The Graduate Center of the City University of New York History Department Hist 80200 Prof. C Rosenberg France and Its Empire Since 1830 [email protected] FaLL 2017 Room TBA DRAFT SYLLABUS Course Description: This course wilL survey the historiography of France and its empire since the conquest of Algeria in 1830. Examining a mix of cLassic and more recent works, we wiLL pay speciaL attention to two centraL themes that have preoccupied historians of the past generation: (1) immigration, anti-Semitism, and Vichy, and (2) controversies over the French empire and its reLationship to the Republican tradition. Learning Objectives: By the end of the course, students should be able: to demonstrate a command of severaL of the recent historiographicaL themes in modern French history; to anaLyze individuaL works in terms of cogency of argument, the appropriateness of the sources, and cLarity of organization; and to put together severaL works into Larger arguments in preparation for passing exams. Overviews: RoBert GiLdea, Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 (2008); and Roderick Kedward, France and the French: A Modern History (2006), aLso caLLed La vie en bleu: France and the French Since 1900. For textBook coverage, ALice Conklin, Sarah Fishman, Robert Zaretsky, France and Its Empire Since 1870 (2011); and Jeremy Popkin, A History of Modern France, 4th ed (2012). For the empire, RoBert ALdrich, Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion (1996); Martin Thomas, The French Empire Between the Wars (2007); and Jacques ThoBie, et. aL., Histoire de la France coloniale, 2 voLs. (1990-1991). Schedule of classes: 1. Introduction to the Course – Aug 31 • Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura StoLer, “Between MetropoLe and CoLony: Rethinking a Research Agenda,” in their Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World, 1-56. • Jean-Frédéric SchauB, “La catégorie « études coloniaLes » est-elLe indispensaBLe,” Annales: Histoire, Sciences sociales 63, no. 3 (June 2008): 625- 646. 2. The Conquest of Algeria – Sept 7 • Benjamin Brower, A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France’s Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902, parts 1-3 and concl. [on-line access available from the LiBrary] • Jennifer Sessions, By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria, intro., chaps. 1-4, 6, concl. Reports: Pierre Nora, Les français d’Algérie (Paris: JuLLiard, 1961). Recommended: H-France Review of Brower, vol. 10, no. 114 (August 2010) http://www.h- france.net/vol10reviews/vol10no114rosenBerg.pdf; RaphaeLLe Branche, L’embuscade de Palestro ; Osama ABi-Mershed, Apostles of Modernity: Saint-Simonians and the Civilizing Mission in Algeria (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010); David Prochaska, Making Algeria French: Colonialism in Bône, 1870-1920 (CamBridge: CamBridge University Press, 1990); Julia Clancy-Smith, Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904) (BerkeLey: University of CaLifornia Press, 1994); Diana K. Davis, Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa (CoLumBus: Ohio Univ. Press, 2007); CharLes-André JuLien, Histoire de l’Algérie contemporaine, voL. 1, La conquête et les débuts de la colonisation, 1827-1871 (Paris: PUF, 1979); CharLes-RoBert Ageron, Les algériens musuLmans et La France, 1871-1919, 2 vols. (Paris: PUF, 1968); and VaLérie Assan, Les consistoires israélites d’Algérie au XIXe siècle (Paris: Armand CoLin, 2012). 3. LaBor and the Revolutionary Tradition – Sept 14 • WiLLiam SeweLL, Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), intro., chaps. 7-12. • Jacques Rancière, “The Myth of the Artisan: CriticaL RefLections on a Category of SociaL History,” in Steven Kaplan and Cynthia Koepp, eds., Work in France: Representations, Meaning, Organization, and Practice (Ithaca, N.Y.: CornelL University Press, 1986). • Gérard Noiriel, Workers in French Society in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Oxford: Berg, 1990), chaps. 1-4. • AlLain Cottereau, “The Distinctiveness of Working-Class CuLtures in France, 1848-1900,” in Ira KatzneLson and Aristide R. ZoLBerg, eds., Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patters in Europe and the United States (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986). Reports: Patrick O’Brien and CagLar Keydar, Economic Growth in Britain and France, 1780-1914: Two Paths to the Twentieth Century (London: ALLen & Unwin, 1978) Recommended: Yves Lequin, Les ouvriers de la région lyonnaise, 2 voLs. (Lyon: PUL, 1977); Jacques Rancière, The Nights of Labor: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth-Century France, trans. John Drury (1981; PhiLadeLphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1989); Judith Coffin, The Politics of Women’s Work: The Paris Garment Trades, 1750-1915 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996); Gay GuLLickson, Spinners and Weavers of Auffay: Rural Industry and the Sexual Division of Labor in a French Village, 1750-1850 (New York: CamBridge University Press, 1986); Tony Judt, Marxism and the French Left: Studies on Labour and Politics in France, 1830-1981 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986); MicheLLe Perrot, Les ouvriers en grève, 1871-1890, 2 voLs. (Paris: Mouton, 1974). 