January Reviews
John C. Stout, Objects Observed. The Poetry of Things in Twentieth-Century France and America. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2018. xii + 285 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9-78-1487501570.
Review by Andrew Stafford, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 1.
Nicole Dyonet, Nicolas Delamare théoricien de la police. Préface d’Yves-Marie Bercé. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2017. 503 pp. 58 €. ISBN 978-2-406-06047-5.
Compte-rendu par Vincent Denis, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 2.
Louise Bourgeois, Midwife to the Queen of France: Diverse Observations. Ed. Alison Klairmont Lingo; trans. Stephanie O’Hara. Other Voices in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, vol. 56. Toronto: Iter Press and Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2017. xx + 451 pp. Figures, glossary, appendices, bibliography, and index. $59.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-86698-576-5.
Review by Nina Rattner Gelbart, Occidental College.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 3.
Indravati Félicité, Négocier pour exister: Les villes et duchés du nord de l’Empire face à la France 1650-1730. Pariser Historische Studien, 105. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2016. 545 pp. Tables, bibliography, index. $77.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-3-11-041520-9. $77.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-3-11-041549-0.
Indravati Félicité, Das Königreich Frankreich und die norddeutschen Hansestädte und Herzogtümer (1650–1730). Diplomatie zwischen ungleichen Partnern. Quellen und Darstellungen zur hansischen Geschichte, Neue Folge–Band 75. Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2017. 439 pp. Tables, bibliography, index. €60.00 (hb). ISBN 978-3-412-50918-7.
Review by Michael North, Universität Greifswald.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 4.
Julie Singer, Representing Mental Illness in Late Medieval France: Machines, Madness, Metaphor. Series Gallica, 43. Woodbridge, UK and New York: D. S. Brewer, 2018. xii + 360 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84384-512-6.
Review by Nadia Margolis, University of New England.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 5.
Susan Broomhall, ed., Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. 384 pp. Figures, notes, bibliographies, and index. 129.00€. (cl). ISBN 978-94-6298-3427.
Review by Sheila ffoillott, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 6.
Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Dark Matter Credit: The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019. 320pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-691-18217-9.
Compte-rendu par Matthieu de Oliveira, Université de Lille.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 7.
Annabel Kim, Unbecoming Language: Anti-identitarian French Feminist Fictions. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, 2018. viii + 263 pp. Bibliography and index. $59.95 (hc). ISBN 978-0-8142-1384-1; $29.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8142-5501-8 (pb).
Review by Nathalie Ségeral, University of Hawaii at Mānoa.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 8.
Benoît Majerus, La folie à Paris. Du Moyen Âge à nos jours, expériences et représentations. Paris: Parigramme, 2018. 126 pp. Cartes, tables, documents, bibliographie et index. 19.90€. ISBN 978-2-37395-055-7.
Compte-rendu par Laurence Guignard, Université de Lorraine.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 9.
Deborah McGrady, The Writer’s Gift or the Patron’s Pleasure? The Literary Economy in Late Medieval France. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2019. xiii + 321 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 CDN (hb). ISBN 978-1-4875-0365-9. $85.00 CDN (eb). ISBN 978-1-4875-1845-5. $85.00 CDN (PDF) 978-1-4875-1844-8.
Review by Julie Singer, Washington University in St. Louis.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 10.
Valérie K. Orlando and Pamela A. Pears, eds., Paris and the Marginalized Author: Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. xix + 214 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781498567039; $ 90.00 U.S. (eb). 9781498567046.
Review by Alistair Rolls, Emma Hamilton, and Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle, Australia.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 11.
Romain Tiquet, Travail forcé et mobilisation de la main-d’œuvre au Sénégal: Années 1920-1960, with a preface by Alexander Keese and an afterword by Andreas Eckert. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2019. x + 282 pp. Bibliography, maps. €26.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535-7610-0.
Review by Dior Konaté, South Carolina State University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 12.
Bonnie Effros, Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. xiii + 371 pp. Map, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9781501702105; JSTOR eISBN: 9781501718540.
Review by Kimberly Cassibry, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 13.
Ioana Manea, Politics and Scepticism in La Mothe Le Vayer: The Two-Faced Philosopher? Tubingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2019. 203 pp. Text and bibliography. 58€ (pb). ISBN 9783823382836.
Review by Anton M. Matytsin, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 14.
Ernst Jünger, A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945. Foreword by Elliot Neaman. Translated by Thomas S. Hansen and Abby J. Hansen. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xxxi + 462 pp. Notes, glossary of personal names, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780231127400.
Review by Julia Torrie, St. Thomas University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 15.
Laurent Dornel, Stéphane Le Bras, Les Fronts intérieurs européens. L’arrière en guerre (1914-1920). Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2018. 369 pp. Figures and notes. 28 €. ISBN 9782753574779.
Compte-rendu par Clotilde Druelle-Korn, Université de Limoges.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 16.
Fabrice Boumahdi, Hergé. Le passager du XXe siècle. Paris: Editions Honoré Champion, 2017. 247 pages. Figures, notes, bibliography, and indices. £15.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-4814-2.
Review by Matthew Screech, Manchester Metropolitan University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 17.
Response par Fabrice Boumahdi, chercheur indépendant.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 18.
Peter Cooke and Nina Lübbren, eds, Painting and Narrative in France, from Poussin to Gauguin. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xv +233 pp. Notes, figures, and index. $49.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9780367200275.
Review by Andrei Pop, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 19.
Stève Puig, Littérature urbaine et mémoire postcoloniale, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2019. 262pp. Notes and bibliography. 27.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-343-17300-9.
Review by Anna-Louise Milne, University of London Institute in Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 20.
Satish Padiyar, Philip Shaw, and Philippa Simpson, eds., Visual Culture and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. x + 252 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $165.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4724-4711-1.
Review by Gemma Betros, The Australian National University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 21.
Monique Delhoume-Sanciaud, Les Incas ou la destruction de l’Empire du Pérou de Jean-François Marmontel : Le Regard d’un homme du dix-huitième siècle sur le Nouveau-Monde, sa conquête et son évangélisation. Paris, Honoré Champion, 2017. 2 vols., vi + 1,322 pp., numbered consecutively. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, appendices, and index. €199.05. (pb). ISBN 978-2-745-3070-3; ISSN 1259-4482; e-ISBN 978-2-7543-4818-0.
Review by Harvey Chisick, University of Haifa.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 22.
Michel Foucault, Histoire de la sexualité, vol. 4, Les Aveux de la chair. Edited by Frédéric Gros. Paris: Gallimard, 2018. xi + 426pp. Notes, annexes, and index of works cited. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 9782072700347.
Review by Michael C. Behrent, Appalachian State University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 23.
Agnès Lachaume, Le Langage du désir chez Bossuet: chercher quelque ombre d’infinité. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2017. 730 pp. €118.50. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7453-3176-2; (eb). e-ISBN 978-2-7453-3176-2.
Review by Nicholas Hammond, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 24.
Mollie M. Madden, The Black Prince and the Grande Chevauchée of 1355. Woodbridge, England and Rochester, N.Y.: The Boydell Press, 2018. xi + 248 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibiography, and index. £60.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-78327-356-0.
Review by Clifford J. Rogers, West Point.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 25.
Michael Lucey, Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Hervé Guibert. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. 310pp. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-226-60621-7; $30.00 (pb). ISBN 978-0-226-60618-7; $10.00-$30.00 (eb) 978-0-226-60635-4.
