H-France Reviews
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. La conjuration contre les carpes. Enquête sur les origines du décret de dessèchement des étangs du 14 frimaire an II. Paris: Fayard, 2006. 200 pp. Annexes, bibliography, and indexes. 20€ (pb). ISBN 9-782-213-62788-5.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 110
. Le Grand Marché: L’approvisionnement alimentaire de Paris sous l’Ancien Régime. Paris: Fayard, 2002. 1030 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 45.00 € (pb). ISBN 9-782213-611440.
Review by Cynthia Bouton, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 25
. Gerauld de Cordemoy: Atomist, Occasionalist, Cartesian. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2005. 127 pages. Bibliographical references. $17.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87-46266-76.
Review by April G. Shelford, American University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 152
, The French Educator Célestin Freinet (1896-1966): An Inquiry into How His Ideas Shaped Education. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2007. xvi + 108 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-1923-0 / 978-0-7391-1923-5; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1924-9 / 978-0-7391-1924-2.
Review by David Clandfield, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 27
. Euro-Orientalism: Liberal Ideology and the Image of Russia in France (c. 1740-1880). Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 358 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $66.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 3-03910-516-7.
Review by N. Christine Brookes, Central Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 43
. A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. x + 292 pp. Appendixes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-271-01956-5.
Review by Clare Crowston, University of Illinois at Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 19
, Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 294 pp. $24.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-29-200-000-0.
, L’absinthe au feminine. Saint Remy-de-Provence: Equinoxe, 2007. 136 pp. €19 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84135559-4.
Review by Scott Haine, University of California Santa Cruz and Holy Names College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 40
. Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance. Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xii + 311 pp. Bibliography. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-4039-6294-4.
Review by Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 50
. Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2001. xvii + 342 pp. Illustrations, appendix, bibliography, notes, and index. $48.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-520-22653-4.
Review by William Weber, California State University, Long Beach.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 48
Jews and Gender in Liberation France. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 273pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 0-521-79048-4.
Review by Maud Mandel, Brown University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 75
La Caisse des dépôts et consignations, la Seconde Guerre mondiale et le XXe siècle. Paris : Albin Michel, 2003. 670 pages, € 32.00. ISBN 2-226-13894-3.
Review by Hubert Bonin, Institut d’études politiques de Bordeaux.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 62
. 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
, The Sphinx in the Tuileries and Other Essays in Modern French History: Papers Presented at the Eleventh George Rudé Seminar. University of Sydney, 1999. vi + 399, notes. ISBN 1-86487-026-5.
Review by Kenneth Margerison, Southwest Texas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (February 2001), No. 2
France and the Algerian War, 1954-62: Strategy, Operations and Diplomacy. London and Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 2002. xviii + 213 pp. Chronology, maps, figures, abstracts, and index. $59.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7146-5297-0; $26.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7146-8264-0.
Review by Michael Creswell, The Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 84
The Algerian War and the French Army, 1954-1962: Experiences, Images, Testimonies. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2002. xi + 269 pp. Notes, appendix on witness testimonies, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-333-77456-6.
Review by Sylvie Thénault, L’Institut d’histoire du temps présent (IHTP) CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 38
Crisis and Renewal in France, 1918-1962. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002. vii + 312 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cl). Notes, list of contributors, and index. ISBN 1-57181-146-X.
Review by Irwin Wall, University of California, Riverside, and New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 135
Napoleon. (London and New York: Arnold, 2001). 273 pp. Illustrations. $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-340-71916-8.
Review by Annie Jourdan, University of Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 50
. Re-Writing the French Revolutionary Tradition: Liberal Opposition and the Fall of the Bourbon Monarchy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi + 385 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography,and index. $80.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-80122-2.
Review by Philip Nord, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 71
. The Question. Translated from the French by John Calder. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press Bison Books, 2006. xliv + 102 pp. Foreword, introduction, preface, afterword. $16.95 U.S. (pb) ISBN 0-8032-5960-3.
Review by Kim Munholland, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 12
. Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiii + 270 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $42.50 US. ISBN 0-8018-6204-3.
Review by Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 12
. Les Tribunaux criminels sous la Révolution et l’Empire, 1792-1811. Collection « Histoire » Translated by James Steven Bryant (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2005) 318 pp. 22€ ISBN 2-7535-00095-9.
Review by Judith A. Miller, Emory University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 19
. Women and Politics in France, 1958-2000. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. xiv + 270 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography and index. $31.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-18493-2.
Review by Laura Lee Downs, École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 65
Distant Lands and Diverse Cultures: The French Experience in Asia, 1600-1700. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2003. xvii + 269 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-313-30864-0.
Review by Adrian Carton, Macquarie University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 51
. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 266 pp. Plates, notes, and index. $80.00 (cl). ISBN 0-521-83726-X.
Review by Benjamin Harvey, Mississippi State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 22
. The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. 441 pp. Figures, maps, notes, and index. $26.00. ISBN 0-374-27341-3.
Review by Paul R. Hanson, Butler University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 18
, Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii + 449 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $35.00 US (hb). ISBN 0-674-01703-X.
Review by Siân Reynolds, University of Stirling.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 69
. Politiques du passé : usages politiques du passé dans la France contemporaine. Collection Le temps de l'histoire. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence, 2006. 266 pp. Notes and index. 26€. ISBN 2-85399-630-1.
