HIST 32701 - Modern France And The French Empire

This course provides an introduction to the history of France and its empire over the course of the last 150 years. It covers the most important political events that impacted France and her colonies since the end of the nineteenth century, as well as considering social, cultural, and intellectual movements that influenced the course of French and imperial history. The course considers questions of identity, defining ‘Frenchness,’ over a contested period, and questioning what it meant to be a member of the greater French empire. It examines what France meant to various groups and considers ideas of belonging and the nation, studying inclusion and exclusion, and the ramifications of maintaining and living in a global empire. The course studies the complex relationship between colonized and colonizer from the viewpoints of both sides, considering both the political and emotional legacies of colonialism.

Cr. 3.