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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.
Review by Martin K. Foys, Hood College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 124
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.
Review by Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 16
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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.
Review by Gary Kates, Pomona College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 132
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.
Review by Barbara Newman, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 102
L’absinthe au feminine, Marie-Claude Delahaye. Saint Remy-de-Provence: Equinoxe, 2007. 136 pp. €19 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84135559-4.
and Jad Adams, Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 294 pp. $24.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-29-200-000-0.
Review by Scott Haine, University of California Santa Cruz and Holy Names College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 40
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.
Review by Jennifer J. Davis, Furman University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 98
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.
Review by Lisa Jane
Graham, Haverford College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 57
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.
Review by David
Charlton, Royal Holloway, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 27
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.
Review by Paul Sonnino, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 87
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.
Review by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Christine Lehman, Université Paris X.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 64
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.
Review by Melanie A. Bailey, Centenary College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 14
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.
Review by Barbara Day-Hickman, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 2
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.
Review by Paul Mazgaj, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 43
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.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 90
The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, Colin B. Bailey, Ed. Colin B. Bailey, Philip Conisbee, and Thomas W. Gaehtgens. 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.
Review by Paula Radisich, Whittier College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 53
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.
Review by Andrew
Aisenberg, Scripps College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 53
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.
Compte-rendu par by Christophe Pradeau, Université Paris 13.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 145
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.
Review by Thomas
Brennan, U.S. Naval Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 43
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.
Review by Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 81
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.
Review by Sylvie Thénault, L’Institut d’histoire du temps présent (IHTP) CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 38
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.
Review by Irwin Wall,
Center for European Studies, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 76
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.
Review by Rebecca McCoy, Lebanon Valley College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 18
Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in Jazz Age 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.
Review by Michael G.
Vann, Santa Clara University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 35
Amélie: Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Isabelle Vanderschelden. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. x + 114 pp. Stills, notes, film credits, box office statistics, filmography, selected bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-252-03221-9. $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07470-7.
Review by Guy Austin, University of Sheffield, U.K.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 37
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.
Review by Seth Armus, Saint Joseph’s College (New York).
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 131
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.
Review by Seth Armus, Saint Joseph's College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 89
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 2-85944-449-1.
Review by John S. Hill, Immaculata University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 58
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.
Review by David H. Walker, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 9
Anglo-French Relations Before the Second World War: Appeasement and Crisis, Richard Davis. London: Palgrave, 2001. vii + 219 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-333-94926-9.
Review by William
D. Irvine, York University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 28
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.
Review by Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 113
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.
Review by R. W. Hanning, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 25
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.
Review by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, California State University – San Marcos.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 80
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.
Review by Allan Arkush, Binghamton University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 38
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.
Review by Allan Tulchin, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 79
Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works, Richard Hillman and Colette Quesnel, Eds. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxviii + 176 pp. Bibliography and index. $49.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-305556-2.
Review by Michelle
Marshman, Green River College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 32
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.
Review by Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 58
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.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 104
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.
Review by Stéphane Gerson, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 31
Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians, Harry Liebersohn. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi + 179 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliographical references, index. $54.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-64090-3. $19.95 U.S. pb). 0-521-64090-3.
Review by David
Higgs, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 23
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.
Review by James McDougall, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 118
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.
Review by Carol
E. Harrison, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 20
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 (pb). ISBN 2-85944-424-6.
Review by Lynne
Taylor, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 101
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.
Review by David W. Del Testa, Bucknell University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 146
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.
Review by Béatrice Blanchet, University of Bath.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 37
Autobiography and Independence: Selfhood and Creativity in North African Postcolonial Writing in French. Contemporary French and Francophone Letters 2, Debra Kelly. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2005. vii + 400pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $85.00 (hb). ISBN 0-85323-659-3.
Review by Clarisse Zimra, Southern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 123
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.
Review by Charles Cogan, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 154
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.
Review by Charles Cogan, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 154
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.
Review by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, California State University – San Marcos.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 24
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.
Review by Richard W. Kaeuper, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 107
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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.
Compte-rendu par Laurent Joly, Université de Paris I.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 82
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.
Review by Paul Smith, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 55
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.
Review by Peter
McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 19
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.
Review by Samir Saul, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 68
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.
Review by Daniel Ringrose, Minot State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 77
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.
Review by Pierre Simoni, Laurentian University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 85
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.
Review by Asa Simon Mittman, Bucknell University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 50
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.
Review by Donald C. Spinelli, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 132
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.
Review by Miri Rubin,
Department of History, Queen Mary - University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 42
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.
Review by Bradford
C. Brown, Bradley University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 131
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.
