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
, eds. Book and Text in France, 1400-1600: Poetry on the Page. Aldershot, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. xiii + 223 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, and index. Notes. $99.95 U.S./£50.00 UK (cl.). ISBN 978-0-7546-5590.
Review by Corinne Noirot-Maguire, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 69
. 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
, Satan the Heretic: the Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii + 255 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-06748-3.
Review by Christine Caldwell Ames, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 67
, 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
, ed., The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Studies in Early Modern France, volume 11. Charlotteville, VA: Rookwood Press, Inc., 2007. 267 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49. 95 U. S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-886365-64-4.
Review by Susan E. Dinan, William Paterson University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 71
, 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 978-3-03911-250-0.
Review by Martha Hanna, University of Colorado at Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 83
, 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
. Inside Napoleonic France: State and Society in Rouen, 1800-1815. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. xii + 290 pp. Maps, tables, figures, bibliography, and index. $79.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0357-4.
Review by Michael Broers, King’s College, University of Aberdeen.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 55
. Les Patriotes: La Gauche républicaine et la nation, 1830-1870. Paris: Seuil, 2001. 326 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. 23.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-02-022596-4.
Review by by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 47
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
An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv + 330 pp. Notes, Bibliography and Index. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530530-2.
Review by Patricia Lorcin, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 75
. Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris. New York and London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006. 358 pp. Sources, index. $24.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN-10: 1-58234-471-X.
Review by Patrick M. Bray, Indiana University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 115
France after Revolution. Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. 257 pages. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-02459-1.
Review by Jo B. Margadant, Santa Clara University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 14
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
. The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present: From de Maistre to Le Pen. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. x + 209 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-415-23981-8; $25.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-23982-6.
Review by Andrés H. Reggiani, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 28
Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2006. xix + 332 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $ 39.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-24542-6.
Review by Dr. Véronique Pouillard, Columbia University/Université Libre de Bruxelles.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 21
. Anglo-French Relations Before the Secod World War: Appeasement and Crisis. London: Palgrave, 2001. vii + 219pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 US (cl.). ISBN 0-333-94926-9.
Review by William D. Irvine, York University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 28
. Napoleonic Art, Nationalism, and the Spirit of Rebellion in France (1815-1848), Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998; and London: Associated University Presses, 1999. 176 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Price $55.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-87413-615-6.
Review by Annie Jourdan, Université d'Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (October 2001), No. 28
. The Maiden of Tonnerre: The Vicissitudes of the Chevalier and the Chevalière d’Eon. Eds. and trans. Roland A. Champagne, Nina Ekstein, and Gary Kates. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xxiv + 207 pp. Photos, notes, biographical glossary, and index. $44.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-6687-1.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary's College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 125
. Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths under the French Revolution. Translated by Charlotte Mandell. New York and London: Routledge, 2001. 243 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl); ISBN 0-415-92616-5. $22.95 U.S. (pb); ISBN 0-415-92617-3.
Review by Gary Kates, Pomona College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 105
. Spiritual Sonnets. Ed. and trans. by Melanie E. Gregg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxxi + 195 pp. Bibliography and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-13983-2; $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-13984-0.
Review by Megan C. Armstrong, University of Utah.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 73
, L’absinthe au feminine. Saint Remy-de-Provence: Equinoxe, 2007. 136 pp. €19 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84135559-4.
, 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.
Review by Scott Haine, University of California Santa Cruz and Holy Names College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 40
. Les Domestiques commensaux du roi de France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002. 557 pp. Tables, maps, notes, and bibliography. 42.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-8050-225-9.
Review by Sharon Kettering, Professor Emerita, Montgomery College in Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 82
, Dialogues and Addresses. Edited and translated by John J. Conley, S.J. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxxiii + 177 pp. Introduction, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-50241-4; $22.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-50242-2.
Review by Lauren Clay, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 22
. Apology for Raymond Sebond. Translated with notes and introduction by Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 2003. 184 pp. Notes and bibliography. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-87220-680-7; $9.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87220-679-3.
Review by Allan Tulchin, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 79
. Word, Image and Experience. Dynamics of Miracle and Self-Perception in Sixth-Century Gaul. Variorum Collected Studies Series, 771. Ashgate: Aldershot, U.K., and Burlington, VT, 2003). xiv + 374 pp. Index. $119.00 U.S./£62.50 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0-86078-933-0.
Review by Bailey K. Young, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 156
. The Story of Sapho. Edited and translated by Karen Newman. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, Ed. Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxxii + 155 pp. $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-14399-6.
Review by Katharine J. Hamerton, Southwest Missouri State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 38
. Lettres d’un lion: Correspondance inédite du général Mouton, comte de Lobau (1812-1815). Paris: Nouveau Monde/Fondation Napoléon, 2005. 206 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and chronology. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 2-84736-088-3.
Review by David P. Jordan, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 24
. Talleyrand, le prince immobile. Paris: Fayard, 2003. 796 p. Deux cahiers d'illustrations, notes, bibliographie, iconographie, filmographie, généalogie, et index. 30.00 Euros. ISBN 2-213-61326-5.
Review by Anne Jourdan, Université d’Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 49
. From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames Des Roches. Edited and Translated by Anne R. Larsen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxx + 319 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-72337-2; $24.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-72338-0.
Review by Sara Beam, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 155
Politics on the Fringe: The People, Policies, and Organization of the French National Front. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. xiv + 261 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-8223-2237-4. $17.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-8223-2139-4.
Review by Samuel H. Goodfellow, Westminster College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (May 2002), No. 39
. The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies and Tabloids in Early Modern France. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xi + 204pp. Notes. $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-226-14141-1.
Review by Kathryn Norberg, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 83
. Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier. Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle. University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxix + 86 pp. Bibliography and index. $14.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-53492-8.
Review by Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 113
, L’Humanité de Jaurès à nos jours. Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2004. 419 p. 32.30€ (pb). ISBN 2-84736-081-6.
Review by Dominique Laurent, Dickinson College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 133
Religion and Identity in Modern France: The Modernization of the Protestant Community in Languedoc, 1815-1848. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1999. xxi + 237 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cl). ISBN 0-7618-1382-9.
Review by Sarah A. Curtis, St. Louis University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (September 2001), No. 27
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
Femmes et diplomatie: France--XXe siècle. Bruxelles: P. I. E.-Peter Lang, 2004. vii+200 pp. Index. $32.95 U.S. (pbk). ISBN 90-5201-233-4.
Review by Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 39
, L'Ecole de la Troisième République en questions : Débats et controverses dans le Dictionnaire de pédagogie de Fernand Buisson. Berne : Peter Lang, 2006. vii + 283 pp. $34.95. ISBN : 9-783039-111558.
Review by Sharif Gemie, University of Glamorgan.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 11
. Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin. Ed. and trans. Mary B. McKinley. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxix + 110 pp. Notes, bibliographies, and index. $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-14279-5.
Review by Cynthia J. Cupples, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 110
The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The Politics of Artistic Display in France after 1968. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 271 pp. Notes, Bibliography and Index. $80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-84109-7.
Review by Kirrily Freeman, Saint Mary’s University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 58
. The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2004. xiv + 456 pp. List of primary sources and index. $50.00 (cl) ISBN 0-520-23859-1.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 98
, Culture and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century France and Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. xii + 288 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-85182-717-X.
Review by Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 145
. Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970. University Park (PA): Pennsylvania University Press, 2006, XI-246 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 (hb). ISBN 0-271-02890-4.
Compte-rendu par Christophe Charle, Université de Paris-1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, IHMC (CNRS/ENS).
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 95
. Through the Reading Glass: Women, Books, and Sex in the French Enlightenment. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. vii + 268 pages. Bibliography and index. $75.00 US (cl). ISBN: 0-7914-6421-0.
Review by Jennifer Heuer, University of Massachusetts.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 46
, The Origins of the Welfare State: Women, Work, and the French Revolution. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv +259 pp. Notes and index. $40.00. (cl). ISBN: 13-978-0-252-032021-5.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 57
. Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière. tr. Alisa Hartz. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2003. xxi + 385 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-262-04215-0.
Review by Judith Surkis, Harvard Unversity.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 4
. Les Femmes dans l'action sanitaire, sociale et culturelle, 1901-2001: Les Associations face aux institutions. Prefaces by Michelle Perrot and Emile Poulat. Paris: Femmes et Associations, 2001. 372 pp. Notes, tables, illustrations, bibliography, and index. 22.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-9517478-0-2
Review by Linda L. Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 79
From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 340 pp. List of contents, biographical appendix, list of Abbreviations, notes, index. $51.34 (hb). ISBN 0-19-509582-0.
Review by Megan Armstrong, University of Utah.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 46
. Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel. New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii + 304 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-521-81371-9.
Review by Lawrence M. Earp, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 106
Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Burlington, VT, and Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006. x + 190 pp. Notes, chronology, maps, bibliography, appendices, and index. $89.95 U.S./£45.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0754655539.
Review by Linda Lierheimer, Hawai’i Pacific University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 49
. French Rugby Football: A Cultural History. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2001. viii + 229 pp. Notes, bibliography, appendices, and index. $65.00 US (cl). ISBN 1-85973-322-0. $19.50 U.S. (pb). 1-85973-327-1.
Review by Christopher S. Thompson, Ball State University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 83
. Female Writers’ Struggle for Rights and Education for Women in France (1848-1871). New York, Peter Lang, 2006. Bibliography, notes, index, 168 pages. $62.95. ISBN 0-8204-5531-8.
Review by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 147
. Foreign Bodies: Gender, Language, and Culture in French Orientalism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xiv + 234 pp. Notes and index. $49.50 US (cl). ISBN 0-8047-4104-2
Review by Jennifer Heuer, Middlebury College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 62
Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 251 pp. Illustrations and index. $69.95 U.S., 52.00 U.K. (cl). ISBN 1-403-93820-2.
Compte-rendu Jacques Guilhaumou, CNRS, ENS/LSH Lyon.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 90
, Madeleine de Scudéry: Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxxi + 174 pp. Bibliography and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-14404-6.
Review by Nancy L. Locklin, Maryville College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 96
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
The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2005. 397 pp. Notes and index. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-262-19516-X.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 103
The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. xiii + 344 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cl); ISBN 0-226-16055-6. $19.00 U.S. (pb); ISBN 0-226-16056-4.
Review by Martin S. Staum, University of Calgary.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 123
Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii + 587pp. Maps, notes, essay on sources, index. ISBN 0–674–01880–X. $39.95 (hb).
Review by Elizabeth Greenhalgh, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 49
Why France ? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination. With an afterword by Roger Chartier. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. 242 pp. $27.95 (cl). ISBN-10: 0-801-4441-44.
Compte-rendu par Christian Jouhaud, E.H.E.S.S. (C.R.H.)
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 155
. Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 2002. xv + 411 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $74.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-2928-x; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-2944-1.
Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 14
Old Regime France, 1648-1788. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xii + 231 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, chronology, and index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-873129-9.
Review by Stephen Miller, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 89
. French Intellectuals and Politics from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 214 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-33-3778-12X.
Compte-rendu par Christophe Prochasson, EHESS (AHMOC).
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 28
. Intellectuals and Politics in Post-War France. Basingstoke, UK and New York: Palgrave, 2002. ix + 254 pp. Notes, index. $68.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-333-77808-1.
Review by David L. Schalk, Vassar College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 60
. Pillages sur ordonnances: Aryanisation et restitution des banques en France 1940-1953. Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2003. iii + 475 pp. 25.00 €. (pb). ISBN 2-213-61327-3.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 24
. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. viii + 357. Maps, figures, notes, index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-674-01304-2.
Review by , California State University – San Marcos.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 24
Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. 288 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. $53.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-87413-897-3.
Review by Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 11
. Faire Voir, Faire Croire: L’opinion publique sous Louis XIII. Paris: Champ Vallon, 2003. 537 pp. Illustrations, charts, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. €34 (pb). ISBN 2-87673-372-2.
Review by Sharon Kettering, Professor Emerita, Montgomery College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 59
. Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe’s Dynastic Rivals, 1550-1780. New Studies in European History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi + 349 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82262-9.
Review by Tryntje B. Helfferich, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 40
The French Navy and the Seven Years’ War. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xviii + 445 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8032-1731-5.
Review by Geoffrey Symcox, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 140
. Le rôle social de l’historien: De la chaire au prétoire. Paris: Albin Michel, 2003. 343 pp. Notes. €22.50 (pb). ISBN 2-226-13484-0.
Review by John L. Harvey, St. Cloud State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 1
Dunan-Page, Anne, ed. The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750. Aldershot, U.K., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. xvi + 218 pp. Bibliography and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-5495-7.
Review by Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 97
. The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. ix + 397 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0300100329. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 0300113463.
Review by Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 128
, Le Droit sous Vichy. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2006. 498 pp. €89.00 ISBN 10 3-465-04013-9; 13 978-465-04013-2.
Review by Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 141
Origins of the French Welfare State: The Struggle for Social Reform in France, 1914-1947. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii + 251 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cloth). ISBN 0-521-81334-4
Review by Philippe-Jean Hesse, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 117
Talleyrand. London: Longman Press, 2002. x + 232 pp. Maps, tables, notes, plate, bibliographical essay, and index. (pb). $15.95 U.S. ISBN 0-582-32384-3.
Review by William Olejniczak, College of Charleston.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 28
Response by William Dwyer to the review of his book by William Olejniczak.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 29
Napoleon and Europe. London and New York: Longman, 2001. xxi + 328 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $23.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-528-31837-8.
Review by David P. Jordan, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 126
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Frontenac: The Courtier Governor. Reprint of the original 1959 ed. with a new introduction by Peter N. Moogk. Lincoln and London, U.K.: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xvii + 405. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8032-6750-9.
Review by Dale Miquelon, University of Saskatchewan.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 97
, Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xvi +236 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03208-0.
Review by Bob Morrissey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 73
Families and Frontiers: Re-creating Communities and Boundaries in the Early Modern Burgundies. Boston and Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2002. xiv + 431 pp. Maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-391-04106-1.
Review by Mark Potter, University of Wyoming.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 118
. Caring for Body and Soul. Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. xiii + 255 pp. Abbreviations, acknowledgements, maps, figures, notes, select bibliography, and index. $49.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02196-9.
Review by Felice Lifshitz, Florida International University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 29
Response by Bonnie Effros to the review of her book by Felice Lifshitz.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 30
. Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xviii + 174 pp. Figures, notes bibliography and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-312-22736-1.
Review by Veronika Grimm, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 142
Response by Bonnie Effros to the review of her book by Veronika Grimm.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 143
. Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2003. xvi + 272 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-23244-5.
Review by Deborah M. Deliyannis, Indiana University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 92
Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. xii + 279 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-253-34442-5; $24.95 U.S. (pb) ISBN: 0-253-21705-9.
Review by Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 10
Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. xii + 219 pp. Bibliography and index. $35.00 U.S.; £24.95 G.B. (cl). ISBN 0-691-09053-X
Review by Miri Rubin, Queen Mary College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 42
, Crusader Castles and Modern Histories. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 362 pp. Figures, maps, tables and index. £50 U.K. (cl.). ISBN 0-521-86083-0.
Review by Denys Pringle, Cardiff School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 44
. Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxii + 295 pp. Personalia, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-517682-0.
Review by William Weber, California State University, Long Beach.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 61
. Olivier de La Marche and the Rhetoric of Fifteenth-Century Historiography. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press, 2004. viii + 247 pp. Figure, table, notes, bibliography and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-84383-052-3.
Review by Cynthia J. Brown, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 91
, Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in fin-de-siècle France. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003. xii + 295 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0319-9.
Review by Matt K. Matsuda, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 43
. Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii + 288 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-19-820798-0.
Review by Scott Haine, University of Maryland University College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 132
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
. Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxx + 324 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-20787-0.
Review by Laura A. Smoller, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 81
. Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (hb); $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8078-5548-0.
Review by Whitney Walton, Purdue University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 9
Popular Resistance in the French Wars: Patriots, Partisans and Pirates. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. vii + 233 pp. Figures, notes, index. $74.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 14-03938-261.
Review by David P. Jordan, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 57
Fighting Napoleon: Guerrillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain, 1808-1814. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xi + 272 pp. Map, illustrations, table of abbreviations, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-300-10112-0.
Review by Owen Connelly, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 4
. The Peninsular War: A New History. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. ix + 587 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6231-6.
Review by John Lawrence Tone, The Georgia Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 30
, France 1815-2003: Modern History for Modern Languages. London: Arnold Publishers, 2004. xi + 219 pp. Maps, figures, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-340-76140-7; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-340-76141-5.
Review by Brett Bowles, Iowa State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 30
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
. Music Drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824-1828. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xviii + 331 pp. Figures, tables, music examples, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-23445-6.
Review by Jolanta T. Pekacz, Dalhousie University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 129
. The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000. Illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. xvi + 173. $39.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3726-1; $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8647-5.
Review by Brett Bowles, Iowa State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 102
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. La mobilité d’une génération de Français. Recherche sur les migrations et les déménagements vers et dans Paris à la fin du XIXe siècle. Paris, Institut national d’études démographiques, cahier n°151, 2003. 591pp. CD Rom. 35.00 €. ISBN 2- 7332-0151-4.
Review by Nathalie Montel, Laboratoire Techniques-Territoires-Sociétés, Ecole national des Ponts et Chaussées.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 21
. Les rapports des procureurs généraux de la Cour d'appel de Dijon (décembre 1849-juillet 1870). Préface de Jean-Jacques Clère. Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2003. 765 pp. Cartes, tableaux, notes, bibliographie, et index de personnes et de lieux. 40.00 €. ISBN 2-905965-79-7.
