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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
Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages, Noah D. Guynn. Basingstoke, U.K., and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xii + 218 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4039-7147-0; $65.00 U.S. (e-book). ISBN 0-230-60366-1.
Review by Zrinka Stahuljak, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 101
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
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
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 Camus, Edward J. Hughes, ed. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 248 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0521549783.
Review by Amanda Crawley Jackson, University of Sheffield, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 96
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 and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation, Nancy L. Green and François Weil, eds. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. x +318 pp. Notes and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03161-8; $24.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-252-07429-5.
Review by G. Daniel Cohen, Rice University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 106
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
Coercion, Conversion and Counterinsurgency in Louis XIV’s France, Roy L. McCullough. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Notes, bibliography and index. vii + 265 pp. $128.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-90-04-15661-6.
Review by W. Gregory Monahan, Eastern Oregon University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 108
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
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 annotationsby 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
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
Disavowals or Cancelled Confessions. With original preface by Pierre Mac Orlan, Claude Cahun. Trans. Susan de Muth. Intro. by Jennifer Mundy. Afterword by François Leperlier. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. xxii + 226 pp. Plates, notes.$25.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-262-53303-4.
Review by Tirza True Latimer, California College of the Arts.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 95
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
Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. xv + 228 pp. Map, chart, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4478-4; $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-7416-3.
Review by Bonnie Effros, Binghamton University, State University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 103
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.
Review by Rachel Fulton, The University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 91
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.
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 38
Response by Alice Bullard to review by Robert Aldrich
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 39
The Expectation of Justice: France 1944-1946, Megan Koreman. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. xviii + 340 pp. Notes, maps, index, and bibliography. ISBN 0-8223-2373-7.
Review by Robert Zaretsky, Honors College, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (February 2001), No. 3
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.
Review by Adam J. Davis, Denison University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 5
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.
Review by Andrés H. Reggiani, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 28
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.
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 26
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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.
Review by Judith DeGroat, St. Lawrence University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 97
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.
Review by Kathryn Norberg, University of California at Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 22
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.
Review by Joel Blatt, University of Connecticut (Stamford).
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 16
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.
Review by Helen Drake, Loughborough University, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 90
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.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 104
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.
Review by Sharon Kettering, Professor Emerita, Montgomery College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 59
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.
Review by Daniel Hickey, Université de Moncton.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 4
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.
Review by Robert J. Young, University of Winnipeg.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 27
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.
Review by Susan J. Dudash, Utah State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 104
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.
Review by Mark Potter, University of Wyoming.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 118
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.
Review by Sarah Maza, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 100
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.
Review by Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 44
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.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 98
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.
Review by Jean-Pierre Le Crom, Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 24
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.
Review by Laura Lee Downs, Centre de Recherches Scientifiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 105
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.
Review by Daniella Sarnoff, Xavier University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 67
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.
Review by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 147
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.
Review by Linda L. Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 79
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.
Review by Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 39
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.
Review by J. E. M. Benham, University of East Anglia.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 66
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. inks, images, notes, and bibliography. $49.95 U.S. (e-text). ISBN 0-231-12460-0.
Review by Emmet Kennedy, George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 33
Gregory Brown's
commentary on electronic publishing
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Review by Harry W. Paul, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 121
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.
Review by Owen Connelly, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 4
La fin des corporations, Steven L. Kaplan. Paris: Fayard, 2001. ix + 740 pp. Notes and index of names. 220 FF. ISBN 2-213-60829-6.
Review by Christopher H. Johnson, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 42
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.
Review by Edward Wehrle, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 79
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.
Review by Paolo Squatriti, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 142
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.
Review by Christopher S. Thompson, Ball State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 60
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.
Review by Katherine B. Crawford, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 42
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.
Review by Jennifer Heuer, Middlebury College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 62
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.
Review by Linda Frey, University of Montana.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 125
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.
Review by Robert M. Schwartz, Mount Holyoke College.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (December 2001), No. 45
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.
Review by Sheryl Kroen, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 6
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.
Review by Nicole Dombrowski Risser, Towson University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 89
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.
Compte-rendu par Nicolas Marty, Université de Perpignan-Via Domitia.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 86
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.
Review by John McGrath, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 55
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.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 121
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.
Review by Brett Bowles, Iowa State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 30
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.
Review by Jo B. Margadant, Santa Clara University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 14
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.
Review by Bradford C. Brown, Bradley University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 4
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.
Review by Michael Creswell, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 85
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.
Review by Michael Creswell, The Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 84
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.
Review by Suzanne K. Kaufman, Loyola University, Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 8
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.
Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 17
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.
Review by Samuel Kalman, St. Francis Xavier University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 160
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.
Review by Munro Price, University of Bradford.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 92
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.
Review by Martha Hanna, University of Colorado, Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (Ocrober 2003), No. 119
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.
Review by John Tolan, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 2
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.
Review by Carole Fink, The Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 52
La France au Rwanda (1990-1994). Entre abstention impossible et engagement ambivalent, Olivier Lanotte. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang S.A., 2007. 533 pp. Bibliography. $60.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 13: 978-90-5201-344-2.
Review by David Ambrosetti, CNRS / Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique, Université Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 35
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.
Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 55
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.
Review by Nicole Dombrowski Risser, Towson University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 74
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.
Review by David
Wetzel, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 107
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.
Review by Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 5
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.
Review by Jeffrey Haus, Kalamazoo College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 74
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.
Review by Sean Kennedy, University of New Brunswick.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 42
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.
Review by Jan Windebank, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 3
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.
Review by Michael G. Vann, Santa Clara University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 87
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.
Review by Paul Jankowski, Brandeis University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 86
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.
Review by William Chester Jordan, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 23
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.
Review by Patricia M.E. Lorcin, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (December 2004), No. 121
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.
Review by Irwin Wall, University of California, Riverside.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 113
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.
Review by Michelle K. Rhoades, Wabash College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 100
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.
Review by Joelle Neulander, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (February 2001), No. 15
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.
Review by Lori R. Weintrob, Wagner College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 17
France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944, Julian Jackson. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xix + 660pp. Notes, maps, abbreviations, tables, and index. $35.00. ISBN 0-19-820706-9.
