Table of Contents

1. French Identity: The National Search for Retrospective Legitimacy and Unanimity ; 2. Intellectual Interpretations and Projections of the French Revolution ; 3. Tensions and Trajectories: the Constituents of French Exceptionalism ; 4. Enduring Conflicts and Elusive Consensus ; 5. A Liberal Democratic Republic Struggles to be Born, 1814 - 1878 ; 6. Institutional Immobilism, Ideological Ferment and Reluctant Socio-Economic Modernisation ; 7. Partisan Intellectuals and Polarised Political Culture ; 8. Adversaries: Polarised and Fragmented Party Politics of the Right ; 9. Adversaries on the Left: Revolutionary Rhetoric and Reformist Realities ; 10. Embattled Nation: Politicised Army, Imperial Decolonisation and European Integration ; 11. Diluting French Political Culture with European Social Liberalism ; Epilogue. Confronting the National Identity Crisis

About the Author

Jack Hayward has taught Politics at the Universities of Sheffield, Keele, Hull and Oxford, retired in 1998 as Director of the Oxford Institute of European Studies and Professorial Fellow of St. Antony's College. Since then he has been a part-time Research Professor of Politics at the University of Hull. He has also been a Visiting Professor to several French Universities, for one year each at Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Paris Institute of Political Studies, as well as for shorter periods at the Universities of Bordeaux, Grenoble and Rennes.

Reviews

the ideas in this book...have rarely been so well, and concisely, expressed. Hayward has produced an outstanding work of synthesis, comprehensive and lucid, clearly the fruit of many years of study and thought.
*Robert Tombs, TLS*