Review by Pierre Legal, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 2
Students and Teachers at the University of Paris: The Generation of 1500. A Critical Edition of Bibliothèque de l'Université de Paris (Sorbonne), Archives, Registres 89 and 90. edited with intoduction and annotation by James K. Farge. Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, volume 25. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. xxxi + 617pp. $204 (hb) ISBN 978-90 04 15162 8; ISSN 0926-6070.
Review by Ann Blair, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 25
. Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris. Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiii + 198 pp. Maps, figures, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3836-5.
Review by John S. Ott, Portland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 97
. La mobilité d’une génération de Français. Recherche sur les migrations et les déménagements vers et dans Paris à la fin du XIXe siècle. Paris, Institut national d’études démographiques, cahier n°151, 2003. 591pp. CD Rom. 35.00 €. ISBN 2- 7332-0151-4.
Review by Nathalie Montel, Laboratoire Techniques-Territoires-Sociétés, Ecole national des Ponts et Chaussées.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 21
. Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair. Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2005. 416 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-580-4618-59.
Review by Tamara Levitz, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 35
. When Poetry Ruled the Streets: The French May Events of 1968, Foreword by Douglas Kellner. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. xxiv + 192 pp. Pictures, map, notes, bibliography, and index. $57.50 U.S. (hc). ISBN 0-7914-4965-3. $18.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7914-4966-1.
Review by Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 44
. 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
, Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. vii + 227 pp. Figures, selected bibliography, and index. $49.96 (hb). ISBN 0-8014-3939-6; $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8857-5.
Review by Susan J. Dudash, Utah State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 104
. The Poor Man's Son: Menrad, Kabyle Schoolteacher. Trans. Lucy R. McNair. Intro. James D. LeSueur. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xxxiv + 153 pp. Introduction and glossary. $49.50 (cl). ISBN 0-8139-2325-5. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8139-2326-3.
Review by Lee C. Whitfield, Wheelock College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 145
. Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern France. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. x + 227 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $115 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-415-21264-2; $29.95 US (pb). 0-415-21265-0.
Review by Moshe Sluhovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 68
Dido’s Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xiv + 506 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-24312-5.
Review by Lynn Wood Mollenauer, University of North Carolina--Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 92
. Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xii + 258pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0226243230; $22.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0226243249.
Review by Jennifer J. Davis, Furman University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 98
Festa, Lynn. Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. viii + 300 pp. Notes, figures, bibliography, and index. $55.00 US (hb). ISBN 978-0-8018-8430-6.
Review by Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 107
The Writings of Agnes of Harcourt. The Life of Isabelle of France and the Letter on Louis IX and Longchamp. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. x + 106 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-04403-1; $19.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-268-04404-X.
Review by Christopher K. Gardner, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 72
. The Glass State. The Technology of the Spectacle. Paris, 1981-1998. MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., 2003. xviii + 320 pp. $45. ISBN: 0-262-06233-X.
Review by Colin Jones, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 116
. The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792-1794. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004. xi + 436 pp. Illustrations, revolutionary calendar, bibliography and index. $30.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-312-35224-7.
Review by Leigh Whaley, Acadia University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 44
, Un camp de concentration français: les tsiganes alsaciens-lorrains à Crest, 1915-1919. Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2004. 181 pp. Illustrations, bibliography. 20 €, (pb) ISBN 2-7061-1187-9.
Review by Leonard V. Smith, Oberlin College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 51
The Night the Old Regime Ended: August 4, 1789 and the French Revolution. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. x + 245 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02233-7.
Review by Anthony Crubaugh, Illinois State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 141
. Marie de Gournay: Itinéraires d’une femme savante. Paris: Fayard, 2004. 397 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 25€ (pb.) ISBN 2-213-61890-9.
Review by Katharine J. Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 69
German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. x + 301 pp. Maps, pictures, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. ISBN 0521841933.
Review by Gary P. Cox, Gordon College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 134
, Avec de Gaulle: témoignages. Tome 1, La Guerre et la Libération (1939-1945). Paris: Nouveau monde édition, 2003. 251 pp. €26.00 (pb.) ISBN 2-84736-026-3.
Review by Charles Cogan, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 154
, Avec De Gaulle: témoignages. Tome 2, Le temps du rassemblement, (1946-1958). Paris, Nouveau monde édition, 2005. 502 pp. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 2-84736-053-0.
Review by Charles Cogan, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 154
. A History of Pedlars in Europe. Translated by Vicki Whittaker. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. 280pp. Appendix, notes, index. $54.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-1786-9. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-1794-X.
Review by Daniel Heimmermann, University of North Alabama.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 35
. Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. xi + 170 pp. Bibliography and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-8014-4367-9.
Review by Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 94
Response by Caroline Ford to the review of her book by Carol E. Harrison.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 95
. The Political Theory of Christine de Pizan. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Burlington, Vert. and Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2002. xvi + 187 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-0173-0; $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7546-0174-9.
Review by Nadia Margolis, Independent Scholar, Leverett, Mass.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 23
. Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution. London: Arnold, 2004, viii + 259 pp. Bibliography, Index. $19.95 U.S. (Pb). ISBN 0-340-56434-2.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 26
. Napoleon’s Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire. London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2002. xix + 248 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85285-269-0.
Review by Annie Crépin, Université d’Artois.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 112
, Possible Worlds: The Idea of Happiness in the Utopian Vision of Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002. 326 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 27.00 € (pb). ISBN 951-746-355-3.
Review by Paul R. Hanson, Butler University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 69
. France and 1848: The End of Monarchy. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. viii + 216 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $105.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0415314615; $33.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-31462-3.
Review by Bradford C. Brown, Bradley University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 4
The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood. Baltimore, Md. and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii + 241 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $46.95 U. S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-7433-5.
Review by Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 81
. Massacre at Oradour, France, 1944: Coming to Grips with Terror. Translated by David Sices and James B. Atkinson. Introduction by Jay Winter. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. xvii + 270 pp. Maps, photographs, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87580-601-5.
Review by Shannon L. Fogg, University of Missouri-Rolla.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 51
Soil and Stone: Impressionism, Urbanism, Environment. Aldershot and Burlington, VT.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003. xiv + 175 pp. Notes. £52.50 (cl). ISBN 0-7546-3685-2.
Review by William Hauptman, Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 78
Jean Bodin. International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought. Hampshire, U.K., and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. xvii + 453 pp. Index. $225.00 U.S./£ 120 U.K. (hb). ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-2545-2.
Review by Daniel Engster, The University of Texas at San Antonio.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 101
Delacroix, Art and Patrimony in Post-Revolutionary France. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 261 pp. Color plates and figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82829-5.
Review by Heather Belnap Jensen, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 111
, France’s Security Independence: Originality and Constraints in Europe 1981-1995. Bern, Peter Lang 2006. $54.95 U.S. (pb). U.S. ISBN 978-0-8204-8377-1.
Review by Jolyon Howorth, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 53
. When Poetry Ruled the Streets: The French May Events of 1968, Foreword by Douglas Kellner. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. xxiv + 192 pp. Pictures, map, notes, bibliography, and index. $57.50 U.S. (hc). ISBN 0-7914-4965-3. $18.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7914-4966-1.
Review by Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 44
, La France et le temps de travail (1814-2004). Paris: Odile Jacob, 2004. 237 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. 23.90 € (pb). ISBN 2-7381-1392-3.
Review by Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 5
. Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. ix + 351 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $42.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3982-5. $21.00 U.S. (pb). $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8809-5.
Review by Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 70
. The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 279. 195 pp. Notes, bibliography. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8078-9283-1.
Review by Cathy McClive, University of Durham, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 113
. Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. 268pp. Index. $27.95 U.S (cl). ISBN 0-674-01339-5.
Review by Harold Mah, Queen’s University, Canada.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 129
Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe. New Approaches to European History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xi + 267 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521- 62102-X; $22.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-62926-8.
Review by Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 93
. The Poet and the King: Jean de La Fontaine and His Century. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. vii + 536 pp. Notes and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-03877-5
Review by Robert A. Schneider, Catholic University of America.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 21
. The Politics of Racism in France. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998. xiv + 240 pp., tables, biblio., index. $69.95.
Review by Steven Zdatny, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 8
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. L'Amnistie: De la Commune à la guerre d'Algérie. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2002. 428 pp. Notes; bibliography; index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN
Review by John S. Hill, Immaculata University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 58
Tocqueville Unveiled. The Historian and His Sources for The Old Regime and the Revolution. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xiii + 246 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-28108-6.
Review by Helena Rosenblatt, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 8
. A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823-2000. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005, 286 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl), £20.50. ISBN 0-8014-4282-6.
Compte-rendu par Renaud Morieux, Université de Reims.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 5
. The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. xvi + 412 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $89.95 (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3453-4; $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8223-3465-8.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 20
. The Making of Revolutionary Paris. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2002. xiv + 382 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected readings, and index. $34.95 US/£24.95 (cl). ISBN 0-520-23253-4.
Review by Colin Jones, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 11
Violent Histories: Violence, Culture and Identity in France from Surrealism to the Néo-Polar. Bern: Peter Lang, Cultural Identity Series, 2007. 212 pp. $55.95 U.S. / €43.00 ISBN 978-3-03910-317-1.
Review by Debarati Sanyal, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 6
, Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature: Martyrs to Love. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xii + 235pp. Bibliography and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927207-5; ISBN-10: 0-19-927207-7.
Review by Andrea Tarnowski, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 62
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 62
The Myth of Nations, the Medieval Origins of Europe. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. x + 199 pp. Notes, suggestions for further reading, and index. $24.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-09054-8.
Review by Steven Fanning, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 124
Geenens, Raf and Annelien De Dijn. Reading Tocqueville: From Oracle to Actor, eds. (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 200 pp. $ 74.95 (cl). ISBN 978-0-230-52746-1 (hardcover).
Review by Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University, Bloomington.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 100
. Haitian Revolutionary Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xii + 348 pp. Maps, appendices, notes, index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-253-34104-3.
Review by Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 7
Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-Ruled West Africa, 1914-1956. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2004. xi + 300 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $72.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-8204-6941-6.
Review by Owen White, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 82
Symbolist Journals: A Culture of Correspondence. Series “Studies in European Cultural Transition.” Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2002. xviii + 352 pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $84.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-7546-0010-6.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 43
La politique culturelle en débat: Anthologie 1955-2005. Paris: La Documentation française, 2006. 212 pp. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 2-11-006089-1.
Review by Scott Gunther, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 102
Why France ? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination. With an afterword by Roger Chartier. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. 242 pp. $27.95 (cl). ISBN-10: 0-801-4441-44.
Compte-rendu par Christian Jouhaud, E.H.E.S.S. (C.R.H.)
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 155
. The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 324 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S., £33.50 (cl); $24.95 U.S., £14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-4134-X (cl); ISBN 0-8014-8873-7 (pb).
Review by Daniel J. Sherman, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 28
, 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
Rulership in France, 15th-17th Centuries. Variorum Collected Studies Series CS794. Aldershot, Hamps. and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. xii + 336 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $109.95 U.S./£57.50 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-86078-920-9.
Review by Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 6
. Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France during the German Occupation. New York: Picador, 2002. xx + 507 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $17.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-312-42359-4.
Review by Shannon L. Fogg, University of Missouri-Rolla.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 54
. Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. ix + 751 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $80.00 / £51.95 (cl.) ISBN 0-691-11541-9.
Review by E.C. Spary, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 23
. French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 268 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $65.00 (hb.). ISBN-13 978-0-8032-2212-0.
Review by Benjamin Claude Brower, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 45
, L’ordre des chartreux au XIIIe siècle. Actes du colloque international d’histoire et de spiritualité cartusienne, VIIIe centenaire de la fondation de la chartreuse de Valbonne, 11-13 juin 2004. Analecta Cartusiana 234. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2006. 145 pp. Maps, tables, notes. €40.00 (pb) ISBN 3900033595.
Review by Sean L. Field, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 94
. France Since 1800. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii + 277 pp. Maps, figures, list of abbreviations, tables, suggestions for further reading, and index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-925229-7.
Review by Michelle K. Rhoades, Wabash College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 100
. 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
. Genèse d’un droit administratif sous le règne de Louis XV. Les pratiques de l’intendant dans les provinces du Nord (1726-1754). Orléans: Presses Universitaires d’Orléans, 2005. iii + 450 pp. Index, notes, and bibliography. €36 (pb). ISBN 2-913454-26-7.
Review by Gail Bossenga, College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 84
, ed. From Corunna to Waterloo: The Letters and Journals of Two Napoleonic Hussars, 1801-1816. London: Greenhill Books, 1999. 287 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-85367-709-0.
Review by Michael V. Leggiere, Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 63
. Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xi + 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $35.00 (cl.) ISBN 0-674-01530-4.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 108
, France 1815-2003: Modern History for Modern Languages. London: Arnold Publishers, 2004. xi + 219 pp. Maps, figures, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-340-76140-7; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-340-76141-5.
Review by Brett Bowles, Iowa State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 30
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
. Renouveau et décentralisation du théâtre 1945-1981. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004. 512 pp. €38 (pb). ISBN 2130537383.
Review by Loïc Vadelorge, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 157
. Marat en famille: La saga des Mara[t]. 2 vol. Brussels: Pôle Nord, 2001. 271 pp. and 325 pp. Illustrations, facsimile documents, notes, bibliography, and index. 45.00 € (both vols; pb). ISBN 2-30040-17-3 and 2-930040-18-1
Review by James Livesey, Trinity College Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 73
. 1805: Austerlitz, Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition. Greenhill: London, 2005. 368 pp. Appendices, Maps, Tables, Illustrations and Index. ISBN 1-85367644-6.
Review by Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 16
. The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. x + 205 pp. Notes and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-8014-4150-1.
Review by Julian Wright, University of Durham.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 91
Publishing Women’s Life Stories in France, 1647-1720: From Voice to Print. Aldershot and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2001. viii + 172 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $74.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0370-9.
Review by Claire Carlin, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 111
. Lordship in France 500-1500. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. xiv + 529 pp. $88.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-8204-6849-5.
Review by Kathleen Thompson, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 107
French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. x +198 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-8258-3.
Review by Jean-Philippe Mathy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 25
, Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us about the French and American Past. New York and London: Routledge, 2007. x+245 pp. Figures, notes, index. ISBN 0-415-94953-X.
Review by Joan DeJean, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 128
Marie-Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen. New York and London: Routledge, 2003. x + 307 pp. Illustrations and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-41593-394-3; $23.95 (pb). ISBN 0-41593-395-1.
Review by Jeffrey Merrick, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 97
Liberalism and Social Reform: Industrial Grown and Progressiste Politics in France, 1880-1914. Contributions to the Study of World History no. 55. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. 226 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $65.00 (cl.) ISBN 0-313-29811-4.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (May 2001), No. 13
. Allies at War: America, Europe, and the Crisis over Iraq. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution and McGraw-Hill, 2004. vi + 266 pp. $19.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 0-07-144120-4.
Review by Irwin Wall, Center for European Studies, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 76
. Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xix + 274 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.95 (pb), $49.50 (cl). ISNB 0-8047-3894-7.
Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 36
, France Since the Revolution: Texts and Contexts. London and New York: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2003. 154 pp. Glossary of names, chronology, and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-340-763-61-2.
Review by Lori R. Weintrob, Wagner College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 17
The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria 1930-1954. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2002. xiii + 234 pp. Map, illustrations, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 1-58046-105-0.
Review by Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Texas Tech University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 12
. Catholic Activism in South-West France, 1540-1570. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. vii + 190 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S./£50.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-5226-2.
Review by Glenn Richardson, St. Mary’s University College, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 102
Marchés, migrations et logiques familiales dans les espaces français, canadien et suisse, 18e-20e siècles. Bern, Switz.: Peter Lang, 2005. 321 pp. + illustrations, graphs, and tables. $59.95 (U.S.). ISBN 3-03910-497-7.
Review by Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 56
. Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, xiii + 249 pp. Maps, notes and bibliography, and index. $75 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-333-68274-2; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-333-68275-0.
Review by Malcolm Crook, Keele University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 45
. Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. vi + 360 pp. Notes and index. ISBN 0-674-00468-X.
Review by Zachary S. Schiffman, Northeastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (May 2002), No. 37
. The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005. xxviii + 187. Maps, genealogies, notes, bibliography and index. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-84383-129-5.
Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 141
Green, Nancy L. and François Weil, eds., Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. x +318 pp. Notes and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03161-8; $24.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-252-07429-5.
Review by G. Daniel Cohen, Rice University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 106
. Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. vii + 249 pp. Maps, abbreviations, notes, and index. $30.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-517487-9.
Review by Leslie Choquette, Institut français, Assumption College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 109
Gabrielle de Coignard, Spiritual Sonnets. Ed. and trans. by Melanie E. Gregg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxxi + 195 pp. Bibliography and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-13983-2; $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-13984-0.
Review by Megan C. Armstrong, University of Utah.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 73
. Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Illustrations, notes and index. $65.00 (cl). xi + 392 pp. ISBN 0-300-08887-6.
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 26
Tocqueville et l’esprit de la démocratie. The Tocqueville Review / La Revue Tocqueville. Paris: Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 2005. 531 pp. €18 (pb). ISBN 2-7246-0963-8.
Review by Jonathan Beecher, University of California, Santa Cruz.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 131
. Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. xiv + 230 pp. Bibliography and index. $52.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4421-0; $18.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-7300-5.
Review by Julian Bourg, Bucknell University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 122
. L’invention de la guerre totale: XVIIIe-XXe siècle. Paris: Le Félin Kiron, 2004. 329 pp. €20 (pb). ISBN 2866455665.
Review by David A. Bell, The Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 93
When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity. Baltimore, Md. and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi + 245 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-7164-6.
