H-France Reviews: Volume 6 (2006)

January Reviews

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.
Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 1

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).
Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 2

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.
Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 3

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.
Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 4

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.
Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 5

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.
Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 6

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.
Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 7

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).
Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 8

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.
Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 9

February Reviews

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.
Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 10

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.
Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 11

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.
Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 12

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.
Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 13

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.
Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 14

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.
Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 15

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.
Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 16

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.
Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 17

March Reviews

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.
Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 18
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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.
Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 19

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.
Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 20

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.
Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 21

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.
Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 22

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.
Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 23

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.
Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 24
Response by Kate van Orden to the review of her book by Stuart Carroll.
Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 25

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.
Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 26

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.
Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 27

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).
Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 28

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.
Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 29
Response by Bonnie Effros to the review of her book by Felice Lifshitz.
Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 30

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.
Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 31

April Reviews

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 32

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 33

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 34

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 35

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 36

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 37

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 38

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 39

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 40

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 41

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 42

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 43

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 44

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 45
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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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 46

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 47

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.
Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 48

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

May Reviews

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.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 50

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.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 51

Response by Georgia Cosmos to the review of her book by W. Gregory Monahan.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 52

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.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 53

Réponse par Amaury Lorin au compte rendu de son ouvrage par Michael G. Vann.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 54

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.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 55

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.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 56

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.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 57

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.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 58

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.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 59

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.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 60

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.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 61

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.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 62

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.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 63

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.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 64

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.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 65

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.
Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 66

June Reviews

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.
Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 67

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.
Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 68

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.
Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 69

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.
Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 70

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.
Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 71

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.
Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 72

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.
Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 73

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.
Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 74

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.
Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 75

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.
Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 76

July Reviews

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.
Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 77

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.
Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 78

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.
Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 79

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.
Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 80

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.
Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 81

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.
Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 82

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.
Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 83

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.
Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 84

August Reviews

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.
Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 85

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.
Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 86

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.
Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 87

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.
Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 88

Response by Samuel Moyn to the review of his book by Nathan Bracher.
Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 89

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.
Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 90

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.
Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 91

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.
Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 92

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.
Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 93

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.
Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 94

Response by Caroline Ford to the review of her book by Carol E. Harrison.
Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 95

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.
Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 96

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.
Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 97

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.
Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 98

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.
Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 99

September Reviews

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 100

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 101

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 102

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 103

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 104

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 105

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 106

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 107

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 108

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 109
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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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 110

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 111

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 112

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 113

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 114

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 115

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 116
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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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 117

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 118

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.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 119

October Reviews

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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 120

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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 121
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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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 122
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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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 123

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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 124

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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 125

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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 126

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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 127

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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 128

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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 129

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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 130

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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 131

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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 132

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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 133

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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 134

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.
Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 135

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

November Reviews

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.
Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 137

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.
Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 138

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.
Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 139

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.
Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 140

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.
Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 141

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.
Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 142

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.
Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 143

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.
Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 144

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.
Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 145

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.
Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 146

December Reviews

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.
Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 147

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.
Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 148

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.
Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 149

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.
Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 150

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.
Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 151

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.
Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 152

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.
Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 153

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.
Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 154

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.
Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 155

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.
Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 156

Pascale Goetschel, Renouveau et décentralisation du théâtre 1945-1981. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004. 512 pp. €38 (pb). ISBN 2130537383.

Compte rendu par Loïc Vadelorge, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 157

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.
Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 158

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.
Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 159

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.
Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 160