I: The primacy of the republic, 1900s-1931
The use and abuse of reason, 1900-1906
New forces: socialism and syndicalism, 1900-1909
New forces: nationalism and patriotism, 1900-1914
The republic at war and peace, 1914-1920s
A distinctive society, 1920-1931
II: The spiral of ideology, 1920s-1969
Manipulating crisis, 1920s-1934
Confrontations, 1934-1936
Not another war? Shattered illusions, 1930s-1940
Occupied France (1). Vichy and collaboration, 1940-1944
Occupied France (2). Resistance and liberation, 1940-1944
Ending war....not in Indo-China or Algeria, 1944-1962
The chequered imperative of change, 1940s-1958
De Gaulle's ascendancy, 1950s-1968
III: Issues of identity, 1960s-2000s
Whose new society?, 1960s-1979
Ideological rupture and retreat, 1970s-1984
Pressures for consensus, 1980s-1993
The challenge of plurality, 1990s-2000s (1)
Political oscillation, 1990s-2000s (2)
Memory and identity, 1990s-2000s (3).
