Part I REPUBLIC AND NATION -- Civilization and Its Old Mole: Visions of Republican Revolution -- New Peoples, New Visions: Industrialization, Workers, and Internationalist Revolution -- The Health of the State: War and Secular Faith in the Nation -- Part II WAR FOR THE EMPIRE -- The Guns of August: Civilization Asserts Itself -- This High Road to Verdun: Turning Points in Lorraine -- Blood and Irony: Paris, Metz, and the Salvation of the War -- Part III WAR FOR THE REPUBLIC -- The Specter Haunting Europe: The Emergence of the People and the Levee en masse -- Shaping a Republic: From the South to the Capital -- The Coming of Winter: Despair, Starvation, and Exposure -- Part IV WAR FOR THE PEOPLE: THE REVOLUTION -- The Springtime of Peoples Revisited: The Specter of a Social Republic -- Actors versus Reenactors: April 28-May 21, 1871 -- La Semaine Sanglante: The Foundations of Modern Western Civilization, May 21-28, 1871 -- Conclusion: The Final Conflict.
Summary:
"A study of the momentous military developments during the Franco-Prussian War, which shaped the nature of civilian insurrection as well as presaging the events of the Great War that would follow in the next century"-- Provided by publisher.
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