre. Une histoire des mutins (2010), pp.539-68. A.Loez and N. Mariot (eds.), Obéir/désobéir. Les mutineries de 1917 en perspective (2008), chs. 8,9 and 13. *E. Greenhalgh, Victory through Coalition. Britain and France during the First World War (Cambridge, 2005). Chs. 7-9. *H. Herwig, The First World War. Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918 (1996), chs.
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