The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. History Department. France and Its Empire Since 1830 Spring 2019

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1 The Graduate Center of the City University of New York History Department Hist France and Its Empire Since 1830 Spring 2019 Prof. C Rosenberg CRosenberg@ccny.cuny.edu Course Description: This course will survey the historiography of France and its empire since the conquest of Algeria in 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, (2008); and Roderick Kedward, France and the French: A Modern History (2006), also called La vie en bleu: France and the French Since For textbook coverage, Alice Conklin, Sarah Fishman, Robert Zaretsky, France and Its Empire Since 1870 (2011); and Jeremy Popkin, A History of Modern France, 4 th 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. ( ). Schedule of classes: 1. Introduction to the Course Jan 29 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): *

2 2. The Conquest of Algeria Feb 5 Benjamin Brower, A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France s Empire in the Algerian Sahara, , 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) 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, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990); Julia Clancy-Smith, Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, ) (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, (Paris: PUF, 1979); Charles-Robert Ageron, Les algériens musulmans et la France, , 2 vols. (Paris: PUF, 1968); and Valérie Assan, Les consistoires israélites d Algérie au XIXe siècle (Paris: Armand Colin, 2012). No class on 2/12 Lincoln s birthday 3. Labor and the Revolutionary Tradition Feb 19 William Sewell, Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), intro., chaps * 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 19 th and 20 th Centuries (Oxford: Berg, 1990), chaps. 1-4.*

3 Allain Cottereau, The Distinctiveness of Working-Class Cultures in France, , 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, : 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, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996); Gay Gullickson, Spinners and Weavers of Auffay: Rural Industry and the Sexual Division of Labor in a French Village, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986); Tony Judt, Marxism and the French Left: Studies on Labour and Politics in France, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986); Michelle Perrot, Les ouvriers en grève, , 2 vols. (Paris: Mouton, 1974). 4. Peasants into Frenchmen Feb 26 Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, chaps. 1-7, 12-13, 15, 17-18, * 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, , intro., chaps. 1-2, 5-6. Ted Margadant, French Rural Society in the Nineteenth Century: A Review, Agricultural History 53, no. 3 (July 1979): 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, (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, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993).

4 5. The Stalemate Society and its Critics Mar 5 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), * Philip Nord, The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth- Century France Reports : Laurence Wylie, Village in the Vaucluse (1957) Recommended: Marc Bloch, The Strange Defeat (1941) ; Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, La décadence, (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): ; Mary Jo Nye, Scientific Decline: Is Quantitative Evaluation Enough? Isis 75, no. 4 (December 1984): ; and the forum on the Third Republic in FHS 17, no. 2 (Autumn, 1991). Week 6. Empires as Laboratories of Modernity Mar 12 C. M. Andrew and A. S. Kanya-Forstner, The French Colonial Party : Its Composition, Aims, and Influence, , The Historical Journal 14, no. 1 (March 1971): * Paul Rabinow, French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment, 1-57, , * Peter Zinoman, The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, [electronic resource] Guillaume Lachenal, Le médecin qui voulut être roi : Médecine coloniale et utopie au Cameroun, Annales: Histoire, sciences sociales 65, no. 1 (2010): * Reports: Charles-Robert Ageron, Le parti colonial ou la France coloniale? Recommended: Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, Tensions of Empire; Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire; Emmanuelle Saada, Empire s Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012); Mary D. Lewis, Divided Rule: Sovereignty and Empire in French Tunisia, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013). 7. Antisemitism and Fascism Mar 19 Ruth Harris, Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century, intro, chaps, 1, 3, part II (chaps. 6-10), chap. 18, and epilogue.* Sophie Roberts, Citizenship and Anti-Semitism in French Colonial Algeria, , chap. 2.*

