Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914.
London: Penguin Books, 2008.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.
The UK edition was published as a volume in the series "The New Penguin History of France".
UK edition: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk.
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Author Information:
- Professor Robert Gildea, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
- Professor Robert Gildea, Worcester College, University of Oxford.
- Robert Gildea (b. 1952), Wikipedia.
- Robert Gildea. France since 1945, Updated Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
My post for France since 1945 is here.
See that post for other books by Gildea and videos.
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Wikipedia Articles:
- France in the long nineteenth century.
- French First Republic, 1792–1804.
- First French Empire, 1804–1814/1815.
- Bourbon Restoration in France, 1814/1815–1830.
- July Monarchy, 1830–1848.
- French Second Republic, 1848–1852.
- Second French Empire, 1852–1870.
- French Third Republic, 1870–1940.
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- Economic history of France: 1789–1914.
- History of rail transport in France.
- History of education in France: Growth 1815 to 1907. ~~~~~~~~~~
- 19th-century French literature.
- 19th-century French art.
- Music of France.
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In Our Time Episodes Related to Nineteenth Century France:
- Note: Robert Gildea appears in several of these episodes.
- Melvyn Bragg, Stefan Collini, Anne Janowitz, Andrew Roberts, "The French Revolution's Legacy," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 14 June 2001.
Wikipedia Articles, etc:
- French Revolution: Long-term impact.
- Influence of the French Revolution.
- Edmund Burke: French Revolution: 1688 versus 1789.
- French Revolution and the English Gothic Novel.
- Romanticism and the French Revolution.
- Stefan Collini, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
- Stefan Collini, Wikipedia.
- Anne F Janowitz, academia.edu.
- Andrew Roberts, www.andrew-roberts.net.
- Andrew Roberts, Wikipedia.
- Andrew Roberts. Napoleon and Wellington. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. London: Phoenix Press / The Orion Publishing Group, 2003.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
- Melvyn Bragg, Colva Roney-Dougal, Timothy Gowers, Marcus du Sautoy, "Pierre-Simon Laplace," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 8 April 2021. (Includes a reading list.)
- Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), Wikipedia.
- Melvyn Bragg, Andrew Roberts, Mike Broers, Belinda Beaton, "Napoleon and Wellington," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 25 October 2001.
Wikipedia Articles, etc:
- Napoleon (1769–1821).
- Napoleonic Wars, 1803–1815.
- Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815.
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852).
- Andrew Roberts, www.andrew-roberts.net.
- Andrew Roberts, Wikipedia.
- Andrew Roberts. Napoleon and Wellington. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. London: Phoenix Press / The Orion Publishing Group, 2003.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Professor Michael Broers, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
- Michael Broers, Wikipedia.
- Belinda Beaton, academia.edu.
- Melvyn Bragg, Catriona Seth, Alison Finch, Katherine Astbury, "Germaine de Stael," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 November 2017. (Includes a reading list.)
- Germaine de Staël (1766–1817), Wikipedia.
- Germaine de Staël. Delphine. 1802. Translated by Avriel H. Goldberger. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995.
[Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Germaine de Staël. Corinne, or Italy. 1807. Translated by Sylvia Raphael. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - On Germany, 1813, Wikipedia.
An edition in English: Germany. With Notes and Appendices by O.M. Wright. In two volumes. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1864.
[Archive.org: vol 1 of 2; vol 2 of 2.] - Germaine de Staël. Considérations sur les principaux événements de la révolution française. 1818.
Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution. Translated by Aurelian Crăiuțu. Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Fund, 2008.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Germaine de Staël. Dix Années d'Exil. 1818. Ten Years of Exile. Translated by Avriel H. Goldberger. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1995.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Germaine de Staël. An Extraordinary Woman: Selected Writings of Germaine de Staël. Translated by Vivian Folkenflik. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
Reprint title: Major Writings of Germaine de Staël, 1992.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
- Melvyn Bragg, Timothy Blanning, Tamar Garb, Simon Lee, "Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 20 October 2011.
