Journal of Southern History, 2020

Journal of Southern History, 2020

This course examines the history of metropolitan France and its colonial empire during the First World War. The infamous trenches of the Western Front are central to any understanding of the Great War in general and of France's role in particular. Most of this front was located, after all, in France, and the war was both won and lost in this most decisive of theaters. Thus, we will pay close attention to the war in the metropole, both on the battlefield and on the home front. Nevertheless, a full accounting of the history of this industrialized and global conflict must extend far beyond the trenches of northeastern France. Waging total war required the mobilization of "La plus grande France" (or "Greater France," as the combined entity of the nation and its overseas possessions was known). Accordingly, we will also examine both the ways the war affected France's colonies-reaching into the lives and spaces of empire in profound ways-and the contributions of the colonies to the war effort-providing men and other resources to help France prosecute the war on the Western Front and beyond. The huge extent of the French colonial empire, then the world's second largest and stretching from North and West Africa, to Madagascar, Indochina, the Pacific, and the Caribbean, helped ensure that the war was truly global. Requirements and Grading Grades will be based upon the satisfactory completion of all of the following requirements: • Attendance and active participation in seminar discussions (40%) • One short class presentation (10%) • One 2-3 page paper proposal (10%) • One 20-25 page final essay (40%)

The American Historical Review, 1969

Britain and France have long been intertwined, their history is so linked that the two may be more deserving of the 'Special Relationship' moniker than the relationship between Britain and the United States. This paper examines how the British tried to forge a role for France in the World after its defeat in 1940, how they butted heads with America repeatedly over this policy course, and how, eventually, they secured their aims.

This paper aims to study the history of French revolution of 1708-1819. This paper mainly focuses on the causes of the French revolution and also study the seven years' war in relation to French revolution. Furthermore this paper sheds light on the consequences that the French revolution brought upon its own land and to the rest of the Europe.