. Concurrence des passés: Usages politiques du passe dans la France contemporaine. [Actes du colloque les usages politiques du passé dans la France contemporaine des années 1970 à nos jours, organise par le centre d'histoire sociale du XXe siècle, Paris I, et l'équipe pouvoirs, savoirs, sociétés, Paris VIII]. Collection Le temps de l'histoire. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence, 2006. 300pp. Notes and index. 26€. ISBN 2-85399-631-X.
Review by Seth Armus, Saint Joseph’s College, New York.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 62
Associations et champ politique: La loi de 1901 à l épreuve de siècle. Paris: Publication de la Sorbonne, 2001. 723 pp. Notes, appendices, and bibliography. 35.00 Euros (pb). ISBN 2-85944-424-6.
Review by Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 101
. 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
. 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
. Manet Manette. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. xviii, 400 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-300-09658-5.
Review by James Smalls, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 18
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
French Anti-Americanism (1930-1948): Critical Moments in a Complex History. Lanham, Md. and Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books, 2007. x + 179 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1268-7, ISBN-10: 0-7391-1268-6.
Review by Paul Mazgaj, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 123
Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005. viii + 320 pp. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 03-40-80786-5.
Review by James Given, University of California, Irvine.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 92
. Inquisition and Power. Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. ix+312 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and acknowledgements. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3618-1
Review by Michael Goodich, University of Haifa.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 11
. Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. X + 291 pp. Notes and index. $32.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-02796-1.
Review by Michael Scott Christofferson, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 118
Medieval Conduct. Medieval Cultures, no. 29. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. xx + 241 pp. Notes, list of contributors, and index. $54.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8166-3575-7; $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8166-3576-5.
Review by Cordelia Beattie, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 5
. Religion and Revolution in France, 1780-1804. Washinton, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press and London: Macmillan Press, 2000. xii + 435 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8132-0976-5. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8132-0977-3.
Review by David Garrioch, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 10
. May 68 in French Fiction and Film: Rethinking Society, Rethinking Representation. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. viii + 182 pp. Chronology, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-871515-3.
Review by Michael Scott Christofferson, Pennsylvania State University, Erie.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 64
. 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
. France and the Great War 1914-1918. New Approaches to European History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. vi + 202 pp. Plates, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $58.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0- 521-66176-5; $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-66631-7.
Review by Martha Hanna, University of Colorado at Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 119
. Marguerite: A Reflection of Herself. Brooklyn, N.Y.: First Run / Icarus Films, 2002. VHS, 61 minutes. Color and black and white. $390.00 U.S.
Review by Catherine Rodgers, University of Wales, Swansea.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 60
. Sociolinguistic Variation in Seventeenth-Century France: Methodology and Case Studies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 267 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-82088-X.
Review by Paul Cohen, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 96
. Descartes et la France: Histoire d'une passion nationale. Paris: Fayard, 2001. 366 pp. Notes and index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-213-61045-2.
Review by J. B. Shank, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 46
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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.
Review by Malcolm Barber, University of Reading.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 12
Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism. Cambridge and New York. Cambridge University Press. 2004. 308 pp. Notes. $65.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 0-521-82563-1.
Review by David Higgs, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 110
. Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. ix + 425 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-8071-2624-1.
Review by Steven D. Kale, Washington State University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 21
. The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting. Ed. Colin B. Bailey. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2003. ix + 412 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-09946-0.
Review by Paula Radisich, Whittier College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 53
. Louis Le Vau: Mazarin’s College, Colbert’s Revenge. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. ix + 236 pp. Architectural drawings, photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-04895-9.
Review by Douglas C. Baxter, Ohio University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 77
Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002. xxii + 319 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-7735-2444-4.
Review by Pierre H. Boulle, McGill University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 65
. 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
Catching up with America. Productivity Missions and the Diffusion of Amercian Economic and Technological Influence after the Second World War. . Paris: Presse de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002. 477 pp. Tables, notes, and index. 29.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-84050-240-2.
Review by Ove Bjarnar, Molde University College, Norway.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 62
L'américanisation de l'Europe occidentale au XXe siècle: Mythe et Réalité. Paris: Presse de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2002. 274 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 24.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-84050-241-0.
Review by Seth Armus, Saint Joseph's College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 89
. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii + 335 pp. Illustrations, bibliography and index. $120.00 (cl). ISBN 0-521-55508-6.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 21
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
Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiii + 255 pp. Notes and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3945-0.
Review by Alan Williams, Wake Forest University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 75
. 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
, 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, Penn State Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 21
. 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
. Staging Politics and Gender: French Women’s Drama, 1880-1923. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 186 pp. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN-10 140-3965-854.
Review by Jennifer Birkett, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 11
The Modernist Enterprise: French Elites and the Threat of Modernity, 1900-1940. Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 1999. ix + 231 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50 (cl). ISBN 0-8047-3511-5.
Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts/ Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (March 2001), No. 6
Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Edited by Allyson Poska and Abby Zanger. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2006. xii + 345 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S./£47.50 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-5354-4.
Review by Katharine J. Hamerton, Columbia College, Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 33
Response by Faith Beasley, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 34
. L’espace des francs-maçons: Une sociabilité européene au XVIIIe siècle. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2003. 234 pp. Notes, illustrations, documents, and index. € 16.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86847-852-2.
Review by Michael R. Lynn, Agnes Scott College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 10
. L’Europe des francs-maçons, XVIIIe-XXIe siècles. Paris: Éditions Belin, 2002. 320 pp. Notes & bibliography. 15.50 € (pb). ISBN 2-701102835-8.