Review by Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 1
Guynn, Noah D. Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages. Basingstoke, U.K., and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xii + 218 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4039-7147-0; $65.00 U.S. (e-book). ISBN 0-230-60366-1.
Review by Zrinka Stahuljak, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 101
H
, Captive Histories: English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. xxii + 298 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-55849-542-8; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-55849-543-6.
Review by Dale Miquelon, University of Saskatchewan.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 41
. Les Affaires étrangères au temps de Richelieu: Les secrétaires d’État, les agents diplomatiques (1624-1642). Diplomatie et histoire, 11. Brussels, Belgium, and New York: Peter Lang , 2006. 377 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and illustrations. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN-10: 9052012849; ISBN-13: 978-90-5201-284-1.
Review by Paul Sonnino, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 87
, The Strategic Triangle: France, Germany, and the United States in the Shaping of the New Europe. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 411 pp. Notes and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018856-39. $25.00 U.S. (pb). 0-80-188564-7.
Review by Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., American International College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 125
. The Subject Medieval/Modern: Text and Governance in the Middle Ages. Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xiv + 446 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $65 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0804747431; $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8047-4744-X.
Review by Carol Symes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 52
Response by Peter Haidu to the review of his book by Carol Symes.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 53
, 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
Opera, Liberalism and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France: The Politics of Halévy’s La Juive. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii + 390 pp. Illustrations, music, appendices, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-521-65086-0.
Review by Lisa Moses Leff, Southwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 56
. Women of Valor: The Rochambelles on the WWII Front. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xv + 233 pp. Maps, photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 U.S. (hb.) ISBN 1-4039-7143-9.
Review by Shannon L. Fogg, University of Missouri-Rolla.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 159
. War and Combat, 1150-1270: The Evidence from Old French Literature. Cambridge, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2003. iii + 261 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-85991-781-9.
Review by Malcolm Barber, University of Reading.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 12
. Party, Society and Government: Republican Democracy in France. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2002. xii + 210 pp. Tables, bibliography and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-57181-966-5.
Review by Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 126
. The Genesis of Napoleonic Propaganda, 1796-1799. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Gutenberg e-book. www.gutenberg-e.org Figures/Illustrations, Bibliography, Appendix, Web Links and Search Facility. Access $49.50. ISBN: 0-231-12456-2.
Review by Malcolm Crook, Keele University, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 66
. Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. v + 341 pp. Index. $26.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-02318-8.
Review by Margaret Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 64
The Jacobin Republic under Fire: The Federalist Revolt in the French Revolution. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. x + 262 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (cl). ISBN 0-271-02281-7.
Review by James Livesey, Trinity College, Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 47
. The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvi + 343 pp. Maps, appendices, bibliography, and index. COST??? (cl). ISBN 0-521-81126-0
Review by Moshe Sluhovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 102
. Football in France: A Cultural History. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003. xiii + 226 pp. Tables, glossary, appendices, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85973-657-2; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-85973-662-9.
Review by Christopher S. Thompson, Ball State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 60
Marketing Michelin, Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiii + 356 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-8018-6651-0.
Review by Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 58
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
. Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and the Psyche. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 328 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-82387-0.
Review by Mark S. Micale, University of Illinois.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 102
The Bourgeois Citizen in Nineteenth-Century France: Gender, Sociability, and the Uses of Emulation. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. viii + 268 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, abbreviations. $72.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-19-820777-8.
Review by W. Scott Haine, University of Maryland University College and Holy Names College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 31
. Barricades: The War of the Street in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 417 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-312-29479-4.
Review by Pierre Simoni, Laurentian University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 85
. The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2004. x + 301 pp. Notes, index. $22.00 U.S. (pb.) ISBN: 0-226-31811-7.
Review by Sandrine Sanos, Earlham College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 130
. Paris, Capital of Modernity. New York & London: Routledge, 2003, xi + 372 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $30 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-415-94421-X.
Review by Bertrand Taithe, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 66
Beyond Enlightenment. Occultism and Politics in Modern France. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. Bibliography and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 087580344X.
Compte-rendu par Nicole Edelman, Université Paris-10.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 39
. Louis XIV face à l’Europe du Nord: L’absolutisme vaincu par les libertés. Bruxelles: Éditions Racine, 2005. 334 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, and index. € 24.95. ISBN 2-87386-390-0.
Review by Erik Thomson, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 65
. Les Diaboliques. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. vii + 118 pp. Diagrams, still shots, notes, credits, filmography and select bibliography. $35.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-252-03089-3; $15.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07330-4.
Review by Thibaut Schilt, Bucknell University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 132
. The Legend of Napoleon. London, Granta Books, 2004. xiii + 336 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. 20£ U.K. ISBN 1-86207-667-7.
Review by Annie Jourdan, Université d’Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 119
. The Saint-Napoleon: Celebrations of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century France. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. xiv + 307pp. Notes and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01341-7.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 95
The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France: Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 244 pp. Notes, appendix, and index. £35.00 U.K. (cl.). ISBN 0-19-925646-2.
Review by David G. Troyansky, Texas Tech University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 88
Marchés, migrations et logiques familiales dans les espaces français, canadien et suisse, 18e-20e siècles. Bern, Switz.: Peter Lang, 2005. 321 pp. + illustrations, graphs, and tables. $59.95 (U.S.). ISBN 3-03910-497-7.
Review by Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 56
The Modernist Traveler: French Detours, 1900-1930. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. ix + 175 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8032-2412-5 (cl). $40.00 US.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 114
. The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France, 1876-1936. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xii + 402pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-231-12846-0.
Review by Martin S. Staum, University of Calgary.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 107
Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700-1855): From Satire to Sanctity. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. xvi + 215 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-5085-5.
Review by Alia Nour-Elsayed and Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Seton Hall University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 107
. Gregory of Tours. History and Society in the Sixth Century. Translated by Christopher Carroll. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 235 pp. Figures, table, and bibliography. £40.00 G.B. (cl). ISBN 0-521-63174-2.
Review by Alain Stoclet, Université Lyon 2--Lumière.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 109
. The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. ix + 172 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $60 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-845545-169-4.
Review by William Doyle, University of Bristol.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 35
Response by Henry Heller, University of Manitoba.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 36
. Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy. Cambridge, Mass. and London, U.K.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xiii + 256 pp. Map, genealogical tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-674-02443-5.
Review by Constance B. Bouchard, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 131
. The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. xvi + 233 pp. Appendices and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-07472-0.
Review by Lisa Jane Graham, Haverford College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 63
, La protection sociale sous le régime de Vichy. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2001. 377pp. Notes, map, bibliography and index. 150,87FF (pb). ISBN 2-86847-603-1.
Review by Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 2
. The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. x + 256 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-8014-4286-9.
Review by Sarah Maza, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 100
. Paris: Capital of the World. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Illustrations, maps, notes, and index. 493 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-00887-1.
Review by Pamela Pilbeam, Royal Holloway, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 50
. Richelieu. Paris: Flammarion, 2004. 590 pp. Images, notes, chronology, appendices, maps, bibliography, and index. €26 (pb). ISBN 2-08210290-4.
Review by Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 62
Napoleon’s Troublesome Americans: Franco-American Relations, 1804-1815. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2005. xiii + 289 pp. Notes and bibliography. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-57488-879-X.
Review by Michael V. Leggiere, Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 147
Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works, The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxviii + 176 pp. Bibliography and index. $49.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-305556-2.
Review by Michelle Marshman, Green River College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 32
. France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-54. Foreword by John Lewis Gaddis. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 291 pp. Map, notes, bibliography. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-807-82428-3. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-807-84747-X.
Review by Irwin Wall, University of California, Riverside.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 113
. The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth: Ideas and Expeditions in Four Centuries of Geodesy. Aldershot, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2005. xii + 275 pp. Preface, appendices, figures, maps, table, notes, reading list, and index. 99.95/£50.00. (hb). ISBN0754650200.
Review by James Evans, University of Puget Sound.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 152
The Trial of Joan of Arc. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. xii + 251 pp. Appendices, notes, further reading, index. $24.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-674-01894-X.
Review by Larissa Juliet Taylor, Colby College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 64
. Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xix+275 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $125.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0521651298.
Review by Charlotte C. Wells, University of Northern Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 11
Hochner, Nicole. Louis XII: les dérèglements de l'image royale. Paris: Champ Vallon, 2007. 312 pp. illustrations. € 26 E.U. ISBN 978-2876734531.
Review by Frederic Baumgartner, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 99
Exposition de nos statuts: Commentaire de la Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès Avignon, vers 1767: Archives de la Grande Chartreuse ms. 1 Com. 50. Analecta Cartusiana 99:36. Salzburg: Instititüt für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2006. xxxviii + 416pp. Notes, facsimiles, and index. (pb). ISBN 3-900033-45-5.
Review by Adam J. Davis, Denison University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 5
, L’ordre des chartreux au XIIIe siècle. Actes du colloque international d’histoire et de spiritualité cartusienne, VIIIe centenaire de la fondation de la chartreuse de Valbonne, 11-13 juin 2004. Analecta Cartusiana 234. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2006. 145 pp. Maps, tables, notes. €40.00 (pb) ISBN 3900033595.
Review by Sean L. Field, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 94
The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil: A Frenchman between France and North Africa. London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2005. xii + 184 pp. $125.00US (hb). ISBN 0-415-35032-8.
Review by James McDougall, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 118
A ‘Belle Epoque’? Women in French Society and Culture 1890-1914. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. xv + 344 pp. Illustrations, notes, select chronology, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-84545-021-3.
Review by Cherilyn Lacy, Hartwick College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 60
. The Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, 1828–1967. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2004. xvi + 620 pp. Tables, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 (cl). ISBN 0-520-23664-5.
Review by Jolanta T. Pekacz, Dalhousie University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 85
. The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi + 276 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-34972-1; $24.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-34974-8.
Review by William E. Burgwinkle, King’s College, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 71
Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture 1766-1870. Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series, Volume 28. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2003. xii + 394 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-086193-2587.
Review by Robert M. Schwartz, Mount Holyoke College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 33
. The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830. Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 2006. vi + 383 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-262-08352-3.
Review by Christopher H. Johnson, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 88
. Qui parle pour la nation? Les élections en Champagne, 1765-1830. Paris: Société des études robespierristes, 2004. 273pp. Map, tables, notes and bibliography. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 2-908327-49-X.
Review by Alan Forrest, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 143
. Britain, France, and the Financing of the First World War. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. x + 249 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2293-X.
Review by Sally Marks, Independent Scholar, Providence, Rhode Island.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 98
A Social Laboratory for Modern France. The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. xiii + 354 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $65 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-2782-1.
Review by Judith F. Stone, Western Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 59
Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror, and Memory. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 375pp. Bibliographical references and index. £60.00 UK (hb). ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924725-7.
Review by Sarah Howard, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 30
Hughes, Edward J., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Camus. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 248 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0521549783.
Review by Amanda Crawley Jackson, University of Sheffield, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 96
. Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. xiv + 250 pp. Notes and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-00927-4.
Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 20
. 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
Hunt, Tony. Miraculous Rhymes: The Writing of Gautier de Coinci. Woodbridge, U.K., and Rochester, N.Y.: D.S. Brewer, 2007. x + 212 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-84384-126-5.
Review by Kathy M. Krause, University of Missouri—Kansas City.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 105
Louis XIV and the Parlements: The Assertion of Royal Authority. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002. xv + 240 pp. notes, bibliography, and index. £45.00 (cl). ISBN 0-7190-6235-7.
Review by Jonathan Dewald, State University of New York at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 84
. Reflections. The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France. Translated and with commentary by Catherine J. Kudlick and Zina Weygand. New York and London: New York University Press, 2001. xv + 155 pp. Foreword by Bonnie G. Smith. Notes. $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8147-4746-9.
Review by Lynn Sharp, Whitman College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 134
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France. New York: Zone Books, 1998. 1088 pp. Notes. $58.00 (cl.), ISBN 1-890951-06-4; $32.00 (pb.), ISBN 1-890951-07-2.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (May 2001), No. 13
Philippe Ariès and the Politics of French Cultural History. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. xxv + 244 pp. Notes, index, bibliography, and 20 illustrations. $80.00 US (cl). ISBN 1-55849-435-9; $24.95 US (pb). ISBN 1-55849-463-4.
Review Paul Mazgaj, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (December 2004), No. 123
. Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xxiii + 330 pp. Figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-81223826-5.
Review by Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 111
, Rethinking Boucher. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2006. xi + 289 pp. Figures, plates, notes, bibliography and index. $55.00 US (pb). ISBN 0-89236-825-X.
Review by Dorothy Johnson, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 108
. Making Up the Rococo. François Boucher and His Critics. Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2006. 272 pp., 7 x 10 inches, 18 color and 53 b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $ 49.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-89236-743-1.
Review by Elena Russo, Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 6
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. L'Alsace et ses historiens, 1680-1914. La Fabrique des monuments. Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2006. 524 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 32 €. ISBN 978-2-86820-269-7.
Review by Rebecca McCoy, Lebanon Valley College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 18
Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France 1938-1940. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 366pp. Appendix, tables, bibliography, and index. $91.42 (hb). ISBN 0-19-926122-9.
Review by Joel Blatt, University of Connecticut (Stamford).
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 16
. Order and Exclusion: Cluny and Christendom face Heresy, Judaism and Islam (1000-1500), translated by Graham Robert Edwards. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. xv + 407 pp. £ 47.24 (hb); ISBN 0-8014-3708-3.
Review by Peter Biller, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 41
Between Justice and Politics: The Ligue des Droits de l’Homme, 1898-1945. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 253 pp. Bibliography and Index. $60.00 (cl). ISBN: 978-0-8047-5317-3.
Review by J. P. Daughton, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 81
. Saints of the Impossible: Bataille, Weil, and the Politics of the Sacred. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. xxviii + 260 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8166-3903-5.
Review by Christian Roy, Université Laval.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 131
Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist Painting. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv + 283 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521-84080-4.
Review by Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 8
Response by Ruth E. Iskin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 9
. Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xxii + 810 pp. Maps, tables, plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-19-820608-9.
Review by J.B. Shank, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 26
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Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003. xi + 280pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3137-3; $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-3124-1.
Review by Colin Nettelbeck, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 145
. The Fall of France. The Nazi Invasion of 1940. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvii + 274 pp. Maps, photos, illustrations, notes, further reading, and index. $14.95 U.S.(pb). ISBN 0-19-280550-9.
Review by Robert J. Young, University of Winnipeg.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 27
. France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xix+660pp. Notes, maps, abbreviation tables and index. $35.00 ISBN 0-19-820706-9.
Review by Robert Zaretsky, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 6
, Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. 201 pp. Figures, notes, acknowledgments, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01497-9.
Review by Peter M. Jones, University of Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 122
. The Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France. Princeton, N.J. and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. x + 295 pp. Notes and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-09649-X.
Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 20
. The Navy and Government in Early Modern France 1572-1661. London: The Royal Historical Society, 2004. ix + 198 pp. Appendices, bibliography and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 0-86193-270-6.
Review by David Buisseret, The University of Texas at Arlington.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 136
Stavisky: A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. xiv + 326 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3959-0.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 104
. The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. xiii + 389 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-691-08987-6.
Review by Katharine J. Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 68
. Napoléon, David: The Image Enthroned. Brooklyn, N.Y.: First Run / Icarus Films, 2005. VHS, 51 minutes. Color and black and white. $390.00 U.S.
Review by Wayne Hanley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 148
France in the Era of Fascism: Essays on the French Authoritarian Right. Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. vii + 232 pp. Bibliography, index. $60.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 1-571-8153-76.
Review by Paul Jankowski, Brandeis University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 86
Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. xi + 271 pp. Maps, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 082233822X.
Review by Michael G. Vann, California State University, Sacramento.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 100
Vichy in the Tropics: Pétain’s National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940-1944. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2001. vii + 311 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography and sources, and index. $55.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8047-4179-4.
Review by Kim Munholland, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 27
. Riding the New Wave: Youth and the Rejuvenation of France after the Second World War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. XIV + 364 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 (cl). ISBN 978-0-8047-5452-1.
Compte-rendu par Ludivine Bantigny, Université de Rouen, Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 136
. Terre et société en Révolution: Approche du lien social dans la région d’Amboise. Paris: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2000. 549 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and bibliography. 38.11 € (pb). ISBN 27355-0396-8.
Review by Alan Forrest, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 78
Faire l’histoire des entreprises sous l’Occupation: Les acteurs économiques et leurs archives. Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2004. 375 pp. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7355-0559-6.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 104
Les archives des entreprises sous l’Occupation: Conservation, accessibilité et apport. Paris: IFRÉSI, 2005. 319 pp. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 2-9119-7530-8.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 104
Les comités d’organisation et l’économie dirigée de Vichy. Actes du colloque international des 3 et 4 avril 2003. Caen: Centre de recherche en histoire quantitative, 2004, 320 pp. 25 euros. ISBN 2-9519438-5-7.
Compte-rendu par Alain Beltran, Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 32
Patronat, bourgeoisie, catholicisme et libéralisme. Autour du Journal d’Auguste Isaac. Actes de la journée d’étude du 18 juin 2003. Cahiers Pierre Léon n° 5. Lyon: LARHRA, 2004. 230 pp. Notes. €20 (pb) ISBN 2-9519554-4-8.
Review by Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 67
, 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
, Enterprises et Pouvoir Économique dans la Région Rhône-Alpes (1920-1954). Lyon: Éditions Réné Georges, 2003. 295 pp. €15 (pb) ISBN 2-9519554-3-X.
Review by Daniel Ringrose, Minot State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 77
, ed., L’Économie de la zone non occupée 1940-1942. Paris: CTHS, 2007. 378 pp. 32.00 € ISBN 9-782735-506279.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 47
, Vichy dans la “Solution Finale”: Histoire du Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives, 1941-1944. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 2006. 1015 pp. Appendix, chronology, bibliography and index. 35.00 € (pb). ISBN 2 246 63841 0 37 1833-5 2006-IV.
Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 36
. The Tragic Tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War. Berkley and London: University of California Press, 2005. xiv +217 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-24297-1; $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-520-24299-8.
Review by Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 45
. France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart: An Epic Tale for Modern Times. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xv + 308 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-520-22136-2.
Review by Suzanne K. Kaufman, Loyola University Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 8
. Paris: Biography of a City. New York: Viking, 2005. xxv + 566 pp. Maps, illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-670-03393-6. Reprint ed. New York: Penguin, 2006. $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-143-03671-8.
Review by David Garrioch, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 158
. The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715-99. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xxix + 651. Maps, introduction, notes, further reading, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-231-12882-7.
Review by Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University (State University of New York).
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 13
. Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress. London: Yale University Press, 2002. 176 pp. Bibliography, notes, index, and illustrations. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-85709-977-X.
Review by Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 36
The Age of Cultural Revolutions: Britain and France, 1750-1820. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. ix + 293 pp. Notes and index. $48.00 US (cl); ISBN 0-520-22966-5. $18.95 U.S. (pb); ISBN 0-520-22967-3.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 90
Sexing la mode: Gender, Fashion and Commercial Culture in Old Regime France. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004. xviii + 244 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $89.95 U.S (cl). ISBN 185973-830-3; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 185973-835-4.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 76
The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xvii + 384 pp. Bibliography and index. $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-226-40955-9.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 61
Between France and England: Politics, Power and Society in Late Medieval Brittany (Variorum Collected Studies Series). Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003. ix + 326 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references and index. $105.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-86078-906-3.
Review by Craig Taylor, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 100
The French Revolution 1787-1804. London and New York: Pearson Longman, 2003. xviii + 154 pp. Chronology, maps, documents, glossary, who’s who, bibliography, and index. $16.00 (pb). ISBN 0-582-77289-3.
Review by Edward J. Woell, Western Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 85
. Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France: Six Villages Compared, 1760-1820. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiv + 306 pp. Plates, figures, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl); £45.00 (cl). ISBN 0-521-821777-0.
Review by Gail Bossenga, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 144
, Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. viii + 193 pp. Notes, family trees, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6656-7.
Review by Constance B. Bouchard, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 153
. Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear: Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetian. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. 1 Map. Notes. xiv + 163 pp. $ 29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-12120-6.
Review by Patrick Nold, Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 70
. Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France. Kingship, Crusades and Jews. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2001. x+ 276 pp. Preface, notes, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-86078-856-3
Review by Michael Goodich, University of Haifa.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 16
. Le Théâtre à Montpellier (1755-1851). Presented by Michel Bideaux. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, SVEC 2001. x + 268 pp. Appendices, glossary, bibliography, and indices. £45 / FF450 / Euros 78 (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0702-0.
Review by Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 16
, La Révolution, une exception française? Paris: Flammarion, 2004. 461pp. Appendices, bibliography and index. €24 (pb). ISBN 2-082-10318-8.
Review by James Livesey, University of Sussex.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 34
. L’empire de Napoléon. Paris: Flammarion, 2000. 351 pp. Critical glossary, bibliography, and index. 54.18FF. ISBN 2-08-083003-1.
Review by John Lawrence Tone, Georgia Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 5
Arcisse de Caumont (1801-1873). Érudit normand et fondateur de l’archéologie française. Caen: Société des antiquaires de Normandie, 2005. 514 pp. Notes and figures. 35 € (pb). ISBN 2-9510558-2-X.
Review by Stéphane Gerson, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 31
. The Short Chronicle: A Poor Clare’s Account of the Reformation of Geneva. Edited and translated by Carrie F. Klaus. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxix + 214 pp. Engraving, notes, and index. $21.00 (pb), ISBN 0-226-41706-9.
Review by Karen E. Spierling, University of Louisville.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 116
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Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage. Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York, N.Y: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. vii + 239 pp. Notes, works cited, and index. $69.95 US (hb). ISBN 1-4039-1174-6.
Review by Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 113
. Music’s Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac. Rochester and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 2003. xi + 547 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-58046-133-6.
Review by Andrea Mansker, Loyola Marymount University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 61
, L'Ecole de la Troisième République en questions : Débats et controverses dans le Dictionnaire de pédagogie de Fernand Buisson. Berne : Peter Lang, 2006. vii + 283 pp. $34.95. ISBN : 9-783039-111558.
Review by Sharif Gemie, University of Glamorgan.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 11
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
. French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848. Baltimore Md. and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. x + 308 pp. Biographical appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $48.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-7729-6.
Review by Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 108
. Naissance de la police privée: Détectives et agences de recherches en France, 1832-1942. Civilisations et Mentalités. Paris: Plon, 2000. 328 pp. Illustrations, documents, notes, bibliography, and index. 139FF (pb). ISBN 2-259-18291-7.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 21
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
. Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots' New World, 1517-1751. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xxiv + 1058 pp. Figures, maps, notes, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-80187390-8.
Review by John McGrath, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 55
. The Interpreter. (New York and London: Free Press, 2005). 256 pp. $25.00 US (hbk). ISBN 0-743-25424-4.
Review by Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 44
. The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2000. xvi + 308pp. Notes and index. $25.00 (cl). ISBN 0-226-42414-6.
Review by Robert Zaretsky, Honors College, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Feb. 2001), No. 3
La fin des corporations, traduit de l’américain par Béatrice Vierne. Paris: Fayard, 2001. ix + 740 pp. Notes and index of names. 220 FF. ISBN 2-213-60829-6.
Review by Christopher H. Johnson, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 42
Kaplan, Steven Laurence. Good Bread is Back: A Contemporary History of French Bread, The Way It Is Made, And The People Who Make It. Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2006 [Originally published as Le retour du bon pain: une histoire contemporaine du pain, de ses techniques et de ses hommes. Paris: Perrin, 2002]. 368 pp. Images, tables, glossary, notes, and index. $27.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3833-5.
Review by Steve Zdatny, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 98
. From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 246 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. £31.50 U.K.; $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3699-8; £12.50 U.K.; $17.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8122-1834-5.
Review by P.J.P. Goldberg, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 19
, 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
Murder in Marrakesh: Emile Mauchamp and the French Colonial Adventure. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2006, xvi + 376 pp. Notes, photographs, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-0-253-34815-9.
Review by Edward Berenson, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 67
. Édith Thomas: A Passion for Resistance. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. 240 pp. Photos, notes, and index. $27.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4223-0.
Review by Donald Reid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 25
. 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
Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2005. viii + 255 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0 8014 4248 6.
Review by Sarah A. Curtis, San Francisco State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 75
. Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry. Trans. Robert Bononno. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xix + 345pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8166-4455-1.
Review by Tom McDonough, Binghamton University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 19
Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. viii + 251 pp. Figures, appendix, notes, index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3860-5.
Review by Thomas M. Luckett, Portland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 109
. Courtly Contradictions: The Emergence of the Literary Object in the Twelfth Century. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xiii + 382 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8047-3079-2.
Review by Constance B. Bouchard, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 43
. Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th series, volume 35. Cambridge, U.K. and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 2000 (pb). x + 273 pp. Notes, index, and bibliography. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-57276-2; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-79386-6.
Review by Laura A. Smoller, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 24
. France and the French: La Vie en Bleu since 1900. Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 2005. xx + 741 pp. Tables, notes, maps, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-58567-733-7.
Review by Samuel Kalman, St. Francis Xavier University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 160
, France and the World Since 1870. (International Relations and the Great Powers, ed. John Gooch) London: Arnold; New York: Oxford, 2001. viii+ 261 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0 340 58507 8.
Review by Carole Fink, The Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 52
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
Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xi + 294 pp. Notes, figures, and bibliography. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-42972-5.
Review by Vernon Rosario, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 7
. Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. ix + 209 pp. Table and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-43023-5. $19.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-43024-3.
Review by Raymond Birn, University of Oregon.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 73
. Autobiography and Independence: Selfhood and Creativity in North African Postcolonial Writing in French. Contemporary French and Francophone Letters 2. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2005. vii + 400pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $85.00 (hb). ISBN 0-85323-659-3.
Review by Clarisse Zimra, Southern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 123
. Reconciling France against Democracy: The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français, 1927-1945. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007. xxii + 364 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7735-3205-2.
Review by Brian Jenkins, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 129
. Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet’s Paris. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xxi + 215. $22.50 U. S. (pb). ISBN 0-8166-4782-8.
Review by Caroline Ford, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 151
. Patronage in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2002. vi + 286 pp. $105.95. ISBN 0-86078-881-4.
Review by Stuart Carroll, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 17
The Legacy of the Great War: Peacemaking, 1919. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. vii + 259 pp. Chronology of Events, Principal Proper Names, Maps, and Bibliography. ISBN 0-669-41711-4.
Review by Joel Blatt, University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 10
. Cistercians, Heresy and Crusade in Occitania, 1145-1229: Preaching in the Lord's Vineyard. Woodbridge and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press / Boydell and Brewer, 2001. xx + 256 pp. Map, photographs, chronological table, preface, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. /£45.00 (cl). ISBN 1-90315-300-X.
Review by John H. Arnold, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 76
Once There Were Titans: Napoleon's Generals and Their Battles, 1800-1815. London and St. Paul: Greenhill Books, 2007. 320 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $39.95 US (hb). ISBN 978-1-85367-710-6.
Review by Ralph Ashby, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 12
. Affinity, that Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. xii + 599 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-262-11273-6.
Review by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Christine Lehman, Université Paris X.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 64
From Africa: New Francophone Stories. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xx + 150 pp. Bibliographical Essay. $40.00 U.S.; £30.50 U.K. (cl) ISBN: 0-8032-2578-2; $15.00 U.S.; £11.50 (pb). ISBN: 0-8032-7810-1.
Review by Lee Whitfield, Wheelock College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 82
Blue Coat or Powdered Wig: Free People of Color in Pre-Revolutionary Saint Domingue. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 2001. xxvi + 328 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8203-2233-4.
Review by William S. Cormack, University of Guelph.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 54
, Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis 1940-1942: Complexité de la politique de collaboration. Paris: Éditions Autrement – collection Mémoires, 2005. Notes, bibliography, and index. France: €132 (pb); Abroad €161 (pb). ISBN 2-7467-0588-5. ISSN 1157-4488.
Review by Perry Biddiscombe, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 112
. 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
Behind the Diplomatic Curtain: Adolphe de Bourqueney and French Foreign Policy, 1816-1869. Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2001. xvi + 344 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 US (cl). ISBN 1-884836-71-2.
Review by Bradford C. Brown, Bradley University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 131
, Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi+304 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $22.50 (pb) ISBN 0-8014-8901-6.
Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 112
Local Politics in the French Wars of Religion. The Towns of Champagne, the Duc de Guise, and the Catholic League, 1560-95. Aldershot and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2006. 300 pp. Maps, acknowledgements, bibliography, and index. n.p. ISBN 0-0-7546-5593-8.
Review by Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 52
. The Expectation of Justice: France 1944-1946. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. xviii + 340pp. Notes, maps, index and bibliography. ISBN 0-8223-2373-7.
Review by Robert Zaretsky, Honors College, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Feb. 2001), No. 3
. Préserver l’art de l’ennemi? Le patrimoine artistique en Belgique et en France occupées, 1914-1918. Bruxelles, P.I.E. Peter Lang, coll. Comparatisme et Société, n°4, 2006, 441 pp. in-8, ill. noir dans le texte. €46.90. $55.95 U.S.
Compte-rendu par Pierre Vaisse, Université de Genève.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 126
, Le commerce franco-russe. Concurrence et contrefaçons de Colbert à 1900. Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 2006. 446pp. 25€. ISBN 2-251-44316-9.
Review by Roger Price, Aberystwyth University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 54
. Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2000. xiv + 394 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $55.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-520-22214-8.
Review by Carol E. Harrison, Kent State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 32
The Spectral Jew: Conversion and Embodiment in Medieval Europe. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xxx + 320 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $78.00 U.S. (hc). ISBN 0-8166-4061-0. $26.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8166-4062-9.
Review by Christine Caldwell Ames, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 57
Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins), Memoirs of the Life of Henriette-Sylvie de Molière: A Novel. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr. Eds. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxxi + 194 pp. Maps, footnotes, and bibliography. $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-14420-8.
Review by Stephanie O’Hara, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 93
. Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France: Liberté, Égalité, Fiscalité. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xvi + 352 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-77149-8.
Review by Judith Miller, Emory University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 80
Review by Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 81
Response by Michael Kwass to reviews of his book by Judith Miller and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 82
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. Complete Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition. Edited with introductions and prose translation by Deborah Lesko Baker; poetry translation by Annie Finch. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxxi + 274 pp. Bibliographies, notes, indexes. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-46714-7; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-46715-5.
Review by Leah Chang, The George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 119
. Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting. With Deborah L. Roldán and Juliet Wilson-Bareau. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. xi + 592 pp. Illustrations, appendices, chronology, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 1-58839-038-1. $50.00 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 1-58839-040-3.
Review by Suzanne Singletary, Philadelphia University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 128
. Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV. With the collaboration of Jean-François Fitou. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x + 432 pp. Photographs, tables, figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-47320-1. Originally published as Saint-Simon, ou le système de la Cour, Paris: Arthème Fayard, 1997.
Review by John J. Hurt, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 79
The French in Texas: History, Migration, Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. ix + 330pp. Illustrations, selected bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S.(cl.), $24.95 U.S.(pb.) ISBN 0-292-70528-X.
Review by Kay Goldman, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 31
Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2001. 254 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3811-X.
Review by Barbara Day-Hickman, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (April 2002), No. 35
, Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi+304 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $22.50 (pb) ISBN 0-8014-8901-6.
Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 112
, France Since the Revolution: Texts and Contexts. London and New York: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2003. 154 pp. Glossary of names, chronology, and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-340-763-61-2.
Review by Lori R. Weintrob, Wagner College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 17
. Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution. Cambridge Mass.: The MIT Press, 2004. xi + 532 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $55 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-262-12258-8.
Review by Douglas C. Baxter, Ohio University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 40
, La France au Rwanda (1990-1994). Entre abstention impossible et engagement ambivalent. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang S.A., 2007. 533 pp. Bibliography. $60.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 13: 978-90-5201-344-2.
Review by David Ambrosetti, CNRS / Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique, Université Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 35
. Napoléon et Waterloo: la défaite glorieuse de 1815 à nos jours. Paris: La Boutique de l’histoire, 2006. 462 pp. Annexes, bibliography, iconography, and index. 35€ (pb). ISBN 2910828387.
Compte-rendu par Annie Jourdan, Université d’Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 110
. Sicherheit und Reparationen: Die französische Öffentlichkeit, der Rhein, und die Ruhr (1919-1923). Vol. 74, Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Neueren Landesgeschichte und zur Geschichte Nordrhein-Westfalens. Essen: Klartext, 2006. 431 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, index. € 39.50 ISBN 3-89861-495-6.
Review by Christopher Fischer, Indiana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 29
. 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
. The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007. 374 pp. Sources, index. $22.95 (pb). ISBN: 0-674-02392-7.
Review by Edward Wehrle, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 79
. Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to the War in Vietnam. Series “From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective,” Fredrik and Christopher E. Goscha, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xii + 364 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-520-243154-3.
Review by David W. Del Testa, Bucknell University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 146
Lazreg, Marnia. Torture and the Twilight of Empire. From Algiers to Baghdad, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2008. 354 pp. $29.95 (cl). ISBN 10-069-1131-35X.
Compte rendu par Raphaëlle Branche, Université de Paris-I, Sorbonne.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 94
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
, L’ordre des chartreux au XIIIe siècle. Actes du colloque international d’histoire et de spiritualité cartusienne, VIIIe centenaire de la fondation de la chartreuse de Valbonne, 11-13 juin 2004. Analecta Cartusiana 234. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2006. 145 pp. Maps, tables, notes. €40.00 (pb) ISBN 3900033595.
Review by Sean L. Field, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 94
, Le Droit sous Vichy. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2006. 498 pp. €89.00 ISBN 10 3-465-04013-9; 13 978-465-04013-2.
Review by Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 141
, La protection sociale sous le régime de Vichy. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2001. 377pp. Notes, map, bibliography and index. 150,87FF (pb). ISBN 2-86847-603-1.
Review by Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 2
(in collaboration with Jean-Maurice de Montremy). My Quest for the Middle Ages. Trans. Richard Veasey. New York and Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. ix + 133 pp. Index, bibliography. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-4039-7247-8.
Review by Paul Freedman, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 47
. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: A Visionary Naturalist. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. 288 pp. Illustrations and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-47091-1.
Review by Paul Lawrence Farber, Oregon State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 86
, 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
Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. ix + 342 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $46.50 US (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3588-6.
Review by Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 30
. Casque d'or. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xii + 116 pp. Filmographies, Bibliography, Index. $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07472-1.
Review by Alan Williams, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 20
. Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xx + 172 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $21.95 U.S. ISBN: 0-822-33697-9 (pb).
Review by J. P. Daughton, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 137
, Rethinking Boucher. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2006. xi + 289 pp. Figures, plates, notes, bibliography and index. $55.00 US (pb). ISBN 0-89236-825-X.
Review by Dorothy Johnson, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 108
Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet! The Bruyas Collection from the Musée Fabre, Montpelllier. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press in association with Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, 2004. 256 pp. 32 b/w + 94 color ills. $60.00 (cl). U.S. ISBN 0-300-10523-1.
