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Main Problems of Modern French History - JMM405

Title:	Hlavní problémy moderních francouzských dějin
Guaranteed by:	Department of European Studies (23-KZS)
Faculty:	Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual:	from 2009 to 2013
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	4
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:1/1, MC [HT]
Capacity:	16 / unknown (16)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech
Teaching methods:	full-time
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan

Guarantor:	PhDr. Ondřej Matějka, Ph.D.
Teacher(s):	PhDr. Ondřej Matějka, Ph.D.

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Annotation -

Introduction to the basic historiographical controversies from contemporary French history.

Last update: MATEJKA (10.04.2008)

Aim of the course -

Introduction to the basic historiographical concepts in relation to contemporary French history.

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Literature -

See syllabus

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Teaching methods

Lectures, presentations-exposés, commentaries/analysis of texts.

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Syllabus

Introduction

Concepts of History/memory

The French Nation in making I:

a/ Peter SAHLINS: The Nation in the Village: State-Building and Communla Struggles in the Catalan Borderland during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, The Journal of Modern History, Vol 60, No.2, June 1988, s. 234-263

b/ Eugen WEBER: Peasants into Frenchmen, The Modernization of Rural France 1870-1914, Chatto and Windus, London 1977, kapitola 18: ?Civilizing in Earnest: Schools and Schooling", s. 303-339

The French nation in making II:

a/ selected articles by Gérard Noiriel

b/ Patrick WEIL: Qu'est-ce qu'un Français? Histoire de la nationalité française depuis la Révolution, Gallimard - Folio Histoire, Paris 2004, kapitola VII: ?Jus soli vs jus sanguinis: la fausse opposition des droits français et allemand", s. 281-316

French fascism

a/ controversies aroun Zeev STERNHELLA (La droite révolutionnaire : 1885-1914 : les origines françaises du fascisme, první vydání 1978)

b/ Michel DOBRY (ed.): Le mythe de l'allérgie française au fascisme, Albin Michel, Paris 2003, 460 pp.

"Laicité" 1905-2005:

a/ Jean BAUBÉROT: Histoire de la la?cité française, Paris, PUF (? Que sais-je ? ?), 2003.

b/ Patrick WEIL: ?Lifting the veil", French Politics, Culture and Society, vol. 22, n.3 Fall 2004, s.142-149.

La Grande guerre:

Stéphane AUDOIN-ROUZEAU, Annette BECKER: 14-18, retrouver la guerre, Gallimard 2000, 272 pp.

Mouvement social, n. 199, avril-juin 2002

Popular Front

Julian JACKSON: The Popular Front in France: defending democracy 1934-1938, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge New York 1988, 353 pp.

Vichy Syndrome

a/ Henry Rousso: Le syndrome de Vichy: de 1944 ? nos jours, Seuil, Paris 1990, 414 pp.

b/ Affaire Maurice Papon

Memory of resistance

a/ Pierre NORA: Les lieux de mémoire, selected articles

b/ Donald REID: ?Resistance and Its Discontents: Affairs, Archives, Avowals, and the Aubracs", The Journal of Modern History, March 2005, n. 77, s. 97-137

Algerian trauma

a/ Benjamin STORA: La gangr?ne et l'oubli : la mémoire de la guerre d'Algérie, Découverte, Paris 1998, 376 pp.

b/ Paul AUSSARESSES: Services spéciaux: Algérie, 1955-1957, Perrin, Paris 2001, 196 pp.

Monarchical presidency I

Charles de Gaulle - any available biography (for ex. Jean Lacouture)

New France?

a/ Mystery of 1968

b/ ?Les années Giscard" - Simone VEIL: Les hommes aussi s'en souviennent...", Paris 2004, 111pp.

Monarchical presidency II

a/ Pierre PÉAN: Une jeunesse française: François Mitterand 1937-1947, Fayard, Paris 1994, 615 pp.

b/ Mairi MACLEAN: The Mitterand years: legacy and evaluation, Macmillan, Basingstoke 1998, 336 pp.

Last update: MATEJKA (10.04.2008)