H-France Forum: Volume 18 (2023)

Volume 18, Issue 8
Issue Guest Editor, Edwin C. Hill, University of Southern California

Laura Steil, Boucan! Devenir quelqu’un dans le milieu afro. Toulouse : Presses universitaires du Midi, 2021. 358 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and filmography. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2810707546.

Review Essays by :
Didier Gondola, Johns Hopkins University
Katelyn E. Knox, University of Central Arkansas
Charles Tshimanga, University of Nevada, Reno

Response Essay by Laura Steil, University of Luxembourg

Volume 18, Issue 7
Issue Editor: Andreea Marculescu, University of Oklahoma

Megan Moore, The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2021. x+204 pp. Appendix, notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN9781501758393. $32.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781501758409.

Review Essays by:
Tracy Adams, University of Auckland
Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, University of Colorado Boulder
Joseph P. Derosier, Beloit College
Glenn D. Burger, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Response Essay by Megan Moore, University of Missouri

Volume 18, Issue 6
Issue Editor: Melissa Hyde, University of Florida

Stephanie O’Rourke, Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xi+205 pp. Notes, figures, bibliography, index. $99.00 U.S./£75.00 (cl). ISBN 9781316519028. $29.99 U.S./£22.99 (eb). ISBN 9781009004510.

Review Essays by:
Sarah Gould, Université Paris 1. Panthéon-Sorbonne
Muriel Adrien, Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
Kevin Chua, Texas Tech University
Nina Amstutz, University of Oregon

Response Essay by Stephanie O’Rourke, University of St. Andrews

Volume 18, Issue 5
Issue Editor: David Harrison, Grinnell College

Noémie Ndiaye, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.  358 pp.  Color plates, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781512822632.

Review Essays by:
Katherine Dauge-Roth, Bowdoin College, and Rose A. Pruiksma, University of New Hampshire
Hélène Merlin-Kajman, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Mame-Fatou Niang, Carnegie Mellon University
Marie-Anne Paveau, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Domna C. Stanton, Graduate Center, CUNY

Response Essay by Noémie Ndiaye, The University of Chicago

Volume 18, Issue 4
Issue Editor: Venita Datta, Wellesley College

Christina B. CarrollThe Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850-1900. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2022. xiii + 284 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (h.b.). ISBN 9781501763083; $32.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781501763137.

Review Essays by:
Edward Berenson, New York University 
Patricia M.E. Lorcin, Emerita, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Naomi J. Andrews, Santa Clara University
Joseph W. Peterson, University of Southern Mississippi

Response Essay by Christina Carroll, Kalamazoo College

Volume 18, Issue 3
Issue Editor: Tom Hamilton, Durham University

Caroline Callard, Le temps des fantômes. Spectralités de l’âge moderne (xvie–xviie siècle). Collection “L’épreuve de l’histoire.” Paris: Fayard, 2019. 366 pp. Tableaux, notes, et index. 23€ (pb). ISBN 9782213712789

Caroline Callard, Spectralities in the Renaissance: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Trans. Trista Selous. The Past and Present Book Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. pp. 248. Tables, notes, and index. £75.00 U.K.; $100.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780198849476

Review Essays by:
Elizabeth Tingle, De Montfort University 
Alice Roullière, St John’s College, Oxford 
Tyler Lange, University of Washington 
Sophie Houdard, Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3

Response Essay by Caroline Callard, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Centre d’études en sciences sociales du religieux (CéSor), UMR 8216

Volume 18, Issue 2
Issue Editor: Junko Takeda, Syracuse University

Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss, The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2022. xi + 244 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $60.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781606067307

Review Essays:
Katherine Calvin, Kenyon College
Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine
Julia Landweber, Montclair State University
Robert Wellington, Australian National University

Response essay by Meredith Martin, New York University, and Gillian Weiss, Case Western Reserve University

Volume 18, Issue 1
Issue Editor: Kathryn Kleppinger, The George Washington University

Jean-Philippe MathyChronic Aftershock: How 9/11 Shaped Present-Day France. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021. 276 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 CAN (hb). ISBN 978022800865

Review Essays:
Abdellali Hajjat, Université libre de Bruxelles
Emile Chabal, The University of Edinburg
Lindsay Kaplan, Waynflete School
Derek W. Vaillant, University of Michigan

Response essay by Jean-Philippe Mathy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign