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H-France Review Vol. 8 (2008)
James K. Farge, 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. 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
James H. Dahlinger, Etienne Pasquier on Ethics and History. 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
Randall C. Zachman, Image and Word in the Theology of John Calvin. 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
Pierre Benoist, Le Père Joseph. L'Eminence grise de Richelieu. 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 (February 2008), No. 22
Mary E. Davis, Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism. 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
Sarah Leahy, Casque d'or. 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
Vincent Kaufmann, Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry. 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
François Igersheim, L'Alsace et ses historiens, 1680-1914. La Fabrique des monuments. 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
Gilbert Noël, Emilie Willaert Eds., Georges Pompidou, une certaine idée de la modernité agricole et rurale. 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
Roger Pearson, Voltaire Almighty: A Life in the Pursuit of Freedom. London: Bloomsbury, 2005. xxxii + 424 pp. "Dramatis personae," chronology, note on sources, notes, select bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S.; £8.99 UK (cl). ISBN 9780747579571.
Review by Johnson Kent Wright, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 16
Elena Russo, Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth Century France. 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
Denise Z. Davidson, France after Revolution. Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order. 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
John Merriman, Police Stories: Building the French State 1815-1851. 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
Kevin F. Kiley, Once There Were Titans: Napoleon's Generals and Their Battles, 1800-1815. 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
Daniel Denis and Pierre Kahn, Eds., L'Ecole de la Troisième République en questions : Débats et controverses dans le Dictionnaire de pédagogie de Fernand Buisson. 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
Jamel Ostwald, Vauban under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of Spanish Succession. 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
Ruth E. Iskin, Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist Painting. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv + 283 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521-84080-4.
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
Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa. 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
David Gascoigne, Ed., Violent Histories: Violence, Culture and Identity in France from Surrealism to the Néo-Polar. Bern: Peter Lang, Cultural Identity Series, 2007. 212 pp. $55.95 U.S. / €43.00 ISBN 978-3-03910-317-1.
Review by Debarati Sanyal, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 6
James Hogg, Ed., 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. 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
Birte Wassenberg, Vers une euroregion? La coopération transfrontalière franco-germano-suisse dans l'espace rhénan de 1975 à 2000. 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
Judith Mayne, Le Corbeau. 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
Gabriel Marcel, Music & Philosophy. Trans. Stephen Maddux and Robert E. Wood. Intro., Robert E. Wood. 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
Helke Rausch, Kultfigur und Nation: Öffentliche Denkmäler in Paris, Berlin und London 1848-1914. 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
H-France Review Vol. 7 (2007)
Thomas R. Nevin, Thérèse of Lisieux: God’s Gentle Warrior. 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
Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson, Eds. Why France ? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination. With an afterword by Roger Chartier. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. 242 pp. $27.95 (cl). ISBN-10: 0-801-4441-44.
Compte-rendu par Christian Jouhaud, E.H.E.S.S. (C.R.H.)
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 155
Hervé Leuwers, L’invention du barreau français, 1660-1830: La construction nationale d’un groupe professionnel. 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
Siân Reynolds, Paris-Edinburgh: Cultural Connections in the Belle Époque. 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
Michael Rand Hoare, The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth: Ideas and Expeditions in Four Centuries of Geodesy. 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
Marni Reva Kessler, Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet’s Paris. 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
Thérèse Charmasson, Ed., Histoire de l’enseignement, XIXe-XXe siècles : Guide du chercheur. 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
Katherine M. Bourguignon, Ed., Impressionist Giverny, A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915. 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
Michael Creswell, A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe. 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
Joyce Dixon-Fyle, Female Writers’ Struggle for Rights and Education for Women in France (1848-1871). 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
Rosamond McKitterick, Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages. 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
Michel Leymarie, Albert Thibaudet, « l’outsider du dedans ». 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 Christophe Pradeau, Université Paris 13.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 145
Lynn Wood Mollenauer, Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison and Sacrilege in Louis XIV’s France. 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
Robert M. Stein, Reality Fictions: Romance, History, and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180. 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
Bernard Durand, Jean-Pierre Le Crom, Alessandro Somma, Eds., Le Droit sous Vichy. 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
Emma Webb, Ed., Marie Cardinal: New Perspectives. 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
Laura S. Schor, The Life and Legacy of Baroness Betty de Rothschild. 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
George Weisz, Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization. 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
William VanderWolk, Victor Hugo in Exile: From Historical Representations to Utopian Vistas. 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
Richard Ivan Jobs, Riding the New Wave: Youth and the Rejuvenation of France after the Second World War. 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
Yannick Marec, Pauvreté et protection sociale aux XIXe et XXe siècles: des expériences rouennaises aux politiques nationales. 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
Matthew S. Buckley, Tragedy Walks the Streets: The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama. 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
Jean-Clément Martin, dir. La Révolution à l’oeuvre. Perspectives actuelles dans l’histoire de la Révolution française. 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
Hugh Thomas, Beaumarchais in Seville: An Intermezzo. 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
Samantha Kahn Herrick, Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy. 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
Annie Bleton-Ruget and Philippe Poirrier, Eds., Le temps des sciences humaines. Gaston Roupnel et les années trente. 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
Sean Kennedy, Reconciling France against Democracy: The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français, 1927-1945. 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
Dena Goodman and Kathryn Norberg, Eds., Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us about the French and American Past. 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
Adam Rayski, The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance. 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
Christina Kott, Préserver l’art de l’ennemi? Le patrimoine artistique en Belgique et en France occupées, 1914-1918. 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
Helga Haftendorn, Georges-Henri Soutou, Stephen F. Szabo, and Samuel F. Wells, Jr., Eds., The Strategic Triangle: France, Germany, and the United States in the Shaping of the New Europe. 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
Brian Nelson, Ed., The Cambridge Companion to Émile Zola. 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
Seth D. Armus, French Anti-Americanism (1930-1948): Critical Moments in a Complex History. 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
Suzanne Guerlac, Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson. 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
Allan Megill, Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice. 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
Rebecca Rogers, From the Salon to the School Room: Educating Bourgeois Girls in Nineteenth-Century France. 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
Andrea L. Smith, Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France. 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
Azouz Begag, Shantytown Kid [Le Gone du Chaâba]. 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.
Azouz Begag, Ethnicity and Equality: France in the Balance. 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.
Azouz Begag, Un mouton dans le baignoire. 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
Michael Wintroub, A Savage Mirror: Power, Identity, and Knowledge in Early Modern France. 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
Martine Beugnet and Marion Schmid, Proust at the Movies. 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.
William C. Carter, Proust in Love. 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.
Richard Davenport-Hines, Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris. 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
Christine-Marie Petto, When France was King of Cartography. The Patronage and Production of Maps in Early Modern France. Lanham-Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2007. 215 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-1440-9 / 978-0-7391-1440-7 ; $35.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1776-9 / 978-0-7391-1776-7.
Compte-rendu par Jean-Marc Besse, CNRS, Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 114
Howard G. Brown, Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, and Repression, from the Terror to Napoleon. 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
Gilbert Romme, Correspondance, 1774-1779. Vol. 1, book 1: 1774-1776. Volume 1, book 2: 1777-1779. 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
Jean-Marc Largeaud, Napoléon et Waterloo: la défaite glorieuse de 1815 à nos jours. 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
Natania Meeker, Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. ix + 310 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN: 9780823226962.
Review by Anne Vila, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 109
Melissa Hyde and Mark Ledbury, Eds., Rethinking Boucher. 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
Debarati Sanyal, The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ix + 276 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (hb), ISBN 0-8018-8308-3.
Review by Susan Blood, SUNY Albany.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 107
Pierre Rosanvallon, The Demands of Liberty: Civil Society in France Since the Revolution. 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
John Carson, The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940. 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
Patricia Ranft, The Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Medieval Religious Renewal Movement. 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
David Bradby and Andrew Calder, Eds., The Cambridge Companion to Molière. 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
Kevin Gould, Catholic Activism in South-West France, 1540-1570. 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
Julian H. Franklin, Ed., Jean Bodin. International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought. 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
Eric T. Jennings, Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas. 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
David L. Sedley, Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton. 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
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine. 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
Robert Stam, François Truffaut and Friends: Modernism, Sexuality, and Film Adaptation. 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
Steve Wharton, Screening Reality: French Documentary Film during the German Occupation. 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
Jonathan Dewald, Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970. 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
James Hogg, Alain Girard, and Daniel Le Blévec, Eds., 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. 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
Ben Ramm, A Discourse for the Holy Grail in Old French Romance. 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
Josette Brun, Vie et mort du couple en Nouvelle-France: Québec et Louisbourg au XVIIIe siècle. 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
William H. Sewell, Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation. 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
Diana Donald and Frank O’Gorman, Eds., Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century. 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
Margaret A. Simons, Ed., The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Critical Essays. 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
Jeff Horn, The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830. 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
Madeleine Haehl, Les Affaires étrangères au temps de Richelieu: Les secrétaires d’État, les agents diplomatiques (1624-1642). 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
Alison Rice, Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb. 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
David Styan, France and Iraq: Oil, Arms and French Policy Making in the Middle East. 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
Zahi Zalloua, Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism. 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
Stéphanie Dalbin, Visions croisées Franco-Allemandes de la Première Guerre mondiale. Étude de deux quotidiens: la Metzer Zeitung et L’Est Républicain. Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2007. xii + 396 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 68.50 € (pb). ISBN 978-3-03911-250-0.
Review by Martha Hanna, University of Colorado at Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 83
Carmen Callil, Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France. 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
William D. Irvine, Between Justice and Politics: The Ligue des Droits de l’Homme, 1898-1945. 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
Albert Memmi, Decolonization and the Decolonized. 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
Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall, The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis. 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
Ellen M. McClure, Sunspots and the Sun King: Sovereignty and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century France. 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
Deborah J. Brown, Descartes and the Passionate Mind. 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
Lynn L. Sharp, Secular Spirituality: Reincarnation and Spiritism in Nineteenth-Century France. 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
J. P. Daughton, An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914. 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
Thomas R. Christofferson with Michael S. Christofferson, France during World War II: from Defeat to Liberation. 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
Rosemary Lloyd, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire. 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
Christine M. Cano, Proust’s Deadline. 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
Martinus Cawley, trans., 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. 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
Mary O’Neill, Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvère Repertoire. 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
Jacques Dalarun, Robert of Arbrissel: Sex, Sin and Salvation in the Middle Ages. 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
Hubert Bonin, La Banque nationale de crédit : Histoire de la quatrième banque de dépôts française en 1913-1932. 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
Jonathan G. Katz, Murder in Marrakesh: Emile Mauchamp and the French Colonial Adventure. 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
Gregory Mann, Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century. 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
Hervé Hasquin, Louis XIV face à l’Europe du Nord: L’absolutisme vaincu par les libertés. 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
Martha Hanna, Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. v + 341 pp. Index. $26.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-02318-8.
Review by Margaret Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 64
Andrew Uffindell, The Eagle’s Last Triumph: Napoleon’s Victory at Ligny, June 1815. 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
Claire Andrieu, Marie-Claire Lavabre, and Danielle Tartakowsky, Politiques du passé : usages politiques du passé dans la France contemporaine. 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
Matthew L. Jones, The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue. 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. 61
Diana Holmes and Carrie Tarr, Eds., A ‘Belle Epoque’? Women in French Society and Culture 1890-1914. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. xv + 344 pp. Illustrations, notes, select chronology, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-84545-021-3.
Review by Cherilyn Lacy, Hartwick College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 60
John Hine Mundy, Studies in the Ecclesiastical and Social History of Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars. Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West. 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
Rebecca J. DeRoo, The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The Politics of Artistic Display in France after 1968. 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
Steven F. Kruger, The Spectral Jew: Conversion and Embodiment in Medieval Europe. 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
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de Lafayette, Zayde: A Spanish Romance. Edited and translated by Nicholas D. Paige. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxi. + 210 pp. Bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-46851-8; $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-266-46852-6.
Review by Christie Sample Wilson, St. Edward’s University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 56
Nicolas Mariot, Bains de foule: Les voyages présidentiels en province, 1888-2002. 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
Anne Raffin, Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and its Legacies, 1940-1970. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2005. v + 273 pp. $70.00 US (hb) ISBN 0-7391-1146-9.
