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Halftitle Page
Title Page
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Contents
Introduction
Part I: Republic and Nation
1. Civilization and Its Old Mole: Visions of Republican Revolution
2. New Peoples, New Visions: Industrialization, Workers, and Internationalist Revolution
3. The Health of the State: War and Secular Faith in the Nation
Part II: War for the Empire
4. The Guns of August: Civilization Asserts Itself
5. This High Road to Verdun: Turning Points in Lorraine
6. Blood and Irony: Paris, Metz, and the Salvation of the War
Part III: War for the Republic
7. The Specter Haunting Europe: The Emergence of the People and the Levée en masse
8. Shaping a Republic: From the South to the Capital
9. The Coming of Winter: Despair, Starvation, and Exposure
Part IV: WAR for the People: The Revolution
10. The Springtime of Peoples Revisited: The Specter of a Social Republic
11. Actors versus Reenactors: April 28–May 21, 1871
12. La Semaine Sanglante: The Foundations of Modern Western Civilization, May 21–28, 1871
Conclusion: The Final Conflict
Notes
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
Index