Review by Margaret C. Jacob, University of California at Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 115
. Nobles jeux de l'arc et loges maçonniques dans la France des Lumières: Enquête sur une sociabilité en mutation. Collection "Les Architectes de la Connaissance." Grosley, Val d'Oise: Éditions Ivoire-Clair, 2002, 255 pp. Notes, documents, and bibliography. 18 € (pb). ISBN 2-913882-15-3.
Review by Gail Bossenga, University of Kansas at Lawrence.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 75
, Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27. Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir and Margaret Simons, with Marybeth Timmerman, eds. Translation, notes, and annotations
by Barbara Klaw. Champaign, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xi + 392 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-0-252-03142-7.
Review by Shannon M. Mussett, Utah Valley University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 60
. France and the Great War 1914-1918. New Approaches to European History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. vi + 202 pp. Plates, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $58.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0- 521-66176-5; $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-66631-7.
Review by Martha Hanna, University of Colorado at Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 119
, Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii + 492 pp. Index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-81012-4.
Review by Allyson J. Delnore, Marquette University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 32
. Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France? The Case for St. Florent of Saumur. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. xii + 142 pp. Map, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6670-2.
Review by Shirley Ann Brown, York University, Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 142
. Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism. Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif., and London: University of California Press, 2001. xvi + 584 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 0-520-22297-0.
Review by Edgar Leon Newman, New Mexico State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (June 2001), No. 14
. Shantytown Kid [Le Gone du Chaâba]. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Ed., intro., Alec G. Hargreaves; trans. Naïma Wolf and Alec G. Hargreaves. xii + 212 pp. Map, photographs, glossary and bibliography. $15.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-6258-4.
Review by Daniel A. Gordon, Edge Hill University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 118
. Ethnicity and Equality: France in the Balance. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Trans., intro., Alec G.Hargreaves. xxvii + 151 pp. Author’s preface, notes, glossary and index. $14.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-6262-1.
Review by Daniel A. Gordon, Edge Hill University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 118
. Un mouton dans le baignoire. Paris: Fayard, 2007. 377 pp. 20€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-213-63375-6.
Review by Daniel A. Gordon, Edge Hill University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 118
The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. xiv + 304 pp. Notes, index, and 16 illustrations. $45.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-674-00447-7.
Review by Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 24
Response by David A. Bell to Thomas Kaiser's review
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 25
< Nicolas de Clamanges: Spirituality, Personal Reform and Pastoral Renewal on the Eve of the Reformations. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University Press of America, 2001. xii + 146 pp. Bibliography and index. $44.95 U.S. ISBN 0-8132-0996-X.
Review by Erin L. Jordan, University of Northern Colorado.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 53
. Colette. VHS; 29 minutes, black & white. Distributed in the U.S. by First/Run Icarus Films, 2003 [1951].
Review by Judith Mayne, Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 58
. Remembrance of Things to Come (Le Souvenir d’un avenir). Les films de l’Equinoxe, produced for ARTE. 42 minutes. VHS format. B&W. First Run Icarus Films, 2001. $390.00 U.S. (rental $125.00).
Review by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 35
. Funerals, Politics, and Memory in Modern France 1789-1996. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2000. 425pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 US (cl). ISBN: 00-19-820328-4.
Review by Edward Berenson, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 20
. The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present. Translated by M. B. DeBevoise. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xii + 281 pp. Chronology, notes, bibliography and index. $29.95 (cl). ISBN 0-691-05984-5.
Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 17
, 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
. Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. xxvi + 670 pp. Figures, maps, graphs, bibliographical notes, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-08812-4.
Review by Raymond A. Mentzer, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 52
. The Faith and Fortunes of France’s Huguenots, 1600-8. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2001, xiv + 336 pp. Maps, tables, notes and index. $99.95 U.S. ISBN 0 7546 0225 7.
Review by Daniel Hickey, Université de Moncton.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 4
Villas and Gardens in Early Modern France and Italy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xx + 428 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-78225-2.
Review by David Buisseret, University of Texas at Arlington.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 128
. Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xxi + 352 pp. Map, plates, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-22217-2.
Review by Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 94
, Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750-1960. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005. 312 pp. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-253-21710-5.
Review by Jennifer J. Popiel, Saint Louis University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 140
., Le Père Joseph. L'Eminence grise de Richelieu. Paris. Perrin, 2007. 476 pp. Notes, genealogies, bibliography, index. 24 € (cl). ISBN 978-2-262-02244-0.
Review by Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 22
Rétablissement de l’esclavage dans les colonies françaises. Aux origines de Haïti. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2003. 592 pp. 35.00 €. ISBN 2-7068-1692-9.
Review by Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 91
In Old Paris. An Anthology of Source Descriptions, 1323-1790. New York: Italica Press, 2002. xi + 194 pp. Footnotes, maps, and appendices. $15.00 U.S. ISBN 0-934977-66-6.
Review by Colin Jones, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 83
. Résister à la conscription, 1798-1814. Le cas des départements aquitains. Paris: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2002. 598 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and bibliography. 32.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-7355-0512-X.
Review by Alan Forrest, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 49
. 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
, 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.
Review by Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 81
Daughters of Eve: A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin-de-Siècle. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. xiv + 300 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-00596-1.
Review by Charles Sowerwine, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 29
Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in JazzAge France. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. xii + 273 pp. Photographs, notes, and index. $35.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-5584-935-65.
Review by Michael G. Vann, Santa Clara University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 35
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
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
Medieval Religion: New Approaches. Rewriting Histories. New York and London: Routledge, 2005. xxiii + 422 pp. Figures, notes, index. $105.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-415-31686-3; $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-31687-1.