Review by James Given, University of California, Irvine.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 92
A ‘Belle Epoque’? Women in French Society and Culture 1890-1914, Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr, Eds.. 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.
Review by Cherilyn Lacy, Hartwick College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 60
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.
Review by W. Gregory Monahan, Eastern Oregon University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 123
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.
Review by Craig Taylor, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 100
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.
Review by J. P. Daughton, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 81
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.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 59
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.
Compte-rendu par Nicole Edelman, Université Paris-10.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 39
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.
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
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
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.
Review by Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 81
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.
Review by Raymond
A. Mentzer, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 132
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.
Review by Bertrand
Taithe, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 17
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.
Review by Ann W. Ramsey, Independent Scholar, Esopus, N.Y.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 82
Blowing Up Paradise, Ben Lewis, Director. 60 min., DVD and VHS. First Run/Icarus Films, 2005. $390.00 U.S.
Review by Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 10
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.
Review by William S. Cormack, University of Guelph.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 54
Bonapartists in the Borderlands. 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).
Compte rendu par Nicole Fouché, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Centre d’études nord-américaines/École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 65
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.
Review by Véronique Chagnon-Burke, Christie’s Education, New York.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 114
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.
Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 50
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.
Review by W. Scott Haine, University of Maryland, University College and Holy Names College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 31
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.
Review by William Doyle, University of Bristol.
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
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.
Review by Zachary S. Schiffman, Northeastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (May 2002), No. 37
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.
Review by Sally Marks, Independent Scholar, Providence, Rhode Island.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 98
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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.
Review by Hubert Bonin, Institut d’études politiques de Bordeaux.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 62
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.
Review by Raymond A. Mentzer, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 74
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.
Review by Timothy Raser, University of Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 73
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.
Review by Janice Best, Acadia University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 124
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.
Review by Stephen C. Bold, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 103
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.
Review by Kolleen M. Guy, University of Texas at San Antonio.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (December 2004), No. 120
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.
Review by Leonard V. Smith, Oberlin College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 51
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.
Review by Michael Scott Christofferson, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 118
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.
Review by Dale Miquelon, University of Saskatchewan.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 41
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.
Review by Felice Lifshitz, Florida International University.
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
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.
Review by Alan Williams, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 20
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.
Review by Ove
Bjarnar, Molde University College (Norway).
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 62
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.
Review by Stephen Murray, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 105
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.
Review by Glenn Richardson, St. Mary’s University College, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 102
Catholic and French Forever: Religious and National Identity in Modern France, Joseph F. Byrnes. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. xxiii + 278 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cl) ISBN 0-271-02704-5.
Review by James F. McMillan, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 32
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.
Review by Karen Offen, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 104
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.
Review by Mita Choudhury, Vassar College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 120
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.
Review by James E. Genova, Indiana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 56
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.
Review by Benjamin Harvey, Mississippi State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 22
Chamfort and the French Revolution. A Study in Form and Ideology, David McCallam. Oxford: Vol.taire Foundation, 2002. xv + 180 pp. Bibliography and index. £39.00 U.K.; $67.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0801-9.
Review by Richard Whatmore, University of Sussex.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 17
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.
Review by Timothy B. Smith, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 13
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.
Review by Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 90
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.
Review by Hans Hummer, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 48
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.
Review by Jotham
Parsons, Duquesne University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 117
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.
Review by Harry W. Paul, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 1
Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State the French Atlantic, 1713-1763. 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.
Review by Pierre H. Boulle, McGill University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 65
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.
Review by Sacha Tomic, Université Paris X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 143
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.
Review by Julie Hardwick, University of Texas at Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 41
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.
Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 14
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.
Review by John F. Sweets, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 127
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.
Review by Raymond
A. Mentzer, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 52
Chronicle of a Summer, (Chronique d'un été.) Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin. First Run/Icarus Films, VHS, 2003 [1961], 84 minutes.
Review Article by Yves Laberge, Institut québécois des hautes études internationales.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 118
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.
Review by Elaine Graham-Leigh, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 105
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.
Review by Barbara B. Diefendorf, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 100
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.
Review by Hilary J. Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 71
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.
Review Article by Yves Laberge, Institut québécois des hautes études internationales.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 118
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.
Review by Bruce L. Venarde, University of Pittsburgh.
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
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.
Review by John H. Arnold, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 76
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.
Review by Megan Armstrong, University of Utah.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 72
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.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 99
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.
Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 20
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.
Review by Paul Lawrence, The Open University, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 69
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.
Review by Dr. Véronique Pouillard, Columbia University/Université Libre de Bruxelles.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 21
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.
Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (December 2004), No. 122
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.
Review by J. B. Shank, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 46
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.
Review by Whitney Walton, Purdue University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 9
Colette, Yannick Bellon, Director; Jacqueline Jacoupy, Producer. VHS; 29 minutes, black & white. Distributed in the U.S. by First/Run Icarus Films, 2003 [1951].
Review by Judith Mayne, Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 58
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.
Review by Robert Zaretsky, Honors College, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (February 2001), No. 3
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.
Review by Owen White, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 82
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.
Review by Owen
White, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 70
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.
Review by Mary C. Wilson, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 45
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.
Review by Vernon Rosario, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 7
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.
Review by Ian Coller, University of Melbourne, Australia.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 119
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.
Review by Brett Bowles, Iowa State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 102
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.
Review by Rudi C. Bleys, Antwerp, Belgium.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 42
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.
Review by Alice Conklin, The Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 70
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.
Review by Kim Munholland, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 15
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.
Review by Charles Sowerwine, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 29
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.
Compte-rendu par Alain Beltran, Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 32
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.
Review by Roger Price, Aberystwyth University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 54
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.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 133
La Commune (Paris 1871). 1999/France/Black and white, Peter Watkins, Director. Studio: 13 Production, La Sept ARTE, Musée d’Orsay. Running Time: 5 hours 45 minutes. Distributor: First Run/Icarus Films.
Review by Victoria E. Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 87
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.
Review by Leah Chang, The George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 119
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.
Review by David O’Brien, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 3
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.
Review by Pierre Claude Reynard, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 110
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.
Review by Patricia R. Turner, University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 54
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.
Review by Douglas C. Baxter, Ohio University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 40
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.
Review by Matt K. Matsuda, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 43
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.
Review by Sarah A. Curtis, San Francisco State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 75
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.
Review by Esther Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 55
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.
Review by W. Brian Newsome, Alfred University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 38
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.
Review by Andre Spies, Hollins University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 67
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.
Review by Stephen Schloesser, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 3, (May 2003), No. 48
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.
Review by Constance B. Bouchard, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 13
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.
Review by Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 23
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.
Review by Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University, Bloomington.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 42
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.
Review by Christopher Lloyd, Durham University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 3
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.
Review by Jonathan Dewald, State University of New York at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 88
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.
Review by Robert H. Blackman, Hampden-Sydney College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 111
The Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246, Mark Gregory Pegg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. x + 238 pp. Notes, map, index, and bibliography. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-00656-3.
Review by John H. Arnold, University of East Anglia.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 31
The Counts of Laval: Culture, Patronage and Religion in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France, Malcolm Walsby. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2007. xii + 220 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S./ ₤55 U.K. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-5811-5.
Review by Katharine J. Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 48
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.
Review by Constance B. Bouchard, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 43
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.
Review by Catherine Léglu, University of Bristol.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 70
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.
Review by Jane H. M. Taylor, University of Durham.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 40
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.
Review by avid Buisseret, The University of Texas at Arlington/The Newberry Library, Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 1, (October 2001), No. 26
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.
Review by Veronika Grimm, Yale University.
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
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.
Review by Paul V. Dutton, Northern Arizona University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 99
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.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (May 2001), No. 13
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.
Review by Alex
Dracobly, University of Oregon.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 130
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.
Review by Allyson J. Delnore, Marquette University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 32
Crises of Memory and the Second World War, Susan Rubin Suleiman. Cambridge, MA. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 286 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-674-02206-8
Review by Sanford Gutman, State University of New York (SUNY) at Cortland.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 39
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.
Review by Irwin Wall, University of California, Riverside, and New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 135
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.
Review by Jonathan Dewald, SUNY at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 7
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.
Review by Philip Daileader, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 81
Crusader Castles and Modern Histories, Ronnie Ellenblum. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 362 pp. Figures, maps, tables and index. £50 U.K. (cl.). ISBN 0-521-86083-0.
Review by Denys Pringle, Cardiff School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 44
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.
Review by William Hauptman, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 72
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.
Review by Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
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
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.
Review by Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 111
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.
Review by Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 145
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.
Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 80
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.
Review by Sarah A. Curtis, San Francisco State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 36
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.
Review by Michael G. Vann, California State University, Sacramento.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 100
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.
Review by Jeffrey J. Cohen, George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 137
D
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.
Review by Sandrine Sanos, Earlham College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 130
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.
Review by Charles Sowerwine, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 29
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.
Review by illiam Chester Jordan, Princeton University.
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
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.
Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 20
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).
Review by Michael
Wolfe, Penn State Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 72
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. (cl). ISBN 0-521-81126-0.
