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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Maps -- Introduction -- 1 Overview: From Regnum Francorum to Regnum Franciae: Early Medieval France from the Fifth to the Twelfth Centuries -- 2 Gaul, Francia, and the Wider Early Medieval World -- 3 The Vikings and Francia, 799-936 -- 4 Regional Magnates and the Last Carolingians -- 5 The World of the Early Capetian Court: 987-1180 -- 6 The Queens' Reflection: French Consorts as a Mirror of French History -- 7 History and the Shaping of French Identity in the Later Middle Ages -- 8 Nationhood and Nationalism in French History Writing: Franks, Gallo-Romans, and the Shaping of the Roman National -- 9 Overview: Valois France, 1328-1498 -- 10 France and the Crusades in the Later Middle Ages -- 11 Prince and Principality in the Breton War of Succession -- 12 Performing Discontent: Politics and Society in the French Satirical Theater of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries -- 13 Overview: France in the Sixteenth Century: Monarchy, Renaissance, and Reformation, 1494-1610 -- 14 Conduit of the Divine: Theocratic Themes in Political Theory in Renaissance and Reformation France -- 15 Royal Women and the Habsburg-Valois Wars (1494-1559) -- 16 Festival Cultures in Early Modern France: Elite and Popular Celebrations, c. 1560-c. 1640 -- 17 Overview: Absolutist France to 1715 -- 18 Bureaucracy and Royal Administration in the Seventeenth Century - French Absolutism and the State -- 19 A Century of Saints? The Catholic Reformation in Seventeenth-Century France -- 20 The Royal Manufactories of Absolutist France: Luxury Production and the Politics and Culture of Mercantilism -- 21 Making History in Old Regime France -- 22 Overview: France, 1715 to 1815: A Century of Dubious Greatness -- 23 The French Caribbean in the Era of Slavery.

24 The Development of the French Dimension of the Atlantic Slavery System -- 25 French India in the Eighteenth Century -- 26 Exploration and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France -- 27 Enlightenment and the Supernatural: Popular Religious Practice in the Eighteenth Century -- 28 The "Masterpiece of the National Assembly": Criminal Justice and the Revolution -- 29 Performance in Paris, 1789-1815: Setting the Stage for Regime Change and Cultural Revision -- 30 Fugitives from France: Huguenot Refugees, Revolutionary Émigrés, and the Origins of Modern Exile -- 31 The French Campaign in Egypt (1798-1801) -- 32 Monarchy, Memory, and the Chapelle Expiatoire -- 33 Overview: 1815-1905: An Era of Tumult and Change -- 34 Memory of Lost Empire -- 35 France and Algeria, 1830-1870 -- 36 Environment and Technology in Global France, 1763-1914 -- 37 The French Periodical Press, 1815-1905 -- 38 From Dictator to Democrat? The "Black Legend" of Louis-Napoleon and Subsequent Historical Revisionism -- 39 Socialism Up to the First World War -- 40 French Empire in the Asia-Pacific Region, c. 1800-1914 -- 41 Imperial Variation: Administration and Citizenship in France's Colonies -- 42 Overview: Two Frances at War and Peace: The Stories of a Nation and its People, 1905-1958 -- 43 Overview: Between Gaullism and Globalization: Opening Up the Fifth Republic, 1958-2020 -- 44 History and Historiography of French Imperialism from 1914 -- 45 French Feminisms: Patriarchy, Populationism, and Progress, 1870-1950 -- 46 Queering France Since the Belle Époque: Between Emancipation and Repression -- 47 Reconstructing French Relations in the South Pacific after World War I -- 48 The Popular Front and France's Twentieth Century -- 49 The Brazzaville Conference and the Future of French Colonialism in Africa -- 50 The Atomic Republic: Nuclear France Since 1958.

51 Young People and Youth Culture, 1958-1968 -- 52 Sustaining the Nation: A Gastronomic Reading of Contemporary France -- 53 The Year of the Events: 1968 -- 54 The Algerian Diaspora in France -- 55 French Museums in the Fifth Republic -- 56 Erasing Race in France: Social Consequences of Political Idealism -- 57 The Memory Politics of the First World War at Its Centenary -- 58 French Historical Writing in the Wake of Decolonization -- Index.

Short, incisive contributions by a wide range of expert scholars offer both a spine of chronological overviews, and a diverse spectrum of up-to-date insights into areas of key interest to historians today.