Dr. phil. Oliver Benjamin Hemmerle, M.A.

hemmerle.post@email.de




                                         La Grande Nation:

                        The Strategic History of France from 1624 to Today

                                             (Lecture)




          I.       Introduction [17.02.2009]


         II.       Richelieu, founder of modern French foreign policy [24.02.2009]


        III.       Louis XIV and the "natural borders" [03.03.2009]


       IV.       French Colonialism – Part 1: Creating and loosing French North-America
[10.03.2009]


        V.       Spreading Republicanism (1792-1799/1804) [17.03.2009]


       VI.       Napoleon rules the land, Britain rules the sea (1799/1804-1814/15) [24.03.2009]


     VII.       Another Napoleon: foreign policy of Napoleon III. (1848-1870) [31.03.2009]


    VIII.       French Colonialism – Part 2: Loosing Europe, creating a new colonial Empire
(1830-1914/1919) [07.04.2009]


       IX.       In the shadow of Prussia and Germany – forming alliances with Britain and Russia
(1871-1914) [14.04.2009]


        X.       "Revanche" at a high price (WW I and the Versailles treaty) [21.04.2009]


       XI.       In mortal danger (late interwar-period and WW II) [28.04.2009]


     XII.       Reconstructing France, loosing the colonies, leaving the military integration of
NATO (1944 till the end of the Cold War) [05.05.2009]


    XIII.       At least a minor super-power? (France today) AND Q & A session [12.05.2009]






Requirements:

·      regular attendance

·      reading assignments

·      1 hour written examination at the end of the lecture