Review by Véronique Chagnon-Burke, Christie’s Education, New York.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 114
. Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006). xiii + 327 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8047-5251-6.
Review by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, California State University--San Marcos.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 15
Napoleon and Berlin: The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. 385 pp. $30.05 (pb). ISBN 0806133996.
Review by David A. Bell, The Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 93
. To Be A Citizen: The Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001. x + 193 pp. Illustrations, notes, chronology, and index. $39.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3888-8.
Review by Pamela Pilbeam, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 29
, The Melodramatic Thread: Spectacle and Political Culture in Modern France. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. 180 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-820717-X.
Review by Sally Debra Charnow, Hofstra University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 49
Histoire des curés. Paris: Fayard, 2002. 523 pp. Notes, glossary, and index. 23.00 €. ISBN 35-1412-2.
Review by Joseph F. Byrnes, Oklahoma State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 22
, Napoléon et l’Europe. Regards sur une politique (Paris: Fayard, 2005). 445 pp. €25.00. ISBN 2-213-6239-02.
Review by David P. Jordan, University of Illinois, Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 151
. Athens in Paris: Ancient Greece and the Political in Post-War French Thought. Classical Presences. Oxford and New-York: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 264 pp. Notes, references and index. $74.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-927725-7.
Review by Béatrice Blanchet, University of Bath.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 37
Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiv + 316 pp. Notes. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-58365-9.
Review by Bertrand Taithe, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 92
. Le mélomane et l’historien. Paris: Armand Colin, 2005. 227 pp. Index. €23 E.U. (pb). ISBN 2-20-026914-5.
Review by William Weber, California State University, Long Beach.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 61
. 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
. L’invention du barreau français, 1660-1830: La construction nationale d’un groupe professionnel. Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2006. 446 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.00 (pb) ISBN 2-7132-2106-4 and (cl) ISBN-13 978-2-7132-2106-4.
Review by Michael P. Breen, Reed College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 154
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
. We’ll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 382 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-226-47378-3.
Review by Christopher Endy, California State University, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 106
. Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth-Century. Translated by Andrew Brown. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2003. v + 536 pp. Notes and Index. $30.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7456-3009-X.
Review by Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 59
, 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
. Blowing Up Paradise. 60 min., DVD and VHS. First Run/Icarus Films, 2005. $390.00 U.S.
Review by Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 10
. France 1715-1804: Power and the People. Harlow, England and New York: Pearson Education, 2004. xv + 307 pp. Maps, glossary, notes, and index., 19.99 U.K. (pb). ISBN 0-582-23925-7.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 121
. Albert Thibaudet, « l’outsider du dedans ». Collection « Histoire et Civilisations », dirigée par Michel Leymarie et Didier Terrier. Villeneuve-d’Ascq : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion., 2006. 368 pp. Notes, bibliographie et index nominorum. 23.00€. ISBN 2-85939-936-4.
Compte-rendu par by Christophe Pradeau, Université Paris 13.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 145
. Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi + 179pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliographical references, index. $54.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-64090-3. $19.95 U.S. (pb). 0-521-64090-3.
Review by David Higgs, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 23
. Le monde des salons. Sociabilité et mondanité à Paris au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Fayard, 2005. 568 pp. Notes and index. €30 E.U. (pb). ISBN 35-2492-3.
Review by Steven Kale, Washington State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 106
Esau’s Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxiv + 568 pp. Index. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 0 521 79538 9.
Review by Michael R. Shurkin, The Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (August 2001), No. 25
. The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France. Basingstoke, UK, and New York: Palgrave, 2001. xi + 258 pp. Notes and index. $60 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-333-94959-5.
Review by Johnson Kent Wright, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 66
. Making Democracy in the French Revolution. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. x + 326 pp. Notes and index. $49.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-674-00624-0.
Review by David A. Bell, Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (April 2002), No. 32
Response by James Livesey to David A. Bell's review
H-France Review Vol. 2 (April 2002), No. 33
. Passion, Politics, and Philosophie: Rediscovering J.-P. Brissot. Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. xxii + 304 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313- 31779-8.
Review by Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 1
. The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007. 374 pp. Sources, index. $22.95 (pb). ISBN: 0-674-02392-7.
Review by Edward Wehrle, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 79
, Francois Quesnay, Oeuvres économiques complètes et autres textes, 2 volumes, (Paris, INED, 2005). 1618 pp. + notes. €68.00 (cl). ISBN 2-733-2103-19.
Review by Liana Vardi, State University of New York at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 127
The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xviii + 234 pp. $27.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-53782-7.
Review by Timothy Raser, University of Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 73
, The Fiction of Albert Camus: A Complex Simplicity. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Vienna: Peter Lang, 2007. 300 pp. Footnotes, bibliography, and index. $68.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 3-03910-304-0.
Review by William E. Duvall, Willamette University
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 66
Marchés, migrations et logiques familiales dans les espaces français, canadien et suisse, 18e-20e siècles. Bern, Switz.: Peter Lang, 2005. 321 pp. + illustrations, graphs, and tables. $59.95 (U.S.). ISBN 3-03910-497-7.
Review by Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 56
. Paul Doumer, gouverneur général de d’Indochine (1897-1902): le tremplin colonial. Paris: l’Harmattan, 2004. 248 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. 21.20 € (pb.). ISBN 2-7475-6954-3.
Review by Michael G. Vann, California State University, Sacramento.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 53
Réponse par Amaury Lorin au Compte-rendu de son ouvrage par Michael G. Vann.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 54
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
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
Blood and Religion: The Conscience of Henri IV, 1553-1593. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001. xii + 457 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2124-0.
Review by Raymond A. Mentzer, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 132
Gendarmerie, état et société au XIXe siècle. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2002. 510 pp. Appendices. 30.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-85944-449-1.
Review by Anthony J. Steinhoff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 57
Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early-Modern France. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2005. xxxviii + 357 pp. Map, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8132-1411-4.
Review by Penny Roberts, University of Warwick, U.K.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 79
. Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France: Workers, Women, Peasants. New York: Palgrave, 2001. xii + 208 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $60.00 US. ISBN 0-333-92126-7.
Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (January 2002), No. 1
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
. Franco-Irish Relations, 1500-1610: Politics, Migration and Trade. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Royal Historical Society and The Boydell Press, 2003. ix + 242 pp. Notes, bibliography, glossary, and index. £40.00; $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-861-93266-8.
Review by Gayle K. Brunelle, California State University at Fullerton.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 89
M
Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiv + 238 pp. Diagrams, figures, notes, and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 080186626X.
Review by William H. TeBrake, University of Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 15
. The Conversion of Imagination: From Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. 285 pp. Notes and index. $49.95 (cl). ISBN: 0-674-02188-6.
Review by Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University, Bloomington.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 42
. Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750-1914. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 227 pp. $39.95 U.S. £23.95 (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4144-7.
Review by K. Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 46
. Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2005. 240 pp. Color plates and black and white illustrations. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-500-23821-9.
Review by Mark Antliff, Duke University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 63
, France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xx + 376 pp. Figures, maps, bibliography, notes, index. $44.95 (hb). ISBN 0-8018-1823-3.
Review by John Tolan, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 2
. In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth-Century France. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003. ix + 317. Notes, bibliography and index. $84.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3134-9; $23.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-3121-7.
Review by Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 37
. Dress in the Middle Ages. Translated by Caroline Beamish. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 1997. vi + 167 pp. Foreword, black-and-white illustrations, bibliography, and glossary. $25.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-300-06906-5; $15.00 US (pb.). ISBN 0-300-08691-1.
Review by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, University of Maryland, College Park.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 23
. Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. 333 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography and index. $84.95 (hb); $23.95 (pb). ISBN: 0-8223-3755-X (hb) 0-8223-3768-1 (pb).
Review by Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 66
. Paris Between Empires: Monarchy and Revolution, 1814–1852. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003. ix + 559 pages. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-312-30857-4.
Review by Victoria E. Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 48
. Music & Philosophy. Trans. Stephen Maddux and Robert E. Wood. Intro., Robert E. Wood. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2005. Index. 147 pp. $17.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN-10: 0-87462-665-X. ISBN-13: 0-87462-665-0.
Review by Gary E. Aylesworth, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 2
. Pauvreté et protection sociale aux XIXe et XXe siècles: des expériences rouennaises aux politiques nationales. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, collection « Carnot », 2006, 404 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography of author’s works, index. 22 € (pb). ISBN 2-7535-0315-X.
Compte-rendu par Bruno Valat, Centre Universitaire Jean-François Champollion, Albi, France.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 135
Villes en crise? Les politiques municipales face aux pathologies urbaines (fin XVIIIe-- fin XXe siècle). CREAPHIS, 2005. 760 pps ; 32€ (pb); ISBN 2-913610-49-8.
Review by Stephen W. Sawyer, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 136
The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2000. x + 298 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55 US (cl), ISBN 0-520-22140-0 (cl); $19.95 US (pb), 0-520-22149-9 (pb).
Review by Charles Sowerwine, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (April 2002), No. 36
. François de Neufchâteau : biographie intellectuelle. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2005, 557 pp. Bibliography, Index. €30.40 (cloth). ISBN 2-85944-525-0.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 9
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
. Bains de foule: Les voyages présidentiels en province, 1888-2002. Paris: Éditions Belin, 2006. 352 pp. Figures, notes and index. €24.00 (pb). ISSN 1270-914-X, ISBN 2-7011-4452-3.
Review by Paul Smith, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 55
. 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
, From Martyr to Monument: The Abbey of Cluny as Cultural Patrimony. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. xix + 286 pp. Maps, figures, notes bibliography, and index. ISBN 9-781847-182128 (cl).
Review by Matt Matsuda, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 64
, 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
. Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave, 2001. X + 200 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-333-92242-5.
Review by Thomas Brennan, U.S. Naval Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 43
. France in 1938. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. x + 252 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 (cl). ISBN 0-8071-3050-8.
Review by Sean Kennedy, University of New Brunswick.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 42
La Révolution à l’oeuvre. Perspectives actuelles dans l’histoire de la Révolution française. Rennes: Presses Universitatires de Rennes, 2005. 375 pp. Notes and bibliography. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7535-0055-X.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 133
. Le Théâtre de la Foire: Des tréteaux aux boulevards. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002. xix + 386 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography. £59.00 U.K. , $101.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7294-0797-7.
Review by Charles Walton, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and Columbia University’s Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 136
. Human Nature and the French Revolution: From the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code. Translated by Patrick Corcoran. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2001. v + 292 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-571-81415-9.
Review by Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 2
. Comédienne: De Mlle Mars à Sarah Bernhardt. 416 pp. Paris: Seuil, 2001. Notes, chronology, bibliography, and index. 21.04 € (pb). ISBN 2-02-039904-0.
Review by Charles Sowerwine, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 29
. Perrier, c’est nous! Histoire de la source Perrier et de son personnel. Paris: Editions de l’Atelier/ Editions Ouvrières, 2005. 254 pp. Map, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 24 € (pb). ISBN 2-7082-3816-7.
Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 13
Revolutionary Acts: Theater, Democracy and the French Revolution. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xii + 275 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-8125-0.
Review by Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 122
, Antisémythes: L’image des juifs entre culture et politique (1848-1939). Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2005. 465 pp. Figures, notes. 34 Euros (pb). ISBN 2-84736-104-9.
Review by Allan Arkush, Binghamton University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 38
Empire of Love: Histories of France and the Pacific. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 232 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $65 U.S., £39.50 (cl.). ISBN 0-19-516294-3; $21.95 U.S., £13.50 (pb). ISBN 0-19-516295-1.
Review by Daniel J. Sherman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 96
Response by Matt K. Matsuda to the review of his book by Daniel J. Sherman.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 97
. Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 2005. 237 pp. Color plates, black and white illustrations, notes, and index. $30.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-10872-9.
Review by Gretchen van Slyke, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 15
. Le Corbeau. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press/London: Tauris, 2007. x + 114 pp. Stills, notes, credits, filmography, bibliography, and index. $20.00 US (pb). ISBN-13-978-0-252-07457-8.
Review by Christopher Lloyd, Durham University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 3
, 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
The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. x + 255 pp. Notes and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01046-9.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 12
. La noblesse et l’Eglise en Provence, fin Xe-début XIVe siècle: L'exemple des familles d'Agoult-Simiane, de Baux et de Marseille. Paris: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 2002. 806 pp. €32.00 E.U. (pb). ISBN 2735505030.
Review by John Drendel, University of Quebec at Montreal.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 138
. Chamfort and the French Revolution. A Study in Form and Ideology. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002. xv + 180 pp. Bibliography and index. £39.00 U.K.; $67.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0801-9.
Review by Richard Whatmore, University of Sussex.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 17
, Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages. A Sourcebook. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. xii + 292 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $96.65 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-415-30745-7; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-30746-5.
Review by Erin Jordan, University of Northern Colorado.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 106
Sunspots and the Sun King: Sovereignty and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century France. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. ix + 316. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-252-03056-7.
Review by Michael P. Breen, Reed College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 78
McCullough, Roy L. Coercion, Conversion and Counterinsurgency in Louis XIV’s France. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Notes, bibliography and index. vii + 265 pp. $128.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-90-04-15661-6.
Review by W. Gregory Monahan, Eastern Oregon University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 108
. The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. xii + 178 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $38.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3713-7.
Review by Jeffrey J. Cohen, George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 137
The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750-2000. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ix + 234 pp. Notes and indices. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-81493-6.
Review by Sarah A. Curtis, San Francisco State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 36
. Remaking France: Americanization, Public Diplomacy, and the Marshall Plan. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. xii + 259. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 (cl). ISBN 1-84545-154-6.
Review by William I. Hitchcock, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 85
. Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages. Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. xi + 154 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0268035006.
Review by Bonnie Effros, Binghamton University (SUNY).
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 146
Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xii + 262 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-513685-3
Review by Jay M. Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 12
, Living the French Revolution, 1789-99. Basingstoke, England, and New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2006. x + 319 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $ 74.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-333-99739-5.
Review by Edward J. Woell, Western Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 46
. The French Revolution 1789-1799. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 234 pp. Maps, chronology, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-924414-6.
Review by Sydney Watts, University of Richmond.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 88
. Revolution and Environment in Southern France: Peasants, Lords, and Murder in the Corbières 1780-1830. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xi + 272 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-19-820717-4.
Review by Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (February 2001), No. 4
. The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt. Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France. Amsterdam: Amstedam University Press, distributed in the US by the University of Chicago Press, 2003. 388p. bibliography and index. $55.00 (US). ISBN 90-5356-624-4.
Review by William Hauptman, Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 117
. Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. xiv + 257 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. (cl); ISBN 0-7546-3619- 4.
Review by Julie Hardwick, University of Texas at Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 41
. Monumental Intolerance: Jean Baffier, A Nationalist Sculpture in Fin-De-Siècle France. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. lxvii+326pp. Bibliography and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-01965-4.
Review by William Hauptman, Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 13
. Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice. With contributions by Steven Shepard and Phillip Honenberger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xvi + 288 pp. Tables, notes, index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-51829-9; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-51830-5.
Review by John L. Harvey, St. Cloud State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 121
. The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ix + 284 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $54.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-521-46573-7; $19.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-521-46969-4.
Review by Michael R. Lynn, Agnes Scott College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 18
. For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. x + 240 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $52.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-226-51981-3. $20.00 US (pb). ISBN 0-226-51982-1.
Review by Katherine B. Crawford, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 42
, Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. ix + 310 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN: 9780823226962.
Review by Anne Vila, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 109
. Decolonization and the Decolonized. Translated by Robert Bononno. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xii + 148 pp. $17.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-8166-4735-6.
Review by Richard L. Derderian, California Lutheran University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 80
Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii + 241 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. ISBN 0 521 77324 5.
Review by Daniel Hickey, Université de Moncton.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 120
. Police Stories: Building the French State 1815-1851. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. viii + 254 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. £33 UK; $55.00 US (hb). ISBN 0-19-507253-7.
Review by Paul Lawrence, The Open University (UK).
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 13
. Crescendo of the Virtuoso: Spectacle, Skill, and Self-Promotion in Paris during the Age of Revolution. Studies in the History of Society and Culture no. 30. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii + 385 pp. Notes, index. $50.00 (cl.) ISBN 0-520-20684-3.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (May 2001), No. 13
Abelard and Heloise. Great Medieval Thinkers. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xviii + 308 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $74.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-515688-9; $24.95 U.S. (pb). 0-19-515689-7.
Review by Barbara Newman, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 102
Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiv + 316 pp. Notes. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-58365-9.
Review by Bertrand Taithe, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 92
. Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France, 1925-1945; with an afterword by Zeev Sternhell. Wayne State University Press, Detroit Michigan, 2004. Bibliography. $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8143-3227-7.
Review by Nadia Malinovich, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 73
, 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
. Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2005, xiv + 285 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 U. S. (hb). ISBN 1-57488-786-6.
Review by Barry Shapiro, Allegheny College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 58
. The Representation of Place: Urban Planning and Protest in France and Great Britain, 1950-1980. Burlingon, Vermont and Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, and index. xv + 347 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-75-460653-8.
Review by Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 146
. From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. xii + 277 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-2757-0; $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-2766-X.
Review by Norman Ingram, Concordia University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 106
Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. xvi + 234 pp. Figures, illustrations, notes, and index. $40.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-300-08252-5.
Review by Zachary S. Schiffman, Northeastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 41
. Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture. London: Reaktion Books, 2005. 248 pp. 10 color plates, 90 halftones, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.99 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1861892608.
Review by Kathleen Biddick, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 115
. Les origines du mal: une histoire du péché original, Georges Minois. Paris: Fayard, 2002. 440 pp. Bibliography and index. 22.00 €. ISBN 2-213-61149-1.
