Bibliography of France

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France

This is a list of works which deal with France and its geography, history, inhabitants, and culture.

General[edit]

  • "France." in Europe, edited by Ferdie McDonald and Claire Marsden, Dorling Kindersley (Gale, 2010), pp. 144–217. Online.
  • Carls, Alice-Catherine. "France." in World Press Encyclopedia, edited by Amanda C. Quick, (2nd ed., vol. 1, Gale, 2003), pp. 314–337. Online coverage of press and media.
  • Chabal, Emile, France (Polity Press, 2020). Excerpt.
  • Gildea, Robert. France Since 1945 (2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2002).
  • Goodliffe, Gabriel, and Riccardo Brizzi, eds. France After 2012 (Bergham, 2015).
  • Haine, W. S. Culture and Customs of France (Greenwood Press, 2006).
  • Kelly, Michael, ed. French Culture and Society: The Essentials (Oxford University Press, 2001).
  • Raymond, Gino. Historical Dictionary of France (2nd ed. Scarecrow, 2008).
  • Jones, Colin. Cambridge Illustrated History of France (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
  • Ancient maps of France from the Eran Laor Cartographic Collection. National Library of Israel.

History[edit]

Surveys and reference[edit]

  • Esmein, Jean Paul Hippolyte Emmanuel Adhémar (1911). "France/History" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 801–929.
  • Fenby, Jonathan (2016). France: A Modern History from the Revolution to the War with Terror.
  • Fierro, Alfred (1998). Historical Dictionary of Paris (abridged translation of Histoire et dictionnaire de Paris ed.).
  • Goubert, Pierre (1988). The Course of French History.[permanent dead link] French textbook
  • Guérard, Albert (1959). France: A Modern History. Textbook Publishers. ISBN 978-0-758120786.
  • Haine, W. Scott (2000). The History of France. Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2023-08-03. textbook
  • Jones, Colin; Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy (1999). The Cambridge Illustrated History of France. ISBN 978-0-521669924.
  • Jones, Colin (2004). Paris: Biography of a City.
  • McDonald, Ferdie; Marsden, Claire; Kindersley, Dorling, eds. (2010). France. Gale. pp. 144–217. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • McMillan, James F. (2009). Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society in France 1898–1991.
  • Popkin, Jeremy D. (2005). A History of Modern France.
  • Price, Roger (1993). A Concise History of France.
  • Raymond, Gino (2008). Historical Dictionary of France (2nd ed.).

Social, economic and cultural history[edit]

  • Ariès, Philippe (1965). Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life.
  • Beik, William (2009). A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France.
  • Cameron, Rondo (1961). France and the Economic Development of Europe, 1800–1914: Conquests of Peace and Seeds of War. economic and business history
  • Caron, François (1979). An Economic History of Modern France. Archived from the original on 2004-11-03. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  • Charle, Christophe (1994). A Social History of France in the 19th century.
  • Clapham, H. G. (1921). Economic Development of France and Germany, 1824–1914.
  • Clough, S. B. (1939). France, A History of National Economics, 1789–1939.
  • Dormois, Jean-Pierre (2004). The French Economy in the Twentieth Century.
  • Dunham, Arthur L. (1955). The Industrial Revolution in France, 1815–1848.
  • Hafter, Daryl M.; Kushner, Nina, eds. (2014). Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France. Louisiana State University Press. Essays on female artists, "printer widows," women in manufacturing, women and contracts, and elite prostitution
  • Hewitt, Nicholas, ed. (2003). The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture.
  • Heywood, Colin (1995). The Development of the French Economy 1750–1914.
  • McMillan, James F. (2000). France and Women 1789–1914: Gender, Society and Politics. Routledge.
  • McPhee, Peter (2004). A Social History of France, 1789–1914 (2nd ed.).

Middle Ages[edit]

  • Duby, Georges; Goldhammer, Arthur (2009) [1980]. The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined. New York: Barnes & Noble. ISBN 9781435107892. An examination of the social divisions in medieval France.
  • Duby, Georges (1993). France in the Middle Ages 987–1460: From Hugh Capet to Joan of Arc. survey by a leader of the Annales School
  • Bloch, Marc (1989). Feudal Society.
  • Bloch, Marc (1972). French Rural History an Essay on Its Basic Characteristics.
  • Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel (1978). Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village, 1294–1324.
  • Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel (1974) [1966]. The Peasants of Languedoc (English translation ed.).
  • Murphy, Neil (2016). "Violence, Colonization and Henry VIII's Conquest of France, 1544–1546". Past & Present. 233 (1): 13–51. doi:10.1093/pastj/gtw018.
  • Potter, David (2003). France in the Later Middle Ages 1200–1500.

