A Concise History of France (Cambridge Concise Histories) - Softcover

Price, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052136809X ISBN 13: 9780521368094

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

This book provides a clear, well-informed and highly illustrated guide to French history from the early Middle Ages to the Mitterrand presidency. It is the most up-to-date and comprehensive study of France available, based on a carefully structured synthesis and written in an entertaining style for the student and traveler. Alongside major themes such as state and society, the impact of war, and the use of political power, Roger Price includes studies of major figures including Louis XIV, the two Napoleons, Clemenceau and De Gaulle, providing a concise yet complete history of the country.

About this title

Book Description:

In addition to the themes of state and society relationships, impact of war, and the use of political power, studies of major figures are included in this guidebook to France from the early Middle Ages to the Mitterrand presidency.

About the Author:

Roger Price is Professor of History at the University of Wales. He has written extensively on French history; his latest publications include The French Second Empire:an Anatomy of Political Power (2001) and People and Politics in France, 1848-1870 (2004).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 052136809X
• ISBN 13: 9780521368094
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396