Review by Nguyen Thu Huong and Frances Gouda, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 54
Marc Boninchi, Vichy et l’ordre moral. 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
Mark W. Konnert, Local Politics in the French Wars of Religion. The Towns of Champagne, the Duc de Guise, and the Catholic League, 1560-95. 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
Jean-Jacques Fouché, Massacre at Oradour, France, 1944: Coming to Grips with Terror. 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
Nicole Thatcher and Ethel Tolansky, Eds., Six Authors in Captivity: Literary Responses to the Occupation of France during World War II. 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
Susan E. Dinan, Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Burlington, VT, and Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006. x + 190 pp. Notes, chronology, maps, bibliography, appendices, and index. $89.95 U.S./£45.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0754655539.
Review by Linda Lierheimer, Hawai’i Pacific University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 49
Daron Burrows, The Stereotype of the Priest in the Old French Fabliaux: Anticlerical Satire and Lay Identity. 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
Jacques Le Goff (in collaboration with Jean-Maurice de Montremy), My Quest for the Middle Ages. 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
Clifford Rosenberg, Policing Paris: the Origins of Modern Immigration Control between the Wars. 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
Ruth Ginio, French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa. 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
Graeme Fife, The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792-1794. 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
Ezequiel Adamovsky, Euro-Orientalism: Liberal Ideology and the Image of Russia in France (c. 1740-1880). 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
Matthew Maguire, The Conversion of Imagination: From Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville. 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
Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, Eds., Captive Histories: English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid. 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
Stephen A. Toth, Beyond Papillon: The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952. 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
Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci, Ed., Antisémythes: L’image des juifs entre culture et politique (1848-1939). 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
Miriam Leonard, Athens in Paris: Ancient Greece and the Political in Post-War French Thought. 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
Henry Heller, The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815. 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
Faith E. Beasley, Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory. 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
Peter Becker and Richard F. Wetzell, Eds., Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective. 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
Pierre Rosanvallon, Democracy Past and Future, 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
Karen Sullivan, Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature. 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
Response by Karen Sullivan, Bard College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 30
John R. Bowen, Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State and Public Space. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. 290 pp. $27.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-691-12506-6.
Review by Alec G. Hargreaves, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 28
George R. Whyte, The Dreyfus Affair: A Chronological History. 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
Robert Stuart, Marxism and National Identity: Socialism, Nationalism, and National Socialism during the French Fin de Siècle. 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
Richard J. Golsan, French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s. 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
Emmanuel de Waresquiel, Lettres d’un lion: Correspondance inédite du général Mouton, comte de Lobau (1812-1815). 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
Pierre Nora, Ed., Rethinking France. Les Lieux de Mémoire. Vol. 2. Space. Translation directed by David P. Jordan. 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
Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit, Sylvie Lindeperg, and Olivier Wieviorka, Eds., Images de guerre 1940-1945 (Academic Edition). Box 1. DVD-ROM Mac/PC. INA and Nouveau Monde Éditions, 2005.
Review by Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 22
Yves Lequin, et. al., Ouvriers, villes, et société: autour d’Yves Lequin et de l’histoire sociale. Paris: Nouveau Monde éditions, 2005. 296 pp. Introduction, bibliography. €34.00 (pb). ISBN 2-84736-142-1.
Review by Frieda Fuchs, The College of Wooster.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 21
Catherine Mayaux, Ed., Lettres de Paul Claudel à Jean Paulhan (1925-1954). Berne: Peter Lang, 2004. v + 300 pp. Notes and indices. $49.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 3 03910 452 7.
Review by Martyn Cornick, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 20
Steven Zdatny, Fashion, Work and Politics in Modern France. New York and Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xv + 384 pp. Illustrations, select bibliography, and index. $69.95 US. (hb). ISBN 1-4039-72170-6.
Review by Mary Lynn Stewart, Simon Fraser University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 19
Frederick C. Schneid, Napoleon’s Conquest of Europe: the War of the Third Coalition. 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
Robert Goetz, 1805: Austerlitz, Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition. 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
Lisa Moses Leff, Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France (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
Julian Bourg, Ed., After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France. 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
Pepper D. Culpepper, Peter A. Hall and Bruno Palier, Eds., Changing France: The Politics that Markets Make. (Houndmills, UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 322 pgs. $74.95 hardcover. ISBN 1-4039-9696-2.
Alistair Cole and Gino Raymond, Eds., Redefining the French Republic. (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
Henri Alleg, The Question. 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
Cecilia Beach, Staging Politics and Gender: French Women’s Drama, 1880-1923. 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
Ben Lewis, Director. Blowing Up Paradise. 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
Jocelyn van Tuyl, André Gide and the Second World War: A Novelist’s Occupation. 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
Gino G. Raymond, The French Communist Party During the Fifth Republic: A Crisis of Leadership and Ideology. 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
Richard Vinen, The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation. 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
Melissa Hyde, Making Up the Rococo. François Boucher and His Critics. 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
Raffael Scheck, Hitler’s African Victims, The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940. 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
William Fortescue, France and 1848: The End of Monarchy. 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
John Bonehill and Geoff Quilley, Eds., Conflicting Visions: War and Visual Culture in Britain and France c. 1700-1830. 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
David O’Brien, After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting and Propaganda Under Napoleon. 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
Kim Pelis, Charles Nicolle, Pasteur’s Imperial Missionary: Typhus and Tunisia. 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
H-France Review Vol. 6 (2006)
Rod Kedward, France and the French: La Vie en Bleu since 1900. 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
Ellen Hampton, Women of Valor: The Rochambelles on the WWII Front. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xv + 233 pp. Maps, photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 U.S. (hb.) ISBN 1-4039-7143-9.
Review by Shannon L. Fogg, University of Missouri-Rolla.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 159
Colin Jones, Paris: Biography of a City. 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
Pascale Goetschel, Renouveau et décentralisation du théâtre 1945-1981. 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
Giselle de Nie, Word, Image and Experience. Dynamics of Miracle and Self-Perception in Sixth-Century Gaul. Variorum Collected Studies Series, 771. Ashgate: Aldershot, U.K., and Burlington, VT, 2003). xiv + 374 pp. Index. $119.00 U.S./£62.50 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0-86078-933-0.
Review by Bailey K. Young, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 156
Madeleine Des Roches and Catherine Des Roches, From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames 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
Fondation Charles de Gaulle, Avec de Gaulle: témoignages. Tome 1, La Guerre et la Libération (1939-1945). Paris: Nouveau monde édition, 2003. 251 pp. €26.00 (pb.) ISBN 2-84736-026-3. Fondation Charles de Gaulle, Avec De Gaulle: témoignages. Tome 2, Le temps du rassemblement, (1946-1958). 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
Erin L. Jordan, Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. viii + 193 pp. Notes, family trees, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6656-7.
Review by Constance B. Bouchard, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 153
Fred Ablondi, Gerauld de Cordemoy: Atomist, Occasionalist, Cartesian. 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
Thierry Lentz, Ed., Napoléon et l’Europe. Regards sur une politique. 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
Michael Brenner, Vicki Caron and Uri R. Kaufmann, Eds. Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models. 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
Lionel Sawkins, A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726). 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
Patric Jean, Napoléon, David: The Image Enthroned. 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
Peter P. Hill, Napoleon’s Troublesome Americans: Franco-American Relations, 1804-1815. 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
Mark Atwood Lawrence, Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to the War in Vietnam. 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
Sarah Alyn Stacey and Véronique Desnain, Eds., Culture and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century France and Ireland. 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
Sara E. Chapman, Private Ambition and Political Alliances. The Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain Family and Louis XIV’s Government, 1650--1715. 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
Jonathan Simon, Chemistry, Pharmacy and Revolution in France, 1777-1809. 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
George Beech, Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France? The Case for St. Florent of Saumur. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. xii + 142 pp. Map, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6670-2.
Review by Shirley Ann Brown, York University, Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 142
William J. Courtenay, Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century. A Social Portrait. 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
Mary Jo Maynes, Birgitte Søland, and Christina Benninghaus, Eds., Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750-1960. 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
Namascar Shaktini, Ed., On Monique Wittig: Theoretical, Political and Literary Essays. 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
Christopher S. Thompson, The Tour de France: A Cultural History. 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
Herman Lebovics, Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies. 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
Yannick Marec, Ed., Villes en crise? Les politiques municipales face aux pathologies urbaines (fin XVIIIe-- fin XXe siècle). CREAPHIS, 2005. 760 pps ; 32€ (pb); ISBN 2-913610-49-8.
Review by Stephen W. Sawyer, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 136
Pierre Charrier, Le Maréchal Davout. Millau: Foundation Napoléon, 2005. 831 pp. Maps. 34 € (pb); ISBN 2-84736-111-1.
Review by Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 135
Chris Tinker, Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel: Personal and Social Narratives in Post-War French Chanson. 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
Christian Delporte, Claude Pennetier, Jean-François Sirinelli, and Serge Wolikow, Eds., L’Humanité de Jaurès à nos jours. 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
Susan Hayward, Les Diaboliques. 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
Laurence Guellec, Ed., Tocqueville et l’esprit de la démocratie. The Tocqueville Review / La Revue Tocqueville. 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
Edward J. Woell, Small-Town Martyrs and Murderers: Religious Revolution and Counterrevolution in Western France, 1774-1914. 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
Peter Fritzsche, Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History. 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
Louis Dupré, The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture. 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
Christine Théré, Loïc Charles, and Jean-Claude Perrot, Eds., Francois Quesnay, Oeuvres économiques complètes et autres textes, 2 volumes, (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
Michael Stephen Smith, The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800-1930. 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
Catherine Volpilhac-Auger, Ed., Montesquieu en 2005. 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
Andrew Bridgeford, 1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry. 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
Debra Kelly, Autobiography and Independence: Selfhood and Creativity in North African Postcolonial Writing in French. Contemporary French and Francophone Letters 2. 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
Susan Maslan, Revolutionary Acts: Theater, Democracy and the French Revolution. 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
Anna Julia Cooper, Slavery and the French and Haitian Revolutions (L’Attitude de la France à l’égard de l’esclavage pendant la Révolution). 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
Tracey Rizzo, A Certain Emancipation of Women: Gender, Citizenship, and the Causes Célèbres of Eighteenth-Century France. 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
Louise Labé. Complete Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition. 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
William A. Hoisington, Jr. The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil: A Frenchman between France and North Africa. 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
Claude-Henri Watelet, Essay on Gardens: A Chapter in the French Picturesque. 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
Jeanne de Jussie. The Short Chronicle: A Poor Clare’s Account of the Reformation of Geneva. 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
Robert Mills, Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture. 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
Peter R. Campbell, Ed. The Origins of the French Revolution. 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
Andrea Frisch, The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France. 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
Patricia Phillippy, Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases and Early Modern Culture. 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
Elizabeth Hyde, Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV. 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
Reynald Abad, La conjuration contre les carpes. Enquête sur les origines du décret de dessèchement des étangs du 14 frimaire an II. 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
Thomas M. Kavanagh, Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. viii + 251 pp. Figures, appendix, notes, index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3860-5.
Review by Thomas M. Luckett, Portland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 109
Mary Gluck, Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. 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
Nora M. Heimann, Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700-1855): From Satire to Sanctity. 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
Antoine Lilti, Le monde des salons. Sociabilité et mondanité à Paris au XVIIIe siècle. 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
Markus Schlicht, 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. 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
Hervé Joly, Ed. Faire l’histoire des entreprises sous l’Occupation: Les acteurs économiques et leurs archives. Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2004. 375 pp. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7355-0559-6.
Hervé Joly, Ed. Les archives des entreprises sous l’Occupation: Conservation, accessibilité et apport. Paris: IFRÉSI, 2005. 319 pp. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 2-9119-7530-8.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 104
Julianne Pidduck, La Reine Margot. 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
Geneviève Gentil and Philippe Poirrier, Eds. La politique culturelle en débat: Anthologie 1955-2005. 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
Richard D. E. Burton, Holy Tears, Holy Blood: Women, Catholicism, and the Culture of Suffering in France, 1840-1970. 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
Jennifer Ngaire Heuer, The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830. 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
Charles Williams, Pétain: How the Hero of France became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History. 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
Martin Thomas, The French Empire between the Wars. Imperialism, Politics and Society. 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
Helen Harden Chenut, The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France. 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
Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Sociolinguistic Variation in Seventeenth-Century France: Methodology and Case Studies. 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
Caroline Ford, Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France. 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
Rachel G. Fuchs, Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe. 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
John H. Arnold, Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe. 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
Jesse Goldhammer, The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought. 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
Gérard Bossuat, 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). 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
Samuel Moyn, Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics. 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
Ginette Vincendeau, La Haine. 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
Brian Jenkins, Ed., France in the Era of Fascism: Essays on the French Authoritarian Right. 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
Brian Angus McKenzie, Remaking France: Americanization, Public Diplomacy, and the Marshall Plan. 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
Cédric Glineur, Genèse d’un droit administratif sous le règne de Louis XV. Les pratiques de l’intendant dans les provinces du Nord (1726-1754). 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
Philipp Blom, Enlightening the World, Encyclopédie, The Book That Changed the Course of History. 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
Rebecca Zorach, Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance. 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
Caroline Smith, Crusading in the Age of Joinville. 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
Jacob Soll, Publishing the Prince, History, Reading and the Birth of Political Criticism. 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
Keith P. Luria, Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early-Modern France. 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
Jay M. Smith, Nobility Reimagined. The Patriotic Nation in Eighteenth-Century France. 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
Marie-Monique Robin, Director. Death Squadrons: The French School. 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
Jennifer M. Jones, Sexing la mode: Gender, Fashion and Commercial Culture in Old Regime France. 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
Ian Coller, Helen Davies, and Julie Kalman, Eds. French History and Civilization. Papers from the George Rudé Seminar. Volume One, 2005. 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
Michael W. Bruening, Calvinism's First Battleground: Conflict and Reform in the Pays de Vaud, 1528-1559. 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
Youssef Cassis and Éric Bussière, London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century. 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
Sally Debra Charnow, Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Staging Modernity. 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
Bruce Holsinger, The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory. 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
Frederick Cooper, Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History. 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
Dudley Andrew and Steven Ungar, Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture. 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
Sarah Ferber, Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern France. 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
Nabila Oulebsir, Les usages du patrimoine: Monuments, musées et politique coloniale en Algérie (1830-1930). 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
Stephen D. White, Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France. 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
Constance Hoffman Berman, Ed. Medieval Religion: New Approaches. 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
Daniel Hobbins, trans. and intro., The Trial of Joan of Arc. 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
Alyce Mahon, Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968. 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
Pascal Cauchy, La IVe République. 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
Katherine Ellis, Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France. 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.
Sophie-Anne Leterrier, Le mélomane et l’historien. 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
Dominique Auvray, Marguerite: A Reflection of Herself. 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
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth-Century. 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
Yannick Bellon, Director; Jacqueline Jacoupy, Producer. Colette. 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
Charles J. Esdaile, Ed., Popular Resistance in the French Wars: Patriots, Partisans and Pirates. 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
Luigi Lorenzetti, Anne-Lise Head-König, and Joseph Goy, Eds. Marchés, migrations et logiques familiales dans les espaces français, canadien et suisse, 18e-20e siècles. 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
David A. Shafer, The Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition and Revolutionary Socialism. 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
Amaury Lorin, Paul Doumer, gouverneur général de d’Indochine (1897-1902): le tremplin colonial. Paris: l’Harmattan, 2004. 248 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. 21.20 € (pb.). ISBN 2-7475-6954-3.
Review by Michael G. Vann, California State University, Sacramento.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 53
Réponse par Amaury Lorin au Compte-rendu de son ouvrage par Michael G. Vann.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 54
Georgia Cosmos, Huguenot Prophecy and Clandestine Worship in the Eighteenth Century: ‘The Sacred Theatre of the Cévennes. 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
Tracy Adams, Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance. Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xii + 311 pp. Bibliography. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-4039-6294-4.
Review by Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 50
Robert A. Doughty, Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. 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
Judith P. Zinsser, Ed. Men, Women and the Birthing of Modern Science. 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
Kim Munholland, Rock of Contention: Free French and Americans at War in New Caledonia, 1940-1945. 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
Suellen Diaconoff, Through the Reading Glass: Women, Books, and Sex in the French Enlightenment. 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
Raymond Jonas, The Tragic Tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War. 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
Alice Kaplan, The Interpreter. (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
Mark Sedgwick, Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. 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
Benjamin Martin, France in 1938. 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
Lianne McTavish, Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France. 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
Eric Nelson, The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615). 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
Davis Allen Harvey, Beyond Enlightenment. Occultism and Politics in Modern France. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. Bibliography and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 087580344X.
Compte-rendu par Nicole Edelman, Université Paris-10.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 39
Jérôme Penez. Histoire du thermalisme en France au XIXe siècle: Eau, médecine et loisirs. 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
Stuart Semmel, Napoleon and the British. 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
M. A. Claussen, The Reform of the Frankish Church: Chrodegang of Metz and the Regula canonicorum in the Eighth Century. 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
Annegret Fauser, Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair. 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
Joan Wallach Scott, Parité!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism. 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
Pamela A. Pears, Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam: Women, Words, and War. 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
Hervé Joly, Ed. Les comités d’organisation et l’économie dirigée de Vichy. Actes du colloque international des 3 et 4 avril 2003. 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
Vincent Juhel, Ed. Arcisse de Caumont (1801-1873). Érudit normand et fondateur de l’archéologie française. 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
Bonnie Effros, Caring for Body and Soul. Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World. 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
David Drake, French Intellectuals and Politics from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation. 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
Anaïs Ségalas, Récits des Antilles: Le Bois de la Soufrière, suivis d’un choix de poèmes. 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
Stephen Schloesser, Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933. 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
Kate van Orden, Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France. 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
Mita Choudhury, Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture. 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
Wayne Andersen, Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. 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
Emma Barker, Greuze and the Painting of Sentiment. 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
Doris Garraway, The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean. 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
Robert Allen, Les Tribunaux criminels sous la Révolution et l’Empire, 1792-1811. 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
David Andress, The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France. 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
Philippe Bourdin, Mathias Bernard and Jean-Claude Caron, Eds., La Voix et le Geste. Une approche culturelle de la violence socio-politique. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2005. 384 pp. Appendices and illustrations. €38 (pb). ISBN 2-84516-276-6.
Review by Charles Tilly, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 17
Michael E. Winston, From Perfectibility to Perversion: Meliorism in Eighteenth-Century France. 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
Gita May, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution. 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
Michael E. Nolan, The Inverted Mirror: Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany, 1898-1914. 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
Nicolas Marty, Perrier, c’est nous! Histoire de la source Perrier et de son personnel. 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
Samuel K. Cohn Jr, Ed. and trans., Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe: Italy, France and Flanders, 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
Anne E. Duggan, Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France. 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
Carolyn J. Eichner, Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune. 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
Dominique Margairaz, François de Neufchâteau : biographie intellectuelle. 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
Alexis Spire, Étrangers à la carte. L’administration de l’immigration en France (1945-1975), 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
Aurelian Craiutu, Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires. 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
Ralph E. Giesey, Rulership in France, 15th-17th Centuries. 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
Alice Garner, A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823-2000. 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
Alessandro Stanziani, Histoire de la qualité alimentaire, XIXe-XXe siècle. 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
Timothy Smith, France in Crisis: Welfare, Inequality and Globalization since 1980. 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
Emmanuel de Waresquiel, L’Histoire à rebrousse-poil: Les élites, la Restauration, la Révolution. 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
Bertrand Müller. Lucien Febvre, lecteur et critique. Paris: Albin Michel, 2003. 467 pp. Notes, annexes, selective bibliography. €26 (pb). ISBN 2-226-13282-1.
Olivier Dumoulin. Le rôle social de l’historien: De la chaire au prétoire. 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
H-France Review Vol. 5 (2005)
Mouloud Feraoun, The Poor Man's Son: Menrad, Kabyle Schoolteacher. 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
Patricia Tyson Stroud, The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon’s Brother Joseph. 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
Jeff Horn, Qui parle pour la nation? Les élections en Champagne, 1765-1830. 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
Joëlle Burnouf and Philippe Leveau, Eds. 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. (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
Elaine Graham-Leigh, The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade. 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
Jonathan R. Dull, The French Navy and the Seven Years’ War. 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
Deborah Reed-Danahay, Locating Bourdieu. 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
John Pemble, Shakespeare Goes to Paris: How the Bard Conquered France. 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
Robert M. Schwartz and Robert A. Schneider, Eds., Tocqueville and Beyond. Essays on the Old Regime in Honor of David D. Bien. 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
Alan James, The Navy and Government in Early Modern France 1572-1661. 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
Nicholas Papayanis, Planning Paris Before Haussmann. 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
Robert T. Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916. 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
Mary Sponberg Pedley, The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ix-345 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, and bibliography. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-65341-2.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 133
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism. 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
Philippe Roger, The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism. 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
Kevin Hart, The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred. 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
Joan L. Coffey, Léon Harmel: Entrepreneur as Catholic Social Reformer. 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
Jennifer Pitts, A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France. 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
Richard Thomson, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre. 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
Sandy Petrey, In the Court of the Pear King: French Culture and the Rise of Realism. 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
David Potter, Ed. Foreign Intelligence and Information in Elizabethan England: Two English Treatises on the State of France, 1580-1584. 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
Laura Weigert, Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity. Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past series. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. xvi + 246 pp. Illustrations, plates, notes, bibliography, appendices, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-8014-4008-4.
Review by Kathryn A. Edwards, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 124
Emmanuel Godin and Tony Chafer, Eds. The French Exception. 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
Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart, Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851. 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
Gwynne Lewis, France 1715-1804: Power and the People. 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
Sudhir Hazareesingh, The Legend of Napoleon. 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
Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin, Chronicle of a Summer, (Chronique d'un été.) First Run/Icarus Films, VHS, 2003 [1961], 84 minutes.
Jean Rouch, Ciné-Ethnography, 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
Fredrika Scarth, The Other Within: Ethics, Politics and the Body in Simone de Beauvoir. 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
Philippe Bourdin and Gérard Loubinoux, Eds. La Scène bâtarde: entre Lumières et romantisme. 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
Richard Thomson, The Troubled Republic: Visual Culture and Social Debate in France, 1889-1900. 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
Sarah Lees, Ed. Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet! The Bruyas Collection from the Musée Fabre, Montpelllier. 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
Pierre Bolle, Ed. Grenoble et le Vercors: De la Résistance à la Libération 1944-1944. 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
Simon Kitson, Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis 1940-1942: Complexité de la politique de collaboration. 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
Robert J. Young, An Uncertain Idea of France: Essays and Reminiscence on the Third Republic. 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
Marie Dentière, Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin. 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
Allan Greer, Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits. 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
Elisheva Baumgarten, Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe. (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World). 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
Michael A. H. Newth, trans., Aymeri of Narbonne: A French Epic Romance. 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
Harvey Levenstein, We’ll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 382 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-226-47378-3.
Review by Christopher Endy, California State University, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 106
Kristen Stromberg Childers, Fathers, Families, and the State in France, 1914-1945. 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
Nathan Bracher, Through a Glass Darkly: History and Memory in François Mauriac’s “Bloc-Notes” (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2004), pp. xii + 240, $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
Brett D. Steele and Tamera Dorland, Eds. The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment. 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
Constant J. Mews, Abelard and Heloise. Great Medieval Thinkers. 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
James Pritchard, In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730. 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
Joseph Bergin, Church, Crown, and Episcopate under Louis XIV. 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
John Bender and Michael Marrinan, Eds., Regimes of Description: In the Archive of the Eighteenth Century. 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
Susan Desan, The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. 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
Matt K. Matsuda, Empire of Love: Histories of France and the Pacific. 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
Kevin Moore, Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist. 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
Michael Seidman, The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968. New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2004. x + 310 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, chronology, glossary, and index. $75.00 U.S.(hb). ISBN 1-57181-675-5; $24.95 U.S (pb). ISBN 1-57181-685-2.
Review by Rosemary Wakeman, Forham University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 94
Michael V. Leggiere, Napoleon and Berlin: The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. 385 pp. $30.05 (pb). ISBN 0806133996.
Jean-Yves Guiomar, L’invention de la guerre totale: XVIIIe-XXe siècle. 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
Margaret W. Ferguson, Dido’s Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France. 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
Catherine Emerson, Olivier de La Marche and the Rhetoric of Fifteenth-Century Historiography. 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
Hilary J. Bernstein, Between Crown and Community: Politics and Civic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Poitiers. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. xvi + 313 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $57.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4234-6.
Review by Keith P. Luria, North Carolina State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 90
Nicholas Atkin, The Forgotten French: Exiles in the British Isles, 1940-44. 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
Megan C. Armstrong, The Politics of Piety: Franciscan Preachers during the Wars of Religion, 1560-1600. 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
Richard E. Barton, Lordship in the County of Maine, c.890-1160. 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
Thérèse Charmasson, Ed., Formation au travail, enseignement technique et apprentissage: Actes, 127e congrès du CTHS, Nancy, 15-20 avril 2002. 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
D. Kern Holoman, The Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, 1828–1967. 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
Mark C. Carnes and Gary Kates, Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791. 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
Joan DeJean, The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies and Tabloids in Early Modern France. 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
James E. Genova, Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-Ruled West Africa, 1914-1956. 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
David Beriss, Black Skins, French Voices: Caribbean Ethnicity and Activism in Urban France. Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press, 2004. xx + 156 pp. $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8133-4254-6.
Paul Silverstein, Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation. 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
Timothy Baycroft, Culture, Identity, and Nationalism: French Flanders in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 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
David W. Carrithers and Patrick Coleman, Eds., Montesquieu and the Spirit of Modernity. 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
Ronald Florence, Blood Libel: The Damascus Affair of 1840. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. viii + 257 pp. Bibliography and index. $35.00 US (cl.). ISBN 0-299-20280-1.
Review by Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 78
Hervé Joly, Alexandre Giandou, Muriel Le Roux, Anne Dalmasso, and Ludovic Caillet, Eds., 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. Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2002. 386 pp. €35 (hb) ISBN 2-7061-1063-5.
Hervé Joly and François Robert, Enterprises et Pouvoir Économique dans la Région Rhône-Alpes (1920-1954). 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
Frédéric Régent, Esclavage, métissage, liberté: La Révolution française en Guadeloupe, 1789-1802. 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
Suzanne K. Kaufman, Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine. 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
Michel Winock, La France et les juifs de 1789 à nos jours. 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
Gilbert Michlin, Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France, 1925-1945; with an afterword by Zeev Sternhell. 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
Guillaume Apollinare, The Cubist Painters, translated, with commentary by Peter Read. 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
Jotham Parsons, The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism & Political Ideology in Renaissance France. 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
William Chester Jordan, Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear: Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetian. 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
Michèle Fogel, Marie de Gournay: Itinéraires d’une femme savante. 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
Aurora Wolfgang, Gender and Voice in the French Novel, 1730-1782. 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
Hervé Joly, Ed., Patronat, bourgeoisie, catholicisme et libéralisme. Autour du Journal d’Auguste Isaac. Actes de la journée d’étude du 18 juin 2003. 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
Wayne Hanley, The Genesis of Napoleonic Propaganda, 1796-1799. 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
Katherine Crawford, Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France. 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
Anne of France, Lessons For My Daughter. 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
Stephen Murray, A Gothic Sermon: Making a Contract with the Mother of God, Saint Mary of Amiens, 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
Françoise Hildesheimer, Richelieu. 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
Karine Salomé, Les îles bretonnes: Une image en construction (1750-1914). 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
Howard G. Brown and Judith A. Miller, Eds., Taking Liberties: Problems of a New Order from the French Revolution to Napoleon. 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
Hélène Duccini, Faire Voir, Faire Croire: L’opinion publique sous Louis XIII. 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
Melanie Randolph Miller, Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution. 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
Jay R. Berkovitz, Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860. 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
Carole Christen-Lécuyer, Histoire sociale et culturelle des caisses d’épargne en France, 1818-1881. Collection Economies et Sociétés Contemporaines. 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
Neil Kamil, Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517-1751. 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
Robert Gildea, Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France during the German Occupation. 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
Peter Haidu, The Subject Medieval/Modern: Text and Governance in the Middle Ages. 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
Emmanuel Filhol, Un camp de concentration français: les tsiganes alsaciens-lorrains à Crest, 1915-1919. 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
Pierre Bouet, Brian Levy and François Neveux, Eds., The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History, The Proceedings of the Cerisy Colloquium (1999). 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
Irene A. Bierman, Ed., Napoleon in Egypt. 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
Alessandro Barbero, Charlemagne: Father of a Continent. 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
Kathryn L. Reyerson, Jacques Coeur: Entrepreneur and King’s Bursar. 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
Barbara B. Diefendorf. From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris. 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
William A. Peniston, Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris. 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
N. M. Sutherland, Henry IV of France and the Politics of Religion, 1572-1596, 2 vols. 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
Elizabeth Emery and Larua Morowitz, Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in fin-de-siècle France. 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
Robert Aldrich, Colonialism and Homosexuality. 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
Dominique Iogna-Prat, Order and Exclusion: Cluny and Christendom face Heresy, Judaism and Islam (1000-1500), translated by Graham Robert Edwards. 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
Janis Langins, Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution. 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
Yves Denéchère, Ed., Femmes et diplomatie: France--XXe siècle. 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
Anne Sa’adah, Contemporary France: A Democratic Education. 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
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. 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
Laurence Pope, Ed., Letters of François de Callières to the Marquise d’Huxelles. 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
Helen Maria Williams, Letters from France, 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
Annie Jourdan, La Révolution, une exception française? 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
Michael Morrison and Melinda Zook, Eds., Revolutionary Currents: Nation Building in the Transatlantic World. 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
Neil Kenny, The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xv + 484 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $125.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0199271364.
Review by Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 32
Sylvia Paletschek and Bianka Pietrow-Ennker, Eds., Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. ix + 448 pp. Acknowledgements, contributors, notes, supplementary bibliography, and index of names. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0804747644.
Review by Sara L. Kimble, University of Northern Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 31
Martin Evans and Emmanuel Godin, France 1815-2003: Modern History for Modern Languages. 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
Philip G. Dwyer, Talleyrand. 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
Julian Jackson, The Fall of France. The Nazi Invasion of 1940. 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
Alan Forrest, Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution. 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
Dorothy Kaufmann, Édith Thomas: A Passion for Resistance. 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
Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. 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
Charles Coulston Gillispie, Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years. 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
Madame de Maintenon, Dialogues and Addresses. 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
Ruth Whelan and Carol Baxter, Eds., The Edict of Nantes and its implications in France, Britain and Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003. 304 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85182-481-1.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Penn State Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 21
Théophraste Renaudot, De la petite fille velue et autres conférences du Bureau d’Adresse (1632-1642). 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
Robert F. Berkhofer III, Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France. 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 William 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
Claire Gorrara and Rachel Langford, Eds., France Since the Revolution: Texts and Contexts. 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
Talbot C. Imlay, Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France 1938-1940. 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
Hollis Clayson, Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-71). 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 (February 2005), No. 15
Jen Rydgren, The Populist Challenge: Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization in France. 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 (February 2005), No. 14
Catherine Brown, Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of Didacticism. 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 (February 2005), No. 13
David S. Bachrach, Religion and the Conduct of War c.300-c.1215. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2003. iv + 216 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-85115-944-3.
Catherine Hanley, War and Combat, 1150-1270: The Evidence from Old French Literature. Cambridge, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2003. iii + 261 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-85991-781-9.
Review by Malcolm Barber, University of Reading.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 12
Bernard Pujo, Vincent de Paul, the Trailblazer. Translated by Gertrud Graubert Champe. Note Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. xi + 327 pp. Images, chronology, notes, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-04361-2.
Review by Susan E. Dinan, Long Island University--CW Post.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 11
Adriaan Verhulst, The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe. 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
Christopher Endy, Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France. 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
Guy Rowlands, The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701. 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
Christopher John Murray, Ed., Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought. 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
Patrick Fridenson and Bénédicte Reynaud, Eds., La France et le temps de travail (1814-2004). 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
Charles J. Esdaile, Fighting Napoleon: Guerrillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain, 1808-1814. 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
Hubert Bonin, Un Outre-Mer Bancaire Méditerranéen : Histoire du Crédit Foncier d’Algérie et de Tunisie (1880-1997). 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
Daniel H. Weiss and Lisa Mahoney, Eds., France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades. 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
Philippe Poirrier, Ed., L’Invention du Patrimoine en Bourgogne. 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
H-France Review Vol. 4 (2004)
Patrick H. Hutton, Philippe Ariès and the Politics of French Cultural History. 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
Robert Zaretsky, Cock and Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue. 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
John Tully, France on the Mekong: A History of the Protectorate in Cambodia, 1863-1953. 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
Pierre Boisard, Camembert: A National Myth (California Studies in Food and Culture, 4) 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
Roger Price, People and Politics in France, 1848-1870. 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
Ronald Aronson, Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It. 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
Alison McQueen, The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt. Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France. 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
Annette Fierro, The Glass State. The Technology of the Spectacle. Paris, 1981-1998, 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
Regina M. Sweeney, Singing Our Way to Victory: French Cultural Politics and Music during the Great War. 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
Kimberley J. Healey, The Modernist Traveler: French Detours, 1900-1930. 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
Alan S. Kahan, Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage. 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
Laura Lunger Knoppers and Joan B. Landes, Eds., Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe. 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
Elisabeth A. Fraser, Delacroix, Art and Patrimony in Post-Revolutionary France. 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
Peter Baehr and Melvin Richter, Eds. Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism. 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
L. Leigh Westerfield, “This Anguish, Like a Kind of Song”: Resistance in Women’s Literature of World War II. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004. 236pp. $72.00 U.S./ €55.00 (pb). ISBN 90-420-1148-3.
Review by Joan Tumblety, University of Southampton.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 109
Steven Kale, French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848. 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
James Lowth Goldsmith, Lordship in France 500-1500. 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
Conor McCarthy, Ed., Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages. A Sourcebook. 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
W. A. Sibly and M. D. Sibly, Eds., The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens. The Albigensian Crusade and its Aftermath. 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
Thelma Fenser and Daniel Lord Smail, Eds., Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe. 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
Bruce Venarde, Ed. and trans., Robert of Arbrissel: A Medieval Religious Life. 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
Steven Harris, Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and the Psyche. 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
Paul-André Rosental, L’Intelligence démographique: Sciences et politiques des population en France (1930-1960). 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
Michael C. E. Jones, Between France and England: Politics, Power and Society in Late Medieval Brittany (Variorum Collected Studies Series). 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
Robert J. Young, Marketing Marianne: French Propaganda in America, 1900-1940. 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
Joan B. Wolf, Harnessing the Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in France. 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
W. J. Eccles, Frontenac: The Courtier Governor. 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
Jane Donawerth and Julie Strongson, Eds. and trans., Madeleine de Scudéry: Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. 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
Sudhir Hazareesingh, The Saint-Napoleon: Celebrations of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century France. 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
Stanis Perez, Ed. Journal de santé de Louis XIV. Écrit par Vallot, Daquin et Fagon. 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
Donna Kuizenga, Ed. and Trans., Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins), Memoirs of the Life of Henriette-Sylvie de Molière: A Novel. 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
Jeremy Black, France and the Grand Tour. 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
Yves Bénot and Marcel Dorigny, Eds., Rétablissement de l’esclavage dans les colonies françaises. Aux origines de Haïti. 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
Michael Sonenscher, Ed., Sieyès: Political Writings, Including the Debate between Sieyès and Tom Paine in 1791. 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
Mary Ann Lyons, Franco-Irish Relations, 1500-1610: Politics, Migration and Trade. 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 at Fullerton.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 89
Mark Potter, Corps and Clienteles: Public Finance and Political Change in France, 1688-1715. 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
Natalie Petiteau, Lendemains d’Empire. Les soldats de Napoléon dans la France du XIXe siècle. 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
Herve Le Guyader, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: A Visionary Naturalist. 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
P. M. Jones, The French Revolution 1787-1804. 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
Martin S. Alexander and J. F. V. Keiger, Eds., France and the Algerian War, 1954-62: Strategy, Operations and Diplomacy. 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
Julian Wright, The Regionalist Movement in France 1890-1914: Jean Charles-Brun and French Political Thought. 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
Adele King, Ed., From Africa: New Francophone Stories. 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
Christopher E. Forth, The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood. 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
Ilana Y. Zinguer and Sam W. Bloom, Eds., 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. 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 at San Marcos.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 80
Michel de Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebond. 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
Frances Fowle and Richard Thomason, Eds., Soil and Stone: Impressionism, Urbanism, Environment. 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
Sophie Wahnich, La liberté ou la mort: essai sur la Terreur et le terrorisme. 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
Philip Gordon and Jeremy Shapiro, Allies at War: America, Europe, and the Crisis over Iraq. 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
K.H. Adler, Jews and Gender in Liberation France. 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
Peter Sahlins, Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After. 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
Gabrielle de Coignard, Spiritual Sonnets. 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
Sean L. Field, The Writings of Agnes of Harcourt. The Life of Isabelle of France and the Letter on Louis IX and Longchamp. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. x + 106 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-04403-1; $19.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-268-04404-X.
