SCHOOL OF DIVINITY, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY ACADEMIC SESSION 2018-2019 HI355N: CONFLICT AND ITS LEGACIES: FRANCE 1900 TO THE PRESENT 30 CREDITS: 11 WEEKS PLEASE NOTE CAREFULLY: The full set of school regulations and procedures is contained in the Undergraduate Student Handbook which is available online at your MyAberdeen Organisation page. Students are expected to familiarise themselves not only with the contents of this leaflet but also with the contents of the Handbook. Therefore, ignorance of the contents of the Handbook will not excuse the breach of any School regulation or procedure. You must familiarise yourself with this important information at the earliest opportunity. COURSE CO-ORDINATOR Dr Elizabeth C. Macknight [email protected] Department of History, CA214 Office telephone: 01224 272297 Office hours: Thursday 10am-12pm or by appointment Discipline Administration Mrs Barbara McGillivray 50-52 College Bounds Room CB001 01224 272199 2019 [email protected] - 2018 | - Course Document 1 TIMETABLE For time and place of classes, please see MyAberdeen Students can also view their university timetable at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/infohub/study/timetables-550.php COURSE DESCRIPTION Experiences and memories of conflict have played an important role in shaping the development of France from 1900 to the present. This period of French history is marked by two world wars, Occupation and Liberation, colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, the student revolt of May 1968, the strike wave of 1995, and the riots of November 2005. In this course we study the underlying causes and nature of the wars and civil unrest. We investigate links between conflict, cultural production, and social change; and we examine the legacies of conflict in debates about what it means to be ‘French’ and France’s relationships with other parts of the world. 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 1900 to the present. By the end of this course you will be able to: • demonstrate familiarity with political, social, and cultural developments in the history of France since 1900; • 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 2019 - to the material available. The course will encourage the development of analytical skills by introducing you to the use, criticism and comparison of 2018 | - primary documents. Practical skills fostered by the course include the ability: • to build bibliographies on specific topics; • to locate and gather primary and secondary sources; Course Document 2 • 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 cement and refine transferable skills including the ability: • 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 seminars; • 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 L1 France 1900 S2 Total war 1914–18 and the politics of peace Week 2 L3 French fascism S4 The Popular Front Week 3 L5 The fall of France S6 Occupation and Liberation 1940–44 Week 4 L7 The Indochina war (1946–54) and the Algerian war (1954–62) S8 La Bataille d’Alger – film screening and discussion 2019 - 2018 Week 5 | - L9 The Cold War and the Fourth Republic S10 Charles de Gaulle and the Fifth Republic Week 6 Reading week - no classes Course Document 3 Week 7 L11 May ’68 S12 The women’s liberation movement Week 8 L13 Mitterrand’s long presidency S14 Race and immigration Week 9 L15 Parity and the PaCS S16 The French anti-globalisation movement Week 10 L17 Europeanism/euroscepticism S18 Secularism and the French Republic Week 11 L19 Presidents, media and society S20 La Haine – film screening and discussion Readings are available for download on MyAberdeen Week 1 primary ‘Women and capitalism’, ‘Women and work’, ‘Sex and marriage’, ‘The Sacred Union’, ‘Opposition to the Sacred Union’, ‘Industrial mobilization’, ‘The Western Front’, ‘The Eastern Front’, ‘Clemenceau and victory’ in William Fortescue, The Third Republic in France, 1870–1940: Conflicts and Continuities (London, 2000), 5–8, 100–1, 115–29 secondary Grayzel, Susan R. “The Souls of Soldiers”: Civilians under Fire in First World War France’, Journal of Modern History, vol. 78 (2006), 588–622 Roberts, Mary Louise, ‘Samson and Delilah Revisited: The Politics of Women’s Fashion in 1920s