4. Peasants into Frenchmen – Sept 19 (n.b. Tues is a Thursday schedule) • Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, chaps. 1-7, 12-13, 15, 17-18, 24-29. • Maurice AguLhon, The Republic in the Village: The People of the Var from the French Revolution to the Second Republic, intro, chaps. 5, 7, 9-10; part II, section 2, entire; concl. • Jean-François Chanet, L’école républicaine et les petites patries, parts 1 and 3 (concentrate on chaps. 6-7) ; OR Ed Berenson, Populist Religion and Left-Wing Politics in France, 1830-1850, intro., chaps. 1-2, 5-6. • Ted Margadant, “French RuraL Society in the Nineteenth Century: A Review,” Agricultural History 53, no. 3 (JuLy 1979): 644-51. Report: Anne-Marie Thiesse, Ils apprenaient la France: L’exaltation des régions dans le discours patriotique. Recommended: Maurice AguLhon et aL., Histoire de la France rurale, voL. 3, De 1789 à 1914 (Paris: SeuiL, 1992); Paul Bois, Les paysans de l’Ouest; des structures économiques et sociales aux options politiques depuis l’époque révolutionnaire dans la Sarthe (Le Mans: ViLaire, 1960); Alain CorBin, Archaïsme et modernité en Limousin au XIXe siècle, 1845-1880 (Paris: MarceL Rivière, 1975) ; PhiLippe Vigier, La Seconde République dans la région alpine, 2 voLs. (Paris: PUF, 1963); Ted Margadant, French Peasants in Revolt: The Insurrection of 1851 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979); John Merriman, The Agony of the Republic (New Haven: YaLe University Press, 1978); James Lehning, Peasant and French: Cultural Contact in Rural France in the Nineteenth Century (CamBridge: CamBridge University Press, 1995); Peter Sahlins, Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrénées (BerkeLey: University of CaLifornia Press, 1991); and Caroline Ford, Creating the Nation in Provincial France: Religion and Political Identity in Brittany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993). 5. The StaLemate Society and its Critics – Sept 28 • David Landes, “French Entrepreneurship and Industrial Growth in the Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Economic History 9 (1949). • StanLey Hoffmann, “Paradoxes of the French PoLiticaL Community,” in In Search of France (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963), 1-117. • Philip Nord, The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth- Century France Reports : Marc BLoch, The Strange Defeat (1941) Recommended: Jean-Baptiste DuroseLLe, La décadence, 1932-1939 (Paris: Imprimerie nationaLe, 1979); JuLian Jackson, The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003); Ernest R. May, Strange Victory: Hitler’s Conquest of France (New York: HiLL & Wang, 2000); Paul Jankowski, Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue (Ithaca, N.Y.: CorneLL University Press, 2002); MichaeL B. MiLLer, Shanghai on the Metro: Spies, Intrigue and the French Between the Wars (BerkeLey: University of CaLifornia Press, 1994); Harry W. PauL, “The Issue of DecLine in Nineteenth-Century French Science,” FHS 7, no. 3 (Spring 1972): 416-50; Mary Jo Nye, “Scientific DecLine: Is Quantitative EvaLuation Enough?” Isis 75, no. 4 (DecemBer 1984): 697-708; and the forum on the Third RepuBLic in FHS 17, no. 2 (Autumn, 1991). 6. Antisemitism and Fascism – Oct 5. • Ruth Harris, Dreyfus : Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century, intro, part II (chaps. 6-10), and chap. 18. (106pp.) • Stephen Wilson, Ideology and Experience: Anti-Semitism in France at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair, chaps. 1-3, 5-6, 8-9, and 16 (more if you can, esp. in part 3) – approx 240pp. • Zeev SternhelL, Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France, intro, chaps. 1-2, concl. • Vicki Caron, The Anti-Semitic RevivaL in France in the 1930s,” JMH 70, no. 1 (March 1998): 27-73. • René Rémond, The Right Wing in France, From 1815 to de Gaulle, 273-99. Reports : Pierre Birnbaum, Antisemitism in France: A Political History from Leon Blum to the Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). Recommended: Zeev SternheLL, La droite révolutionnaire : Les origines françaises du fascisme, rev. ed. (Paris: SeuiL, 1984); Jean-Denis Bredin, The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus (New York : G. BrazilLer, 1986); Pierre BirnBaum, The Antisemitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898 (New York: HilL & Wang, 2002);