Review by Robert Zaretsky, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (January 2001), No. 6
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.
Review by Romain Souillac, Université Bordeaux-3.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 30
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.
Review by Jolyon Howorth, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 53
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.
Review by Gayle K. Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 89
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.
Review by Gary P. Cox, Gordon College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 14
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.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 9
François Poullain de la Barre. Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises. Marcelle Maistre Welch, Intro and ed. Trans. Vivien Bosley. University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxvii + 339 pp. Bibliography and index. $22.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-53492-8.
Review by Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 113
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.
Review by Liana Vardi, State University of New York at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 127
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.
Review by Marja Warehime, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 97
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.
Review by Elizabeth Greenhalgh, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 135
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.
Review by Paul Mazgaj, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 123
The French Army, 1750-1820: Careers, Talent, Merit, Rafe Blaufarb. Manchester and New York: Manchester niversity Press, 2002. xii + 227 pp. Tables, illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. £45.00 (cl). ISBN 0-7190-6262-4.
Review by Annie Crépin, Université d’Artois.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 103
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.
Review by Benjamin Claude Brower, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 45
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.
Review by W. Brian Newsome, Alfred University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 8
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.
Review by David Clandfield, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 27
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.
Review by Owen White, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 98
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.
Review by Sophie Meunier, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 123
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.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 18
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.
Review by Peter
McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 26
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.
Review by Lenard R. Berlanstein, University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 75
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.
Review by Kay Goldman, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 31
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.
Compte-rendu par Christophe Prochasson, EHESS (AHMOC).
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 28
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.
Review by Geoffrey Symcox, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 140
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
Review by Phillip Naylor, Marquette University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 40
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.
Review by Edward J. Woell, Western Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 85
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.
Review by Sydney Watts, University of Richmond.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 88
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.
Review by Tracey Rizzo, University of North Carolina-Asheville.
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
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.
Review by Christopher S. Thompson, Ball State University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 83
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.
Review by Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 108
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.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (April 2002), No. 34
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.
Review by Jean-Philippe Mathy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 25
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.
Review by Lee Whitfield, Wheelock College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 82
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.
Review by P.J.P. Goldberg, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 19
From Corunna to Waterloo: The Letters and Journals of Two Napoleonic Hussars, 1801-1816. , Gareth Glover. London: Greenhill Books, 1999. 287 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-85367-709-0.
Review by Michael V. Leggiere, Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 63
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).
Review by Matt Matsuda, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 64
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.
Review by Sara Beam, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 155
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.
Review by Megan Armstrong, University of Utah.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 46
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.
Review by Michael R. Lynn, Agnes Scott College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 16
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.
Review by Rafe Blaufarb, Auburn University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 5
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.
Review by Norman Ingram, Concordia University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 106
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.
Review by Elinor Accampo, University of Southern California.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 120
From Tribes to Nation: The Making of Modern France, 500-1789James 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.
Review by John M. Burney, Loras College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 130
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.
Review by Dale Miquelon, University of Saskatchewan.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 97
Funerals, Politics, and Memory in Modern France, 1789-1996, Avner Ben-Amos. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2000. 425 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 US (cl). ISBN: 00-19-820328-4.
Review by Edward Berenson, New York University.
>H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 2
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.
Review by Joan DeJean, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 128
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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.
Review [in English] by Philippe Poirrier, Université de Bourgogne.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 109
Review [en français] by Philippe Poirrier, Université de Bourgogne.
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
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.
Review by Anthony J. Steinhoff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 57
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.
Review by Scott Haine, University of Maryland University College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 132
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.
Review by Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 93
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.
Review by Lesley H. Walker, Indiana University, South Bend.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 68
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.
Review by Gail Bossenga, College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 84
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.
Review by Malcolm Crook, Keele University, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 66
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.
Review by Paul Lawrence Farber, Oregon State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 86
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.
Review by Adeline Cordier, University of Stirling.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 134
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.
Compte-rendu par Alain Chatriot, CNRS, CRH-AHMOC, Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 17
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.
Review by April G. Shelford, American University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 152
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.
Review by Gary P. Cox, Gordon College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 134
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.
Review by Colin Jones, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 116
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.
Review by Gary Kates, Pomona College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 105
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.
Review by Julian Jackson, University of Wales, Swansea.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 98
Good Bread is Back: A Contemporary History of French Bread, The Way It Is Made, And The People Who Make It, Steven Laurence Kaplan. Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2006 [Originally published as Le retour du bon pain: une histoire contemporaine du pain, de ses techniques et de ses hommes. Paris: Perrin, 2002]. 368 pp. Images, tables, glossary, notes, and index. $27.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3833-5.
Review by Steve Zdatny, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 98
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.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 62
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.
Review by Beverly Kienzle, Harvard Divinity School.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 63
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.
Review by Jonathan J. Liebowitz, University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (February 2001), No. 1
Le Grand Marché: L’approvisionnement alimentaire de Paris sous l’Ancien Régime, Reynald Abad. Paris: Fayard, 002. 1030 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 45.00 € (pb). ISBN 9-782213-611440.
Review by Cynthia Bouton, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 25
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.
Review by Carolyn
Lougee Chappell, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (October 2001), No. 34
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.
Review by Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University (State University of New York).
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 13
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.
Review by Alain Stoclet, Université Lyon 2--Lumière.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 109
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.
Review by Julia Torrie, St. Thomas University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 113
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.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 21
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.
Review by Cynthia J. Cyrus, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 116
Guns in the Desert: General Jean-Pierre Doguereau’s Journal of Napoleon’s Egyptian Expedition. Trans. and Ed. Rosemary Brindle. 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.
Review by Maya Jasanoff, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 69
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.
Review by Tom McDonough, Binghamton University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 19
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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.
Review by Brett Bowles, State University of New York at Albany.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 87
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.
Review by Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 7
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.
Review by K. H. Adler, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 98
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.
Review by Ronald S. Love, The State University of West Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 77
The Haunting Past: History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France, Henry Rousso. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. vii + 96 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. ISBN 0-8122-3645-9.
Review by Robert Soucy, Oberlin College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 40
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.
