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A subject search in the Duke Catalog allows you to identify books on general and specific topics in French history held by Duke Libraries. Use the broad search below, combining France history with the appropriate century and type of material you are looking for, then follow the hot-linked subject terms for more information. As a second step, combine subject terms and keywords in your search of the Duke Catalog for more information. Below you will find a selection of general histories

Duke Catalog Subject Search: France History

France -- History - [LC Authority Record]
France -- History -- 13th century - [LC Authority Record]
France -- History -- 13th century -- Sources.
France -- History -- 14th century - [LC Authority Record]
France -- History -- 14th century -- Sources.
France -- History -- 15th century - [LC Authority Record]
France -- History -- 15th century -- Fiction. 
France -- History -- 16th century -- Bibliography.
France -- History -- 16th century -- Biography.
France -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses.
France -- History -- 16th century -- Dictionaries -- French.
France -- History -- 16th century -- Drama.
France -- History -- 16th century -- Historiography. Etc.


Agulhon, Maurice.
The French Republic, 1879-1992.
Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : B. Blackwell, 1993.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC335 .A3813 1993.

Ardagh, John.
France today.
A new and rev. ed. of France in the 1980’s. 
London, England : Penguin Books ; New York, N.Y., USA : Viking Penguin, 1988, c1987. 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | HC276.2 .A72x 1988  

Baubérot, J.
L’Histoire religieuse de la France, 19e-20e siècle : problèmes et méthodes.
Paris : Beauchesne, c1975.
Divinity School Library: Stacks | 209.44 H673

Braudel, Fernand.
Histoire économique et sociale de la France.
Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1970-c1982.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | HC273 .H57 1970

Burguière, Andre.
Choix culturels et mémoire. 
Paris : Editions du Seuil, c2000.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC33 .C56 2000

On order:
1. L'espace français
2, Héritages
4, La longue durée de l'Etat;
5, Les conflits.

Castelot, André. 
Histoires de France.
[Paris] : Perrin, c2001-c2002.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC148 .C38 2001

Cholvy, Gérard. 
Histoire religieuse de la France contemporaine.
Published  Toulouse : Privat, c1985-1988. 
Divinity School Library: Stacks | 274.408 C547, H673, 1985  

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Cobban, Alfred. 
A history of modern France. 
New ed., rev. and enl.
Published  New York, Braziller [1965] 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC110 .C57 1965  

Charlton, D.G. ed.
France: a companion to French studies.
2d ed. London ; New York : Methuen ; c1979. 
Perkins/Bostock Library:Stacks | DC33 .F736 1979   .

Cipolla, Carlo M. Ed.
The Fontana economic history of Europe.
Published  Hassocks, Sussex, England : Havester Press : New York : Barnes & Noble, 1976-1977. 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | HC240 .F583 1976  

Dujarric, Gaston, 1859-
Précis chronologique d’histoire de France, des origines à nos jours.
Nouvelle édition revue et mise à jour par Yves D. Papin.
Paris, A. Michel, [1966, c1960]
Library Service Center: | 944.002 D876PA LSC

Favier, Jean.
Histoire de France.
[Paris] : Fayard, c1984-c1988.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC38 .H478 1984

6 v.: t. 1. Les origines (avant l’an mil) / Karl Ferdinand Werner -- t. 2. Le temps des principautés, de l’an mil à 1515 / Jean Favier -- t. 3. La France moderne, de 1515 à 1789 / Jean Meyer -- t. 4. Les révolutions, de 1789 à 1851 / Jean Tulard -- t. 5. La France des patriotes, de 1851 à 1918. -- t. 6. Notre siècle, de 1918 à 1988.

Ferro, Marc. 
Histoire de France.
Paris : O. Jacob, c2001.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC38 .F47 2001

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Gallo, Max.
L’âme de la France : une histoire de la nation des origines à nos jours.
[Paris?] : Fayard, c2007.
Perkins/Bostock Library:Stacks | DC38 .G358 2007


In the series: Histoire de France Hachette. Paris: Hachette, 1987-1991.

• Furet, François.
  La Révolution : de Turgot à Jules Ferry, 1770-1880.
  Histoire de France Hachette. 1988.
  Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC110 .F874 1988
• Duby, Georges.  
  Le Moyen Age : de Hugues Capet à Jeanne d’Arc, 987-146.
  Histoire de France Hachette. 1987  
  Library Service Center: |944.02 D821, M938, 1987 LSC
• Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel.  
  L’Etat royal : de Louis XI à Henri IV, 1460-1610.
  Histoire de France Hachette. 1987  
  Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC106 .L35 1987
  

Histoire de la France coloniale. Paris: Armand Colin, c1990-c1991. 2 v.

