France, 1848-1945: Ambition and Love

by Theodore Zeldin

Overview

Sketches France's political and intellectual development and comments on social divisions and customs from the late 1840's through the Second World War.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192850904
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/24/1980
Series:	Galaxy Book ; Gb 587
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.20(d)

Editorial Reviews

"A monument, a splendid work of scholarship...that no sensible reader, whether gourmet or gourmand, would want to ignore."—Journal of Modern History

"A garden of delights to be savored and enjoyed, for profit and for pleasure."—Journal of Social History

"A remarkable synthesis...of the social, intellectual, and political history of France in the last hundred years....A singular achievement."—The Historian

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