Review by Christine Caldwell Ames, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 65
. The Cistercian Evolution: The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. xxiv + 382 pp. Charts, plans, photographs, maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.55 U.S. (cl); £42.00 G.B. ISBN 0-8122-3534-7.
Review by Bruce L. Venarde, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 121
Response by Constance Berman, to the review of her book by Bruce L. Venarde.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 122
, La Voix et le Geste. Une approche culturelle de la violence socio-politique. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2005. 384 pp. Appendices and illustrations. €38 (pb). ISBN 2-84516-276-6.
Review by Charles Tilly, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 17
L'Incident électoral de la Révolution française à la Ve République. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2002. 334 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-84516-208-1.
Review by Cherilyn Lacy, Hartwick College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 93
. A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917-1945. Contributions to the Study of World History, no. 97. Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. xiv + 323 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313-32026-8.
Review by Judith Wishnia, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 51
. Le Duc d’Enghien. Paris: Fayard, 2001. 466 pp. Maps, figures, illustrations, bibliography, and index. 24.50 Euros (pb). ISBN 2-213-60987-X.
Review by Malcolm Crook, Keele University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 110
. The King’s Body: Sacred Rituals of Power in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Trans. R. Burr Lichfield. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. xviii + 302 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02102.
Review by Paul Sonnino, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 86
. Proust at the Movies. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. 261 pp. Color and black-and-white illustrations, filmography, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-75463541-4.
Review by Patrick M. Bray, Indiana University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 115
. Missionnaires de la République. Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2002. 624 pp. Notes and index. 32.00 € (cl.). ISBN 2-735-50516-2.
Review by Yvon Le Gall, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 74
, 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
. Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages. Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. x + 248 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-333-96120-X.
Review by Megan Cassidy-Welch, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 16
Tricolor over the Sahara: The Desert Battles of the Free French, 1940-1942. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. xii + 134 pp. Illustrations, select bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313-31654-6.
Review by Elizabeth Greenhalgh, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 54
. The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 300 pp. Notes, bibliography, map, illustrations, and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82017-0.
Review by Brian Sandberg, Medici Archive Project.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 42
. Forging Rousseau: Print, Commerce, and Cultural Manipulation in the Late Enlightenment. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2001:08. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2001. ix + 281 pp. Bibliography and index. £49.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0770-5.
Review by Sheryl Kroen, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 6
. France and the Grand Tour. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. x + 234 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00. ISBN 1-4039-0690-4.
Review by Munro Price, University of Bradford.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 92
. Decadence of the Nude/La décadence du nu. Ed. Sarah Wilson. Introduction by Alyce Mahon. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2003. 205 pp. Figures, bibliographies, and notes. $26.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-901033-62-7.
Review by Brett Bowles, Iowa State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 105
, Bonapartists in the Borderlands. French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2005. xx + 302 p. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography and index. $50.00. ISBN 13: 978-0-8173-1487-3 (cl).
Compte rendu par Nicole Fouché, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Centre d’études nord-américaines/École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 65
. The French Army, 1750-1820: Careers, Talent, Merit. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002. xii + 227 pp. Tables, illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. £45.00 (cl). ISBN 0-7190-6262-4.
Review by Annie Crépin, Université d’Artois.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 103
. Race Politics in Britain and France: Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 233 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl); $23.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-81101-5 (cl); ISBN 0-521-00953-7 (pb).
Review by Alec G. Hargreaves, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 43
, Le temps des sciences humaines. Gaston Roupnel et les années trente. Paris: Éditions le Manuscrit-Maison des sciences de l’homme de Dijon, 2006. 279 pp. Notes. 21.90 € (pb). ISBN 2-7481-8196-4.
Review by John Strachan, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 130
. The Anonymous Marie de France. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xii + 367 pp. Notes and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-05968-5.
Review by R. W. Hanning, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 25
. Enlightening the World, Encyclopédie, The Book That Changed the Course of History. New York and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xiii + 372 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6895-0.
Review by Raymond Birn, University of Oregon.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 83
L’antisémitisme éclairé. Inclusion et exclusion depuis l’Epoque des Lumières jusqu’à l’affaire Dreyfus / Inclusion and Exclusion: Perspectives on Jews from the Enlightenment to the Dreyfus Affair. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003. xi + 469 pp. Bibliography and index. €105.00, $142.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 90-04-12972-3.
Review by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, California State University at San Marcos.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 80
Recollections of France. Memories, Identities and Heritage in Contemporary France. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000. vi + 264 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $ 69.95 (cl). ISBN 1-57181-728-X. $25.00 (pb). ISBN 1-57181-499-X.
Review by Robert Gildea, Oxford University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 127
. Strength in Numbers: Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiii + 261 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $44.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-6810-6.
Review by David Klinck, University of Windsor.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 74
. The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 Years. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press and The German Historical Institute, 1998. ix + 674 pp. Bibliography and index. ISBN 0-521-62132-1
Review by Joel Blatt, University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 9
. Crown and Nobility in Early Modern France. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001. x+194. Notes and index. $65.00 U.S. ISBN 0-333-60971-9. $21.95 U.S. ISBN:0-333-60972-7.
Review by Jonathan Dewald, SUNY at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 7
. Camembert: A National Myth (California Studies in Food and Culture, 4) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xiii +254 pp. $29.95 (hb) ISBN 0-520-22550-3.