Review by Moshe Sluhovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 102
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.
Review by Laura A. Smoller, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 81
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.
Review by James D. Le Sueur, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 77
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.
Review by Brett Bowles, Iowa State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 105
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.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (May 2001), No. 13
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.
Review by Sarah A. Curtis, San Francisco State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 36
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.
Review by Richard L. Derderian, California Lutheran University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 80
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.
Review by Heather Belnap Jensen, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 111
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.
Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 106
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.
Review by Edward Berenson, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 31
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.
Review by Michael E.
Hoenicke Moore, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 3
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.
Review by Moshe Sluhovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 68
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.
Review by J. B. Shank, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 46
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.
Review by Matthew Lauzon, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 77
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.
Review by J. B. Shank, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 46
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.
Review by Clifford Rosenberg, The City College of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 59
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.
Review by Thibaut Schilt, Bucknell University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 132
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.
Review by Lauren Clay, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 22
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.
Review by Shannon M. Mussett, Utah Valley University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 60
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.
Review by Thomas M. Luckett, Portland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 109
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.
Review by David Higgs, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 110
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.
Review by Lynn Wood Mollenauer, University of North Carolina--Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 92
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.
Review by Amy L. Ingram, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 93
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.
Review by Steven Kale, Washington State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 61
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.
Review by Siân Reynolds, University of Stirling, Scotland.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 61
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.
Review by Adrian Carton, Macquarie University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 51
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.
Review by Alex Dracobly, University of Oregon.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 138
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.
Review by Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina.
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
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.
Review by Sharon Kettering, Professor Emerita, Montgomery College in Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 82
Dress in the Middle Ages, Perrine Mane and Françoise Piponnier. 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.
Review by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, University of Maryland, College Park.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 23
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.
Review by Julie Kalman, the University of New South Wales.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 27
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.
Review by Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 81
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.
Review by Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 141
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.
Review by Malcolm Crook, Keele University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 110
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.
Review by William E. Echard, York University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 22
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.
Review by Christopher Thompson, Ball State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 60
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.
Review by Annie Crépin, Université d'Artois.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (May 2002), No. 38
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.
Review by Jim Collins, Georgetown University.
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
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.
Review by Matthew Vester, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 47
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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.
Review by Wayne Hanley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 63
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.
Review by Sharif Gemie, University of Glamorgan.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 11
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.
Review by Liana Vardi, SUNY at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 9
L’Économie de la zone non occupée 1940-1942, Hervé Joly, ed.. Paris: CTHS, 2007. 378 pp. 32.00 € ISBN 9-782735-506279.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 47
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.
Review by Laura A. Smoller, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 24
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.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 21
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.
Review by Donald Reid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 25
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.
Review by Barry H. Bergen, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 95
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.
Review by Rebecca L. Spang, University College London.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 103
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.
Review by Gretchen van Slyke, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 15
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.
Review by Colin Heywood, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 126
L'empire de Napoléon, Annie Jourdan. Paris: Flammarion, 2000. 351 pp. Critical glossary, bibliography, and index. 54.18FF. ISBN 2-08-083003-1.
Review by John Lawrence Tone, Georgia Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 5
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.
Review by Patricia Lorcin, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 75
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.
Review by Daniel J. Sherman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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
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.
Review by Patrick H. Hutton, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 6
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.
Review by Alice Bullard, Georgia Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 120
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.
Review by Martin S. Staum, University of Calgary.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 107
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.
Compte-rendu par Bernard Gainot, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
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
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.
Review by Jay M. Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 12
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.
Review by Whitney Walton, Purdue University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 46
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.
Review by Raymond Birn, University of Oregon.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 83
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.
Review by Alan Williams, Wake Forest University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 75
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.
Review by Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 128
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.
Review by K. Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 46
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.
Review by Daniel Ringrose, Minot State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 77
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.
Review by Barry Shapiro, Allegheny College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 58
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.
Review by Cynthia J. Cupples, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 110
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.
Review by Carol J. Williams, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Australia.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 14
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.
Review by Michael R. Shurkin, The Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 25
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.
Review by Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 76
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.
Review by Michael R. Lynn, Agnes Scott College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 10
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.
Review by Chandra Mukerji, University of California, San Diego.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 117
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.
Review by Daniel A. Gordon, Edge Hill University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 118
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.
Review by Katherine MacDonald, University College London.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 24
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.
Compte-rendu par Pierre Piazza, l’Institut national des hautes études de sécurité (INHES).
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 8
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.
Review by N. Christine Brookes, Central Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 43
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.
Review by Margaret C. Jacob, University of California at Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 115
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.
Review by Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 12
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.