H-France Reviews: Volume 8 (2008)

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January Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

February Reviews

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

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

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

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

Mary Dewhurst Lewis, The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918-1940 . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xv + 361pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00. ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-5582-5 (cl). $24.95. ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-5722-5 (pb).

Review by Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 26

Victor Acker, The French Educator Célestin Freinet (1896-1966): An Inquiry into How His Ideas Shaped Education . Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2007. xvi + 108 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-1923-0 / 978-0-7391-1923-5; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1924-9 / 978-0-7391-1924-2.

Review by David Clandfield, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 27

The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville , Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859). A Special Bicentennial Issue. Vol. XXVII, No. 2, 2006, 600 pp. ISSN 0730-479X.

Review by Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University, Bloomington.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 28

Anne-Monika Lauter, Sicherheit und Reparationen: Die französische Öffentlichkeit, der Rhein, und die Ruhr . Vol. 74, Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Neueren Landesgeschichte und zur Geschichte Nordrhein-Westfalens. Essen: Klartext, 2006. 431 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, index. € 39.50 ISBN 3-89861-495-6.

Review by Christopher Fischer, Indiana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 29

Jim House and Neil MacMaster, Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror, and Memory . Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 375pp. Bibliographical references and index. £60.00 UK (hb). ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924725-7.

Review by Sarah Howard, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 30

Gregory S. Brown, Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775-1793: Beaumarchais, the Société des Auteurs Dramatiques and the Comédie Française. Aldershot and Burlington, Vt: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. x + 186 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0386-5.

Review by Marisa Linton, Kingston University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 31

Joseph F. Byrnes, Catholic and French Forever: Religious and National Identity in Modern France . University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. xxiii + 278 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cl) ISBN 0-271-02704-5.

Review by James F. McMillan, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 32

Maurice Crosland, Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, c.1700-c.1870 . Aldershot, Hampshire, UK and Burlington Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. xvi + 270 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $109.95 (cl). ISBN-13:978-0-7546-5913-6.

Review by Judith P. Zinsser, University of Miami (Ohio).
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 33

John Shovlin, The Political Economy of Virtue, Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2006. Xi-265 pp. ill. $39.99 (cl) and $25.00 (pb). ISBN 0-801-4447-99 (cl) and ISBN 0-801-4741-83 (pb).

Review by Liana Vardi, University at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 34

Olivier Lanotte, La France au Rwanda (1990-1994). Entre abstention impossible et engagement ambivalent. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang S.A., 2007. 533 pp. Bibliography. $60.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 13: 978-90-5201-344-2.

Review by David Ambrosetti, CNRS / Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique, Université Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 35

Laurent Joly, Vichy dans la “Solution Finale”: Histoire du Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives, 1941-1944. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 2006. 1015 pp. Appendix, chronology, bibliography and index. 35.00 € (pb). ISBN 2 246 63841 0 37 1833-5 2006-IV.

Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 36

March Reviews

Isabelle Vanderschelden, Amélie: Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. x + 114 pp. Stills, notes, film credits, box office statistics, filmography, selected bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-252-03221-9. $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07470-7.

Review by Guy Austin, University of Sheffield, U.K.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 37

Maurice Samuels, Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 280 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendix, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4249-0; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-8965-2.

Review by Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 38

Susan Rubin Suleiman, Crises of Memory and the Second World War.Cambridge, MA. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 286 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-674-02206-8

Review by Sanford Gutman, State University of New York (SUNY) at Cortland.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 39

Jad Adams, Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 294 pp. $24.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-29-200-000-0.

Marie-Claude Delahaye, L’absinthe au feminine. Saint Remy-de-Provence: Equinoxe, 2007. 136 pp. €19 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84135559-4.

Review by Scott Haine, University of California Santa Cruz and Holy Names College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 40

Victor Segalen, Stèles..Translated, edited, and annotated by Timothy Billings and Christopher Bush. Foreword by Haun Saussy. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. Vol. 1, xxxiv + 415 pp. Introduction by Billings and Bush, facsimile of 1914 edition of Stèles, English translation of the stèles, brief summaries of each stèle, critical notes, and bibliography. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8195-6833-3. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8195-6832-5.

Vol. 2, viii + 246 pp. Chinese sources and contexts for Stèles; unpublished stèles; critical notes, Chinese sources and contexts for unpublished stèles; Segalen’s draft of “To the Scholars of the Extreme Occident”; dates of composition and revision of the stèles; and bibliography. Freely available on line at http://www.steles.org.

Review by Yvonne Y. Hsieh, University of Victoria, Canada.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 41

Todd Porterfield and Susan L. Siegfried, Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. viii+287pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, list of illustrations, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02858-0.

Review by David O’Brien, University of Illinois.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 42

Xavier Vigna, L’insubordination ouvrière dans les années 68: Essai d’histoire politique des usines. . Rennes: Presses universitaire de Rennes, 2007. 378pp. Chronology, index, sources and bibliography. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535-0446-2.

Review by Nick Parsons, Cardiff University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 43

Ronnie Ellenblum, Crusader Castles and Modern Histories. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 362 pp. Figures, maps, tables and index. £50 U.K. (cl.). ISBN 0-521-86083-0.

Review by Denys Pringle, Cardiff School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 44

Thomas Cragin, Murder in Parisian Streets: Manufacturing Crime and Justice in the Popular Press, 1830 – 1900. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2006. 273 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8387-5579-8.

Review by Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 45

Peter McPhee, Living the French Revolution, 1789-99. Basingstoke, England, and New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2006. x + 319 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $ 74.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-333-99739-5.

Review by Edward J. Woell, Western Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 46

Hervé Joly, ed.,  L’Économie de la zone non occupée 1940-1942.  Paris:  CTHS, 2007.  378 pp.  32.00 €  ISBN 9-782735-506279.

Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 47

Malcolm Walsby, The Counts of Laval: Culture, Patronage and Religion in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2007. xii + 220 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S./ ₤55 U.K. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-5811-5.

Review by Katharine J. Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 48

James R. Lehning, The Melodramatic Thread: Spectacle and Political Culture in Modern France. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. 180 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-820717-X.

Review by Sally Debra Charnow, Hofstra University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 49

Claire L. Carlin, ed., Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe. Houndmills, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $74.95 (hb). ISBN 1-4039-3926-8.

Review by William G. Naphy, University of Aberdeen.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 50

Larry Riggs, Molière and Modernity: Absent Mothers and Masculine Births. Charlottesville, Virginia: Rookwood Press, 2005. 234 pp. $45.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-188-63655-51.

Review by Julia Prest, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 51

Roland J. Teske, Studies in the Philosophy of William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris (1228-1249). Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2006. 274 pp. Table, introduction, notes, bibliography, and indexes. $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87462-674-9.

Review by Steven P. Marrone, Tufts University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 52

Xavier Fraudet, France’s Security Independence: Originality and Constraints in Europe 1981-1995. Bern, Peter Lang 2006. $54.95 U.S. (pb). U.S. ISBN 978-0-8204-8377-1.

Review by Jolyon Howorth, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 53

April Reviews

Anne Kraatz, Le commerce franco-russe. Concurrence et contrefaçons de Colbert à 1900.  Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 2006. 446pp. 25€.  ISBN 2-251-44316-9.

Review by Roger Price, Aberystwyth University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 54

Michael Breen, Law, City, and King: Legal Culture, Municipal Politics, and State Formation in Early Modern Dijon. Rochester, New York, and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 2007. xv + 307 pp. Maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $75 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 1580462367.

Review by Jonathan Dewald, University at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 55

Willy, The Third Sex.  Translated and introduction by Lawrence R. Schehr.  Urbana and Chicago:  University of Illinois Press, 2007.  xii + 138 pp. Notes, bibliography and index.  $35.00 U.S. (cl).  ISBN 978-0-252-03216-5

Review by Brett A. Berliner, Morgan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 56

Lisa Dicaprio, The Origins of the Welfare State: Women, Work, and the French Revolution.  Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007.  xiv +259 pp.  Notes and index.  $40.00. (cl).  ISBN: 13-978-0-252-032021-5.

Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 57

Boris Noguès, Une archéologie du corps enseignant: les professeurs des collèges parisiens au XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (1598-1793). Histoire de l’éducation. Paris: Bélin, 2006. 240 pp. Notes and index. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7011-4348-9.

Review by Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 58

Thierry Rigogne, Between State and Market:  Printing and Bookselling in Eighteenth-Century France.  Foreword by Robert Darnton.  Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2007 (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century). xiii + 313 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, bibliography, and index. $132.00 U.S. (pb); ISBN 978-0729409070.

Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 59

Simone de Beauvoir, Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27. Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir and Margaret Simons, with Marybeth Timmerman, eds. Translation, notes, and annotations
by Barbara Klaw. Champaign, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xi + 392 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-0-252-03142-7.

Review by Shannon M. Mussett, Utah Valley University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 60

Graham Robb, The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War.  New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2007. vii + 455 pp.  Maps, figures, notes bibliography, and index. $27.95 U.S. (hb).  ISBN:  0-393-05973-1.

Review by Steven Kale, Washington State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 61

Simon Gaunt, Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature:  Martyrs to Love. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.  xii + 235pp.  Bibliography and index.  ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927207-5; ISBN-10: 0-19-927207-7. 

Review by Andrea Tarnowski, Dartmouth College. 
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 62

May Reviews

Gareth Glover, ed.  From Corunna to Waterloo: The Letters and Journals of Two Napoleonic Hussars, 1801-1816.  London: Greenhill Books, 1999.  287  pp.  Notes, bibliography, and index.  $39.95 U.S. (cl).  ISBN 978-1-85367-709-0.

Review by Michael V. Leggiere, Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 63

Janet T. Marquardt, From Martyr to Monument: The Abbey of Cluny as Cultural Patrimony. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. xix + 286 pp. Maps, figures, notes bibliography, and index. ISBN 9-781847-182128 (cl).

Review by Matt Matsuda, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 64

Rafe Blaufarb, Bonapartists in the Borderlands. French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2005. xx + 302 p. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography and index.  $50.00. ISBN 13: 978-0-8173-1487-3 (cl).

Compte rendu par Nicole Fouché, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Centre d’études nord-américaines/École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 65

Moya Longstaffe, The Fiction of Albert Camus: A Complex Simplicity. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Vienna: Peter Lang, 2007. 300 pp. Footnotes, bibliography, and index. $68.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 3-03910-304-0.

Review by William E. Duvall, Willamette University
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 66

Alain Boureau, Satan the Heretic: the Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii + 255 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-06748-3.

Review by Christine Caldwell Ames, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 67

Carolyn Podruchny, Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xx + 414. Maps, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-8790-7.

Review by Michael A. McDonnell, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 68

Adrian Armstrong and Malcolm Quainton, eds. Book and Text in France, 1400-1600: Poetry on the Page. Aldershot, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. xiii + 223 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, and index. Notes. $99.95 U.S./£50.00 UK (cl.). ISBN 978-0-7546-5590.

Review by Corinne Noirot-Maguire, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 69

James O'Neill, Garrison Tales from Tonquin: An American’s Stories of the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam in the 1890s. Ed., and intro by Charles Royster. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. lix + 119pp. $30.00 U.S. ISBN 0-8071-3180-6.

Review by Edmund F. Wehrle, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 70

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