Early Modern[edit]

  • Bergin, Joseph (1996). The Making of the French Episcopate 1589-1661. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-06751-4.
  • Collins, James B. (1995). The state in early modern France. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139170147. ISBN 978-0-521382847.
  • Davis, Natalie Zemon (1975). Society and culture in early modern France.
  • Diefendorf, Barbara B. (2010). The Reformation and Wars of Religion in France: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-199809295. historiography
  • Holt, Mack P. (2002). Renaissance and Reformation France: 1500–1648.
  • Holt, Mack P., ed. (1991). Society and Institutions in Early Modern France.
  • Potter, David (1995). A History of France, 1460–1560: The Emergence of a Nation-State.

Old Regime[edit]

  • Doyle, William (2001). Old Regime France: 1648–1788.
  • Doyle, William, ed. (2012). The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Régime.
  • Goubert, Pierre (1972). Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen. social history from Annales School
  • Jones, Colin (2002). The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon.
  • Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel (1999). The Ancien Régime: A History of France 1610–1774. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-631211969. survey by leader of the Annales School
  • Lynn, John A. (1999). The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667–1714.
  • Roche, Daniel (1998). France in the Enlightenment. wide-ranging history 1700–1789
  • Wolf, John B. (1968). Louis XIV. Archived from the original on 2012-04-20. Retrieved 2023-08-03. biography

Enlightenment[edit]

  • Baker, Keith Michael (1990). Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century.
  • Blom, Philipp (2005). Enlightening the World: Encyclopédie, the Book That Changed the Course of History.
  • Chisick, Harvey (2005). Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment.
  • Davidson, Ian (2010). Voltaire. A Life. Profile. ISBN 978-1-846682261.
  • Delon, Michel (2001). Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment.
  • Goodman, Dena (1994). The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment. Archived from the original on 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  • Hazard, Paul (1965). European thought in the eighteenth century: From Montesquieu to Lessing.
  • Kaiser, Thomas E. (Spring 1988). "This Strange Offspring of Philosophie: Recent Historiographical Problems in Relating the Enlightenment to the French Revolution". French Historical Studies. 15 (3): 549–562. doi:10.2307/286375. JSTOR 286375.
  • Kors, Alan Charles (2003) [1990]. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (2nd ed.).
  • Roche, Daniel (1998). France in the Enlightenment.
  • Spencer, Samia I., ed. (1984). French Women and the Age of Enlightenment.
  • Vovelle, Michel; Cochrane, Lydia G., eds. (1997). Enlightenment Portraits.
  • Wilson, Arthur (1972). Diderot. Vol. II: The Appeal to Posterity. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195015061.

Revolution[edit]

  • Andress, David (1999). French Society in Revolution, 1789–1799.
  • Doyle, William (1989). The Oxford History of the French Revolution. Archived from the original on 2012-05-13. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  • Doyle, William (2001). The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-157837-3. Archived from the original on 2012-04-29.
  • Forrest, Alan (1981). The French Revolution and the Poor.
  • Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, ed. (2006). The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO.
  • Frey, Linda S. and Marsha L. Frey (2004). The French Revolution. Archived from the original on 2012-05-13. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  • Furet, François (1995). The French Revolution, 1770–1814 (also published as Revolutionary France 1770–1880). pp. 1–266. survey of political history
  • Furet, François; Ozouf, Mona, eds. (1989). A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution. history of ideas
  • Hampson, Norman (2006). Social History of the French Revolution.
  • Hanson, Paul R. (2015). Historical dictionary of the French Revolution.
  • Hardman, John (2016) [1994]. Louis XVI: The Silent King (2nd ed.). biography
  • Hardman, John (1995). French Politics, 1774–1789: From the Accession of Louis XVI to the Fall of the Bastille.
  • Jones, Colin (1989). The Longman Companion to the French Revolution.
  • Jones, Colin (2002). The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon.
  • Jones, Peter (1988). The Peasantry in the French Revolution.
  • Lefebvre, Georges (1962). The French Revolution. ISBN 978-0-231025195.
  • Lucas, Colin, ed. (1988). The Political Culture of the French Revolution.
  • Montague, Francis Charles; Holland, Arthur William (1911). "French Revolution, The" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 154–171.
  • Neely, Sylvia (2008). A Concise History of the French Revolution.
  • Paxton, John (1987). Companion to the French Revolution. hundreds of short entries
  • Schwab, Gail M.; Jeanneney, John R., eds. (1995). The French Revolution of 1789 and Its Impact. Archived from the original on 2012-05-13. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  • Scott, Samuel F. and Barry Rothaus (1984). Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution, 1789–1799. short essays by scholars
  • Schama, Simon (1989). Citizens. A Chronicle of the French Revolution. narrative
  • Sutherland, D. M. G. (2003). France 1789–1815. Revolution and Counter-Revolution (2nd ed.).