Review by Christopher K. Gardner, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 72
Robert Alexander, Re-Writing the French Revolutionary Tradition: Liberal Opposition and the Fall of the Bourbon Monarchy. 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
William E. Watson, Tricolor and Crescent: France and the Islamic World. 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
Rosemary Brindle, Trans. and Ed., Guns in the Desert: General Jean-Pierre Doguereau’s Journal of Napoleon’s Egyptian Expedition. 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
Debra Higgs Strickland, Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art. 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
Tammy M. Proctor, Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War. 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
David Harvey, Paris, Capital of Modernity. 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
Kenneth J. Banks, Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in 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
Mi Gyung Kim, Affinity, that Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution. 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
David Stasavage, Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688-1789. 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
Alya Aglan, Michel Margairaz, and Philippe Verheyde, Eds., La Caisse des dépôts et consignations, la Seconde Guerre mondiale et le XXe siècle. 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
Sylvia Kahan, Music’s Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac. 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
Geoff Hare, Football in France: A Cultural History. 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
Martin S. Staum, Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815-1848. 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 at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 59
Hugh Dauncy and Steve Cannon, Eds., Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno: Culture, Identity and Society. 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
Renee Winegarten, Accursed Politics: Some French Women Writers and Political Life, 1715-1850. 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
Diana R. Hallman, Opera, Liberalism and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France: The Politics of Halévy’s La Juive. 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
Daniel Lord Smail, The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423. 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
Nobuhito Nagaï, Les conseillers municipaux de Paris sous la IIIe République (1871-1914). 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 at Eau Claire.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 54
Colin B. Bailey, Philip Conisbee, and Thomas W. Gaehtgens, The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting. Ed. Colin B. Bailey. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2003. ix + 412 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-09946-0.
Review by Paula Radisich, Whittier College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 53
Julian Swann, 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
Glenn J. Ames and Ronald S. Love, Eds., Distant Lands and Diverse Cultures: The French Experience in Asia, 1600-1700. 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
Patrice Higonnet, Paris: Capital of the World. 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
Emmanuel de Waresquiel, Talleyrand, le prince immobile. 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
Philip Mansel, Paris Between Empires: Monarchy and Revolution, 1814–1852. 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
Paul R. Hanson, The Jacobin Republic under Fire: The Federalist Revolt in the French Revolution. 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
Harold Mah, Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914. 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
Alexander Grab, Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe. 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.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 45
Colette Cosnier, 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
Erik Bleich, Race Politics in Britain and France: Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s. 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
Robert Bireley, The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors. 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
Leslie A. Schuster, A Workforce Divided: Community, Labor and the State in Saint-Nazaire’s Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1910. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. X + 233 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl) ISBN 0-313-31775-5.
Review by Steve Zdatny, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 41
Jeroen Duindam, Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe’s Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780. 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 at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 40
Robert Muchembled, A History of the Devil From the Middle Ages to the Present. 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
Madeleine de Scudéry, The Story of Sapho. 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
Maud Mandel, In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth-Century France. 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
Christopher Clark and Wolfram Kaiser, Eds., Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe, 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.
Hugh McLeod and Werner Ustorf, Eds., The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750-2000, 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
Chris Marker and Yannick Bellon, Remembrance of Things to Come (Le Souvenir d’un avenir). 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
Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Legislating the French Family: Feminism, Theater and Republican Politics, 1870-1920. 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
David M. Hopkin, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture 1766-1870. Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series, Volume 28. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2003. xii + 394 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-086193-2587.
Review by Robert M. Schwartz, Mount Holyoke College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 33
Patrick Weil, Qu’est-ce qu’un français? Histoire de la Nationalité française depuis la Révolution. 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
François Lagarde, Ed., The French in Texas: History, Migration, Culture. 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
Charles Esdaile, The Peninsular War: A New History. 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
Jeremy J. Whiteman, Reform, Revolution and French Global Policy, 1787-1791. 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
Stéphane Gerson, The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France. 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 at Milwaukee.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 28
Downing A. Thomas, Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785. 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
Reynald Secher, A French Genocide: The Vendée. 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
R. Howard Bloch, The Anonymous Marie de France. 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
Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Pillages sur ordonnances: Aryanisation et restitution des banques en France 1940-1953. 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
David Potter, Ed., France in the Later Middle Ages 1200-1500. 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
Adam Sutcliffe, Judaism and Enlightenment. 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
Jean-Claude Farcy et Alain Faure, La mobilité d’une génération de Français. Recherche sur les migrations et les déménagements vers et dans Paris à la fin du XIXe siècle. 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
David Skuy, Assassination, Politics, and Miracles: France and the Royalist Reaction of 1820. 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
Ruth Mazo Karras, From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe. 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
Holly Tucker, Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France. 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
David McCallam, Chamfort and the French Revolution. A Study in Form and Ideology. Oxford: Voltaire 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
Jeremy D. Popkin, Press, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835. 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
Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall, Eds., The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France. 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
Geoffrey Wawro, The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871. 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
Colin Jones, The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715-99. 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
Sarah Maza, The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850. 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
Jacqueline Pascal, A Rule for Children and Other Writings. 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 at Moorhead.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 11
Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, L’espace des francs-maçons: Une sociabilité européene au XVIIIe siècle. 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
Orest Ranum, Paris in the Age of Absolutism. An Essay. 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
Robert T. Gannett Jr., Tocqueville Unveiled. The Historian and His Sources for The Old Regime and the Revolution. 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
Richard Wrigley, The Politics of Appearances: Representations of Dress in Revolutionary France. 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
Raymond Birn, Forging Rousseau: Print, Commerce, and Cultural Manipulation in the Late Enlightenment. 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
Michael Rowe, From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830. 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
Georges Didi-Huberman, Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière. 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
Timothy Tackett, When the King Took Flight. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. xi + 270pp. Maps, illustrations, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01054-X.
Review by Hugh Gough, University College Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 3
Jean-Claude Farcy, Les rapports des procureurs généraux de la Cour d'appel de Dijon (décembre 1849-juillet 1870). 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
Kolleen M. Guy, When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity. Baltimore, Md. and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi + 245 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-7164-6.
Review by Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 1
H-France Review Vol. 3 (2003)
Philippe Boutry and André Encrevé, Eds., La religion dans la ville. 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
Michael James Miller, The Representation of Place: Urban Planning and Protest in France and Great Britain, 1950-1980. 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. 146
Jeffrey H. Jackson, Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris. 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
Peter Jones, Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France: Six Villages Compared, 1760-1820. 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
Bonnie Effros, Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul. 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
Michael P. Fitzsimmons, The Night the Old Regime Ended: August 4, 1789 and the French Revolution. 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
Gérard Noiriel, Penser avec, penser contre: Itinéraire d’un historien. 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
Gérard Sivéry, Philippe III le Hardi. 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
Florian Mazel, La noblesse et l’Eglise en Provence, fin Xe-début XIVe siècle: L'exemple des familles d'Agoult-Simiane, de Baux et de Marseille. 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. 3 (December 2003), No. 138
Peggy McCracken, The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature. 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
Isabelle Martin, Le Théâtre de la Foire: Des tréteaux aux boulevards. Oxford: Voltaire 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
Robert B. Bruce, A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War. 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
Bailey Stone, Reinterpreting the French Revolution: A Global-historical Perspective. 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
Clive Emsley, Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe. 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
Alexander Irwin, Saints of the Impossible: Bataille, Weil, and the Politics of the Sacred. 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
Marc Renneville, Crime et folie: Deux siècles d’enquêtes médicales et judiciaires. 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
Mark Everist, Music Drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824-1828. 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.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 129
Gary Tinterow and Geneviève Lacambre, Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting. 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
Nathan Uglow, The Historian’s Two Bodies: The Reception of Historical Texts in France, 1701-1790. 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
Philip G. Dwyer, Ed., Napoleon and Europe. 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
D.M.G. Sutherland, The French Revolution and Empire: The Quest for a Civic Order. 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 at 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
Walter C. Utt and Brian E. Strayer, The Bellicose Dove: Claude Brousson and Protestant Resistance to Louis XIV, 1647-1698. 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
Ronald Schechter, Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815. 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. 122
Patrice Pinell, The Fight Against Cancer: France 1890-1940. Trans. David Madell. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. xvii + 243 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $100.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-415-27923-2.
Review by Harry W. Paul, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 121
Tony Chafer, The End of Empire in French West Africa: France’s Successful Decolonization? 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
Leonard V. Smith, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, and Annette Becker, France and the Great War 1914-1918. New Approaches to European History. 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 at Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 119
Kathryn A. Edwards, Families and Frontiers: Re-creating Communities and Boundaries in the Early Modern Burgundies. 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
Robert Morrissey. Charlemagne and France: A Thousand Years of Mythology. 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
Anne Walters Robertson, Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works. 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
Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, L’Europe des francs-maçons, XVIIIe-XXIe siècles. 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
Michel Pertué, Ed., Suffrage, citoyenneté et révolutions 1789-1848. 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
Joan DeJean, Ed. and Trans., Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier. Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle. University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxix + 86 pp. Bibliography and index. $14.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-53492-8.
Marcelle Maistre Welch, Intro and Ed.; Vivien Bosley, Trans., François Poullain de la Barre. Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises. 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
Alan Forrest, Napoleon’s Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire. 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
Philip Whalen, Gaston Roupnel, âme paysanne et sciences humaines. 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
John J. Conley, The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France. 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
Jennifer Michael Hecht, The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France, 1876-1936. 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
Emma Dillon, Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel. New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism. 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
Pierre Klossowski and Maurice Blanchot, Decadence of the Nude/La décadence du nu. 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
Anne Verjus, Le cens de la famille: Les femmes et le vote, 1789-1848. 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
Rafe Blaufarb, The French Army, 1750-1820: Careers, Talent, Merit. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002. xii + 227 pp. Tables, illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. £45.00 (cl). ISBN 0-7190-6262-4.
Review by Annie Crépin, Université d’Artois.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 103
Elizabeth Ezra. The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France. 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
Pamela Cheek, Sexual Antipodes: Enlightenment Globalization and the Placing of Sex. 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
D.L.L. Parry and Pierre Girard, France Since 1800. 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
Timothy B. Smith, Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940. 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
Kenneth Mouré, The Gold Standard Illusion. France, the Bank of France and the International Gold Standard, 1914-1939. 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
Dena Goodman, Ed., Marie-Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen. Ed. Dena Goodman. 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 at Milwaukee.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 97
Reynolds M. Salerno, Vital Crossroads; Mediterranean Origins of the Second World War, 1935-1940. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. xi + 285pp. Bibliography and index. $36.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-8014-3772-5.
Review by Andrew Barros, Université du Québec à Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 96
Sarah A. Curtis, Educating the Faithful: Religion, Schooling, and Society in Nineteenth-Century France. 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
Roger Benjamin, Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930. 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
Philippe Bourdin, Jean-Claude Caron, and Mathias Bernard, Eds., L'Incident électoral de la Révolution française à la Ve République. 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
Bonnie Effros, Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages. 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
Constance Brittain Bouchard, Every Valley Shall Be Exalted : The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought. 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
John C. O'Neal, Changing Minds: The Shifting Perception of Culture in Eighteenth-Century France. 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 at Las Vegas.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 90
Dominique Barjot and Christophe Réveillard, Eds., L'américanisation de l'Europe occidentale au XXe siècle: Mythe et Réalité. 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
Sudhir Hazareesingh, Ed., The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France: Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright. 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
Peter Watkins, Director, La Commune (Paris 1871). 1999/France/Black and white. Studio: 13 Production, La Sept ARTE, Musée d’Orsay. Running Time: 5 hours 45 minutes. Distributor: First Run/Icarus Films.
Review by Victoria E. Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 87
Alessandro Brogi, A Question of Self-Esteem. The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy, 1944-1958. 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
Jill Harsin, Barricades: The War of the Street in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848. 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
Georges Minois, Les origines du mal: une histoire du péché original. 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
Robert W. Berger, Ed., In Old Paris. An Anthology of Source Descriptions, 1323-1790. 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
Sophie de Laverny, Les Domestiques commensaux du roi de France au XVIIe siècle. 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
Jody Enders, Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends. 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
Valérie Tesnière, Le Quadrige: Un Siècle d’édition universitaire, 1860-1968. 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
Evelyne Diebolt, Les Femmes dans l'action sanitaire, sociale et culturelle, 1901-2001: Les Associations face aux institutions. 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
F. Ellen Weaver, Mademoiselle de Joncoux: polémique janéseniste à la veille de la bulle Unigenitus. 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
Luc Racaut, Hatred in Print: Catholic Propaganda and Protestant Identity during the French Wars of Religion. 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
Caroline Weber, Terror and its Discontents: Suspect Words in Revolutionary France. 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
Pierre Beaurepaire, Nobles jeux de l'arc et loges maçonniques dans la France des Lumières: Enquête sur une sociabilité en mutation. 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
Michel Biard, Missionnaires de la République. 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, for H-France, June 2003.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 74
Christopher Kelly, Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth. 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, for H-France, June 2003.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 73
Thierry Waneggelen, Ed., De Michel de L'Hospital à l'Édit de Nantes. Politique et religion face aux Églises. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaire Blaise-Pascal, 2002. 612 pp. Notes. 37.00 €. ISBN 2-84516-159-X (pb).