Review by Melanie Hawthorne, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 26.
Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise Du Châtelet, La Correspondance d’Émilie Du Châtelet. 2 vols. Under the direction of Ulla Kölving and Andrew Brown. Ferney-Voltaire: Centre International d’étude du XVIIIe siècle, 2018. Xii + 633, 592 pp. ISBN 978-2-84559-136-3.
Review by Julie Candler Hayes, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 27.
Jean-Philippe Luis et Fabien Conord, eds., Violence & politique de la Révolution française au début du XXe siècle. Clermont-Ferrand, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2019. 232 pp. Bibliographie. 20 €. ISBN 978-2845168299.
Compte-rendu par Pierre Triomphe, Archives Départementales de la Charente-Maritime.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 28.
Virginia Reinburg, Storied Places: Pilgrim Shrines, Natures, and History in Early Modern France. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xii + 261 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.99. U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781108483117.
Review by Susan E. Dinan, Adelphi University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 29.
Suzannah Lipscomb, The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiv + 378 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-0198797661.
Review by Allan Tulchin, Shippensburg University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 30.
Éva Riveline, Tempêtes en mer: Permanence et évolution d’un topos littéraire (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015. 535 pp. Figures, bibliography, and index. €59.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-3557-7.
Review by Hanna Roman, Dickinson College.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 31.
Jeanne de Flandreysy, Correspondance de la Grande Guerre à Folco de Baroncelli, tome I (1914 – 1915): Sauver le grand homme, réhabiliter l’image de la petite patrie, Colette H. Winn and Colette Trout, eds. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2018. 870 pp. Bibliography, index, illustrations. ISBN 978-2-406-07217-1; 67€ (pb).
Review by Martha Hanna, University of Colorado Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 32.
Dominique Kalifa, Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld. Translated by Susan Emanuel. Foreword by Sara Maza. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019, xiv + 278 pp. Notes and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-231-18742-8; $34.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0-231-54726-0.
Review by Stephen A. Toth, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 33.
Kathryn Robson, I Suffer, Therefore I Am: Engaging with Empathy in Contemporary French Women’s Writing. Cambridge, U.K.: Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association, 2019. ix + 140 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-78188-675-5.
Review by Gill Rye, Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 34.
Gilles Havard, L’Amérique fantôme: Les aventuriers francophones du Nouveau Monde. Montreal: Flammarion Québec, 2019. 656 pp. Notes, bibliography, illustrations, and index. $45.95 CDN. ISBN 978-2890778818.
Review by Benjamin Hoffmann, The Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 35.
Françoise Gevrey, Modèles et fiction à l’âge classique et au Siècle des Lumières. Avant-propos de Jean-Louis Haquette. Paris, Honoré Champion Editeur, « Les Dix-Huitièmes Siècles » 205, 2019, ISBN : 978-2-7453-4960-6.
Compte-rendu par Philippe Hourcade, Université de Limoges & Société Saint-Simon.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 36.
Reider Payne, War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era: Sir Charles Stewart, Castlereagh, and the Balance of Power in Europe. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. xi + 262 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $120 U.S. (hb). ISBN HB 978-1-7883-1512-8.
Review by William Nester, St. John’s University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 37.
Claire Barel-Moisan et Jean-François Chassay, eds. Le roman des possibles: l’anticipation dans l’espace médiatique francophone (1860-1940). Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2019. 483 pp. Notes. 36.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7606-4017-7.
Review by William Cloonan, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 38.
Antoine Lilti, L’Héritage des Lumières: Ambivalences de la modernité. Paris: EHESS, Gallimard, Seuil, 2019. 403 pp. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2021427899.
Review by Paul Cheney, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 39.
Christophe Charle and Jacqueline Lalouette, eds., Maurice Agulhon: aux carrefours de l’histoire vagabonde. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2017. 234 pp. €21.00 (pb). Notes and index. ISBN 979-10-351-0018-6.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 40.
Sun-Young Park, Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. xi + 384 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780822945284.
Review by Sean M. Quinlan, University of Idaho.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 41.
Pascal Firges, French Revolutionaries in the Ottoman Empire: Diplomacy, Political Culture, and the Limiting of Universal Revolution, 1792-1798. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xix + 304 pp. Figures, maps, tables, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $100.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-0-19-875996-6.
Review by Julia Landweber, Montclair State University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 42.
Christophe Guilluy, Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France. Translated from the French by Malcolm DeBevoise. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 184 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $25.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9780300233766.
Review by Frédéric Viguier, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 43.
Joël Blanchard, ed. with Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Antoine Calvet, Philippe de Mézières, rhétorique et poétique. Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 157. Geneva : Droz, 2019. 328 pp. Bibliography and index. €39 (pb). ISBN 978-2-600-05962-6.
Review by Anne-Hélène Miller, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 44.
Françoise Le Borgne, Odile Parsis-Barubé, and Nathalie Vuillemin, eds., Les Savoirs des barbares, des primitifs, et des sauvages: Lectures de l’Autre au XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2018. 329 pp. 37.00€. (pb). Notes and bibliography. ISBN 978-2-406-07939-2.
Review by David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 45.
Marie-Hélène Sangla, L’invention d’une Méditerranée, patrimoine, création, identité en Roussillon de la fin du XVIIIe siècle à l’entre-deux-guerres. Collection Histoire de l’art 10. Perpignan: Presses universitaires de Perpignan, 2016. Figures, notes, and bibliography. 383pp. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2354122607.
Review by Elizabeth C. Macknight, University of Aberdeen.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 46.
Norman Ingram, The War Guilt Problem and the Ligue des droits de l’homme, 1914-1944. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. vii + 294 pp. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-882799-3.
Review by Peter Jackson, University of Glasgow.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 47.
Robert H. Blackman, 1789: The French Revolution Begins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ix + 287 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 978-1-108-49244-7.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (January 2020), No. 48.
March Reviews
Colas Duflo, Philosophie des pornographes: Les ambitions philosophiques du roman libertin. Paris: Édition du Seuil, 2019. 302 pp. Bibliography. 23.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-02-140417-3.
Review by Alistaire Tallent, Colorado College.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (March 2020), No. 49.
Response by Colas Duflo, Université Paris Nanterre.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (March 2020), No. 50.
Marco Polo, Le Devisement du monde: version franco-italienne. Edited and translated by Joël Blanchard and Michel Quereuil with Thomas Tanase. Geneva: Droz, 2019. lxvi + 800 pp. Bibliography, notes, index, list of weights and measures, maps. €18.80 (pb). ISBN 978-2-600-05900-8.
Review by Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (March 2020), No. 51.
Jeffrey D. Burson and Anton M. Matytsin, eds., The Skeptical Enlightenment: Doubt and Certainty in the Age of Reason. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019. vii + 235 pp. Bibliography and index. $99.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-78694-194-7.
Review by Dorinda Outram, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (March 2020), No. 52.
Sébastian Evrard, Les avocats au temps des Lumières: La réforme des assemblées provinciales de 1787. Condé-sur-Noireau: L’Harmattan, 2019. 171 pp. Map, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. €19.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-343-11850-5.
Review by Stephen Miller, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (March 2020), No. 53.
Willa Z. Silverman, Henri Vever: Champion de l’Art Nouveau. Paris: Armand Colin, 2018. 377 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €26.90 (pb). ISBN 978-22-006-1941-1.