Review by Julian Wright, University of Durham.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 91
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.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 103
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.
Review by Ronald S. Love, University of West Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 44
Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle, Jad Adams. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 294 pp. $24.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-29-200-000-0.
and Marie-Claude Delahaye, L’absinthe au feminine. Saint Remy-de-Provence: Equinoxe, 2007. 136 pp. €19 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84135559-4.
Review by Scott Haine, University of California Santa Cruz and Holy Names College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 40
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.
Review by Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University (State University of New York).
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 2
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.
Review by Mona L. Siegel, California State University Sacramento.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 150
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.
Review by Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 4
Histoire des curés, Nicole Lemaitre, Ed. Paris: Fayard, 2002. 523 pp. Notes, glossary, and index. 23.00 €. ISBN 35-1412-2.
Review by Joseph F. Byrnes, Oklahoma State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 22
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.
Review by Alex Dracobly, University of Oregon.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 38
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.
Compte-rendu par Olivier Ménard, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 56
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.
Review by Philippe Minard, Université Lille-3 and CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 63
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.
Review by Paul Cohen, Université de Paris-VIII.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 127
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.
Review by John L. Harvey, St. Cloud State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 121
A History of Pedlars in Europe, Laurence Fontaine. 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.
Review by
Daniel Heimmermann, University of North Alabama.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 35
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.
Review by Moshe
Sluhovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 39
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.
Review by Judith
Wishnia, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 51
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.
Review by Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 5
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.
Review by Susan Weiner, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 56
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.
Review by Rebecca Rogers, Université Paris 5, Sorbonne.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 101
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.
Review by Mack P. Holt, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 30
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.
Review by W. Gregory Monahan, Eastern Oregon University.
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
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.
Review by Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 2
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.
Review by Dominique Laurent, Dickinson College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 133
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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.
Review by Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 108
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.
Review by Kathleen A. Parrow, Black Hills State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 39
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.
Review by Michael Goodich, University of Haifa.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 16
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.
Review by Caroline Ford, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 61
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.
Review by R. Ward Holder, Saint Anselm College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 23
Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe, Claire L. Carlin. Houndmills, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $74.95 (hb). ISBN 1-4039-3926-8.
Review by William G. Naphy, University of Aberdeen.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 50
Review by Rosemary Wakeman, Forham University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 94
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.
Review by Constance B. Bouchard, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 131
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).
Review by J. P. Daughton, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 137
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.
Review by Sally Webster, Lehman College and the Graduate Center CUNY.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 149
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.
Review by Colin Jones, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 83
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.
Review by Saliha Belmessous, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 101
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.
Review by Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 37
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.
Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 126
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.
Review by Cherilyn Lacy, Hartwick College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 93
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.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 27
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.
Review by Michael Goodich, University of Haifa.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 11
Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century, Roger Chartier. 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.
Review by Timothy Hampton, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 102
Review by Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 104
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 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0357-4.
Review by Michael Broers, King's College, University of Aberdeen.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 55
L’insubordination ouvrière dans les années 68: Essai d’histoire politique des usines, Xavier Vigna. Rennes: Presses universitaire de Rennes, 2007. 378pp. Chronology, index, sources and bibliography. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535-0446-2.
Review by Nick Parsons, Cardiff University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 43
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.
Review by David L. Schalk, Vassar College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 60
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.
Review by Joshua Cole, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 101
The Interpreter, Alice Kaplan. (New York and London: Free Press, 2005). 256 pp. $25.00 US (hbk). ISBN 0-743-25424-4.
Review by Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 44
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.
Review by William Weber, California State University, Long Beach.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 61
L’invention de la guerre totale: XVIIIe-XXe siècle, Jean-Yves Guiomar. Paris: Le Félin Kiron, 2004. 329 pp. €20 (pb). ISBN 2866455665.
Review by David A. Bell, The Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 93
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.
Review by Michael P. Breen, Reed College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 154
L’Invention du Patrimoine en Bourgogne, Philippe Poirrier, Ed. Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2004. 100 pp. (pb). €25 ISBN 2-905965-99-1.
Review by Kirrily Freeman, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 1
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.
Review by Judith Surkis, Harvard Unversity.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 4
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.
Review by Cathy McClive, University of Durham, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 113
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.
Review by Kolleen M. Guy, University of Texas at San Antonio.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 116
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.
Review by Christopher Fischer, Indiana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 14
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.
Review by Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University Lincoln Center.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 62
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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.
Review by David G. Troyansky, Texas Tech University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 88
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.
Review by James Livesey, Trinity College Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 47
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.
Review by Gayle K. Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 47
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.
Review by Charles Rearick, The University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 95
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.
Review by Joseph F. Byrnes, Oklahoma State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 26
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.
Review by Daniel Engster, The University of Texas at San Antonio.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 101
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.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 40
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.
Review by Brian Sandberg, Medici Archive Project.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 42
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.
Review by Jay R. Berkovitz, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 150
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.
Review by Maud Mandel, Brown University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 75
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.
Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 20
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).
Review by Paul Jankowski, Brandeis University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 100
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.
Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 17
Joan of Arc: Her Story, Marie-Véronique Clin and Régine Pernoud. 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.
Review by Rene S. Marion, Ball State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (June 2001), No. 15
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.
Review by Alia Nour-Elsayed and Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Seton Hall University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 107
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.
Review by Eugenia C. Kiesling, United States Military Academy, West Point.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 136
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.
Review by Colin Jones, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 94
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.
Review by William Hauptman, Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 64
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.
Review by Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 22
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. Illustrations (43 b/w + 158 colors). $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-300-09575-9.
Review by Nadine Vivier, Université du Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 19
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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.
Review by Paul Sonnino, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 86
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.
Compte-rendu par Elise Julien, Université Paris I / Freie Universität Berlin.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 1
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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.
Review by Michael A. Osborne, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 59
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.
Review by Jonathan Dewald, University at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 55
Review by Joel Blatt, University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 10
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.
Review by Annie Jourdan, Université d’Amsterdam.
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
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.
Review by Kristen Stromberg Childers, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 34
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.
Review by Robert S. Alexander, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 87
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.
Review by James F. McMillan, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 129
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.
Review by Linda Lierheimer, Hawaii Pacific University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 64
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.
Review by Laura Emerson Talamante, Loyola Marymount University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 35
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.
Review by Marsha L. Frey, Kansas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 36
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.
Review by David P. Jordan, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 24
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.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (May 2001), No. 13
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. Review by Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 113
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.
Review by Richard Whatmore, University of Sussex.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 7
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.
Review by Charles Walton, Columbia University Institute for Scholars, Reid Hall; Institut d’ Etudes Politiques, Paris; and Institut d’Histoire de la Révolution française, Université de Paris I.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 77
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.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 20
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.
Review by Gail Bossenga, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 144
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.
Review by Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University, SUNY.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 20
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.
Review by Willa Z. Silverman, The Pennsylvania State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 139
Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775-1793: Beaumarchais, the Société des Auteurs Dramatiques and the Comédie Française, Gregory S. Brown. Aldershot and Burlington, Vt: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. x + 186 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0386-5.
Review by Marisa Linton, Kingston University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 31
Living the French Revolution, 1789-99, Peter McPhee. Basingstoke, England, and New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2006. x + 319 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $ 74.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-333-99739-5.
Review by Edward J. Woell, Western Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 46
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.
Review by Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 52
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.
Review by Jeremy F. Lane, Nottingham University, Nottingham UK.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 139
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.
Review by Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 91
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.
Review by Martin Horn, McMaster University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 73
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.
Review by Kathleen Thompson, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 107
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.
Review by Robert F. Berkhofer III, Western Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 87
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.
Compte-rendu par Christophe Charle, Université de Paris-1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, IHMC (CNRS/ENS).
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 95
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.
Review by Douglas Baxter, Ohio University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 77
Louis XII: les dérèglements de l'image royale, Nicole Hochner. Paris: Champ Vallon, 2007. 312 pp. illustrations. € 26 E.U. ISBN 978-2876734531.
Review by Frederic Baumgartner, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 99
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.
Review by Jonathan Dewald, State University of New York at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 84
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.
Review by Erik Thomson, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 65
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.
Review by Andrea Tarnowski, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 62
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.
Review by Erin Jordan, University of Northern Colorado.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 106
Lucien Febvre, lecteur et critique, Bertrand Müller. Paris: Albin Michel, 2003. 467 pp. Notes, annexes, selective bibliography. €26 (pb). ISBN 2-226-13282-1.
Review by John L. Harvey, St. Cloud State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 1
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.
Review by Robin
Briggs, Oxford University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 129
M
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.
Review by Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 36
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.
Review by Stephanie O'Hara, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 93
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.
Review by Nancy L. Locklin, Maryville College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 96
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.
Review by Mita Choudhury, Vassar College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 78
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.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary's College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 125
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.
Review by David A. Bell, Johns Hopkins University.
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
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.
Review by Colin Nettelbeck, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 145
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.
Review by Colin Jones, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 11
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.
Review by Katharine J. Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 68
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.
Review by Elena Russo, Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 6
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.
Review by Wayne Hanley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 144
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.
Review by Suzanne Singletary, Philadelphia University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 128
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.
Review by James Smalls, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 18
Marat en famille: La saga des Mara[t], Charlotte Goëtz. 2 vol. Brussels: Pôle Nord, 2001. 271 pp. and 325 pp. Illustrations, facsimile document, notes, bibliography, and index. 45.00 € (both vols; pb). ISBN 2-30040-17-3 and 2-930040-18-1.
Review by James Livesey, Trinity College, Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 73
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.
Review by Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 56
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.
Review by Catherine Rodgers, University of Wales, Swansea.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 60
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.
Review by Shannon L. Fogg, University of Missouri-Rolla.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 54
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.
Review by Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 57
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.
Review by Jeffrey Merrick, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 97
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.
Review by Claire Marrone, Sacred Heart University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 140
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.
Review by Katharine J. Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 69
Marie Pape-Carpantier: Fondatrice de l’école maternelle. Paris: Fayard, 2003. 415 pp. Figures and notes. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-213-61527-6.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary's College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 44
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.
Review by William Keylor, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 99
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.
Review by Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 58
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.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary's College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 44
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.
Review by Torbjörn Wandel, Truman State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 26
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.
Review by Shannon L. Fogg, University of Missouri-Rolla.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 51
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.
Review by Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 133
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.
Review by Michael Scott Christofferson, Pennsylvania State University, Erie.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 65
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.
Review by Philip Nord, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 105
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.
Review by Cordelia Beattie, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 5
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.
Review by Lawrence M. Earp, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 106
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.
Review by Christine Caldwell Ames, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 65
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.
Review by Sally Debra Charnow, Hofstra University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 49
Le mélomane et l’historien, Sophie-Anne Leterrier. Paris: Armand Colin, 2005. 227 pp. Index. €23 E.U. (pb). ISBN 2-20-026914-5.
Review by William Weber, California State University, Long Beach.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 61
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.
Review by Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (December 2001), No. 46
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.
Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 48
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.
Review by Deborah M. Deliyannis, Indiana University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 92
Miraculous Rhymes: The Writing of Gautier de Coinci, Tony Hunt. Woodbridge, U.K., and Rochester, N.Y.: D.S. Brewer, 2007. x + 212 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-84384-126-5.
Review by Kathy M. Krause, University of Missouri—Kansas City.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 105
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.
Review by Yvon Le Gall, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 74
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.
Review by Nathalie Montel, Laboratoire Techniques-Territoires-Sociétés, Ecole national des Ponts et Chaussées.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 21
Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist Painting, Ruth E. Iskin. 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.
Review by Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University.
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
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.
Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (March 2001), No. 6
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.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 114
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.
Review by Leslie Choquette, Institut français, Assumption College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 109
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.
Review by Julia Prest, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 51
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.
Review by Steven Kale, Washington State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 106
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.
Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 112
Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism, Zahi Zalloua. Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press, 2005. xii + 102 pp. Index. $39.95. ISBN 1-886365-56-3.
Review by Hassan Melehy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 84
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.
Review by Johnson Kent Wright, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 79
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.
Review by Patrick Coleman, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 125
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.