Long-term impact[edit]

Napoleon[edit]

  • Bergeron, Louis (1981). France Under Napoleon. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691007892.
  • Emsley, Clive. Napoleon 2003. succinct coverage of life, France and empire; little on warfare
  • Englund, Steven (2004). Napoleon: A Political Life. political biography
  • Fisher, Herbert (1913). Napoleon.
  • Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, ed. (2006). The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO.
  • Grab, Alexander (2003). Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-403937575. maps and synthesis
  • Harold, J. Christopher (1963). The Age of Napoleon. popular history stressing empire and diplomacy
  • Lefebvre, Georges (1969) [1936]. Napoleon: From Tilsit to Waterloo, 1807–1815. Routledge & K. Paul. ISBN 978-0-710080141.
  • Markham, Felix. Napoleon 1963.
  • McLynn, Frank (2003). Napoleon: A Biography. stress on military
  • Messenger, Charles, ed. (2013). Reader's Guide to Military History. Routledge. pp. 391–427. ISBN 978-1-135959708. evaluation of major books on Napoleon & his wars
  • Nafziger, George F. (2002). Historical Dictionary of the Napoleonic Era.
  • Nicholls, David (1999). Napoleon: A Biographical Companion.
  • Richardson, Hubert N. B. (1920). A Dictionary of Napoleon and His Times.
  • Roberts, Andrew (2014). Napoleon: A Life. Viking. pp. 662–712. ISBN 978-0-670025329. biography
  • Thompson, J. M. (1954). Napoleon Bonaparte: His Rise and Fall.
  • Tulard, Jean (1984). Napoleon: The Myth of the Saviour.

Restoration: 1815–1870[edit]

  • Agulhon, Maurice (1983). The Republican Experiment, 1848–1852. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521289887. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • Artz, Frederick (1931). France Under the Bourbon Restoration, 1814–1830. Harvard University Press.
  • Campbell, Stuart L. (1978). The Second Empire Revisited: A Study in French Historiography.
  • Charle, Christophe (1994). A Social History of France in the Nineteenth Century.
  • Echard, William E. (1985). Historical Dictionary of the French Second Empire, 1852–1870. Archived from the original on 2011-06-28. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  • Fortescue, William (1988). Revolution and Counter-revolution in France, 1815–1852. Blackwell.
  • Furet, François (1995). Revolutionary France 1770-1880. pp. 326–384. Survey of political history
  • Gildea, Robert (2008). Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799–1914.
  • Jardin, André, and Andre-Jean Tudesq (1988). Restoration and Reaction 1815–1848. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Plessis, Alain (1988). The Rise and Fall of the Second Empire, 1852–1871. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • Spitzer, Alan B. (1962). "The Good Napoleon III". French Historical Studies. 2 (3): 308–329. doi:10.2307/285884. JSTOR 285884. historiography
  • Strauss-Schom, Alan (2018). The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III.
  • Wolf, John B. (1940). France: 1815 to the Present. PRENTICE - HALL.

Third Republic: 1871–1940[edit]

  • Bell, David Scott; et al., eds. (1990). Biographical Dictionary of French Political Leaders Since 1870.
  • Bernard, Philippe, and Henri Dubief (1988). The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914–1938. The Cambridge History of Modern France).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Bury, John Patrick Tuer (1949). France, 1814–1940. University of Pennsylvania Press. Chapters 9–16.
  • Kedward, Rod (2007). France and the French: A Modern History. pp. 1–245.
  • Lehning, James R. (2001). To Be a Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic. Archived from the original on 2011-06-28. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  • McMillan, James F. (1992). Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society in France 1898–1991.
  • Mayeur, Jean-Marie; Rebérioux, Madeleine (1984). The Third Republic from its Origins to the Great War, 1871–1914. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-2-73-510067-5.
  • Price, Roger (1987). A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France. Archived from the original on 2011-06-28. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  • Robb, Graham (2007). The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War.
  • Shirer, William L. (1969). The Collapse of the Third Republic. New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • Sowerwine, Charles (2009). France since 1870: Culture, Society and the Making of the Republic.
  • Tombs, Robert (2014). France 1814–1914. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317871439.
  • Weber, Eugen (1976). Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870–1914. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-80-471013-8.
  • Wolf, John B. (1940). France: 1815 to the Present. PRENTICE - HALL. pp. 349–501.
  • Zeldin, Theodore (1979). France, 1848–1945. topical approach

World War I[edit]

  • Cabanes Bruno (2016). August 1914: France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever. argues that the extremely high casualty rate in very first month of fighting permanently transformed France
  • Greenhalgh, Elizabeth (2005). Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War. Cambridge University Press.
  • Tucker, Spencer, ed. (1999). European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia.
  • Winter, J. M. (1999). Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914–1919.

Vichy (1940–1944)[edit]

  • Azema, Jean-Pierre (1985). From Munich to Liberation 1938–1944. The Cambridge History of Modern France).
  • Berthon, Simon (2001). Allies at War: The Bitter Rivalry among Churchill, Roosevelt, and de Gaulle.
  • Gildea, Robert (2004). Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation.
  • Kersaudy, Francois (1990). Churchill and De Gaulle (2nd ed.).
  • Lacouture, Jean (1991) [1984]. De Gaulle: The Rebel 1890–1944 (English ed.).

Fourth and Fifth Republics (1944 to present)[edit]

  • Bell, David Scott; et al., eds. (1990). Biographical Dictionary of French Political Leaders Since 1870.
  • Berstein, Serge, and Peter Morris (2006). The Republic of de Gaulle 1958–1969 (The Cambridge History of Modern France).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Berstein, Serge, Jean-Pierre Rioux, and Christopher Woodall (2000). The Pompidou Years, 1969–1974. The Cambridge History of Modern France).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Bourg, Julian, ed. (2004). After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-0792-8.
  • Cerny, Philip G. (1980). The Politics of Grandeur: Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle's Foreign Policy.
  • Chabal, Emile, ed. (2015). France since the 1970s: History, Politics and Memory in an Age of Uncertainty. Excerpt.
  • Fenby, Jonathan (2010). The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved.
  • Goodliffe, Gabriel; Brizzi, Riccardo (eds.). France After 2012. Berghahn Books, 2015.
  • Hauss, Charles (1991). Politics in Gaullist France: Coping with Chaos. Archived from the original on 2011-06-28. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  • Kedward, Rod (2007). France and the French: A Modern History. pp. 310–648.
  • Kolodziej, Edward A. (1974). French International Policy under de Gaulle and Pompidou: The Politics of Grandeur. Archived from the original on 2011-06-28. Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  • Lacouture, Jean (1993). De Gaulle: The Ruler 1945–1970.
  • McMillan, James F. (1992). Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society in France 1898–1991.
  • Northcutt, Wayne (1992). Historical Dictionary of the French Fourth and Fifth Republics, 1946–1991.
  • Rioux, Jean-Pierre, and Godfrey Rogers (1989). The Fourth Republic, 1944–1958. The Cambridge History of Modern France.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Sowerwine, Charles (2009). France since 1870: Culture, Society and the Making of the Republic.
  • Williams, Charles (1997). The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General De Gaulle.
  • Williams, Philip M. and Martin Harrison (1965). De Gaulle's Republic. Archived from the original on 2011-06-28. Retrieved 2023-08-03.