Review by Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (March 2020), No. 54.
Joseph Harris, ed., Marmontel and Demoustier, “Le Misanthrope corrigé”: Two Eighteenth-Century Sequels to Molière’s “Le Misanthrope.” Cambridge, UK: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2019. viii + 138 pp. Notes and bibliography. $17.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-78188-753-0; $0.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-781887-54-7.
Review by Suzanne Jones, New College, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (March 2020), No. 55.
Takeshi Kubota, Montaigne lecteur de la Cité de Dieu d’Augustin. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2019. 392 pp. Appendices, figures, and bibliography. €58.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2745350220.
Review by Luke O’Sullivan, King’s College London.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (March 2020), No. 56.
Christian Sorrel (dir.), Le Concile de Vatican II et le monde des religieux (Europe occidentale et Amérique du Nord, 1950-1980). Coll. Chrétiens et Sociétés – Documents et Mémoires, n°36, Lyon, LARHRA – UMR5190, 2019. 400 pp. 22 € (pb). ISBN 979-10-91592-23-9.
Compte-rendu par François Weiser, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcités.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (March 2020), No. 57.
Sarah Wobick-Segev, Homes Away from Home: Jewish Belonging in Twentieth-Century Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. xi + 295 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-15-036-0514-5.
Review by Saskia Coenen Snyder, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (March 2020), No. 58.
April Reviews
Christopher L. Miller, Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 272 pp. $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-2265-9100-1; $82.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-2265-9095-0; $10.00 U.S. to $27.50 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0-2265-9114-8.
Compte-rendu par Françoise Lavocat, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – IUF.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 59.
Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus, The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint- Domingue and British Jamaica. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 360 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, index, and acknowledgments. $47.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-81-224829- 5; $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-78-081222-4-238.
Review by Robert D. Taber, Fayetteville State University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 60.
Christian Michel, The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture: The Birth of the French School, 1648-1793. Translated by Chris Miller. Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2018. xvi + 414 pp. $75.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-60606-535-8.
Review by Robert Wellington, Australian National University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 61.
Margaret C. Jacob, The Secular Enlightenment. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. 360 pp. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0691161327.
Compte-rendu par Antoine Lilti, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 62.
Emmanuel Fureix, L’Œil blessé. Politiques de l’iconoclasme après la Révolution française, Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2019. 357 pp. 27.00€. (pb). ISBN 0-19-820717-X.
Review by Richard Wrigley, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 63.
Richard Carswell, The Fall of France in the Second World War: History and Memory. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019. ix + 283 pp. Bibliographies, notes, index. $89.99 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-3-030-03954-7; $69.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-3-030-03955-4.
Review by Sarah Fishman, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 64.
Thomas M. Truxes, ed., Ireland, France, and the Atlantic in a Time of War: Reflections on the Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757. London and New York: Routledge, 2017, xx + 231 pp. Plates, maps, tables, graphs, notes, appendices, and index. $155.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1472468765.
Review by Matt J. Schumann, Bowling Green State University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 65.
Marion Schmid and Emma Wilson, eds., Chantal Akerman: Afterlives. Cambridge: Legenda/Modern Humanities Research Association, 2019. 184 pp. £75.00 (hb). ISBN: 978-1- 781886-39-7; (pb). ISBN: 978-1-781886-40-3; (eb). ISBN: 978-1-781886-41-0.
Review by Ivone Margulies, Hunter College.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 66.
Xavier Lafrance, The Making of Capitalism in France. Class Structures, Economic Development, the State and the Formation of the French Working Class, 1750-1914. Leiden/Boston: Brill 2019, x + 311 pp. $156.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9789004276321.
Review by Roger Price, Prifysgol Aberystwyth University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 67.
Sarah Easterby-Smith, Cultivating Commerce: Cultures ofBotany in Britain and France, 1760-1815. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. $104.00 U.S. (hb). Figures, maps, bibliography, and index. ISBN 978-1107126848.
Review by Michael A. Osborne, Oregon State University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 68.
Frederick Cooper, Citizenship, Inequality, and Difference: Historical Perspectives. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. The Lawrence Stone Lectures. v + 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9780691171845.
Review by Christopber J. Lee, Lafayette College.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 69.
Sarah Gensburger, Memory on My Doorstep: Chronicles of the Bataclan Neighborhood, Paris 2015- 2016. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019. Trans. Katharine Throssell. 252 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography. €29.50 (pb). ISBN 9789462701342.
Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 70.
François Dosse, La Saga des intellectuels français 1944-1989, Tome 2: L’avenir en miettes, 1968-1989. Paris: Gallimard, 2018. 704 pp. Illustrations, bibliographie, et index. €29.00 (pb). €20.99 (eb). ISBN 978-2-07-278996-3.
Compte-rendu par Jean-Philippe Mathy, University of Illinois.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 71.
Jason Demers, The American Politics of French Theory: Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. x + 218 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $57.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4875-0448-9.
Review by Carolyn J. Dean, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 72.
Alexander Bevilacqua and Frederic Clark, eds., Thinking in the Past Tense: Eight Conversations. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2019. 224 pp. Index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0226601175; $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0226601205; $30.00 (eb). ISBN 978-0226601342.
Review by Bryan A. Banks, Columbus State University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 73.
John J. Conley, S. J. The Other Pascals: The Philosophy of Jacqueline Pascal, Gilberte Pascal Périer, and Marguerite Périer. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019. xiii + 263 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-268-10513-6.
Review by Nicholas Hammond, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 74.
Serge Guilbaut, ed., Lost, Loose and Loved: Foreign Artists in Paris, 1944-1968. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2018. Plates, black-and-white photographs, and historical texts. 264 pp. 35.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-84-8026-580-5.
Review by Natalie Adamson, University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (April 2020), No. 75.
May Reviews
Isabelle Tremblay, ed., Les Lumières catholiques et le roman français. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018. viii + 274 pp. £65.00 (pb). Notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 9781786941411.
Review by Jeffrey D. Burson, Georgia Southern University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (May 2020), No. 76.
Christie Margrave, Writing the Landscape: Exposing Nature in French Women’s Fiction, 1789-1815. Cambridge: Legenda, 2019. 306 pp. Acknowledgements, abbreviations, quotations and translations, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-781887-04-2.
Review by Giulia Pacini, William & Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (May 2020), No. 77.
Response by Christie Margrave, The Australian National University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (May 2020), No. 78.
Philippe Bourdin and Stéphane Le Bras, eds., Les Fausses Nouvelles: Un millénaire de bruits et de rumeurs dans l’espace public français. Clerment-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2018. 211 pp. 15.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-84516-811-4.
Review by Katlyn Marie Carter, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (May 2020), No. 79.
Carter Vaughn Findley, Enlightening Europe on Islam and the Ottomans: Mouradgea d’Ohsson and His Masterpiece. Leiden: Brill, 2019. xii + 398 pp. €68.00/$82.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-36312-0.
Review by Paul Babinski, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (May 2020), No. 80.
Richard R. Brettell, On Modern Beauty: Three Paintings by Manet, Gauguin and Cézanne. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2019.103pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781606066065.
Review by Caroline Boyle-Turner, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (May 2020), No. 81.
Juliane Braun, Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019. xv + 260 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. $69.50 U.S. (cl). 978-0-8139-4231-5; $69.50 U.S. (eb). 978-0-8139-4232-2; $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8139-4233-9.