Review by Jerrold Seigel, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 41
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.
Review by William Hauptman, Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002) No. 13
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.
Review by Robert Chazan, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 108
Un mouton dans le baignoire, Azouz Begag. Paris: Fayard, 2007. 377 pp. 20€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-213-63375-6.
Review by Daniel A. Gordon, Edge Hill University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 118
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.
Review by Edward Berenson, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 67
Murder in Parisian Streets: Manufacturing Crime and Justice in the Popular Press, 1830 – 1900, Thomas Cragin. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2006. 273 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8387-5579-8.
Review by Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 45
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.
Review by Kirrily Freeman, Saint Mary’s University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 58
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.
Review by Gary E. Aylesworth, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 2
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
Review by Stuart Carroll, University of York.
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
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.
Review by Jolanta T. Pekacz, Dalhousie University, Canada.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 129
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.
Review by Andrea Mansker, Loyola Marymount University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 61
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.
Review by Tamara Levitz, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 35
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.
Review by Paul Freedman, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 47
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.
Review by Steven Fanning, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 124
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.
Review by Larissa J. Taylor, Colby College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 85
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.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 12
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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.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 21
Napoleon, R. S. Alexander. London and New York: Arnold, 2001. 273 pp. Illustrations. $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-340-71916-8.
Review by Annie Jourdan, University of Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 50
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.
Review by David A. Bell, The Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 93
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.
Review by David P. Jordan, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 126
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.
Review by J. E. Cookson, University of Canterbury.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 37
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.
Review by Malcolm Crook, Keele University, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 45
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.
Review by Pierre Legal, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 13
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.
Compte-rendu par Annie Jourdan, Université d’Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 110
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.
Review by Wayne Hanley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 148
Napoléon et l’Europe. Regards sur une politique. Thierry Lentz, Ed. Paris: Fayard, 2005. 445 pp. €25.00. ISBN 2-213-6239-02.
Review by David P. Jordan, University of Illinois, Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 151
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.
Review by Ernest Tucker, U.S. Naval Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 49
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.
Review by Michael V. Leggiere, Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 147
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.
Review by Steven D. Kale, Washington State University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 21
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.
Review by Charles J. Esdaile, University of Liverpool.
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
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.
Review by Annie Crépin, Université d’Artois.
H-France Review Vol. 3, (October 2003), No. 112
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.
Review by Annie Jourdan, Université d'Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (October 2001), No. 28
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.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 61
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).
Review by Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 66
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.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
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
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.
Review by David Buisseret, The University of Texas at Arlington.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 136
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.
Review by Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 71
The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France, Jo Burr Margadant, Ed. 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).
Review by Charles Sowerwine, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (April 2002), No. 36
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.
Review by Erin L. Jordan, University of Northern Colorado.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 53
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.
Review by Anthony Crubaugh, Illinois State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 141
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.
Review by Tim Blanning, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 78
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.
Review by Gail Bossenga, University of Kansas at Lawrence.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 75
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.
Review by John Drendel, University of Quebec at Montreal.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2003), No. 138
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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.
Review by Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October, 2003), No. 112
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.
Review by Nadia Malinovich, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 73
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.
Review by Stephen Miller, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 89
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.
Review by Cynthia J. Brown, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 91
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.
Review by Richard Lebrun, University of Manitoba.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 7
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.
Review by Cybelle McFadden Wilkens, Macalester College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 139
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.
Review by Ralph Ashby, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 12
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.
Review by Lisa Moses Leff, Southwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 56
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.
Review by Peter Biller, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 41
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.
Compte-rendu par Jacques Guilhaumou, CNRS, ENS/LSH Lyon.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 90
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.
Review by Constance H. Berman, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 44
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.
Review by Sean L. Field, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 94
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.
Review by Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 94
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.
Review by Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 84
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.
Review by Jack R. Censer, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 114
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. (cl). ISBN 0-521-81334-4.
Review by Philippe-Jean Hesse, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 117
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.
Review by Nathan Bracher, Texas A & M University.
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
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 57
Review by Vicki Caron, Cornell University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 8
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.
Review by Lisa Jane Graham, Haverford College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 63
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.
Review by Alison S. Fell, Lancaster University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 117
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.
Review by Samir Saul, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 3
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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.
Review by Katharine J. Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 112
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.
Review by Philippe Minard, Université Lille-3 and CNRS-Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (December 2001), No. 47
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.
Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 153
Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror, and Memory , Jim House and Neil MacMaster. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 375pp. Bibliographical references and index. £60.00 UK (hb). ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924725-7.
Review by Sarah Howard, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 30
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.
Review by Victoria E. Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 48
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.
Review by David Garrioch, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 158
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.
Review by Bertrand Taithe, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 66
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.
Review by Pamela Pilbeam, Royal Holloway, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 50
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.
Review by Steven C. Hause, Washington University in St. Louis.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 55
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.
Review by David Garrioch, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 9
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.
Review by Jann Matlock, University College London.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 15
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.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 26
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.
Review by Jean Dunbabin, St Anne’s College, Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 141
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.
Review by Carolyn J. Dean, Brown University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 34
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.
Review by Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 126
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.
Review by Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 1
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.
Review by Christopher H. Johnson, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 88
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.
Review by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 47
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.
Review by Stuart Carroll, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 17
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.
Review by Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 67
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
Review by Michael G. Vann, California State University, Sacramento.
Réponse par Amaury Lorin au Compte-rendu de son ouvrage par Michael G. Vann.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 54
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.
Compte-rendu par Bruno Valat, Centre Universitaire Jean-François Champollion, Albi, France.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 135
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.
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 45
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.
Review by Zachary S. Schiffman, Northeastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 41
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.
Review by John Lawrence Tone, The Georgia Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 30
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.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 140
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.
Review by Sudhir Hazareesingh, Balliol College, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 119
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.
Review by David A. Bell, Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review, Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 66
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.
Review by Bonnie Effros, Binghamton University (SUNY).
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 146
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.
Review by Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 22
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.
Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 9
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.
Review by Jonathan Dewald, University of Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 65
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.
Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 13
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.
Review by Gearóid Barry, National University of Ireland, Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 99
Philippe III le Hardi, Gérard Sivéry. Paris: Fayard, 2003. 359 pp. 22.00 € ISBN 2-213-61486-5.
