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January Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

February Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 21

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

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

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

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

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

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

March Reviews

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 Philip Dwyer to the review of his book by William Olejniczak.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 29

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

May Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

June Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

July Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

August Reviews

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

September Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nathan Bracher, Through a Glass Darkly: History and Memory in François Mauriac’s “Bloc-Notes”. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2004. 240 pp. + xii, $65.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-813-21380-0.

review by Samuel Moyn, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 104

October Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pierre Bolle, Ed. 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

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

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

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

November Reviews

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

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.

Compte-rendu par 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

December Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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