H-France Salon Volume 6

Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is an interactive journal that welcomes proposals which will enhance the scholarly study of French history and culture.

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H-France Salon, Volume 6 (2014), Issue 20
Panel Session at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History
Saturday, 15 November, San Antonio, Texas
Contested 'Visions' of 'Metropole' and 'Colony:' From 'France' to 'French' West 'Africa' in the Twentieth Century (Salon E)
Chair: Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University

Colonial Inspectors: French Policemen and Surveillance in French West Africa, 1914-1939. Kathleen Keller, Gustavus Adolphus College
Colonially Influenced Policing in the Cold War: African Dissidents, Immigrant Organizations,  and French Policing Tactics in Paris after 1960. Gillian Glaes, University of Montana

Reviewing Dakar: Urban planning at the end of Empire c.1945-1960. Louisa Rice, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Comment: Melissa Byrnes, Southwestern University

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6 (2014), Issue 19
Panel Session at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History
Saturday, 15 November, San Antonio, Texas
From Small Wars to Nuclear Weapons: Lessons from French Military Ventures in the
Middle East and North Africa
Chair: Benjamin Brower, University of Texas-Austin

“The Double Plan”: French Views of German and Soviet influence in Post-World War I Middle Eastern Insurgencies. Andrew Orr, Kansas State University

No "War," No "Bombs": Representing French Military Acts in Algeria, 1958-1962. Roxanne Panchesi, Simon Fraser University

"Ready to fight": Veterans of the Algerian War Take the Battle to France, 1958-1974. Anndal Narayanan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Comment: Andrew M. Daily, University of Memphis

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6 (2014), Issue 18
Panel Session at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History
Saturday, 15 November, San Antonio, Texas
Representations of Childhood
Chair: Jennifer J.Popiel, Saint Louis University

An Evening at the Théâtre Comte: Children and Commercial Theater in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris. Jennifer L. Sovde, Indiana University-Bloomington

La Poupée Modèle: Girls and their Dolls in Fin-de-Siècle France. Sarah A. Curtis, San Francisco State University

Egalitarian Childhoods of the Twenty-First Century. Julie Fette, Rice University

Comment: Katharine Norris, Johns Hopkins University/National Cathedral School
           

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6 (2014), Issue 17
Panel Session at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History
Friday, 14 November 2014, San Antonio, Texas
Roundtable: The Self at War: What Historians Can (Not) Learn about Conflicts from Ego Documents
Chair: Christine Haynes, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Whitney Walton, Purdue University
Shannon Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rachel Chrastil, Xavier University
Richard Fogarty, University at Albany, SUNY
Comment: the Audience
Part #1    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebWq2m-kbKM
Part #2    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO0tWiyFov8
Part #3    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySFM0TIbcUc

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6 (2014), Issue 16
Panel Session at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History
Friday, 14 November 2014, San Antonio, Texas
Urban Conflict and Identity during the Wars of Religion
Chair:  Daniella Kostroun, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

Anatomy of a Massacre: The Season of St. Bartholomew’s in Toulouse. Amanda Eurich, Western Washington University

For the Defense of this City:” Clerical Identities and Religious Conflict during the Catholic League. Gregory Bereiter, Northern Illinois University

 “Let us no longer speak among us of Huguenot and Papist”:Civic Identity and Religious Coexistence in the Career of Philippe Duplessis Mornay. Scott Marr, Boston University

Comment: Allan Tulchin, Shippensburg University

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6 (2014), Issue 15
Panel Session at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History
Friday, 14 November 2014, San Antonio, Texas
Hygiene, Public Health, and the Social Body
Chair: Sean Takats, George Mason University

I Am Not a Number: From Repopulation to Regeneration in Eighteenth-Century France. Rudy Le Menthéour, Bryn Mawr College

Body Building: Architecture, Hygiene, and Physical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Sun Young Park, George Mason University

Eugenic Domesticity: The Garden City as Reproductive Utopia in Interwar France. Gina M. Greene, University of Southern California

Comment: Sean Takats, George Mason University

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6 (2014), Issue 14
Panel Session at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History
Friday, 14 November 2014, San Antonio, Texas
From Paris to Lyon: A Sisterhood Forged in Résistance
Chair:  Sarah Fishman, University of Houston

American Women in the French Resistance. Page Delano, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY

The Journal of Hélène Berr and the Promise of Literature. Zoë Egelman, New York District Attorney’s Office
Les Périls de la Résistance: Lucie Aubrac and the Libération-Sud. Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley, New Jersey City University

Comment:  Susan Conner, Albion College

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6, Issue 13

Plenary Session at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, 26 April 2014
Christopher Clark, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge: France and the Origins of the Great War

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6, Issue 12

Plenary Session at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, 25 April 2014
John Horne, Trinity College: A Total War? The French Experience of the First World War

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6, Issue 11
Further Thoughts on the Historiography of Fascism in France

Edited by Sean Kennedy, University of New Brunswick

The following Salon was prepared as a continuing conversation of Kevin Passmore's article "The Historiography of 'Fascism' in France," French Historical Studies 37 (2014): 469-499.  
The Salon begins with a Comment by William Irvine, York University.
This is followed by Totalitarianism, the Social Sciences, and the Politicization of History, by Caroline Campbell, University of North Dakota.  
The Salon concludes with an online conversation between Kevin Passmore, Cardiff University and Sean Kennedy.
In order to facilitate the conversation, French Historical Studies is providing free access to Kevin Passmore's original article in FHS until 1 April 2015: http://fhs.dukejournals.org/content/37/3/469.full.pdf+html. 

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6, Issue 10

The Eighteenth Century According to Jeffrey Merrick
Introduction
     Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University
Same-Sex Sexuality according to Jeffrey Merrick
     Bryant T. Ragan, The Colorado College
The Family in the Old Regime, According to Jeffrey Merrick
     Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jeffrey Merrick and Political Culture
     Mita Choudhury, Vassar College, 
Interview with Jeffrey Merrick
     Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University        

 

 

H-France Salon, Vol. 6, Issue 9
Banquet Dinner at 60th Annual Meetings of the Society for French Historical Studies. 26 April 2014

Antoine Prost, Université de Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne. Quelle guerre la France commémore-t-elle en 2014?

 

H-France Salon, Vol. 6, Issue 8
Panel Session at 60th Annual Meetings of the Society for French Historical Studies, 27 April 2014

Genius, Celebrity, and the Self: Visions of Singularity and Transcendence in 18th-century France

Chair: Kathleen Kete, Trinity College

Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University.  Liberty, Equality, Singularity: The Political Possibilities of Genius

Anthony La  Vopa, North Carolina State. The Fuss about Genius in 18th-century France

Antoine  Lilti, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Un 'bénéfice à charge d'âmes': Grandeur et servitudes de la célébrité

Comment / commentaire : Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Virginia

 

H-France Salon, Vol. 6, Issue 7
Plenary Luncheon at 60th Annual Meetings of the Society for French Historical Studies, 25 April 2014

Martha Hanna, University of Colorado-Boulder.  “Somewhere in Belgium or France it don’t matter which”: Seeing France through Foreign Eyes, 1914-1918

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6, Issue 6

Panel Session at 60th Annual Meetings of the Society for French Historical Studies, 25 April 2014
The Politics of Obligation, Eighteenth- and Twentieth-Century France

Chair: David Avrom Bell, Princeton University

Julia Abramson, University of Oklahoma. 'Money Workers', Tax, and the Problem of Representation in the mid-Eighteenth Century 'Roman de finance’
Charles Walton, University of Warwick. The Birth of' Reciprocity' in Enlightenment France
Nicolas Delalande, Sciences Po. 'La Dette' des Gueules cassées: Public Subscriptions, Moral Obligation, and the Memory of War in 1931-1933
Comment / commentaire : Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6, Issue 5

Panel Session at 60th Annual Meetings of the Society for French Historical Studies, 26 April 2014
Entre guerre et paix : mobilisation et démobilisation culturelle (1914-1950)

Chair/ président : John HORNE, Trinity College, Dublin

Tomas Irish, Trinity College, Dublin, Between the Nation and the Institution: Harvard’s Professorial Exchange with France during the First World War
Marie-Eve Chagnon, Université de Montréal. La fin de l’internationalisme scientifique ? Le processus de démobilisation de la science française au lendemain de la guerre
Guillaume Marceau, Université Concordia.  Démobilisation culturel le au lendemain de la seconde guerre mondiale : la France et les États-Unis face au dilemme de la propagande en démocratie
Comment / commentaire : Andrew Barros, Université du Québec à Montréal

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6, Issue 4

Panel Session at 60th Annual Meetings of the Society for French Historical Studies, 25 April 2014
In Someone Else’s Land? Post-war France, Germany and the Spaces in Between

Chair / président: Elizabeth Vlossak, Brock University

Alison Carrol, Brunel University: Building the Border between France and Germany 1871-1914
Julia Wambach, University of California at Berkeley: French-German Borderlands after the Two World Wars
Karen Adler, University of Nottingham: ‘Everyone Knew how Many Women Had Been Raped’: French Occupiers and German Women after 1945
Comment/commentaire: Elizabeth Vlossak, Brock University

 

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6, Issue 3

Panel Session at 60th Annual Meetings of the Society for French Historical Studies, 25 April 2014
Women and War in France’s Long Nineteenth Century
President / président : Denise Davidson, Georgia State University

Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth University: The Life and Death of the Femme-Soldat

Thomas Cardoza, Arizona State University: ‘J’ai vu la Cantinière’: Popular Representations of Military Women in French Theater, Art, and Song
Whitney Walton, Purdue University. Women’s Memories of Napoleon and War
Comment / commentaire : Rachel Chrastil, Xavier University

 

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6, Issue 2

H-France Webinar: Environmental History: An Introduction
H-France's spring webinar occurred on 9 April 2014. It can be viewed here
Webinar Leader: Michael Bess, Vanderbilt University
Invited Participatns:
Sara B. Pritchard, Cornell University
David Blackbourn, Vanderbilt University
Webinar Moderator: Darrin McMahon, Florida State University.

 

 

H-France Salon, Volume 6, Issue 1

Webinar: Emotions in History, An Introduction.

H-France's fall webinar took place on 4 November 2013. It can be viewed here
Webinar Leader: William Reddy, Duke University
Invited Participants:
Barbara Rosenwein, Loyola University of Chicago
Thomas Dodman, Boston College
Piroska Nagy, Université du Québec à Montréal
Webinar Moderator and Organizer: Darrin McMahon, Florida State University
Note: The audio quality improves after about 1 minute.