H-France Salon Volume 9
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
Vol. 9 (2017), Issue 26,
Western Society for French History 45th Annual Conference
Reno, Nevada
4 November 2016
Disasters and Dislocation in France and the Empire
Chair: Minayo Nasiali, University of California, Los Angeles
Rhythms of Catastrophe, Iterations of Inequity: Disaster Memory, Dislocation, and Disparity during Pelée’s Eruption of 1929
Christopher M. Church, University of Nevada, Reno
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Plague and the Port City: Movement and Migration during an Eighteenth-Century Crisis
Cindy Ermus, University of Lethbridge
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Labor and Culture in Burgundy’s Phylloxera Epidemic
Philip Whalen, Coastal Carolina University
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Comment and Audience Participation: Martha L. Hildreth, University of Nevada, Reno
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H-France Salon
Vol. 9 (2017), Issue 25, #1-5
Western Society for French History 45th Annual Conference
Reno, Nevada
4 November 2016
Identity and Memory: Huguenots, Conversos, and Other Francophone Voyagers
Chair: Dena Goodman, University of Michigan
“À la Ruine totale de la France”: A French Assessment of Portuguese and Spanish Immigration in Seventeenth-Century France
Gayle K. Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton
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Naturalizing Refugees: How Foreign Protestants Became British in the Eighteenth Century
Catherine Naeve, Rutgers University
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Huguenot Refugees in New York: Faith, Family, Slavery, and Legacy
Lori R. Weintrob, Wagner College
VIDEO
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A Frenchman on the Frontier: Science and Community in Nineteenth-Century New Harmony, Indiana
Whitney Walton, Purdue University
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Comment and Audience Discussion: Dena Goodman, University of Michigan VIDEO
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H-France Salon
Vol. 9 (2017), Issue 24
Western Society for French History 45th Annual Conference
Reno, Nevada
3 November 2016
Edgar L. Newman Memorial Plenary Lecture
The Great War at One Hundred: Between Presence and Absence
Annette Becker, Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
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H-France Salon
Vol. 9 (2017), Issue 23, #1-4
Western Society for French History 45th Annual Conference
Reno, Nevada
4 November 2016
Panel: Women’s Agency and Activism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: A Special Session Honoring Elinor Accampo
Chair: Cheryl Koos, California State University, Los Angeles
The Lonely-Hearts Ad in Napoleon's Paris
Andrea Mansker, University of the South
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Feminism’s Others: Gender, Race, and Frenchness in Late Nineteenth-Century Metropole and Empire
Carolyn J. Eichner, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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La femme au corsage rouge: Monette Thomas, Midinette Militancy, and the Garment Strikes of 1918-1919
Patricia Tilburg, Davidson College
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Comment and Audience Discussion: Christopher Forth, University of Kansas
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H-France Salon
Vol. 9 (2017), Issue 22, #1-4
Western Society for French History 45th Annual Conference
Reno, Nevada
3 November 2016
Panel: Heroines: Strong Women in Modern Popular Culture
Chair: Michael Wilson, University of Texas at Dallas
Heroines for the End of the World: Women, Physical Courage, and Martial Heroism during the Dreyfus Affair
Elizabeth Everton, Concordia University
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The Daughter of Fantômas: Belle Époque Action and Adventure Heroine
Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast
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Moxie in Action: Heroines in Pre-World War Two French Popular Culture
Joelle Neulander, The Citadel
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Comment and Audience Discussion: Michael Wilson, University of Texas at Dallas
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H-France Salon
Vol. 9 (2017), Issue 21, #1-6
Western Society for French History 45th Annual Conference
Reno, Nevada
3 November 2016
Panel: Teaching Gender and Sexuality in French History
Chair: Patricia Tilburg, Davidson College
Discussants:
Nancy Locklin-Sofer, Maryville College
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Sun-Young Park, George Mason University
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Andrew Israel Ross, University of Southern Mississippi
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Jessie Hewitt, University of Redlands
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Lori Weintrob, Wagner College
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H-France Salon
Vol. 9 (2017), Issue 20, #1-5
Western Society for French History 45th Annual Conference
Reno, Nevada
3 November 2016
Cultivating the World in the Eighteenth Century
Chair: Elizabeth Heath, Baruch College, City University of New York
Naturalizing the World in Eighteenth-Century Bayonne: A Garden Proposal by André Michaux
Elizabeth Hyde, Kean University
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Coffee Production in the Eighteenth-Century East and West French Indies
Julia Landweber, Montclair State University
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Michel Adanson and the Gum Trade: In Imperial Meridian for Old Regime France?
Oliver Cussen, University of Chicago
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The Enlightened Planter
April Shelford, American University
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Comment and Audience Discussion: Judith DeGroat, St. Lawrence University
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H-France Salon
Vol. 9 (2017), Issue 19
Western Society for French History 45th Annual Conference
Reno, Nevada
4 November 2016
Conference Plenary Roundtable: Addressing Structural Racism in French History and French Historical Studies
Chair: Christy Pichichero, George Mason University
Discussants:
Jennifer Boittin, Pennsylvania State University
Muriam Haleh Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz
Minayo Nasiali, University of California, Los Angeles
Felix Fernand Germain, University of Pittsburgh
Tyler Stovall, University of California, Santa Cruz
Robin Mitchell, California State University, Channel Islands
Emily Marker, Rutgers University-Camden
Nimisha Barton, Princeton University
The Audience
Part I
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Part II
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Part III
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 18, #1-8
In Honor and Memory of Rachel Ginnis Fuchs:
Scholar, Teacher, Colleague, Mentor, and Friend
Editor: Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, University of Rochester
#1 Introduction, by Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, University of Rochester
#2 Colleague, Scholar, Mentor, and Friend: A Memorial Roundtable Honoring the Life and Work of Rachel Ginnis Fuchs
Recorded during the Society for French Historical Studies 63rd Annual Conference, 22 April 2017
Organizer: Cheryl Koos, California State University, Los Angeles
Chair: Elinor A. Accampo, University of Southern California
Participants:
Linda Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
Venita Datta, Wellesley College
Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University
Richard Hopkins, Widener University
Joelle Neulander, The Citadel
Katie Jarvis, University of Notre Dame
#3 Une histoire d’enfants trouvés…
Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère, Conservateur général du patrimoine (h), Paris
#4 On Rereading Abandoned Children: Foundlings and Child Welfare in Nineteenth-Century France
Sylvia Schafer, University of Connecticut
#5 More to Offer: Rachel Fuchs and Poor and Pregnant in Paris
Leslie Page Moch, Michigan State University
#6 Producing Gender and the Politics of Social Reform with Rachel Fuchs: A Model for Co-Authorship, Collaboration, and Friendship
Mary Lynn Stewart, Simon Fraser University, and
Elinor Accampo, University of Southern California
#7 Gendering Family History in Modern France: An Assessment of Rachel G. Fuchs’s Scholarly Contributions
Robert A. Nye, Oregon State University
#8 Remembering Rachel Fuchs: Transnational mentor and co-editor par excellence
Anne R. Epstein, Independent Scholar
H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 17,
Experiencing May '68 in France
Editor: Chris Reynolds, Nottingham Trent University
Assistant Editor: David Kammerling Smith, Eastern Illinois University
A Salon in 40 parts
As the 50th anniversary of May-June 1968 approaches, one can safely predict a continuation in the now traditional outpouring of interest that has been so important in helping shape the French collective memory of these seminal events. The anticipated commemorative surge will underscore the ongoing and durable legacy of“mai 68” as a watershed moment in the political, social, and cultural development of France as well as highlighting just how much debate remains over how 1968 should be understood and remembered. Central to shaping this narrative will be the experiences of those who were present at the time and whose stories of their diverse experiences go a long way to helping make sense of why 1968 remains such a focus of fascination 50 years later.
H-France has been developing several issues of H-France Salon on those events as its contribution to the decennial commemoration. We are delighted to share the first of these with you today.
Between fall 2016 and spring 2017, Chris Reynolds interviewed 22 academics from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France who experienced May-June 1968 in France. We present these interviews to you in two formats.
First, we have created 18 thematic videos focused on important themes in debates around the events of 1968. We hope that many of you might find these thematic videos useful for teaching modules or seminars on 1968.
Second, the full interviews with individual scholars are available as these might be of particular interest to scholars researching May 1968 and to those studying its continuing memory.