Wikipedia Articles, etc:
- Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863).
- Liberty Leading the People, 1830.
- July Revolution, 1830.
- T.C.W. Blanning.
- Tamar Garb.
- Simon Lee, University of Reading.
- Melvyn Bragg, Belinda Jack, Angela Ryan, Nigel Harkness, "George Sand," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 6 February 2020. (Includes a reading list.)
- George Sand (1804–1876), Wikipedia.
- George Sand. Indiana. 1832. Translated by Sylvia Raphael. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
[Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
- Melvyn Bragg, Robert Gildea, Susan-Mary Grant, Jeremy Jennings, "Tocqueville: Democracy in America," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 22 March 2018. (Includes a reading list.)
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), Wikipedia.
- Melvyn Bragg, Tim Blanning, Lucy Riall, Mike Rapport, "1848: Year of Revolution," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 19 January 2012.
Wikipedia Articles, etc:
- July Monarchy, 1830–1848.
- French Revolution of 1848.
- Revolutions of 1848, Europe.
- French Second Republic, 1848–1852.
- T.C.W. Blanning.
- Lucy Riall.
- Michael Rapport, University of Glasgow.
- Mike Rapport. 1848: Year of Revolution. London: Abacus (Little, Brown Book Group / Hachette Book Group), 2009. New York: Basic Books (Hachette Book Group), 2009.
[Publisher UK; Publisher USA; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
- Melvyn Bragg, Robert Gildea, Andy Martin, Mary Orr, "Madame Bovary," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 12 July 2007.
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 – 1880), Wikipedia.
- Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners, 1856, Wikipedia.
- 19th-century French literature, Wikipedia.
- Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners. Translated by Margaret Mauldon. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
[Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.] - Andy Martin, Wikipedia.
- Mary Orr, encyclopedia.com.
- Melvyn Bragg, Robert Gildea, Karine Varley, Julia Nicholls, "The Siege of Paris 1870-71," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 January 2020. (Includes a reading list.)
Wikipedia Articles:
- Napoleon III: Later years.
- Franco-Prussian War, 1870–1871.
- Causes of the Franco-Prussian War.
- Siege of Paris (1870–1871), September 1870 – January 1871.
- Paris Commune, March–May 1871.
- French Third Republic, 1870–1940.
- Unification of Germany.
- Misha Glenny, "Le Petit Napoleon and the Franco-Prussian War," The Invention of France, Episode 3 of 3, BBC Radio 4, 16 November 2015.
- Melvyn Bragg, Robert Gildea, Kathleen Burk, John Keane, "The Statue of Liberty," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 14 February 2008.
Wikipedia Articles:
- Statue of Liberty.
- Édouard René de Laboulaye (1811–1883), jurist who proposed that France should give a monument to Liberty to the USA.
- Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834–1904), sculptor who designed the statue.
- Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923), engineer who designed the metal framework of the statue.
- Kathleen Burk.
- John Keane.
- John Keane, www.johnkeane.net.
- Melvyn Bragg, Robert Gildea, Ruth Harris, Robert Tombs, "The Dreyfus Affair," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 8 October 2009.
Wikipedia Articles:
- Panama scandals, 1892, controversialists used this to promote antisemitism.
- French Third Republic: Dreyfus affair.
- Dreyfus affair, 1894 – 1906.
- Émile Zola (1840–1902), J'Accuse…!, 13 January 1898.
- Dreyfus affair: Consequences of the Dreyfus Affair.
- 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State.
- Ruth Harris.
- Ruth Harris. Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France. London: Allen Lane, 2010. London: Penguin Books, 2011.
USA edition: Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century. New York: Picador / Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan, 2010.
[Publisher UK; Publisher USA; Google Books, UK title; Google Books, USA title; Amazon.com, UK title; Amazon.com, USA title.] - Robert Tombs.
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