Review by Kolleen M. Guy, University of Texas at San Antonio.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (December 2004), No. 120
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
, Conflicting Visions: War and Visual Culture in Britain and France c. 1700-1830. Aldershot and Burlington,VT: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005. xiv + 231 pp. Illustrations, notes, works cited, index. 54 b&w ills. $99.95/£55.00. ISBN 0-7546-0575-2.
Review by David O’Brien, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 3
. La Banque nationale de crédit : Histoire de la quatrième banque de dépôts française en 1913-1932. Paris: Éditions P.L.A.G.E., 2002. 237 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. 70€ (pb). ISBN 2-914369-04-2.
Review by Samir Saul, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 68
. 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
. Vichy et l’ordre moral. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2005, 319 pp. Notes, graphiques, tableaux. Préface de Gérard Noiriel. € 26.00. ISBN 2-13-055339-7.
Review by Jean-Pierre Le Crom, CNRS-Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 53
. Faire l’Europe sans défaire la France. 60 ans de politique d’unité européenne des gouvernements et des présidents de la République française (1943-2003). Brussels: P. I. E. Peter Lang, 2005. 630 pp. €54.50, $64.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 90-5201-249-0.
Review by Helen Drake, Loughborough University, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 90
. Des Terroristes à la retraite. 1983/France/Color. Studio: Zek Productions. Running Time: 84 min.
Review by Patrick Young.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (March 2001), No. 5
. Every Valley Shall Be Exalted : The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xvi + 171 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4058-0.
Review by Rachel Fulton, The University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 91
. "Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. xii + 249 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-8122-3590-8.
Review by Kimberly A. LoPrete, National University of Ireland, Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 37
. Napoléon et les cultes: Les religions en Europe à l’aube du XIXe siècle, 1800-1815. Paris: Fayard, 2002. 369 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. 20 € (pb). ISBN 9-78213-61414-4.
Review by Pierre Legal, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 13
, 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
, La Voix et le Geste. Une approche culturelle de la violence socio-politique. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2005. 384 pp. Appendices and illustrations. €38 (pb). ISBN 2-84516-276-6.
Review by Charles Tilly, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 17
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
L'Incident électoral de la Révolution française à la Ve République. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2002. 334 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-84516-208-1.
Review by Cherilyn Lacy, Hartwick College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 93
, The Myth of Pope Joan. Trans. Lydia G. Cochrane. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x + 386 pp. Preface to the American edition, reproductions, bibliography, notes, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl); $22.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-06745-9.
Review by Larissa J. Taylor, Colby College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 85
, After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France. Afterword by François Dosse. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2004. vii + 426 pp. Bibliography, index, and about the contributors. $90.00 U.S. ISBN 0-7391-0792-5.
Review by Melanie A. Bailey, Centenary College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 14
Impressionist Giverny, A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915. Giverny: Musée d’art Américain Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007. 219 pp. Exhibition catalogue with foreword, illustrations, essays, catalogue of the works shown in the exhibition, historical documents, map, list of artists working in Giverny, selected bibliography, index. (cl) ISBN 978-0932171-52-8.
Review by Sally Webster, Lehman College and the Graduate Center CUNY.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 149
. Jules Breton, Painter of Peasant Life. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, in association with the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 2002. ??? 264 pp. I illustrations (43 b/w + 158 colors). $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-300-09575-9.
Review by Nadine Vivier, Université du Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 19
La religion dans la ville. Bordeaux: Éditions Bière, 2003. 270 pp. Maps, tables, figures, and notes. 28.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-85276-081-9.
Review by Stéphane Gerson, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 147
Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State and Public Space Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. 290 pp. $27.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-691-12506-6.
Review by Alec G. Hargreaves, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 28
. 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
, The Cambridge Companion to Molière. Cambridge, U.K. and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xix + 242 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0521837596; $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0521546656.
Review by Stephen C. Bold, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 103
, Law, City, and King: Legal Culture, Municipal Politics, and State Formation in Early Modern Dijon. Rochester, New York, and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 2007. xv + 307 pp. Maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $75 U.S. (cl).ISBN-10: 1580462367.
Review by Jonathan Dewald, University at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 55
. Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models. London, Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003. vi + 245 pp. Index. €54.00 (cl.). ISBN 3-16-148018-X.
Review by Jay R. Berkovitz, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 150
. 1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry. New York: Fourth Estate, 2004. 354 pp. $37.31 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-841-15040-1.
Review by Martin K. Foys, Hood College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 124
Guns in the Desert: General Jean-Pierre Doguereau’s Journal of Napoleon’s Egyptian Expedition. Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger, 2002. xv + 200 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313-32512-X.
Review by Maya Jasanoff, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 69
. The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy. The War against God, 1801-1814. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. xvi + 238pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S (hb). ISBN 0-415-26670-X.
Review by Malcolm Crook, Keele University (UK).
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 45
. A Question of Self-Esteem. The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy, 1944-1958. Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger Publishers, 2002. xvi + 315 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S.(cl). ISBN 0-275-97293-3.
Review by Julius W. Friend, George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 86
. Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. xvi + 560 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography and index. $80.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-226-07587-7.
Review by David Buisseret, The University of Texas at Arlington/The Newberry Library, Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 26
. Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2002. viii + 282 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-0671-6.
Review by Katharine J. Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 41
. 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 (January 2005), No. 13
Descartes and the Passionate Mind. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xi + 231 pp. Bibliography and index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-85728-4.
