France in General:
Adamthwaite,  Anthony.  Grandeur and Misery: France's Bid for Power in Europe 1914-1940.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Alexander, Martin S., ed.  French History since Napoleon.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Charle, Christophe.  A Social HIstory of France in the 19th Century.  New York: Berg, 1994.
Gildea, Robert.  France since 1945.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Magraw, Roger. France, 1815-1914: The Bourgeois Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
McMillan, James F.  Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society in France, 1898-1991.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Tombs, Robert. France 1814-1914. London: Longman, 1996.
Wright, Gordon. France in Modern Times, 5th ed. New York: Norton, 1995.

Colonial France:
Bullard, Alice.  Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the south Pacific, 1790-1900.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Çelik, Zeynep. Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers under French Rule. University of California Press, 1997.
Conklin, Alice L. A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Cooper, Nicola J.  France in Indochina: Colonial Encounters.  Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2000.
Evans, Martin. The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War (1854-1962). New York: Berg, 1997.
Slavin, David Hentry.  Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919-1939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2001.
Thompson, Elizabeth. Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights and Paternal Privilege in French Syria and Lebanon.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Wright, Gwendolyn. The Politics of Design in French Colonial Urbanism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Culture, High and Low:
Affron, Matthew, and Mark Antliff, eds. Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Auslander, Leora. Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Beale, Marjorie A. The Modernist Enterprise: French Elites and the Threat of Modernity, 1900-1940. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Berlanstein, Lenard R.  Daughters of Eve: A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin de Siecle.  Cambridge: Havard University Press, 2001.
Brombert, Beth Archer. Edouard Manet: Rebel in a Frock Coat. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Clark, T.J. The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers. Princeton University Press, 1991
Fulcher, Jane F. French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Gordon, Rae Beth.  Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
Herbert, James D. Paris, 1937: Worlds on Exhibition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.
Leininger-Miller, Theresa.  New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934.  Piscataway: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Looseley, David.  The Politics of Fun: Cultural Policy and Debate in Contemporary France.  New York: Berg, 1997.
Mackaman, Douglas Peter. Leisure Settings: Bourgeois Culture, Medicine, and the Spa in Modern France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Mainardi, Patricia. The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third Republic. 1993.
Matsuda, Matt K. The Memory of the Modern. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Pao, Angela C. The Orient of the Boulevards: Exoticism, Empire, and Nineteenth-Century French Theater. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Peer, Shanny.  France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore in the 1937 Paris World's Fair.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.
Rearich, Charles. The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
______. Pleasures of the Belle Epoque: Entertainment and Festivity in Turn of the Century France, reprint ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
Schwartz. Vanessa R. Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Shack, William A.  Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story between the Great Wars.  Berkelely: University of California Press, 2001.
Sherman, Daniel J. The Construction of Memory in Interwar France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Spies, André. Opera, State, and Society in the Third Republic, 1875-1914. Lang, 1998.
Truesdell, Matthew N. Spectacular Politics: Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and the Fête Impérial, 1849-1870. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Steele, Valerie.  Paris Fashion: A Cultural HIstory.  New York: Berg, 1998.
Walton, Whitney. France at the Crystal Palace: Bourgeois Taste and Artisan Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century. 1992.
Wright, Beth S. Painting and History during the French Restoration: Abandoned by the Past. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Zdatny, Steven, ed.  Hairstyles and Fashion: A Hairdresser's HIstory of Paris, 1910-1920.  New York: Berg, 1999.

Education:
Clark, Linda L. Schooling the Daughters of Marianne: Textbooks and the Socialization of Girls in Modern French
Primary Schools. Albany: State University of New York, 1984.
Grew, Raymond and Patrick Harrigan. School, State, and Society: the Growth of Elementary Schooling in
Nineteenth-Century France. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1991.
Margadant, Jo Burr. Madame le Professeur: Women Educators in the Third Republic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Strumingher, Laura S. What Were Little Girls and Boys Made Of? Primary Education in Rural France, 1830-1880.   Albany: State University of New York, 1983.
Quartaro, Anne T. Women Teachers and Popular Education in Nineteenth-Century France: Social Values and CorporateIdentity at the Normal School Institution. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware, 1995.