Review by Felicia McCarren, Tulane University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (May 2020), No. 82.
Stuart Sweeney, The Europe Illusion: Britain, France, Germany and the Long History of European Integration. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. 384 pp. References, bibliography, and index. £25.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-78914-060-6.
Review by Eric O’Connor, The Seven Hills School.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (May 2020), No. 83.
Francesco Manzini, Stendhal. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. 208 pp. Illustrations, references, and bibliography. £11.99 (pb). ISBN 9781789141573.
Review by Karen Quandt, Wabash College.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (May 2020), No. 84.
Bruno Belhoste, Paris Savant: Capital of Science in the Age of Enlightenment. Trans. Susan Emanuel. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xx + 306 pp. Figures, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9780199382545.
Review by Larrie D. Ferreiro, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (May 2020), No. 85.
Bernard Allorent, La Fortune de la Grande Mademoiselle: Anne Marie Louise d’Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier (1627-1693); Un enjeu politique au XVIIieme siècle. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2019. 282 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index, table of contents. €60.00 (cl). ISBN 9782745350046.
Review by Allison Anna Tait, University of Richmond School of Law.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (May 2020), No. 86.
Philippe Secondy, Fabrication d’un collabo: Le cas Joseph Laporte (1892-1944). Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2019, 275 pp. Notes. 23 euros (pb). ISBN 978-2-271-12888-1.
Review by Sandra Ott, University of Nevada, Reno.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (May 2020), No. 87.
Loïc Bonneval and François Robert. De la rente immobilière à la finance: La Société de la rue Impériale (Lyon 1854-2004). Lyon: ENS Éditions, 2019. 428 pp. Maps, tables, diagrams, images, appendices, bibliography, and index. 30.00€. (pb). ISBN 979-10-362-0094-6.
Review by Erika Vause, St. John’s University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (May 2020), No. 88.
June Reviews
Willibald Sauerländer, Reims, la reine des cathédrals: Cité céleste et lieu de mémoire, translated from German by Jean Torrent. Paris: Fondation Maison des sciences et de l’homme and Centre allemande d’histoire de l’art, 2018. 103 pp., 59 b/w and 2 color figures, notes, and photo credits. 12 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-7351-2418-3.
Review by Jacqueline E. Jung, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 89.
Jacques-Olivier Boudon, La Campagne d’Egypte. Paris: Belin, 2018. 320 pp. 24€ (pb). ISBN 978-2410015270.
Review by Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 90.
Françoise Ouzan, How Young Holocaust Survivors Rebuilt Their Lives: France, the United States, and Israel. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018. xiv + 297 pp. Bibliography and index. $32.00 US (pb). ISBN: 978-0-253-03395-6.
Review by Antoine Burgard, The University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 91.
Charlie Louth and Patrick McGuinness, eds., Gravity and Grace: Essays for Roger Pearson. Cambridge: Legenda, 2019. viii + 231 pp. Notes and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-78188-787-5.
Review by Scott M. Powers, University of Mary Washington.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 92.
Johnhenry Gonzalez, Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti. Yale Agrarian Studies Series. James C. Scott, Series Editor. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2019. xii + 302 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-300-23008-6.
Review by Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 93.
D’Argenson, Considérations sur le gouvernement: a critical edition, with other political texts. Edited and introduced by Andrew Jainchill. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019. xii + 291 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. £65.00 (pb). ISBN 9781786942272.
Review by Joël Félix, University of Reading.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 94.
Anne-Claire Husser, Ferdinand Buisson, penseur de l’autorité: Du théologique au pédagogique. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2019. 446 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. €58.00 (pb). ISBN 9782745350657.
Review by Helena Rosenblatt, CUNY Graduate Center.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 95.
Jeffrey D. Burson, The Culture of Enlightening: Abbé Claude Yvon and the Entangled Emergence of the Enlightenment. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019. xvii + 581 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780268105419.
Review by Andrei Pesic, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 96.
Scott Allen, Emily A. Beeny, and Gloria Groom, eds. Manet and Modern Beauty: The Artist’s Last Years. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019. viii + 384 pp. Plates, catalogue, references, sources, illustrations, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781606066041.
Review by Margaret Werth, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 97.
Robert Alan Sparling, Political Corruption: The Underside of Civic Morality. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. xv + 250pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and acknowledgements. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-5087-9.
Review by Tyson Leuchter, Birkbeck, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 98.
Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton, The British and French in the Atlantic, 1650-1800: Comparisons and Contrasts. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. xvi + 150 pp. Maps, chronology, documents, glossary, references, and index. $155.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781138657571; $42.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781138657588.
Review by Christopher Hodson, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 99.
Michel Winock, Décadence fin de siècle. Paris: Gallimard, 2017. 288pp. Chronology, selected bibliography, index. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-0701-0703-2.
Review by Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 100.
Hakim El Karoui, L’islam, une religion française. Paris: Gallimard, 2018. 289 pp. Notes and tables. €24.00. (pb). ISBN 9-782072-696909.
Review by Loumia Ferhat, Farouk Jabre Center for Arabic and Islamic Science and Philosophy, American University of Beirut.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 101.
Léonard Dauphant, Géographies. Ce qu’ils savaient de la France (1100-1600). Seyssel: Champ Vallon, collection Époques, 2018. 318 pp. Cartes, notes, sources, bibliographie, et index. €23.00 (pb.). ISBN 979-10-267-0680-9.
Review by Lydwine Scordia, Université de Rouen Normandie.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 102.
Dominique Kalifa, Paris: Une histoire érotique: d’Offenbach au Sixties. Paris: Payot, 2018. 288 pp. Maps, figures, appendices, notes, and index. $36.30 (pb). ISBN: 978-2228922098.
Review by Judith G. Coffin, University of Texas at Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 103.
Norma Broude, ed. Gauguin’s Challenge: New Perspectives After Postmodernism. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018. xiii + 306 pp. Plates, notes, bibliography, and index. £72.00 (hb.) ISBN 978150132515; £23.39 (pb.) ISBN 9781501342509.
Review by Allan Doyle, University of Arkansas.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 104.
Luba Markovskaia, La Conquête du for privé. Recit de soi et prison heureuse au siècle des Lumières. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2019. 285 pp. Foreword by Frédéric Charbonneau, notes, bibliography and index. 34€. ISBN 978-2-406-07-492-2.
Review by Siân Reynolds, University of Stirling.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 105.
William J. Courtenay, Rituals for the Dead: Religion and Community in the Medieval University of Paris. Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press (Indiana, 2019) xi + 201 pp. Notes, illustrations, maps, index, bibliography. $45.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-268-10494-8.
Review by Michael Robson, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 106.
Cary Hollinshead-Strick, The Fourth Estate at the Fourth Wall: Newspapers on Stage in July Monarchy France. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2019. x + 189 pp. Figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8101-4036-3; $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8101-4035-6; $34.95 (eb). ISBN 978-0-8101-4037-0.
Review by Clare Siviter, University of Bristol.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 107.
John Bulaitis, Maurice Thorez: A Biography. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2018. xiv + 353 pp. £80.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 978-1-84511-725-2; £28.99 U.K. (pb). ISBN 978-1-838606-718.
Review by Michael Kelly, University of Southampton.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 108.
Yoav Di-Capua, No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. xv + 355 pp. 105.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780226499741; $35.00 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 9780226503509
Compte-rendu par Leyla Dakhli-Mital, CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 109.
Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France: The Artistic Patronage of Queen Marie of Brabant (1260-1321). London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2019. 323 pp. Maps, figures, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $163.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-905375-68-4.
Review by Cynthia J. Brown, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 110.
John Tolan, Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xii + 309 pp. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780691167060.
Review by Joseph W. Peterson, University of Southern Mississippi.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 111.
Jeremy D. Popkin, A New World Begins. The History of the French Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2019. viii + 629 pp. Maps, notes, and index. $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-465-09666-4
Review by William Doyle, University of Bristol.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (May 2020), No. 112.
Response by Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (May 2020), No. 113.
Yannick Bosc, Le peuple souverain et la démocratie: Politique de Robespierre. Paris: Éditions Critiques, 2019. 216 pp. Notes, timeline, and index. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 979-10-97331-20-7.
Review by David A. Bell, Princeton University .
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 114.
Hubert Bonin, La Firme Schneider dans la guerre industrielle en 1914-1918. Paris: Les Indes savantes, 2019. 260 pp. Tables, images, notes, and index. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84654-542-2.
Review by Steve Zdatny, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (June 2020), No. 115.
July Reviews
Erin-Marie Legacey, Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830. Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2019. xviii + 210 pp. Map, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $36.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1501715594.
Review by Jonathan Strauss, Miami University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 116.
Linda Garbaye, ed. Le rôle des femmes dans les sociétés américaine et européenne au XVIIIe siècle: représentations et pratiques / Women’s Role in 18th-Century American and European Societies: Representations and Practices. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2017. 82
pp. €7.50 (pdf). ISBN (pdf): 978-2-84516-778-0; €7.50 (eb). ISBN (eb): 978-2-84516-779-7.
Review by Nina Kushner, Clark University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 117.
John Tolan, Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to Today. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. xii + 309 pp. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780691167060.
Review by Joseph W. Peterson, University of Southern Mississippi.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 118.
Andrei Pop, A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century. New York: Zone Books, 2019. 320 pp. 101 black and white illustrations; 15 color illustrations. $32.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-935408-36-9.
Review by Allison Morehead, Queen’s University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 119.
Chloe Edmondson and Dan Edelstein, eds., Networks of Enlightenment: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2019. xii + 303 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-78694-196-1.
Review by Laurence Brockliss, Magdalen College, Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 120.
Sébastien Evrard, Chouans contre Bleus (1793-1795). La justice militaire sous la Révolution française. Paris: Mare et Martin, 2019. 264 pp. €31.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84934-407-1.
Compte rendu par Yannick Bosc, Université de Rouen Normandie.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 121.
Sarah Mombert et Corinne Saminadayar-Perrin, eds, Un mousquetaire du journalisme : Alexandre Dumas. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2019. 250 pp. Bibliographie, notes, et index. 25.00€ (broché). ISBN 978-2-84867-663-0.
Compte rendu par Roxane Petit-Rasselle, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 122.
Karen E. Carter, Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019. Xiv + 296 pp. $32.95 CDN (pb). ISBN 9780773556614.
Review by Mita Choudhury, Vassar College.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 123.
Ronen Steinberg, The Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2019. xiii + 222 pp. Illustrations, bibliographie, et index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 9871501739248; $0.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN (eb): 9781501739262; $0.00 U.S. (pdf). ISBN (pdf): 9781501739255.
Compte rendu par Serge Aberdam, Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA).
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 124.
Sam Coombes, Édouard Glissant: A Poetics of Resistance. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. xiii + 199 pp. Bibliography and index. £63.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN: 978-1-350-036833.
Review by Adlai Murdoch, Tufts University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 125.
Allen H. Pasco, The Nineteenth-Century French Short Story: Masterpieces in Miniature. Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature 50. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. xiii + 198 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $155.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0367332716. $57.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0429319006.
Review by Laurence M. Porter, Oberlin College.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 126.
Marie-Eve Thérenty, Femmes de presse, femmes de lettres: De Delphine de Girardin à Florence Aubenas. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2019. 400 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 9782271117922.
Review by Whitney Walton, Purdue University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 127.
Sylvie Dubois, Emilie Gagnet Leumas, and Malcolm Richardson, Speaking French in Louisiana, 1720-1955: Linguistic Practices of the Catholic Church. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018. viii + 213 pp. Figures and notes. $38.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8071-6844-8.
Review by Jeff Tennant, University of Western Ontario.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 128.
Jack Zipes, ed. and trans., Smack-Bam, or the Art of Governing Men: Political Fairy Tales of Édouard Laboulaye. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. vii + 276 pp. $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-691-18186-8.
Review by Stephen W. Sawyer, The American University of Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 129.
Jonathan Lewis, The Algerian War in French/Algerian Writing. Literary Sites of Memory. Cardiff: The University of Wales Press, 2018. xii + 217 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. £50.00 U.K. (pb). ISBN 9-78-1786833044; £50.00 U.K. (eb). ISBN 9-78-1786833068.
Review by Lia Nicole Brozgal, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 130.
Stève Sainlaude, France and the American Civil War: A Diplomatic History. Translated by Jessica Edwards. Foreword by Don H. Doyle. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019. xv + 285 pp. Figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4696-4994-8; $29.99 U.S. (eb). 978-1-4696-4995-5.
Review by David Prior, University of New Mexico.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 131.
Frédéric Bozo and Christian Wenkel, eds., France and the German Question, 1945-1990. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. vii +299 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $135.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-1-78920-226-7.
Review by Talbot Imlay, Université Laval.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 132.
Julie Pagis, May ’68: Shaping Political Generations. Trans. Katharine Throssell. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. 321 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, index €109.00 (hb). ISBN 978-94-6298-375-5.
Review by Ben Mercer, Australian National University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 133.
Charles Coustille, Antithèses. Mallarmé, Péguy, Paulhan, Céline, Barthes. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, Bibliothèque des Idées, 2018. 309 pp. Bibliography and index. €24.00 (cl). ISBN 978-2-07-275590-3.
Review by Andy Stafford, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 134.
Marion Demossier, Burgundy: A Global Anthropology of Place and Taste. New Directions in Anthropology, Vol. 43. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2018. ix+267 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, glossary, and index. $135.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN: 978-1-78533-851-9; $19.95 U.S. (pb) ISBN 978-1-78920-627-2.
Review by Nicole Dombrowski Risser, Towson University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 135.
Michèle Hannoosh, Jules Michelet: Writing Art and History in Nineteenth-Century France. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. xii + 248 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S. (hc). ISBN 978-0-271-08356-8; $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-271-08357-5.
Review by Bettina Lerner, City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY. H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 136.
Raymond Watkins, Late Bresson and the Visual Arts: Cinema, Painting and Avant-Garde Experiment. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. 270 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. €99.00 (hb). ISBN 978-9-4629-8364-9. €98.99 (eb). ISBN 978-9-0485-3399-2.
Review by Marco Grosoli, Habib University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 137.
Robert Boncardo, Mallarmé and the Politics of Literature: Sartre, Kristeva, Badiou, Rancière. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. x + 252 pp. Bibliography and index. £75.00 (hc). ISBN 9781474429528; £19.99 (pb). ISBN 9781474429535.
Review by Joseph Acquisto, University of Vermont,
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 138.
Michael Gott and Thibaut Schilt, eds., Cinéma-monde: Decentred Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in French. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 392 pp. 25 b+w illustrations. ₤80.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-4744-1498-2. £24.99 (pb). ISBN 978-1-4744-3184-2. £75.00 (eb). 978-1-4744-1500-2.
Review by Kaya Davies Hayon, University of Lincoln,
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 139.
Andrea E. Duffy, Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. xxiii + 313 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8032-9097-6.
Review by Donna Landry, University of Kent, Canterbury.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 140.
John Hardman, Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019. xx + 363 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, bibliography, and index. $30.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780300243086.
Review by Jennifer M. Jones, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (July 2020), No. 141.
August Reviews
Julia Waters, The Mauritian Novel: Fictions of Belonging. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018. 248 pp. Bibliography and index. £25.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-786-94149-7. £0.00 (eb). ISBN 978-1-786-94949-3.
Review by Maya Boutaghou, University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 142.
Simone Weil, La personne et le sacré: collectivité, personne, impersonnel, droit, justice. Paris: Éditions Allia, 2018. 80 pp. €3.10 (pb). ISBN 979-10-304-0797-6.
Review by Scott B. Ritner, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 143.
Oliver Davis and Colin Davis, eds., Freedom and the Subject of Theory: Essays in Honour of Christina Howells. Oxford: Legenda, 2019. xiii + 216 pp. £75.00 U.K. ISBN 978-1-781887-33-2.
Review by John Gillespie, Ulster University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 144.
Nancy Luxon, ed., Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens. Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 2019. xi + 371 pp. Preface, contributors, publication history, and index. $120.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-5179-0110-3; $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-5179-0111-0.
Review by Andrew Newman, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 145.
Leo Shtutin, Spatiality and Subjecthood in Mallarmé, Apollinaire, Maeterlinck, and Jarry: Between Page and Stage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xii + 226 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9780198821854.
Review by Corry Cropper, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 146.
Olivier Grenouilleau, Fortunes de mer, sirènes coloniales: Économie maritime, colonies et développement: la France, vers 1660-1914. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2019. 239 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, and index. €24.00 (pb). ISBN: 978-2-271-12521-7.
Review by Pernille Røge, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 147.
Arlette Farge, Vies oubliées: Au coeur du XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2019. 299 pp. €18.00 (pb). ISBN 9782348045738; €11.99 (eb). ISBN 9782348046513.
Review by Charlotta Wolff, University of Turku.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 148.
Michel Foucault, Patrice Maniglier, and Dork Zabunyan, Foucault at the Movies, ed. and trans. Clare O’Farrell. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xiv + 243 pp. Appendix, notes, and bibliography. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-23116-706-2; $27.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-23116-707-9; $26.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0-23154-783-3.
Review by Dana Polan, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 149.
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 312 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-2784-8; $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8122-2434-4.
Review by Richard H. King, Nottingham University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 150.
Catherine Dossin, ed., France and the Visual Arts since 1945: Remapping European Postwar and Contemporary Art. New York and London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019. $130.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781501341526; $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781501355752; $35.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781501341533.
Review by Natalie Adamson, School of Art History, University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 151.
Bradley Stephens, Victor Hugo. Critical Lives. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. 224 pp. Illustrations, references, notes, and bibliography. £11.99 U.K. (pb). ISBN 978-1789140842.
Review by Timothy Raser, University of Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 152.
Sean L. Field, Courting Sanctity: Holy Women and the Capetians. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xiii + 266 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781501736193.
Review by Miriam Shadis, Ohio University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 153.
Craig Lundy, Deleuze’s Bergsonism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. x + 182 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. £90.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-4744-1430-2. £19.95 (pb). ISBN 978-1-4744-1431-9.
Review by Brent Adkins, Roanoke College.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 154.
Ella Hendriks and Marije Vellekoop, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Illuminated: Art Meets Science. Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum and Amsterdam University Press, 2019. vii + 256 pp. Bibliography, abstracts, index, and note to the reader. € 55.00. (hb). ISBN: 9789463725323.
Review by Christa DiMarco, The University of the Arts.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (August 2020), No. 155.
September Reviews
Philippe Carrard, History as a Kind of Writing: Textual Strategies in Contemporary French Historiography. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017. xvi + 244 pp. Bibliography and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780226427966.
Compte-rendu par Manu Braganca, University College Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 156.
Sara McDougall, Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. x + 310 pp. Charts, bibliography, and index. $100.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0198785828.
Review by Matthew Gerber, University of Colorado at Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 157.
Véronique Le Ru, Émilie du Châtelet philosophe. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2019. 206 pp. Bibliography and index. €29.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-08792-2.
Review by Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 158.
Gemma King, Decentring France: Multilingualism and Power in Contemporary French Cinema. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. x + 213pp. Appendices, filmography, references, and index. $120.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-5261-1357-7; $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-5261-1358-0.
Review by Alison J. Murray Levine, University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 159.
Arthur Asseraf, Electric News in Colonial Algeria. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. vii + 223 pp. Maps, figures, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9-78-0198844044.
Review by Rebecca Scales, Rochester Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 160.
Zahi Zalloua, Theory’s Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2018. x + 225 pp. $99.95 (hb). ISBN 978-0-8101-3779-0; $34.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8101-3778-3.
Review by Maria Scott, University of Exeter.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 161.
Olivier Descamps and Rafael Domingo, eds., Great Christian Jurists in French History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xviii + 485 pp. £ 94.99 (hb). ISBN 9781108484084.
Review by Brian Sudlow, Aston University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 162.
Iain MacKenzie, Resistance and the Politics of Truth: Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2018. 148 pp. €29.99 EU (pb). ISBN 9783837639070.
Review by Iwona Janicka, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 163.
Erika Graham-Goering, Michael Jones, and Bertrand Yeurc’h, eds., with the collaboration of Philippe Charon, Aux origines de la Guerre de Succession de Bretagne. Documents (1341-1342). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. 2019. €39.00 (hb). ISBN 9782753577893.
Review by Anne Curry, University of Southampton.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 164.
Derek Offord, Vladislav Rjéoutski, and Gesine Argent, The French Language in Russia: A Social, Political, and Literary History. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. 702pp. €46.95 (hb). Bibliography, index, and illustrations. ISBN 9789462982727.
Review by Willard Sunderland, University of Cincinnati and Higher School of Economics (Moscow).
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 165.
Matthew W. Maguire, Carnal Spirit: The Revolutions of Charles Péguy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 296 pp. Notes and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780812250954.
Review by Eric Brandom, Kansas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 166.
Response by Matthew Maguire, DePaul University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 207.
Douglas Morrey, The Legacy of the New Wave in French Cinema. New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 263 pp. Figures, table, notes, bibliography, and index. $120.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781501311949l; $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781501311932; $34.95 U.S. (eb) ISBN 9781501311918.
Review by Richard Neupert, University of Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 167.
Pernille Røge, Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire: France in the Americas and Africa, c. 1750-1802. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xv + 296 pp. $99.99 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781108483131; $32.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781108716413; $26.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781108753906.
Compte-rendu par par Loïc Charles, Université de Paris Institut National d’Études Démographiques.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 168.
Eric Fougère, Les Îles malades: Léproseries et lazarets de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Guyane et Guadeloupe. Paris: Garnier, 2018. 168 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 9782406065043.
Review by Sophie Fuggle, Nottingham Trent University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 169.
Sophie White, Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana. Williamsburg, VA and Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2019. xx + 286 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $37.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978146954041; $25.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN: 9781469654058.
Review by Jennifer L. Palmer, University of Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 170.
Alexandra Kieffer, Debussy’s Critics: Sound, Affect, and the Experience of Modernism. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. viii + 317 pp. Bibliography and index. $78.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-084724-1.
Review by Andrew Pau, Oberlin College & Conservatory.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 171.
Scott Francis, Advertising the Self in Renaissance France: Lemaire, Marot, and Rabelais. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2019. xiii + 267pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781644530061; $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781644530078; $70.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781644530085.
Review by Timothy Hampton, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 172.
Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse, Renaissance Illuminators in Paris: Artists & Artisans 1500-1715. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2019. 280 pp. Maps, genealogies, figures, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. €125.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-912554-28-7.
Review by Cynthia J. Brown, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 173.
Richard Hillman, The Shakespearean Comic and Tragicomic: French Inflections. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 248 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. £80.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN: 978-1-5261-4407-2.
Review by Jonathan Patterson, St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (September 2020), No. 174.
October Reviews
Elaine Stavro, Emancipatory Thinking: Simone de Beauvoir and Contemporary Thought. Montreal & Kingston, London and Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. xiv + 350 pp. References and index. $120.00 C.A.D. (cl). ISBN 9-78-0773553545; $39.95 C.A.D. (pb). ISBN 9-78-0773553552.
Review by Pauline Henry-Tierney, Newcastle University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 175.
Julia Nicholls, Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune, 1871-1885. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. vii + 309 pp. Bibliography and index. $99.99 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781108499262; $32.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781108713344; $80.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781108600002.
Review by Julian Bourg, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 176.
Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze, Claude Chabrol’s Aesthetics of Opacity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. 200 pp. 10 b+w illustrations. Bibliography, filmography, index. £75.00 (hb). ISBN 9780748692606; £19.99 (pb). ISBN 9781474431866; £19.99 (eb). ISBN 9780748692620.
Review by Isabelle Vanderschelden, Manchester Metropolitan University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 177.
Ivone Margulies and Jeremi Szaniawski, eds., On Women’s Films: Across Worlds and Generations. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. vii + 397 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. £81.00 (hb). ISBN 978-15013-3246-3; £24.99 (pb). ISBN 978-15013-3245-6.
Review by Rosanna Maule, Concordia University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 178.
Morgane Cadieu, Marcher au hasard : Clinamen et création dans la prose du XXe siècle. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2019. 214 pp. €68.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-406-08851-6; €29.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-406-08850-9.
Compte-rendu par Peter Consenstein, The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 179.
Albertine Fox, Godard and Sound. Acoustic Innovation in the Late Films of Jean-Luc Godard. London and New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd Press, 2018. xiii + 274 pp. Figures, notes, select bibliography, select filmography, index. $120.00 U.S.(hb.). ISBN 9781784538422; $39.95 U.S. (pb.). ISBN 9781350199965; $39.95 U.S. (epub). ISBN 9781786722744; $35.95 U.S. (pdf. eb.). ISBN 9781786732743.
Review by Vlad Dima, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 180.
Viera Rebolledo-Dhuin, Du livre à la finance: Crédit et discrédit de la librairie parisienne au XIXe siècle. Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2019. 382 pp. Maps, figures, graphs, tables, select bibliography. €28.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7355-0907-2.
Review by Martyn Lyons, University of New South Wales.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 181.
Michel Biard and Marisa Linton, Terreur! La Révolution française face à ses démons, Préface de Timothy Tackett. Paris: Armand Colin, 2020. 296 pp. Notes, bibliography, and appendices. €22.90 (pb). ISBN 9782200623517; €14.99 (eb). ISBN 9782200628246.
Review by Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University, State University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 182.
Richard Hillman, The Shakespearean Comic and Tragicomic: French Inflections. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. 248 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. £80.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN: 978-1-5261-4407-2.
Review by Jonathan Patterson, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 183.
Jordan R. Hayworth, Revolutionary France’s War of Conquest in the Rhineland: Conquering the Natural Frontier, 1792-1797. Cambridge Military Histories. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xviii + 340 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $120.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781108497459.
Review by Ilya Berkovich, Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 184.
Christophe Corbin, Revisiting the French Resistance in Cinema, Literature, Bande dessinée and Television (1942-2012). Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2019. xiv + 235 pp. Bibliography and index. $95.00 U.S (hb). ISBN 978-1-4985-8205-6; $90.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-4985-8206-3.
Compte-rendu par Manu Braganca, University College Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 185.
Voltaire, Siècle de Louis XIV, sous la direction de Diego Venturino. Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire, vols. 11A, 11B, 12, 13A, 13B, 13C et 13D. 3,105 pp. £700.00. Notes, illustrations, listes, tables, ouvrages cités, et index. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2015-2019. ISBN 9780729412131.
Review by Reginald McGinnis, University of Arizona.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 186.
Catherine M. Soussloff ed., Foucault on the Arts and Letters: Perspectives for the 21st Century. London and New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. xviii + 229 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliographies, and index. $133.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-7834-8573-5;$45.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-178348-574-1.
Review by Sarah Wilson, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 187.
Barry Nevin, Cracking Gilles Deleuze’s Crystal: Narrative Space-time in the Films of Jean Renoir. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. xiv + 236 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 US (hb). ISBN 978-1-4744-2629-9.
Review by Prakash Younger, Trinity College.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 188.
Cécile Fourrel de Frettes, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez et le cinéma français 1914—1918. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2015. 243 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €29.90 (pb). ISBN 978-2-87854-635-4.
Review by Barry Nevin, Technological University Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 189.
Edmund Birch, Fictions of the Press in Nineteenth-Century France. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. ix + 238 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.99 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-3-319-72199-6; $99.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-030-10167-1; $79.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-3-319-72200-9.
Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 190.
Julie Beaulieu, L’entrécriture de Marguerite Duras: Du texte au film en passant par la scène. Québec: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2018. 283 pp. Notes and bibliography. $34.95 CA. (cl). ISBN 978-2-7606-3913-3; $24.99 CA. (pdf). ISBN 978-2-7606-3914-0; $24.99 CA. (eb). ISBN 978-2-7606-3915-7.
Review by Sara Kippur, Trinity College.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 191.
Brigitte Benkamoun. Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life. Trans. Jody Gladding. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2020. 216 pp. Notes and translator’s note. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-60606-659-1; $24.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-60606-660-7.
Review by Eilene Hoft-March, Lawrence University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 192.
Philippe Le Goff, Auguste Blanqui and the Politics of Popular Empowerment. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. vii + 263 pp. Bibliography and index. $115.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-3500-7679-2; $103.50 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-3500-7681-5.
Review by Patrick H. Hutton, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (October 2020), No. 193.
November Reviews
Joshua Meeks, France, Britain, and the Struggle for the Revolutionary Western Mediterranean. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 212 pp. $109.99 U.S. (hb). Notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 9783319440774.
Review by Matthias Middell, Leipzig University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (November 2020), No. 194.
Hubert Bonin, French Banking and Entrepreneurialism in China and Hong Kong: From the 1850s to 1980s. London: Routledge, 2020. 200 pp. $160.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781848935822; $54.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781138495548; $49.46 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781315621098.
