To Be a Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic

by James R. Lehning

France's Third Republic confronts historians and political scientists with what seems a paradox: it is at once France's most long-lived experiment with republicanism and a regime remembered primarily for chronic instability and spectacular scandal. From its founding in the wake of France's humiliation at the hands of Prussia to its collapse in the face of the Nazi Blitzkrieg, the Third Republic struggled to consolidate the often contradictory impulses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801438888
• ISBN13: 9780801438882
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher