H-France Reviews
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Review by , University of Southern California.
From the Salon to the School Room: Educating Bourgeois Girls in Nineteenth-Century France, Rebecca Rogers. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. xv + 335 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-271-02680-4.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 120
Review by , St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Sexing la mode: Gender, Fashion and Commercial Culture in Old Regime France, Jennifer M. Jones. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004. xviii + 244 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $89.95 U.S (cl). ISBN 185973-830-3; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 185973-835-4.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 76
Review by , St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
France 1715-1804: Power and the People, Gwynne Lewis. Harlow, England and New York: Pearson Education, 2004. xv + 307 pp. Maps, glossary, notes, and index., 19.99 U.K. (pb). ISBN 0-582-23925-7.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 121
Review by , St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Marie Pape-Carpantier: Fondatrice de l’école maternelle, Colette Cosnier. Paris: Fayard, 2003. 415 pp. Figures and notes. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-213-61527-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 44
Review by , St. Mary's College of Maryland.
The Maiden of Tonnerre: The Vicissitudes of the Chevalier and the Chevalière d’Eon, Charles d’Eon de Beaumont. Eds. and trans. Roland A. Champagne, Nina Ekstein, and Gary Kates. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xxiv + 207 pp. Photos, notes, biographical glossary, and index. $44.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-6687-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 125
Review by , St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
The Age of Cultural Revolutions: Britain and France, 1750-1820, Colin Jones and Dror Wahrman, Eds. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. ix + 293 pp. Notes and index. $48.00 US (cl); ISBN 0-520-22966-5. $18.95 U.S. (pb); ISBN 0-520-22967-3.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 90
Review by , Miami University.
Regimes of Description: In the Archive of the Eighteenth Century, John Bender and Michael Marrinan, Eds. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2005. xiv + 287 pp. Illustrations, notes, works cited, index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8047-4741-5; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8047-4742-3.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 99
Review by , University of Nottingham.
Harnessing the Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in France, Joan B. Wolf. Palo Alto, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2004. xii + 249 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8047-4889-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 98
Review by , Scripps College.
AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures, David Caron. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. ix + 204 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN: 0-299-17290-2 and $19.95 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 0-299-17294-5.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 53
Review by , University of Sydney.
Beyond Papillon: The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952, Stephen A. Toth. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xx + 213 pp. Maps, photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35:00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13-978-0-8032-4449-8.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 39
Response by Stephen A. Toth, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 40
Review by , University of Sydney.
Rock of Contention: Free French and Americans at War in New Caledonia, 1940-1945, Kim Munholland. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005. xii + 251 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-57181-682-8.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 47
Review by , University of Sydney.
Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris, William A. Peniston. New York: Harrington Park, 2004. xii + 258. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 US (hb). ISBN 1-56023-485-7; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-506023-486-5.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 45
Review by , University of Sydney.
Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Illustrations, notes and index. $65.00 (cl). xi + 392 pp. ISBN 0-300-08887-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 26
Review by , University of Sydney.
Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900, Alice Bullard. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2000. viii + 380 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $55 US (cl). ISBN 0-8047-3878-5.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 38
Response by the author
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 39
Review by , University of Victoria.
Lendemains d’Empire. Les soldats de Napoléon dans la France du XIXe siècle, Natalie Petiteau. Paris: La Boutique de l’Histoire, 2003. 399 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. 22.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-910828-29-8.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 87
Review by , Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
The Demands of Liberty: Civil Society in France Since the Revolution, Pierre Rosanvallon. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. viii + 354 pp. Notes and index. $35.00 (cl). ISBN 13: 978-0-674-02496-0.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 106
Review by , Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
In the Court of the Pear King: French Culture and the Rise of Realism, Sandy Petrey. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. xi + 178 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S., 16.50 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4341-5.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 126
Review by , Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France, Mark Hulliung. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. xiv + 250 pp. Notes and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-00927-4.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 20
Review by , Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
The Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France, Frederic Cople Jaher. Princeton, N.J. and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. x + 295 pp. Notes and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-09649-X.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 20
Review by , Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants, Martyn Lyons. New York: Palgrave, 2001. xii + 208 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $60.00 US. ISBN 0-333-92126-7.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 1
Review by , University of South Carolina.
The Spectral Jew: Conversion and Embodiment in Medieval Europe, Steven F. Kruger. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xxx + 320 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $78.00 U.S. (hc). ISBN 0-8166-4061-0. $26.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8166-4062-9.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 57
Review by , University of South Carolina.
Medieval Religion: New Approaches, Constance Hoffman Berman, Ed. Rewriting Histories. New York and London: Routledge, 2005. xxiii + 422 pp. Figures, notes, index. $105.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-415-31686-3; $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-31687-1.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 65
Review by , University of Edinburgh.
Vers une euroregion? La coopération transfrontalière franco-germano-suisse dans l'espace rhénan de 1975 à 2000, Birte Wassenberg. Bruxelles, Bern, Frankfurt am Rhein, New York, Oxford, Wien : P.I.E. Lang. 487 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, glossary of terms, and index. €49.80 (pb). ISBN 978-90-5201-340-4.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 4
Review by , University of Portsmouth.
To Speak for the People: Public Opinion and the Problem of Legitimacy in the French Revolution, Jon Cowans. New York and London: Routledge, 2001. vi + 249 pp. Index. $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-92972-5 (paper); $85.00 (cl). ISBN 0-415-92971-7.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 3
Response by Jon Cowans to David Andress' review
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 4
Review by , Duke University.
Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968, Alyce Mahon. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2005. 240 pp. Color plates and black and white illustrations. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-500-23821-9.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 63
Review by , Binghamton University.
Antisémythes: L’image des juifs entre culture et politique (1848-1939), Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci, Ed. Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2005. 465 pp. Figures, notes. 34 Euros (pb). ISBN 2-84736-104-9.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 38
Review by , University of Utah.
From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris, Barbara B. Diefendorf. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 340 pp. List of contents, biographical appendix, list of Abbreviations, notes, index. $51.34 (hb). ISBN 0-19-509582-0.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 46
Review by , University of Utah.
Spiritual Sonnets, Gabrielle de Coignard. Ed. and trans. by Melanie E. Gregg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxxi + 195 pp. Bibliography and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-13983-2; $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-13984-0.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 73
Review by , University of Utah.
Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565, Walter Simons. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. xv + 335 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendices, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3604-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 72
Review by , Saint Joseph’s College (New York).
The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism, Philippe Roger. Translated by Sharon Bowman. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp. xiii + 518, $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-72368-2.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 131
Review by , Saint Joseph’s College, New York.
Politiques du passé : usages politiques du passé dans la France contemporaine, Claire Andrieu, Marie-Claire Lavabre, and Danielle Tartakowsky. Collection Le temps de l'histoire. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence, 2006. 266 pp. Notes and index. 26€. ISBN 2-85399-630-1.
Universite Paris I. Concurrence des passés: Usages politiques du passe dans la France contemporaine. [Actes du colloque les usages politiques du passé dans la France contemporaine des années 1970 à nos jours, organise par le centre d'histoire sociale du XXe siècle, Paris I, et l'équipe pouvoirs, savoirs, sociétés, Paris VIII]. Collection Le temps de l'histoire. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence, 2006. 300pp. Notes and index. 26€. ISBN 2-85399-631-X.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 62
Review by , Saint Joseph's College.
L'américanisation de l'Europe occidentale au XXe siècle: Mythe et Réalité, Dominique Barjot and Christophe Réveillard, Eds. Paris: Presse de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2002. 274 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 24.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-84050-241-0.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 89
Review by , Birkbeck College, University of London.
Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature, Karen Sullivan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xii + 281 pp. Notes, select bibliography, index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-78169-0.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 29
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 30
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 30
Review by , Birkbeck College, University of London.
Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe: Italy, France and Flanders, Samuel K. Cohn Jr, Ed. and trans. Manchester Medieval Sources. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004. xxiv + 389 pp. Maps, notes, suggested reading, and index. $74.95 (hb) + $24.95 (pb) ISBN 0-7190-6730-8 (hb), 0-7190-6731-6 (pb).
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 12
Review by , Birkbeck College, University of London.
The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade, Elaine Graham-Leigh. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005. xxviii + 187. Maps, genealogies, notes, bibliography and index. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-84383-129-5.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 141
Review by , Birkbeck College, University of London.
The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War, Susan Crane. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. x + 269 pp. Four colour plates, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl), ISBN 0-8122-3658-0. $19.95 U.S. (pb); ISBN 0-8122-1806-X.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 9
Review by , University of London.
Cistercians, Heresy and Crusade in Occitania, 1145-1229: Preaching in the Lord's Vineyard, Beverly Mayne Kienzle. Woodbridge and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press / Boydell and Brewer, 2001. xx + 256 pp. Map, photographs, chronological table, preface, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. /£45.00 (cl). ISBN 1-90315-300-X.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 76
Review by , University of East Anglia.
The Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246, Mark Gregory Pegg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. x + 238pp. Notes, map, index and bibliography. $35.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-691-00656-3.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 31
Review by , Eastern Illinois University.
Once There Were Titans: Napoleon's Generals and Their Battles, 1800-1815, Kevin F. Kiley. London and St. Paul: Greenhill Books, 2007. 320 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $39.95 US (hb). ISBN 978-1-85367-710-6.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 12
Review by , Eastern Illinois University.
Music & Philosophy. Trans. Stephen Maddux and Robert E. Wood. Intro., Robert E. Wood, Gabriel Marcel. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2005. Index. 147 pp. $17.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN-10: 0-87462-665-X. ISBN-13: 0-87462-665-0.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 2
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Review by , Stanford University.
Tocqueville and Beyond. Essays on the Old Regime in Honor of David D. Bien, Robert M. Schwartz and Robert A. Schneider, Eds. Newark: University of Delaware Press, London: Associated University Presses, 2003. 300pp. Bibliography, list of contributors, index. U.S. (cl) $52.50 ISBN 0-87413-830-2.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 137
Review by , Centenary College.
After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France, Julian Bourg, Ed. Afterword by François Dosse. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2004. vii + 426 pp. Bibliography, index, and about the contributors. $90.00 U.S. ISBN 0-7391-0792-5.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 14
Compte-rendu par , Université de Rouen, Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, Paris.
Riding the New Wave: Youth and the Rejuvenation of France after the Second World War, Richard Ivan Jobs. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. XIV + 364 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 (cl). ISBN 978-0-8047-5452-1.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 136
Review by , University of Reading.
Religion and the Conduct of War c.300-c.1215, David S. Bachrach. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2003. iv + 216 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-85115-944-3.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 12
Review by , University of Reading.
War and Combat, 1150-1270: The Evidence from Old French Literature, Catherine Hanley. Cambridge, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2003. iii + 261 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-85991-781-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 12
Review by , Université du Québec à Montréal.
Vital Crossroads; Mediterranean Origins of the Second World War, 1935-1940, Reynolds M. Salerno. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. xi + 285pp. Bibliography and index. $36.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-8014-3772-5.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 96
Review by , National University of Ireland, Galway.
Pétain: How the Hero of France became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History, Charles Williams. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xi + 298 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-4039-7011-4.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 99
Review by , Ohio University.
Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution, Janis Langins. Cambridge Mass.: The MIT Press, 2004. xi + 532 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $55 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-262-12258-8.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 40
Review by Frederic Baumgartner, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Nicole Hochner. Louis XII: les dérèglements de l'image royale. Paris: Champ Vallon, 2007. 312 pp. illustrations. € 26 E.U. ISBN 978-2876734531.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 99
Review by , Ohio University.
Louis Le Vau: Mazarin’s College, Colbert’s Revenge, Hilary Ballon. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. ix + 236 pp. Architectural drawings, photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-04895-9.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 77
Review by , University of Sheffield.
Singing Our Way to Victory: French Cultural Politics and Music during the Great War, Regina M. Sweeney. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2001. x + 355 pp. Figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography and index. ISBN 0-8195-6454-0 (cl). and 0-8195-6473-7 (pb).
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 115
Review by , University of Victoria.
From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames Des Roches, Madeleine Des Roches and Catherine Des Roches. Edited and Translated by Anne R. Larsen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxx + 319 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-72337-2; $24.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-72338-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 155
Review by , University of Edinburgh.
Medieval Conduct, Kathleen Ashley and Robert L. A. Clark, Eds. Medieval Cultures, no. 29. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. xx + 241 pp. Notes, list of contributors, and index. $54.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8166-3575-7; $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8166-3576-5.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 5
Review by , University of Maryland, College Park.
Dress in the Middle Ages, Françoise Piponnier and Perrine Mane. Translated by Caroline Beamish. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 1997. vi + 167 pp. Foreword, black-and-white illustrations, bibliography, and glossary. $25.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-300-06906-5; $15.00 US (pb.). ISBN 0-300-08691-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 23
Review by , University of California, Santa Cruz.
Tocqueville et l’esprit de la démocratie. The Tocqueville Review / La Revue Tocqueville, Laurence Guellec, Ed. Paris: Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 2005. 531 pp. €18 (pb). ISBN 2-7246-0963-8.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 131
Review by , Emory University.
Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy: the Estates General of Burgundy, 1661-1790, Julian Swann. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 460 pp. Map, figures, appendices, bibliography, and index. $85 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82767-1.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 52
Review by , The Johns Hopkins University.
Napoleon and Berlin: The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813, Michael V. Leggiere. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002). 385 pp. $30.05 (pb). ISBN 0806133996
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 93
Review by , The Johns Hopkins University.
L’invention de la guerre totale: XVIIIe-XXe siècle, Jean-Yves Guiomar. Paris: Le Félin Kiron, 2004. 329 pp. €20 (pb). ISBN 2866455665.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 93
Review by , Johns Hopkins University.
The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution, Daniel Moran and Arthur Waldron, Eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 268 pp. Index, plates, and notes. £47.50 (hb). ISBN: 0521814324.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 66
Review by , Johns Hopkins University.
Making Democracy in the French Revolution, James Livesey. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. x + 326 pp. Notes and index. $49.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-674-00624-0.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (April 2002), No. 32
Response by James Livesey to David A. Bell's review
H-France Review Vol. 2 (April 2002), No. 33
Review by , University of Sydney.
In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730, James Pritchard. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xxviii + 484 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82742-6.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 101
Compte-rendu par , Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent.
Les comités d’organisation et l’économie dirigée de Vichy. Actes du colloque international des 3 et 4 avril 2003, Hervé Joly, Ed. Caen: Centre de recherche en histoire quantitative, 2004, 320 pp. 25 euros. ISBN 2-9519438-5-7.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 32
Review by , University of East Anglia.
Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France, Stephen D. White. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. xii + 306 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $114.95 U.S. ISBN 0-86078-961-6.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 66
Review by and Christine Lehman, Université Paris X.
Affinity, that Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution, Mi Gyung Kim. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. xii + 599 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-262-11273-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 64
Review by , New York University.
Murder in Marrakesh: Emile Mauchamp and the French Colonial Adventure, Jonathan G. Katz. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2006, xvi + 376 pp. Notes, photographs, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-0-253-34815-9.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 67
Review by , New York University.
Democracy Past and Future, Pierre Rosanvallon. Ed. Samuel Moyn, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, ix + 294 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-231-13740-0.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 31
Review by , New York University.
Funerals, Politics, and Memory in Modern France 1789-1996, Avner Ben-Amos. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2000. 425pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 US (cl). ISBN: 00-19-820328-4.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 20
Review by , Columbia University.
Memory and Modernity: Viollet-le-Duc at Vézelay, Kevin D. Murphy. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. xiv + 200 pp. 53 black and white illustrations. $45.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-271-01850-X.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (December 2001), No. 46
Review by , Gallaudet University.
Educating the Faithful: Religion, Schooling, and Society in Nineteenth-Century France, Sarah A. Curtis. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. xii + 255 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-87580-262-1.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 95
Review by , University of Manchester, UK.
Le Père Joseph. L'Eminence grise de Richelieu, Pierre Benoist. Paris. Perrin, 2007. 476 pp. Notes, genealogies, bibliography, index. 24 € (cl). ISBN 978-2-262-02244-0.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 22
Review by , University of Manchester.
Richelieu, Françoise Hildesheimer. Paris: Flammarion, 2004. 590 pp. Images, notes, chronology, appendices, maps, bibliography, and index. €26 (pb). ISBN 2-08210290-4.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 62
Review by , Western Michigan University.
Lordship in the County of Maine, c.890-1160, Richard E. Barton. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004. xvii + 255 pp. Maps, genealogies, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-84383-086-8.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 87
Review by , University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models, Michael Brenner, Vicki Caron and Uri R. Kaufmann, Eds. London, Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003. vi + 245 pp. Index. €54.00 (cl.). ISBN 3-16-148018-X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 150
Review by , University of Virginia.
French History and Civilization. Papers from the George Rudé Seminar. Volume One, 2005. Ian Coller, Helen Davies, and Julie Kalman, Eds. Melbourne: The George Rudé Society. 2005. 286 pp. ISSN 1553-9172.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 75
Review by , University of Virginia.
Shakespeare Goes to Paris: How the Bard Conquered France, John Pemble. London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2005. xix + 240pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $39.95 US (hb). ISBN 1-85285-452-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 138
Review by, Morgan State University.
The Third Sex, Willy. Translated and introduction by Lawrence R. Schehr. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xii + 138 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03216-5
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 56
Review by , University of Iowa.
Ordering Women's Lives. Penitentials and Nunnery Rules in the Early Medieval West, Julie Ann Smith. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. viii + 251 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $38.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8018-6539-5.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 44
Review by , University of California, Santa Barbara.
A Savage Mirror: Power, Identity, and Knowledge in Early Modern France, Michael Wintroub. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xii + 306 pp. Figures, plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8047-4872-1.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 116
Response by Michael Wintroub, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 117
Review by , University of California, Santa Barbara.
The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism & Political Ideology in Renaissance France, Jotham Parsons. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004. xi + 322 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8132-1384-3.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 71
Compte-rendu par , CNRS, Paris.
When France was King of Cartography. The Patronage and Production of Maps in Early Modern France, Christine-Marie Petto. Lanham-Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2007. 215 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-1440-9 / 978-0-7391-1440-7 ; $35.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1776-9 / 978-0-7391-1776-7.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 114
Review by , Acadia University.
The Cambridge Companion to Émile Zola, Brian Nelson, Ed. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 214 pp. Further reading and specialist resources, notes, and index. $85 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-83594-7. $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-54376-7.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 124
Review by , Temple University.
Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture, Robert Mills. London: Reaktion Books, 2005. 248 pp. 10 color plates, 90 halftones, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.99 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1861892608.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 115
Review by , University of Victoria.
Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis 1940-1942: Complexité de la politique de collaboration, Simon Kitson. Paris: Éditions Autrement – collection Mémoires, 2005. Notes, bibliography, and index. France: €132 (pb); Abroad €161 (pb). ISBN 2-7467-0588-5. ISSN 1157-4488.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 112
Review by , University of York.
Order and Exclusion: Cluny and Christendom face Heresy, Judaism and Islam (1000-1500), translated by Graham Robert Edwards, Dominique Iogna-Prat. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. xv + 407 pp. £ 47.24 (hb); ISBN 0-8014-3708-3.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 41
Review by , Eastern Illinois University.
Studies in the Ecclesiastical and Social History of Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars. Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West, John Hine Mundy. Burlington, VT, and Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006. 258 pp. Appendices, maps, and index. $99.95 U.S./£ 52.50 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0754653161.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 59
Review by , University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Staging Politics and Gender: French Women’s Drama, 1880-1923, Cecilia Beach. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 186 pp. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN-10 140-3965-854.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 11
Review by , University of Oregon.
Enlightening the World, Encyclopédie, The Book That Changed the Course of History, Philipp Blom. New York and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xiii + 372 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6895-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 83
Review by , University of Oregon.
Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth, Christopher Kelly. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. ix + 209 pp. Table and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-43023-5. $19.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-43024-3.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 73
Review by , Molde University College, Norway.
Catching up with America. Productivity Missions and the Diffusion of Amercian Economic and Technological Influence after the Second World War, Dominique Barjot, Ed. . Paris: Presse de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002. 477 pp. Tables, notes, and index. 29.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-84050-240-2.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 62
Review by , Hampden-Sydney College.
Correspondance, 1774-1779. Vol. 1, book 1: 1774-1776. Volume 1, book 2: 1777-1779, Gilbert Romme. Edited by Anne-Marie Bourdin, Philippe Bourdin, Jean Ehrard, Hélène Roi-Tanguy and Alexandre Tchoudinov. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2006. 350 and 380 pp. Introductions, annexes, appendices, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, chronology and index. 32 € . (pb). ISBN 2-84516-309-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 111
Review by , Harvard University.
Students and Teachers at the University of Paris: The Generation of 1500. A Critical Edition of Bibliothèque de l'Université de Paris (Sorbonne), Archives, Registres 89 and 90, James K. Farge. edited with intoduction and annotation by James K. Farge. Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, volume 25. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. xxxi + 617pp. $204 (hb) ISBN 978-90 04 15162 8; ISSN 0926-6070.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 25
Review by , University of Bath.
Athens in Paris: Ancient Greece and the Political in Post-War French Thought, Miriam Leonard. Classical Presences. Oxford and New-York: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 264 pp. Notes, references and index. $74.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-927725-7.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 37
Review by , University of Cambridge.
Nobility Reimagined. The Patriotic Nation in Eighteenth-Century France, Jay M. Smith. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. xv + 307pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8949-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 78
Review by , University of Connecticut (Stamford).
Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France 1938-1940, Talbot C. Imlay. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 366pp. Appendix, tables, bibliography, and index. $91.42 (hb). ISBN 0-19-926122-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 16
Review by , University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus.
The Legacy of the Great War: Peacemaking, 1919, William R. Keylor, Ed.. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. vii + 259 pp. Chronology of Events, Principal Proper Names, Maps, and Bibliography. ISBN 0-669-41711-4.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 10
Review by , University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus.
The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 Years, Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, and Elisabeth Glaser, Eds. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press and The German Historical Institute, 1998. ix + 674 pp. Bibliography and index. ISBN 0-521-62132-1
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 9
Review by , Auburn University.
From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830, Michael Rowe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi + 331 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-82443-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 5
Review by , Antwerp, Belgium.
Colonialism and Homosexuality, Robert Aldrich. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. xii + 436 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $104.95 US (cl.). ISBN 0-415-19615-9. $32.95 (pb.). ISBN 0-415-19616-7.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 42
Review by , Salem State College.
La Scène bâtarde: entre Lumières et romantisme, Philippe Bourdin and Gérard Loubinoux, Eds. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2004. 334 pp. Tables, figures, notes. 25€ (pb). ISBN: 2-913323-91-X.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 116
Review by , SUNY Albany.
The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form, Debarati Sanyal. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ix + 276 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (hb), ISBN 0-8018-8308-3.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 107
Review by , University of Florida.
La Reine Margot, Julianne Pidduck. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. 112 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendices, bibliography. $15.00 (pb) $40.00 (hb). ISBN 0-252-07331-2 (pb), ISBN 0-252-03090-7 (hb).
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 103
Review by , Boston College.
The Cambridge Companion to Molière, David Bradby and Andrew Calder, Eds. Cambridge, U.K. and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xix + 242 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0521837596; $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0521546656.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 103
Review by , Institut d’études politiques de Bordeaux.
La Caisse des dépôts et consignations, la Seconde Guerre mondiale et le XXe siècle, Alya Aglan, Michel Margairaz, and Philippe Verheyde, Eds. Paris : Albin Michel, 2003. 670 pages, € 32.00. ISBN 2-226-13894-3.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 62
Review by , College of William and Mary.
Genèse d’un droit administratif sous le règne de Louis XV. Les pratiques de l’intendant dans les provinces du Nord (1726-1754), Cédric Glineur. Orléans: Presses Universitaires d’Orléans, 2005. iii + 450 pp. Index, notes, and bibliography. €36 (pb). ISBN 2-913454-26-7.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 84
Review by , University of Kansas.
Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France: Six Villages Compared, 1760-1820, Peter Jones. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiv + 306 pp. Plates, figures, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl); £45.00 (cl). ISBN 0-521-821777-0.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 144
Review by , University of Kansas at Lawrence.
Nobles jeux de l'arc et loges maçonniques dans la France des Lumières: Enquête sur une sociabilité en mutation, Pierre Beaurepaire. Collection "Les Architectes de la Connaissance." Grosley, Val d'Oise: Éditions Ivoire-Clair, 2002, 255 pp. Notes, documents, and bibliography. 18 € (pb). ISBN 2-913882-15-3.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 75
Review by , University of Akron.
Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy, Samantha Kahn Herrick. Cambridge, Mass. and London, U.K.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xiii + 256 pp. Map, genealogical tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-674-02443-5.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 131
Review by , University of Akron.
Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages, Erin L. Jordan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. viii + 193 pp. Notes, family trees, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6656-7.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 153
Review by , University of Akron.
Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of Didacticism, Catherine Brown. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xv + 210 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cl). ISBN # 0-8047-3009-1.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 13
Review by , University of Akron.
The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe, Adriaan Verhulst. Trans. Alison Mouthaan-Gwillim. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiii + 174 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $54.95 (hc). ISBN 0-521-46491-9 (hc), 0-521-46909-0 (pb).
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 10
Review by , University of Akron.
Courtly Contradictions: The Emergence of the Literary Object in the Twelfth Century, Sarah Kay. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xiii + 382 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8047-3079-2.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 43
Review by , McGill University.
Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763, Kenneth J. Banks. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002. xxii + 319 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-7735-2444-4.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 65
Review by , Bucknell University.
Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson, Suzanne Guerlac. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. xiv + 230 pp. Bibliography and index. $52.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4421-0; $18.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-7300-5.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 122
Review by , Texas A&M University.
Le Grand Marché: L’approvisionnement alimentaire de Paris sous l’Ancien Régime, Reynald Abad. Paris: Fayard, 2002. 1030 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 45.00 € (pb). ISBN 9-782213-611440.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 25
Review by , State University of New York at Albany.
La Haine, Ginette Vincendeau. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. x + 118 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and appendices. $40 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-252-03091-5. $15 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07332-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 87
Review by , Iowa State University.
France 1815-2003: Modern History for Modern Languages, Martin Evans and Emmanuel Godin. London: Arnold Publishers, 2004. xi + 219 pp. Maps, figures, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-340-76140-7; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-340-76141-5.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 30
Review by , Iowa State University.
Decadence of the Nude/La décadence du nu, Pierre Klossowski and Maurice Blanchot. Ed. Sarah Wilson. Introduction by Alyce Mahon. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2003. 205 pp. Figures, bibliographies, and notes. $26.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-901033-62-7.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 105
Review by , Iowa State University.
The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France, Elizabeth Ezra. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000. Illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. xvi + 173. $39.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3726-1; $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8647-5.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 102
Review by , Texas A & M University.
Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics, Samuel Moyn. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 268. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4394-7.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 88
Response by Samuel Moyn to the review of his book by Nathan Bracher.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 89
Compte rendu par Raphaëlle Branche, Université de Paris-I, Sorbonne.
Marnia Lazreg, Torture and the Twilight of Empire. From Algiers to Baghdad, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2008. 354 pp. $29.95 (cl). ISBN 10-069-1131-35X.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 94
Review by , Indiana University.
Proust at the Movies, Martine Beugnet and Marion Schmid. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. 261 pp. Color and black-and-white illustrations, filmography, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-75463541-4.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 115
Review by , Indiana University.
Proust in Love, William C. Carter. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 2006. xiv + 252 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $26 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0-300-10812-5.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 115
Review by , Indiana University.
Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris, Richard Davenport-Hines. New York and London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006. 358 pp. Sources, index. $24.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN-10: 1-58234-471-X.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 115
Review by , Reed College.
L’invention du barreau français, 1660-1830: La construction nationale d’un groupe professionnel, Hervé Leuwers. Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2006. 446 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.00 (pb) ISBN 2-7132-2106-4 and (cl) ISBN-13 978-2-7132-2106-4.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 154
Review by , Reed College.
Sunspots and the Sun King: Sovereignty and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century France, Ellen M. McClure. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. ix + 316. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-252-03056-7.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 78
Review by , Reed College.
Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800, Julius R. Ruff. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 269 pp. Illustrations, tables, chapter bibliographies, on-line bibliographic essay, notes, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-59119-8; $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-59894-X.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 96
Review by , U.S. Naval Academy.
Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, A. Lynn Martin. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave, 2001. X + 200 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-333-92242-5.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 43
Review by , Oxford University.
A Lust for Virtue: Louis XIV’s Attack on Sin in Seventeenth-Century France, Philip F. Riley. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press (Contributions to the Study of World History, Number 88), 2001. xvi + 203 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313-31708-9.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 129
Review by , University of Aberdeen.
Salamanca 1812, Rory Muir. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. xiv + 322 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-300-08719-5.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 10
Review by , King’s College, University of Aberdeen.
Inside Napoleonic France: State and Society in Rouen, 1800-1815, Gavin Daly. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. xii + 290 pp. Maps, tables, figures, bibliography, and index. $79.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0357-4.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 55
Review by , Central Michigan University.
Euro-Orientalism: Liberal Ideology and the Image of Russia in France (c. 1740-1880), Ezequiel Adamovsky. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 358 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $66.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 3-03910-516-7.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 43
Review by , Texas A&M University.
French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa, Ruth Ginio. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 268 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $65.00 (hb.). ISBN-13 978-0-8032-2212-0.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 45
Review by , Texas A&M University.
Les usages du patrimoine: Monuments, musées et politique coloniale en Algérie (1830-1930), Nabila Oulebsir. Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2004. 411 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. 45 € (pb.). ISBN: 2-7351-1006-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 67
Review by , Bradley University.
France and 1848: The End of Monarchy, William Fortescue. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. viii + 216 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $105.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0415314615; $33.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-31462-3.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 4
Review by , Bradley University.
Behind the Diplomatic Curtain: Adolphe de Bourqueney and French Foreign Policy, 1816-1869, John M. Knapp. Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2001. xvi + 344 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 US (cl). ISBN 1-884836-71-2.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 131
Review by , University of California, Santa Barbara.
Olivier de La Marche and the Rhetoric of Fifteenth-Century Historiography, Catherine Emerson. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press, 2004. viii + 247 pp. Figure, table, notes, bibliography and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-84383-052-3.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 91
Review by , University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Revolutionary Acts: Theater, Democracy and the French Revolution, Susan Maslan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xii + 275 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-8125-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 122
Review by , University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
Changing Minds: The Shifting Perception of Culture in Eighteenth-Century France, John C. O'Neal. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 2002. 279 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-87413-788-8.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 90
Review by , University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Passion, Politics, and Philosophie: Rediscovering J.-P. Brissot, Leonore Loft. Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. xxii + 304 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313- 31779-8.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 1
Review by , Binghamton University (State University of New York).
L’Histoire à rebrousse-poil: Les élites, la Restauration, la Révolution, Emmanuel de Waresquiel. Paris: Fayard, 2005. 190 pp. Notes and index. 14€ France (pb). ISBN 9-782213-625324.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 2
Review by , Binghamton University (State University of New York).
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715-99, Colin Jones. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xxix + 651. Maps, introduction, notes, further reading, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-231-12882-7.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 13
Review by , Binghamton University, SUNY.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2001. xiii + 212. Maps, illustrations, index, CD-ROM. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-271-02088-1.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 20
Review by , York University, Toronto.
Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France? The Case for St. Florent of Saumur, George Beech. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. xii + 142 pp. Map, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6670-2.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 142
Review by , California State University, Fullerton.
Jacques Coeur: Entrepreneur and King’s Bursar, Kathryn L. Reyerson. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2005. ix + 187 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, glossary and index. $? U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-321-08537-X.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 47
Review by , California State University at Fullerton.
Franco-Irish Relations, 1500-1610: Politics, Migration and Trade, Mary Ann Lyons. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Royal Historical Society and The Boydell Press, 2003. ix + 242 pp. Notes, bibliography, glossary, and index. £40.00; $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-861-93266-8.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 89
Review by , The University of Texas at Arlington.
The Navy and Government in Early Modern France 1572-1661, Alan James. London: The Royal Historical Society, 2004. ix + 198 pp. Appendices, bibliography and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 0-86193-270-6.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 136
Review by , University of Texas at Arlington.
Villas and Gardens in Early Modern France and Italy, Mirka Benes and Dianne Harris, Eds. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xx + 428 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-78225-2.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 128
Review by , The University of Texas at Arlington/The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France, Jeanice Brooks. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. xvi + 560 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography and index. $80.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-226-07587-7.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 26
Review by , Georgia Institute of Technology.
The End of Empire in French West Africa: France’s Successful Decolonization?, Tony Chafer. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002. 264 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 1-85973-552-5. $20.00 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 1-85973-557-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 120
Review by , King’s College, University of Cambridge.
The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory, Bruce Holsinger. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi + 276 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-34972-1; $24.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-34974-8.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 71
Review by Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.
Roger Chartier, Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Notes and index. 203 pp. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0812239959; $22.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0812220469.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 104
Review by , Loras College.
From Tribes to Nation: The Making of Modern France, 500-1789, James B. Collins. Toronto and London: Wadsworth-Thomson Learning, 2002. xlii + 750 pp. Introduction, maps, illustrations, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $42.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-15-500257-0.
The last five chapters are also published separately as The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution. Toronto and London: Wadsworth-Thomson Learning, 2002. xxviii + 277 pp. Introduction, maps, illustrations, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $34.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-15-507387-7.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 130
Review by , Oklahoma State University.
Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933, Stephen Schloesser. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xi + 449 pp. Notes and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8020-8718-3.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 26
Review by , Oklahoma State University.
Histoire des curés, Nicole Lemaitre, Ed. Paris: Fayard, 2002. 523 pp. Notes, glossary, and index. 23.00 €. ISBN 35-1412-2.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 22
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Review by , University of Sussex, UK.
Private Ambition and Political Alliances. The Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain Family and Louis XIV’s Government, 1650--1715, Sara E. Chapman . Rochester NY and Woodbridge Suffolk, UK: University of Rochester Press, 2004. xv + 292 pp. Illustrations, genealogical charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 1-58046-153-0, ISSN 1542-3905.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 144
Review by , Université de Rouen.
The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union, Anthony Pagden, Ed. Woodrow Wilson Center Series. Cambridge (England) and Washington (D.C.): Cambridge University Press in association with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002. xii + 379 pp. Notes and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-79171-5; $23.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-79552-4.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 108
Review by , University of Victoria.
Publishing Women’s Life Stories in France, 1647-1720: From Voice to Print, Elizabeth C. Goldsmith. Aldershot and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2001. viii + 172 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $74.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0370-9.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 111
Review by , Cornell University.
Les Orphelins de la République: Destinées des députés et sénateurs français (1940-1945), Olivier Wieviorka. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2001. 458 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. 24,39 € (pb). ISBN 2-02-034036-4.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 8
Review by Stuart Carroll, University of York.
Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France, Kate van Orden. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. xiv + 322 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN (cloth): 0-226-84976-7
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 24
Response by Kate van Orden to the review of her book by Stuart Carroll.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 25
Review by , University of York.
Patronage in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France, Sharon Kettering. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2002. vi + 286 pp. $105.95. ISBN 0-86078-881-4.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 17
Review by , University of York.
Richelieu's Army. War, government and society in France, 1624-1642, David Parrott. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xxiv + 599 pp. $90.00 U.S. ISBN: 0521792096.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 49
Review by , University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Proust’s Deadline, Christine M. Cano. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x + 140 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03070-3.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 72
Review by , Macquarie University.
Distant Lands and Diverse Cultures: The French Experience in Asia, 1600-1700, Glenn J. Ames and Ronald S. Love, Eds. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2003. xvii + 269 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-313-30864-0.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 51
Review by , University of Melbourne.
Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages, Suzannah Biernoff. Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. x + 248 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-333-96120-X.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 16
Review by , George Mason University.
The Origins of the French Revolution, Peter R. Campbell, Ed. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. v + 371. Notes, bibliography and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-333-71704-X; $28.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-333-69348-5.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 114
Review by , Christie’s Education, New York.
Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet! The Bruyas Collection from the Musée Fabre, Montpelllier, Sarah Lees, Ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press in association with Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, 2004. 256 pp. 32 b/w + 94 color ills. $60.00 (cl). U.S. ISBN 0-300-10523-1.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 114
Review by , The George Washington University.
Complete Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition, Louise Labé. Edited with introductions and prose translation by Deborah Lesko Baker; poetry translation by Annie Finch. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxxi + 274 pp. Bibliographies, notes, indexes. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-46714-7; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-46715-5.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 119
Review by , Stanford University.
Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture, Mita Choudhury. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. ix+234 pp. Notes and index. $42.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-8014-4110-2.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 23
Review by , Stanford University.
Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier. Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle, Joan DeJean, Ed. and Trans. University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxix + 86 pp. Bibliography and index. $14.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-53492-8.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 113
Review by , Stanford University.
François Poullain de la Barre. Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises, Marcelle Maistre Welch, Intro and Ed.; Vivien Bosley, Trans. University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxvii + 339 pp. Bibliography and index. $22.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-53492-8.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 113
Review by , Stanford University.
La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France, 1627-1693, Vincent J. Pitts. Baltimore, Md. and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiv+367 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $42.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8018-6466-6
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 34
Compte-rendu par , Université de Paris-1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, IHMC (CNRS/ENS).
Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970, Jonathan Dewald. University Park (PA): Pennsylvania University Press, 2006, XI-246 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 (hb). ISBN 0-271-02890-4.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 95
Review by , Royal Holloway, University of London.
Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785, Downing A. Thomas. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii + 411 pp. Illustrations, music examples, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-80188-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 27
Review by , Hofstra University.
The Melodramatic Thread: Spectacle and Political Culture in Modern France., James R. Lehning. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. 180 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-820717-X.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 49
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 49
Compte-rendu par , CNRS, CRH-AHMOC, Paris.
Georges Pompidou, une certaine idée de la modernité agricole et rurale, Gilbert Noël, Emilie Willaert Eds. Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, PIE Peter Lang, 2007, 481 p., coll. " Georges Pompidou - Archives n°2 ", Chronology, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (US) ISBN 978-90-5201-057-1.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 17
Review by , New York University.
Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe. (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World), Elisheva Baumgarten. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi + 275 pp. Illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $39.50 U.S (cl). ISBN 0-691-09166-8.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 108
Review by , University of Chicago.
Sieyès: Political Writings, Including the Debate between Sieyès and Tom Paine in 1791, Michael Sonenscher, Ed. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing, 2003. lxiv + 190 pp. Bibibliography and index. $12.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87220-430-8.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 90
Review by , University of Pennsylvania.
Legislating the French Family: Feminism, Theater and Republican Politics, 1870-1920, Jean Elisabeth Pedersen. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2003. v + 271 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8135-3279-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 34
Review by , Institut français, Assumption College.
Vie et mort du couple en Nouvelle-France: Québec et Louisbourg au XVIIIe siècle, Josette Brun. Montreal, Que., Kingston, Ont., London, U.K., and Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006. xi + 185 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-3067-6, ISBN-10: 0-7735-3067-3; (pb). ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-3068-3, ISBN-10: 0-7735-3068-1.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 92
Review by , Institut français, Assumption College.
Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits, Allan Greer. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. vii + 249 pp. Maps, abbreviations, notes, and index. $30.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-517487-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 109
Review by , Vassar College.
A Certain Emancipation of Women: Gender, Citizenship, and the Causes Célèbres of Eighteenth-Century France, Tracey Rizzo. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2004. 132 pp. Bibliography and index. $34.50 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 1-57591-087-X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 120
Review by , Vassar College.
Mademoiselle de Joncoux: polémique janéseniste à la veille de la bulle Unigenitus, F. Ellen Weaver. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2002. 358 pp. Appendices, bibliography, and index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-204-0701202.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 78
Review by , Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It, Ronald Aronson. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. X + 291 pp. Notes and index. $32.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-02796-1.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 118
Review by , Pennsylvania State University, Erie.
May 68 in French Fiction and Film: Rethinking Society, Rethinking Representation, Margaret Atack. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. viii + 182 pp. Chronology, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-871515-3.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 64
Review by , Seton Hall University.
Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700-1855): From Satire to Sanctity, Nora M. Heimann. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. xvi + 215 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-5085-5.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 107
Review by , University of Arizona.
Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930, Roger Benjamin. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xxi + 352 pp. Map, plates, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-22217-2.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 94
Review by David Clandfield, University of Toronto.
The French Educator Célestin Freinet (1896-1966): An Inquiry into How His Ideas Shaped Education , Victor Acker. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2007. xvi + 108 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-1923-0 / 978-0-7391-1923-5; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1924-9 / 978-0-7391-1924-2.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 27
Review by , Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
Les Femmes dans l'action sanitaire, sociale et culturelle, 1901-2001: Les Associations face aux institutions, Evelyne Diebolt. Prefaces by Michelle Perrot and Emile Poulat. Paris: Femmes et Associations, 2001. 372 pp. Notes, tables, illustrations, bibliography, and index. 22.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-9517478-0-2
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 79
Review by , Texas A&M University.
Dialogues and Addresses, Madame de Maintenon. Edited and translated by John J. Conley, S.J. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxxiii + 177 pp. Introduction, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-50241-4; $22.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-50242-2.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 22
Review by Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University. ,
Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist Painting. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv + 283 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521-84080-4.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 8
Response by Ruth E. Iskin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 9
Review by , Florida State University.
Six Authors in Captivity: Literary Responses to the Occupation of France during World War II, Nicole Thatcher and Ethel Tolansky, Eds. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 192 pp. Bibliography and index. (Pb). ISBN 3-03910-520-5.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 50
Review by , Harvard University.
Avec de Gaulle: témoignages. Tome 1, La Guerre et la Libération (1939-1945), Fondation Charles de Gaulle.. Paris: Nouveau monde édition, 2003. 251 pp. €26.00 (pb.) ISBN 2-84736-026-3.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 154
Review by , Harvard University.
Avec De Gaulle: témoignages. Tome 2, Le temps du rassemblement, (1946-1958), Fondation Charles de Gaulle.. Paris, Nouveau monde édition, 2005. 502 pp. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 2-84736-053-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 154
Review by , Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423, Daniel Lord Smail. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 277 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4105-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 55
Review by , George Washington University.
The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature, Peggy McCracken. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. xii + 178 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $38.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3713-7.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 137raphy, and index. $38.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3713-7.
Review by , University of Toronto.
Sociolinguistic Variation in Seventeenth-Century France: Methodology and Case Studies, Wendy Ayres-Bennett. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 267 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-82088-X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 96
Review by , Université de Paris-VIII.
The Historian’s Two Bodies: The Reception of Historical Texts in France, 1701-1790, Nathan Uglow. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001. xiv + 255 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $84.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-0223-0.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 127
Review by , University of Michigan.
L’Intelligence démographique: Sciences et politiques des population en France (1930-1960), Paul-André Rosental. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2003. 366 pp. 2 tables, bibliography, notes, index. €27 (pb). ISBN 2-7381-1258-7.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 101
Review by , University of California, Los Angeles.
Montesquieu en 2005, Catherine Volpilhac-Auger, Ed. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2005. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2005:05. ix + 316. Abstracts. $65.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0859-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 125
Review by , University of Melbourne, Australia.
Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France, Andrea L. Smith. Series “New Anthropologies of Europe.” Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2006. xi + 269 pp. $65.00 US (cl) ISBN: 0-253-21856-x; $24.95 (pb) ISBN: 0-253-34762-9.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 119
Review by , Georgetown University.
The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701, Guy Rowlands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxiv + 404 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-64124-1.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 7
Response by Guy Rowlands to the review of his book by Jim Collins.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 8
Review by , George Mason University.
The Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Medieval Religious Renewal Movement, Patricia Ranft. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 272 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6847-0.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 104
Review by , The Ohio State University.
Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History, Frederick Cooper. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. vii + 327 pp. Figures, maps, notes, and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-24214-9. $ 19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-520-24414-1.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 70
Review by , University of Rochester.
Une science impériale pour l’Afrique? La construction des savoirs africanistes en France, 1878-1930, Emmanuelle Sibeud. Paris: Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2002. 358 pp. Maps, illustrations, biographical notices, notes, bibliography, and index. 32.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-7132-1784-9.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 31
Review by , University of South Carolina.
Fighting Napoleon: Guerrillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain, 1808-1814, Charles J. Esdaile. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xi + 272 pp. Map, illustrations, table of abbreviations, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-300-10112-0.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 4
Review by , University of Canterbury.
Napoleon and the British, Stuart Semmel. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xii + 354 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. Cloth, $40.00, £25. ISBN: 0-300-09001-3.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 37
Review by , University of Stirling.
Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel: Personal and Social Narratives in Post-War French Chanson, Chris Tinker. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005. vi + 179 pp. Notes, bibliography, copyright acknowledgement, and index. $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-85323-768-9.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 134
Review by , Minnesota State University at Moorhead.
A Rule for Children and Other Writings, Jacqueline Pascal. Ed. and trans. John J. Conley. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxxii + 171 pp. Bibliography and index. $47.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-64831-1; $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-64833-8.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 11
Review by , University of Guelph.
Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue, Stewart R. King. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2001. xxvi + 328 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8203-2233-4.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 54
Review by , Gordon College.
German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916, Robert T. Foley. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. x + 301 pp. Maps, pictures, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. ISBN 0521841933.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 134
Review by , Gordon College.
The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871, Geoffrey Wawro. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 327 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-58436-1.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 14
Review by , Indiana University, Bloomington.
The Conversion of Imagination: From Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville, Matthew Maguire. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. 285 pp. Notes and index. $49.95 (cl). ISBN: 0-674-02188-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 42
Review by Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University, Bloomington.
The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville , Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859). A Special Bicentennial Issue. Vol. XXVII, No. 2, 2006, 600 pp. ISSN 0730-479X.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 28
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 28
Review by , Vanderbilt University.
Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France, Anne E. Duggan. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. 288 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. $53.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-87413-897-3.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 11
Review by , Vanderbilt University.
Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress, Colin Jones. London: Yale University Press, 2002. 176 pp. Bibliography, notes, index, and illustrations. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-85709-977-X.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 36
Review by , Vanderbilt University.
For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity, Françoise Meltzer. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x + 240 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $52.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-226-51981-3. $20.00 US (pb). ISBN 0-226-51982-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 42
Review by , Université d’Artois.
Napoleon’s Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire, Alan Forrest. London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2002. xix + 248 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85285-269-0.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 112
Review by , Université d’Artois.
The French Army, 1750-1820: Careers, Talent, Merit, Rafe Blaufarb. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002. xii + 227 pp. Tables, illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. £45.00 (cl). ISBN 0-7190-6262-4.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 103
Review by , Université d'Artois.
Du volontaire au conscrit, les levées d'hommes dans le Puy-de- Dôme pendant la Révolution française, Bruno Ciotti. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2001. 2 vol. 781 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography and index. 32.01 Euros. ISBN 284516-153-0.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (May 2002), No. 38
Review by , Florida State University.
France and Iraq: Oil, Arms and French Policy Making in the Middle East, David Styan. London and New York: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2006. xii + 234 pp. Table, endnotes, bibliography, and index. $69.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 1-84511-045-5.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 85
Review by , The Florida State University.
France and the Algerian War, 1954-62: Strategy, Operations and Diplomacy, Martin S. Alexander and J. F. V. Keiger, Eds. London and Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 2002. xviii + 213 pp. Chronology, maps, figures, abstracts, and index. $59.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7146-5297-0; $26.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7146-8264-0.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 84
Review by , Keele University, UK.
The Genesis of Napoleonic Propaganda, 1796-1799, Wayne Hanley. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Gutenberg e-book. www.gutenberg-e.org Figures/Illustrations, Bibliography, Appendix, Web Links and Search Facility. Access $49.50. ISBN: 0-231-12456-2.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 66
Review by , Keele University.
Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe, Alexander Grab. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, xiii + 249 pp. Maps, notes and bibliography, and index. $75 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-333-68274-2; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-333-68275-0.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 45
Review by , Keele University (UK).
The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy. The War against God, 1801-1814, Michael Broers. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. xvi + 238pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S (hb). ISBN 0-415-26670-X.
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Review by , Keele University.
Le Duc d’Enghien, Jean-Paul Bertaud. Paris: Fayard, 2001. 466 pp. Maps, figures, illustrations, bibliography, and index. 24.50 Euros (pb). ISBN 2-213-60987-X.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 110
Review by , University of Illinois at Champaign.
A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France, Christine Adams. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. x + 292 pp. Appendixes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-271-01956-5.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 19
Review by , Illinois State University.
The Night the Old Regime Ended: August 4, 1789 and the French Revolution, Michael P. Fitzsimmons. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. x + 245 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02233-7.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 141
Review by , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin, Marie Dentière. Ed. and trans. Mary B. McKinley. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxix + 110 pp. Notes, bibliographies, and index. $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-14279-5.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 110
Review by , University of Pittsburgh.
Le Droit sous Vichy, Bernard Durand, Jean-Pierre Le Crom, Alessandro Somma, Eds. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2006. 498 pp. €89.00 ISBN 10 3-465-04013-9; 13 978-465-04013-2.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 141
Review by , San Francisco State University.
Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Christopher Clark and Wolfram Kaiser, Eds. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. viii + 368 pp. Notes, illustrations, annotated bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-8-997-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 36
Review by , San Francisco State University.
Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine, Suzanne K. Kaufman. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2005. viii + 255 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0 8014 4248 6.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 75
Review by , San Francisco State University.
The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750-2000, Hugh McLeod and Werner Ustorf, Eds. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ix + 234 pp. Notes and indices. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-81493-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 36
Review by , St. Louis University.
Religion and Identity in Modern France: The Modernization of the Protestant Community in Languedoc, 1815-1848, James C. Deming. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1999. xxi + 237 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cl). ISBN 0-7618-1382-9.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (September 2001,: No. 27
Review by , Vanderbilt University.
Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works, Anne Walters Robertson. Cambridge U.K. and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xx + 456 pp. Illustrations, music, notes, bibliography, and index. £65.00 (cl); $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-41876-3.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 116
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Review by , The College of William and Mary.
Crusading in the Age of Joinville, Caroline Smith. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. 216 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-5363-3.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 81
Review by , Dartmouth College.
Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War, Martha Hanna. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. v + 341 pp. Index. $26.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-02318-8.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 64
Review by , Dartmouth College.