5 Zeev Sternhell, Neither Right Nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France, intro, chaps. 1-2, concl.* o Robert Wohl, French Fascism, Both Right and Left: Reflections on the Sternhell Controversy, JMH 53, no. 1 (March 1991): * o Serge Berstein, La France des années trente allergique au Fascisme : A propos d un livre de Zeev Sternhell, Vingtième siècle, no. 2 (April 1984), * Vicki Caron, The Anti-Semitic Revival in France in the 1930s, JMH 70, no. 1 (March 1998): * René Rémond, The Right Wing in France, From 1815 to de Gaulle, [ACLS ebook]. Reports : Zeev Sternhell, La droite révolutionnaire : Les origines françaises du fascisme, rev. ed. (Paris: Seuil, 1984); or Pierre Birnbaum, Antisemitism in France: A Political History from Leon Blum to the Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). Recommended: Pierre Birnbaum, The Antisemitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898 (New York: Hill & Wang, 2002); Michael Marrus, Vichy Before Vichy: Antisemitic Currents in France During the 1930s, Wiener Library Bulletin 33, no (1980): 13-19; William D. Irvine, Fascism in France and the Strange Case of the Croix de Feu, JMH 63, no. 2 (June 1991): ); Noiriel, Immigration, antisémitisme et racisme en France, XIXe-XXe siècle : Discours publics, humiliations privées (Paris: Fayard, 2012); Noiriel, Les origines Républicaines de Vichy (Paris: Hachette, 1999); Robert O. Paxton, The Five Stages of Fascism, JMH 70, no. 1 (March 1998); Paxton, French Peasant Fascism: Henry Dorgerès s Greenshirts and the Crises of French Agriculture, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997); Philippe Burrin, La dérive fasciste : Doriot, Déat, Bergerey : (1985; Paris: Seuil, 2003); Robert Soucy, French Fascism: The First Wave, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986); and Soucy, French Fascism, the Second Wave, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).

6 8. Immigration and Citizenship Mar 26 Gérard Noiriel, The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity, trans. Geoffroy de Laforcade, chaps. 1-2, 5-6. Patrick Weil, How to Be French: Nationality in the Making.* Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany, chaps. 1, 4-5.* Reports: Mary D. Lewis, The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007). Recommended: Noiriel, Immigration, antisémitisme et racisme en France, XIEe-XXe siècle : Discours publics, humiliations privées (Paris: Fayard, 2012); Noiriel, La tyrannie du national : Le droit d asyle en Europe, (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1991); Clifford Rosenberg, Policing Paris: The Origins of Modern Immigration Controls Between the Wars (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006); Ralph Schor, L Opinion française et les étrangers, (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1985); Pierre Milza, Voyage à Ritalie (Paris: Plon, 1993); Janine Ponty, Polonais méconnus (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1985); Alexis Spire, Étrangers à la carte: L administration de l immigration en France, (Paris: Grasset, 2005); Pascal Perrineau and Nonna Mayer, eds., Le Front National à découvert (Paris: FNSP, 1996); Françoise Gaspard, A Small City in France: A Socialist Mayor Confronts Neofascism, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (1990; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995). 9. Empire and Immigration Apr 2 Gregory Mann, Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century. Ethan Katz, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France. Reports: Michael Goebel, Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) Recommended: Minayo Nasiali, Native to the Republic: Empire, Social Citizenship, and Everyday Life in Marseille (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016); Jennifer Boittin, Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2010); Tyler Stovall, Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light; Gary Wilder, The French Imperial Nation State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the Two World Wars (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). SPRING BREAK 10. Vichy Apr 16 Robert O. Paxton, Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order Paxton and Marrus, Vichy France and the Jews, chap. 1.* Fabrice Virgili, Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France Reports: Henry Rousso, The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France Since 1944 Recommended: Jean-Pierre Bédarida et al., Vichy et les français (Paris: Fayard, 1992); Marc-Olivier Baruch, Servir l État français : L administration en France de 1940 à 1944 (Paris: Fayard, 1997); Jean-

