Secondary Sources

Historical Studies

The French Revolution

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  • Furet, François. Interpreting the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
  • Hunt, Lynn. Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
  • Schama, Simon. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1989.
  • Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. London: NLB, 1974.

Revolutionary Legacy and Memory

  • Nora, Pierre, ed. Realms of Memory. 3 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996-1998.
  • Ozouf, Mona. Festivals and the French Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.
  • Agulhon, Maurice. Marianne into Battle: Republican Imagery and Symbolism in France, 1789-1880. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Political Science and Contemporary France

French Political System

  • Elgie, Robert. Political Leadership in Liberal Democracies. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995.
  • Knapp, Andrew, and Vincent Wright. The Government and Politics of France. 5th ed. London: Routledge, 2006.
  • Stone, Alec. The Birth of Judicial Politics in France. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

French Society and Culture

  • Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
  • Brubaker, Rogers. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
  • Favell, Adrian. Philosophies of Integration: Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain. 2nd ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.

Laïcité and Secularism

  • Baubérot, Jean. Histoire de la laïcité en France. 6th ed. Paris: PUF, 2013.
  • Bowen, John R. Why the French Don't Like Headscarves. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
  • Laborde, Cécile. Critical Republicanism: The Hijab Controversy and Political Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • Scott, Joan Wallach. The Politics of the Veil. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Immigration and Integration

  • Bleich, Erik. Race Politics in Britain and France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Hargreaves, Alec G. Multi-Ethnic France: Immigration, Politics, Culture and Society. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2007.
  • Silverstein, Paul A. Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.
  • Weil, Patrick. How to Be French: Nationality in the Making since 1789. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.

Social Movements and Protests

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  • Tartakowsky, Danielle. Les manifestations de rue en France, 1918-1968. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1997.
  • Fillieule, Olivier, ed. Sociologie de la protestation. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1993.

Yellow Vest Movement

  • Collectif d'enquête sur les Gilets jaunes. Enquête sur les Gilets jaunes. Paris: PUF, 2019.
  • Jeanpierre, Laurent. In Girum: Les leçons politiques des ronds-points. Paris: La Découverte, 2019.
  • Confavreux, Joseph, ed. Le fond de l'air est jaune. Paris: Seuil, 2019.

Education

  • Prost, Antoine. Histoire de l'enseignement en France, 1800-1967. Paris: Armand Colin, 1968.
  • Dubet, François. L'école des chances: Qu'est-ce qu'une école juste? Paris: Seuil, 2004.
  • Lelièvre, Claude. Histoire des institutions scolaires depuis 1789. Paris: Nathan, 1990.

Global Perspectives

  • Hunt, Lynn. Inventing Human Rights. New York: Norton, 2007.
  • Keitner, Chimène I. The Paradoxes of Nationalism: The French Revolution and Its Meaning for Contemporary Nation Building. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007.
  • Palmer, R.R. The Age of the Democratic Revolution. 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1959-1964.