Chief Editor Hélène Bilis, Wellesley College (hbilis@wellesley.edu)
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Volume 19 (2024)
Issue 1: Jennifer Tamas, Au NON des femmes: Libérer nos classiques du regard masculin
Issue 2: Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire
Issue 3: Manuel Covo, Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance
Issue 4: Olivia C. Harrison, Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France
Issue 5: Julia Prest, Public Theatre and the Enslaved People of Colonial Saint-Domingue
Issue 6: Anne Bonzon, La paix au village: Clergé paroissial et règlement des conflits dans la France d’Ancien Régime
Volume 18 (2023)
Issue 1: Jean-Philippe Mathy, Chronic Aftershock: How 9/11 Shaped Present-Day France
Issue 2: Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss, The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV’s France
Issue 3: Caroline Callard, Spectralities in the Renaissance: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries/ Le temps des fantômes. spectralités de l’âge moderne (xvie–xviie siècle)
Issue 4: Christina B. Carroll, The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850-1900
Issue 5: Noémie Ndiaye, Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
Issue 6: Stephanie O’Rourke, Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism
Issue 7: Megan Moore,The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean
Issue 8: Laura Steil, Boucan! Devenir quelqu’un dans le milieu afro
Volume 17 (2022)
Issue 1: Nicole Archambeau, Souls Under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence
Issue 2: Laurie M. Wood, Archipelago of Justice: Law in France’s Early Modern Empire
Issue 3: Juliette Cherbuliez, In The Wake Of Medea: Neoclassical Theater and the Arts of Destruction
Issue 4: Hall Bjørnstad, The Dream of Absolutism: Louis XIV and the Logic of Modernity
Issue 5: Anne Lafont, L’art et la race : l’Africain (tout) contre l’œil des Lumières
Issue 6: Owen Stanwood, The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire
Issue 7: Jonathan Patterson, Villainy in France, 1463-1610: A Transcultural Study of Law & Literature
Issue 8: Timothy Tackett, The Glory and the Sorrow: A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution
Volume 16 (2021)
Issue 1: James Livesey, Provincializing Global History: Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830
Issue 2: Jon Elster, France Before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime
Issue 3: Christophe Schuwey, Un entrepreneur des lettres au XVIIe siècle
Issue 4: Zrinka Stahuljak, Médiéval contemporain. Pour une littérature connectée
Issue 5: Rachel Mesch, Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France
Issue 6: Nimisha Barton, Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880-1945
Volume 15 (2020)
Issue 1: Barbara B. Diefendorf, Planting the Cross: Catholic Reform and Renewal in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France
Issue 2: Andrew Israel Ross, Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Issue 3: Margaret C. Jacob, The Secular Enlightenment
Issue 4: Chloé Hogg, Absolutist Attachments: Emotion, Media, and Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century France
Issue 5: Hollis Clayson, Illuminated Paris: Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Époque
Issue 6: Robin Mitchell, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
Issue 7: Nicholas Hammond, The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019
Volume 14 (2019)
Issue 1: Peter Sahlins, 1668: The Year of the Animal in France
Issue 2: Lindsay Porter, Popular Rumor in Revolutionary Paris, 1792-1794
Issue 3: Christine Haynes, Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France after Napoleon
Issue 4: Jeffrey N. Peters, The Written World: Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France
Issue 5: Andrew Sobanet, Generation Stalin: French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality
Volume 13 (2018)
Issue 1: Pierre Triomphe, 1815, La Terreur blanche
Issue 2: Fanny Cosandey, Le rang. Préséances et hierarchies dans la France d’Ancien Régime
Issue 3: Katherine Ibbett, Compassion’s Edge: Fellow-Feeling and its Limits in Early Modern France
Issue 4: Stefanos Geroulanos, Transparency in Modern France: A Critical History of the Present
Issue 5: Thomas Dodman, What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion
Issue 6: Anne. C. Vila, Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France
Volume 12 (2017)
Issue 1: Daniel Lord Smail, Legal Plunder: Households and Debt Collection in Late Medieval Europe
Issue 2: Jennifer L. Palmer, Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic
Issue 3: Ellen R. Welch, A Theater of Diplomacy: International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France
Issue 4: Kristen Stromberg Childers, Seeking Imperialism’s Embrace: National Identity, Decolonization, and Assimilation in the French Caribbean
Issue 5: Maurice Samuels, The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews
Issue 6: James A. Steintrager, The Autonomy of Pleasure: Libertines, License and Sexual Revolution
Volume 11 (2016)
Issue 1: Jotham Parsons, Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France: Currency, Culture and the State
Issue 2: David Todd, Free Trade and Its Enemies in France, 1814-1851
Issue 3: Andrea Frisch, Forgetting Differences: Tragedy, Historiography, and the French Wars of Religion
Issue 4: Richard C. Keller, Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003
Issue 5: Andrea Goulet, Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Science, Space, and Crime Fiction in France
Issue 6: Sabine Arnaud, On Hysteria: The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820
Volume 10 (2015)
Winter: Stephen L. Harp, Au Naturel: Naturism, Nudism, and Tourism in Twentieth-Century France
Spring: Constance Brittain Bouchard, Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200
Summer: Antoine Lilti, Figures publiques. L’invention de la célébrité (1750-1850)
Fall: Emma Spary, Feeding France. New Sciences of Food, 1760-1815
Volume 9 (2014)
Winter: Jonathan Israel, Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790
Spring: Alice L. Conklin, In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950
Summer: Clare Haru Crowston, Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France
Fall: Marisa Linton, Choosing Terror. Virtue, Friendship, and Authenticity in the French Revolution
Volume 8 (2013)
Winter: Geoffrey Koziol,The Politics of Memory and Identity in Carolingian Royal Diplomas: The West Frankish Kingdom (840-987)
Spring: Richard Kuisel, The French Way: How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power
Summer: Arlette Jouanna, The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: The Mysteries of a Crime of State, trans. Joseph Bergin
Fall: Dominque Godineau, S’abréger les jours. Le suicide en France au XVIIIe siècle
Volume 7 (2012)
Winter: Ian Coller, Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798-1831
Spring: Larry F. Norman, The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France
Summer: Eric T. Jennings, Imperial Heights. Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina
Fall: Andrew S. Curran, The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment
Volume 6 (2011)
Winter: Philip Nord, France’s New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era.
Spring: Leslie Tuttle,Conceiving the Old Regime: Pronatalism and the Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern France
Summer: Edward Berenson, Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa
Fall: Ruth Harris, Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century
Volume 5 (2010)
Winter: Joseph Bergin, Church, Society, and Religious Change in France, 1580-1730
Spring: , Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France
Summer: D. M. G. Sutherland, Murder in Aubagne: Lynching, Law, and Justice during the French Revolution
Fall: Robert Darnton, The Devil in the Holy Water or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
Volume 4 (2009)
Winter: Rachel Fuchs, Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France
Spring: Michael Sonenscher, Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution
Fall: Julian Bourg.From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought
Volume 3 (2008)
Winter: , “The Beautiful Language of My Century”: Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945-1968
Spring: , Commemorating the Dead in Revolutionary France: Revolution and Remembrance, 1789–1799
Summer: , The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
Fall: , The Notables and the Nation. The Political Schooling of the French, 1787-1788
Volume 2 (2007)
Winter: , Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920
Spring: , Violence et Révolution: Essai sur la naissance d’un mythe national
Summer: , The First Total War. Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
Fall: , Sauver le Grand-Siècle? Présence et transmission du passé
Volume 1 (2006)
Winter: , The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850
Spring: , A Tale of Two Murders: Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France
Summer: , The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the Two World Wars
Fall: , Blood and Violence in Early Modern France