The Tragic Tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War, Raymond Jonas. Berkley and London: University of California Press, 2005. xiv +217 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-24297-1; $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-520-24299-8.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 45
Review by , Dartmouth College.
Femmes et diplomatie: France--XXe siècle, Yves Denéchère, Ed. Bruxelles: P. I. E.-Peter Lang, 2004. vii+200 pp. Index. $32.95 U.S. (pbk). ISBN 90-5201-233-4.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 39
Review by , Dartmouth College.
The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood, Christopher E. Forth. Baltimore, Md. and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii + 241 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $46.95 U. S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-7433-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 81
Review by , Dartmouth College.
Party, Society and Government: Republican Democracy in France, David Hanley. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2002. xii + 210 pp. Tables, bibliography and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-57181-966-5.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 126
Review by , Wellesley College.
Female Writers’ Struggle for Rights and Education for Women in France (1848-1871), Joyce Dixon-Fyle. New York, Peter Lang, 2006. Bibliography, notes, index, 168 pages. $62.95. ISBN 0-8204-5531-8.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 147
Review by , Wellesley College.
The Troubled Republic: Visual Culture and Social Debate in France, 1889-1900, Richard Thomson. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 255 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, footnotes, index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-10456-0.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 115
Review by , Wellesley College.
Remembrance of Things to Come (Le Souvenir d’un avenir), Chris Marker and Yannick Bellon. Les films de l’Equinoxe, produced for ARTE. 42 minutes. VHS format. B&W. First Run Icarus Films, 2001. $390.00 U.S. (rental $125.00).
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 35
Review by by , Wellesley College.
Les Patriotes: La Gauche républicaine et la nation, 1830-1870, Philippe Darriulat. Paris: Seuil, 2001. 326 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. 23.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-02-022596-4.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 47
Review by , Stanford University.
Between Justice and Politics: The Ligue des Droits de l’Homme, 1898-1945, William D. Irvine. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 253 pp. Bibliography and Index. $60.00 (cl). ISBN: 978-0-8047-5317-3.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 81
Review by , Stanford University.
Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies, Herman Lebovics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xx + 172 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $21.95 U.S. ISBN: 0-822-33697-9 (pb).
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 137
Review by , Georgia State University.
French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848, Steven Kale. Baltimore Md. and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. x + 308 pp. Biographical appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $48.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-7729-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 108
Review by , Georgia State University.
Suffrage, citoyenneté et révolutions 1789-1848, Michel Pertué, Ed. Collections études révolutionnaires, no. 3. Paris: Société des études robespierristes, 2002. 180 pp. Notes, figures, and index of proper names. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-908327-46-5.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 114
Review by , Georgia State University.
Revolution and Environment in Southern France: Peasants, Lords, and Murder in the Corbières 1780-1830, Peter McPhee. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xi + 272 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-19-820717-4.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (February 2001), No. 4
Review by , Denison University.
Exposition de nos statuts: Commentaire de la Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès Avignon, vers 1767: Archives de la Grande Chartreuse ms. 1 Com. 50. Analecta Cartusiana 99:36, James Hogg, Ed. Salzburg: Instititüt für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2006. xxxviii + 416pp. Notes, facsimiles, and index. (pb). ISBN 3-900033-45-5.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 5
Review by , Furman University.
Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xii + 258pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0226243230; $22.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0226243249.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 98
Review by , Temple University.
After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting and Propaganda Under Napoleon, David O’Brien. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xiv + 288 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. 149 illustrations in color. $65 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-271-02305-8.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 2
Review by , Temple University.
Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, Joan B. Landes. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2001. 254 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3811-X.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (April 2002), No. 35
Review by , Brown University.
Parité!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism, Joan Wallach Scott. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. ix + 191 pp. Notes, index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-74107-9. $22.00 U.S. (pb) ISBN 0-226-74108-7.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 34
Review by , St. Lawrence University.
The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France, Helen Harden Chenut. University Park: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2005. vii + 448 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02520-4.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 97
Review by , University of Pennsylvania.
Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us about the French and American Past, Dena Goodman and Kathryn Norberg, Eds. New York and London: Routledge, 2007. x+245 pp. Figures, notes, index. ISBN 0-415-94953-X.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 128
Review by , Indiana University.
Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages, Bonnie Effros. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2003. xvi + 272 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-23244-5.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 92
Review by , Marquette University.
Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective, Peter Becker and Richard F. Wetzell, Eds. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii + 492 pp. Index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-81012-4.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 32
Review by , Bucknell University.
Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to the War in Vietnam, Mark Atwood Lawrence. Series “From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective,” Fredrik and Christopher E. Goscha, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xii + 364 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-520-243154-3.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 146
Review by , California Lutheran University.
Decolonization and the Decolonized, Albert Memmi. Translated by Robert Bononno. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xii + 148 pp. $17.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-8166-4735-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 80
Review by , National University of Singapore.
The Populist Challenge: Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization in France, Jen Rydgren. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004. 272 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S./£50.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 1-57181-643-7; $24.95 U.S./£14.95 U.K. (pb). ISBN 1-57181-691-7.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 14
Review by , University of Buffalo.
Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France, Katherine Crawford. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. 310pp. Abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.94 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-074-01541-X.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 65
Review by , State University of New York at Buffalo.
Corps and Clienteles: Public Finance and Political Change in France, 1688-1715, Mark Potter. Aldershot, Hampshire, and Burlington, Vert.: Ashgate, 2003. x + 217 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, appendices, and index. $79.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-754-63726-3.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 88
Review by , State University of New York at Buffalo.
Louis XIV and the Parlements: The Assertion of Royal Authority, John J. Hurt. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002. xv + 240 pp. notes, bibliography, and index. £45.00 (cl). ISBN 0-7190-6235-7.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 84
Review by , SUNY at Buffalo.
Crown and Nobility in Early Modern France, Donna Bohanan. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. x+194. Notes and index. $65.00 U.S. ISBN 0-333-60971-9. $21.95 U.S. ISBN:0-333-60972-7.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 7
Review by , SUNY at Buffalo.
Law, City, and King: Legal Culture, Municipal Politics, and State Formation in Early Modern Dijon, Michael Breen. Rochester, New York, and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 2007. xv + 307 pp. Maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $75 U.S. (cl).ISBN-10: 1580462367.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 55
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 55
Review by , Boston University.
Church, Crown, and Episcopate under Louis XIV, Joseph Bergin. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. xii + 526 pp. Maps, tables, notes, appendices, and bibliography. $60.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-300-10356-5.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 100
Review by , Long Island University--CW Post.
Vincent de Paul, the Trailblazer, Bernard Pujo. Translated by Gertrud Graubert Champe. Note Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. xi + 327 pp. Images, chronology, notes, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-04361-2.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 11
Review by , Centre de Recherches Scientifiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
Fathers, Families, and the State in France, 1914-1945, Kristen Stromberg Childers. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 261 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $41.50 (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4122-6.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 105
Review by , École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
Women and Politics in France, 1958-2000, Gill Allwood and Kursheed Wadia. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. xiv + 270 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography and index. $31.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-18493-2.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 65
Review by , University of Bristol.
The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815, Henry Heller. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. ix + 172 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $60 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-845545-169-4.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 35
Response by Henry Heller, University of Manitoba.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 36
Review by , University of Oregon.
Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization, George Weisz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxx + 359 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-517969-2.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 138
Review by , University of Oregon.
Histoire du thermalisme en France au XIXe siècle: Eau, médecine et loisirs, Jérôme Penez. Paris: Economica (Collection économies et sociétés contemporaine), 2005. xi + 334 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and bibliography. 39 € (pb). ISBN 2-717-8490-41.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 38
Review by , University of Oregon.
Crime et folie: Deux siècles d’enquêtes médicales et judiciaires, Marc Renneville. Paris: Fayard, 2003. 527 pp. Notes and index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-213-60833-4.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 130
Review by , Loughborough University, United Kingdom.
Faire l’Europe sans défaire la France. 60 ans de politique d’unité européenne des gouvernements et des présidents de la République française (1943-2003), Gérard Bossuat. Brussels: P. I. E. Peter Lang, 2005. 630 pp. €54.50, $64.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 90-5201-249-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 90
Review by , University of Quebec at Montreal.
La noblesse et l’Eglise en Provence, fin Xe-début XIVe siècle: L'exemple des familles d'Agoult-Simiane, de Baux et de Marseille, Florian Mazel. Paris: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 2002. 806 pp. €32.00 E.U. (pb). ISBN 2735505030.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 138
Review by , Michigan State University.
Esclavage, métissage, liberté: La Révolution française en Guadeloupe, 1789-1802, Frédéric Régent. Paris, Grasset, 2004. 507 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. 22€ (pb). ISBN 2 246 64481 X.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 76
Review by , Michigan State University.
Haitian Revolutionary Studies, David Geggus. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xii + 348 pp. Maps, appendices, notes, index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-253-34104-3.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 7
Review by , Utah State University.
Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe, Thelma Fenser and Daniel Lord Smail, Eds. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. vii + 227 pp. Figures, selected bibliography, and index. $49.96 (hb). ISBN 0-8014-3939-6; $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8857-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 104
Review by , St Anne’s College, Oxford.
Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century. A Social Portrait, William J. Courtenay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 306 pp. £24.49 (pb) ISBN 0521025109 £55.00 (hb) 0521642124.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 141
Review by , Northern Arizona University.
Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940, Timothy B. Smith. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003. viii + 241 pp. Notes and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2409-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 99
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Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel. New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism, Emma Dillon. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii + 304 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-521-81371-9.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 106
Review by , York University.
A duel of giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the origins of the Franco-Prussian War, David Wetzel. Madison and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. xvi + 244 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay and index. $24.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-299-17490-5.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 22
Compte-rendu par , Université Paris-10.
Beyond Enlightenment. Occultism and Politics in Modern France, Davis Allen Harvey. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. Bibliography and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 087580344X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 39
Review by , University of Texas at El Paso.
La Société des Observateurs de l'homme: Des anthropologues au temps de Bonaparte (1799-1804), Jean-Luc Chappey. Paris: Société des études robespierristes, 2002. 573 pp. Tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. 46.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-908327-45-7.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 68
Review by , University of South Carolina.
Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity, Laura Weigert. Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past series. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. xvi + 246 pp. Illustrations, plates, notes, bibliography, appendices, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4008-4.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 124
Review by , Binghamton University (SUNY).
Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages, Rosamond McKitterick. Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. xi + 154 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0268035006.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 146
Review by , California State University, Los Angeles.
We’ll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930, Harvey Levenstein. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 382 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-47378-3.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 106
Review by , The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Jean Bodin. International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought, Julian H. Franklin, Ed. Hampshire, U.K., and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. xvii + 453 pp. Index. $225.00 U.S./£ 120 U.K. (hb). ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-2545-2.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 101
Review by , University of Liverpool.
Napoleon’s Conquest of Europe: the War of the Third Coalition, Frederick C. Schneid. London and Westport, Connecticutt: Praeger, 2005. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography and index. ISBN 0-275-98096-0.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 17
Response by Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 18
Review by , University of Puget Sound.
The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth: Ideas and Expeditions in Four Centuries of Geodesy, Michael Rand Hoare. Aldershot, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2005. xii + 275 pp. Preface, appendices, figures, maps, table, notes, reading list, and index. 99.95/£50.00. (hb). ISBN0754650200.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 152
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The Myth of Nations, the Medieval Origins of Europe, Patrick J. Geary. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. x + 199 pp. Notes, suggestions for further reading, and index. $24.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-09054-8.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 124
Review by , Oregon State University.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: A Visionary Naturalist, Herve Le Guyader. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. 288 pp. Illustrations and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-47091-1.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 86
Review by , University of Leeds.
The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Critical Essays, Margaret A. Simons, Ed. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006. xi + 316 pp. Notes, list of contributors and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-253-34722-X; $24.95 (pb). ISBN 1-800-842-6796.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 89
Review by , Lancaster University.
The Other Within: Ethics, Politics and the Body in Simone de Beauvoir, Fredrika Scarth. Lanham and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. xvi + 195 pp. Preface, notes, bibliography and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7425-3476-6.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 117
Review by , University of Vermont.
L’ordre des chartreux au XIIIe siècle. Actes du colloque international d’histoire et de spiritualité cartusienne, VIIIe centenaire de la fondation de la chartreuse de Valbonne, 11-13 juin 2004, James Hogg, Alain Girard, and Daniel Le Blévec, Eds.. Analecta Cartusiana 234. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2006. 145 pp. Maps, tables, notes. €40.00 (pb) ISBN 3900033595.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 94
Review by , The Ohio State University.
France and the World Since 1870, J. F. V. Keiger. (International Relations and the Great Powers, ed. John Gooch) London: Arnold; New York: Oxford, 2001. viii+ 261 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0 340 58507 8.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 52
Review by , University of Kentucky.
The Reform of the Frankish Church: Chrodegang of Metz and the Regula canonicorum in the Eighth Century, M. A. Claussen. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, 61. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 342 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and indices. £50 U.K./$80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-83931-9.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 36
Review by , Indiana State University.
The Inverted Mirror: Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany, 1898-1914, Michael E. Nolan. Vol. 2, Studies in Contemporary European History. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. ix + 141 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $50.00 (hb). ISBN 1-57181-669-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 14
Review by , University of Houston.
Vichy and the Eternal Feminine: A Contribution to a Political Sociology of Gender, Francine Muel-Dreyfus. Trans. Kathleen A. Johnson. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. 325 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $21.95 US (pb.). ISBN 0-8223-2774-0.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 51
Review by , University of Missouri-Rolla.
Massacre at Oradour, France, 1944: Coming to Grips with Terror, Jean-Jacques Fouché. Translated by David Sices and James B. Atkinson. Introduction by Jay Winter. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. xvii + 270 pp. Maps, photographs, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87580-601-5.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 51
Review by , University of Missouri-Rolla.
Women of Valor: The Rochambelles on the WWII Front, Ellen Hampton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xv + 233 pp. Maps, photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 U.S. (hb.) ISBN 1-4039-7143-9.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 159
Review by , University of Missouri-Rolla.
Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France during the German Occupation, Robert Gildea. New York: Picador, 2002. xx + 507 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $17.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-312-42359-4.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 54
Review by , University of California, Los Angeles.
Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet’s Paris, Marni Reva Kessler. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xxi + 215. $22.50 U. S. (pb). ISBN 0-8166-4782-8.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 151
Review by , University of California, Los Angeles.
Les îles bretonnes: Une image en construction (1750-1914), Karine Salomé. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2003. 466 pp. Notes, maps, figures, bibliography,
index. 24€ (pb). ISBN 2-86847-824-7.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 61
Review by , York University, United Kingdom.
Small-Town Martyrs and Murderers: Religious Revolution and Counterrevolution in Western France, 1774-1914, Edward J. Woell. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press, 2006. 292pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $32.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87462-311-1.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 130
Review by , University of York.
Qui parle pour la nation? Les élections en Champagne, 1765-1830, Jeff Horn. Paris: Société des études robespierristes, 2004. 273pp. Map, tables, notes and bibliography. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 2-908327-49-X.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 143
Review by , University of York.
Résister à la conscription, 1798-1814. Le cas des départements aquitains, Louis Bergès. Paris: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2002. 598 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and bibliography. 32.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-7355-0512-X.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 49
Review by , University of York.
Terre et société en Révolution: Approche du lien social dans la région d’Amboise, Anne Jollet. Paris: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2000. 549 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and bibliography. 38.11 € (pb). ISBN 27355-0396-8.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 78
Compte rendu par , Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Centre d’études nord-américaines/École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
Bonapartists in the Borderlands: Rafe Blaufarb. French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835, Rafe Blaufarb. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2005. xx + 302 p. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography and index. $50.00. ISBN 13: 978-0-8173-1487-3 (cl).
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 65
Review by , Hood College.
1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry, Andrew Bridgeford. New York: Fourth Estate, 2004. 354 pp. $37.31 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-841-15040-1.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 124
Review by , Yale University.
My Quest for the Middle Ages, Jacques Le Goff (in collaboration with Jean-Maurice de Montremy), Trans. Richard Veasey. New York and Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. ix + 133 pp. Index, bibliography. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-4039-7247-8.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 47
Review by , Saint Mary’s University.
The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The Politics of Artistic Display in France after 1968, Rebecca J. DeRoo. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 271 pp. Notes, Bibliography and Index. $80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-84109-7.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 58
Review by , University of Waterloo.
L’Invention du Patrimoine en Bourgogne, Philippe Poirrier, Ed. Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2004. 100 pp. (pb). €25 ISBN 2-905965-99-1.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 1
Review by , University of Montana.
Foreign Intelligence and Information in Elizabethan England: Two English Treatises on the State of France, 1580-1584, David Potter, Ed. Camden Fifth Series, vol. 25. Cambridge and New York: University Press, 2004. ix + 261 pp. Appendices, notes, and index.$75.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 0-521-84724-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 125
Review by , Kansas State University.
Letters of François de Callières to the Marquise d’Huxelles, Laurence Pope, Ed. Introduction by Laurence Pope. In collaboration with William S. Brooks. Studies in French Civilization, Vol. 35. Lewiston, N.Y. and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen, 2004. xxii + 314 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $119.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7734-6297-X.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 36
Review by , George Washington University.
A Question of Self-Esteem. The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy, 1944-1958, Alessandro Brogi. Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger Publishers, 2002. xvi + 315 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S.(cl). ISBN 0-275-97293-3.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 86
Review by , The University of Chicago.
Every Valley Shall Be Exalted : The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought, Constance Brittain Bouchard. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xvi + 171 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4058-0.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 91
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Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, and Repression, from the Terror to Napoleon, Howard G. Brown. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. 358 pp. Annexes, notes, bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 081-39254-60.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 112
Response by Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University, State University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 113
Review by , Institut d’histoire de la Révolution Française.
La ville aux îles, la ville dans l’île. Basse-Terre et Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, 1650-1820, Anne Pérotin-Dumon. Paris: Éditions Karthala, 2000. 1044 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index, and illustrations. 56.53 Euros (pb). ISBN 2-86537-936-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 95
Translation [in English] by John Garrigus, Jacksonville University a H-Caribbean review editor for the Fracophone Caribbean, of the review by Bernard Gainot.
Review by , George Mason University.
The Writings of Agnes of Harcourt. The Life of Isabelle of France and the Letter on Louis IX and Longchamp, Sean L. Field. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. x + 106 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-04403-1; $19.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-268-04404-X.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 72
Translation [in English] by , Jacksonville University and H-Caribbean review editor for the Francophone Caribbean of the Review [en français] by Bernard Gainot, Institut d'histoire de la Révolution Française.
La ville aux îles, la ville dans l’île. Basse-Terre et Pointe-à- Pitre, Guadeloupe, 1650-1820, Anne Pérotin-Dumon. Paris: Éditions Karthala, 2000. 1044 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index, and illustrations. 56.53 Euros (pb). ISBN 2-86537-936-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 115
Review by , Monash University.
Paris: Biography of a City, Colin Jones. New York: Viking, 2005. xxv + 566 pp. Maps, illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-670-03393-6. Reprint ed. New York: Penguin, 2006. $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-143-03671-8.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 158
Review by , Monash University.
Paris in the Age of Absolutism. An Essay, Orest Ranum. Revised and expanded edition. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. 403 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02221-3.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 9
Review by , Monash University.
Religion and Revolution in France, 1780-1804, Nigel Aston. Washinton, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press and London: Macmillan Press, 2000. xii + 435 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8132-0976-5. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8132-0977-3.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 10
Review by , University of Glamorgan.
L'Ecole de la Troisième République en questions : Débats et controverses dans le Dictionnaire de pédagogie de Fernand Buisson, Daniel Denis and Pierre Kahn, Eds. Berne : Peter Lang, 2006. vii + 283 pp. $34.95. ISBN : 9-783039-111558.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 11
Review by , Indiana State University.
Certain Ideas of France: Essays on French History and Civilization, H.L. Wesseling. Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. xvi + 205 pp. Notes and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-313-32341-0.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 56
Review by , New York University.
Arcisse de Caumont (1801-1873). Érudit normand et fondateur de l’archéologie française, Vincent Juhel, Ed. Caen: Société des antiquaires de Normandie, 2005. 514 pp. Notes and figures. 35 € (pb). ISBN 2-9510558-2-X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 31
Review by , New York University.
La religion dans la ville, Philippe Boutry and André Encrevé, Eds. Bordeaux: Éditions Bière, 2003. 270 pp. Maps, tables, figures, and notes. 28.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-85276-081-9.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 147
Review by , Oxford University.
Recollections of France. Memories, Identities and Heritage in Contemporary France, Sarah Blowen, Marion Demoisier and Jeanne Picard, Eds. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000. vi + 264 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $ 69.95 (cl). ISBN 1-57181-728-X. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 1-57181-499-X.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 127
Review by , University of California, Irvine.
Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe, John H. Arnold. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005. viii + 320 pp. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 03-40-80786-5.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 92
Review by , University of York.
From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe, Ruth Mazo Karras. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 246 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. £31.50 U.K.; $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3699-8; £12.50 U.K.; $17.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8122-1834-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 19
Review by , Texas A&M University.
The French in Texas: History, Migration, Culture, François Lagarde, Ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. ix + 330pp. Illustrations, selected bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S.(cl.), $24.95 U.S.(pb.) ISBN 0-292-70528-X.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 31
Review by , Westminster College.
Politics on the Fringe: The People, Policies, and Organization of the French National Front, Edward G. DeClair. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. xiv + 261 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-8223-2237-4. $17.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-8223-2139-4.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (May 2002), No. 39
Review by , University of Haifa.
Inquisition and Power. Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc, John Arnold. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. ix+312 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and acknowledgements. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3618-1
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 11
Review by , University of Haifa.
Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France. Kingship, Crusades and Jews, William Chester Jordan. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2001. x+ 276 pp. Preface, notes, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-86078-856-3.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 16
Review by , Mills College.
Hitler’s African Victims, The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940, Raffael Scheck. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 202pp. Sources, index. $65 (hb). ISBN: 0-521-85799-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 5
Review by , Mills College.
Histoire de la qualité alimentaire, XIXe-XXe siècle, Alessandro Stanziani. Paris: Seuil, 2005. 440 pp. Notes, index of concepts, and index of names. €26 (pb). ISBN: 2-02-078841-1.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 4
Review by , Mills College.
When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity, Kolleen M. Guy. Baltimore, Md. and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi + 245 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-7164-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 1
Review by , Edge Hill University.
Shantytown Kid [Le Gone du Chaâba], Azouz Begag. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Ed., intro., Alec G. Hargreaves; trans. Naïma Wolf and Alec G. Hargreaves. xii + 212 pp. Map, photographs, glossary and bibliography. $15.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-6258-4.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 118
Review by , Edge Hill University.
Ethnicity and Equality: France in the Balance, Azouz Begag. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Trans., intro., Alec G.Hargreaves. xxvii + 151 pp. Author’s preface, notes, glossary and index. $14.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-6262-1.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 118
Review by , Edge Hill University.
Un mouton dans le baignoire, Azouz Begag. Paris: Fayard, 2007. 377 pp. 20€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-213-63375-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 118
Review by , University College Dublin.
When the King Took Flight, Timothy Tackett. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. xi + 270pp. Maps, illustrations, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01054-X.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 3
Review by , Haverford College.
Accursed Politics: Some French Women Writers and Political Life, 1715-1850, Renee Winegarten. Chicago: Ivan R.Dee, 2003. vii + 288 pp. Illustrations, chronology, notes, and index. $27.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-56663-499-7.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 57
Review by , Haverford College.
The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern, Carla Hesse. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. xvi + 233 pp. Appendices and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-07472-0.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 63
Review by , Independent Scholar.
The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens, The Albigensian Crusade and its Aftermath, W. A. Sibly and M. D. Sibly, Eds. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2003. xxxvi + 162 pp. Maps, figures, notes, appendices, bibliography and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-85115-925-7.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 105
Review by , University of Sheffield.
Local Politics in the French Wars of Religion. The Towns of Champagne, the Duc de Guise, and the Catholic League, 1560-95, Mark W. Konnert. Aldershot and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2006. 300 pp. Maps, acknowledgements, bibliography, and index. n.p. ISBN 0-0-7546-5593-8.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 52
Review by , University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War, Robert A. Doughty. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii + 587pp. Maps, notes, essay on sources, index. ISBN 0–674–01880–X. $39.95 (hb).
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 49
Review by , University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War, Robert B. Bruce. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xx + 380 pp. Tables, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-7006-1253-X.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 135
Review by , University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
Tricolor over the Sahara: The Desert Battles of the Free French, 1940-1942, Edward L. Bimberg. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. xii + 134 pp. Illustrations, select bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313-31654-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 54
Review by , Stanford University.
The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book, Andrew Pettegree, Paul Nelles, and Philip Conner, Eds. Aldershot, England, and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2001. xviii + 366 pp. Figures, tables, notes on contributors, abbreviations, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0278-8.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 93
Review by , New York University.
Robert of Arbrissel: Sex, Sin and Salvation in the Middle Ages, Jacques Dalarun. Trans. Bruce L. Venarde. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America, 2006. xxxi + 188 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $ 24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-8132-1439-4.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 69
Review by , Yale University.
Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul, Bonnie Effros. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xviii + 174 pp. Figures, notes bibliography and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-312-22736-1.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 142
Response by Bonnie Effros to the review of her book by Veronika Grimm.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 143
Compte-rendu par , CNRS, ENS/LSH Lyon.
Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century, Diana Donald and Frank O’Gorman, Eds. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 251 pp. Illustrations and index. $69.95 U.S., 52.00 U.K. (cl). ISBN 1-403-93820-2.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 90
Review by , Wellesley College.
La politique culturelle en débat: Anthologie 1955-2005, Geneviève Gentil and Philippe Poirrier, Eds. Paris: La Documentation française, 2006. 212 pp. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 2-11-006089-1.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 102
Review by , University of Texas at San Antonio.
Camembert: A National Myth (California Studies in Food and Culture, 4), Pierre Boisard. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xiii +254 pp. $29.95 (hb) ISBN 0-520-22550-3.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (December 2004), No. 120
Review by , University of Texas at San Antonio.
The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture, Rebecca L. Spang. Harvard Historical Studies, 135) Paperback edition. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. vii + 325 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $16.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-674-00685-2.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 116
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Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam: Women, Words, and War, Pamela A. Pears. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2004. x + 163. Bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-831-X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 33
Review by , University of Maryland University College.
Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Clive Emsley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii + 288 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-19-820798-0.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 132
Review by , University of Maryland University College and Holy Names College.
The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation, Carol E. Harrison. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. viii + 268 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, abbreviations. $72.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-19-820777-8.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 31
Review by , Columbia College, Chicago.
Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory, Faith E. Beasley. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Edited by Allyson Poska and Abby Zanger. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2006. xii + 345 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S./£47.50 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-5354-4.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 33
Response by Faith Beasley, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 34
Review by , Southwest Missouri State University.
The Story of Sapho, Madeleine de Scudéry. Edited and translated by Karen Newman. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, Ed. Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxxii + 155 pp. $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-14399-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 38
Review by , University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke. Edited by Frank M. Turner with essays by Darrin M. McMahon, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Jack N. Rakove and Alan Wolfe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. xliii + 322 pp. Notes, suggested readings, and glossary index. $21.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-09978-9; $9.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-300-09979-7.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 37
Review by , West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
The Eagle’s Last Triumph: Napoleon’s Victory at Ligny, June 1815, Andrew Uffindell. London: Greenhill Books, 2006. 272 pp. Plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85367-688-8.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 63
Review by , West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
Napoléon, David: The Image Enthroned, Patric Jean. Brooklyn, N.Y.: First Run / Icarus Films, 2005. VHS, 51 minutes. Color and black and white. $390.00 U.S.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 148
Review by , West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon’s Brother Joseph, Patricia Tyson Stroud. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 269 pp. Plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3872-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 144
Review by , University of Colorado at Boulder.
Visions croisées Franco-Allemandes de la Première Guerre mondiale. Étude de deux quotidiens: la Metzer Zeitung et L’Est Républicain, Stéphanie Dalbin. Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2007. xii + 396 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 68.50 € (pb). ISBN 978-3-03911-250-0.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 83
Review by , University of Colorado at Boulder.
France and the Great War 1914-1918. New Approaches to European History, Leonard V. Smith, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, and Annette Becker. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. vi + 202 pp. Plates, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $58.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0- 521-66176-5; $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-66631-7.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 119
Review by , Columbia University.
The Anonymous Marie de France, R. Howard Bloch. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xii + 367 pp. Notes and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-05968-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 25
Review by , Butler University.
The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France, David Andress. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. 441 pp. Figures, maps, notes, and index. $26.00. ISBN 0-374-27341-3.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 18
Review by , Butler University.
Possible Worlds: The Idea of Happiness in the Utopian Vision of Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Riikka Forsström. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002. 326 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 27.00 € (pb). ISBN 951-746-355-3.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 69
Review by , University of Texas at Austin.
Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France, Lianne McTavish. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. xiv + 257 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. (cl); ISBN 0-7546-3619- 4.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 41
Review by , Florida State University.
Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State and Public Space, John R. Bowen. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006). 290 pp. $27.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-691-12506-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 28
Review by , Florida State University.
Race Politics in Britain and France: Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s, Erik Bleich. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 233 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl); $23.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-81101-5 (cl); ISBN 0-521-00953-7 (pb).
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 43
Review by , University of Akron.
Perrier, c’est nous! Histoire de la source Perrier et de son personnel. Nicolas Marty. Paris: Editions de l’Atelier/ Editions Ouvrières, 2005. 254 pp. Map, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 24 € (pb). ISBN 2-7082-3816-7.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 13
Review by , University of Akron.
Culture, Identity, and Nationalism: French Flanders in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Timothy Baycroft. Suffolk, U.K. and Rochester, N.Y.: The Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2004. x + 233 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 (cl). ISBN 0-86193-269-2.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 80
Review by , University of Akron.
Cock and Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue, Robert Zaretsky. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. viii + 190 pp. Map, illustrations, bibliography, index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8032-4920-9.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (December 2004), No. 122
Review by , University of Akron.
Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960, Laura Lee Downs. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 2002. xv + 411 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $74.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-2928-x; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-2944-1.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 14
Review by , University of Akron.
The Bouchayers of Grenoble and French Industrial Enterprise, 1850-1970, Robert J. Smith. Baltimore, Md. and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xix + 247 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-8018-6683-9.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 50
Review by , University of South Carolina.
Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France, Caroline Ford. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. xi + 170 pp. Bibliography and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-8014-4367-9.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 94
Response by Caroline Ford to the review of her book by Carol E. Harrison.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 95
Review by , University of South Carolina.
Assassination, Politics, and Miracles: France and the Royalist Reaction of 1820, David Skuy. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003. ix + 301 pp. Figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2457-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 20
Review by , University of South Carolina.
Family Dynasty, Revolutionary Society: The Cochins of Paris, 1750-1922, Laurence H. Winnie. Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. vii + 247 pp. Notes, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, and index. $72.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313-31361-X.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 44
Review by , Central Michigan University.
Revolutionary Currents: Nation Building in the Transatlantic World, Michael Morrison and Melinda Zook, Eds. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004. 192 pp. Notes, select bibliography, and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7425-2165-6.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 33
Review by , University of South Carolina.
Patronat, bourgeoisie, catholicisme et libéralisme. Autour du Journal d’Auguste Isaac. Actes de la journée d’étude du 18 juin 2003, Hervé Joly, Ed. Cahiers Pierre Léon n° 5. Lyon: LARHRA, 2004. 230 pp. Notes. €20 (pb) ISBN 2-9519554-4-8.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 67
Review by , Kent State University.
Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830, Sheryl Kroen. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2000. xiv + 394 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $55.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-520-22214-8.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 32
Review by , Mississippi State University.
Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine, Wayne Andersen. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 266 pp. Plates, notes, and index. $80.00 (cl). ISBN 0-521-83726-X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 22
Review by , New College of Florida.
Secular Spirituality: Reincarnation and Spiritism in Nineteenth-Century France, Lynn L. Sharp. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2006. xxiii + 245 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-1338-0; $28.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1339-9.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 76
Review by , St. Cloud State University.
Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice, Allan Megill. With contributions by Steven Shepard and Phillip Honenberger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xvi + 288 pp. Tables, notes, index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-51829-9; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-51830-5.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 121
Review by , St. Cloud State University.
Lucien Febvre, lecteur et critique, Bertrand Müller. Paris: Albin Michel, 2003. 467 pp. Notes, annexes, selective bibliography. €26 (pb). ISBN 2-226-13282-1.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 1
Review by , St. Cloud State University.
Le rôle social de l’historien: De la chaire au prétoire, Olivier Dumoulin. Paris: Albin Michel, 2003. 343 pp. Notes. €22.50 (pb). ISBN 2-226-13484-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 1
Review by , Independent Scholar.
The Cubist Painters, translated, with commentary by Peter Read, Guillaume Apollinare. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. 234p. Bibliography. $29.95. ISBN 0-520-24354-4.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 72
Review by , Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt. Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France, Alison McQueen. Amsterdam: Amstedam University Press, distributed in the US by the University of Chicago Press, 2003. 388p. bibliography and index. $55.00 (US). ISBN 90-5356-624-4.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 117
Review by , Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Soil and Stone: Impressionism, Urbanism, Environment, Frances Fowle and Richard Thomason, Eds.. Aldershot and Burlington, VT.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003. xiv + 175 pp. Notes. £52.50 (cl). ISBN 0-7546-3685-2.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 78
Review by , Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
The Joy of Life. The Idyllic in French Art, circa 1900, Margaret Werth. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2002. xviii + 361 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-22182-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 64
Review by , Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Monumental Intolerance: Jean Baffier, A Nationalist Sculpture in Fin-De-Siècle France, Neil McWilliam. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. lxvii+326pp. Bibliography and index. $70.00
U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-01965-4.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 13
Review by , Kalamazoo College.
La France et les juifs de 1789 à nos jours, Michel Winock. Paris: Éditions de Seuil, 2004. 385 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index of proper names. 22€. (pb.). ISBN 2-02-060954-1.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 74
Review by , Washington University in St. Louis.
The Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition and Revolutionary Socialism, David A. Shafer. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xii + 226 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 US (cl). ISBN: 0-333-72302-3. $28.95 US (pb). ISBN: 0-333-72303-1.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 55
Review by , Balliol College, University of Oxford.
People and Politics in France, 1848-1870, Roger Price. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ix + 477 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $95.00 U.S. (hb.) ISBN 0-521-83706-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 119
Review by , Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York.
Robert of Arbrissel: A Medieval Religious Life, Bruce Venarde, Ed. and trans.. Medieval Texts in Translation. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003. xxxix + 155 pp. Chronology, introduction, map, notes, and bibliography. $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8132-1354-1.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 103
Review by , University of Michigan.
Blowing Up Paradise, Ben Lewis, Director. 60 min., DVD and VHS. First Run/Icarus Films, 2005. $390.00 U.S.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 10
Review by , University of North Alabama.
A History of Pedlars in Europe, Laurence Fontaine. Translated by Vicki Whittaker. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. 280pp. Appendix, notes, index. $54.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-1786-9. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-1794-X.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 35
Review by , University of California at Santa Barbara.
Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe’s Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780, Jeroen Duindam. New Studies in European History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi + 349 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82262-9.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 40
Review by , Université de Nantes.
Origins of the French Welfare State: The Struggle for Social Reform in France, 1914-1947, Paul V. Dutton. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii + 251 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cloth). ISBN 0-521-81334-4
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 117
Review by , University of Massachusetts.
Through the Reading Glass: Women, Books, and Sex in the French Enlightenment, Suellen Diaconoff. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. vii + 268 pages. Bibliography and index. $75.00 US (cl). ISBN: 0-7914-6421-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 46
Review by , Middlebury College.
Sexual Antipodes: Enlightenment Globalization and the Placing of Sex, Pamela Cheek. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xi + 320 pages. Notes and index. $49.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8047-4663-X.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 101
Review by , Middlebury College.
Foreign Bodies: Gender, Language, and Culture in French Orientalism, Madeleine Dobie. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xiv + 234 pp. Notes and index. $49.50 US (cl). ISBN 0-8047-4104-2
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 62
Review by , University of Nottingham.
The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800-1930, Michael Stephen Smith. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 575 pp. Tables, notes and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01939-3.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 126
Review by , Université de Moncton.
The Faith and Fortunes of France’s Huguenots, 1600-8, Philip Benedict. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2001, xiv + 336 pp. Maps, tables, notes and index. $99.95 U.S. ISBN 0 7546 0225 7.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 4
Review by , Université de Moncton.
Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685, Raymond A. Mentzer and Andrew Spicer, Eds.. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii + 241 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. ISBN 0 521 77324 5.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 120
Review by , University of Toronto.
Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism, Peter Baehr and Melvin Richter, Eds. Cambridge and New York. Cambridge University Press. 2004. 308 pp. Notes. $65.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 0-521-82563-1.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 110
Review by , University of Toronto.
Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians, Harry Liebersohn. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi + 179pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliographical references, index. $54.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-64090-3. $19.95 U.S. (pb). 0-521-64090-3.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 23
Review by , Immaculata University.
L'Amnistie: De la Commune à la guerre d'Algérie, Stéphane Gacon. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2002. 428 pp. Notes; bibliography; index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 58
Review by , Temple University.
Remaking France: Americanization, Public Diplomacy, and the Marshall Plan, Brian Angus McKenzie. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. xii + 259. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 (cl). ISBN 1-84545-154-6.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 85
Review by , Saint Anselm College.
Image and Word in the Theology of John Calvin, Randall C. Zachman. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, xii + 548 pp. Notes, indices. $55.00 U.S. (cl), ISBN 0-268-04500-3.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 23
Review by , George Mason University.
Huguenot Heartland: Montauban and Southern French Calvinism during the Wars of Religion (St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History), Philip Conner. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2002. xiv + 257 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $84.95 U.S., £47.50 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0762-3.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 30
Review by , Manhattan College.
The Origins of the Welfare State: Women, Work, and the French Revolution, Lisa Dicaprio. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv +259 pp. Notes and index. $40.00. (cl). ISBN: 13-978-0-252-032021-5.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 57
Review by , Manhattan College.
François de Neufchâteau : biographie intellectuelle, Dominique Margairaz. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2005, 557 pp. Bibliography, Index. €30.40 (cloth). ISBN 2-85944-525-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 9
Review by , Manhattan College.
Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution, Alan Forrest. London: Arnold, 2004, viii + 259 pp. Bibliography, Index. $19.95 U.S. (Pb). ISBN 0-340-56434-2.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 26
Review by , Manhattan College.
Reform, Revolution and French Global Policy, 1787-1791, Jeremy J. Whiteman. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. vi + 259 pp. Bibliography and index. $89.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0672-4.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 29
Review by , Manhattan College.
Citizens & Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle for Modernity, and the Origins of Ideological Terror, Eli Sagan. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001. xii + 640 pp. Notes. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7425-0831-5.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 99
Review by , Manhattan College.
The French Experience from Republic to Monarchy, 1792-1824: New Dawns in Politics, Knowledge and Culture, Maire F. Cross and David Williams, Eds. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave, 2000. xii + 232 pp. Index. £42.50 UK (cl). ISBN 0-333-77265-2.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 18
Review by , McMaster University.
London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century, Youssef Cassis and Éric Bussière. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii + 367. Notes. $125.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-926949-1.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 73
Review by , Yale University.
France’s Security Independence: Originality and Constraints in Europe 1981-1995, Xavier Fraudet. Bern, Peter Lang 2006. $54.95 U.S. (pb). U.S. ISBN 978-0-8204-8377-1.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 53
Review by , Wayne State University.
Charlemagne: Father of a Continent, Alessandro Barbero. Translated by Allan Cameron. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2004. 426 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 (hb). ISBN 0-520-23943-1.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 48
Review by and , University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and its Legacies, 1940-1970, Anne Raffin. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2005. v + 273 pp. $70.00 US (hb) ISBN 0-7391-1146-9.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 54
Review by , University of Delaware.
Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. With the collaboration of Jean-François Fitou. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x + 432 pp. Photographs, tables, figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-47320-1. Originally published as Saint-Simon, ou le système de la Cour, Paris: Arthème Fayard, 1997.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 79
Review by , University of Vermont.
Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought, Christopher John Murray, Ed. London & New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. xxxii + 713 pp. Notes, chronology, index. $175.00, ISBN 1-57958-384-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 6
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An Uncertain Idea of France: Essays and Reminiscence on the Third Republic, Robert J. Young. New York: Peter Lang, 2005. x + 261 pp. $66.95 U.S. ISBN 0-8204-7481-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 111
Review by , Northern Illinois University.
A Discourse for the Holy Grail in Old French Romance, Ben Ramm. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2007. x + 182 pp. Bibliography and index. $85. ISBN 1-84384-109-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 93
Review by , Concordia University.
From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914, Paul Miller. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. xii + 277 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-2757-0; $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-2766-X.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 106
Review by , York University.
Anglo-French Relations Before the Secod World War: Appeasement and Crisis, Richard Davis. London: Palgrave, 2001. vii + 219pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 US (cl.). ISBN 0-333-94926-9.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 28
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Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Staging Modernity, Sally Debra Charnow. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ix + 268 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-7041-6.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 72
Review by , University of Wales, Swansea.
The Gold Standard Illusion. France, the Bank of France and the International Gold Standard, 1914-1939, Kenneth Mouré. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 297 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $72.00 (cl.) ISBN 019-924904-0.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 98
Review by , University of California at Los Angeles.
L’Europe des francs-maçons, XVIIIe-XXIe siècles, Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire. Paris: Éditions Belin, 2002. 320 pp. Notes & bibliography. 15.50 € (pb). ISBN 2-701102835-8.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 115
Review by , Brandeis University.
France in the Era of Fascism: Essays on the French Authoritarian Right, Brian Jenkins, Ed. Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. vii + 232 pp. Bibliography, index. $60.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 1-571-8153-76.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 86
Review by , Brandeis University.
Jews in France during the Second World War, Renée Poznanski. Trans. Nathan Bracher. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press in association with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2001. xxv + 601 pp. Photos, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-87451-896-2. $34.95 U.S. (pk). ISBN 1-58465-144-X.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 100
Review by , University of Michigan.
Guns in the Desert: General Jean-Pierre Doguereau’s Journal of Napoleon’s Egyptian Expedition, Rosemary Brindle, Trans. and Ed . Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger, 2002. xv + 200 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313-32512-X.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 69
Review by , University of Leeds.
Reconciling France against Democracy: The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français, 1927-1945, Sean Kennedy. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007. xxii + 364 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7735-3205-2.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 129
Review by , Brigham Young University.
Delacroix, Art and Patrimony in Post-Revolutionary France, Elisabeth A. Fraser. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 261 pp. Color plates and figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82829-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 111
Review by , Wayne State University.
The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830, Jeff Horn. Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 2006. vi + 383 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-262-08352-3.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 88
Review by , Wayne State University.
Press, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835, Jeremy D. Popkin. University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. vii + 329 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-271-02153-50.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 16
Review by , Wayne State University.
La fin des corporations, traduit de l’américain par Béatrice Vierne, Steven L. Kaplan. Paris: Fayard, 2001. ix + 740 pp. Notes and index of names. 220 FF. ISBN 2-213-60829-6.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 42
Review by , University of Iowa.
Rethinking Boucher, Melissa Hyde and Mark Ledbury, Eds. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2006. xi + 289 pp. Figures, plates, notes, bibliography and index. $55.00 US (pb). ISBN 0-89236-825-X.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 108
Compte-rendu par , Université de Paris I.
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France, Carmen Callil. New York : Knopf, 2006. 640 pp. $30.00 (hb). ISBN 0-37-54113-13.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 82
Review by , University of Warwick.
Planning Paris Before Haussmann, Nicholas Papayanis. Baltimore & London: John Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 336 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-801-87930-2.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 135
Review by , University of Warwick.
The Glass State. The Technology of the Spectacle. Paris, 1981-1998, Annette Fierro. MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., 2003. xviii + 320 pp. $45. ISBN: 0-262-06233-X.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 116
Review by , University of Warwick.
Journal de santé de Louis XIV. Écrit par Vallot, Daquin et Fagon. Stanis Perez., Ed. Grenoble, France: Éditions Jérôme Millon, 2004. 445 pp. € 27.00 (pb). ISBN: 2-84137-159-X.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 94
Review by , University of Warwick.
In Old Paris. An Anthology of Source Descriptions, 1323-1790, Robert W. Berger, Ed. New York: Italica Press, 2002. xi + 194 pp. Footnotes, maps, and appendices. $15.00 U.S. ISBN 0-934977-66-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 83
Review by , University of Warwick.
The Making of Revolutionary Paris, David Garrioch. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2002. xiv + 382 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected readings, and index. $34.95 US/£24.95 (cl). ISBN 0-520-23253-4.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 11
Review by , University of Birmingham.
Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851, Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. 201 pp. Figures, notes, acknowledgments, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01497-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 122
Review by , University of Illinois at Chicago.
Lettres d’un lion: Correspondance inédite du général Mouton, comte de Lobau (1812-1815), Emmanuel de Waresquiel. Paris: Nouveau Monde/Fondation Napoléon, 2005. 206 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and chronology. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 2-84736-088-3.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 24
Review by , University of Illinois, Chicago.
Napoléon et l’Europe. Regards sur une politique. Thierry Lentz, Ed. Paris: Fayard, 2005. 445 pp. €25.00. ISBN 2-213-6239-02.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 151
Review by , University of Illinois at Chicago.
Popular Resistance in the French Wars: Patriots, Partisans and Pirates, Charles J. Esdaile, Ed. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. vii + 233 pp. Figures, notes, index. $74.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 14-03938-261.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 57
Review by , University of Illinois at Chicago.
Napoleon and Europe, Philip G. Dwyer, Ed. London and New York: Longman, 2001. xxi + 328 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $23.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-528-31837-8.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 126
Review by , University of Northern Colorado.
Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages. A Sourcebook, Conor McCarthy, Ed. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. xii + 292 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $96.65 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-415-30745-7; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-30746-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 106
Review by , University of Northern Colorado.
Nicolas de Clamanges: Spirituality, Personal Reform and Pastoral Renewal on the Eve of the Reformations, Christopher M. Bellitto. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University Press of America, 2001. xii + 146 pp. Bibliography and index. $44.95 U.S. ISBN 0-8132-0996-X.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 53
Review by , Princeton University.
Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France, Robert F. Berkhofer III. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. vi + 270 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3796-X.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 18
Response by Robert F. Berkhofer III to the review of his book by William Chester Jordan.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 19
Review by , Princeton University.
France in the Later Middle Ages 1200-1500, David Potter, Ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv + 288 pp. Further reading, chronology, genealogical tables, chief office-holders of France, glossary, maps, and index. £14.99 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0-19-925047-2.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 23
Compte-rendu par , E.H.E.S.S. (C.R.H.)
Why France ? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination. With an afterword by Roger Chartier, Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson, Eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. 242 pp. $27.95 (cl). ISBN-10: 0-801-4441-44.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 155
Compte-rendu par , Université d’Amsterdam.
Napoléon et Waterloo: la défaite glorieuse de 1815 à nos jours, Jean-Marc Largeaud. Paris: La Boutique de l’histoire, 2006. 462 pp. Annexes, bibliography, iconography, and index. 35€ (pb). ISBN 2910828387.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 110
Review by , Université d’Amsterdam.
The Legend of Napoleon, Sudhir Hazareesingh. London, Granta Books, 2004. xiii + 336 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. 20£ U.K. ISBN 1-86207-667-7.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 119
Response by Sudhir Hazareesingh to the review of his book by Annie Jourdan.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 120
Review by , Université d’Amsterdam.
Talleyrand, le prince immobile, Emmanuel de Waresquiel. Paris: Fayard, 2003. 796 p. Deux cahiers d'illustrations, notes, bibliographie, iconographie, filmographie, généalogie, et index. 30.00 Euros. ISBN 2-213-61326-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 49
Review by , University of Amsterdam.
Napoleon, R. S. Alexander. (London and New York: Arnold, 2001). 273 pp. Illustrations. $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-340-71916-8.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 50
Review by , Université d'Amsterdam.
Napoleonic Art, Nationalism, and the Spirit of Rebellion in France (1815-1848), Barbara Ann Day-Hickman. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998; and London: Associated University Presses, 1999. 176 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Price $55.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-87413-615-6.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (October 2001), No. 28
Review by , University of Memphis.
Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth-Century, Bernard-Henri Lévy. Translated by Andrew Brown. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2003. v + 536 pp. Notes and Index. $30.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7456-3009-X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 59
Review by , University of Memphis.
In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth-Century France, Maud Mandel. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003. ix + 317. Notes, bibliography and index. $84.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3134-9; $23.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-3121-7.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 37
Review by , University of Memphis.
Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria, James D. Le Sueur. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. ix + 342 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $46.50 US (cl.). ISBN 0-8122-3588-6.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 30
Compte-rendu par , Université Paris I / Freie Universität Berlin.
Kultfigur und Nation: Öffentliche Denkmäler in Paris, Berlin und London 1848-1914, Helke Rausch. Munich: Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2006. 797 pp. Notes, black and white illustrations, bibliography and index. € 79.80 (hb). ISBN 978-3-486-57579-8.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 1
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Review by , University of Rochester.
Aymeri of Narbonne: A French Epic Romance, Michael A. H. Newth, trans. New York: Italica Press, 2005. xxxvii + 169 pp. Maps, glossary, appendices, and bibliography. $17.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-934977-67-4.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 107
Review by , University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After, Peter Sahlins. Ithaca, New York, and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. xiv + 454 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $67.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4142-0; $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8839-7.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 74
Review by , University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815, Ronald Schechter. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2003. viii + 338 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-52-023557-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 122
Review by , University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
A Political Academy in Paris 1724-1731: The Entresol and Its Members. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Nick Childs. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2000. xi + 289 pp. Appendices, bibliography, and index. $94.88 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0736-5.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 94
Review by , University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800, David A. Bell. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. xiv + 304 pp. Notes, index, and 16 illustrations. $45.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-674-00447-7.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 24
Response by David A. Bell to Thomas Kaiser's review
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 25
Review by , Washington State University.