Review by Nathaniel L. Taylor, Brown University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 139
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.
Review by Paul Mazgaj, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (December 2004), No. 123
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.
Review by Alison S. Fell, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 89
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.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 24
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.
Review by Matthew Vester, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 6
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.
Review by Colin Jones, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 135
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.
Review by Robert A. Schneider, Catholic University of America.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 21
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.
Review by Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 12
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.
Review by Paul Lawrence, The Open University (UK).
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 13
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.
Review by Julian Wright, University of Durham.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 46
A Political Academy in Paris 1724-1731: The Entresol and Its Members. Studies on Vol.taire and the Eighteenth Century, Nick Childs. Oxford: Vol.taire Foundation, 2000. xi + 289 pp. Appendices, bibliography, and index. $94.88 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0736-5.
Review by Thomas E.
Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 94
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.
Review by Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 70
The Political Economy of Virtue, Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution, John Shovlin. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2006. Xi-265 pp. ill. $39.99 (cl) and $25.00 (pb). ISBN 0-801-4447-99 (cl) and ISBN 0-801-4741-83 (pb).
Review by Liana Vardi, University at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 34
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.
Review by Nadia Margolis, Independent Scholar, Leverett, Mass.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 23
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.
Review by Carol E. Harrison, Kent State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 32
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.
Review by Dorinda Outram, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 7
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.
Review by Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Texas Tech University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 12
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.
Review by Penny Roberts, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 88
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.
Review by Steven Zdatny, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 8
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.
Review by Malcolm Crook, Keele University (UK).
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 45
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.
Review by Johnson Kent Wright, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 66
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.
Review by Samuel H. Goodfellow, Westminster College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (May 2002), No. 39
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.
Review by Scott Gunther, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 102
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.
Review by Seth Armus, Saint Joseph’s College, New York.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 62
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.
Review by Lee C. Whitfield, Wheelock College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 145
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.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 108
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.
Review by Siân Reynolds, University of Stirling.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 69
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.
Review by Susan Weiner, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 58
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).
Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 12
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.
Review by David P. Jordan, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 57
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.
Review by Richard L. Derderian, National University of Singapore.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 14
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.
Review by Paul R. Hanson, Butler University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 69
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.
Review by David H. Slavin, Rice University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 71
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.
Review by Peter M. Jones, University of Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 122
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.
Review by Leslie Tuttle, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 18
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.
Review by William E. Burgwinkle, King’s College, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 71
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.
Compte-rendu par Pierre Vaisse, Université de Genève.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 126
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.
Review by Christopher H. Johnson, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 16
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).
Review by Daniel J. Sherman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 28
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.
Review by Peter R. Campbell, University of Sussex, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 144
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.
Review by Judith Miller, Emory University.
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
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.
Review by Todd Shepard, University of Oklahoma.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 114
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.
Review by Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 2
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.
Review by Patrick M. Bray, Indiana University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 115
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.
Review by Patrick M. Bray, Indiana University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 115
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.
Review by Patrick M. Bray, Indiana University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 115
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.
Review by William C. Carter, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 72
Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy: the Estates General of Burgundy, 1661-1790. 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.
Review by William Beik, Emory University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 52
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.
Review by Thomas M. Luckett, Portland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 63
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.
Compte-rendu par Antoine Lilti, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 80
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.
Review by Claire Carlin, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 111
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.
Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (March 2001), No. 6
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).
Review by Elizabeth Greenhalgh, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 49
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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.
Review by Craig Keating, Langara College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 80
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.
Review by Mike Rapport, University of Stirling.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 32
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.
Review by James Evans, University of Puget Sound.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 152
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.
Review by Kim Munholland, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 12
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.
Review by Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas, Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 148
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.
Review by Julius W.
Friend, George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 86
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.
Review by Alan Forrest, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 143
R
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).
Review by Alec G. Hargreaves, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 43
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.
Review by J. B. Shank, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 46
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.
Review by J. B. Shank, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 26
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.
Review by Pierre Legal, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 2
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.
Review by Philip Nord, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 71
Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants, Martyn Lyons and Robert Aldrich, Eds. New York: Palgrave, 2001. xii + 208 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 US. ISBN 0-333-92126-7.
Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 1
Reading Tocqueville: From Oracle to Actor, eds. Raf Geenens and Annelien De Dijn (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 200 pp. $ 74.95 (cl). ISBN 978-0-230-52746-1 (hardcover).
Review by Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University, Bloomington.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 100
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.
Review by Geoffrey Koziol, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 142
Response by Robert M. Stein, Purchase College and Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 143
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.
Compte-rendu par Hélène N. Sanko, John Carroll University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 27
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.
Review by Robert Gildea, Oxford University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 127
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.
Review by Brian Jenkins, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 129
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.
Review by Timothy B. Smith, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 13
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.
Review by Rachel Hammersley, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 37
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.
Review by Lynn Sharp, Whitman College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 134
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.
Review by Abigail Firey, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 36
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.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 29
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.
Review by G. Matthew Adkins, Miami University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 99
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.
Review by Martin Simpson, University of Liverpool.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 83
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).
Review by Sylvie E. Blum-Reid, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 103
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.
Review by D.M.G. Sutherland, University of Maryland.
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
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.
Review by Kathryn Norberg, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 83
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.
Review by Sarah A. Curtis, St. Louis University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (September 2001), No. 27
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.
Review by David Garrioch, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 10
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.
Review by Malcolm Barber, University of Reading.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 12
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.
Review by Stéphane Gerson, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 147
The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750, Anne Dunan-Page, ed. Aldershot, U.K., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. xvi + 218 pp. Bibliography and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-5495-7.
Review by Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 97
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.
Review by William I. Hitchcock, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 85
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.
Review by Marie-Paule Ha, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 33
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).
Review by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 35
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.
Review by Charlotte C. Wells, University of Northern Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 11
Renouveau et décentralisation du théâtre 1945-1981, Pascale Goetschel. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004. 512 pp. €38 (pb). ISBN 2130537383.
Review by Loïc Vadelorge, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 157
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.