On order for Duke, but available at UNC Davis Library:
Call Number JV1811 .H57 1990:
"Vol. 1: Des origines à 1914; Vol. 2: 1914-1990. Up-to-date survey of French colonial history from seventeenth century to present."

Haine, W. Scott. 
The history of France.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | 944 H152, H673, 2000 In process-LC
Lilly Library: Reference | 944 H152, H673, 2000

Knecht, R. J. (Robert Jean)
The rise and fall of Renaissance France.
2nd ed.Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2001.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC110 .K64 2001

Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel.
L’Ancien Régime.
Paris : Hachette, c1991.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC121 .L47 1991

New approaches to European History. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993- .

Titles and locations vary:
1    Christianity under the Ancien Régime, 1648-1789 / W.R. Ward.
2    The Enlightenment / Dorinda Outram.
3    The European nobility, 1400-1800 / Jonathan Dewald.
4    The European revolutions, 1848-1851 [electronic resource] / Jonathan Sperber.
5    The French wars of religion, 1562-1629 [electronic resource] / Mack P. Holt.
6    The French wars of religion, 1562-1629 / Mack P. Holt.
7    The French wars of religion, 1562-1629 / Mack P. Holt.
8    Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918 / Roger Chickering.
9    Medicine and society in early modern Europe / Mary Lindemann.
10    New approaches to European history.  Cambridge University Press.  1993.
11    The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 / Donald Quataert.
12    Poverty and deviance in early modern Europe / Robert Jütte.
13    The rise of the public in Enlightenment Europe / James Van Horn Melton.
14    The Russian Revolution, 1917 / Rex A. Wade.
15    The Russian Revolution, 1917 / Rex A. Wade.
16    The state in early modern France / James B. Collins.
17    Violence in early modern Europe, 1500-1800 / Julius R. Ruff.
18    Women and gender in early modern Europe / Merry E. Wiesner.

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The New Cambridge modern history.
Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1957-1979.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Reference | D208 .N4 1957

v. 1. The Renaissance, 1493-1520, edited by G. R. Potter.--v. 2. The Reformation, 1520-1559, edited by G. R. Elton.--v. 3. The counter-reformation and price revolution, 1559-1610, edited by R. B. Wernham.--v. 4. The decline of Spain and the Thirty Years War, 1609-48/59, edited by J. P. Cooper.--v. 5. The ascendancy of France, 1648-88, edited by F. L. Carsten.--v. 6. The rise of Great Britain and Russia, 1688-1715/25, edited by J. S. Bromley.--v. 7. The old regime, 1713-63, edited by J. O. Lindsay.--v. 8. The American and French Revolutions, 1763-93, edited by A. Goodwin.--v. 9. War and peace in an age of upheaval, 1793-1830, edited by C. W. Crawley.--v. 10. The zenith of European power, 1830-70, edited by J. P. T. Bury.--v. 11. Material progress and world-wide problems, 1870-1898, edited by F. H. Hinsley.--v. 12. The era of violence, 1898-1945, edited by David Thomson.--v. 13. Companion volume, edited by P. Burke.--v. 14. Atlas, edited by H. C. Darby and Harold Fullard.

Price, Roger, 1944 Jan. 7-  4
A concise history of France.
Cambridge concise histories.2nd. Ed. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC38 .P75 2005

Postan, M. M.  and H.J. Habakkuk. 
The Cambridge economic history of Europe.
Edition  2nd ed.  Cambridge University Press, 1966- 
Library Service Center: 330.94 C178A LSC  
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | HC240 .C312 1966  

Rioux, Jean-Pierre.
Histoire culturelle de la France.
Paris : Editions du Seuil, c1997-
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC33 .H555 199

Robertson, Priscilla Smith.
An experience of women : pattern and change in nineteenth-century.
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1982.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | HQ1588 .R6 1982

Sowerwine, Charles, 1943-
France since 1870 : culture, politics and society.
Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC335 .S66 2001

Tilley, Arthur Augustus.
Modern France; a companion to French studies.
Cambridge [Eng.] The University press, 1922.
Library Service Center: | DC110 .T5 1922 LSC

Tombs, Robert.
France, 1814-1914.
London ; New York : Longman, 1996.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC251 .T65 1996

Verrière, Jacques. 
Genèse de la nation française.
[Paris] : Flammarion, c2000. 
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC34 .V47 2000

Wright, Gordon.
France in modern times : from the Enlightenment to the present.
3rd ed. New York : Norton, c1981.
Perkins/Bostock Library: Stacks | DC110 .W7 1981

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