Historiography[edit]

Primary sources[edit]

Scholarly journals[edit]

Politics[edit]

Foreign relations[edit]

  • Aldrich, Robert, and John Connell. France and World Politics (Routledge 1989)
  • Bell, P.M.H. France and Britain, 1940–1994: The Long Separation (1997)
  • Berstein, Serge, Jean-Pierre Rioux, and Christopher Woodall. The Pompidou Years, 1969–1974 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (2000) excerpt and text search
  • Berstein, Serge, and Peter Morris. The Republic of de Gaulle 1958–1969 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (2006) excerpt and text search
  • Bozo, Frédéric. "'Winners' and 'Losers': France, the United States, and the End of the Cold War", Diplomatic History Nov. 2009, Volume 33, Issue 5, pages 927–956, doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.2009.00818.x
  • Bozo, Frédéric. French Foreign Policy since 1945: An Introduction (Berghahn Books, 2016).
  • Cerny, Philip G. The Politics of Grandeur: Ideological Aspects of de Gaulle's Foreign Policy. (1980). 319 pp.
  • Chassaigne, Phillipe, and Michael Dockrill, eds. Anglo-French Relations 1898–1998: From Fashoda to Jospin (2002)
  • Chipman, John. French Power in Africa (Blackwell, 1989)
  • Cogan, Charles G. Oldest Allies, Guarded Friends: The United States and France since 1940 (Greenwood, 1994)
  • Cole, Alistair. Franco-German Relations (2000).
  • Costigliola, Frank. France and the United States: The Cold Alliance since World War II (1992)
  • Fenby, Jonathan. The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France he saved (2010).
  • Feske, Victor H. "The Road To Suez: The British Foreign Office and the Quai D’Orsay, 1951–1957" in The Diplomats, 1939-1979 (2019) pp. 167–200; online
  • Johnson, Douglas, et al. Britain and France: Ten Centuries (1980) table of contents
  • Keiger, J.F.V. France and the World since 1870 (2001); 261pp; topical approach emphasizing national security, intelligence & relations with major powers
  • Krotz, Ulrich. "Three eras and possible futures: a long-term view on the Franco-German relationship a century after the First World War." International Affairs (2014) 20#2 pp 337–350.
  • Lane, Philippe. French scientific and cultural diplomacy (2013) online
  • Lequesne, Christian. "French foreign and security challenges after the Paris terrorist attacks." Contemporary security policy 37.2 (2016): 306–318.
  • Moravcsik, Andrew et al. "De Gaulle Between Grain and Grandeur: The Political Economy of French EC Policy, 1958–1970" Journal of Cold War Studies. (2000) 2#2 pp 3–43; 2#3 pp 4–142.; two part article plus critics plus rejoinder
  • Moravcsik, Andrew. "Charles de Gaulle and Europe: The New Revisionism." Journal of Cold War Studies (2012) 14#1 pp: 53–77.
  • Nuenlist, Christian, Anna Locher, and Garret Martin, eds. Globalizing de Gaulle: International Perspectives on French Foreign Policies, 1958 to 1969 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)
  • Paxton, Robert O., ed. De Gaulle and the United States (1994)
  • Soutou, Georges-Henri. "France and the Cold War, 1944-63." Diplomacy & Statecraft. (2001) 12#4 pp 3–52.
  • Sharp, Alan, and Glyn Stone, eds. Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century: Rivalry and Cooperation (2000) excerpt and text search
  • Simonian, Haig. The Privileged Partnership: Franco-German Relations in the European Community 1969–1984 (1985)
  • Tombs, Robert and Isabelle Tombs. That Sweet Enemy: Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship (2008) 1688 to present online
  • Williams, Philip M. and Martin Harrison. De Gaulle's Republic (1965) online

Tourism[edit]