Review by Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 147
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.
Review by James R. Lehning, The University of Utah.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 37
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.
Review by Alan Forrest, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 49
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.
Review by Jeremy
Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 91
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.
Review by Dorothy Johnson, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 108
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.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 23
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.
Review by Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 91
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.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 133
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.
Review by Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (February 2001), No. 4
La Révolution, une exception française? Annie Jourdan. Paris: Flammarion, 2004. 461pp. Appendices, bibliography and index. €24 (pb). ISBN 2-082-10318-8.
Review by James Livesey, University of Sussex.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 34
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.
Review by Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 122
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.
Review by Doina Pasca Harsanyi, Central Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 33
Richelieu, Françoise Hildesheimer. Paris: Flammarion, 2004. 590 pp. Images, notes, chronology, appendices, maps, bibliography, and index. €26 (pb). ISBN 2-08210290-4.
Review by Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 62
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.
Review by Stuart Carroll, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 49
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.
Compte-rendu par Ludivine Bantigny, Université de Rouen, Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 136
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).
Review by Constance B. Bouchard, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 10
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.
Review by William Hauptman, Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 117
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.
Review by Michael R. Lynn, Agnes Scott College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 18
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.
Review by Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 57
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.
Review by Fiona Griffiths, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 69
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.
Review by Thomas Head, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 103
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.
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 47
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.
Review by John L. Harvey, St. Cloud State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 1
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.
Review by Raymond Birn, University of Oregon.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 73
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.
Review by Jennifer J. Popiel, Saint Louis University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 84
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.
Review by
Christopher Corley, Minnesota State University Moorhead.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 11
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.
Review by Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 6
S
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.
Review by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, California State University--San Marcos.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 15
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.
Review by Penny Roberts, University of Warwick, U.K.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 79
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.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 95
Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. 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.
Review by John J. Hurt, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 79
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.
Review by Christian Roy, Université Laval.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 131
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.
Review by Michael Broers, University of Aberdeen (UK).
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 10
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.
Review by Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 11
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.
Review by Katharine J. Hamerton, Columbia College, Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 33
Response by Faith Beasley, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 34
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.
Review by William Weber, California State University, Long Beach.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 112
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.
Review by Robert Mills, King’s College London.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 68
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.
Review by Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 59
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.
Review by Hilary J. Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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
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.
Review by Elizabeth A. Blood, Salem State College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 116
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.
Review by E.C. Spary, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 23
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.
Review by Alice L. Conklin, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 31
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.
Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 67
Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, c.1700-c.1870, Maurice Crosland. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK and Burlington Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. xvi + 270 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $109.95 (cl). ISBN-13:978-0-7546-5913-6.
Review by Judith P. Zinsser, University of Miami (Ohio).
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 33
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.
Review by Martin O'Shaughnessy, Nottingham Trent University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 96
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.
Review by Jennifer J. Popiel, Saint Louis University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 140
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.
Review by David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 76
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.
Review by Laura Wertheimer, Cleveland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 71
Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, Lynn Festa. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. viii + 300 pp. Notes, figures, bibliography, and index. $55.00 US (hb). ISBN 978-0-8018-8430-6.
Review by Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 107
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.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 76
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.
Review by Jennifer Heuer, Middlebury College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 101
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.
Review by Lenard R. Berlanstein, University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 138
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.
Review by Daniel A. Gordon, Edge Hill University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 118
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.
Review by Caroline Ford, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 151
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.
Compte-rendu par Renaud Morieux, Université de Reims.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 5
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.
Review by Karen E. Spierling, University of Louisville.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 116
Sicherheit und Reparationen: Die französische Öffentlichkeit, der Rhein, und die Ruhr , Anne-Monika Lauter. Vol. 74, Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Neueren Landesgeschichte und zur Geschichte Nordrhein-Westfalens. Essen: Klartext, 2006. 431 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, index. € 39.50 ISBN 3-89861-495-6.
Review by Christopher Fischer, Indiana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 29
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.
Review by Paul Cheney, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 90
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.
Review by Megan Cassidy-Welch, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 16
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. $60.00 U.S. (cl) and $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8195-6454-0 (cl). and 0-8195-6473-7 (pb).
Review by Timothy Baycroft, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 115
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.
Review by William J. Cloonan, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 50
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.
Review by Brad S. Gregory, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 93
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.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 121
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.
Review by Alan Forrest, York University, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 130
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.
Review by Ann W.
Ramsey, Independent Scholar, Esopus, New York.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 65
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.
Review by Judith
F. Stone, Western Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol.. 2 (July 2002), No. 59
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.
Review by Jolanta T. Pekacz, Dalhousie University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 85
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.
Review by Paul Edison, University of Texas at El Paso.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 68
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.
Review by Daniel Hickey, Université de Moncton.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 120
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.
Review by Paul Cohen, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 96
Soil and Stone: Impressionism, Urbanism, Environment, Eds. Frances Fowle and Richard Thomason. Aldershot and Burlington, VT.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003. xiv + 175 pp. Notes. £52.50 (cl). ISBN 0-7546-3685-2.
Review by William Hauptman, Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 78
Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture 1766-1870, David M. Hopkin. Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series, Vol.ume 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.
Review by Robert M. Schwartz, Mount Holyoke College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 33
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.
Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 141
Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France, Maurice Samuels. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 280 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendix, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4249-0; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-8965-2.
Review by Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 38
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.
Review by Christine Caldwell Ames, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 57
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, Eds. University of Sydney, 1999. vi + 399 pp. Notes. ISBN 1-86487-026-5.
Review by Kenneth Margerison, Southwest Texas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (February 2001) No. 2
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.
Review by Megan C. Armstrong, University of Utah.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 73
Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David, Todd Porterfield and Susan L. Siegfried. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. viii+287pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, list of illustrations, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02858-0.
Review by David O’Brien, University of Illinois.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 42
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.
Review by Jennifer Birkett, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 11
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.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 104
Stèles., Victor Segalen. Translated, edited, and annotated by Timothy Billings and Christopher Bush. Foreword by Haun Saussy. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. Vol. 1, xxxiv + 415 pp. Introduction by Billings and Bush, facsimile of 1914 edition of Stèles, English translation of the stèles, brief summaries of each stèle, critical notes, and bibliography. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8195-6833-3. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8195-6832-5.