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University at Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 72
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Negritude Women. 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 at Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 71
Paul Friedland, Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution. 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
Riikka Forsström, Possible Worlds: The Idea of Happiness in the Utopian Vision of Louis-Sébastien Mercier. 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
Jean-Luc Chappey, La Société des Observateurs de l'homme: Des anthropologues au temps de Bonaparte (1799-1804). 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
Jessica Riskin, Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment. 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
Daniel Moran and Arthur Waldron, Eds., The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution. 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
Elizabeth Rapley, A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime. 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
Margaret Werth, The Joy of Life. The Idyllic in French Art, circa 1900. 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
Pierre-Claude Reynard, Histoires de papier. La papeterie auvergnate et ses historiens. 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
Dominique Barjot, Ed., Catching up with America. Productivity Missions and the Diffusion of Amercian Economic and Technological Influence after the Second World War. Ed. Dominique Barjot. 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
Mary Louise Roberts, Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siècle France. 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
Georges Vigarello, Du jeu ancien au show sportif: La naissance d'un mythe. 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
Philippe Rygiel, Destins immigrés: Cher, 1920-1980, trajectoires d'immigrés d'Europe. 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
Stéphane Gacon, L'Amnistie: De la Commune à la guerre d'Algérie. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2002. 428 pp. Notes; bibliography; index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN
Review by John S. Hill, Immaculata University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 58
Jean-Noël Luc, Ed., Gendarmerie, état et société au XIXe siècle. 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
H.L. Wesseling, Certain Ideas of France: Essays on French History and Civilization. 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
Denis Peschanski, La France des camps: l’internement 1938-1946. 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
Edward L. Bimberg, Tricolor over the Sahara: The Desert Battles of the Free French, 1940-1942. 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
David Caron, AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures. 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
Philip Benedict, Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism. 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
David Berry, A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917-1945. 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
R. S. Alexander, Napoleon. (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
Louis Bergès, Résister à la conscription, 1798-1814. Le cas des départements aquitains. 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
Ivan Strenski, Contesting Sacrifice. Religion, Nationalism, and Social Thought in France. 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
Toby Osborne, Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture and the Thirty Years' War. 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
François Azouvi, Descartes et la France: Histoire d'une passion nationale. Paris: Fayard, 2001. 366 pp. Notes and index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-213-61045-2.
Tad M. Schmaltz, Radical Cartesianism: The French Reception of Descartes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiv + 288 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-81134-1.
Stéphane Van Damme, Descartes: Essai d'histoire culturelle d'une grandeur philosophique. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2002. 352 pp. Notes, chronology, bibliography, and index. 16.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-7246-0825-9.
Richard A. Watson, Cogito, Ergo, Sum: The Life of René Descartes. 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
Michael Broers, The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy. The War against God, 1801-1814. 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
Laurence H. Winnie, Family Dynasty, Revolutionary Society: The Cochins of Paris, 1750-1922. 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
Pamela A. Genova, Symbolist Journals: A Culture of Correspondence. 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
Susan L. Einbinder, Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France. 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, Queen Mary College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 42
Susan Broomhall, Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2002. viii + 282 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-0671-6.
Review by Katharine J. Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 41
E. Jane Burns, Courtly Love Undressed: Reading through Clothes in Medieval French Culture. 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
J. H. M. Salmon, Ideas and Contexts in France and England from the Renaissance to the Romantics. 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
Martin S. Alexander, Martin Evans, and J.F.V. Keiger, Eds., The Algerian War and the French Army, 1954-1962: Experiences, Images, Testimonies. 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
Antoine Prost, Republican Identities in War and Peace: Representations of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 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
Colin Jones, Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress. 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
Brett A. Berliner, Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in JazzAge France. 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
Gregory S. Brown, A Field of Honor: Writers, Court Culture, and Public Theater in French Literary Life from Racine to the Revolution. www.gutenberg-e.org and Columbia University Press, 2002. 387 pp. Links, images, notes, and bibliography. $49.95 U.S. (e-text). ISBN 0-231-12460-0.
Review by Emmet Kennedy, George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 33
Gregory Brown's commentary on electronic publishing
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 34
Richard Hillman and Colette Quesnel, Eds., Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works, 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
Emmanuelle Sibeud, Une science impériale pour l’Afrique? La construction des savoirs africanistes en France, 1878-1930. 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
Philip Conner, Huguenot Heartland: Montauban and Southern French Calvinism during the Wars of Religion (St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History). 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
Lenard R. Berlanstein, Daughters of Eve: A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin-de-Siècle. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. xiv + 300 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-00596-1.
Anne Martin-Fugier, Comédienne: De Mlle Mars à Sarah Bernhardt. 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
Peter Davies, The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present: From de Maistre to Le Pen. 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
David Buisseret, Ingénieurs et fortifications avant Vauban. L’organisation d’un service royal aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles. 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
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby. Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France. 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
Reynald Abad, Le Grand Marché: L’approvisionnement alimentaire de Paris sous l’Ancien Régime. Paris: Fayard, 2002. 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
Dominique Veillon, Fashion under the Occupation. 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
Kate Langdon Forhan, The Political Theory of Christine de Pizan. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. 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
Nicole Lemaitre, Ed., Histoire des curés. 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
Marc Fumaroli, The Poet and the King: Jean de La Fontaine and His Century. 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
Mark Hulliung, Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. xiv + 250 pp. Notes and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-00927-4.
Frederic Cople Jaher, The Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France. 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
Annette Bourrut-Lacouture, Jules Breton, Painter of Peasant Life. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, in association with the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 2002. ??? 264 pp. I illustrations (43 b/w + 158 colors). $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-300-09575-9.
Review by Nadine Vivier, Université du Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 19
Carol Armstrong, Manet Manette. 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
Sharon Kettering, Patronage in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France. 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
Suzannah Biernoff, Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages. 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
Roberta J. Magnusson, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiv + 238 pp. Diagrams, figures, notes, and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 080186626X.
Review by William H. TeBrake, University of Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 15
Laura Lee Downs, Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960. 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
Jacques-Olivier Boudon, Napoléon et les cultes: Les religions en Europe à l’aube du XIXe siècle, 1800-1815. 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
Jonathan K. Gosnell, The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria 1930-1954. 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
David Garrioch, The Making of Revolutionary Paris. 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
Rory Muir, Salamanca 1812. 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.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 10
Susan Crane, The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War. 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
Olivier Wieviorka, Les Orphelins de la République: Destinées des députés et sénateurs français (1940-1945). Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2001. 458 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. 24,39 € (pb). ISBN 2-02-034036-4.
Review by Vicki Caron, Cornell University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 8
David Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies. 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
William G. Naphy, Plagues, Poisons and Potions: Plague-Spreading Conspiracies in the Western Alps c. 1530-1640. 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
Kathleen Ashley and Robert L. A. Clark, Eds., Medieval Conduct. 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
Philip Benedict, The Faith and Fortunes of France’s Huguenots, 1600-8. 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
Walter Stephens, Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief. 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
Xavier Martin, Human Nature and the French Revolution: From the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code. 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
Leonore Loft, Passion, Politics, and Philosophie: Rediscovering J.-P. Brissot. 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
H-France Review Vol. 2 (2002)
Ami-Jacques Rapin, Jomini et la stratégie: Une approache historique de l'oeuvre. 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
Kenneth Mouré and Martin Alexander, Eds., Crisis and Renewal in France, 1918-1962. 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
Thérèse-Adèle Husson, Reflections. The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France. 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
Kristin Ross, May ’68 and its Afterlives. 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
Ronald S. Love, Blood and Religion: The Conscience of Henri IV, 1553-1593. 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
John M. Knapp, Behind the Diplomatic Curtain: Adolphe de Bourqueney and French Foreign Policy, 1816-1869. 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
James B. Collins, From Tribes to Nation: The Making of Modern France, 500-1789. 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
Philip F. Riley, A Lust for Virtue: Louis XIV’s Attack on Sin in Seventeenth-Century France. 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
Mirka Benes and Dianne Harris, Eds., Villas and Gardens in Early Modern France and Italy. 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
Sarah Blowen, Marion Demoisier and Jeanne Picard, Eds.,Recollections of France. Memories, Identities and Heritage in Contemporary France. 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
David Hanley, Party, Society and Government: Republican Democracy in France. 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
Charles d’Eon de Beaumont, The Maiden of Tonnerre: The Vicissitudes of the Chevalier and the Chevalière d’Eon. 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
Patrick J. Geary, The Myth of Nations, the Medieval Origins of Europe. 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
Julia V. Douthwaite, The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. xiii + 344 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cl); ISBN 0-226-16055-6. $19.00 U.S. (pb); ISBN 0-226-16056-4.
Review by Martin S. Staum, University of Calgary.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 123
Constance Hoffman Berman, The Cistercian Evolution: The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe. 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
Raymond A. Mentzer and Andrew Spicer, Eds., Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685. 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
William M. Reddy, The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions. 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
Paul V. Dutton, Origins of the French Welfare State: The Struggle for Social Reform in France, 1914-1947. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii + 251 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cloth). ISBN 0-521-81334-4
Review by Philippe-Jean Hesse, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 117
Rebecca L. Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture. 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
Anne Pérotin-Dumon, La ville aux îles, la ville dans l’île. Basse-Terre et Pointe-à- Pitre, Guadeloupe, 1650-1820. Paris: Éditions Karthala, 2000. 1044 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index, and illustrations. 56.53 Euros (pb). ISBN 2-86537-936-1.
Translation [in English] by John Garrigus, Jacksonville University and H-Caribbean review editor for the Francophone Caribbean of the Review [en français] by Bernard Gainot, Institut d'histoire de la Révolution Française.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 115
Tony Chafer and Amanda Sackur, Eds., Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France. 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
William Hitchcock, France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-54. 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
David Tunley, Salons, Singers and Songs: A Background to Romantic French Song, 1830-1870. 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
Elizabeth C. Goldsmith, Publishing Women’s Life Stories in France, 1647-1720: From Voice to Print. 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
Jean-Paul Bertaud, Le Duc d’Enghien. 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
Martin Heinzelmann, Gregory of Tours. History and Society in the Sixth Century. 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
Anthony Pagden, Ed., The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union. 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
Olivier Podevins, La France et la Tierce Allemagne à l’exemple de la Saxe entre 1814 et 1866. 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
Paul Miller, From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914. 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
Antoine de Baecque, Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths under the French Revolution. 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
Paul F. Jankowski, Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue. 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
Louise E. Robbins, Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris. 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
Vanessa Harding, The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 343 pp. Maps, appendices, bibliography, and index. COST??? (cl). ISBN 0-521-81126-0
Review by Moshe Sluhovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 102
Claire Andrieu, Gilles Le Béguec, and Danielle Tartakowsky, Eds., Associations et champ politique: La loi de 1901 à l épreuve de siècle. Paris: Publication de la Sorbonne, 2001. 723 pp. Notes, appendices, and bibliography. 35.00 Euros (pb). ISBN 2-85944-424-6.
Review by Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 101
Renée Poznanski, Jews in France during the Second World War. Trans. Nathan Bracher. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press in association with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2001. xxv + 601 pp. Photos, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-87451-896-2. $34.95 U.S. (pk). ISBN 1-58465-144-X.
Review by Paul Jankowski, Brandeis University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 100
Eli Sagan, Citizens & Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle for Modernity, and the Origins of Ideological Terror. 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
Martin Horn, Britain, France, and the Financing of the First World War. 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
Sharon Farmer, Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris. Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor. 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
Julius R. Ruff, Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 269 pp. Illustrations, tables, chapter bibliographies, on-line bibliographic essay, notes, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-59119-8; $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-59894-X.
Review by Michael P. Breen, Reed College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 96
Anne Pérotin-Dumon, La ville aux îles, la ville dans l’île. Basse-Terre et Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, 1650-1820. 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
Nick Childs, A Political Academy in Paris 1724-1731: The Entresol and Its Members. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Voltaire 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
Andrew Pettegree, Paul Nelles, and Philip Conner, Eds., The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book. 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
Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner, Eds., Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930. 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
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
Colin Jones and Dror Wahrman, Eds., The Age of Cultural Revolutions: Britain and France, 1750-1820. 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
William Doyle, Ed., Old Regime France, 1648-1788. 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
Peter McPhee, The French Revolution 1789-1799. 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
Nicola Cooper, France in Indochina: Colonial Encounters. 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
Sergio Bertelli, The King’s Body: Sacred Rituals of Power in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. 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
Alain Boureau, The Myth of Pope Joan. 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
John J. Hurt, Louis XIV and the Parlements: The Assertion of Royal Authority. 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
Philip Dine, French Rugby Football: A Cultural History. 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
Michael Kwass, Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France: Liberté, Égalité, Fiscalité. 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
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV. With the collaboration of Jean-François Fitou. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x + 432 pp. Photographs, tables, figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-47320-1. Originally published as Saint-Simon, ou le système de la Cour, Paris: Arthème Fayard, 1997.
Review by John J. Hurt, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 79
Anne Jollet, Terre et société en Révolution: Approche du lien social dans la région d’Amboise. 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
Hilary Ballon, Louis Le Vau: Mazarin’s College, Colbert’s Revenge. 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 C. Baxter, Ohio University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 77
Beverly Mayne Kienzle, Cistercians, Heresy and Crusade in Occitania, 1145-1229: Preaching in the Lord's Vineyard. 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
David W. Bates, Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France. 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
Carol Blum, Strength in Numbers: Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France. 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
Charlotte Goëtz, Marat en famille: La saga des Mara[t]. 2 vol. Brussels: Pôle Nord, 2001. 271 pp. and 325 pp. Illustrations, facsimile documents, notes, bibliography, and index. 45.00 € (both vols; pb). ISBN 2-30040-17-3 and 2-930040-18-1
Review by James Livesey, Trinity College Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 73
Walter Simons, Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565. 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
Mireille Rosello, Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest. 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
David Henry Slavin, Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919-1939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths. 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
Bertrand Taithe, Citizenship & Wars. France in Turmoil, 1870-1871. 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
Katherine Ludwig Jansen, The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages. 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
Jeffrey S. Ravel, The Contested Parterre: Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680-1791. 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
Marisa Linton, The Politics of Virtue in Eighteenth-Century France. 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
Gill Allwood and Kursheed Wadia, Women and Politics in France, 1958-2000. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. xiv + 270 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography and index. $31.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-18493-2.
Review by Laura Lee Downs, École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 65
Margaret Atack, May 68 in French Fiction and Film: Rethinking Society, Rethinking Representation. 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. 64
Carla Hesse, The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern. 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
Madeleine Dobie, Foreign Bodies: Gender, Language, and Culture in French Orientalism. 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
Roberto Romani, National Character and Public Spirit in Britain and France 1750-1914. 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
David Drake, Intellectuals and Politics in Post-War France. 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
Janet R. Horne, A Social Laboratory for Modern France. The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State. 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
Stephen L. Harp, Marketing Michelin, Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France. 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
Lisa Tiersten, Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siècle France. 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, for H-France, July 2002.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 57
Jens Ulff-Møller, Hollywood’s Film Wars with France: Film Trade Diplomacy and the Emergence of the French Film Quota Policy. 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
Gavin Daly, Inside Napoleonic France: State and Society in Rouen, 1800-1815. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. xii + 290 pp. Maps, tables, figures, bibliography, and index. $79.95 US (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
Stewart R. King, Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue. 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
Christopher M. Bellitto, Nicolas de Clamanges: Spirituality, Personal Reform and Pastoral Renewal on the Eve of the Reformations. 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
J. F. V. Keiger, France and the World Since 1870. (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
Francine Muel-Dreyfus, Vichy and the Eternal Feminine: A Contribution to a Political Sociology of Gender. 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
Robert J. Smith, The Bouchayers of Grenoble and French Industrial Enterprise, 1850-1970. 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
David Parrott, Richelieu's Army. War, government and society in France, 1624-1642. 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
Jacqueline Letzter and Robert Adelson, Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2001. xvii + 342 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, and index. $48.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-520-22653-4.
Review by William Weber, California State University, Long Beach.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 48
Philippe Darriulat, Les Patriotes: La Gauche républicaine et la nation, 1830-1870. Paris: Seuil, 2001. 326 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. 23.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-02-022596-4.
Review by by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 47
Susan Weiner, Enfants Terribles: Youth and Femininity in the Mass Media in France, 1945-1968. 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
Elizabeth Thompson, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon. 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
Julie Ann Smith, Ordering Women's Lives. Penitentials and Nunnery Rules in the Early Medieval West. 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
Sarah Kay, Courtly Contradictions: The Emergence of the Literary Object in the Twelfth Century. 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
Françoise Meltzer. For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity. 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
Gabriel P. Weisberg, Ed., Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture. 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
Henry Rousso. The Haunting Past: History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France. Preface by Philippe Petit. Translated by Ralph Schoolcraft. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. vii + 96 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. ISBN 0-8122-3645-9.
Review by Robert Soucy, Oberlin College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 40
Edward G. DeClair, Politics on the Fringe: The People, Policies, and Organization of the French National Front. 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
Bruno Ciotti, Du volontaire au conscrit, les levées d'hommes dans le Puy-de- Dôme pendant la Révolution française. 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
Anthony Grafton, Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation. 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
Jo Burr Margadant, Ed., The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France. 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
Joan B. Landes, Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2001. 254 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3811-X.
Review by Barbara Day-Hickman, Temple University for H-France, April 2002.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (April 2002), No. 35
Roger Price, The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power. 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
James Livesey, Making Democracy in the French Revolution. 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, for H-France, April 2002.
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
Carol E. Harrison, The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation. 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
Irwin M. Wall, France, the United States, and the Algerian War. 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
James R. Lehning, To Be A Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic. 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
Richard Davis, Anglo-French Relations Before the Secod World War: Appeasement and Crisis. London: Palgrave, 2001. vii + 219pp. 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
Eric T. Jennings, Vichy in the Tropics: Pétain’s National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940-1944. 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 (March 2002), No. 27
Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750. 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
David A. Bell, The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800. 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
Françoise Piponnier and Perrine Mane, Dress in the Middle Ages. 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
David Wetzel, A duel of giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the origins of the Franco-Prussian War. 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
David Baguley, Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza. 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
Avner Ben-Amos, Funerals, Politics, and Memory in Modern France 1789-1996. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2000. 425pp. 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. 20
Christine Adams, A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France. 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
James Van Horn Melton, The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe. 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
Richard D.E. Burton, Blood in the City: Violence and Revelation in Paris, 1789-1945. 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
Pierre Jourda, Le Théâtre à Montpellier (1755-1851). 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
Charles Sowerwine, France Since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society. 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. 2 (February 2002), No. 15
Fredric L. Cheyette, Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours. 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
Neil McWilliam, Monumental Intolerance: Jean Baffier, A Nationalist Sculpture in Fin-De-Siècle France. 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
Darrin M. McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. 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
John Arnold, Inquisition and Power. Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc. 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
Nigel Aston, Religion and Revolution in France, 1780-1804. 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
Emma Rothschild, Economic Sentiments, Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. 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
Raymond Jonas, France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart: An Epic Tale for Modern Times. 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
Donna Bohanan, Crown and Nobility in Early Modern France. 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
Julian Jackson, France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xix+660pp. Notes, maps, abbreviation tables and index. $35.00 ISBN 0-19-820706-9.
Review by Robert Zaretsky, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 6
Annie Jourdan, L’empire de Napoléon. 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
Jon Cowans, To Speak for the People: Public Opinion and the Problem of Legitimacy in the French Revolution. 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
Philippe-Jean Hesse and Jean-Pierre Le Crom, Eds., La protection sociale sous le régime de Vichy. 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
Martyn Lyons, Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants. 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
H-France Review Vol. 1 (2001)
Leonard N. Rosenband, Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France. Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805. 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
Kevin D. Murphy, Memory and Modernity: Viollet-le-Duc at Vézelay. 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
Tamara Withed, Forests and Peasant Politics in Modern France. 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
Andrew Feenberg and Jim Freedman, When Poetry Ruled the Streets: The French May Events of 1968, Foreword by Douglas Kellner. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. xxiv + 192 pp. Pictures, map, notes, bibliography, and index. $57.50 U.S. (hc). ISBN 0-7914-4965-3. $18.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7914-4966-1.
Review by Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 44
A. Lynn Martin, Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. 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
Steven L. Kaplan, La fin des corporations, traduit de l’américain par Béatrice Vierne. 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. 1 (November 2001), No. 42
Peter N. Miller, Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century. 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
Martin Thomas, The French North African Crisis: Colonial Breakdown and Anglo-French Relations, 1945-1962. 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
Alice Bullard, Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900. 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 (Nov. 2001), No. 38
Response by the author
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 39
Constance Brittain Bouchard, "Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia. 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
Rae Beth Gordon, Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xix + 274 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.95 (pb), $49.50 (cl). ISNB 0-8047-3894-7.
Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 36
Laurence Fontaine, A History of Pedlars in Europe. Translated by Vicki Whittaker. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. 280pp. Appendix, notes, index. $54.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-1786-9. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-1794-X.
Review by Daniel Heimmermann, University of North Alabama.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 35
Vincent J. Pitts, La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France, 1627-1693. 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 (November 2001), No. 34
Lisa Silverman, Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France. 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
Sheryl Kroen, Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830. 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
Mark Gregory Pegg, The Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. x + 238pp. 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
James D. Le Sueur, Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria. 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
Victoria E. Thompson, The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830-1870. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. viii + 229 pp. Illustrations, notes bibliography, and index. $32.00 US (hb). ISBN 0-8018-6414-3.
Review by William M. Reddy, Duke University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (October 2001), No. 29
Barbara Ann Day-Hickman, Napoleonic Art, Nationalism, and the Spirit of Rebellion in France (1815-1848), 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
James C. Deming, Religion and Identity in Modern France: The Modernization of the Protestant Community in Languedoc, 1815-1848. 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
Jeanice Brooks, Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France. 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 David Buisseret, The University of Texas at Arlington/The Newberry Library, Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 26
Albert S. Lindemann. Esau’s Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. 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
Joel Kaye, Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought. 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
Harry Liebersohn, Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi + 179pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliographical references, index. $54.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-64090-3. $19.95 U.S. (pb). 0-521-64090-3.
Review by David Higgs, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 23
Clare Haru Crowston, Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791. 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, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 22
Dominique Kalifa, Naissance de la police privée: Détectives et agences de recherches en France, 1832-1942. 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
Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution. 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
Anthony Crubaugh, Balancing the Scales of Justice. Local Courts and Rural Society in Southwest France, 1750-1800. 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
Maire F. Cross and David Williams, Eds., The French Experience from Republic to Monarchy, 1792-1824: New Dawns in Politics, Knowledge and Culture. 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
Esther Benbassa, The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present. 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.
Michael Burns, France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 1999. xiv + 210 pp. Appendix, footnotes, bibliography and index. $39.95 (cl). ISBN 0-312-21813-3.
Vicki Caron, Uneasy Asylum: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-1942. 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
William Chester Jordan, Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France. Kingship, Crusades and Jews. 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
Régine Pernoud and Marie-Véronique Clin. Joan of Arc: Her Story. 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
Jonathan Beecher. Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism. 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.
Review by Edgar Leon Newman, New Mexico State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (June 2001), No. 14
Paul Metzner, 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, . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii + 385 pp. Notes, index. $50.00 (cl.) ISBN 0-520-20684-3.
David M. Gordon, Liberalism and Social Reform: Industrial Grown and Progressiste Politics in France, 1880-1914. 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.
Asti Hustvedt, Ed., The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France. 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
James Smith Allen, Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiii + 270 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $42.50 US. ISBN 0-8018-6204-3.
Whitney Walton, Eve’s Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France. 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
Anthony Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings. 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
William R. Keylor, Ed., The Legacy of the Great War: Peacemaking, 1919. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. vii + 259 pp. Chronology of Events, Principal Proper Names, Maps, and Bibliography. ISBN 0-669-41711-4.
Review by Joel Blatt, University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 10
Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, and Elisabeth Glaser, Eds., The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 Years. 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
Peter Fysh and Jim Wolfreys. The Politics of Racism in France. 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
James Swenson, On Jean-Jacques Rousseau Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution 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
Marjorie A. Beale, The Modernist Enterprise: French Elites and the Threat of Modernity, 1900-1940. Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 1999. ix + 231 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50 (cl). ISBN 0-8047-3511-5.
Robin Walz, Pulp Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Paris. 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/Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (March 2001), No. 6
Mosco Boucault, Director,Des Terroristes à la retraite. 1983/France/Color. Studio: Zek Productions. Running Time: 84 min.
Review by Patrick Young.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (March 2001), No. 5
Peter McPhee, Revolution and Environment in Southern France: Peasants, Lords, and Murder in the Corbières 1780-1830. 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
Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2000. xvi + 308pp. Notes and index. $25.00 (cl). ISBN 0-226-42414-6.
