Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XI
4. The Encyclopédie as a Business Venture 1
5. The Meaning of the Revolution: Seven Testimonies 23
6. French Doctors Face War, 1792–1815 51
7. The Growth of the French Securities Market, 1815–1870 75
8. The Journal d’agriculture Pratique and the Peasant Question during the July Monarchy and the Second Republic 93
9. The Alsace-Lorraine Question in France, 1871–1914 111
10. The French Colonial Frontier 127
11. Edouard Herriot in Lyons: Some Aspects of His Role as Mayor 145
12. French Interwar Stagnation Revisited 159
13. Politics and Economics in the 1930s: The Balance Sheets of the “Blum New Deal” 181
14. Bibliography 209