Review by Matthew Lauzon, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 77
A Field of Honor: Writers, Court Culture, and Public Theater in French Literary Life from Racine to the Revolution. www.gutenberg-e.org and Columbia University Press, 2002. 387 pp. Links, images, notes, and bibliography. $49.95 U.S. (e-text). ISBN 0-231-12460-0.
Review by Emmet Kennedy, George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 33
Gregory Brown's commentary on electronic publishing
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 34
, Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775-1793: Beaumarchais, the Société des Auteurs Dramatiques and the Comédie Française. Aldershot and Burlington, Vt: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. x + 186 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0386-5.
Review by Marisa Linton, Kingston University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 31
Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, and Repression, from the Terror to Napoleon. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. 358 pp. Annexes, notes, bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 081-39254-60.
Compte-rendu par Bernard Gainot, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 112
Response by Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University, State University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 113
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
A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xx + 380 pp. Tables, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-7006-1253-X.
Review by Elizabeth Greenhalgh, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 135
Calvinism's First Battleground: Conflict and Reform in the Pays de Vaud, 1528-1559. Studies in Early Modern Religious Reforms 4. xvi + 286 pp. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005. Bibliography and index. $139.00 (cl). ISBN 1-4020-4193-4.
Review by Raymond A. Mentzer, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 74
. Vie et mort du couple en Nouvelle-France: Québec et Louisbourg au XVIIIe siècle. Montreal, Que., Kingston, Ont., London, U.K., and Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006. xi + 185 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-3067-6, ISBN-10: 0-7735-3067-3; (pb). ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-3068-3, ISBN-10: 0-7735-3068-1.
Review by Leslie Choquette, Institut français, Assumption College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 92
Tragedy Walks the Streets: The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ix + 191 pp. Notes, index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-8434-9.
Review by Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 134
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
. Ingénieurs et fortifications avant Vauban. L’organisation d’un service royal aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles. Paris: Éditions du CTHS, 2002. 142 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 33.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-7355-0478-6.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 27
. Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2000. viii + 380 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $55 US (cl). ISBN 0-8047-3878-5.
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 38
Response by the author
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 39
. 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
. Courtly Love Undressed: Reading through Clothes in Medieval French Culture. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 326 pp. Notes and bibliography. $49.95 U.S./£35.00 G.B. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3671-8.
Review by Jane H. M. Taylor, University of Durham.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 40
. France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 1999. xiv + 210 pp. Appendix, footnotes, bibliography and index. $39.95 (cl). ISBN 0-312-21813-3.
Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 17
. The Stereotype of the Priest in the Old French Fabliaux: Anticlerical Satire and Lay Identity. Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2005. 265 pp. $50.95 U. S. (hb). ISBN 0-82-046888-86.
Review by Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 48
Holy Tears, Holy Blood: Women, Catholicism, and the Culture of Suffering in France, 1840-1970. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2004. ix + 291 pp. Includes bibliographical references and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-80145-4207-9.
Review by Rebecca Rogers, Université Paris 5, Sorbonne.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 101
Blood in the City: Violence and Revelation in Paris, 1789-1945. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. xv+395 pp. Map, figures, notes, chronology, and index. $36.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3868-3.
Review by Bertrand Taithe, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 17
, London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii + 367. Notes. $125.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-926949-1.
Review by Martin Horn, McMaster University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 73
, Catholic and French Forever: Religious and National Identity in Modern France . University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. xxiii + 278 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cl) ISBN 0-271-02704-5.
Review by James F. McMillan, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 32
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Cahun, Claude. Disavowals or Cancelled Confessions. With original preface by Pierre Mac Orlan. Trans. Susan de Muth. Intro. by Jennifer Mundy. Afterword by François Leperlier. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. xxii + 226 pp. Plates, notes.$25.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-262-53303-4.
Review by Tirza True Latimer, California College of the Arts.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 95
, 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.
Review by Daniel Ringrose, Minot State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 77
, The Cambridge Companion to Molière. Cambridge, U.K. and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xix + 242 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0521837596; $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0521546656.
Review by Stephen C. Bold, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 103
. Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France. New York : Knopf, 2006. 640 pp. $30.00 (hb). ISBN 0-37-54113-13.
Compte-rendu par Laurent Joly, Université de Paris I.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 82
The Origins of the French Revolution. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. v + 371. Notes, bibliography and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-333-71704-X; $28.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-333-69348-5.
Review by Jack R. Censer, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 114
Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno: Culture, Identity and Society. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. xii + 282 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. ISBN 0-7546-0849-2.
Review by Susan Weiner, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 58
Proust’s Deadline. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x + 140 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03070-3.
Review by William C. Carter, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 72
, ed., Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe. Houndmills, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $74.95 (hb). ISBN 1-4039-3926-8.
Review by William G. Naphy, University of Aberdeen.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 50
, 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
. AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. ix + 204 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN: 0-299-17290-2 and $19.95 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 0-299-17294-5.
Review by Andrew Aisenberg, Scripps College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 53
, La Voix et le Geste. Une approche culturelle de la violence socio-politique. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2005. 384 pp. Appendices and illustrations. €38 (pb). ISBN 2-84516-276-6.
Review by Charles Tilly, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 17
L'Incident électoral de la Révolution française à la Ve République. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2002. 334 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-84516-208-1.
Review by Cherilyn Lacy, Hartwick College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 93
. Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models. London, Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003. vi + 245 pp. Index. €54.00 (cl.). ISBN 3-16-148018-X.
Review by Jay R. Berkovitz, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 150
. Uneasy Asylum: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-1942. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xi + 605 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $65.00 (cl). ISBN 0-8047-3312-0.
Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 17
, 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
. The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 401 pp. $39.50. ISBN 12-978-0-691-01715-0.
Review by Philip Nord, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 105
Proust in Love. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 2006. xiv + 252 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $26 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0-300-10812-5.
Review by Patrick M. Bray, Indiana University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 115
, London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii + 367. Notes. $125.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-926949-1.
Review by Martin Horn, McMaster University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 73
. La IVe République. Que sais-je? Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2004. 128 pp. Appendix, bibliography. €8.00 (pbk). ISBN 2-13-053651-4.
Review by Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University Lincoln Center.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 62
Send Me God: The Lives of Ida The Compassionate of Nivelles, Nun of La Ramée, Arnulf, Lay Brother Of Villers, and Abundus, Monk of Villers, by Goswin of Bossut. Brepols Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 6. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 258 pp. Black and white illustrations. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 027-10268-39.
Review by Laura Wertheimer, Cleveland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 71
. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2001. xiii + 212. Maps, illustrations, index, CD-ROM. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-271-02088-1.
Review by Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University, SUNY.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 20
. The End of Empire in French West Africa: France’s Successful Decolonization? Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002. 264 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 1-85973-552-5. $20.00 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 1-85973-557-6.
Review by Alice Bullard, Georgia Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 120
Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France. New York and Hampshire, UK: Palgrave, 2002. xii + 248 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0333791800.
Review by Todd Shepard, University of Oklahoma.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 114
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
Private Ambition and Political Alliances. The Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain Family and Louis XIV’s Government, 1650--1715. Rochester NY and Woodbridge Suffolk, UK: University of Rochester Press, 2004. xv + 292 pp. Illustrations, genealogical charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 1-58046-153-0, ISSN 1542-3905.
Review by Peter R. Campbell, University of Sussex, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 144
. La Société des Observateurs de l'homme: Des anthropologues au temps de Bonaparte (1799-1804). Paris: Société des études robespierristes, 2002. 573 pp. Tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. 46.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-908327-45-7.
Review by Paul Edison, University of Texas at El Paso.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 68
Histoire de l’enseignement, XIXe-XXe siècles : Guide du chercheur. Seconde édition revue et augmentée. Paris: Institut national de recherche pédagogique/Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2006. 728 pp. Notes and index. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7355-0593-6.
Review by Mona L. Siegel, California State University Sacramento.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 150
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
. Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Staging Modernity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ix + 268 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-7041-6.
Review by Jeffrey H. Jackson, Rhodes College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 72
Chartier, Roger. Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Notes and index. 203 pp. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0812239959; $22.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0812220469.
Review by Timothy Hampton, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 102
Chartier, Roger. Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Notes and index. 203 pp. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0812239959; $22.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0812220469.
Review by Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 104
. Sexual Antipodes: Enlightenment Globalization and the Placing of Sex. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xi + 320 pages. Notes and index. $49.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8047-4663-X.
Review by Jennifer Heuer, Middlebury College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 101
. The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France. University Park: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2005. vii + 448 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02520-4.
Review by Judith DeGroat, St. Lawrence University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 97
Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. xiii+474pp. Maps, genealogies, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3952-3
Review by Carol J. Williams, Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Australia.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 14
. 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
. A Political Academy in Paris 1724-1731: The Entresol and Its Members. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2000. xi + 289 pp. Appendices, bibliography, and index. $94.88 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0736-5.
Review by Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 94
. Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. ix+234 pp. Notes and index. $42.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-8014-4110-2.
Review by Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 23
. France during World War II: from Defeat to Liberation. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. xiv + 254 pp. Map, notes, index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8232-2562-3; $24.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8232-2563-1.
Review by Nicole Dombrowski Risser, Towson University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 74
. 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
. Du volontaire au conscrit, les levées d'hommes dans le Puy-de- Dôme pendant la Révolution française. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2001. 2 vol. 781 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography and index. 32.01 Euros. ISBN 284516-153-0.
Review by Annie Crépin, Université d'Artois.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (May 2002), No. 38
Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. viii + 368 pp. Notes, illustrations, annotated bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-8-997-5.
Review by Sarah A. Curtis, San Francisco State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 36
Medieval Conduct. Medieval Cultures, no. 29. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. xx + 241 pp. Notes, list of contributors, and index. $54.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8166-3575-7; $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8166-3576-5.
Review by Cordelia Beattie, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 5
The Reform of the Frankish Church: Chrodegang of Metz and the Regula canonicorum in the Eighth Century. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, 61. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 342 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and indices. £50 U.K./$80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-83931-9.
Review by Abigail Firey, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 36
. 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 (January 2005), No. 15
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Joan of Arc: Her Story. Trans. and rev. Jeremy duQuesnay Adams. Ed. Bonnie Wheeler. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999. xxii + 304 pp. Appendices, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $14.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-312-22730-2.
Review by Rene S. Marion, Ball State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (June 2001), No. 15
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
, Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe: Italy, France and Flanders, Manchester Medieval Sources. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004. xxiv + 389 pp. Maps, notes, suggested reading, and index. $74.95 (hb) + $24.95 (pb) ISBN 0-7190-6730-8 (hb), 0-7190-6731-6 (pb).
Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 12
, Redefining the French Republic (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006), 179 pp. $84.95 ISBN 0-7190-7150-X.
Review by Timothy B. Smith, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 13
, 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
French History and Civilization. Papers from the George Rudé Seminar. Volume One, 2005. Melbourne: The George Rudé Society. 2005. 286 pp. ISSN 1553-9172.