Review by Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 84
. Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison and Sacrilege in Louis XIV’s France. Magic in History Series. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. 224 pp. Illustrations. $70.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0271029153; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0271029160.
Review by Orest Ranum, The Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 144
Apology for Raymond Sebond. Translated with notes and introduction by Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 2003. 184 pp. Notes and bibliography. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-87220-680-7; $9.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87220-679-3.
Review by Allan Tulchin, George Mason University.
. Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. 272 pp. Plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-12002-1.
Review by Charles Rearick, The University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 95
The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 268 pp. Index, plates, and notes. £47.50 (hb). ISBN: 0521814324.
Review by David A. Bell, Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 66
, Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in fin-de-siècle France. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003. xii + 295 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0319-9.
Review by Matt K. Matsuda, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 43
. Charlemagne and France: A Thousand Years of Mythology. Trans. Catherine Tihanyi. The Laura Shannon Series in French Medieval Studies. Notre Dame, In.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. xxii + 391 pp., 24 plates (in theory), notes, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-02277-1.
Translation of L'Empereur à la barbe fleurie: Charlemagne dans la mythologie et l'histoire de France. Bibliothèque des histoires. Paris: N.R.F./Gallimard, 1997. 437 pp., 24 plates, index. € 29.73 (pb). ISBN 2-07-073127-8.
Review by Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 117
, Revolutionary Currents: Nation Building in the Transatlantic World. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004. 192 pp. Notes, select bibliography, and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7425-2165-6.
Review by Doina Pasca Harsanyi, Central Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 33
. The Gold Standard Illusion. France, the Bank of France and the International Gold Standard, 1914-1939. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 297 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $72.00 (cl.) ISBN 019-924904-0.
Review by Julian Jackson, University of Wales, Swansea.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 98
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
. Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 268. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4394-7.
Review by Nathan Bracher, Texas A & M University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 88
Response by Samuel Moyn to the review of his book by Nathan Bracher.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 89
. A History of the Devil From the Middle Ages to the Present. Translated by Jean Birrell. Cambridge: Polity, 2003. x + 349 pp. Notes, bibliography, filmography, and index. £55.00 U.K., $62.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7456-2815; £17.99 U.K., $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7456-2816-8. Originally published as Une histoire du diable, XIIe-XXe siècle. Paris: Seuil, 2000.
Review by Moshe Sluhovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 39
. Vichy and the Eternal Feminine: A Contribution to a Political Sociology of Gender. Trans. Kathleen A. Johnson. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. 325 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $21.95 US (pb.). ISBN 0-8223-2774-0.
Review by Sarah Fishman, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 51
. Salamanca 1812. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. xiv + 322 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-300-08719-5.
Review by Michael Broers, University of Aberdeen (UK).
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 10
. Lucien Febvre, lecteur et critique. Paris: Albin Michel, 2003. 467 pp. Notes, annexes, selective bibliography. €26 (pb). ISBN 2-226-13282-1.
Review by John L. Harvey, St. Cloud State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 1
. Studies in the Ecclesiastical and Social History of Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars. Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West. Burlington, VT, and Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006. 258 pp. Appendices, maps, and index. $99.95 U.S./£ 52.50 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0754653161.
Review by Joshua C. Birk, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 59
. Rock of Contention: Free French and Americans at War in New Caledonia, 1940-1945. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005. xii + 251 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-57181-682-8.
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 47
Memory and Modernity: Viollet-le-Duc at Vézelay. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. xiv + 200 pp. 53 black and white illustrations. $45.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-271-01850-X.
Review by Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (December 2001), No. 46
, Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought. London & New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. xxxii + 713 pp. Notes, chronology, index. $175.00, ISBN 1-57958-384-9.
Review by Patrick H. Hutton, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 6
A Gothic Sermon: Making a Contract with the Mother of God, Saint Mary of Amiens, University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 2004, 173 pages, 15 illustrations. $39.95 (cl). ISBN: 0520238478.
Review by Beverly Kienzle, Harvard Divinity School.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 63
N
. Les conseillers municipaux de Paris sous la IIIe République (1871-1914). Paris : Publications de la Sorbonne, 2002. 375 pp. Tables, annexes, bibliography, and index. 30.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-85944-440-8.
Review by Patricia R. Turner, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 54
Plagues, Poisons and Potions: Plague-Spreading Conspiracies in the Western Alps c. 1530-1640. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002. xiv + 242 pp. Maps, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7190-4641-6.
Review by Matthew Vester, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 6
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.
The Cambridge Companion to Émile Zola. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 214 pp. Further reading and specialist resources, notes, and index. $85 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-83594-7. $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-54376-7.
Review by Janice Best, Acadia University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 124
. The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615). Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005. vi + 275 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. $94.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-7546-3888-X.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 40
Thérèse of Lisieux: God’s Gentle Warrior. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Xviii + 398pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-530721-6.
Review by Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 156
Aymeri of Narbonne: A French Epic Romance. New York: Italica Press, 2005. xxxvii + 169 pp. Maps, glossary, appendices, and bibliography. $17.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-934977-67-4.
Review by Richard W. Kaeuper, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 107
, 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
, Georges Pompidou, une certaine idée de la modernité agricole et rurale. Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, PIE Peter Lang, 2007, 481 p., coll. " Georges Pompidou - Archives n°2 ", Chronology, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (US) ISBN 978-90-5201-057-1.
Compte-rendu par Alain Chatriot, CNRS, CRH-AHMOC, Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 17
, Une archéologie du corps enseignant: les professeurs des collèges parisiens au XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (1598-1793). Histoire de l’éducation. Paris: Bélin, 2006. 240 pp. Notes and index. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7011-4348-9.
Review by Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 58
The Inverted Mirror: Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany, 1898-1914. Vol. 2, Studies in Contemporary European History. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. ix + 141 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $50.00 (hb). ISBN 1-57181-669-0.
Review by Christopher Fischer, Indiana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 14
. Penser avec, penser contre: Itinéraire d’un historien. Paris: Belin, 2003. 310 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. 23.00 € (pb.) ISBN 2-7011-3347-5.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 140
Rethinking France. Les Lieux de Mémoire. Vol. 2. Space. Translation directed by David P. Jordan. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiv + 480 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-59133-6.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 23
. Rethinking France: Les Lieux de mémoire. Translation directed by David P. Jordan. Vol. I: The State. Translated by Mary Trouille. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. xxxiii + 483 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-59132-8.
Review by Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 91
, Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us about the French and American Past. New York and London: Routledge, 2007. x+245 pp. Figures, notes, index. ISBN 0-415-94953-X.
Review by Joan DeJean, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 128
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. After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting and Propaganda Under Napoleon. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xiv + 288 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. 149 illustrations in color. $65 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-271-02305-8.
Review by Barbara Day-Hickman, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 2
Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 251 pp. Illustrations and index. $69.95 U.S., 52.00 U.K. (cl). ISBN 1-403-93820-2.
Compte-rendu par Jacques Guilhaumou, CNRS, ENS/LSH Lyon.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 90
Changing Minds: The Shifting Perception of Culture in Eighteenth-Century France. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 2002. 279 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-87413-788-8.
Review by Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 90
, Garrison Tales from Tonquin: An American’s Stories of the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam in the 1890s. Ed., and intro by Charles Royster. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. lix + 119pp. $30.00 U.S. ISBN 0-8071-3180-6.
Review by Edmund F. Wehrle, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 70
. Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvère Repertoire. Oxford Monographs on Music. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xv + 226 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-816547-1.
Review by Catherine Léglu, University of Bristol.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 70
. Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture and the Thirty Years' War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii + 304 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-65268-5.
Review by Matthew Vester, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 47
. Vauban under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of Spanish Succession. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. xiii + 390. Maps, figures, tables, appendices and index. $159.00 (cl). ISBN 10-90-04-15489-2.
Review by Michael Wolfe, St. John's University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 10
. Les usages du patrimoine: Monuments, musées et politique coloniale en Algérie (1830-1930). Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2004. 411 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. 45 € (pb.). ISBN: 2-7351-1006-0.
Review by Benjamin Claude Brower, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 67
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The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union. Woodrow Wilson Center Series. Cambridge (England) and Washington (D.C.): Cambridge University Press in association with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002. xii + 379 pp. Notes and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-79171-5; $23.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-79552-4.
Review by Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 108
, Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. ix + 448 pp. Acknowledgements, contributors, notes, supplementary bibliography, and index of names. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0804747644.
Review by Sara L. Kimble, University of Northern Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 31
, 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
. Planning Paris Before Haussmann. Baltimore & London: John Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 336 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-801-87930-2.
Review by Colin Jones, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 135
. Richelieu's Army. War, government and society in France, 1624-1642. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xxiv + 599 pp. $90.00 U.S. ISBN: 0521792096.
Review by Stuart Carroll, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 49
France Since 1800. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii + 277 pp. Maps, figures, list of abbreviations, tables, suggestions for further reading, and index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-925229-7.
Review by Michelle K. Rhoades, Wabash College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 100
, The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism & Political Ideology in Renaissance France. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004. xi + 322 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8132-1384-3.
Review by Hilary J. Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 71
. A Rule for Children and Other Writings. Ed. and trans. John J. Conley. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxxii + 171 pp. Bibliography and index. $47.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-64831-1; $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-64833-8.
Review by Christopher Corley, Minnesota State University at Moorhead.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 11
The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 2003. v + 384 pp. Acknowledgements, forewords, introduction, notes, contributors, and index. $74.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3130-6; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-3117-9.
Review by Kim Munholland, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 15
Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam: Women, Words, and War. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2004. x + 163. Bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-831-X.
Review by Marie-Paule Ha, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 33
. Voltaire Almighty: A Life in the Pursuit of Freedom. London: Bloomsbury, 2005. xxxii + 424 pp. "Dramatis personae," chronology, note on sources, notes, select bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S.; £8.99 UK (cl). ISBN 9780747579571.
Review by Johnson Kent Wright, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 16
. Legislating the French Family: Feminism, Theater and Republican Politics, 1870-1920. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2003. v + 271 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8135-3279-5.
Review by Kristen Stromberg Childers, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 34
The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ix-345 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, and bibliography. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-65341-2.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 133
. The Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. x + 238pp. Notes, map, index and bibliography. $35.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-691-00656-3.
Review by John H. Arnold, University of East Anglia.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 31
. Charles Nicolle, Pasteur’s Imperial Missionary: Typhus and Tunisia. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2006. xix + 384 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-58046-197-2.
Review by Harry W. Paul, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 1
. Shakespeare Goes to Paris: How the Bard Conquered France. London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2005. xix + 240pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $39.95 US (hb). ISBN 1-85285-452-9.
Review by Lenard R. Berlanstein, University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 138
. Histoire du thermalisme en France au XIXe siècle: Eau, médecine et loisirs. Paris: Economica (Collection économies et sociétés contemporaine), 2005. xi + 334 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and bibliography. 39 € (pb). ISBN 2-717-8490-41.
Review by Alex Dracobly, University of Oregon.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 38
Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris. New York: Harrington Park, 2004. xii + 258. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 US (hb). ISBN 1-56023-485-7; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-506023-486-5.
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 45
, L’Humanité de Jaurès à nos jours. Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2004. 419 p. 32.30€ (pb). ISBN 2-84736-081-6.
Review by Dominique Laurent, Dickinson College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 133
Journal de santé de Louis XIV. Écrit par Vallot, Daquin et Fagon. Grenoble, France: Éditions Jérôme Millon, 2004. 445 pp. € 27.00 (pb). ISBN: 2-84137-159-X.
Review by Colin Jones, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 94
. 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
. La ville aux îles, la ville dans l’île. Basse-Terre et Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, 1650-1820. Paris: Éditions Karthala, 2000. 1044 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index, and illustrations. 56.53 Euros (pb). ISBN 2-86537-936-1.
Review by Bernard Gainot, Institut d’histoire de la Révolution Française.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 95
Translation [in English] by John Garrigus, Jacksonville University a H-Caribbean review editor for the Fracophone Caribbean, of the review by Bernard Gainot.
, Francois Quesnay, Oeuvres économiques complètes et autres textes, 2 volumes, (Paris, INED, 2005). 1618 pp. + notes. €68.00 (cl). ISBN 2-733-2103-19.
Review by Liana Vardi, State University of New York at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 127
. Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900: Integration and Deregulation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xx + 173 pp. Sources, bibliography, index. $59.95 U.S. ISBN 0 521 65096 8.
Review by Jonathan J. Liebowitz, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (February 2001), No. 1
Suffrage, citoyenneté et révolutions 1789-1848. Collections études révolutionnaires, no. 3. Paris: Société des études robespierristes, 2002. 180 pp. Notes, figures, and index of proper names. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-908327-46-5.
Review by Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 114
. La France des camps: l’internement 1938-1946. Paris: Gallimard, 2002. 456 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, sources, and index. 26.50 € (pb). ISBN 2-07-073138-3.
Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 55
. Lendemains d’Empire. Les soldats de Napoléon dans la France du XIXe siècle. Paris: La Boutique de l’Histoire, 2003. 399 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. 22.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-910828-29-8.
Review by Robert S. Alexander, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 87
. In the Court of the Pear King: French Culture and the Rise of Realism. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. xi + 178 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S., 16.50 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4341-5.
Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 126
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.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (September 2002), No. 93
. When France was King of Cartography. The Patronage and Production of Maps in Early Modern France. Lanham-Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2007. 215 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-1440-9 / 978-0-7391-1440-7 ; $35.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1776-9 / 978-0-7391-1776-7.
Compte-rendu par Jean-Marc Besse, CNRS, Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 114
. Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases and Early Modern Culture. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xii + 258 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $52.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-8018-8225-7.
Review by Katharine J. Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 112
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
. La Reine Margot. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. 112 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendices, bibliography. $15.00 (pb) $40.00 (hb). ISBN 0-252-07331-2 (pb), ISBN 0-252-03090-7 (hb).
Review by Sylvie E. Blum-Reid, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 103
, Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. ix + 448 pp. Acknowledgements, contributors, notes, supplementary bibliography, and index of names. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0804747644.
Review by Sara L. Kimble, University of Northern Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 31
. The Fight Against Cancer: France 1890-1940. Trans. David Madell. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. xvii + 243 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $100.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-415-27923-2.
Review by Harry W. Paul, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 121
, Zayde: A Spanish Romance. Edited and translated by Nicholas D. Paige. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxi. + 210 pp. Bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-46851-8; $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-266-46852-6.
Review by Christie Sample Wilson, St. Edward’s University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 56
. Dress in the Middle Ages. Translated by Caroline Beamish. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 1997. vi + 167 pp. Foreword, black-and-white illustrations, bibliography, and glossary. $25.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-300-06906-5; $15.00 US (pb.). ISBN 0-300-08691-1.
Review by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, University of Maryland, College Park.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (March 2002), No. 23
. A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii + 382 pp. $39.50 U.S. / £26.95 (UK) (cl). ISBN 0-691-11558-3.
Review by K. Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 128
La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France, 1627-1693. Baltimore, Md. and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiv+367 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $42.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8018-6466-6
Review by Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 34
. La France et la Tierce Allemagne à l’exemple de la Saxe entre 1814 et 1866. Friedberg: Edition Atlantis, 2001. 390 pp. Tables, maps, bibliography, and index. 25.15 Euros (cl). ISBN 3-932711-53-X.
Review by David Wetzel, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 107
, Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xx + 414. Maps, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-8790-7.
Review by Michael A. McDonnell, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 68
, 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
La politique culturelle en débat: Anthologie 1955-2005. Paris: La Documentation française, 2006. 212 pp. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 2-11-006089-1.
Review by Scott Gunther, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 102
L’Invention du Patrimoine en Bourgogne. Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2004. 100 pp. (pb). €25 ISBN 2-905965-99-1.
Review by Kirrily Freeman, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 1
, Letters of François de Callières to the Marquise d’Huxelles. Introduction by Laurence Pope. In collaboration with William S. Brooks. Studies in French Civilization, Vol. 35. Lewiston, N.Y. and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen, 2004. xxii + 314 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $119.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7734-6297-X.
Review by Marsha L. Frey, Kansas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 36
Press, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835. University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. vii + 329 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-271-02153-50.
Review by Christopher H. Johnson, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 16
, Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. viii+287pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, list of illustrations, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02858-0.
Review by David O’Brien, University of Illinois.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 42
Foreign Intelligence and Information in Elizabethan England: Two English Treatises on the State of France, 1580-1584. Camden Fifth Series, vol. 25. Cambridge and New York: University Press, 2004. ix + 261 pp. Appendices, notes, and index.$75.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 0-521-84724-9.
Review by Linda Frey, University of Montana.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 125
France in the Later Middle Ages 1200-1500. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv + 288 pp. Further reading, chronology, genealogical tables, chief office-holders of France, glossary, maps, and index. £14.99 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0-19-925047-2.
Review by William Chester Jordan, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 23
. Corps and Clienteles: Public Finance and Political Change in France, 1688-1715. Aldershot, Hampshire, and Burlington, Vert.: Ashgate, 2003. x + 217 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, appendices, and index. $79.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-754-63726-3.
Review by Jonathan Dewald, State University of New York at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 88
. Jews in France during the Second World War. Trans. Nathan Bracher. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press in association with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2001. xxv + 601 pp. Photos, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-87451-896-2. $34.95 U.S. (pk). ISBN 1-58465-144-X.
Review by Paul Jankowski, Brandeis University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 100
. People and Politics in France, 1848-1870. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ix + 477 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $95.00 U.S. (hb.) ISBN 0-521-83706-5.
Review by Sudhir Hazareesingh, Balliol College, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 119
. The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. x + 507 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. ISBN 0-521-80830-8.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (April 2002), No. 34
In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xxviii + 484 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82742-6.
Review by Saliha Belmessous, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 101
Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War. New York and London: New York University Press, 2003. xvi + 205 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8147-6693-5.
Review by Daniella Sarnoff, Xavier University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 67
. Republican Identities in War and Peace: Representations of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 2002. xi + 288 pp. Pictures, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85973-621-1; $25.00 U.S. (pb). 1-85973-626-2.
Review by James R. Lehning, The University of Utah.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 37
. Vincent de Paul, the Trailblazer. Translated by Gertrud Graubert Champe. Note Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. xi + 327 pp. Images, chronology, notes, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-04361-2.
Review by Susan E. Dinan, Long Island University--CW Post.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 11
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Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works, The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxviii + 176 pp. Bibliography and index. $49.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-305556-2.
Review by Michelle Marshman, Green River College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 32
, 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
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. Hatred in Print: Catholic Propaganda and Protestant Identity during the French Wars of Religion. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2002. xiv + 161 pp., $74.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0284-2
Review by Ronald S. Love, The State University of West Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 77
. Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and its Legacies, 1940-1970. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2005. v + 273 pp. $70.00 US (hb) ISBN 0-7391-1146-9.
Review by Nguyen Thu Huong and Frances Gouda, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 54
. A Discourse for the Holy Grail in Old French Romance. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2007. x + 182 pp. Bibliography and index. $85. ISBN 1-84384-109-6.
Review by Amy L. Ingram, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 93
. The Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Medieval Religious Renewal Movement. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 272 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6847-0.
Review by Sam Collins, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 104
. Paris in the Age of Absolutism. An Essay. Revised and expanded edition. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. 403 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02221-3.
Review by David Garrioch, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 9
. Jomini et la stratégie: Une approache historique de l'oeuvre. Paris: Sofedis and Lagny; Belgium: Sodis, 2002. 336 pp. Notes, biographical notices, and bibliography. 23.70 Euros (pb). ISBN 2-601-03297.
Review by Eugenia C. Kiesling, United States Military Academy, West Point.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 136
. A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime. McGill-Queens Studies in the History of Religion, series two. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2001. xi + 379 pp. Illustrations, appendix, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2222-0.
Review by Ann W. Ramsey, Independent Scholar, Esopus, New York.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 65
. Kultfigur und Nation: Öffentliche Denkmäler in Paris, Berlin und London 1848-1914. Munich: Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2006. 797 pp. Notes, black and white illustrations, bibliography and index. € 79.80 (hb). ISBN 978-3-486-57579-8.
Compte-rendu par Elise Julien, Université Paris I / Freie Universität Berlin.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 1
The Contested Parterre: Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680-1791. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 1999. xi + 256 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3544-7. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8541-X.
Review by Andre Spies, Hollins University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 67
, 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
The French Communist Party During the Fifth Republic: A Crisis of Leadership and Ideology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. x + 233 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-9612-1.
Review by W. Brian Newsome, Alfred University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 8
. The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. xvi + 388 pp. List of interviews and testimony, acronyms of agencies, organizations, and movements, notes and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-268-04021-4.
Review by John F. Sweets, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 127
The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xiv + 380 pp. $70 U.S. (cl); ISBN 0-521-80303-9. $25 U.S. (pb); ISBN 0-521-00472-1.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 118
Response by William M. Reddy to the review of his book by Jeremy D. Popkin.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 119
. Locating Bourdieu. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005). xii + 208pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-253-21732-6.
Review by Jeremy F. Lane, Nottingham University, Nottingham UK.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 139
. Esclavage, métissage, liberté: La Révolution française en Guadeloupe, 1789-1802. Paris, Grasset, 2004. 507 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. 22€ (pb). ISBN 2 246 64481 X.
Review by Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 76
. De la petite fille velue et autres conférences du Bureau d’Adresse (1632-1642). Edited by Simone Mazauric. Paris: Klincksieck, 2004. xxxviii + 154 pp. Notes. €14 E.U. (pb). ISBN 2-252-3444-0.
Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 20
. Crime et folie: Deux siècles d’enquêtes médicales et judiciaires. Paris: Fayard, 2003. 527 pp. Notes and index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-213-60833-4.
Review by Alex Dracobly, University of Oregon.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 130
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
Jacques Coeur: Entrepreneur and King’s Bursar. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2005. ix + 187 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, glossary and index. $? U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-321-08537-X.
Review by Gayle K. Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 47
. Histoires de papier. La papeterie auvergnate et ses historiens. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2002. 410 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, illustrations and index. 27.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-84516-178-6.
Review by Philippe Minard, Université Lille-3 and CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 63
, La France et le temps de travail (1814-2004). Paris: Odile Jacob, 2004. 237 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. 23.90 € (pb). ISBN 2-7381-1392-3.
Review by Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 5
. Paris-Edinburgh: Cultural Connections in the Belle Époque. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007. xv + 218 pp. Figures (27 b&w illustrations), bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0754634647.
Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 153
. Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006. x + 346 pp. $90.00 cl/$29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-739-1129-02.
Review by James A. Winders, Appalachian State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 86
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
, Molière and Modernity: Absent Mothers and Masculine Births. Charlottesville, Virginia: Rookwood Press, 2005. 234 pp. $45.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-188-63655-51.
Review by Julia Prest, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 51
, Between State and Market: Printing and Bookselling in Eighteenth-Century France. Foreword by Robert Darnton. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2007 (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century). xiii + 313 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, bibliography, and index. $132.00 U.S. (pb); ISBN 978-0729409070.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 59
A Lust for Virtue: Louis XIV’s Attack on Sin in Seventeenth-Century France. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press (Contributions to the Study of World History, Number 88), 2001. xvi + 203 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313-31708-9.
Review by Robin Briggs, Oxford University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 129
. Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 296 pp., 3 halftones, 39 line drawings, bibliography, and index, $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-72079-9.
Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 67
. A Certain Emancipation of Women: Gender, Citizenship, and the Causes Célèbres of Eighteenth-Century France. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2004. 132 pp. Bibliography and index. $34.50 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 1-57591-087-X.
Review by Mita Choudhury, Vassar College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 120
, The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2007. vii + 455 pp. Maps, figures, notes bibliography, and index. $27.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 0-393-05973-1.
Review by Steven Kale, Washington State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 61
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 61
Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv + 349 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $48.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-6753-3.
Review by Rebecca L. Spang, University College London.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 103
, Enterprises et Pouvoir Économique dans la Région Rhône-Alpes (1920-1954). Lyon: Éditions Réné Georges, 2003. 295 pp. €15 (pb) ISBN 2-9519554-3-X.
Review by Daniel Ringrose, Minot State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 77
. Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siècle France. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2002. xi + 353 pp. Notes, illustrations, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-72124-8.
Review by Siân Reynolds, University of Stirling, Scotland.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 61
. Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works. Cambridge U.K. and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xx + 456 pp. Illustrations, music, notes, bibliography, and index. £65.00 (cl); $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-41876-3.
Review by Cynthia J. Cyrus, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 116
. Death Squadrons: The French School. New York: First Run/Icarus Films: 2003. 60 Minutes color. Sale: Video/DVD, $390. Rental: Video, $100.
Review by James D. Le Sueur, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 77
. The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism. Translated by Sharon Bowman. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp. xiii + 518, $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-72368-2.
Review by Seth Armus, Saint Joseph’s College (New York).
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 131
. From the Salon to the School Room: Educating Bourgeois Girls in Nineteenth-Century France. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. xv + 335 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-271-02680-4.
Review by Elinor Accampo, University of Southern California.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 120
. National Character and Public Spirit in Britain and France 1750-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ix + 348 pp. Notes and index. $65 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0521810000.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 61
. Correspondance, 1774-1779. Vol. 1, book 1: 1774-1776. Volume 1, book 2: 1777-1779. Edited by Anne-Marie Bourdin, Philippe Bourdin, Jean Ehrard, Hélène Roi-Tanguy and Alexandre Tchoudinov. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2006. 350 and 380 pp. Introductions, annexes, appendices, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, chronology and index. 32 € . (pb). ISBN 2-84516-309-6.
Review by Robert H. Blackman, Hampden-Sydney College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 111
. The Demands of Liberty: Civil Society in France Since the Revolution. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. viii + 354 pp. Notes and index. $35.00 (cl). ISBN 13: 978-0-674-02496-0.
Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 106
. Democracy Past and Future, ed. Samuel Moyn, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, ix + 294 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-231-13740-0.
Review by Edward Berenson, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 31
. Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2001. 211 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 US (cl). ISBN: 0-8047-4232-4. $24.95 US (pb). ISBN: 0-8047-4267-7.
Review by David H. Slavin, Rice University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 71
Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France. Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiv + 210 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $48.00 (cl.). ISBN 0-8018-6392-9.
Review by Philippe Minard, Université Lille-3 and CNRS-Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (December 2001), No. 47
. Policing Paris: the Origins of Modern Immigration Control between the Wars. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. xvii + 241 pp. $23.95 U.S. (pb.) Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography and index. ISBN 0-8014-7315-2.
Review by Julian Wright, University of Durham.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 46
. L’Intelligence démographique: Sciences et politiques des population en France (1930-1960). Paris: Odile Jacob, 2003. 366 pp. 2 tables, bibliography, notes, index. €27 (pb). ISBN 2-7381-1258-7.
Review by Joshua Cole, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 101
Rosenwein, Barbara H. Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. xv + 228 pp. Map, chart, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4478-4; $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-7416-3.
Review by Bonnie Effros, Binghamton University, State University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 103
. May ’68 and its Afterlives. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ix + 238 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-72797-1
Review by Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (December 2002), No. 133
. Economic Sentiments, Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. ix + 353pp. Notes and index. $45.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-674-00489-2
Review by Liana Vardi, SUNY at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 9
. Ciné-Ethnography, ed. and trans., Steven Feld, Series "Visible Evidence" No. 13, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003, viii + 448 p. $25.95 U.S. (pb) ISBN 0-81-664104-8.
Review Article by Yves Laberge, Institut québécois des hautes études internationales.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 118
, Chronicle of a Summer, (Chronique d'un été.) First Run/Icarus Films, VHS, 2003 [1961], 84 minutes.
Review Article by Yves Laberge, Institut québécois des hautes études internationales.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 118
. The Haunting Past: History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France. Preface by Philippe Petit. Translated by Ralph Schoolcraft. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. vii + 96 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. ISBN 0-8122-3645-9.
Review by Robert Soucy, Oberlin College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 40
. From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi + 331 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-82443-5.
Review by Rafe Blaufarb, Auburn University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 5
. The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxiv + 404 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-64124-1.
Review by Jim Collins, Georgetown University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 7
Response by Guy Rowlands to the review of his book by Jim Collins.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 8
Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii + 269 pp. Illustrations, tables, chapter bibliographies, on-line bibliographic essay, notes, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-59119-8; $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-59894-X.
Review by Michael P. Breen, Reed College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 96
. Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth Century France. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xi + 346 pp. Notes, index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8018-8476-4.
Review by Geoffrey Turnovsky, University of Washington.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 15
. The Populist Challenge: Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization in France. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004. 272 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S./£50.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 1-57181-643-7; $24.95 U.S./£14.95 U.K. (pb). ISBN 1-57181-691-7.
Review by Richard L. Derderian, National University of Singapore.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 14
. Destins immigrés: Cher, 1920-1980, trajectoires d'immigrés d'Europe. Besançon: Annales littéraires de l'Université de Franche Comté, 2001. 447 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. 39.64 € (pb). ISBN 2-84627-014-7.
Review by Clifford Rosenberg, The City College of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 59
S
. Contemporary France: A Democratic Education. Lanham, M.D., and Oxford, U.K.: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. xi + 340 pp. Notes, appendixes, and index. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7425-0198-1.
Review by W. Brian Newsome, Alfred University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 38
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
. Citizens & Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle for Modernity, and the Origins of Ideological Terror. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001. xii + 640 pp. Notes. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7425-0831-5.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (October 2002), No. 99
. Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After. Ithaca, New York, and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. xiv + 454 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $67.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4142-0; $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8839-7.
Review by Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 74
Vital Crossroads; Mediterranean Origins of the Second World War, 1935-1940. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. xi + 285pp. Bibliography and index. $36.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-8014-3772-5.
Review by Andrew Barros, Université du Québec à Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 96
Ideas and Contexts in France and England from the Renaissance to the Romantics. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2000. xii + 304 pp. Index. $105.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-86078-835-0.
Review by Kathleen A. Parrow, Black Hills State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 39
. Les îles bretonnes: Une image en construction (1750-1914). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2003. 466 pp. Notes, maps, figures, bibliography, index. 24€ (pb). ISBN 2-86847-824-7.
Review by Caroline Ford, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 61
, Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 280 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendix, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4249-0; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-8965-2.
Review by Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 38
. The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ix + 276 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (hb), ISBN 0-8018-8308-3.
Review by Susan Blood, SUNY Albany.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 107
. A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xlvii + 700 pp. Tables, colour plate, figures, facsimiles, music examples, bibliography, and index of titles and first lines. $225.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-816360-6.
Review by Graham Sadler, University of Hull.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 149
, The Other Within: Ethics, Politics and the Body in Simone de Beauvoir. Lanham and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. xvi + 195 pp. Preface, notes, bibliography and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7425-3476-6.
Review by Alison S. Fell, Lancaster University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 117
. Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2003. viii + 338 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-52-023557-6.
Review by Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 122
. Hitler’s African Victims, The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 202pp. Sources, index. $65 (hb). ISBN: 0-521-85799-6.
Review by Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 5
. La cathédrale de Rouen vers 1300: un chantier majeur de la fin du Moyen âge. Portail des Libraires, portail de la Calende, chapelle de la Vierge. Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de Normandie, 41. Caen: Société des antiquaires de Normandie, 2005. 421 pp. Map, plans, computer-generated diagrams, photographs, notes, bibliography, glossary and index. €35 E.U. (pb). ISBN 2-9510558-3-8.
Review by Stephen Murray, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 105
. Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xi + 449 pp. Notes and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8020-8718-3.
Review by Joseph F. Byrnes, Oklahoma State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 26
Radical Cartesianism: The French Reception of Descartes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiv + 288 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-81134-1.
Review by J. B. Shank, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 46
. 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
Napoleon’s Conquest of Europe: the War of the Third Coalition. London and Westport, Connecticutt: Praeger, 2005. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography and index. ISBN 0-275-98096-0.
Review by Charles J. Esdaile, University of Liverpool.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 17
Response by Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 18
Tocqueville and Beyond. Essays on the Old Regime in Honor of David D. Bien. Newark: University of Delaware Press, London: Associated University Presses, 2003. 300pp. Bibliography, list of contributors, index. U.S. (cl) $52.50 ISBN 0-87413-830-2.
Review by Keith Michael Baker, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 137
, The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early-Modern France: Encounters with A Certain Something (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). 352 pp. $99.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-1992-74401.
Review by TEMS, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 72
The Life and Legacy of Baroness Betty de Rothschild. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. xiii + 190 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $68.95 (cl). ISBN: 0-8204-7885-7.
Review by Willa Z. Silverman, The Pennsylvania State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 139
A Workforce Divided: Community, Labor and the State in Saint-Nazaire’s Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1910. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. X + 233 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl) ISBN 0-313-31775-5.
Review by Steve Zdatny, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 41
Tocqueville and Beyond. Essays on the Old Regime in Honor of David D. Bien. Newark: University of Delaware Press, London: Associated University Presses, 2003. 300pp. Bibliography, list of contributors, index. U.S. (cl) $52.50 ISBN 0-87413-830-2.
Review by Keith Michael Baker, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 137
. Parité!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. ix + 191 pp. Notes, index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-74107-9. $22.00 U.S. (pb) ISBN 0-226-74108-7.
Review by Carolyn J. Dean, Brown University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 34
. A French Genocide: The Vendée. Translated by George Holoch. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. xvi + 305 pp. Tables, maps, and notes. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-02865-6.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 26
. Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ix + 370 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-515297-2.
Review by Paul Mazgaj, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 43
Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. vi + 208 pp. Bibliography and index. $65.00 (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0-472-11528-0. ISBN-10: 0-472-11528-6.
Review by Jan Miernowski, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Warsaw.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 99
. Récits des Antilles: Le Bois de la Soufrière, suivis d’un choix de poèmes. L’Harmattan : Paris, Budapest, Torino, 2004. xlvii +157pp. Introduction (par Adrianna M. Paliyenko), Note technique, Bibliographie sélective (Ecrits d’Anaïs Ségalas, ouvrages critiques, historiques et littéraires, bibliographie complémentaire : esquisses de moeurs coloniales), couverture illustrée, frontispice de la couverture de l’édition de 1886, six gravures, titres en perspectives chez cet éditeur. 17,50 euros (pb). ISBN 2-7475-7461-X.
Compte-rendu par Hélène N. Sanko, John Carroll University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 27
, Stèles..Translated, edited, and annotated by Timothy Billings and Christopher Bush. Foreword by Haun Saussy. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. Vol. 1, xxxiv + 415 pp. Introduction by Billings and Bush, facsimile of 1914 edition of Stèles, English translation of the stèles, brief summaries of each stèle, critical notes, and bibliography. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8195-6833-3. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8195-6832-5.
Vol. 2, viii + 246 pp. Chinese sources and contexts for Stèles; unpublished stèles; critical notes, Chinese sources and contexts for unpublished stèles; Segalen’s draft of “To the Scholars of the Extreme Occident”; dates of composition and revision of the stèles; and bibliography. Freely available on line at http://www.steles.org.
Review by Yvonne Y. Hsieh, University of Victoria, Canada.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 41
. The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968. New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2004. x + 310 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, chronology, glossary, and index. $75.00 U.S.(hb). ISBN 1-57181-675-5; $24.95 U.S (pb). ISBN 1-57181-685-2.
