'History', suggests Robert Gildea, 'is a battlefield.' Questions of power, rights, identity and n...

Writing Contemporary History brings together some of the world's most pre-eminent historians to d...

Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial power...

Nineteenth-century France was renowned for its literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology...

The period 1870 - 1914 in France saw the consolidation of republican government and the recovery ...

The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing ...

A startling and original view of the occupation of the French heartland, based on a new investiga...

The period 1870 - 1914 in France saw the consolidation of republican government and the recovery ...

This is a comprehensive survey of European history from the coup d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

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A new and exciting study of 'Europe's 1968' based on the rich oral histories of nearly 500 former...

The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myth...