2 hours examination

Chose 2 questions using different material
 

1.  Analyse the political implication of urban reforms in Second Empire France.
1. Using the lieux de mémoire historiography discuss the symbolic mapping of Paris.
2. 'A centralisation of jurisdiction rather than a centralisation of real power', do you agree with this perception of the French state?
3. Anticlericalism masked social conservatism.  Discuss.
4. 'A nostalgic movement', is this a fair assessment of the Commune of Paris?
5. Can we talk of citizenship under the second empire?
6. Compare Bonapartist and Republican attempts to cope with 'modernity'.
7. Qualify the Weber hypothesis.
8. Compare and contrast the cultural production of the second Empire and of the third republic.
9.  Why did French feminism achieve so little between 1851 and 1900?