  • Bauer, Michel. "Cultural tourism in France." in Cultural tourism in Europe (1996): 147–164.
  • Cawley, Mary, Jean-Bernard Marsat, and Desmond A. Gillmor. "Promoting integrated rural tourism: comparative perspectives on institutional networking in France and Ireland." Tourism Geographies 9.4 (2007): 405–420.
  • Clarke, Alan. "Coastal development in France: Tourism as a tool for regional development." Annals of Tourism Research 8.3 (1981): 447–461.
  • Corne, Aurélie. "Benchmarking and tourism efficiency in France." Tourism Management 51 (2015): 91–95.
  • Cró, Susana, and António Miguel Martins. "Foreign Direct Investment in the tourism sector: The case of France." Tourism Management Perspectives 33 (2020): 100614. online
  • d'Hauteserre, Anne-Marie. "The role of the French state: Shifting from supporting large tourism projects like Disneyland Paris to a diffusely forceful presence." Current Issues in Tourism 4.2-4 (2001): 121–150. online
  • Eade, John. "Pilgrimage and tourism at Lourdes, France." Annals of Tourism Research 19.1 (1992): 18-32 online.
  • Endy, Christopher. Cold war holidays: American tourism in France (U of North Carolina Press, 2004).
  • Frochot, Isabelle. "Wine tourism in France: a paradox?." in Wine tourism around the world (2009): 67–80.
  • Furlough, Ellen. "Making mass vacations: tourism and consumer culture in France, 1930s to 1970s." Comparative Studies in Society and History 40.2 (1998): 247-286 online.
  • Gay, Jean-Christophe. "Why is tourism doing poorly in overseas France?" Annals of Tourism Research 39.3 (2012): 1634–1652. online
  • Gordon, Bertram M. War Tourism. Second World War France from Defeat and Occupation to the Creation of Heritage (Cornell UP, 2018. ISBN) online review
  • Harp, Stephen L. Au naturel: Naturism, nudism, and tourism in twentieth-century France (LSU Press, 2014).
  • Lamont, Matthew, and Jim McKay. "Intimations of postmodernity in sports tourism at the Tour de France." Journal of Sport & Tourism 17.4 (2012): 313–331.
  • Pickel-Chevalier, Sylvine. "Can equestrian tourism be a solution for sustainable tourism development in France?." Loisir et Société/Society and Leisure 38.1 (2015): 110–134. online
  • Seraphin, Hugues, et al. "Tourism education in France and sustainable development goal 4 (quality education)." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes (2021).
  • Seraphin, Hugues. "Terrorism and tourism in France: the limitations of dark tourism." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 9.2 (2017): 187–195. online
  • Young, Patrick. Enacting Brittany: Tourism and culture in provincial France, 1871–1939 (Routledge, 2017).

Demographics[edit]

  • Diebolt, Claude, and Perrin Faustine. Understanding Demographic Transitions. An Overview of French Historical Statistics (Springer, 2016) 176 pages. table of contents
  • Dyer, Colin L. Population and Society in 20th Century France (1978)
  • Henry, Louis. "The population of France in the eighteenth century." in Population in History (1965). pp 441+
  • Spengler, Joseph J. France Faces Depopulation (1938)
  • Van de Walle, Etienne. The female population of France in the nineteenth century: a reconstruction of 82 départements (Princeton University Press, 1974)

Religion[edit]

  • Aston, Nigel. (2000) Religion and Revolution in France, 1780–1804
  • Bowen, John Richard. (2007) Why the French don't like headscarves: Islam, the state, and public space (Princeton UP)
  • Curtis, Sarah A. (2000) Educating the Faithful: Religion, Schooling, and Society in Nineteenth-Century France (Northern Illinois UP)
  • Edelstein, D. (2009). The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Furet, F. (1981) Interpreting the French Revolution. Cambridge UP.
  • Gibson, Ralph. (1989) A Social History of French Catholicism, 1789-1914 London: Routledge.
  • Hunt, L. (1984). Politics, culture, and class in the French Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Hussey, Andrew. (2014) The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and its Arabs London: Granta.
  • Israel, J. (2014). Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre. Princeton University Press.
  • Latourette, Kenneth Scott. (1969) Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: Volume I: The Nineteenth Century in Europe: Background and the Roman Catholic Phase online passim on Catholics in France.
  • Latourette, Kenneth Scott. (1959) Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: Vol II: The Nineteenth Century in Europe: The Protestant and Eastern Churches; pp 224–34 on Protestants in France.
  • Latourette, Kenneth Scott. (1959) Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: Vol IV: The Twentieth Century in Europe: The Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Churches pp 128–53 on Catholics in France; pp 375–79 on Protestants.
  • McMillan, James. (2014) "Catholic Christianity in France from the Restoration to the separation of church and state, 1815-1905." in Sheridan Gilley and Brian Stanley, eds., The Cambridge history of Christianity (2014) 8: 217-232
  • Misner, Paul. (1992) "Social catholicism in nineteenth-century Europe: A review of recent historiography." Catholic Historical Review 78.4 (1992): 581–600.
  • Price, Roger, Religious Renewal in France, 1789-1870: The Roman Catholic Church between Catastrophe and Triumph (2018) online review
  • Tallett, Frank, and Nicholas Atkin. Religion, society, and politics in France since 1789 (1991)
  • Willaime, Jean-Paul. (2004) "The cultural turn in the sociology of religion in France." Sociology of Religion 65.4 (2004): 373–389.
  • Zeldin, Theodore. (1977) France, 1848-1945: Intellect, taste, and anxiety. Vol. 2. (Oxford UP) pp 983–1039.