7 Marc Berlière and Laurant Chabrun, Les policiers français sous l Occupation, d après les archives inédites de l épuration (Paris: Perrin, 2001); Renée Poznanski, Jews in France During World War II (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2001); Laurent Joly, Vichy dans la «Solution Finale» : Histoire du Commissariat général aux questions juives, (Paris : Grasset, 2006); Le Fichier Juif : Rapport de la commission présidée par René Rémond au Premier ministre (Paris : Plon, 1996) ; Serge Klarsfeld, Vichy-Auschwitz : Le rôle de la France dans la solution finale de la question juive en France, 2 vols. (Paris : Fayard, ) ; Klarsfeld, Le calendrier de la persécution des Juifs en France (Paris : Association les fils et filles des déportés juifs de France, 1993) ; Jean-Pierre Azéma, «La Milice», Vingtième siècle : Revue d histoire 28 (October-December 1990) : ; Denis Peschanski, La France des camps : L internement, (Paris : Gallimard, 2002) ; Eric T. Jennings, Vichy in the Tropics: The National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, (Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2001) ; Luc Capdevilla, Les Bretons au lendemain de l Occupation: Imaginaires et comportements d une sortie de guerre ( ) (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 1999); Domenique Veillon, Vivre et survivre en France, (Paris: Payot, 1995); John F. Sweets, Choices in Vichy France: The French Under the Nazi Occupation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994); Pierre Laborie, L opinion française sous Vichy (Paris: Seuil, 1990). 11. Reconstruction Apr 23 Herrick Chapman, France s Long Reconstruction : In Search of the Modern Republic, intro and chaps. 1-2, 4-5, 7, and concl. Philip Nord, France s New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era, intro, part I (chaps. 1-3) and concl. [electronic resource] o Reports: Gabrielle Hecht, The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity After World War Two (Cambridge: MIT, 1998). Recommended: Gordon Wright, Rural Revolution in France: The Peasantry in the Twentieth Century (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1964); Richard Kuisel, Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993); Antoine Prost and Gérard Vincent, eds., Riddles of Identity in Modern Times, vol. 5 of A History of Private Life; Jane Jenson, The Liberation and New Rights for French Women, in Margaret Higonnet, et. al., Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987). 12. Between Empire and Nation Apr 30 Fred Cooper, Citizenship Between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, Gary Wilder, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World Samuel Moyn, Fantasies of Federalism, Dissent 2015 ( Reports: Gregory Mann, From Empires to NGO s in the West African Sahel: The Road to Nongovernmentality Recommended: Cooper, Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa; Alice Conklin, A Mission to Civilize ; Mann, Native Sons ; G. Wesley Johnson, The Emergence of Black Politics in Senegal: The Struggle for Power in the Four Communes, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1971).

8 13. Algeria and Decolonization May 7 Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization Jeffrey James Byrne, Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Reports: House and MacMaster, Paris, 1961 : Algerians, State Terror, and Memory Recommended: Adria K. Lawrence, Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013); Emmanuel Blanchard, La police parisienne et les algériens, (Paris, 2011); Alain Dewerpe, Charonne, 8 février 1962 : Anthropologie historique d un massacre d État (Paris : Gallimard, 2006) ; Alexis Spire, «Quand la raison d État fait perdre la raison», RHMC 54, no. 2 (2007) ; Sylvie Thénault, Une drôle de justice : Les magistrats dans la guerre d Algérie (Paris : La Découverte, 2001) ; Thénault, Violence ordinaire dans l Algérie coloniale : Camps, internements, assignations à résidence (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2012); Branche, Prisonniers du FLN (Paris : Payot, 2014) ; Martin Evans, Algeria: France s Undeclared War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011); James Le Sueur, Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria (Philadelphia: UPenn Press, 2001); Matthew Connelly, Taking Off the Cold War Lens: Visions of North-South Conflict During the Algerian War for Independence, AHR 105, no. 3 (2000): ; Muriel Cohen, Des familles invisibles : Politiques publiques et trajectoires résidentielles de l immigration algérienne, , Thèse d histoire, Univ. de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France in Crisis May 14 Tim Smith, France in Crisis: Welfare, Inequality, and Globalization Since 1980, chaps. 1-2, 5-8. Thomas Piketty, Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018), intro., chaps. 1-3 and 5. Joan Scott, The Politics of the Veil, chaps. 1-2.* Reports : Alexis Spire, Résistances à l impôt, attachement à l État : Enquête sur les contribuables français (Paris : Seuil, 2018).

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Making Modern France History 01:510:335 Fall 2007 Naomi Davidson MW 7:40-9:00 PM, Murray 111 Office Hours: Center for Historical Analysis (88 College Avenue), Office 203 Wednesdays 10am-12pm Email and