Le monde des salons. Sociabilité et mondanité à Paris au XVIIIe siècle, Antoine Lilti. Paris: Fayard, 2005. 568 pp. Notes and index. €30 E.U. (pb). ISBN 35-2492-3.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 106
Review by , Washington State University.
Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza, David Baguley. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. ix + 425 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-8071-2624-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 21
Review by , Washington State University.
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War, Graham Robb. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2007. vii + 455 pp. Maps, figures, notes bibliography, and index. $27.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 0-393-05973-1.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 61
Review by , the University of New South Wales.
The Dreyfus Affair: A Chronological History, George R. Whyte. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xxxiv + 526 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, appendices, and index. $185.00 U.S.(hb). ISBN 1-4039-3829-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 27
Review by , St. Francis Xavier University.
France and the French: La Vie en Bleu since 1900, Rod Kedward. Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 2005. xx + 741 pp. Tables, notes, maps, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-58567-733-7.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 160
Review by , Pomona College.
The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism, Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2005. xii + 341. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S.; £39.95 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-520-24180-0.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 132
Review by , Pomona College.
Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths under the French Revolution, Antoine de Baecque. Translated by Charlotte Mandell. New York and London: Routledge, 2001. 243 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl); ISBN 0-415-92616-5. $22.95 U.S. (pb); ISBN 0-415-92617-3.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 105
Review by , Loyola University Chicago.
France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart: An Epic Tale for Modern Times, Raymond Jonas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xv + 308 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-520-22136-2.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 8
Review by , Langara College.
Le Quadrige: Un Siècle d’édition universitaire, 1860-1968, Valérie Tesnière. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001. 492 pp. Sources, bibliography, and index. 38.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-13-051-727-7.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 80
Review by , George Washington University.
A Field of Honor: Writers, Court Culture, and Public Theater in French Literary Life from Racine to the Revolution, Gregory S. Brown. www.gutenberg-e.org and Columbia University Press, 2002. 387 pp. Links, images, notes, and bibliography. $49.95 U.S. (e-text). ISBN 0-231-12460-0.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 33
Gregory Brown's commentary on electronic publishing
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 34
Review by , University of New Brunswick.
France in 1938, Benjamin Martin. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. x + 252 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 (cl). ISBN 0-8071-3050-8.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 42
Review by , Professor Emerita, Montgomery College.
Faire Voir, Faire Croire: L’opinion publique sous Louis XIII, Hélène Duccini. Paris: Champ Vallon, 2003. 537 pp. Illustrations, charts, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. €34 (pb). ISBN 2-87673-372-2.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 59
Review by , Professor Emerita, Montgomery College in Maryland.
Les Domestiques commensaux du roi de France au XVIIe siècle, Sophie de Laverny. Paris: Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002. 557 pp. Tables, maps, notes, and bibliography. 42.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-8050-225-9.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 82
Review by , Boston University.
Marketing Marianne: French Propaganda in America, 1900-1940, Robert J. Young. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. Notes, bibliography, index. $60.00 US (cl.). ISBN 0-8135-3377-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 99
Review by , Harvard Divinity School.
A Gothic Sermon: Making a Contract with the Mother of God, Saint Mary of Amiens, Stephen Murray. University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 2004, 173 pages, 15 illustrations. $39.95 (cl). ISBN: 0520238478.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 63
Review by , United States Military Academy, West Point.
Jomini et la stratégie: Une approache historique de l'oeuvre, Ami-Jacques Rapin. Paris: Sofedis and Lagny; Belgium: Sodis, 2002. 336 pp. Notes, biographical notices, and bibliography. 23.70 Euros (pb). ISBN 2-601-03297.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 136
Review by , University of Northern Iowa.
Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective, Sylvia Paletschek and Bianka Pietrow-Ennker, Eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. ix + 448 pp. Acknowledgements, contributors, notes, supplementary bibliography, and index of names. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0804747644.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 31
Review by , University of Windsor.
The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France, John J. Conley. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. xi + 222 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 0-8014-4020-3.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 108
Review by , University of Windsor.
Strength in Numbers: Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France, Carol Blum. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiii + 261 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-6810-6.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 74
Review by , University of California, Berkeley.
Reality Fictions: Romance, History, and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180, Robert M. Stein. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. ix + 294 pp. Abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN-13: 978-0-268-04120-3.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 142
Response by , Purchase College and Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 143
Review by , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Rethinking France: Les Lieux de mémoire. Under the direction of Pierre Nora; translation directed by David P. Jordan. Vol. I: The State. Translated by Mary Trouille. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. xxxiii + 483 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-59132-8.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 91
Review by , University of Florida.
Forging Rousseau: Print, Commerce, and Cultural Manipulation in the Late Enlightenment, Raymond Birn. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2001:08. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2001. ix + 281 pp. Bibliography and index. £49.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0770-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 6
Review by , University of Notre Dame.
Thérèse of Lisieux: God’s Gentle Warrior, Thomas R. Nevin. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Xviii + 398pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-530721-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 156
Review by , University of Notre Dame.
Les origines du mal: une histoire du péché original, Georges Minois. Paris: Fayard, 2002. 440 pp. Bibliography and index. 22.00 €. ISBN 2-213-61149-1.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 84
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Review Article by , Institut québécois des hautes études internationales.
Chronicle of a Summer, (Chronique d'un été.) Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin. First Run/Icarus Films, VHS, 2003 [1961], 84 minutes.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 118
Review Article by , Institut québécois des hautes études internationales.
Ciné-Ethnography, Jean Rouch. Ed. and trans., Steven Feld, Series "Visible Evidence" No. 13, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003, viii + 448 p. $25.95 U.S. (pb) ISBN 0-81-664104-8.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 118
Review by , Hartwick College.
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A ‘Belle Epoque’? Women in French Society and Culture 1890-1914. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. xv + 344 pp. Illustrations, notes, select chronology, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-84545-021-3.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 60
Review by , Hartwick College.
L'Incident électoral de la Révolution française à la Ve République, Philippe Bourdin, Jean-Claude Caron, and Mathias Bernard, Eds.. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2002. 334 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-84516-208-1.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 93
Review by , Nottingham University, Nottingham UK.
Locating Bourdieu, Deborah Reed-Danahay. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005). xii + 208pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-253-21732-6.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 139
Review by , Dickinson College.
L’Humanité de Jaurès à nos jours, Christian Delporte, Claude Pennetier, Jean-François Sirinelli, and Serge Wolikow, Eds. Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2004. 419 p. 32.30€ (pb). ISBN 2-84736-081-6.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 133
Review by , University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Descartes and the Passionate Mind, Deborah J. Brown. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xi + 231 pp. Bibliography and index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-85728-4.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 77
Review by , The Open University (UK).
Police Stories: Building the French State 1815-1851, John Merriman. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. viii + 254 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. £33 UK; $55.00 US (hb). ISBN 0-19-507253-7.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 13
Review by , University of Texas, Austin.
A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe, Michael Creswell. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. xvi + 238 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-674-02297-3.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 148
Review by , The Open University (UK).
Citizenship & Wars. France in Turmoil, 1870-1871, Bertrand Taithe. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. viii + 263 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-415-23927-3; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-23928-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 69
Review by , University of Manitoba.
On Jean-Jacques Rousseau Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution, James Swenson. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. xiii+ 320 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8047-3555-7.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 7
Review by , CNRS-Université de Nantes.
Vichy et l’ordre moral, Marc Boninchi. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2005, 319 pp. Notes, graphiques, tableaux. Préface de Gérard Noiriel. € 26.00. ISBN 2-13-055339-7.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 53
Review by , Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
Fashion under the Occupation, Dominique Veillon. Trans. Miriam Kochan. Oxford and New York : Berg, 2002. xi + 205 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes and index. $70.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1 85973 543-6; $23.00 (pb). ISBN 1-85973-548-7.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 24
Review by , Southwestern University.
Opera, Liberalism and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France: The Politics of Halévy’s La Juive, Diana R. Hallman. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii + 390 pp. Illustrations, music, appendices, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-521-65086-0.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 56
Review by , Université de Nantes.
Les rapports des procureurs généraux de la Cour d'appel de Dijon (décembre 1849-juillet 1870), Jean-Claude Farcy. Préface de Jean-Jacques Clère. Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2003. 765 pp. Cartes, tableaux, notes, bibliographie, et index de personnes et de lieux. 40.00 €. ISBN 2-905965-79-7.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 2
Review by , Université de Nantes.
Napoléon et les cultes: Les religions en Europe à l’aube du XIXe siècle, 1800-1815, Jacques-Olivier Boudon. Paris: Fayard, 2002. 369 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. 20 € (pb). ISBN 9-78213-61414-4.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 13
Review by , Université de Nantes.
Missionnaires de la République, Michel Biard. Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2002. 624 pp. Notes and index. 32.00 € (cl.). ISBN 2-735-50516-2.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 74
Review by , Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
Napoleon’s Troublesome Americans: Franco-American Relations, 1804-1815, Peter P. Hill. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2005. xiii + 289 pp. Notes and bibliography. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-57488-879-X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 147
Review by , Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
From Corunna to Waterloo: The Letters and Journals of Two Napoleonic Hussars, 1801-1816. Gareth Glover, ed. London: Greenhill Books, 1999. 287 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-85367-709-0.
Review by , Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 63
Review by , University of Bristol.
Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvère Repertoire, Mary O’Neill. Oxford Monographs on Music. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xv + 226 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-816547-1.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 70
Review by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and , Université Paris X.
Affinity, that Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution, Mi Gyung Kim. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. xii + 599 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-262-11273-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 64
Review by , The University of Utah.
Republican Identities in War and Peace: Representations of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Antoine Prost. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 2002. xi + 288 pp. Pictures, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85973-621-1; $25.00 U.S. (pb). 1-85973-626-2.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 37
Review by , University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Death Squadrons: The French School, Marie-Monique Robin, Director. New York: First Run/Icarus Films: 2003. 60 Minutes color. Sale: Video/DVD, $390. Rental: Video, $100.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 77
Review by , University of California, Los Angeles.
Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair, Annegret Fauser. Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2005. 416 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-580-4618-59.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 35
Review by , Harvard University.
Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century, Gregory Mann. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. 333 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography and index. $84.95 (hb); $23.95 (pb). ISBN: 0-8223-3755-X (hb) 0-8223-3768-1 (pb).
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 66
Review by , Harvard University.
Marchés, migrations et logiques familiales dans les espaces français, canadien et suisse, 18e-20e siècles, Luigi Lorenzetti, Anne-Lise Head-König, and Joseph Goy., Eds. Bern, Switz.: Peter Lang, 2005. 321 pp. + illustrations, graphs, and tables. $59.95 (U.S.). ISBN 3-03910-497-7.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 56
Review by , University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900: Integration and Deregulation, Karl Gunnar Persson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xx + 173 pp. Sources, bibliography, index. $59.95 U.S. ISBN 0 521 65096 8.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Feb. 2001), No. 1
Review by , Hawai’i Pacific University.
Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World, Susan E. Dinan. Burlington, VT, and Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006. x + 190 pp. Notes, chronology, maps, bibliography, appendices, and index. $89.95 U.S./£45.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0754655539.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 49
Review by , Hawaii Pacific University.
Lessons For My Daughter, Anne of France. Ed. and trans. by Sharon L. Jansen. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004. xiii + 105 pp. Notes, bibliography and Index. $70.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1843840162.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 64
Review by , Florida International University.
Caring for Body and Soul. Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World, Bonnie Effros. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. xiii + 255 pp. Abbreviations, acknowledgements, maps, figures, notes, select bibliography, and index. $49.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02196-9.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 29
Response by Bonnie Effros to the review of her book by Felice Lifshitz.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 30
Compte-rendu par , Ecole normale supérieure, Paris.
Publishing the Prince, History, Reading and the Birth of Political Criticism, Jacob Soll. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 2005. xxi-202 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Catalog of Works by Abraham-Nicolas de La Houssaye. $49.50 U.S. (hbk). ISBN 0-472-11473-5.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 80
Review by , University of Sussex.
La Révolution, une exception française? Annie Jourdan. Paris: Flammarion, 2004. 461pp. Appendices, bibliography and index. €24 (pb). ISBN 2-082-10318-8.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 34
Review by , Trinity College, Dublin.
The Jacobin Republic under Fire: The Federalist Revolt in the French Revolution, Paul R. Hanson. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. x + 262 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (cl). ISBN 0-271-02281-7.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 47
Review by , Trinity College, Dublin.
Terror and its Discontents: Suspect Words in Revolutionary France, Caroline Weber. London and Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. xxii + 298 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $63.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8166-388; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8166-3887-X.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 76
Review by , Trinity College Dublin.
Marat en famille: La saga des Mara[t], Charlotte Goëtz. 2 vol. Brussels: Pôle Nord, 2001. 271 pp. and 325 pp. Illustrations, facsimile documents, notes, bibliography, and index. 45.00 € (both vols; pb). ISBN 2-30040-17-3 and 2-930040-18-1
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 73
Review by Christopher Lloyd, Durham University.
Le Corbeau, Judith Mayne. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press/London: Tauris, 2007. x + 114 pp. Stills, notes, credits, filmography, bibliography, and index. $20.00 US (pb). ISBN-13-978-0-252-07457-8.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 3
Review by , National University of Ireland, Galway.
"Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia, Constance Brittain Bouchard. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. xii + 249 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-8122-3590-8.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 37
Review by , Maryville College.
Madeleine de Scudéry: Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, Jane Donawerth and Julie Strongson, Eds. and trans. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxxi + 174 pp. Bibliography and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-14404-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 96
Review by , University of Minnesota.
An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914, J. P. Daughton. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv + 330 pp. Notes, Bibliography and Index. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530530-2.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 75
Review by , University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
France on the Mekong: A History of the Protectorate in Cambodia, 1863-1953, John Tully. Lanham-New York-Oxford: University Press of America, 2002. xi-xxvi + 562 pp. Glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $77.00 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 0-7618-2431-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (December 2004), No. 121
Review by , Texas Tech University.
The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria 1930-1954, Jonathan K. Gosnell. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2002. xiii + 234 pp. Map, illustrations, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 1-58046-105-0.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 12
Review by , University of West Georgia.
Henry IV of France and the Politics of Religion, 1572-1596, 2 vols, N. M. Sutherland. Bristol and Portland: Elm Bank, 2002. xvi + 628 pp. $99.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-84150-846-2.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 44
Review by , The State University of West Georgia.
Hatred in Print: Catholic Propaganda and Protestant Identity during the French Wars of Religion, Luc Racaut. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2002. xiv + 161 pp., $74.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0284-2
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 77
Review by , University of Southern Maine.
Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases and Early Modern Culture, Patricia Phillippy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xii + 258 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $52.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-8018-8225-7.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 112
Review by , University of Southern Maine.
Marie de Gournay: Itinéraires d’une femme savante, Michèle Fogel. Paris: Fayard, 2004. 397 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 25€ (pb.) ISBN 2-213-61890-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 69
Review by , University of Southern Maine.
Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France, Susan Broomhall. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2002. viii + 282 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-0671-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 41
Review by , University of Southern Maine.
The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages, Katherine Ludwig Jansen. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. xiii + 389 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-691-08987-6.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 68
Review by , Portland State University.
Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture, Thomas M. Kavanagh. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. viii + 251 pp. Figures, appendix, notes, index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3860-5.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 109
Review by , Portland State University.
Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688-1789, David Stasavage. xii + 210 pp. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Tables, figures, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-80967-3.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 63
Review by , Agnes Scott College.
From Perfectibility to Perversion: Meliorism in Eighteenth-Century France, Michael E. Winston. New York: Peter Lang, 2005. xii + 184 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $64.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-8204-7495-9.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 16
Review by , Agnes Scott College.
L’espace des francs-maçons: Une sociabilité européene au XVIIIe siècle, Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2003. 234 pp. Notes, illustrations, documents, and index. € 16.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86847-852-2.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 10
Review by , Agnes Scott College.
The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe, James Van Horn Melton. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ix + 284 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $54.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-521-46573-7; $19.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-521-46969-4.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 18
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Etienne Pasquier on Ethics and History, James H. Dahlinger. New York, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007. x + 147 pp. Frontispiece, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8204-9547-7.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 24
Review by , Queen’s University, Canada.
Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History, Peter Fritzsche. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. 268pp. Index. $27.95 U.S (cl). ISBN 0-674-01339-5.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 129
Review by , Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.
Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France, 1925-1945; with an afterword by Zeev Sternhell, Gilbert Michlin. Wayne State University Press, Detroit Michigan, 2004. Bibliography. $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8143-3227-7.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 73
Review by , Brown University.
Jews and Gender in Liberation France, K.H. Adler. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 273pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 0-521-79048-4.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 75
Review by , Loyola Marymount University.
Music’s Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac, Sylvia Kahan. Rochester and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 2003. xi + 547 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-58046-133-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 61
Review by , Santa Clara University.
France after Revolution. Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order, Denise Z. Davidson. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. 257 pages. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-02459-1.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 14
Review by , Southwest Texas State University.
The Sphinx in the Tuileries and Other Essays in Modern French History: Papers Presented at the Eleventh George Rudé Seminar, Robert Aldrich and Martyn Lyons. University of Sydney, 1999. vi + 399, notes. ISBN 1-86487-026-5.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (February 2001), No. 2
Review by , Independent Scholar, Leverett, Mass.
The Political Theory of Christine de Pizan. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World, Kate Langdon Forhan. Burlington, Vert. and Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2002. xvi + 187 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-0173-0; $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7546-0174-9.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 23
Review by , Ball State University.
Joan of Arc: Her Story, Régine Pernoud and Marie-Véronique Clin. Trans. and rev. Jeremy duQuesnay Adams. Ed. Bonnie Wheeler. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999. xxii + 304 pp. Appendices, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $14.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-312-22730-2.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (June 2001), No. 15
Review by , Independent Scholar, Providence, Rhode Island.
Britain, France, and the Financing of the First World War, Martin Horn. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. x + 249 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2293-X.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 98
Review by , Sacred Heart University.
Marie Cardinal: New Perspectives, Emma Webb, Ed. Bern, Switzerland and New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 258 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-03910-544-2.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 140
Review by , Tufts University.
Studies in the Philosophy of William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris (1228-1249), Roland J. Teske. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2006. 274 pp. Table, introduction, notes, bibliography, and indexes. $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87462-674-9.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 52
Review by , Green River College.
Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works, The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, Richard Hillman and Colette Quesnel, Eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxviii + 176 pp. Bibliography and index. $49.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-305556-2.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 32
Compte-rendu par , Université de Perpignan-Via Domitia.
Formation au travail, enseignement technique et apprentissage: Actes, 127e congrès du CTHS, Nancy, 15-20 avril 2002, Thérèse Charmasson, Ed. Paris: Editions du CTHS, 2005. 300 pp. 22.00€ (pb). ISBN 2735505634.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 86
Review by , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s, Richard J. Golsan. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. x +198 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-8258-3.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 25
Review by , University College London.
Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-71), Hollis Clayson. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxxi + 485 pages, 216 illustrations. $55 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-10951-8.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 15
Review by , Rutgers University.
Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in fin-de-siècle France, Elizabeth Emery and Larua Morowitz. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003. xii + 295 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0319-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 43
Review by , Rutgers University.
From Martyr to Monument: The Abbey of Cluny as Cultural Patrimony, Janet T. Marquardt. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. xix + 286 pp. Maps, figures, notes bibliography, and index. ISBN 9-781847-182128 (cl).
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 64
Review by , American International College.
The Strategic Triangle: France, Germany, and the United States in the Shaping of the New Europe, Helga Haftendorn, Georges-Henri Soutou, Stephen F. Szabo, and Samuel F. Wells, Jr., Eds.. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 411 pp. Notes and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018856-39. $25.00 U.S. (pb). 0-80-188564-7.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 125
Review by , Ohio State University.
Colette, Yannick Bellon, Director; Jacqueline Jacoupy, Producer. VHS; 29 minutes, black & white. Distributed in the U.S. by First/Run Icarus Films, 2003 [1951].
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 58
Review by , Northwestern University.
The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830, Jennifer Ngaire Heuer. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. x + 256 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-8014-4286-9.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 100
Review by , University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
French Anti-Americanism (1930-1948): Critical Moments in a Complex History, Seth D. Armus. Lanham, Md. and Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books, 2007. x + 179 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1268-7, ISBN-10: 0-7391-1268-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 123
Review by , University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century, Mark Sedgwick. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ix + 370 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-515297-2.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 43
Review by , University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Philippe Ariès and the Politics of French Cultural History, Patrick H. Hutton. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. xxv + 244 pp. Notes, index, bibliography, and 20 illustrations. $80.00 US (cl). ISBN 1-55849-435-9; $24.95 US (pb). ISBN 1-55849-463-4.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (December 2004), No. 123
Review by , University of Durham, United Kingdom.
The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France, Andrea Frisch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 279. 195 pp. Notes, bibliography. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8078-9283-1.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 113
Review by , University of Michigan.
Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance, Tracy Adams. Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xii + 311 pp. Bibliography. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-4039-6294-4.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 50
Review by , Lebanon Valley College.
L'Alsace et ses historiens, 1680-1914. La Fabrique des monuments, François Igersheim. Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2006. 524 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 32 €. ISBN 978-2-86820-269-7.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 18
Review by , Binghamton University.
Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry, Vincent Kaufmann. Trans. Robert Bononno. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xix + 345pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8166-4455-1.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 19
Review by , Princeton University.
The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil: A Frenchman between France and North Africa, William A. Hoisington, Jr.. London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2005. xii + 184 pp. $125.00US (hb). ISBN 0-415-35032-8.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 118
Review by , Boston University.
Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517-1751, Neil Kamil. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xxiv + 1058 pp. Figures, maps, notes, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-80187390-8.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 55
Review by , University of Edinburgh.
Léon Harmel: Entrepreneur as Catholic Social Reformer, Joan L. Coffey. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. x + 360 pp. Photographs, maps notes, bibliography and index. $48.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-03360-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 129
Review by , University of Melbourne.
Rethinking France. Les Lieux de Mémoire. Vol. 2. Space. Translation directed by David P. Jordan, Pierre Nora, Ed. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiv + 480 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-59133-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 23
Review by , University of Melbourne.
The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France, Susan Desan. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2004. xiv + 456 pp. List of primary sources and index. $50.00 (cl) ISBN 0-520-23859-1.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 98
Review by , University of Melbourne.
The Saint-Napoleon: Celebrations of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century France, Sudhir Hazareesingh. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. xiv + 307pp. Notes and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01341-7.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 95
Review by , University of Melbourne.
A French Genocide: The Vendée, Reynald Secher. Translated by George Holoch. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. xvi + 305 pp. Tables, maps, and notes. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-02865-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 26
Review by , University of Melbourne.
The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power, Roger Price. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. x + 507 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. ISBN 0-521-80830-8.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (April 2002), No. 34
Review by , University of Melbourne.
Balancing the Scales of Justice. Local Courts and Rural Society in Southwest France, 1750-1800, Anthony Crubaugh. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. Notes, maps, index and bibliography. xx + 257pp. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02077-6. $19.95 U.S. ISBN 0-271-02078-4.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 19
Review by , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism, Zahi Zalloua. Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press, 2005. xii + 102 pp. Index. $39.95. ISBN 1-886365-56-3.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 84
Compte-rendu par , Université de Nantes.
Histoire sociale et culturelle des caisses d’épargne en France, 1818-1881. Collection Economies et Sociétés Contemporaines, Carole Christen-Lécuyer. Paris: Economica, 2004. x + 694 pp. Cahier central de 12 p. couleur, chronologie, index des noms de personnes. 35 €. (pb.) ISBN 2-7178-4905-X.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 56
Review by , University of Iowa.
Calvinism's First Battleground: Conflict and Reform in the Pays de Vaud, 1528-1559, Michael W. Bruening. Studies in Early Modern Religious Reforms 4. xvi + 286 pp. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005. Bibliography and index. $139.00 (cl). ISBN 1-4020-4193-4.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 74
Review by , University of Iowa.
Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism, Philip Benedict. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. xxvi + 670 pp. Figures, maps, graphs, bibliographical notes, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-08812-4.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 52
Review by , University of Iowa.
Blood and Religion: The Conscience of Henri IV, 1553-1593, Ronald S. Love. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001. xii + 457 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2124-0.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 132
Review by , University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
Marie-Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen, Dena Goodman, Ed. . New York and London: Routledge, 2003. x + 307 pp. Illustrations and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-41593-394-3; $23.95 (pb). ISBN 0-41593-395-1.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 97
Review by , Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
The French Exception, Emmanuel Godin and Tony Chafer, Eds. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005. 249 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-57181-684-4.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 123
Review by , University of Illinois.
Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and the Psyche, Steven Harris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 328 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-82387-0.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 102
Review by , University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Warsaw.
Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton, David L. Sedley. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. vi + 208 pp. Bibliography and index. $65.00 (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0-472-11528-0. ISBN-10: 0-472-11528-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 99
Review by , Emory University.
Les Tribunaux criminels sous la Révolution et l’Empire, 1792-1811, Robert Allen. Collection « Histoire » Translated by James Steven Bryant (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2005) 318 pp. 22€ ISBN 2-7535-00095-9.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 19
Review by , Emory University.
Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France: Liberté, Égalité, Fiscalité, Michael Kwass. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvi + 352 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-77149-8.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 80
Review by Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 81
Response by Michael Kwass to reviews of his book by Judith Miller and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 82
Review by , University of Miami.
