Philip Nord, France’s New Deal from the Thirties to the Postwar Era. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. xi + 474 pp. Notes and index. $39.50 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0691-14297-5.

Review Essays:
Laura Lee Downs, CRH-EHESS.
Herrick Chapman, New York University.
Olivier Wieviorka, Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan.
Richard Kuisel, Georgetown University .

Response Essay by Philip Nord, Princeton University.

Leslie Tuttle, Conceiving the Old Regime: Pronatalism and the Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern France. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. x + 247 pp. Figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-538160-3.

Review Essays:
Matthew D. Gerber, University of Colorado at Boulder.
François-Joseph Ruggiu, Université de Paris-Sorbonne.
Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University.
Sarah Hanley, The University of Iowa.

Response Essay by Leslie Tuttle, University of Kansas.

Edward Berenson, Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xii + 376 pp. Maps, plates, endnotes, and index. $29.95 (cl). ISBN 978-0-23427-7.

Review Essays:
Alice Conklin, The Ohio State University.
Marie-Ève Thérenty, Université de Montpellier III, Institut universitaire de France.
Elinor Accampo, University of Southern California.
Robert Nye.

Response Essay by Edward Berenson, New York University .

Ruth Harris, Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2010. xvii+542 pp. Illust., notes, bibliog., index. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-312-57298-3; $28.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN10: 0-312-57298-0.

Review Essays:
Julian Wright, Durham University.
Willa Z. Silverman, The Pennsylvania State University.
Vicki Caron, Cornell University.
Nadia Malinovich, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne.

Response Essay by Ruth Harris, Oxford University .