Education[edit]

  • Baker, Donald N. and Patrick J. Harrigan, eds. The Making of Frenchmen: current directions in the history of education in France, 1679-1979 (Waterloo, Ontario: Historical Reflections Press, 1980).
  • Clark, Linda L. "Approaching the History of Modern French Education: Recent Surveys and Research Guides," French Historical Studies (1987) 15#1 pp. 157–165 in JSTOR
  • Corbett, Anne, and Bob Moon, eds. Education in France: continuity and change in the Mitterrand years 1981-1995 (Routledge, 2002)
  • Duru-Bellat, Marie. "France: permanence and change." in Yan Wang, ed. Education policy reform trends in G20 members (Springer, 2013) pp. 19–32.
  • Duru-Bellat, Marie. "Recent Trends in Social Reproduction in France: Should the Political Promises of Education be Revisited?" Journal of Education Policy (2008) 23#1: 81–95. doi:10.1080/02680930701754104.
  • Foght, H.W. ed. Comparative education (1918), compares United States, England, Germany, France, Canada, and Denmark online
  • Harrigan, Patrick. "Women teachers and the schooling of girls in France: Recent historiographical trends." French Historical Studies (1998) 21#4: 593–610. online
  • Langan, Elise. "The normative effects of higher education policy in France." International Journal of Educational Research 53 (2012): 32–43.
  • Passow, A. Harry et al. The National Case Study: An Empirical Comparative Study of Twenty-One Educational Systems. (1976) online
  • van Zanten, Agnès and Claire Maxwell. "Elite Education and the State in France: Durable Ties and New Challenges." British Journal of Sociology of Education (2015). 36#1: 71–94. doi:10.1080/01425692.2014.968245.
  • Van Zanten, Agnès. "Widening participation in France and its effects on the field of élite higher education and on educational policy." Policy and Inequality in Education (Springer, 2017) pp. 73–89.

Literature[edit]

  • Brereton, Geoffrey. A Short History of French Literature (Penguin Books, 1976)
  • Burgwinkle, William, Nicholas Hammond, and Emma Wilson, eds. The Cambridge History of French Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
  • Cobb, Richard, Promenades: A Historian's Appreciation of Modern French Literature (Oxford University Press, 1980)
  • Harvey, Paul, and Janet E. Heseltine, eds. The Oxford Companion to French Literature (Clarendon Press, 1961)
  • Denis Hollier, ed. A New History of French Literature, Harvard University Press, 1989, 1150 pp.
  • France, Peter. The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, (Oxford University Press, 1995), 926 pp., ISBN 0-19-866125-8
  • Kay, Sarah, Terence Cave, Malcolm Bowie. A Short History of French Literature (Oxford University Press, 2006), 356 pp., ISBN 0-19-929118-7
  • Lemaitre, Georges. From Cubism to Surrealism in French Literature (Harvard University Press, 1941)
  • Reid, Joyce M.H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of French Literature (Oxford UP, 1976)
  • Saintsbury, George (1911). "French Literature" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 110–154. an alternative point of view.
  • Sapiro, Gisèle. The French Writers' War 1940-1953 (1999; English edition 2014); highly influential study of intellectuals in the French Resistance online review

Sport[edit]

  • Holt, R. "Women, men and sport in France, c. 1870–1914: An introductory survey," Journal of Sport History (1991)
  • Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah. The Making of "Les Bleus": Sport in France, 1958-2010 (Lexington Books; 2012) 214 pages; examines the politics of the French state's efforts to create elite athletes in football and basketball at the youth level.
  • Terret, Thierry. "Is there a French sport history? Reflections on French sport historiography." International Journal of the History of Sport 28.14 (2011): 2061–2084.
  • Weber, Eugen. "Gymnastics and sport in fin de siècle France", American Historical Review 76 (1971)