Megan Koreman, The Expectation of Justice: France 1944-1946. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. xviii + 340pp. Notes, maps, index and bibliography. ISBN 0-8223-2373-7.
Review by Robert Zaretsky, Honors College, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Feb. 2001), No. 3
Robert Aldrich and Martyn Lyons, Eds., The Sphinx in the Tuileries and Other Essays in Modern French History: Papers Presented at the Eleventh George Rudé Seminar. University of Sydney, 1999. vi + 399, notes. ISBN 1-86487-026-5.
Review by Kenneth Margerison, Southwest Texas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (February 2001), No. 2
Karl Gunnar Persson, Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900: Integration and Deregulation. 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 Lowell.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (February 2001), No. 1
Daniel Hickey, Local Hospitals in Ancien Régime France: Rationalization,
Resistance, Renewal, 1530-1789. Montréal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's
University Press, 1997. xxv & 275 pp. Maps, tables, figures,
notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (Cdn). ISBN: 0-7735-1540-2.
Review by James Collins, Georgetown University, for H-France, May 2000.
Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in
France and West Africa, 1895-1930. Stanford: California. Stanford
University Press, 1998. x + 367 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and
index. $55.00 US. ISBN: 0-8047-2999-9.
Review by David R. Watson, London, England, for H-France, May 2000.
Derek Croxton, Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe: Cardinal Mazarin and the Congress of Westphalia, 1643-1648. Selinsgrove [N.J.]: Susquehanna University Press , 1999. 397 pp. $52.50 US (cl). Notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 1-57591-017-9.
Review by Michael J. Levin, University of Akron, for H-France, June 2000.
Catherine Brown, Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of
Didacticism. 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, for H-France, May 2000.
Malcolm Bowie, Proust among the Stars. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1999. xix + 348 pp. Notes and index. $28.50 US (cl). ISBN
0-231-11490-7.
Review by David L. Schalk, Vassar College, for H-France, April 2000.
Wayne Te Brake, Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics,
1500-1700. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1998. Illustrations, references, and index. xiii +221 pp. $15.95 US
(pb). ISBN 0-520-21318-1
Review by Albert Jordan, Concordia University, Montreal, for H-France, March 2000.
Sarah Farmer, Martyred Village: Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at
Oradour-sur-Glane. Berkeley: University of California Press. xvii +
300 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 US
(cl). ISBN 0-520-21186-3.
Review by Jay Winter, Pembroke College, Cambridge, for H-France, March 2000.
Vernon A. Rosario, The Erotic Imagination: French Histories of
Perversity. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. x + 243
pp. $35.00 (cl). Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN:
0195104838.
Review by Christopher E. Forth, Australian National University, for
H-France, March 2000.
Paul M. Cohen, Freedom's Moment: An Essay on the French Idea of
Liberty from Rousseau to Foucault. Chicago and London: University
of Chicago Press, 1997. x + 229 pp. Notes, works cited, and
index. $39.95 (cl). ISBN 0-226-11285-3.
Review by James A. Winders, Appalachian State University, for H-
France, July 1998.
Cohen's response to Winder's review
Alvin Finkel and Clement Leibovitz, The Chamberlain-Hitler
Collusion. Rendlesham, UK & Halifax, N.S.: Merlin Press/James
Lorimer & Company, 1997. 326 pp. Notes, appendix, & index. $
19.95 (Cdn). ISBN 1-55028-578-5.
Review by William D. Irvine, York University, for H-France,
September 1998.
Reply by Alvin Finkel to Irvine's review
Irvine's response to Finkel's reply
David Gates, The Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815. New York: Arnold,
1997. xiii + 304 pp. Maps, notes, bibliographical essay, and
index. $19.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-340-61447-1.
Review by Owen Connelly, University of South Carolina, for H-
France, February 1999.
Nina Rattner Gelbart, The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madame
Du Coudray. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xi + 347 pp.
Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, & index. $35.00 US (cl). ISBN
0-520-21036-0.
Review by Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University, for H-France, September 1999.
James B. Given, Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power,
Discipline, and Resistance in Languedoc. New York and London:
Cornell University Press, 1997. xiii + 255 pp. Tables, plates,
bibliography, and index. $37.50 US (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3358-4.
Review by Kathryn A. Edwards, University of Southern Mississippi,
for H-France, December 1998.
Dominique Godineau, The Women of Paris and Their French
Revolution. Trans. Katherine Streip. Berkeley, Los Angeles,
London: University of California Press, 1998. xxii + 415 pp.
Tables, notes, index. $24.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-520-06-7193.
Review by Laura Mason, University of Georgia, for H-France,
November 1998.
Norman Hampson, The Perfidy of Albion: French Perceptions of
England during the French Revolution. London: Macmillan & New
York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xiii + 181 pp. Notes,
bibliography, and index. $59.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-333-73148-4.
Review by Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock,
for H-France, March 1999.
H. R. Kedward and Nancy Wood (eds.), The Liberation of France:
Image and Event. Oxford & Washington, D. C.: Berg Publishers,
1995. xvi + 369 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $22.95 US
(pb). ISBN 1 85973 087 6.
Review by Esther Delisle, Montreal, Quebec, for H-France, December
1998.
Robert J. Knecht, Catherine de' Medici. London & New York:
Longman, 1998. xiv + 340 pp. Bibliography, appendices, maps,
genealogical tables, and index. $18.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-582-082412.
Review by Anja V. Hartmann, Institut fuer Europaeische Geschichte,
Mainz, Germany, for H-France, February 1999.
Douglas Peter Mackaman, Leisure Settings: Bourgeois Culture, Medicine, and
the Spa in Modern France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xi +
219 pp. Notes and index. ISBN 0-226-50075-6.
Review by Christopher E. Forth, Australian National University, for
H-France, October 1999.
Kenneth Margerison, Pamphlets and Public Opinion: The Campaign for a Union
of Orders in the Early French Revolution. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue
University Press, 1998. xiii + 258 pp. Notes, bibliography, index.
$36.95 US (cl). ISBN 1-55753-109-9.
Review by Barry Shapiro, Allegheny College, for H-France, June 1999.
Sara E. Melzer & Kathryn Norberg (eds.), From the Royal to the
Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and
Eighteenth-Century France. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1998. vii + 267 pp. Illustrations, index. $18.00 US (pb).
ISBN# 0-520-20806-4.
Review by Jay M. Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, for H-France, April 1999.
Paul Metzner. 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. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii + 385 pp. Notes, index. $50.00 (cl.), ISBN 0-520-20684-3.
David M. Gordon. Liberalism and Social Reform: Industrial Grown and Progressiste Politics in France, 1880-1914. 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.
Asti Hustvedt, ed. The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France. 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, for H-France May 2001.
Pierre Nora, Realms of Memory: the Construction of the French
Past, vol. III, The Symbols. English language edition edited
by Laurence D. Kritzman. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. New
York and Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 1998.
ix + 751 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $37.50 US (cl).
ISBN 0-231-10926-1.
Review by James A. Leith, Queen's University (Canada), for H-
France, April 1999.
David Potter (ed. & trans.), The French Wars of Religion: Selected
Documents. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. xxiv + 274 pp.
Tables, maps, notes, suggested further reading, and index. $45.00
US (cl). ISBN 312-17545-0.
Review by Henry Heller, University of Manitoba, for H-France,
February 1999.
Walter E. Rex, Diderot's Counterpoints: The Dynamics of Contrariety in his
Major Works. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1998. xvi + 318.
Illustrations, notes, and index. £355 UK; 550FF. ISBN 0 7294 0620 2.
Review by Richard Lebrun, University of Manitoba, for H-France, May 1999
Jacques Roger, The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French
Thought. Edited by Keith R. Benson. Translated by Robert
Ellrich. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. xliv + 760.
Notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 US (cl). ISBN
0-8047-2578-0.
Review by Richard Lebrun, University of Manitoba, for H-France,
November 1998.
Donna F. Ryan, The Holocaust & the Jews of Marseille. Urbana and
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. vii + 266 pp.
Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $17.95 US (pb).
ISBN 0-252-06530-1.
Review by Robert J. Soucy, Oberlin College, for H-France, January
1999.
Sylvia Schafer, Children in Moral Danger and the Problem of
Government in Third Republic France. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1997. 232 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index.
$49.50 US (cl). ISBN 0-691-01612-7.
Review by Gail Braybon, Independent historian, Brighton, England,
for H-France, April 1999.
Vanessa Schwartz, Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in
fin-de-siecle Paris. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1998. xiii + 230 pp. Illustrations, notes, indexes. $35.00 US
(cl). ISBN 0-520-20959-1.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast,
for H-France, April 1999.
Gilbert Shapiro and John Markoff, Revolutionary Demands: A Content
Analysis of the Cahiers de Doleances of 1789. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1998. xxvii + 684pp. Appendices, bibliography, and
index. $75 US (cl). ISBN 0804726698.
Review by Kenneth Margerison, Southwest Texas State University, for
H-France, May 1999.
James Swenson, On Jean-Jacques Rousseau Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution 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, for H-France, April 2001.
Martin S. Staum, Minerva's Message: Stabilizing the French
Revolution. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. xii + 342 pp.
Notes, bibliography, and index. $44.95 US (cl).
ISBN 0-7735-1442-2
Review by Richard Lebrun, University of Manitoba, for H-France,
December 1998.
Rosemary Wakeman, Modernizing the Provincial City: Toulouse, 1945-1975.
Cambridge Mass. & London: Harvard University Press, 1997. xii + 323 pp.
Illustrations, notes, and index. $45.00 US ( cl.). ISBN 0-674-58072-9.
Review by W. Scott Haine, Holy Names College, Oakland, California, for
H-France, November 1999.
Michel Winock. Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and Fascism in France.
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998. Translated by Jane
Marie Todd. 351 pp. Tables, appendices, endnotes, and index. $55.00 US
(cl). ISBN 0-8047-3286-8.
Review by Robert J. Soucy, Oberlin College, for H-France, December 1999.
Abby E. Zanger, Scenes From the Marriage of Louis XIV: Nuptial
Fictions and the Making of Absolutist Power. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1997. xv + 244 pp. Notes, bibliography and
index. $45.00 US (cloth). ISBN 0-8047-2977-8.
Review by Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
for H-France, November 1998.
Review Essay: Keeping up with the Brits:
New Work on French National Identity and Foreign Policy
during the Later Eighteenth Century.
Edmond Dziembowski, Un nouveau patriotisme français, 1750-1770: la France
face à la puissance anglaise à l’époque de la guerre de Sept Ans. Studies
on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, vol. 365. Oxford: Voltaire
Foundation, 1998. vii + 566 pp. Annexes, bibliography and index. £75
(cloth). ISBN 0-7294-0623-7.
John Hardman and Munro Price (eds.), Louis XVI and the comte de
Vergennes: Correspondence, 1774-1787. Studies on Voltaire and the
Eighteenth Century, vol. 364. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1998. xvii +
403 pp. Bibliography and index. £65 (cloth). ISBN 0-7294-0572-9.
Review Essay by Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock,
for H-France, April 2000.
Review Essay: The Nineteenth-Century French City
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Paris as Revolution: Writing the 19thCentury
City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xiv +
261pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $17.95 US (pb.). ISBN: 0-520-20887-0.
William B. Cohen, Urban Government and the Rise of the French City: Five
Municipalities in the Nineteenth Century. New York: St. Martin's Press,
1998. xiv + 338pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. $49.95 US
(cl.). ISBN: 0-312-17695-3.
Review essay by Scott Haine, Holy Names College, Oakland California, for
H-France, February 2000.
Review Essay:"Scholarly Myths and Colonial Realities"
Robert Aldrich, Greater France: a
History of French Overseas Expansion
. European Studies Series. New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1996. xvi + 369 pp. Maps, endnotes, bibliographical essay,
and index. $45.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-312-15999-4 (cl); ISBN 0-312-
16000-3 (pb).
Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Imperial Identities: Stereotyping,
Prejudice, and Race in Colonial Algeria. Society and Culture in
the Modern Middle East. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1995.
x + 323 pp. Endnotes, appendix with bibliographical sketches and
bibliographical note, and index. O/p (pb available in 1999). ISBN
1-85043-9009-5.
Review essay by Leland Conley Barrows, the UNESCO Office in
Bucharest, Romania (CEPES - the European Centre for Higher
Education), for H-France, March 1999.
Film Review
Des Terroristes à la retraite. 1983/France/Color. Director: Mosco Boucault. Studio: Zek Productions. Running Time: 84 min.
Review by Patrick Young for H-France, March 2001.
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