Review by Rosemary Wakeman, Forham University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 94
. Napoleon and the British. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xii + 354 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. Cloth, $40.00, £25. ISBN: 0-300-09001-3.
Review by J. E. Cookson, University of Canterbury.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 37
. The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2005. xii + 341. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S.; £39.95 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-520-24180-0.
Review by Gary Kates, Pomona College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 132
Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 376 pp. $27.50 (pbk). ISBN-13: 978-0226749181.
Review by Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 91
The Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition and Revolutionary Socialism. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xii + 226 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 US (cl). ISBN: 0-333-72302-3. $28.95 US (pb). ISBN: 0-333-72303-1.
Review by Steven C. Hause, Washington University in St. Louis.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 55
On Monique Wittig: Theoretical, Political and Literary Essays. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. ix + 230 pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-252-02984-4; $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07231-6.
Review by Cybelle McFadden Wilkens, Macalester College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 139
. Allies at War: America, Europe, and the Crisis over Iraq. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution and McGraw-Hill, 2004. vi + 266 pp. $19.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 0-07-144120-4.
Review by Irwin Wall, Center for European Studies, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 76
Secular Spirituality: Reincarnation and Spiritism in Nineteenth-Century France. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2006. xxiii + 245 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-1338-0; $28.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1339-9.
Review by David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 76
. Negritude Women. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. ix +168 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8166-3679-6. $17.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8166-3680-X.
Review by Tyler Stovall, University of California at Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 71
, The Political Economy of Virtue, Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2006. Xi-265 pp. ill. $39.99 (cl) and $25.00 (pb). ISBN 0-801-4447-99 (cl) and ISBN 0-801-4741-83 (pb).
Review by Liana Vardi, University at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 34
. Une science impériale pour l’Afrique? La construction des savoirs africanistes en France, 1878-1930. Paris: Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2002. 358 pp. Maps, illustrations, biographical notices, notes, bibliography, and index. 32.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-7132-1784-9.
Review by Alice L. Conklin, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 31
, The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens. The Albigensian Crusade and its Aftermath. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2003. xxxvi + 162 pp. Maps, figures, notes, appendices, bibliography and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-85115-925-7.
Review by Elaine Graham-Leigh, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 105
. Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xv +264 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-75753-6. $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-75754-4.
Review by Robert A. Schneider, The Catholic University of America.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 33
. Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. xi + 284 pp. Notes. $19.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-253-21712-1.
Review by Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 81
. Chemistry, Pharmacy and Revolution in France, 1777-1809. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2005, vi + 196 pp. Bibliography and index. $89.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7546-5044-8.
Review by Sacha Tomic, Université Paris X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 143
The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Critical Essays. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006. xi + 316 pp. Notes, list of contributors and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-253-34722-X; $24.95 (pb). ISBN 1-800-842-6796.
Review by Alison S. Fell, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 89
. Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. xv + 335 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendices, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3604-1.
Review by Megan Armstrong, University of Utah.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 72
, L’Humanité de Jaurès à nos jours. Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2004. 419 p. 32.30€ (pb). ISBN 2-84736-081-6.
Review by Dominique Laurent, Dickinson College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 133
. Philippe III le Hardi. Paris: Fayard, 2003. 359 pp. 22.00 € ISBN 2-213-61486-5.
Review by Nathaniel L. Taylor, Brown University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 139
. Assassination, Politics, and Miracles: France and the Royalist Reaction of 1820. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003. ix + 301 pp. Figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2457-6.
Review by Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 20
. Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919-1939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xv + 300 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, filmography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-6616-2.
Review by Owen White, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 70
. The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264-1423. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 277 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4105-6.
Review by Esther Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 55
, Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. vii + 227 pp. Figures, selected bibliography, and index. $49.96 (hb). ISBN 0-8014-3939-6; $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8857-5.
Review by Susan J. Dudash, Utah State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 104
Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France. Series “New Anthropologies of Europe.” Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2006. xi + 269 pp. $65.00 US (cl) ISBN: 0-253-21856-x; $24.95 (pb) ISBN: 0-253-34762-9.
Review by Ian Coller, University of Melbourne, Australia.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 119
. Crusading in the Age of Joinville. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. 216 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-5363-3.
Review by Philip Daileader, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 81
Nobility Reimagined. The Patriotic Nation in Eighteenth-Century France. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. xv + 307pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8949-0.
Review by Tim Blanning, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 78
. Ordering Women's Lives. Penitentials and Nunnery Rules in the Early Medieval West. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. viii + 251 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $38.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8018-6539-5.
Review by Constance H. Berman, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 44
. 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
. The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800-1930. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 575 pp. Tables, notes and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01939-3.
Review by Colin Heywood, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 126
The Bouchayers of Grenoble and French Industrial Enterprise, 1850-1970. Baltimore, Md. and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xix + 247 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-8018-6683-9.
Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 50
. France in Crisis: Welfare, Inequality and Globalization since 1980. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 296 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $23.99 (pb). ISBN: 0-521-84414-2.
Review by Jan Windebank, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 3
Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003. viii + 241 pp. Notes and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2409-6.
Review by Paul V. Dutton, Northern Arizona University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 99
, 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
. Publishing the Prince, History, Reading and the Birth of Political Criticism. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 2005. xxi-202 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Catalog of Works by Abraham-Nicolas de La Houssaye. $49.50 U.S. (hbk). ISBN 0-472-11473-5.
Compte-rendu par Antoine Lilti, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 80
, Le Droit sous Vichy. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2006. 498 pp. €89.00 ISBN 10 3-465-04013-9; 13 978-465-04013-2.
Review by Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 141
Sieyès: Political Writings, Including the Debate between Sieyès and Tom Paine in 1791. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing, 2003. lxiv + 190 pp. Bibibliography and index. $12.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87220-430-8.
Review by Paul Cheney, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 90
, The Strategic Triangle: France, Germany, and the United States in the Shaping of the New Europe. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 411 pp. Notes and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018856-39. $25.00 U.S. (pb). 0-80-188564-7.
Review by Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., American International College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 125
. France Since 1870: Culture, Politics and Society. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave, 2001. xxv+505 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-333-65836-1. $21.95 US (pb). ISBN:0-333-65837-X.
Review by Joelle Neulander, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (February 2002), No. 15
The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture. Harvard Historical Studies, 135) Paperback edition. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2001. vii + 325 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $16.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-674-00685-2.
Review by Kolleen M. Guy, University of Texas at San Antonio.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 116
Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii + 241 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. ISBN 0 521 77324 5.
Review by Daniel Hickey, Université de Moncton.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 120
. Étrangers à la carte. L’administration de l’immigration en France (1945-1975), Grasset, avril 2005, 402 pages, annexes, inventaire des sources, bibliographie, index des noms de personnes, 21 €90, ISBN 2-246-65801-2.
Compte-rendu par Pierre Piazza, l’Institut national des hautes études de sécurité (INHES).
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 8
, Culture and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century France and Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. xii + 288 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-85182-717-X.
Review by Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 145
. François Truffaut and Friends: Modernism, Sexuality, and Film Adaptation. New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Rutgers University Press, 2006.xvi+239 pp. 25 b&w photographs, chronology, notes, and index. $23.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-8135-3725-8.
Review by Marja Warehime, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 97
. Histoire de la qualité alimentaire, XIXe-XXe siècle. Paris: Seuil, 2005. 440 pp. Notes, index of concepts, and index of names. €26 (pb). ISBN: 2-02-078841-1.
Review by Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 4
. Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688-1789. xii + 210 pp. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Tables, figures, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-80967-3.
Review by Thomas M. Luckett, Portland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 63
Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815-1848. Montreal and Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003. xiv + 245 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $49.95 Can., $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2580-7.
Review by Michael A. Osborne, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 59
The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2005. 397 pp. Notes and index. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-262-19516-X.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 103
Reality Fictions: Romance, History, and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. ix + 294 pp. Abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN-13: 978-0-268-04120-3.
Review by Geoffrey Koziol, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 142
Response by Robert M. Stein, Purchase College and Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 143
. Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xiv + 451 pp. Diagrams, halftones, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0226772616.
Review by Michael E. Hoenicke Moore, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 3
, Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. 201 pp. Figures, notes, acknowledgments, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01497-9.
Review by Peter M. Jones, University of Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 122
. Reinterpreting the French Revolution: A Global-historical Perspective. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii + 292 pp. Notes and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-81147-3.
Review by D.M.G. Sutherland, University of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 133
Response by Bailey Stone to the review of his book by D.M.G. Sutherland.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 134
The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 2003. v + 384 pp. Acknowledgements, forewords, introduction, notes, contributors, and index. $74.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3130-6; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-3117-9.
Review by Kim Munholland, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 15
. The Bellicose Dove: Claude Brousson and Protestant Resistance to Louis XIV, 1647-1698. Brighton, U.K. and Portland, Oregon: Sussex Academic Press, 2003. x + 220 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-903900-31-X.
Review by W. Gregory Monahan, Eastern Oregon University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 123
. Contesting Sacrifice. Religion, Nationalism, and Social Thought in France. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2002. ix + 228 pp. Notes and index. $37.50 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0226777367.
Review by Stephen Schloesser, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 48
. Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. 336 pp. Color plates, black and white illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S., £39.95 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-691-05719-2.
Review by Robert Mills, King’s College, London.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 68
, Madeleine de Scudéry: Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxxi + 174 pp. Bibliography and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-14404-6.
Review by Nancy L. Locklin, Maryville College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 96
. The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon’s Brother Joseph. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 269 pp. Plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3872-9.
Review by Wayne Hanley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 144
. Marxism and National Identity: Socialism, Nationalism, and National Socialism during the French Fin de Siècle. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. x + 305 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7914-6670-1.
Review by Torbjörn Wandel, Truman State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 26
. France and Iraq: Oil, Arms and French Policy Making in the Middle East. London and New York: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2006. xii + 234 pp. Table, endnotes, bibliography, and index. $69.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 1-84511-045-5.
Review by Michael Creswell, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 85
, Crises of Memory and the Second World War.Cambridge, MA. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 286 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-674-02206-8
Review by Sanford Gutman, State University of New York (SUNY) at Cortland.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 39
. Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xii + 281 pp. Notes, select bibliography, index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-78169-0.
Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 29
Response by Karen Sullivan, Bard College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 30
. Judaism and Enlightenment. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xv + 314 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-82015-4.
Review by Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 22
The French Revolution and Empire: The Quest for a Civic Order. Malden, Mass., Oxford, Melbourne, and Berlin: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. viii + 424 pp. Map, bibliography, and index. $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-631-23363-6.
Review by Tracey Rizzo, University of North Carolina at Asheville.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 124
Response by D.M.G. Sutherland to the review of his book by Tracey Rizzo.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 125
Henry IV of France and the Politics of Religion, 1572-1596, 2 vols. Bristol and Portland: Elm Bank, 2002. xvi + 628 pp. $99.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-84150-846-2.
Review by Ronald S. Love, University of West Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 44
. Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy: the Estates General of Burgundy, 1661-1790. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 460 pp. Map, figures, appendices, bibliography, and index. $85 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82767-1.
Review by William Beik, Emory University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 52
, Captive Histories: English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. xxii + 298 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-55849-542-8; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-55849-543-6.
Review by Dale Miquelon, University of Saskatchewan.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 41
Singing Our Way to Victory: French Cultural Politics and Music during the Great War. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2001. x + 355 pp. Figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography and index. ISBN 0-8195-6454-0 (cl). and 0-8195-6473-7 (pb).
Review by Timothy Baycroft, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 115
. On Jean-Jacques Rousseau Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. xiii+ 320 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8047-3555-7.
Review by Richard Lebrun, University of Manitoba.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (April 2001), No. 7
, The Strategic Triangle: France, Germany, and the United States in the Shaping of the New Europe. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 411 pp. Notes and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018856-39. $25.00 U.S. (pb). 0-80-188564-7.
Review by Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., American International College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 125
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. When the King Took Flight. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. xi + 270pp. Maps, illustrations, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01054-X.
Review by Hugh Gough, University College Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 3
. Citizenship & Wars. France in Turmoil, 1870-1871. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. viii + 263 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-415-23927-3; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-23928-1.
Review by Paul Lawrence, The Open University (UK).
H-France Review Vol. 2 (August 2002), No. 69
, A ‘Belle Epoque’? Women in French Society and Culture 1890-1914. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. xv + 344 pp. Illustrations, notes, select chronology, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-84545-021-3.
Review by Cherilyn Lacy, Hartwick College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 60
. 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
, Studies in the Philosophy of William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris (1228-1249). Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2006. 274 pp. Table, introduction, notes, bibliography, and indexes. $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87462-674-9.
Review by Steven P. Marrone, Tufts University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 52
. Le Quadrige: Un Siècle d’édition universitaire, 1860-1968. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001. 492 pp. Sources, bibliography, and index. 38.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-13-051-727-7.
Review by Craig Keating, Langara College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 80
, Six Authors in Captivity: Literary Responses to the Occupation of France during World War II. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 192 pp. Bibliography and index. (Pb). ISBN 3-03910-520-5.
Review by William J. Cloonan, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 50
, Francois Quesnay, Oeuvres économiques complètes et autres textes, 2 volumes, (Paris, INED, 2005). 1618 pp. + notes. €68.00 (cl). ISBN 2-733-2103-19.
Review by Liana Vardi, State University of New York at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 127
Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii + 411 pp. Illustrations, music examples, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-80188-5.
Review by David Charlton, Royal Holloway, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 27
. Beaumarchais in Seville: An Intermezzo. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. xiv + 177 pp. Preface, dramatis personae, postscript, bibliography, index, and illustrations. $25.00 U.S., £16.00 U.K. (cl); ISBN 0-300-12103-2.
Review by Donald C. Spinelli, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 132
. The French Empire between the Wars. Imperialism, Politics and Society. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2005. xvii + 408. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $74.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-7190-6518-7.
Review by Owen White, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 98
. The French North African Crisis: Colonial Breakdown and Anglo-French Relations, 1945-1962. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. xv +305 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-333-71560-8.
Review by Phillip Naylor, Marquette University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (November 2001), No. 40
Soil and Stone: Impressionism, Urbanism, Environment. Aldershot and Burlington, VT.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003. xiv + 175 pp. Notes. £52.50 (cl). ISBN 0-7546-3685-2.
Review by William Hauptman, Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 78
The Tour de France: A Cultural History. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2006. x + 385 pp. Map, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-24760-4.
Review by Michael B. Miller, University of Miami.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 138
, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xvii + 402 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $17.50 US (pb). ISBN 0-231-10661-0.
Review by Mary C. Wilson, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (June 2002), No. 45
The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830-1870. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. viii + 229 pp. Illustrations, notes bibliography, and index. $32.00 US (hb). ISBN 0-8018-6414-3.
Review by William M. Reddy, Duke University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (October 2001), No. 29
. The Troubled Republic: Visual Culture and Social Debate in France, 1889-1900. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 255 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, footnotes, index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-10456-0.
Review by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 115
. Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre. Washington: National Gallery of Art and Princeton University Press, 2005. xiv + 294 pp. 370 color plates, 17 halftones. Artists’ Biographies, Checklist of Exhibition, Index, Bibliography. $60.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 0-691-12337-3; $37.80 U.S. (pb) 0-89468-320-9.
Review by Elizabeth K. Mix, Purdue University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 127
. Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siècle France. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2001. xiii + 321 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $45.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-520-22529-5.
Review by Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (July 2002), No. 57
, Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel: Personal and Social Narratives in Post-War French Chanson. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005. vi + 179 pp. Notes, bibliography, copyright acknowledgement, and index. $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-85323-768-9.
Review by Adeline Cordier, University of Stirling.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 134
. Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting. With Deborah L. Roldán and Juliet Wilson-Bareau. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. xi + 592 pp. Illustrations, appendices, chronology, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 1-58839-038-1. $50.00 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 1-58839-040-3.
Review by Suzanne Singletary, Philadelphia University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 128
.The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859). A Special Bicentennial Issue. Vol. XXVII, No. 2, 2006, 600 pp. ISSN 0730-479X.
, Six Authors in Captivity: Literary Responses to the Occupation of France during World War II. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 192 pp. Bibliography and index. (Pb). ISBN 3-03910-520-5.
Beyond Papillon: The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xx + 213 pp. Maps, photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35:00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13-978-0-8032-4449-8.
Response by Stephen A. Toth, Arizona State University.
. Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2003. xv + 213 pp. Illustrations, notes, works cited, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8143-3042-8.
. France on the Mekong: A History of the Protectorate in Cambodia, 1863-1953. Lanham-New York-Oxford: University Press of America, 2002. xi-xxvi + 562 pp. Glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $77.00 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 0-7618-2431-6.
. Salons, Singers and Songs: A Background to Romantic French Song, 1830-1870. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. ix + 283 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. $79.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-0491-8.
. The Eagle’s Last Triumph: Napoleon’s Victory at Ligny, June 1815. London: Greenhill Books, 2006. 272 pp. Plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85367-688-8.
. The Historian’s Two Bodies: The Reception of Historical Texts in France, 1701-1790. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001. xiv + 255 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $84.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-0223-0.
. Hollywood’s Film Wars with France: Film Trade DiplomReview by Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University, Bloomington.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 28
Review by William J. Cloonan, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 50
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 39
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 40
Review by Leslie Tuttle, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 18
Review by Patricia M.E. Lorcin, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (December 2004), No. 121
Review by William Weber, California State University, Long Beach.
H-France Review Vol. 2 (November 2002), No. 112
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Review by Wayne Hanley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 63
Review by Paul Cohen, Université de Paris-VIII.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 127