Review by Joseph Bohling, Portland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (November 2020), No. 195.
Joseph Acquisto, Poetry’s Knowing Ignorance. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. 224 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $108.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9-78-1501355226. $86.40 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9-78-1501355233.
Review by Robert St. Clair, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (November 2020), No. 196.
Alain Badiou, Malebranche: Theological Figure, Being 2, trans. Jason E. Smith with Susan Spitzer. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. xxxvii + 193 pp. Notes and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-231-17478-7.
Review by Colby Dickinson, Loyola University Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (November 2020), No. 197.
Blandine Joret, Studying Film with André Bazin. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. Notes and index. €34.95 (pb.). ISBN 9789462989528; €0.00 (eb.). ISBN 9789048542086.
Review by Jordan Schonig, Binghamton University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (November 2020), No. 198.
Henk Byls, Rester catholique en France: L’encadrement religieux destiné aux migrants belgo-flamands du Lillois, de Paris et des campagnes françaises, 1850-1960. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019. 479 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. $69.50 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 9462701865.
Review by Nimisha Barton, Independent Scholar and Diversity Consultant.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (November 2020), No. 199.
Trevor Shelley, Globalization and Liberalism: Montesquieu, Tocqueville and Manent. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. x + 289 pp. $60.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780268107291; $47.99 (eb). ISBN 9780268107314.
Review by Blake Smith, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (November 2020), No. 200.
Joshua Cole, Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria. Ithaca N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2019. vii + 317 pp. Maps, figures, appendix, notes, and index. $37.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781501739415; $18.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781501739446.
Review by Caroline Campbell, University of North Dakota.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (November 2020), No. 201.
Maria Flood, France, Algeria and the Moving Image: Screening Histories of Violence 1963-2010. Cambridge: Legenda, 2017. 151 pp. Notes, bibliography, and filmography. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-781886-92-2; $12.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-781883-87-7.
Review by Michael F. O’Riley, Colorado College.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (November 2020), No. 202.
Melinda J. Gough, Dancing Queen: Marie de Médicis’ Ballets at the Court of Henri IV. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2019. xvi + 378 pp. Figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781487503666; $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9781487526795; $85.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781487518479.
Compte-rendu par Marie-Claude Canova-Green, Goldsmiths, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (November 2020), No. 203.
Julia Caterina Hartley, Reading Dante and Proust by Analogy. Cambridge: Legenda, 2019. x + 143 pp. Bibliography and index. £75.00, $99.00 (U.S.), €85.00. ISBN 978-1-78188-843-8 (hb); £9.99, $12.50 (U.S.), €12.50. ISBN 978-1-781888-44-5 (pb); ISBN: 978-1-781888-45-2 (JSTOR eb).
Review by Alessandra Aloisi, Oxford University (Oriel College).
H-France Review Vol. 20 (November 2020), No. 204.
Ronald C. Rosbottom, Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945. New York: Custom House, 2019. xiv + 320 pp. Map, selective chronology, bibliography, notes, and index. $27.99 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-06-247002-7.
Review by Susan B. Whitney, Carleton University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (November 2020), No. 205.
Maude Bass-Krueger and Sophie Kurkdjian, eds., French Fashion, Women, and the First World War. New York: Bard Graduate Center. 2019. viii + 520 pp. Illustrated chronology, French fashion houses active during WWI, select French fashion magazines, timeline captions, checklist of exhibition, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780300247985.
Review by Holly Grout, University of Alabama.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (November 2020), No. 206.
December Reviews
Response to H-France Review Vol. 20, no. 166 by Matthew Maguire, DePaul University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 207.
See above for original review.
François Igersheim, L’Alsace politique 1870-1914. Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2016. 232 pp. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 9-78-2868205285.
Review by Christopher Fischer, Indiana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 208.
Theodore Evergates, Marie of France: Countess of Champagne, 1145-1198. Philadelphia: University of Pennyslvania Press, 2019. ix + 180 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780812250770.
Review by Kimberly A. LoPrete, National University of Ireland Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 209.
Alain Ruscio, Les communistes et l’Algérie : Des origines à la guerre d’indépendance, 1920-1962. Paris : La Découverte, 2019. 633 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 28.00 € (pb). ISBN 9782348036484; 18.99 € (eb.). ISBN 9782348042478.
Review by Allison Drew, University of Cape Town and University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 210.
Marie-Christine Gomez-Géraud and Jean-René Valette, eds., Le discours mystique entre Moyen Âge et première modernité. Vol. 1, La question du langage. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2019. 578 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. €85.00 (pb). ISBN 9782745349644; €85.00 (eb). ISBN 9782745349644.
Review by Rachel J. Smith, University of Villanova.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 211.
Nicola Morato and Dirk Schoenaers, eds., Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018. xvi + 576 pp. Illustrations, notes, and tables. €100.00 (hb). ISBN 9-78-2503554440.
Review by Laura K. Morreale, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 212.
Edward Baring, Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. 504 pp. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-674988-37-8.
Review by Stephen Schloesser, Loyola University Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 213.
Dominique Schnapper, La citoyenneté à l’épreuve. La démocratie et les juifs. Paris: Gallimard, NRF Essais, 2018. 400 pp. €22.50. (pb). ISBN 9782072791468.
Review by Florence Largillière, Queen Mary, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 214.
Quitterie Cazes, Sculptures romanes toulousaines: Regards croisés. Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Midi, 2019. 189 pp. Illustrations by Anne Péchou. English translation by Robert Glass. Plans, drawings, glossary, and bibliography. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 987-2-8107-0628-0.
Review by Tessa Garton, College of Charleston.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 215.
Joshua Bandoch, The Politics of Place: Montesquieu, Particularism, and the Pursuit of Liberty. Rochester, N.Y.: Rochester University Press, 2017. xi + 253 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $125.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781580469029; $24.99 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9781787441668; $24.99 U.S. (ePDF). ISBN 9781787441644.
Review by Brian C.J. Singer, York University, Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 216.
Jennifer Forrest, Decadent Aesthetics and the Acrobat in Fin-de-Siècle France. New York: Routledge, 2020. 216 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $160.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9780367358143; $48.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 9780429341960.
Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 217.
James E. McClellan III, Old Regime France and its Jetons: Pointillist History and Numismatics. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2020. xiii + 268 pp. $100.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-089722-362-1.
Review by Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 218.
John H. Gill, The Battle of Znaim: Napoleon, the Habsburgs and the End of the War of 1809. Barnsley: Greenhill Books, 2020. 512 pp. Illustrations and maps. £30.00 (hb). ISBN: 978-1-78438-450-0; £15.59 (eb). ISBN: 978-1-78438-451-7.
Review by Charles J. Esdaile, University of Liverpool.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 219.
Michel Frizot and Ying-lung Su, Henri Cartier-Bresson: China 1948-1949, 1958. Translated from the French by Lorna Dale, Francisca Garvie, and Jenny Wilson. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2019. 287pp. Maps, figures, plates, timeline, notes, and bibliography. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-500-54518-8.
Review by Nicole Hudgins, The University of Baltimore.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 220.
Mame-Fatou Niang. Identités françaises: Banlieues, féminités et universalisme. Leiden and Boston: Brill-Rodopi, 2019. xii+328 pp. Illustrations and index. $146.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-40722-0; $146.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-90-04-41673-4.
Review by Kathryn Kleppinger, The George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 221.