Thematic Videos
1 Why in France?
2 Surprised?
3 How Involved?
4 A Foreigner in France?
5 Students and Workers
6 La Prise de Parole
7 Violence
8 Nationwide
9 International Zeitgeist
10 The Political Elites
11 Relief or Disappointment?
12 Back Home?
13 Consequences for France
14 Understanding of France?
15 Effects, Personal and Political
16 Effect on Scholarship
17 The Dominant Interpretation
18 Summary
Individual Videos
19 Carolyn A. Durham, The College of Wooster
20 Eric Freedman, Benjamin Cardozo Law School
21 William Kidd, University of Stirling
22 Alain Viala, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
23 Rosemary Lloyd, Indiana University
24 Timothy Tackett, University of California, Irvine
25 Marie-Elisabeth Deroches-Miles, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
26 Jim Freedman, Western University
27 Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University
28 Bernard Roussel, l'École Practique des Hautes Études
29 Dennis Wood, University of Birmingham
30 John Hurt, University of Delaware
31 Gillian Thompson, University of New Brunswick
32 Donald Sutherland, University of Maryland
33 Yves Montenay, Président de l'Institut Culture Economie et Géopolitique
34 Mike Kelly, University of Southampton
35 Paul Werner, Ph.d., DSFS, Editor WOID and Publisher, The Orange Press
36 Mary Anne O'Neil, Whitman College
37 Willem Frijhoff, Université Érasme de Rotterdam
38 John Molyneux, Editor, Irish Marxist Review
39 Martin Staum, University of Calgary
40 Eileen Tilly, Bangor University
H-France Salon, Volume 9, Issue 16
H-France Webinar: Colonialism and Sexuality
H-France's latest webinar took place on 20 October 2017. It can be viewed here.
Webinar host: Camille Robcis, Cornell Universirty
Invited Participants:
Judith Surkis, Rutgers University
Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University
Carolyn Eichner, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 15
In Memoriam: William Humphrey Beik, 1941-2017
H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 14
The Social History of Impressionism
Introduction to "Questionnaire on Impressionism and the Social History of Art”
Alexis Clark, Washington University in St. Louis, and
David Peters Corbett, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Responses to "Questionnaire on Impressionism and the Social History of Art"
“‘Local Color’: Social Art History, Global Impressionism, and Comparative Interpretation,” Emily C. Burns, Auburn University
“Impressionism: A Procrustean Bed?” Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University
“Peripheral Impressionisms,” Frances Fowle, University of Edinburgh
“Impressionist Futures,” Anna Gruetzner Robins, University of Reading
“Is Impressionism History?” Laura Anne Kalba, Smith College
“The Positive and the Negative,"
Richard Kendall,
Independent curator and art historian
“Moving Beyond ‘Post T. J. Clark Ad-Hocism,’” Morna O’Neill, Wake Forest University
“‘A millionaire who paints in his spare time’. The social history of art and the multiple rediscoveries of Gustave Caillebotte,” Samuel Raybone, Courtauld Institute of Art
“Social Art History, A Thing of the Past?” Harmon Siegel, Harvard University
“On the Limits of Context,” Marnin Young, Yeshiva University
Teaching the Social History of Art, Alexis Clark, Washington University in St. Louis
The Social History of Impressionism: A Conversation (video)
Hosted by Alexis Clark, with Frances Fowler, University of Edinburgh, and Marnin Young, Yeshiva University
H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 13
Communities and Religious Identities in the Early Modern Francophone World, 1550-1700: A Collaboration with French Historical Studies
The most recent issue of French Historical Studies contained a special Forum "Communities and Religious Identities in the Early Modern Francophone World, 1550-1700,"an outgrowth of series of panels held at the 2014 Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in honor of Barbara B. Diefendorf and the impact of her scholarship on the study of early modern history.
The French Historical Studies special forum was edited by Sara Beam, University of Victoria, and Megan Armstrong, McMaster University, and included essays by Barbara B. Diefendorf, Virginia Reinburg, Christian Grosse, Jérémie Foa, Scott M. Marr, and Keith P. Luria.
Beam and Armstrong have extended the forum into an issue of H-France Salon. First, two scholars, Hilary Bernstein and Penny Roberts, offer their reflections on the essays in the forum, and, second, Beam and Armstrong interview Barbara Diefendorf.
