Seminar questions:

• What motivated French soldiers to fight?

• How unified was France during the war?

• What factors sustained the French war effort on the home front?

• How did legacies of the French Revolution and the nineteenth century figure in WWI?

• In what ways did the war shape French society? What legacies did it have in the twentieth century?

Core reading:

• L V Smith, ‘Remobilizing the Citizen-Soldier through the French Army Mutinies of 1917,’ in J Horne (ed), State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War (1997) [digitized book extract]

• T Stovall, ‘The consumer’s war: Paris, 1914-1918,’ French Historical Studies, 31:2 (2008), 293-325

• T Stovall, 'The Color Line Behind the Lines: Racial Violence in France during the Great War,' American Historical Review 103 (1998)

• J Horne, ‘“L’impôt du sang”: Republican Rhetoric and Industrial Warfare in France, 1914-1918,’ Social History 14:2 (1989), 201-23
• Background: Popkin, History of Modern France, 22-23.

Further reading:

Primary sources

• A selection of French propaganda posters is available at www.firstworldwar.com/posters/france.htm

• A selection of postcards is available at http://bac.d.free.fr/guerre_14_18/index.htm

• A vast selection of primary sources relating to WWI is available at http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/ N.B. not all are relevant to France

General

• M Ferro, The Great War (1993)

• L V. Smith, S Audoin-Rouzeau and A Becker, France and the Great War, 1914-1918 ( 2003)
• J J Becker, The Great War and the French People (1985)

The Western Front

• S. Audoin-Rouzeau, Men at war 1914-1918: National sentiment and trench journalism in France during the First World War (1992)

• L V Smith, Between mutiny and obedience: the case of the French Fifth Infantry Division during World War (1994)

• L V. Smith, The Embattled Self: French Soldiers’ Testimony of the Great War (2007)

• Craig Gibson, ‘The British army, French farmers, and the war on the Western Front, 1914-1918,’ Past and Present, 180 (2003)

• R Fogarty, Race and War in France (2008)

• M. Hanna, ‘Spaces of War: Rural France, Fears of Famine, and the Great War,’ in P. M. E. Lorcin and D. Brewer (eds), France and its Spaces of War: Experience, Memory, Image (2009) [ebook]

• Michelle K. Rhoades, 'Renegotiating French Masculinity: Medicine and Venereal Disease during the Great War,' French Historical Studies 29:2 (2006)

• M Lyons, 'French Soldiers and the Their Correspondence,' French History 17 (2003), 79-95

• D Englander, 'The French Soldier, 1914-1918,' French History 1 (1987), 49-67
  

  
  

The Home Front

• P Miller, From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Anti-Militarism in France, 1870-1914 (2002)

• S Milner, 'August 1914,' in M Scriven and P Wagstaff (eds) War and Society in Twentieth Century France (1991)

• R Harris, '"The Child of the Barbarian: Rape, Race and Nationalism in France during the First World War,' Past and Present 141 (1993), 170-206

• J Horne, Labour at War: France and Britain, 1914-1918 (1991)

• J Winter and J-L Robert, Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1918 (1997)

• T Stovall, 'Love, Labor, and Race: Colonial Men and White Women in France during the Great War,' in T Stovall and G Van den Abbeele (eds) French Civilization and its Discontents (2003)

• J Horne, "Immigrant Workers in France during World War I," French Historical Studies 24 (1985), 57-88;
  

• Roxanne Panchasi, “Reconstructions: Prosthetics and the R ehabilitation of the Male Body in World War I France,” differences 7 (1995): 109–41

• P. Friedenson (ed), The French Home Front (1992)

• P. J. Flood, France 1914-1918: Public Opinion and the War Effort (1990)

• J-J Becker, The Great War and the French People (1985)

• S Grayzel, Women’s Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France During the First World War (1999)
  

• P. M. E. Lorcin and Daniel Brewer (eds), France and its Spaces of War: Experience, Memory, Image (2009)