France’, American Historical Review, vol. 90 (1993), 657–84 2019 - Week 2 primary 2018 | - ‘The Programme of the Croix de Feu’, ‘The Stavisky riots’, ‘The Formation of the Popular Front’, ‘A Divided France’, ‘The Programme of the Popular Front’ in William Fortescue, The Third Republic in France, 1870–1940: Conflicts and Continuities (London, 2000), 183–94 Course Document 4 secondary Caron, Vicki, ‘The Anti-Semitic Revival in France in the 1930s: The Socioeconomic Dimension Reconsidered’, Journal of Modern History, vol. 70 (1998), 24–73 Wall, Irwin M. ‘The Resignation of the First Popular Front Government of Léon Blum, June 1937’, French Historical Studies, vol. 6 (1970), 538–54 Week 3 primary Gaulle, Charles de, War Memoirs 3 vols. (London, 1955–60) vol. 1: ch. 1 secondary Schwarz, Paula, ‘Partisanes and Gender Politics in Vichy France’, French Historical Studies, vol. 16 (1989), 126–51 Sweets, John F., ‘Hold That Pendulum! Redefining Fascism, Collaborationism and Resistance in France’, French Historical Studies, vol. 15 (1988), 731–58 Week 4 primary Alleg, Henri, The Question, translated by John Calder (London, 1958), 33–96 secondary Aldrich, Robert, ‘Imperial mise en valeur and mise en scène: Recent Works on French Colonialism’, Historical Journal, vol. 45 (2002), 917–36 Marsot, Alain-Gerard, ‘The Crucial Year: Indochina 1946’, Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 19 (1984), 337–54 Week 5 primary Beauvoir, Simone de, Force of Circumstance (Harmondsworth, 1968), 416–49 secondary Jackson, Julian, ‘General de Gaulle and His Enemies: Anti-Gaullism in France since 1940’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol. 9 (1999), 43–65 Kuisel, Richard F., ‘Coca-Cola and the Cold War: The French Face Americanization, 1948–53’, French Historical Studies, vol. 17 (1991), 96–116 Week 6 No set reading 2019 - Week 7 2018 | - primary Sartre, Jean-Paul and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Le Nouvel Observateur 20 May 1968 secondary Kaufmann-McCall, Dorothy, ‘Politics of Difference: The Women’s Movement in France from May 1968 to Mitterrand’, Signs, vol. 9 (1983), 282–93 Course Document 5 Shepard, Todd, ‘“Something Notably Erotic”: Politics, “Arab Men” and Sexual Revolution in Post-decolonization France, 1962–74’, Journal of Modern History, vol. 84 (2012), 80–115 Week 8 primary Daley, Suzanne, ‘Why Vote for Le Pen? A French Village is Tight-lipped’ New York Times 25 April 2002 secondary Bréchon, Pierre and Subrata Kumar Mitra, ‘The National Front in France: The Emergence of an Extreme Right Protest Movement’, Comparative Politics, vol. 25 (1992), 63–82 Northcutt, Wayne, ‘François Mitterrand and the Political Use of Symbols: The Construction of a Centrist Republic’, French Historical Studies, vol. 17 (1991), 141–58 Week 9 primary Bové, José, Interview ‘A Farmers’ International?’ New Left Review 12, November-December 2001 secondary Mossuz-Lavau, Janine, ‘Gender Parity in Politics’, Embassy of France in the United States Lenoir, Noëlle, ‘The Representation of Women in Politics: From Quotas to Parity in Elections’ International and Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 50 (2001), 217-47 Week 10 primary Observatoire de la laïcité, ‘Freedoms and prohibitions in the context of laïcité’ secondary Najmabadi, Afsaneh, ‘Gender and Secularism of Modernity: How Can a Muslim Woman Be French’, Feminist Studies, vol. 32 (2006), 239–55 Scott, Joan Wallach, The Politics of the Veil (Princeton, 2007) pp. 90-123 Week 11 2019 - primary 2018 BBC News ‘French violence hits fresh peak’, 7 November 2005 | - Strieff, Daniel, ‘For women in France’s ghettos, a third option’, 7 June 2006 secondary Murphy, John P., ‘Protest or Riot? Interpreting Collective Action in Contemporary France’, Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 84 (2011), 977–1009 Wihtol de Wenden, Catherine, ‘Young Muslim Women in France: Cultural and Course Document Psychological Adjustments’ Political Psychology, vol. 19 (1998), 133–46 6 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 and is supplemented by the topics covered in essays. 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. On-line databases Modern History Sourcebook QML History E-Journals Meta-Lib E-Resources sign-in J-Stor (or access via QML catalogue).