Volume 25, Number 14 · September 28, 1978
The Mess of Things
By Robert O. Paxton
France 1848-1945 Volume I: Ambition, Love and Politics Volume II: Intellect, Taste and Anxiety
by Theodore Zeldin
Oxford University Press, Vol. II, 1,200 pp., $29.95
The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan
by Stephen A. Schuker
University of North Carolina Press, 459 pp., $19.00
In the two volumes of France 1848-1945, Theodore Zeldin thumbs his nose at just about every convention of historical writing on contemporary France. It is hard to think of another important general account of this period that speaks with so original and robustly personal a voice.
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