Review by Lenard R. Berlanstein, University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 75
From Tribes to Nation: The Making of Modern France, 500-1789. Toronto and London: Wadsworth-Thomson Learning, 2002. xlii + 750 pp. Introduction, maps, illustrations, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $42.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-15-500257-0.
The last five chapters are also published separately as The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution. Toronto and London: Wadsworth-Thomson Learning, 2002. xxviii + 277 pp. Introduction, maps, illustrations, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $34.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-15-507387-7.
Review by John M. Burney, Loras College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 130
The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. xi + 222 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 0-8014-4020-3.
Review by David Klinck, University of Windsor.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 108
. The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting. Ed. Colin B. Bailey. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2003. ix + 412 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-09946-0.
Review by Paula Radisich, Whittier College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 53
. Huguenot Heartland: Montauban and Southern French Calvinism during the Wars of Religion (St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History). Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2002. xiv + 257 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $84.95 U.S., £47.50 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0762-3.
Review by Mack P. Holt, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 30
The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book. Aldershot, England, and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2001. xviii + 366 pp. Figures, tables, notes on contributors, abbreviations, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0278-8.
Review by Brad S. Gregory, Stanford University.
. Slavery and the French and Haitian Revolutions (L’Attitude de la France à l’égard de l’esclavage pendant la Révolution). Trans. and ed. Frances Richardson Keller. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005 (French orig. 1925). 159 pp. + Index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7425-4474-5.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 121
. Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. vii + 327 pp. Figures, maps, notes, and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-24214-9. $ 19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-520-24414-1.
Review by Alice Conklin, The Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 70
. France in Indochina: Colonial Encounters. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2001. ix + 240 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-85973-481-2.
Review by Michael G. Vann, Santa Clara University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 87
, Huguenot Prophecy and Clandestine Worship in the Eighteenth Century: ‘The Sacred Theatre of the Cévennes. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. ix + 220 pp. Illustrations, map, table, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-5182-7.
Review by W. Gregory Monahan, Eastern Oregon University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 51
Response by Georgia Cosmos to the review of her book by W. Gregory Monahan.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 52
. Marie Pape-Carpantier: Fondatrice de l’école maternelle. Paris: Fayard, 2003. 415 pp. Figures and notes. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-213-61527-6.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 44
Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century. A Social Portrait. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 306 pp. £24.49 (pb) ISBN 0521025109 £55.00 (hb) 0521642124.
Review by Jean Dunbabin, St Anne’s College, Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 141
. To Speak for the People: Public Opinion and the Problem of Legitimacy in the French Revolution. New York and London: Routledge, 2001. vi + 249 pp. Index. $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-92972-5 (paper); $85.00 (cl). ISBN 0-415-92971-7.
Review by David Andress, University of Portsmouth.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 3
Response by Jon Cowans to David Andress' review
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 4
, Murder in Parisian Streets: Manufacturing Crime and Justice in the Popular Press, 1830 – 1900. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2006. 273 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8387-5579-8.
Review by Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 45
. Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires. Maryland: Lexington Books, 2003. xv + 335. Notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95 US (pb) ISBN 0-7391-0658-9; $80.00 US (cl) ISBN 0-7391-0657-0.
Review by Richard Whatmore, University of Sussex.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 7
. The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. x + 269 pp. Four colour plates, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl), ISBN 0-8122-3658-0. $19.95 U.S. (pb); ISBN 0-8122-1806-X.
Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 9
. 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
. A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. xvi + 238 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-674-02297-3.
Review by Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas, Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 148
, Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, c.1700-c.1870 . Aldershot, Hampshire, UK and Burlington Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. xvi + 270 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $109.95 (cl). ISBN-13:978-0-7546-5913-6.
Review by Judith P. Zinsser, University of Miami (Ohio).
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 33
. The French Experience from Republic to Monarchy, 1792-1824: New Dawns in Politics, Knowledge and Culture. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave, 2000. xii + 232 pp. Index. £42.50 UK (cl). ISBN 0-333-77265-2.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 18
. Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. vii + 493 pp. Tables, graphs, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-2662-0; $21.95 U.S (pb). ISBN 0-8223-2666-3.
Review by Kathryn Norberg, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 22
. Balancing the Scales of Justice. Local Courts and Rural Society in Southwest France, 1750-1800. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. Notes, maps, index and bibliography. xx + 257pp. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02077-6. $19.95 U.S. ISBN 0-271-02078-4.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 19
, Changing France: The Politics that Markets Make (Houndmills, UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 322 pgs. $74.95 hardcover. ISBN 1-4039-9696-2.
Review by Timothy B. Smith, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 13
Educating the Faithful: Religion, Schooling, and Society in Nineteenth-Century France. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. xii + 255 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-87580-262-1.
Review by Barry H. Bergen, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 95
D
Etienne Pasquier on Ethics and History. New York, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007. x + 147 pp. Frontispiece, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8204-9547-7.
Review by Katherine MacDonald, University College London.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 24
. Robert of Arbrissel: Sex, Sin and Salvation in the Middle Ages. Trans. Bruce L. Venarde. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America, 2006. xxxi + 188 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $ 24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-8132-1439-4.
Review by Fiona Griffiths, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 69
. Visions croisées Franco-Allemandes de la Première Guerre mondiale. Étude de deux quotidiens: la Metzer Zeitung et L’Est Républicain. Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2007. xii + 396 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 68.50 € (pb). ISBN 978-3-03911-250-