The Tour de France: A Cultural History, Christopher S. Thompson. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2006. x + 385 pp. Map, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-24760-4.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 138
Review by , University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Old Regime France, 1648-1788, William Doyle, Ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xii + 231 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, chronology, and index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-873129-9.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 89
Review by , King’s College, London.
Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art, Debra Higgs Strickland. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. 336 pp. Color plates, black and white illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S., £39.95 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-691-05719-2.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 68
Review by , Université Lille-3 and CNRS.
Histoires de papier. La papeterie auvergnate et ses historiens, Pierre-Claude Reynard. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2002. 410 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, illustrations and index. 27.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-84516-178-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 63
Review by , Université Lille-3 and CNRS-Paris.
Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France. Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805, Leonard N. Rosenband. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiv + 210 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $48.00 (cl.). ISBN 0-8018-6392-9.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (December 2001), No. 47
Review by , University of Saskatchewan.
Captive Histories: English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid, Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, Eds. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. xxii + 298 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-55849-542-8; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-55849-543-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 41
Review by , University of Saskatchewan.
Frontenac: The Courtier Governor, W. J. Eccles. Reprint of the original 1959 ed. with a new introduction by Peter N. Moogk. Lincoln and London, U.K.: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xvii + 405. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8032-6750-9.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 97
Review by , Bucknell University.
The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History, The Proceedings of the Cerisy Colloquium (1999), Pierre Bouet, Brian Levy and François Neveux, Eds. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2004. 426 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography. €39.50 E.U. (hb). ISBN 2-84133-213-6.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 50
Review by , Purdue University.
Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, Richard Thomson. Washington: National Gallery of Art and Princeton University Press, 2005. xiv + 294 pp. 370 color plates, 17 halftones. Artists’ Biographies, Checklist of Exhibition, Index, Bibliography. $60.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 0-691-12337-3; $37.80 U.S. (pb) 0-89468-320-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 127
Review by , University of North Carolina--Wilmington.
Dido’s Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France, Margaret W. Ferguson. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xiv + 506 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-24312-5.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 92
Review by , Eastern Oregon University.
Huguenot Prophecy and Clandestine Worship in the Eighteenth Century: ‘The Sacred Theatre of the Cévennes, Georgia Cosmos. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. ix + 220 pp. Illustrations, map, table, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-5182-7.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 51
Response by Georgia Cosmos to the review of her book by W. Gregory Monahan.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 52
Review by , Eastern Oregon University.
The Bellicose Dove: Claude Brousson and Protestant Resistance to Louis XIV, 1647-1698, Walter C. Utt and Brian E. Strayer. Brighton, U.K. and Portland, Oregon: Sussex Academic Press, 2003. x + 220 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-903900-31-X.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 123
Review by , Laboratoire Techniques-Territoires-Sociétés, Ecole national des Ponts et Chaussées.
La mobilité d’une génération de Français. Recherche sur les migrations et les déménagements vers et dans Paris à la fin du XIXe siècle, Jean-Claude Farcy et Alain Faure. Paris, Institut national d’études démographiques, cahier n°151, 2003. 591pp. CD Rom. 35.00 €. ISBN 2- 7332-0151-4.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 21
Review by , University of Houston.
Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief, Walter Stephens. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xiv + 451 pp. Diagrams, halftones, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0226772616.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 3
Compte-rendu par , Université de Reims.
A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823-2000, Alice Garner. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005, 286 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl), £20.50. ISBN 0-8014-4282-6.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 5
Review by , University of California at Santa Barbara.
Faire l’histoire des entreprises sous l’Occupation: Les acteurs économiques et leurs archives, Hervé Joly, Ed. Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2004. 375 pp. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7355-0559-6.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 104
Review by , University of California at Santa Barbara.
Les archives des entreprises sous l’Occupation: Conservation, accessibilité et apport, Hervé Joly, Ed. Paris: IFRÉSI, 2005. 319 pp. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 2-9119-7530-8.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 104
Review by , University of California at Santa Barbara.
Pillages sur ordonnances: Aryanisation et restitution des banques en France 1940-1953, Jean-Marc Dreyfus. Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2003. iii + 475 pp. 25.00 €. (pb). ISBN 2-213-61327-3.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 24
Review by , University of California at Santa Barbara.
Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue, Paul F. Jankowski. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiv + 326 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3959-0.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 104
Review by , Columbia University.
Through a Glass Darkly: History and Memory in François Mauriac’s “Bloc-Notes”, Nathan Bracher. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2004. 240 pp. + xii, $65.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-813-21380-0.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 104
Review by , University of California, San Diego.
Essay on Gardens: A Chapter in the French Picturesque, Claude-Henri Watelet. Edited and translated by Samuel Damon. Introduction by Joseph Disponzio. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. x + 104 pp. $29.95 U.S. (hb). Notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8122-3722-6.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 117
Review by , University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
The Question, Henri Alleg. Translated from the French by John Calder. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press Bison Books, 2006. xliv + 102 pp. Foreword, introduction, preface, afterword. $16.95 U.S. (pb) ISBN 0-8032-5960-3.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 12
Review by , University of Minnesota.
The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France, Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall, Eds. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 2003. v + 384 pp. Acknowledgements, forewords, introduction, notes, contributors, and index. $74.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3130-6; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-3117-9.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 15
Review by , University of Minnesota.
Vichy in the Tropics: Pétain’s National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940-1944, Eric T. Jennings. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2001. vii + 311 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography and sources, and index. $55.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8047-4179-4.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 27
Review by , Columbia University.
La cathédrale de Rouen vers 1300: un chantier majeur de la fin du Moyen âge. Portail des Libraires, portail de la Calende, chapelle de la Vierge, Markus Schlicht. Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de Normandie, 41. Caen: Société des antiquaires de Normandie, 2005. 421 pp. Map, plans, computer-generated diagrams, photographs, notes, bibliography, glossary and index. €35 E.U. (pb). ISBN 2-9510558-3-8.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 105
Review by , Utah Valley University.
Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27, Simone de Beauvoir. Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir and Margaret Simons, with Marybeth Timmerman, eds. Translation, notes, and annotations
by Barbara Klaw. Champaign, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xi + 392 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-0-252-03142-7.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 60
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Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe, Claire L. Carlin, ed. Houndmills, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $74.95 (hb). ISBN 1-4039-3926-8.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 50
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 50
Review by , Marquette University.
The French North African Crisis: Colonial Breakdown and Anglo-French Relations, 1945-1962, Martin Thomas. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. xv +305 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-333-71560-8.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 40
Review by , University of Melbourne.
Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris, Jeffrey H. Jackson. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003. xi + 280pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3137-3; $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-3124-1.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 145
Review by , University of Iowa.
France Since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society, Charles Sowerwine. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave, 2001. xxv+505 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-333-65836-1. $21.95 US (pb). ISBN:0-333-65837-X.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 15
Review by , Northwestern University.
Abelard and Heloise. Great Medieval Thinkers, Constant J. Mews. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xviii + 308 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $74.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-515688-9; $24.95 U.S. (pb). 0-19-515689-7.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 102
Review by , New Mexico State University.
Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism, Jonathan Beecher. Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif., and London: University of California Press, 2001. xvi + 584 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 0-520-22297-0.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (June 2001), No. 14
Review by , Alfred University.
The French Communist Party During the Fifth Republic: A Crisis of Leadership and Ideology, Gino G. Raymond. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. x + 233 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-9612-1.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 8
Review by , Alfred University.
Contemporary France: A Democratic Education, Anne Sa’adah. Lanham, M.D., and Oxford, U.K.: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. xi + 340 pp. Notes, appendixes, and index. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7425-0198-1.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 38
Review by , Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear: Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetian, William Chester Jordan. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. 1 Map. Notes. xiv + 163 pp. $ 29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-12120-6.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 70
Review by , University of California, Los Angeles.
The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies and Tabloids in Early Modern France, Joan DeJean. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xi + 204pp. Notes. $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-226-14141-1.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 83
Review by , University of California, Los Angeles.
Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791, Clare Haru Crowston. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. vii + 493 pp. Tables, graphs, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-2662-0; $21.95 U.S (pb). ISBN 0-8223-2666-3.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 22
Review by , Princeton University.
The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940, John Carson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 401 pp. $39.50. ISBN 12-978-0-691-01715-0.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 105
Review by , Princeton University.
Re-Writing the French Revolutionary Tradition: Liberal Opposition and the Fall of the Bourbon Monarchy, Robert Alexander. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi + 385 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, and index. $80.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-80122-2.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 71
Review by , Seton Hall University.
Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700-1855): From Satire to Sanctity, Nora M. Heimann. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. xvi + 215 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-5085-5.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 107
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Conflicting Visions: War and Visual Culture in Britain and France c. 1700-1830, John Bonehill and Geoff Quilley, Eds. Aldershot and Burlington,VT: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005. xiv + 231 pp. Illustrations, notes, works cited, index. 54 b&w ills. $99.95/£55.00. ISBN 0-7546-0575-2.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 3
Review by , Nottingham Trent University.
Screening Reality: French Documentary Film during the German Occupation, Steve Wharton. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 252 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography. $53.95 (pb). US-ISBN 0-8204-6882-7.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 96
Review by , Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University.
Le cens de la famille: Les femmes et le vote, 1789-1848, Anne Verjus. Collection Socio-histoires. Paris: Belin, 2002. 255 pp. Notes. 22.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-7011-3261-4.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 104Belin, 2002. 255 pp. Notes. 22.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-7011-3261-4.
Review by , University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins),
Memoirs of the Life of Henriette-Sylvie de Molière: A Novel. Donna Kuizenga, Ed. and trans. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, Ed. Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxxi + 194 pp. Maps, footnotes, and bibliography. $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-14420-8.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 93
Review by , College of Charleston.
Talleyrand, Philip G. Dwyer. London: Longman Press, 2002. x + 232 pp. Maps, tables, notes, plate, bibliographical essay, and index. (pb). $15.95 U.S. ISBN 0-582-32384-3.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 28
Response by William Dwyer to the review of his book by William Olejniczak.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 29
Review by , University of California at Santa Barbara.
Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815-1848, Martin S. Staum. Montreal and Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003. xiv + 245 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $49.95 Can., $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2580-7.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 59
Review by , Portland State University.
Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris. Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor, Sharon Farmer. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiii + 198 pp. Maps, figures, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3836-5.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 97
Review by , University of Rochester.
The Politics of Appearances: Representations of Dress in Revolutionary France, Richard Wrigley. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 2002 . 310 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl); ISBN 1-85973-504-5. $25.00 U.S. (pb); ISBN 1-85973-509-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 7
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Review by , Black Hills State University.
Ideas and Contexts in France and England from the Renaissance to the Romantics, J. H. M. Salmon. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2000. xii + 304 pp. Index. $105.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-86078-835-0.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 39
Review by , Duquesne University.
Une archéologie du corps enseignant: les professeurs des collèges parisiens au XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (1598-1793), Boris Noguès. Histoire de l’éducation. Paris: Bélin, 2006. 240 pp. Notes and index. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7011-4348-9.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 58
Review by , Duquesne University.
Rulership in France, 15th-17th Centuries, Ralph E. Giesey. Variorum Collected Studies Series CS794. Aldershot, Hamps. and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. xii + 336 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $109.95 U.S./£57.50 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-86078-920-9.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 6
Review by J, Duquesne University.
Charlemagne and France: A Thousand Years of Mythology, Robert Morrissey. Trans. Catherine Tihanyi. The Laura Shannon Series in French Medieval Studies. Notre Dame, In.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. xxii + 391 pp., 24 plates (in theory), notes, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-02277-1.
Translation of L'Empereur à la barbe fleurie: Charlemagne dans la mythologie et l'histoire de France. Bibliothèque des histoires. Paris: N.R.F./Gallimard, 1997. 437 pp., 24 plates, index. € 29.73 (pb). ISBN 2-07-073127-8.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 117
Review by , University of Florida.
Charles Nicolle, Pasteur’s Imperial Missionary: Typhus and Tunisia, Kim Pelis. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2006. xix + 384 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-58046-197-2.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 1
Review by , University of Florida.
The Fight Against Cancer: France 1890-1940, Patrice Pinell. Trans. David Madell. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. xvii + 243 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $100.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-415-27923-2.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 121
Review by , Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.
Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage, Alan S. Kahan. Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York, N.Y: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. vii + 239 pp. Notes, works cited, and index. $69.95 US (hb). ISBN 1-4039-1174-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 113
Review by , Dalhousie University.
The Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, 1828–1967, D. Kern Holoman. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2004. xvi + 620 pp. Tables, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 (cl). ISBN 0-520-23664-5.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 85
Review by , Dalhousie University.
Music Drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824-1828, Mark Everist. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xviii + 331 pp. Figures, tables, music examples, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-23445-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 129
Compte-rendu par , l’Institut national des hautes études de sécurité (INHES).
Étrangers à la carte. L’administration de l’immigration en France (1945-1975), Alexis Spire. Grasset, avril 2005, 402 pages, annexes, inventaire des sources, bibliographie, index des noms de personnes, 21 €90, ISBN 2-246-65801-2.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 8
Review by , Royal Holloway, University of London.
Paris: Capital of the World, Patrice Higonnet. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Illustrations, maps, notes, and index. 493 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-00887-1.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 50
Review by , Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London.
To Be A Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic, James R. Lehning. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. x + 193 pp. Illustrations, notes, chronology, and index. $39.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3888-8.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 29
Review [in English] by , Université de Bourgogne.
Gaston Roupnel, âme paysanne et sciences humaines, Philip Whalen. Collection “Sociétés.” Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2001. 202 pp. 20.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-905965-54-1.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 109
Response by Philip Whalen to the review of his book by Philippe Poirrier.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 111
Review [en français]
by , Université de Bourgogne.
Gaston Roupnel, âme paysanne et sciences humaines, Philip Whalen. Collection “Sociétés.” Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2001. 202 pp. 20.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-905965-54-1.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 110
Response by Philip Whalen to the review of his book by Philippe Poirrier.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 111
Review by , Saint Louis University.
Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750-1960, Mary Jo Maynes, Birgitte Søland, and Christina Benninghaus, Eds. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005. 312 pp. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-253-21710-5.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 140
Review by , Saint Louis University.
Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791, Mark C. Carnes and Gary Kates. Reacting to the Past Series. London and New York: Longman, 2005. v + 184 pp. $18.80 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-321-33229-6.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 84
Review by , University of Kentucky.
Between State and Market: Printing and Bookselling in Eighteenth-Century France, Thierry Rigogne. Foreword by Robert Darnton. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2007 (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century). xiii + 313 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, bibliography, and index. $132.00 U.S. (pb); ISBN 978-0729409070.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 59
Review by , University of Kentucky.
La Révolution à l’oeuvre. Perspectives actuelles dans l’histoire de la Révolution française, Jean-Clément Martin, dir. Rennes: Presses Universitatires de Rennes, 2005. 375 pp. Notes and bibliography. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7535-0055-X.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 133
Review by , University of Kentucky.
Slavery and the French and Haitian Revolutions (L’Attitude de la France à l’égard de l’esclavage pendant la Révolution), Anna Julia Cooper. Trans. and ed. Frances Richardson Keller. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005 (French orig. 1925). 159 pp. + Index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7425-4474-5.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 121
Review by , University of Kentucky.
The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean, Doris Garraway. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. xvi + 412 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $89.95 (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3453-4; $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8223-3465-8.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 20
Review by , University of Kentucky.
Rétablissement de l’esclavage dans les colonies françaises. Aux origines de Haïti, Yves Bénot and Marcel Dorigny, Eds. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2003. 592 pp. 35.00 €. ISBN 2-7068-1692-9.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 91
Review by , University of Kentucky.
The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850, Sarah Maza. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. x + 255 pp. Notes and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01046-9.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 12
Review by , University of Kentucky.
Penser avec, penser contre: Itinéraire d’un historien, Gérard Noiriel. Paris: Belin, 2003. 310 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. 23.00 € (pb.) ISBN 2-7011-3347-5.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 140
Review by , University of Kentucky.
The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions, William M. Reddy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiv + 380 pp. $70 U.S. (cl); ISBN 0-521-80303-9. $25 U.S. (pb); ISBN 0-521-00472-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 118
Response by William M. Reddy to the review of his book by Jeremy D. Popkin.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 119
Review by , University of Kentucky.
National Character and Public Spirit in Britain and France 1750-1914, Roberto Romani. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ix + 348 pp. Notes and index. $65 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0521810000.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 61
Review by , University of Wyoming.
Families and Frontiers: Re-creating Communities and Boundaries in the Early Modern Burgundies, Kathryn A. Edwards. Boston and Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2002. xiv + 431 pp. Maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-391-04106-1.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 118
Review by , Columbia University/Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism, Mary E. Davis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2006. xix + 332 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $ 39.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-24542-6.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 21
Compte-rendu par by , Université Paris 13.
Albert Thibaudet, « l’outsider du dedans », Michel Leymarie. Collection « Histoire et Civilisations », dirigée par Michel Leymarie et Didier Terrier. Villeneuve-d’Ascq : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion., 2006. 368 pp. Notes, bibliographie et index nominorum. 23.00€. ISBN 2-85939-936-4.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 145
Review by , Yale University.
Molière and Modernity: Absent Mothers and Masculine Births, Larry Riggs. Charlottesville, Virginia: Rookwood Press, 2005. 234 pp. $45.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-188-63655-51.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 51
Review by , University of Bradford.
France and the Grand Tour, Jeremy Black. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. x + 234 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00. ISBN 1-4039-0690-4.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 92
Review by , Aberystwyth University.
Le commerce franco-russe. Concurrence et contrefaçons de Colbert à 1900 , Anne Kraatz. Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 2006. 446pp. 25€. ISBN 2-251-44316-9.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 54
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 54
Compte-rendu par , EHESS (AHMOC).
French Intellectuals and Politics from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation, David Drake. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 214 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-33-3778-12X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 28
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The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, Colin B. Bailey, Philip Conisbee, and Thomas W. Gaehtgens. Ed. Colin B. Bailey. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2003. ix + 412 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-09946-0.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 53
Review by , Independent Scholar, Esopus, N.Y.
Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance, Rebecca Zorach. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. xvi + 243 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-98937-2.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 82
Review by , Independent Scholar, Esopus, New York.
A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime, Elizabeth Rapley. McGill-Queens Studies in the History of Religion, series two. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2001. xi + 379 pp. Illustrations, appendix, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2222-0.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 65
Review by , The Johns Hopkins University.
Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison and Sacrilege in Louis XIV’s France, Lynn Wood Mollenauer. Magic in History Series. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. 224 pp. Illustrations. $70.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0271029153; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0271029160.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 144
Review by , University of Stirling.
Qu’est-ce qu’un français? Histoire de la Nationalité française depuis la Révolution, Patrick Weil. Paris: Editions Grasset et Fasquelle, 2002. 401 pp. Notes, maps, documents, tables, bibliography, indexes (names and subjects) and glossary. 21.50 € (pb). ISBN 2-246-60571-7.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 32
Review by , University of Georgia.
The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire, Rosemary Lloyd, Ed. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xviii + 234 pp. $27.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-53782-7.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 73
Review by , Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Tragedy Walks the Streets: The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama, Matthew S. Buckley. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ix + 191 pp. Notes, index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-8434-9.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 134
Review by , Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV, Elizabeth Hyde. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xxiii + 330 pp. Figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-81223826-5.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 111
Review by , Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution, Paul Friedland. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. ix + 351 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $42.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3982-5. $21.00 U.S. (pb). $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8809-5.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 70
Review by , Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Le Théâtre à Montpellier (1755-1851), Pierre Jourda. Presented by Michel Bideaux. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, SVEC 2001. x + 268 pp. Appendices, glossary, bibliography, and indices. £45 / FF450 / Euros 78 (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0702-0.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 16
Review by , University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Paris-Edinburgh: Cultural Connections in the Belle Époque, Siân Reynolds. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007. xv + 218 pp. Figures (27 b&w illustrations), bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0754634647.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 153
Review by , The University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist, Kevin Moore. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. 272 pp. Plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-12002-1.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 95
Review by , University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema, Rae Beth Gordon. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xix + 274 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.95 (pb), $49.50 (cl). ISNB 0-8047-3894-7.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 36
Review by , University of Massachusetts/Amherst.
Pulp Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Paris, Robin Walz. U. of California Press, 2000. xii + 206 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 (cl). ISBN 0-520-21619-9.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (March 2001), No. 6
Review by , University of Massachusetts/Amherst.
The Modernist Enterprise: French Elites and the Threat of Modernity, 1900-1940, Marjorie A. Beale. Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 1999. ix + 231 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50 (cl). ISBN 0-8047-3511-5.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (March 2001), No. 6
Review by , Duke University.
The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830-1870, Victoria E. Thompson. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. viii + 229 pp. Illustrations, notes bibliography, and index. $32.00 US (hb). ISBN 0-8018-6414-3.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (October 2001), No. 29
Review by , Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires.
The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present: From de Maistre to Le Pen, Peter Davies. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. x + 209 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-415-23981-8; $25.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-23982-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 28
Review by , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Édith Thomas: A Passion for Resistance, Dorothy Kaufmann. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. 240 pp. Photos, notes, and index. $27.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4223-0.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 25
Review by , The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
La conjuration contre les carpes. Enquête sur les origines du décret de dessèchement des étangs du 14 frimaire an II, Reynald Abad. Paris: Fayard, 2006. 200 pp. Annexes, bibliography, and indexes. 20€ (pb). ISBN 9-782-213-62788-5.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 110
Review by , University of Stirling.
Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture, Dudley Andrew and Steven Ungar. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii + 449 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $35.00 US (hb). ISBN 0-674-01703-X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 69
Review by S, University of Stirling, Scotland.
Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siècle France, Mary Louise Roberts. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2002. xi + 353 pp. Notes, illustrations, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-72124-8.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 61
Review by , Wabash College.
France Since 1800, D.L.L. Parry and Pierre Girard. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii + 277 pp. Maps, figures, list of abbreviations, tables, suggestions for further reading, and index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-925229-7.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 100
Review by , St. Mary’s University College, UK.
Catholic Activism in South-West France, 1540-1570, Kevin Gould. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. vii + 190 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S./£50.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-5226-2.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 102
Review by , Minot State University.
Des barrages, des usines et des hommes. L’industrialization des Alpes du Nord entre ressources locales et apports extérieurs. Études offertes au professeur Henri Morsel, Hervé Joly, Alexandre Giandou, Muriel Le Roux, Anne Dalmasso, and Ludovic Caillet, Eds. Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2002. 386 pp. €35 (hb) ISBN 2-7061-1063-5.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 77
Review by , Minot State University.
Enterprises et Pouvoir Économique dans la Région Rhône-Alpes (1920-1954), Hervé Joly and François Robert. Lyon: Éditions Réné Georges, 2003. 295 pp. €15 (pb) ISBN 2-9519554-3-X.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 77
Review by , Towson University.
France during World War II: from Defeat to Liberation, Thomas R. Christofferson with Michael S. Christofferson. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. xiv + 254 pp. Map, notes, index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8232-2562-3; $24.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8232-2563-1.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 74
Review by , Towson University.
The Forgotten French: Exiles in the British Isles, 1940-44, Nicholas Atkin. New York and Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003. x + 340 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 (cl). ISBN 0-7190-6438-4.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 89
Review by , University of North Carolina at Asheville.
The French Revolution and Empire: The Quest for a Civic Order, D.M.G. Sutherland. Malden, Mass., Oxford, Melbourne, and Berlin: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. viii + 424 pp. Map, bibliography, and index. $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-631-23363-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 124
Response by D.M.G. Sutherland to the review of his book by Tracey Rizzo.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 125
Review by , University of Warwick, U.K.
Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early-Modern France, Keith P. Luria. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2005. xxxviii + 357 pp. Map, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8132-1411-4.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 79
Review by , University of Warwick.
The Politics of Piety: Franciscan Preachers during the Wars of Religion, 1560-1600, Megan C. Armstrong. Rochester, N.Y. and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 2004. 278 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 (cl). ISBN 1-58046-175-1.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 88
Review by , Bennington College.
Victor Hugo in Exile: From Historical Representations to Utopian Vistas, William VanderWolk. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press, 2006. 235 pp. Notes, select bibliography, and index. $49.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8387-5628.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 137
Review by , University of Wales, Swansea.
Marguerite: A Reflection of Herself, Dominique Auvray. Brooklyn, N.Y.: First Run / Icarus Films, 2002. VHS, 61 minutes. Color and black and white. $390.00 U.S.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 60
Review by , Université Paris 5, Sorbonne.
Holy Tears, Holy Blood: Women, Catholicism, and the Culture of Suffering in France, 1840-1970, Richard D. E. Burton. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2004. ix + 291 pp. Includes bibliographical references and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-80145-4207-9.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 101
Review by Vernon Rosario, University of California, Los Angeles.
Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa, Richard C. Keller. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xi + 294 pp. Notes, figures, and bibliography. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-42972-5.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 7
Review by , The City College of New York.
Destins immigrés: Cher, 1920-1980, trajectoires d'immigrés d'Europe, Philippe Rygiel. Besançon: Annales littéraires de l'Université de Franche Comté, 2001. 447 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. 39.64 € (pb). ISBN 2-84627-014-7.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 59
Review by , Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Tocqueville Unveiled. The Historian and His Sources for The Old Regime and the Revolution, Robert T. Gannett Jr. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xiii + 246 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-28108-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 8
Review by , University of California, Los Angeles.
Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France: Liberté, Égalité, Fiscalité, Michael Kwass. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvi + 352 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-77149-8.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 81
Review by Judith Miller, Emory University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 80
Response by Michael Kwass to reviews of his book by Judith Miller and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 82
Review by , Université Laval.
Saints of the Impossible: Bataille, Weil, and the Politics of the Sacred, Alexander Irwin. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. xxviii + 260 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8166-3903-5.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 131
Review by , Queen Mary College, University of London.
Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France, Susan L. Einbinder. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. xii + 219 pp. Bibliography and index. $35.00 U.S.; £24.95 G.B. (cl). ISBN 0-691-09053-X
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 42
Review by , Johns Hopkins University.
Making Up the Rococo. François Boucher and His Critics, Melissa Hyde. Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2006. 272 pp., 7 x 10 inches, 18 color and 53 b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $ 49.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-89236-743-1.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 6
Review by , Gallaudet University.
La France des camps: l’internement 1938-1946, Denis Peschanski. Paris: Gallimard, 2002. 456 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, sources, and index. 26.50 € (pb). ISBN 2-07-073138-3.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 55
Review by , Gallaudet University.
The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present, Esther Benbassa. Translated by M. B. DeBevoise. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xii + 281 pp. Chronology, notes, bibliography and index. $29.95 (cl). ISBN 0-691-05984-5.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 17
Review by , Gallaudet University.
France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History, Michael Burns. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 1999. xiv + 210 pp. Appendix, footnotes, bibliography and index. $39.95 (cl). ISBN 0-312-21813-3.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 17
Review by , Gallaudet University.
Uneasy Asylum:
France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-1942, Vicki Caron. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xi + 605 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $65.00 (cl). ISBN 0-8047-3312-0.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 17
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A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726), Lionel Sawkins. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xlvii + 700 pp. Tables, colour plate, figures, facsimiles, music examples, bibliography, and index of titles and first lines. $225.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-816360-6.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 149
Review by , Northern Illinois University.
Culture and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century France and Ireland, Sarah Alyn Stacey and Véronique Desnain, Eds. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. xii + 288 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-85182-717-X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 145
Review by , Medici Archive Project.
The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors, Robert Bireley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 300 pp. Notes, bibliography, map, illustrations, and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82017-0.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 42
Compte-rendu par , John Carroll University.
Récits des Antilles: Le Bois de la Soufrière, suivis d’un choix de poèmes, Anaïs Ségalas. L’Harmattan : Paris, Budapest, Torino, 2004. xlvii +157pp. Introduction (par Adrianna M. Paliyenko), Note technique, Bibliographie sélective (Ecrits d’Anaïs Ségalas, ouvrages critiques, historiques et littéraires, bibliographie complémentaire : esquisses de moeurs coloniales), couverture illustrée, frontispice de la couverture de l’édition de 1886, six gravures, titres en perspectives chez cet éditeur. 17,50 euros (pb). ISBN 2-7475-7461-X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 27
Review by , Earlham College.
The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred, Kevin Hart. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2004. x + 301 pp. Notes, index. $22.00 U.S. (pb.) ISBN: 0-226-31811-7.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 130
Review by , University of California, Berkeley.
Violent Histories: Violence, Culture and Identity in France from Surrealism to the Néo-Polar, David Gascoigne, Ed. Bern: Peter Lang, Cultural Identity Series, 2007. 212 pp. $55.95 U.S. / €43.00 ISBN 978-3-03910-317-1.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 6
Review by , Xavier University.
Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War, Tammy M. Proctor. New York and London: New York University Press, 2003. xvi + 205 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8147-6693-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 67
Review by , Université de Montréal.
La Banque nationale de crédit : Histoire de la quatrième banque de dépôts française en 1913-1932, Hubert Bonin. Paris: Éditions P.L.A.G.E., 2002. 237 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. 70€ (pb). ISBN 2-914369-04-2.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 68
Review by , Université de Montréal.
Un Outre-Mer Bancaire Méditerranéen : Histoire du Crédit Foncier d’Algérie et de Tunisie (1880-1997), Hubert Bonin. Paris : Publications de la Société Française d’Histoire d’Outre-Mer, 2004. Notes, charts, illustrations, bibliography, index. 369 pp. 24 €. ISBN 2-85970-030-7.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 3
Review by , University of Chicago.
Villes en crise? Les politiques municipales face aux pathologies urbaines (fin XVIIIe-- fin XXe siècle), Yannick Marec, Ed. CREAPHIS, 2005. 760 pps ; 32€ (pb); ISBN 2-913610-49-8.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 136
Review by , University of Birmingham, UK.
The Stereotype of the Priest in the Old French Fabliaux: Anticlerical Satire and Lay Identity, Daron Burrows. Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2005. 265 pp. $50.95 U. S. (hb). ISBN 0-82-046888-86.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 48
Review by , Vassar College.
Intellectuals and Politics in Post-War France, David Drake. Basingstoke, UK and New York: Palgrave, 2002. ix + 254 pp. Notes, index. $68.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-333-77808-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 60
Review by , The College of William and Mary.
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture, Louis Dupré. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. ix + 397 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0300100329. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 0300113463.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 128
Review by , The College of William and Mary.
Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860, Jay R. Berkovitz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 333 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.96 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3816-8.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 57
Review by , The College of William and Mary.
Judaism and Enlightenment, Adam Sutcliffe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xv + 314 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-82015-4.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 22
Review by , The College of William and Mary.
Human Nature and the French Revolution: From the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code, Xavier Martin. Translated by Patrick Corcoran. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2001. v + 292 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-571-81415-9.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 2
Review by , Northeastern Illinois University.
Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation, Anthony Grafton. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. vi + 360 pp. Notes and index. ISBN 0-674-00468-X.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (May 2002), No. 37
Review by , Northeastern Illinois University.
Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century, Peter N. Miller. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. xvi + 234 pp. Figures, illustrations, notes, and index. $40.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-300-08252-5.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 41
Review by , Bucknell University.
Les Diaboliques, Susan Hayward. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. vii + 118 pp. Diagrams, still shots, notes, credits, filmography and select bibliography. $35.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-252-03089-3; $15.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07330-4.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 132
Review by , Boston College.
Contesting Sacrifice. Religion, Nationalism, and Social Thought in France, Ivan Strenski. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2002. ix + 228 pp. Notes and index. $37.50 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0226777367.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 48
Review by , High Point University.
1805: Austerlitz, Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition, Robert Goetz. Greenhill: London, 2005. 368 pp. Appendices, Maps, Tables, Illustrations and Index. ISBN 1-85367644-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 16
Review by , Catholic University of America.
The Poet and the King: Jean de La Fontaine and His Century, Marc Fumaroli. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. vii + 536 pp. Notes and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-03877-5
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 21
Review by , The Catholic University of America.
Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France, Lisa Silverman. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xv +264 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-75753-6. $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-75754-4.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 33
Review by , Mount Holyoke College.
Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture 1766-1870, David M. Hopkin. Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series, Volume 28. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2003. xii + 394 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-086193-2587.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 33
Review by , Mount Holyoke College.
Forests and Peasant Politics in Modern France, Tamara Withed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. xii +288 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $35 US (cl) ISBN 0-30-008227-4.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (December 2001), No. 45
Review by , University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
La France et le temps de travail (1814-2004), Patrick Fridenson and Bénédicte Reynaud, Eds. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2004. 237 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. 23.90 € (pb). ISBN 2-7381-1392-3.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 5
Review by , University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
The Representation of Place: Urban Planning and Protest in France and Great Britain, 1950-1980, Michael James Miller. Burlingon, Vermont and Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, and index. xv + 347 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-75-460653-8.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 146
Review by , University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
May ’68 and its Afterlives, Kristin Ross. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ix + 238 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-72797-1
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 133
Review by , University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
When Poetry Ruled the Streets: The French May Events of 1968, Andrew Feenberg and Jim Freedman. Foreword by Douglas Kellner. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. xxiv + 192 pp. Pictures, map, notes, bibliography, and index. $57.50 U.S. (hc). ISBN 0-7914-4965-3. $18.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7914-4966-1.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 44
Review by , New York University.
Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture, Gabriel P. Weisberg, Ed. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2001. xvii + 296 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography. $30.00 US(pb). ISBN 0-8135-3009-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 41
Review by , California State University--San Marcos.
Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France, Lisa Moses Leff. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006). xiii + 327 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8047-5251-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 15
Review by , California State University – San Marcos.
Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, Laurent Dubois. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. viii + 357. Maps, figures, notes, index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-674-01304-2.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 24
Review by , California State University at San Marcos.
L’antisémitisme éclairé. Inclusion et exclusion depuis l’Epoque des Lumières jusqu’à l’affaire Dreyfus / Inclusion and Exclusion: Perspectives on Jews from the Enlightenment to the Dreyfus Affair, Ilana Y. Zinguer and Sam W. Bloom, Eds. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003. xi + 469 pp. Bibliography and index. €105.00, $142.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 90-04-12972-3.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 80
Review by , University of Minnesota.
Descartes et la France: Histoire d'une passion nationale, François Azouvi. Paris: Fayard, 2001. 366 pp. Notes and index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-213-61045-2.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 46
Review by , University of Minnesota.
Radical Cartesianism: The French Reception of Descartes, Tad M. Schmaltz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiv + 288 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-81134-1.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 46
Review by , University of Minnesota.
Descartes: Essai d'histoire culturelle d'une grandeur philosophique, Stéphane Van Damme. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2002. 352 pp. Notes, chronology, bibliography, and index. 16.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-7246-0825-9.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 46
Review by , University of Minnesota.
Cogito, Ergo, Sum: The Life of René Descartes, Richard A. Watson. Jaffrey, N. H.: David R. Godine, 2002. viii + 376 pp. Index and bibliography. $35.00 (hb). ISBN 1-56792-184-1.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 46
Review by , University of Minnesota.
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750, Jonathan Israel. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xxii + 810 pp. Maps, tables, plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-19-820608-9.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 26
Review by , Allegheny College.
Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution, Melanie Randolph Miller. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2005, xiv + 285 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 U. S. (hb). ISBN 1-57488-786-6.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 58
Review by , Whitman College.
Reflections. The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France, Thérèse-Adèle Husson. Translated and with commentary by Catherine J. Kudlick and Zina Weygand. New York and London: New York University Press, 2001. xv + 155 pp. Foreword by Bonnie G. Smith. Notes. $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8147-4746-9.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 134
Review by , American University.
Gerauld de Cordemoy: Atomist, Occasionalist, Cartesian, Fred Ablondi. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2005. 127 pages. Bibliographical references. $17.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87-46266-76.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 152
Review by , University of Oklahoma.
Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France, Tony Chafer and Amanda Sackur, Eds. New York and Hampshire, UK: Palgrave, 2002. xii + 248 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0333791800.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 114
Review by , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Empire of Love: Histories of France and the Pacific, Matt K. Matsuda. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 232 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $65 U.S., £39.50 (cl.). ISBN 0-19-516294-3; $21.95 U.S., £13.50 (pb). ISBN 0-19-516295-1.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 96
Response by Matt K. Matsuda to the review of his book by Daniel J. Sherman.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 97
Review by , University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France, Stéphane Gerson. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 324 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S., £33.50 (cl); $24.95 U.S., £14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-4134-X (cl); ISBN 0-8014-8873-7 (pb).
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 28
Review by , The Johns Hopkins University.
Esau’s Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews, Albert S. Lindemann. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxiv + 568 pp. Index. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 0 521 79538 9.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 25
Review by , California State University Sacramento.
Histoire de l’enseignement, XIXe-XXe siècles : Guide du chercheur, Thérèse Charmasson, Ed. Seconde édition revue et augmentée. Paris: Institut national de recherche pédagogique/Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2006. 728 pp. Notes and index. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7355-0593-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 150
Review by , University of Southern Denmark.
Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Rachel G. Fuchs. New Approaches to European History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xi + 267 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521- 62102-X; $22.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-62926-8.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 93
Review by , The Pennsylvania State University.
The Life and Legacy of Baroness Betty de Rothschild, Laura S. Schor. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. xiii + 190 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $68.95 (cl). ISBN: 0-8204-7885-7.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 139
Review by , University of Liverpool.
The Regionalist Movement in France 1890-1914: Jean Charles-Brun and French Political Thought, Julian Wright. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi + 286 pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. £55.00 UK (hb). ISBN 0-19-926488-0.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 83
Review by , Laurentian University.
Barricades: The War of the Street in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848, Jill Harsin. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 417 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-312-29479-4.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 85
Review by , Philadelphia University.
Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting, Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre. With Deborah L. Roldán and Juliet Wilson-Bareau. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. xi + 592 pp. Illustrations, appendices, chronology, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 1-58839-038-1. $50.00 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 1-58839-040-3.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 128
Review by , Rice University.
Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest, Mireille Rosello. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2001. 211 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 US (cl). ISBN: 0-8047-4232-4. $24.95 US (pb). ISBN: 0-8047-4267-7.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 71
Review by , Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern France, Sarah Ferber. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. x + 227 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $115 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-415-21264-2; $29.95 US (pb). 0-415-21265-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 68
Review by , Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
A History of the Devil From the Middle Ages to the Present, Robert Muchembled. Translated by Jean Birrell. Cambridge: Polity, 2003. x + 349 pp. Notes, bibliography, filmography, and index. £55.00 U.K., $62.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7456-2815; £17.99 U.K., $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7456-2816-8. Originally published as Une histoire du diable, XIIe-XXe siècle. Paris: Seuil, 2000.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 39
Review by , Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670, Vanessa Harding. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 343 pp. Maps, appendices, bibliography, and index. COST??? (cl). ISBN 0-521-81126-0
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 102
Review by , University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Manet Manette, Carol Armstrong. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. xviii, 400 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-300-09658-5.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 18
Review by , Rutgers University.
Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation, William H. Sewell. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 376 pp. $27.50 (pbk). ISBN-13: 978-0226749181.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 91
Review by , University of Arizona.
Tricolor and Crescent: France and the Islamic World, William E. Watson. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2003. Perspectives on the Twentieth Century. xiii + 295 pp. Photos, documents, notes, bibliography and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-275-97470-7.
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Review by , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity, Darrin M. McMahon. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xii + 262 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-513685-3.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 12
Review by , Oberlin College.
Un camp de concentration français: les tsiganes alsaciens-lorrains à Crest, 1915-1919, Emmanuel Filhol. Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2004. 181 pp. Illustrations, bibliography. 20 €, (pb) ISBN 2-7061-1187-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 51
Review by , University of Nottingham.
Bains de foule: Les voyages présidentiels en province, 1888-2002, Nicolas Mariot. Paris: Éditions Belin, 2006. 352 pp. Figures, notes and index. €24.00 (pb). ISSN 1270-914-X, ISBN 2-7011-4452-3.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 55
Review by , Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
Changing France: The Politics that Markets Make, Pepper D. Culpepper, Peter A. Hall and Bruno Palier, Eds. (Houndmills, UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 322 pgs. $74.95 hardcover. ISBN 1-4039-9696-2.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 13
Review by , Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
Redefining the French Republic, Alistair Cole and Gino Raymond, Eds. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006), 179 pp. $84.95 ISBN 0-7190-7150-X.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 13
Review by , University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends, Jody Enders. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxx + 324 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-20787-0.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 81
Review by , University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought, Joel Kaye. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th series, volume 35. Cambridge, U.K. and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 2000 (pb). x + 273 pp. Notes, index, and bibliography. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-57276-2; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-79386-6.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 24
Review by , University of California, Santa Barbara.
Les Affaires étrangères au temps de Richelieu: Les secrétaires d’État, les agents diplomatiques (1624-1642), Madeleine Haehl. Diplomatie et histoire, 11. Brussels, Belgium, and New York: Peter Lang , 2006. 377 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and illustrations. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN-10: 9052012849; ISBN-13: 978-90-5201-284-1.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 87
Review by , University of California, Santa Barbara.
The King’s Body: Sacred Rituals of Power in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Sergio Bertelli. Trans. R. Burr Lichfield. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. xviii + 302 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02102.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 86
Review by , Oberlin College.
The Haunting Past: History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France, Henry Rousso. Preface by Philippe Petit. Translated by Ralph Schoolcraft. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. vii + 96 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. ISBN 0-8122-3645-9.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 40
Review by , Université Bordeaux-3.
France, the United States, and the Algerian War, Irwin M. Wall. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. xiii + 335 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $39.95 (cl.). ISBN 0-520-22534-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 30
Review by , University of Melbourne.
Daughters of Eve: A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin-de-Siècle, Lenard R. Berlanstein. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. xiv + 300 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-00596-1.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 29
Review by , University of Melbourne.
Comédienne: De Mlle Mars à Sarah Bernhardt, Anne Martin-Fugier. 416 pp. Paris: Seuil, 2001. Notes, chronology, bibliography, and index. 21.04 € (pb). ISBN 2-02-039904-0.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 29
Review by , University of Melbourne.
The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France, Jo Burr Margadant. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2000. x + 298 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55 US (cl), ISBN 0-520-22140-0 (cl); $19.95 US (pb), 0-520-22149-9 (pb).
H-France Review Vol. 2 (April 2002), No. 36
Review by , University College London.
Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Louise E. Robbins. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv + 349 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $48.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-6753-3.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 103
Review by , University of Cambridge.
Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years, Charles Coulston Gillispie. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. ix + 751 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $80.00 / £51.95 (cl.) ISBN 0-691-11541-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 23
Review by , University of Louisville.
The Short Chronicle: A Poor Clare’s Account of the Reformation of Geneva, Jeanne de Jussie. Edited and translated by Carrie F. Klaus. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxix + 214 pp. Engraving, notes, and index. $21.00 (pb), ISBN 0-226-41706-9.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 116
Review by , Hollins University.
The Contested Parterre: Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680-1791, Jeffrey S. Ravel. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. xi + 256 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3544-7. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8541-X.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 67
Review by , Wayne State University.
Beaumarchais in Seville: An Intermezzo, Hugh Thomas. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. xiv + 177 pp. Preface, dramatis personae, postscript, bibliography, index, and illustrations. $25.00 U.S., £16.00 U.K. (cl); ISBN 0-300-12103-2.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 132
Review by , University of Michigan.
Fleuves et marais, une histoire au croisement de la nature et de la culture: Sociétés préindustrielles et milieux fluviaux, lacustres, et palustres: pratiques sociales et hydrosystèmes, Joëlle Burnouf and Philippe Leveau, Eds. (Archéologie et histoire de l’art, 19). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2004. 493 pp. Illustrations, maps. €35.00. ISBN 2-7355-0561-8.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 142
Review by , University of Calgary.
The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France, 1876-1936, Jennifer Michael Hecht. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xii + 402pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-231-12846-0.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 107
Review by , University of Calgary.
The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment, Julia V. Douthwaite. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. xiii + 344 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cl); ISBN 0-226-16055-6. $19.00 U.S. (pb); ISBN 0-226-16056-4.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 123
Review by , University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Gendarmerie, état et société au XIXe siècle, Jean-Noël Luc, Ed. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2002. 510 pp. Appendices. 30.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-85944-449-1.
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Review by , Université Lyon 2--Lumière.
Gregory of Tours. History and Society in the Sixth Century, Martin Heinzelmann. Translated by Christopher Carroll. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 235 pp. Figures, table, and bibliography. £40.00 G.B. (cl). ISBN 0-521-63174-2.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 109
Review by , Western Michigan University.
A Social Laboratory for Modern France. The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State, Janet R. Horne. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. xiii + 354 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $65 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-2782-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 59
Review by , University of California, Berkeley.
The Interpreter, Alice Kaplan. (New York and London: Free Press, 2005). 256 pp. $25.00 US (hbk). ISBN 0-743-25424-4.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 44
Review by , University of California, Berkeley.
Black Skins, French Voices: Caribbean Ethnicity and Activism in Urban France, David Beriss. Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press, 2004. xx + 156 pp. $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8133-4254-6.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 81
Review by , University of California, Berkeley.
Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation, Paul Silverstein. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. xi + 284 pp. Notes. $19.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-253-21712-1.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 81
Review by , University of California at Berkeley.
Negritude Women, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. ix +168 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8166-3679-6. $17.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8166-3680-X.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 71
Review by , University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Le temps des sciences humaines. Gaston Roupnel et les années trente, Annie Bleton-Ruget and Philippe Poirrier, Eds.. Paris: Éditions le Manuscrit-Maison des sciences de l’homme de Dijon, 2006. 279 pp. Notes. 21.90 € (pb). ISBN 2-7481-8196-4.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 130
Review by , Harvard Unversity.
Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière, Georges Didi-Huberman. tr. Alisa Hartz. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2003. xxi + 385 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-262-04215-0.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 4
Review by , University of Maryland.
Reinterpreting the French Revolution: A Global-historical Perspective, Bailey Stone. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii + 292 pp. Notes and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-81147-3.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 133
Response by Bailey Stone to the review of his book by D.M.G. Sutherland.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 134
Review by , University of Kansas.
The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance, Adam Rayski. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. xvi + 388 pp. List of interviews and testimony, acronyms of agencies, organizations, and movements, notes and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-268-04021-4.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 127
Review by , University of California, Los Angeles.
The French Navy and the Seven Years’ War, Jonathan R. Dull. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xviii + 445 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8032-1731-5.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 140
Review by , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
The Subject Medieval/Modern: Text and Governance in the Middle Ages, Peter Haidu. Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xiv + 446 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $65 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0804747431; $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8047-4744-X.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 52
Response by Peter Haidu to the review of his book by Carol Symes.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 53
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Review by , University of Manchester.
Paris, Capital of Modernity, David Harvey. New York & London: Routledge, 2003, xi + 372 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $30 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-415-94421-X.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 66
Review by , University of Manchester.
Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930, Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner, Eds. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiv + 316 pp. Notes. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-58365-9.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 92
Review by , University of Manchester.
Blood in the City: Violence and Revelation in Paris, 1789-1945, Richard D.E. Burton. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. xv+395 pp. Map, figures, notes, chronology, and index. $36.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3868-3.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 17
Review by , Loyola Marymount University.
Letters from France, Helen Maria Williams. Neil Fraistat and Susan L. Lanser, Eds., Orchard Park, N.Y. and Ormskirk, Lancashire: Broadview Press, 2001. 295 pp. Introduction, chronology, appendices, and bibliography. $15.95 U.S. (pb.). ISBN 1-55111-255-8.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 35
Review by , Dartmouth College.
Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature: Martyrs to Love, Simon Gaunt. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xii + 235pp. Bibliography and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927207-5; ISBN-10: 0-19-927207-7.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 62
Review by , University of York.
Between France and England: Politics, Power and Society in Late Medieval Brittany (Variorum Collected Studies Series), Michael C. E. Jones. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003. ix + 326 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references and index. $105.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-86078-906-3.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 100
Review by , University of Durham.
Courtly Love Undressed: Reading through Clothes in Medieval French Culture, E. Jane Burns. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 326 pp. Notes and bibliography. $49.95 U.S./£35.00 G.B. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3671-8.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 40
Review by , Colby College.
The Trial of Joan of Arc, Daniel Hobbins, trans. and intro. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. xii + 251 pp. Appendices, notes, further reading, index. $24.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-674-01894-X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 64
Review by , Colby College.
The Myth of Pope Joan, Alain Boureau. Trans. Lydia G. Cochrane. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x + 386 pp. Preface to the American edition, reproductions, bibliography, notes, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl); $22.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-06745-9.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 85
Review by , University of Waterloo.
Associations et champ politique: La loi de 1901 à l épreuve de siècle, Claire Andrieu, Gilles Le Béguec, and Danielle Tartakowsky, Eds. Paris: Publication de la Sorbonne, 2001. 723 pp. Notes, appendices, and bibliography. 35.00 Euros (pb). ISBN 2-85944-424-6.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 101
Review by , University of Waterloo.
La protection sociale sous le régime de Vichy, Philippe-Jean Hesse and Jean-Pierre Le Crom, Eds. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2001. 377pp. Notes, map, bibliography and index. 150,87FF (pb). ISBN 2-86847-603-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 2
Review by , Brown University.
Philippe III le Hardi, Gérard Sivéry. Paris: Fayard, 2003. 359 pp. 22.00 € ISBN 2-213-61486-5.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 139
Review by , University of Maine.
Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire, Roberta J. Magnusson. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiv + 238 pp. Diagrams, figures, notes, and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 080186626X.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 15
Review by , L’Institut d’histoire du temps présent (IHTP) CNRS.
The Algerian War and the French Army, 1954-1962: Experiences, Images, Testimonies, Martin S. Alexander, Martin Evans, and J.F.V. Keiger, Eds. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2002. xi + 269 pp. Notes, appendix on witness testimonies, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-333-77456-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 38
Review by , Ball State University.
Football in France: A Cultural History, Geoff Hare. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003. xiii + 226 pp. Tables, glossary, appendices, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85973-657-2; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-85973-662-9.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 60
Review by , Ball State University.
Du jeu ancien au show sportif: La naissance d'un mythe, Georges Vigarello. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2002. 236 pp. Notes. 21.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-02-053038-4.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 60
Review by , Ball State University.
