SUNY series in European Social History
The Search for Social Peace
During the last one hundred years, programmatic social reform legislation has increasingly been accepted as an essential economic, social and political component of advanced capitalist nations. The Search ...
French Feminism in the 19th Century
Histories of France have erased the feminist presence from nineteenth-century political life and the feminist impact from the changes that affected the lives of the French. Now, French Feminism in the ...
Schooling the Daughters of Marianne
This first book-length study of girls' primary education in France gives a concrete picture of how Frenchwomen were, and are, prepared for their roles in society.
Until the 1960s, the primary school provided ...
What Were Little Girls and Boys Made Of?
Primary School Books were vehicles by which authors in nineteenth-century France hoped to shape the future. These authors, members of the middle class, believed in reason and progress and in their own ...
Village Notables in Nineteenth-Century France
Examines the role of village notables in nineteenth-century France.
Family and Farm
Family and Farm is the history of the communautes, the large patriarchal households of central France, from the close of the medieval era to the nineteenth century. These households were unique in that ...
The Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Third Republic
The Ecole Normale Supérieure was founded during the Revolutionary era to dominate the educational structure of France. During the Third Republic, the French academic elite trained at the Ecole Normale ...