H-France Salon
H-France Salon is an interactive journal that welcomes proposals which will enhance the scholarly study of French history and culture.
We have salons available in print, video and webinar. For the webinars, please click here.
H-France Salon, Volume 4, Issue 1
Resistance and Order in Early Modern France
Introduction, Michael Breen, Reed College.
"Resistance and Order in Early Modern France," James Collins, Georgetown University.
H-France Salon, Volume 3, Issue 2
H-France WebinarThe Age of Revolutions in Global Context
October 6, 2011
Guest Presenter: Lynn Hunt, UCLA
Organizer and Moderator: Charles Walton, Yale University
Edited by David Kammerling Smith, Eastern Illinois University
Webinar Readings:
Lynn Hunt, "The French Revolution in Global Context," in David Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (eds.), The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Suzanne Desan, "Transatlantic Spaces of Revolution: The French Revolution, Sciotomanie, and American Lands," Journal of Early Modern History 12 (2008), pp. 467-505.
William Max Nelson, "Making Men: Enlightenment Ideas of Racial Engineering," American Historical Review 115 (December 2010): 1364-1394.
Note: You will be downloading the webinar to your computer. Once it finishes, click on the file and it will play on your screen. When the webinar launches, please click on the image of Professor Hunt to have her image appear in the main video pane.
H-France Salon, Volume 3, Issue 1
Edited by David Kammerling Smith, Eastern Illinois University
The following paper was presented at the annual meeting of The Society for French Historical Studies, Charleston, SC, February 12, 2011.
, St John’s College, Cambridge "How bloody was la Semaine Sanglante? A revision."
The following papers were written as responses to Robert Tombs' paper:
, Université Paris 13/Nord "Les morts de la Semaine sanglante: retour sur la violence sociale et politique française au XIXe siècle ."
, University of Strathclyde "Reassessing the Paris Commune of 1871."
Response to the Salon and Webcast by , University of Cambridge.
The video below is the webcast of the paper and responses given at the conference in Charleston. The session begins at 27:30:
The panel participants are:
Robert Tombs, St. John's College, Cambridge
Philip Nord, Princeton University
David Shafer, California State University Long Beach
This is followed by a question and answer session with the audience.
Thanks must be given to Kurt M. Boughan, The Citadel, for his technical help in recording and streaming the session.
H-France Salon, Volume 2, Issue 1
Edited by Sannon L. Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology
The following essays were prepared in response to Meaghan Emery’s article and Richard Golsan’s response to that article published in French Historical Studies 33:4 (Fall 2010).
Shannon L. Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology "The Case of Jean Giono – the Debate Continues."
Meaghan Emery, University of Vermont, "Of Historical Hindsight and Oversight, and Why Reopening Giono's Case Is a Worthy Endeavor."
Julian Jackson, Queen Mary University, London, "The Rural Fantasies of Jean Giono."
Vera Mark, Pennsylvania State University, "Negotiating Jean Giono: Texts, History, and Ethics."
ISSN:2150-4873
H-France Salon, Volume 1, Issue 1
Edited by David Kammerling Smith, Eastern Illinois University
The following essays are a response to a forum on “Twenty Years after the Bicentennial” appearing in French Historical Studies (volume 32, fall 2009).
David A. Bell, The Johns Hopkins University, "A la recherche d’un nouveau paradigme?"
Peter R. Campbell, "Redefining the French Revolution. New directions, 1989–2009."
Rebecca L. Spang, Indiana University, "Self, Field, Myth: What We Will Have Been."
Responses to the Salon from the H-France Community.
ISSN:2150-4873