Vol. 2, viii + 246 pp. Chinese sources and contexts for Stèles; unpublished stèles; critical notes, Chinese sources and contexts for unpublished stèles; Segalen’s draft of “To the Scholars of the Extreme Occident”; dates of composition and revision of the stèles; and bibliography. Freely available on line at http://www.steles.org.
Review by Yvonne Y. Hsieh, University of Victoria, Canada.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 41
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.
Review by Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 48
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.
Review by Katharine J. Hamerton, Southwest Missouri State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 38
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.
Review by Harold Mah, Queen’s University, Canada.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 129
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.
Review by Orest Ranum, The Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 144
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.
Review by Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., American International College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 125
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.
Review by David Klinck, University of Windsor.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 74
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.
Review by Ann Blair, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 25
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.
Review by Joshua C. Birk, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 59
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.
Review by Steven P. Marrone, Tufts University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 52
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.
Review by Geoffrey Turnovsky, University of Washington.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 15
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.
Review by Carol Symes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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
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.
Review by Jan Miernowski, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Warsaw.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 99
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.
Review by Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 114
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.
Review by Michael P. Breen, Reed College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 78
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.
Review by Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 10
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.
Review by Mark S. Micale, University of Illinois.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 102
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.
Review by Mark Antliff, Duke University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 63
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.
Review by John S. Ott, Portland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 97
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.
Review by Kathleen Biddick, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 115
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.
Review by David Klinck, University of Windsor.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 108
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.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 43
T
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.
Review by Jill Maciak Walshaw, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 60
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.
Review by William Olejniczak, College of Charleston.
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
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.
Review by Anne Jourdan, Université d’Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 49
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.
Review by Clare
Crowston, University of Illinois at Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 19
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.
Review by John Strachan, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 130
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.
Review by Alan Forrest, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 78
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.
Review by James Livesey, Trinity College, Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 76
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.
Review by Paul R. Hanson, Butler University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 18
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.
Review by Leigh Whaley, Acadia University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 44
Des Terroristes à la retraite, Mosco Boucault, Director. 1983/France/Color. Studio: Zek Productions. Running Time: 84 min.
Film Review by
Patrick Young.
H-France Review, Vol. 1 (March 2001), No. 5
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.
Review by Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 16
Le Théâtre de la Foire: Des tréteaux aux boulevards, Isabelle Martin. Oxford: Vol.taire Foundation, 2002. xix + 386 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography. £59.00 U.K., $101.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7294-0797-7.
Review by Charles Walton, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and Columbia University’s Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 136
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.
Review by Jeffrey H. Jackson, Rhodes College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 72
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.
Review by Graham Sadler, University of Hull.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 149
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.
Review by Sam Collins, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 104
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.
Review by Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 156
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.
Review by Julian Bourg, Bucknell University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 122
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
Review by Brett A. Berliner, Morgan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 56
Review by Joan Tumblety, University of Southampton.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 109
"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.
Review by Kimberly A. LoPrete, National University of Ireland, Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 37
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.
Review by Samuel Moyn, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 104
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.
Review by Jennifer Heuer, University of Massachusetts.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 46
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.
Review by James A. Winders, Appalachian State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 86
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.
Review by Pamela Pilbeam, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 29
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.
Review by David Andress, University of Portsmouth.
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
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.
Review by Keith Michael Baker, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 137
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.
Review by Jonathan Beecher, University of California, Santa Cruz.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 131
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.
Review by Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University, Bloomington.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 28
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.
Review by Helena Rosenblatt, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 8
Torture and the Twilight of Empire. From Algiers to Baghdad, Marnia Lazreg. Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2008. 354 pp. $29.95 (cl). ISBN 10-069-1131-35X.
Compte rendu par Raphaëlle Branche, Université de Paris-I, Sorbonne.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 94
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.
Review by Robert A. Schneider, The Catholic University of America.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 33
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.
Review by Elizabeth K. Mix, Purdue University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 127
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.
Review by Michael B. Miller, University of Miami.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 138
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.
Review by Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 134
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.
Review by Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 45
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.
Review by Bertrand Taithe, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 92
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
Review by Joel Blatt, University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 9
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.
Review by Larissa Juliet Taylor, Colby College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 64
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.
Review by Judith A. Miller, Emory University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 19
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.
Review by Charles D. Smith, University of Arizona.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 70
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.
Review by Elizabeth Greenhalgh, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 54
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.
Review by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 115
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.
Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 29
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 30
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.
Review by K. Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 128
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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.
Review by Patrick Nold, Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 70
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.
Review by Talbot C. Imlay, Université Laval.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 111
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.
Review by Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 30
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.
Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 17
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.
Review by Robert Zaretsky, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 7
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.
Review by Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 74
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.
Review by Benjamin Claude Brower, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 67
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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.
Review by Michael Wolfe, St. John's University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 10
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.
Review by Malcom Anderson, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 4
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.
Review by Sarah Fishman, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 51
Vichy dans la “Solution Finale”: Histoire du Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives, 1941-1944, Laurent Joly. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 2006. 1015 pp. Appendix, chronology, bibliography and index. 35.00 € (pb). ISBN 2 246 63841 0 37 1833-5 2006-IV.
Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 36
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.
Review by Jean-Pierre Le Crom, CNRS-Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 53
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.
Review by Perry Biddiscombe, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 112
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.
Review by Kim Munholland, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 27
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.
Reviewed by Edgar Leon Newman, New Mexico State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (June 2001), No. 14
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.
Review by Isabel K. Roche, Bennington College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 137
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.
Review by Leslie Choquette, Institut français, Assumption College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 92
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.
Review by Tryntje B. Helfferich, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 40
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.
Review by David Buisseret, University of Texas at Arlington.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 128
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.
Review by Bernard Gainot, Institut d’histoire de la Révolution Française.
H-France Review Vol. 2, (October 2002), No. 95
Translation [in
English] by John Garrigus, Jacksonville University and H-Caribbean review editor for the Francophone Caribbean of the review by Bernard Gainot, Institut d'histoire de la Révolution Française.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 115
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.