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H-France is an affiliate of the Humanities On-Line Initiative (H-Net). H-France's discussion list provides an electronic forum covering all aspects of the history and culture of the Francophone world. The H-France Website offers a repository of resources and links which historians and students of French history and culture may find useful.

H-France List Editors

  • David Andress, david.andress@port.ac.uk

    David Andress is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Portsmouth, England. His Ph.D. is from the University of York (1995). He teaches a variety of courses on British and European history, principally between 1700 and 1914, and also specialises in teaching on the French Revolution, and on historical methodologies and theoretical perspectives. He has published a survey history of the French Revolution: French Society in Revolution, Manchester UP/St. Martin's Press 1999, and has a forthcoming monograph on events in and around the Champ de Mars Massacre in Paris in 1791: Firing on the People, Royal Historical Society, 2000. He has published a number of articles on this period, and is now working towards a project currently loosely titled ‘a cultural genealogy of Jacobinism'. More information can be found at his website: http://userwww.port.ac.uk/andressd/homepage.htm.

    David Andress
    School of Social and Historical Studies
    University of Portsmouth
    Milldam, Burnaby Rd, Portsmouth, PO1 3AS, UK.

  • Ned Newman, enewman@nmsu.edu

    Edgar Leon Newman of New Mexico State University is currently completing a manuscript on the French worker-poets of the July Monarchy and Second Republic. Most of his previous publications have concerned French social history 1815-52, and he edited the Greenwood Press Dictionary of French History on that period. They include " The Blouse and the Frock Coat," Journal of Modern History; " What the Crowd Wanted in the French Revolution of 1830," in John M. Merriman, ed., 1830 in France, " The Historian as Apostle: Agricol Perdiguier" in the Journal of the History of Ideas, and articles published in the Western Society for French History, the American Historical Society's Guide to Historical Works, the Dictionnaire de biographie francaise, the Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier francais, and the Oxford University Press Dictionary of American Biography. His address is:

    Edgar Leon Newman
    History, 3-H
    NMSU
    Las Cruces, NM 88003
    USA

  • David K. Smith, cfdks@eiu.edu

    David Kammerling Smith, raised in Southern California, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (Ph. D. 1995). He has held a Bourse Chateaubraind and a Lingelbach Fellowship for study in France and currently is assistant professor of history at Eastern Illinois University, where he teaches courses on early modern France and Europe, the Scientific Revolution, and labor and economic history. He is preparing a book manuscript on the changing relationship between state and society in France between 1700 and the 1750s, focused on the practices of economic policy-making and the use of economic language. A slice of this research appears in his forthcoming article in French Historical Studies, entitled " Learning Politics: The Nīmes Hosiery Guild and the Statutes Controversy of 1706-12." In addition to his other articles and reviews, he also is co-editing, with Richard Lim, a two-volume documents collection entitled The West in the Wider World: Four Millennia of Interaction to be published by Bedford Books in the year 2000.

    David K. Smith
    Eastern Illinois University
    Department of History
    Charleston, Illinois 61920

  • Charlotte Wells, charlotte.wells@uni.edu

    Charlotte Wells received the Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1992. She is Associate Professor of History at the University of Northern Iowa. She teaches a variety of courses on early modern European history. Research interests include the cultural and intellectual history of early modern France, political ideology focusing on the concept of citizenship, and histoire du livre. Her book Law and Citizenship in Early Modern France was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1995; she also has written numerous book reviews and forthcoming articles in French Historical Studies and The Sixteenth Century Journal. She is currently examining the relationship between xenophobia and mercantilist economic thought in sixteenth and seventeenth-century France.

    Charlotte Wells
    Department of History
    319 Seerley Hall
    University of Northern Iowa
    Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0701
    Ph.: (319) 277-7564; Fax: (319) 273-5846

H-France Editors Emeritus

  • James R. Farr, jrfarr@purdue.edu, editor emeritus

    Professor of History, Purdue University, 1358 University Hall, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1358. Phone: 317-496-2698; Fax: 317-496-1755. Co-Editor, French Historical Studies. Research areas: Early Modern France, cultural history, gender history, legal history, history of work. Teaching areas: social and cultural history of Early Modern Europe. Publications: Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern Burgundy, 1550-1730 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); Hands of Honor: Artisans and Their World in Dijon, 1550-1650 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988). Articles available on request.

  • Bert Gordon, bmgordon@ella.mills.edu, editor emeritus

    Frederick A. Rice Professor of History, Mills College, Oakland, Ca. Specialist in 20th century European political Right; modern France; history of gastronomy. Teaching areas: modern France, modern Germany, modern Britain. Author of Collaborationism in France during the Second World War Cornell University Press, 1980; editor of Historical Dictionary of World War II France to be published by Greenwood Press; many articles--list available on request.

H-France Editorial Board