Families:
Liu, Tessie P. The Weaver's Knot: The Contradictions of Class Struggle and Family Solidarity in Western France, 1750-1914. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Schafer, Sylvia. Children in Moral Danger and the Problem of Government in Third Republic France. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Gender:
Bernheimer, Charles.  Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France.  Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
Corbin, Alain. Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Dean, Carolyn J.  The Frail Social Body: Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
Gregory, Abigal and Ursula Tidd, eds.  Women in Contemporary France.  Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2000.
Harrison, Carol E.  The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation.  New York: Oxford, 1999.
Hesse, Carla.  The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Hunt, Lynn, ed.  Eroticism and the Body Politic.  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Kates, Gary. Monsieur d'Eon is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade. New York: BasicBooks, 1995.
Martel, Frédéric. The Pink and the Black: Homosexuals in France Since 1968. Trans. by Jane Marie Todd. Stanford:Stanford University Press, 1999.
Merrick, Jeffrey and Bryan T. Ragan, Jr, eds. Homosexuality in Modern France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Nye, Robert A. Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France. New York: 1993.
Pollard, Miranda. Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Roberts, Mary Louise. Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1994.
Shapiro, Anne-Louise.  Breaking the Codes: Female Criminality in Fin-de-Siècle Paris.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Smith, Bonnie. Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Revolutionary France:
Agulhon, Maurice.  Marianne into Battle: Republican Imagery and Symbolism in France, 1789-1880.  Translated by Janet Lloyd.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Barry, David. Women and Political Insurgency: France in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. New York: St. Martin's, 1996.
Burton, Richard D. E.  Blood in the City: Violence and Revolution in Partis, 1789-1945.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.
Christiansen, Rupert. Paris Babylon: The Story of the Paris Commune. New York: Viking, 1995.
Furet, Francois. Revolutionary France, 1770-1880. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
Gemie, Sharif. French Revolutions, 1815-1914. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
Gould, Roger V. Insurgent Identities: Class, Community, and Protest in Paris from 1848 to the Commune. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Gullickson, Gay. The Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Kaplan, Steven Laurence. Farewell, Revolution: The Historians' Feud, France, 1789-1989. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Katz, Philip M. From Appomattox to Montmartre: Americans and the Paris Commune. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Price, Roger. Revolution and Reaction: 1848 and the Second French Republic. Croom Helm, 1973.
Sanchez, Gonzalo J. Organizing Independence: The Artists' Federation of the Paris Commune and Its Legacy, 1871-1889. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
Sewell, William H. Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

Urban France:
Cohen, William B. Urban Government and the Rise of the French City: Five Municipalities in the Nineteenth Century.  New York: St. Martin's, 1998.
Marcus, Sharon. Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Wakeman, Rosemary. Modernizing the Provincial City: Toulouse, 1945-1975. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

War:
Audion-Rouzeau, Stephane.  Men at War: National Sentiment and Trench Journalism in France during the First World War.  Providence: Berg, 1992.
Caron, Vicki. Uneasy Asylum: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-1942. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Darrow, Margaret.  French Women & the First World War: War Stories from the Homefront.  Oxxford: Berg Publishers, 2000.
Draspac, Vesna. War and Religion: Catholics and the Churches of Occupied Paris. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1998.
Farmer, Sarah. Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Fishman, Sarah, et. al., eds. France at War: Vichy and the Historians. New York: Berg, 1999.
Grayzel, Susan R. Women's Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
Jackson, Julian.  France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Kedward, H.R., and Nacy Wood, eds.  The Liberation of France: Image and Event.  New York: Berg, 1995.
Smith, Leonard V. Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division During World War I.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Wiedmer, Caroline. The Claims of Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Work:
Clark, Linda L.  The Rise of Professional Women in France: Gender and Public Administation since 1830.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Coffin, Judith G. The Politics of Women's Work: The Paris Garment Trades, 1650-1915. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 1996.
Downs, Laura Lee. Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914-1939.   Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Prothero, Iorweth. Radical Artisans in England and France, 1830-1870. Longman, 1997.
Schultheiss, Katrin.  Bodies and Souls.  Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880-1922.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.