In Medias Res, A Review Essay
Hilary Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara
Conflict and Change in Early Modern Communities
Penny Roberts, University of Warwick
An Interview with Barbara Diefendorf (video)
H-France Salon, Vol. 9, Issue 12
In Memoriam: Roger L. Williams, 1923-2017
by John F. Freeman, Laramie, Wyoming
H-France Salon
Vol. 9 (2017), Issue 11Western Society for French History
44th Annual Conference
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
5 November 2016
Legacies of the French Revolution Across Time and Distance
Chair: Suzanne M. Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky, The French Revolution and the European Project
Julian Bourg, Boston College, From Ready-Made Solutions to New Doctrines: The French Terror and Russian Terrorism
Paul Hanson, Butler University, Jacobins and Red Guards: Reflections on Revolutionary Terror from a Comparative Perspective
Comment: K. Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University
H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 10
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
22 April 2017
Plenary Session: A Tale of Two Texts, or Why Write French History Today
Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Pennsylvania
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 9
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
22 April 2017
Panel: Fashioning French Identities
Chair: Jennifer Jones, Rutgers University
Julia Landweber, Montclair State University, Coffee, Fashion, and Self-Fashioning in France, 1670-1780
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Julia Gossard, Utah State University, Hybrid Identities: Fashion and French Children in the Middle East and Asia, 1670-1780
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Sima Godfrey, University of British Columbia, From Jewish Rags to French Riches
Video
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Page Delano, Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, Dress, Resistance and Deportation: Capturing Identity in WWII France
Video
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Elizabeth Everton, Concordia University, Anti-Semitism à la Mode: Fashion, Politics, and Identity at the Turn of the Century
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 8
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
22 April 2017
Session in Honor of James B. Collins I: Culture, Society, Gender, and the State in Early Modern Europe
Chair: Sara Chapman Williams, Oakland University
Karen L. Taylor, International School of Geneva, A Geography of Knowledge: Saint-Cyr’s Cahiers de Géographie
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Henriette Rahusen, Georgetown University/National Gallery of Art, Urban Elites, Ambitious Princes, and Walking Sticks: Portraiture as Propaganda in La
République Monarchique
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Felicia Rosu, Leiden University, The Politics of “This and That”: Republican Practices before the Birth of the State in East
Central Europe, 14th-17th Centuries
Video
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Michael Breen, Reed College, Law, Politics, and the Social History of the Ancien Régime State
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Janine Lanza, Wayne State University, Working Women’s Lives in Early Modern France
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Clare Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Women, Work, and the Household Economy: An Appreciation of James Collins’s Contribution and Thoughts on Future Directions
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 7
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
21 April 2017
Plenary Session: The 2017 French Presidential Elections
Chair: David A. Bell, Princeton University
Speakers:
Charlotte Cavaillé, Georgetown University
Erwan Lagadec, George Washington University
Simon Serfaty, Old Dominion University
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 6
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
21 April 2017
Panel: Women in the French Imaginary: Historicizing the “Gallic Singularity”
Chair: Karen Offen, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
Tracy Adams, University of Auckland, The Gallic Singularity: The Long View
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Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, The Gallic Singularity and the Royal Mistress
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Jean Pedersen, University of Rochester, “Outrageously Flirtatious”: Alexis de Tocqueville on Women and Democracy in America and France
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Whitney Walton, Purdue University, Frondeuses and Feminists in the Work of Arvède Barine (1840-1908)
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 5
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
21 April 2017
Roundtable: What We Talk about When We Talk about Décolonisation
Chair: Roxanne Panchasi, Simon Fraser University
Panelists: Jeffrey Byrne, University of British Columbia, Sung-Eun Choi, Bentley University, Kathryn Edwards, Tulane University, Darcie Fontaine, University of South Florida
Comment: Roxanne Panchasi, Simon Fraser University
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 4
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
21 April 2017
Plenary Session: French Historians in the Public Sphere
Speakers: Jonathan Judaken, Rhodes College, Robert Zaretsky, University of Houston
Video
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 3
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
21 April 2017
Crime, Theft, Revenge and the French Imagination
Chair: Sally Charnow, Hofstra University
Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast, The Dark Avenger as Popular Hero from the Count of Monte Cristo to Chéri Bibi
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Venita Datta, Wellesley College, Crimes against the Nation: The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1911)
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Dominique Kalifa, Université de Paris I, The Long Arm of Fantômas, or the Myth of the Twentieth Century
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Comment: Sarah Maza, Northwestern University
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H-France Salon
Volume 9 (2017), Issue 2
Society for French Historical Studies
63rd Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
21 April 2017
Religious Minorities in the French Revolution: Tolerance, Violence and Emancipation
Chair: Angela Haas, Missouri Western State University
Bryan Banks, SUNY Adirondack, Subtle Protests: Rethinking the Edict of Toleration’s Reception in Calvinist France
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Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine, A Violent Tolerance: Islam and the End of the Ancien Régime
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Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary, A Jewish “Architect of Victory”: Jacob Benjamin, the Armée du Midi and the Politics of
Food, 1792-93
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Comment: Mita Choudhury, Vassar College
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H-France Salon, Volume 9 (2017), Issue 1
The Impossible Subject of Charlie Hebdo
A Collaboration between Contemporary French Civilization and H-France Salon
The summer 2016 issue of Contemporary French Civilization presented a fascinating forum on Charlie Hebdo in the wake of the tragic events of January 2015. Guest edited by Mayanthi Fernando and Catherine Raissiguier, the forum included an introduction, six articles, four vignettes, and two education portfolios. In order to introduce this material broadly, the editor of Contemporary French Civilization, Denis M. Provencher, and the journal's publisher, Liverpool University Press, have agreed to make the Introduction publicly available HERE until 17 July 2017
H-France has commissioned a review of the entire forum by Michael O'Riley of The Colorado College. Professor O'Riley's piece, entitled "Post-Charlie: Community, Representation, and Terrorism's Foreclosures" is available HERE.