France : 1814-1940 /
by J P T Bury.
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1949.
- xii, 331 p. ; 22 cm.
The history of 19th and early 20th-century France has often seemed complex and confusing. This clear, accessible, authoritative account describes the characteristics of France's different regimes and personalities, and explains why France went through so much upheaval during this period.