Tyler Stovall is the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University in New York, USA. He is a historian of modern France and his most recent book is White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea (2021).

• Introduction  1. French Revolution, World Revolution  2. Restoration, Revolution, and Empire: France, 1815–1852  3. Imperial Democracy? France under the Second Empire, 1852–1870  4. Paris: The Making of a World Capital  5. The Universal Republic  6. The Republican Empire  7. The Universal Nation in a World at War  8. From One War to Another: The Universal Nation in Crisis  9. France in the Second World War: Defeat and Rebirth of the Universal Nation  10. The Fourth Republic: New Challenges for the Transnational Nation  11. The Fifth Republic: A New Era for France  12. Postcolonial France: A New Universal Nation?  13. Into the Present: France in the Twenty-First Century  Conclusion

Tyler Stovall is the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University in New York, USA. He is a historian of modern France and his most recent book is White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea (2021).

• Introduction  1. French Revolution, World Revolution  2. Restoration, Revolution, and Empire: France, 1815–1852  3. Imperial Democracy? France under the Second Empire, 1852–1870  4. Paris: The Making of a World Capital  5. The Universal Republic  6. The Republican Empire  7. The Universal Nation in a World at War  8. From One War to Another: The Universal Nation in Crisis  9. France in the Second World War: Defeat and Rebirth of the Universal Nation  10. The Fourth Republic: New Challenges for the Transnational Nation  11. The Fifth Republic: A New Era for France  12. Postcolonial France: A New Universal Nation?  13. Into the Present: France in the Twenty-First Century  Conclusion

Tyler Stovall is the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University in New York, USA. He is a historian of modern France and his most recent book is White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea (2021).

• Introduction  1. French Revolution, World Revolution  2. Restoration, Revolution, and Empire: France, 1815–1852  3. Imperial Democracy? France under the Second Empire, 1852–1870  4. Paris: The Making of a World Capital  5. The Universal Republic  6. The Republican Empire  7. The Universal Nation in a World at War  8. From One War to Another: The Universal Nation in Crisis  9. France in the Second World War: Defeat and Rebirth of the Universal Nation  10. The Fourth Republic: New Challenges for the Transnational Nation  11. The Fifth Republic: A New Era for France  12. Postcolonial France: A New Universal Nation?  13. Into the Present: France in the Twenty-First Century  Conclusion