French Rugby Football: A Cultural History, Philip Dine. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2001. viii + 229 pp. Notes, bibliography, appendices, and index. $65.00 US (cl). ISBN 1-85973-322-0. $19.50 U.S. (pb). 1-85973-327-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 83
Review by , University of Sheffield.
Lordship in France 500-1500, James Lowth Goldsmith. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. xiv + 529 pp. $88.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-8204-6849-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 107
Review by , Arizona State University.
Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune, Carolyn J. Eichner. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. xii + 279 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-253-34442-5; $24.95 U.S. (pb) ISBN: 0-253-21705-9.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 10
Review by , Arizona State University.
Paris Between Empires: Monarchy and Revolution, 1814–1852, Philip Mansel. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003. ix + 559 pages. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-312-30857-4.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 48
Review by , Arizona State University.
La Commune (Paris 1871), Peter Watkins, Director. 1999/France/Black and white. Studio: 13 Production, La Sept ARTE, Musée d’Orsay. Running Time: 5 hours 45 minutes. Distributor: First Run/Icarus Films.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 87
Review by , Arizona State University.
Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siècle France, Lisa Tiersten. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2001. xiii + 321 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $45.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-520-22529-5.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 57
Review by , Arizona State University.
Eve’s Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France, Whitney Walton. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 308 pp. Notes, selected bibliography and index. $49.50 US. ISBN 0-8047-3754-1.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 12
Review by , Arizona State University.
Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women, James Smith Allen. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiii + 270 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $42.50 US. ISBN 0-8018-6204-3.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 12
Review by , University of Chicago.
Louis XIV face à l’Europe du Nord: L’absolutisme vaincu par les libertés, Hervé Hasquin. Bruxelles: Éditions Racine, 2005. 334 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, and index. € 24.95. ISBN 2-87386-390-0.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 65
Review by , Columbia University.
La Voix et le Geste. Une approche culturelle de la violence socio-politique, Philippe Bourdin, Mathias Bernard and Jean-Claude Caron, Eds. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2005. 384 pp. Appendices and illustrations. €38 (pb). ISBN 2-84516-276-6.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 17
Review by , Université de Nantes.
France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades, Daniel H. Weiss and Lisa Mahoney, Eds. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xx + 376 pp. Figures, maps, bibliography, notes, index. $44.95 (hb). ISBN 0-8018-1823-3.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 2
Review by , Université Paris X.
Chemistry, Pharmacy and Revolution in France, 1777-1809, Jonathan Simon. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2005, vi + 196 pp. Bibliography and index. $89.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7546-5044-8.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 143
Review by , The Georgia Institute of Technology.
The Peninsular War: A New History, Charles Esdaile. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. ix + 587 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6231-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 30
Review by , Georgia Institute of Technology.
L’empire de Napoléon, Annie Jourdan. Paris: Flammarion, 2000. 351 pp. Critical glossary, bibliography, and index. 54.18FF. ISBN 2-08-083003-1.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 5
Review by , St. Thomas University.
Grenoble et le Vercors: De la Résistance à la Libération 1944-1944, Pierre Bolle, Ed. Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2003. 271 pp. Appendix, maps, photographs, bibliography, index of people, index of place names, list of abbreviations. €30 (pb). ISBN 2 7061 0998 X.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 113
Review by , Texas Tech University.
The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France: Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright, Sudhir Hazareesingh, Ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 244 pp. Notes, appendix, and index. £35.00 U.K. (cl.). ISBN 0-19-925646-2.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 88
Review by , U.S. Naval Academy.
Napoleon in Egypt, Irene A. Bierman, Ed. Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing Ltd., 2003. v + 187 pp. Notes. $49.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-86372-299-7.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 49
Review by , George Mason University.
Apology for Raymond Sebond, Michel de Montaigne. Translated with notes and introduction by Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 2003. 184 pp. Notes and bibliography. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-87220-680-7; $9.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87220-679-3.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 79
Review by , University of Southampton.
“This Anguish, Like a Kind of Song”: Resistance in Women’s Literature of World War II, L. Leigh Westerfield. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004. 236pp. $72.00 U.S./ €55.00 (pb). ISBN 90-420-1148-3.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 109
Review by , University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire.
Les conseillers municipaux de Paris sous la IIIe République (1871-1914), Nobuhito Nagaï. Paris : Publications de la Sorbonne, 2002. 375 pp. Tables, annexes, bibliography, and index. 30.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-85944-440-8.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 54
Review by , University of Washington.
Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth Century France, Elena Russo. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xi + 346 pp. Notes, index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8018-8476-4.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 15
Review by , University of Kansas.
Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France, Holly Tucker. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2003. xv + 213 pp. Illustrations, notes, works cited, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8143-3042-8.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 18
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Renouveau et décentralisation du théâtre 1945-1981, Pascale Goetschel. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004. 512 pp. €38 (pb). ISBN 2130537383.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 157
Compte-rendu par , Université de Genève.
Préserver l’art de l’ennemi? Le patrimoine artistique en Belgique et en France occupées, 1914-1918, Christina Kott. Bruxelles, P.I.E. Peter Lang, coll. Comparatisme et Société, n°4, 2006, 441 pp. in-8, ill. noir dans le texte. €46.90. $55.95 U.S.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 126
Compte-rendu par , Centre Universitaire Jean-François Champollion, Albi, France.
Pauvreté et protection sociale aux XIXe et XXe siècles: des expériences rouennaises aux politiques nationales, Yannick Marec. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, collection « Carnot », 2006, 404 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography of author’s works, index. 22 € (pb). ISBN 2-7535-0315-X.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 135
Review by , University of Vermont.
Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution, Gita May. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 2005. 237 pp. Color plates, black and white illustrations, notes, and index. $30.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-10872-9.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 15
Review by , California State University, Sacramento.
Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas, Eric T. Jennings. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. xi + 271 pp. Maps, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 082233822X.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 100
Review by , California State University, Sacramento.
Paul Doumer, gouverneur général de d’Indochine (1897-1902): le tremplin colonial, Amaury Lorin. Paris: l’Harmattan, 2004. 248 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. 21.20 € (pb.). ISBN 2-7475-6954-3.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 53
Réponse par Amaury Lorin au Compte-rendu de son ouvrage par Michael G. Vann.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 54
Review by , Santa Clara University.
Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in JazzAge France, Brett A. Berliner. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. xii + 273 pp. Photographs, notes, and index. $35.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-5584-935-65.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 35
Review by , Santa Clara University.
France in Indochina: Colonial Encounters, Nicola Cooper. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2001. ix + 240 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-85973-481-2.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 87
Review by , State University of New York at Buffalo.
Francois Quesnay, Oeuvres économiques complètes et autres textes, 2 volumes, Christine Théré, Loïc Charles, and Jean-Claude Perrot, Eds. (Paris, INED, 2005). 1618 pp. + notes. €68.00 (cl). ISBN 2-733-2103-19.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 127
Review by , SUNY at Buffalo.
Economic Sentiments, Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment, Emma Rothschild. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. ix + 353pp. Notes and index. $45.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-674-00489-2
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 9
Review by , University of Pittsburgh.
The Cistercian Evolution: The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe, Constance Hoffman Berman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. xxiv + 382 pp. Charts, plans, photographs, maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.55 U.S. (cl); £42.00 G.B. ISBN 0-8122-3534-7.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 121
Response by Constance Berman, to the review of her book by Bruce L. Venarde.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 122
Review by , West Virginia University.
Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture and the Thirty Years' War, Toby Osborne. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii + 304 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-65268-5.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 47
Review by , West Virginia University.
Plagues, Poisons and Potions: Plague-Spreading Conspiracies in the Western Alps c. 1530-1640, William G. Naphy. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002. xiv + 242 pp. Maps, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7190-4641-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 6
Review by , University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment, Natania Meeker. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. ix + 310 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN: 9780823226962.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 109
Review by , North Carolina State University.
A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France, Jennifer Pitts. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii + 382 pp. $39.50 U.S. / £26.95 (UK) (cl). ISBN 0-691-11558-3.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 128
Review by , North Carolina State University.
Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914, Harold Mah. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 227 pp. $39.95 U.S. £23.95 (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4144-7.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 46ii + 227 pp. $39.95 U.S. £23.95 (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4144-7.
Review by , Université du Maine.
Jules Breton, Painter of Peasant Life, Annette Bourrut-Lacouture. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, in association with the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 2002. ??? 264 pp. I illustrations (43 b/w + 158 colors). $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-300-09575-9.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 19
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La IVe République, Pascal Cauchy. Que sais-je? Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2004. 128 pp. Appendix, bibliography. €8.00 (pbk). ISBN 2-13-053651-4.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 62
Review by , Forham University.
The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968, Michael Seidman. New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2004. x + 310 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, chronology, glossary, and index. $75.00 U.S.(hb). ISBN 1-57181-675-5; $24.95 U.S (pb). ISBN 1-57181-685-2.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 94
Review by , Fordham University.
Marketing Michelin, Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France, Stephen L. Harp. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiii + 356 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-8018-6651-0.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 58
Review by , University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
André Gide and the Second World War: A Novelist’s Occupation, Jocelyn van Tuyl. New York: State University of New York Press, 2006. xii + 256. $ 65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7914-6713-9.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 9
Review by , Indiana University, South Bend.
Gender and Voice in the French Novel, 1730-1782, Aurora Wolfgang. Burlington, Vt. and Hants, England: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2004. 209 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography and index. $79.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-3702-6.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 68
Review by , Center for European Studies, New York University.
Allies at War: America, Europe, and the Crisis over Iraq, Philip Gordon and Jeremy Shapiro. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution and McGraw-Hill, 2004. vi + 266 pp. $19.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 0-07-144120-4.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 76
Review by , University of California, Riverside, and New York University.
Crisis and Renewal in France, 1918-1962, Kenneth Mouré and Martin Alexander, Eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002. vii + 312 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cl). Notes, list of contributors, and index. ISBN 1-57181-146-X.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 135
Review by , University of California, Riverside.
France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-54, >William Hitchcock. Foreword by John Lewis Gaddis. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 291 pp. Map, notes, bibliography. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-807-82428-3. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-807-84747-X.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 113
Review by , Université de Montréal.
Taking Liberties: Problems of a New Order from the French Revolution to Napoleon, Howard G. Brown and Judith A. Miller, Eds. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002. ix + 210 pp. Notes and index. £45.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0-7190-6431-7; £14.99 U.K. (pb). ISBN 0-7190-6431-7.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 60
Review by , Purdue University.
Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France, Christopher Endy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (hb); $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8078-5548-0.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 9
Review by , Columbia University Institute for Scholars, Reid Hall; Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; and Institut d’Histoire de la Révolution française, Université de Paris I.
La liberté ou la mort: essai sur la Terreur et le terrorisme, Sophie Wahnich. Paris: La Fabrique Editions, 2003. 111 pp. Notes and acknowledgments. 13.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-913372-25-2.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 77
Review by , Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and Columbia University’s Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall.
Le Théâtre de la Foire: Des tréteaux aux boulevards, Isabelle Martin. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002. xix + 386 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography. £59.00 U.K. , $101.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7294-0797-7.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 136
Review by , Purdue University.
Enfants Terribles: Youth and Femininity in the Mass Media in France, 1945-1968, Susan Weiner. Burlington, Vt. and Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. 246 pp. Bibliography and index. ISBN 1-8592-8238-5.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 46
Review by , University of Alaska Southeast.
Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris, Mary Gluck. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xi + 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $35.00 (cl.) ISBN 0-674-01530-4.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 108
Review by , University of Alaska Southeast.
The Modernist Traveler: French Detours, 1900-1930, Kimberley J. Healey. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. ix + 175 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8032-2412-5 (cl). $40.00 US.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 114
Review by , University of Alaska Southeast.
Symbolist Journals: A Culture of Correspondence, Pamela A. Genova. Series “Studies in European Cultural Transition.” Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2002. xviii + 352 pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $84.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-7546-0010-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 43
Review by , University of Alaska Southeast.
Naissance de la police privée: Détectives et agences de recherches en France, 1832-1942, Dominique Kalifa. Civilisations et Mentalités. Paris: Plon, 2000. 328 pp. Illustrations, documents, notes, bibliography, and index. 139FF (pb). ISBN 2-259-18291-7.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 21
Review by , University of Alaska Southeast.
Crescendo of the Virtuoso: Spectacle, Skill, and Self-Promotion in Paris during the Age of Revolution. Studies in the History of Society and Culture no. 30, Paul Metzner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii + 385 pp. Notes, index. $50.00 (cl.) ISBN 0-520-20684-3.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (May 2001), No. 13
Review by , University of Alaska Southeast.
Liberalism and Social Reform: Industrial Grown and Progressiste Politics in France, 1880-1914, David M. Gordon. Contributions to the Study of World History no. 55. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. 226 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $65.00 (cl.) ISBN 0-313-29811-4.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (May 2001), No. 13
Review by , University of Alaska Southeast.
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France, Asti Hustvedt, Ed. New York: Zone Books, 1998. 1088 pp. Notes. $58.00 (cl.), ISBN 1-890951-06-4; $32.00 (pb.), ISBN 1-890951-07-2.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (May 2001), No. 13
Review by , Truman State University.
Marxism and National Identity: Socialism, Nationalism, and National Socialism during the French Fin de Siècle, Robert Stuart. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. x + 305 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7914-6670-1.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 26
Review by , University of South Carolina.
François Truffaut and Friends: Modernism, Sexuality, and Film Adaptation, Robert Stam. New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Rutgers University Press, 2006.xvi+239 pp. 25 b&w photographs, chronology, notes, and index. $23.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-8135-3725-8.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 97
Review by , University of Richmond.
The French Revolution 1789-1799, Peter McPhee. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 234 pp. Maps, chronology, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-924414-6.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 88
Review by , California State University, Long Beach.
Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France, Katherine Ellis. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxii + 295 pp. Personalia, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-517682-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 61
Review by , California State University, Long Beach.
Le mélomane et l’historien, Sophie-Anne Leterrier. Paris: Armand Colin, 2005. 227 pp. Index. €23 E.U. (pb). ISBN 2-20-026914-5.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 61
Review by , California State University, Long Beach.
Salons, Singers and Songs: A Background to Romantic French Song, 1830-1870, David Tunley. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. ix + 283 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. $79.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-0491-8.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 112
Review by , California State University, Long Beach.
Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution, Jacqueline Letzter and Robert Adelson. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2001. xvii + 342 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, and index. $48.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-520-22653-4.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 48
Review by , Lehman College and the Graduate Center CUNY.
Impressionist Giverny, A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915, Katherine M. Bourguignon, Ed. Giverny: Musée d’art Américain Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007. 219 pp. Exhibition catalogue with foreword, illustrations, essays, catalogue of the works shown in the exhibition, historical documents, map, list of artists working in Giverny, selected bibliography, index. (cl) ISBN 978-0932171-52-8.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 149
Review by , Eastern Illinois University.
The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007. 374 pp. Sources, index. $22.95 (pb). ISBN: 0-674-02392-7.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 79
Review by , Yale University.
Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno: Culture, Identity and Society, Hugh Dauncy and Steve Cannon, Eds. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. xii + 282 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. ISBN 0-7546-0849-2.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 58
Review by , Yale University.
Hollywood’s Film Wars with France: Film Trade Diplomacy and the Emergence of the French Film Quota Policy, Jens Ulff-Møller. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001. xix + 202 pp. Figures, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 1-58046-086-0.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 56
Review by , Wagner College.
France Since the Revolution: Texts and Contexts, Claire Gorrara and Rachel Langford, Eds. London and New York: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2003. 154 pp. Glossary of names, chronology, and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-340-763-61-2.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 17
Review by , Southern Methodist University.
Men, Women and the Birthing of Modern Science, Judith P. Zinsser, Ed. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. viii + 215 pp. Notes, index, and list of contributors. $38.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-87580-340-7.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 48
Review by , Southern Methodist University.
De la petite fille velue et autres conférences du Bureau d’Adresse (1632-1642), Théophraste Renaudot. Edited by Simone Mazauric. Paris: Klincksieck, 2004. xxxviii + 154 pp. Notes. €14 E.U. (pb). ISBN 2-252-3444-0.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 20
Review by , Southern Methodist University.
Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe, Laura Lunger Knoppers and Joan B. Landes, Eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi+304 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $22.50 (pb) ISBN 0-8014-8901-6.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 112
Review by , Southern Methodist University.
Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment, Jessica Riskin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 296 pp., 3 halftones, 39 line drawings, bibliography, and index, $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-72079-9.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 67
Review by , University of Northern Iowa.
Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings, Anthony Hobson. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xix+275 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $125.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0521651298.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 11
Review by , Cleveland State University.
Send Me God: The Lives of Ida The Compassionate of Nivelles, Nun of La Ramée, Arnulf, Lay Brother Of Villers, and Abundus, Monk of Villers, by Goswin of Bossut, Martinus Cawley, trans.. Brepols Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 6. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 258 pp. Black and white illustrations. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 027-10268-39.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 71
Review by , University of California, Berkeley.
La France et la Tierce Allemagne à l’exemple de la Saxe entre 1814 et 1866, Olivier Podevins. Friedberg: Edition Atlantis, 2001. 390 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography, and index. 25.15 Euros (cl). ISBN 3-932711-53-X.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 107
Review by , Acadia University.
The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792-1794, Graeme Fife. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004. xi + 436 pp. Illustrations, revolutionary calendar, bibliography and index. $30.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-312-35224-7.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 44
Review by , University of Sussex.
Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires, Aurelian Craiutu. Maryland: Lexington Books, 2003. xv + 335. Notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95 US (pb) ISBN 0-7391-0658-9; $80.00 US (cl) ISBN 0-7391-0657-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 7
Review by , University of Sussex.
Chamfort and the French Revolution. A Study in Form and Ideology, David McCallam. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002. xv + 180 pp. Bibliography and index. £39.00 U.K.; $67.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0801-9.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 17
Review by , University of Delaware.
The French Empire between the Wars. Imperialism, Politics and Society, Martin Thomas. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2005. xvii + 408. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $74.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-7190-6518-7.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 98
Review by , University of Delaware.
Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-Ruled West Africa, 1914-1956, James E. Genova. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2004. xi + 300 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $72.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-8204-6941-6.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 82
Review by , University of Delaware.
Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919-1939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths, David Henry Slavin. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xv + 300 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, filmography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-6616-2.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 70
Review by , Wheelock College.
The Poor Man's Son: Menrad, Kabyle Schoolteacher, Mouloud Feraoun. Trans. Lucy R. McNair. Intro. James D. LeSueur. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xxxiv + 153 pp. Introduction and glossary. $49.50 (cl). ISBN 0-8139-2325-5. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8139-2326-3.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 145
Review by , Wheelock College.
From Africa: New Francophone Stories, Adele King, Ed.. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xx + 150 pp. Bibliographical Essay. $40.00 U.S.; £30.50 U.K. (cl) ISBN: 0-8032-2578-2; $15.00 U.S.; £11.50 (pb). ISBN: 0-8032-7810-1.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 82
Review by , Macalester College.
On Monique Wittig: Theoretical, Political and Literary Essays, Namascar Shaktini, Ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. ix + 230 pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-252-02984-4; $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07231-6.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 139
Review by , Rutgers University.
Casque d'or, Sarah Leahy. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xii + 116 pp. Filmographies, Bibliography, Index. $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07472-1.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 20
Review by , Wake Forest University.
Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France, David W. Bates. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiii + 255 pp. Notes and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3945-0.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 75
Review by , Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Australia.
Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours, Fredric L. Cheyette. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. xiii+474pp. Maps, genealogies, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3952-3
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 14
Review by , St. Edward’s University.
Zayde: A Spanish Romance, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de Lafayette. Edited and translated by Nicholas D. Paige. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxi. + 210 pp. Bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-46851-8; $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-266-46852-6.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 56
Review by , University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon, Elizabeth Thompson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xvii + 402 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $17.50 US (pb). ISBN 0-231-10661-0.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 45
Review by , University of Sheffield.
France in Crisis: Welfare, Inequality and Globalization since 1980, Timothy Smith. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 296 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $23.99 (pb). ISBN: 0-521-84414-2.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 3
Review by , Appalachian State University.
Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb, Alison Rice. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006. x + 346 pp. $90.00 cl/$29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-739-1129-02.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 86
Review by , State University of New York, Stony Brook.
A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917-1945, David Berry. Contributions to the Study of World History, no. 97. Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. xiv + 323 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313-32026-8.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 51
Review by , Western Illinois University.
The French Revolution 1787-1804, P. M. Jones. London and New York: Pearson Longman, 2003. xviii + 154 pp. Chronology, maps, documents, glossary, who’s who, bibliography, and index. $16.00 (pb). ISBN 0-582-77289-3.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 85
Review by , St. John's University.
Vauban under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of Spanish Succession, Jamel Ostwald. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. xiii + 390. Maps, figures, tables, appendices and index. $159.00 (cl). ISBN 10-90-04-15489-2.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 10
Review by , Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue, Matthew L. Jones. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xvii + 384 pp. Bibliography and index. $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-226-40955-9.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 61
Review by , Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615), Eric Nelson. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005. vi + 275 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. $94.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-7546-3888-X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 40
Review by , Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
Greuze and the Painting of Sentiment, Emma Barker. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii + 335 pp. Illustrations, bibliography and index. $120.00 (cl). ISBN 0-521-55508-6.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 21
Review by , Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England, Mary Sponberg Pedley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ix-345 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, and bibliography. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-65341-2.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 133
Review by , Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment, Brett D. Steele and Tamera Dorland, Eds. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2005. 397 pp. Notes and index. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-262-19516-X.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 103
Review by , Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
The Edict of Nantes and its implications in France, Britain and Ireland, Ruth Whelan and Carol Baxter, Eds. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003. 304 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85182-481-1.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 21
Review by , Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
De Michel de L'Hospital à l'Édit de Nantes. Politique et religion face aux Églises, Thierry Waneggelen, Ed. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaire Blaise-Pascal, 2002. 612 pp. Notes. 37.00 €. ISBN 2-84516-159-X (pb).
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 72
Review by , Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
Ingénieurs et fortifications avant Vauban. L’organisation d’un service royal aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles, David Buisseret. Paris: Éditions du CTHS, 2002. 142 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 33.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-7355-0478-6.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 27
Review by , Arizona State University.
Montesquieu and the Spirit of Modernity, David W. Carrithers and Patrick Coleman, Eds. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2002: 9. ix + 257 pp. Index. $74.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0796-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 79
Review by , Arizona State University.
Voltaire Almighty: A Life in the Pursuit of Freedom, Roger Pearson. London: Bloomsbury, 2005. xxxii + 424 pp. "Dramatis personae," chronology, note on sources, notes, select bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S.; £8.99 UK (cl). ISBN 9780747579571.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 16
Review by , Arizona State University.
The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France, Marisa Linton. Basingstoke, UK, and New York: Palgrave, 2001. xi + 258 pp. Notes and index. $60 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-333-94959-5.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 66
Review by , University of Durham.
Policing Paris: the Origins of Modern Immigration Control between the Wars, Clifford Rosenberg. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. xvii + 241 pp. $23.95 U.S. (pb.) Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography and index. ISBN 0-8014-7315-2.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 46
Review by , University of Durham.
The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought, Jesse Goldhammer. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. x + 205 pp. Notes and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-8014-4150-1.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 91
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Word, Image and Experience. Dynamics of Miracle and Self-Perception in Sixth-Century Gaul, Giselle de Nie. Variorum Collected Studies Series, 771. Ashgate: Aldershot, U.K., and Burlington, VT, 2003). xiv + 374 pp. Index. $119.00 U.S./£62.50 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0-86078-933-0.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 156
Review by , University of Winnipeg.
The Fall of France. The Nazi Invasion of 1940, Julian Jackson. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvii + 274 pp. Maps, photos, illustrations, notes, further reading, and index. $14.95 U.S.(pb). ISBN 0-19-280550-9.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 27
Review by .
Des Terroristes à la retraite. 1983/France/Color. Studio: Zek Productions. Running Time: 84 min, Mosco Boucault, Director.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (March 2001), No. 5
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The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation, Richard Vinen. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. 496 pp. Notes, index. $35.00 U.S. ISBN 978-0-300-12132-2.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 7
Review by , University of Houston.
France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944, Julian Jackson. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xix+660pp. Notes, maps, abbreviation tables and index. $35.00 ISBN 0-19-820706-9.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 6
Review by , Honors College, University of Houston.
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach, Alice Kaplan. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2000. xvi + 308pp. Notes and index. $25.00 (cl). ISBN 0-226-42414-6.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Feb. 2001), No. 3
Review by , Honors College, University of Houston.
The Expectation of Justice: France 1944-1946, Megan Koreman. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. xviii + 340pp. Notes, maps, index and bibliography. ISBN 0-8223-2373-7.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Feb. 2001), No. 3
Review by , West Virginia University.
A Workforce Divided: Community, Labor and the State in Saint-Nazaire’s Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1910, Leslie A. Schuster. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. X + 233 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl) ISBN 0-313-31775-5.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 41
Review by , West Virginia University.
The Politics of Racism in France, Peter Fysh and Jim Wolfreys. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998. xiv + 240 pp., tables, biblio., index. $69.95.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 8
Review by , Southern Illinois University.