Books by Eugen Weber

France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. This book traces how France underwent a veritable crisis of civilization in the early years of the French Republic as traditional attitudes and practices crumbled under the forces of modernization.

The end of the nineteenth century in France was marked by political scandals, social unrest, dissension, and "decadence," yet also by great social and scientific progress. In this thoroughly engaging history, Weber describes ways of life, not as recorded by general history, but as contemporaries experienced them.

Fifty years after reaching France by way of school in England, Weber presents a series of illuminations on the country he loves, and whose civilization he has made the centre of his work. "My France" focuses on politics, myths, personalities, public problems, actions and conflicts in French life.