Modern France and the World provides an engaging global history of the key events of modern France and its empire. It moves beyond the traditional political narrative of the development of the French Republican nation-state to offer both national and international perspectives of its evolution.
12 Postwar Reconstruction and Imperial Deconstruction, 1944-1962 -- 13 The Politics of Grandeur: The Fifth Republic in a New Europe -- 14 Globalized France -- Conclusion: The Legacy of Empire in Twenty-First-Century France -- Index