H-France Review, Volume 11 (2011)

January Reviews

Maurice SamuelsInventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010. ix + 323 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $60.00. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8047-6384-4.

Review by Alan Astro, Trinity University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 1


Julie Candler Hayes
, ed., Translation, Subjectivity & Culture in France and England, 1600-1800. , Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2009. 321 pp. $ 60 U.S. (cl) . ISBN 978-0-8947-5944-1

Review by Michel Ballard, Université d’Artois.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No.


Jacques Berchtold, ed. 
Espaces, objets du roman au XVIIIe siècle : Homme à Henri Lafon, Paris : Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2009. 206 pp. Notes. 23€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-87854-456-5

Review by Philippe Barr, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2010), No. 3


Seth Whidden, ed., 
Models of Collaboration in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Several Authors, One Pen , Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2009. vii + 187. Index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6643-1. (ebook). ISBN 978-0-7546-9698-8.

Review by Suzanne F. Braswell, University of Miami, Coral Gables.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2010), No. 4


Elizabeth M. Sage
A Dubious Science : Political Economy and the Social Question in 19th-Century France , New York: Peter Lang, 2009. 170 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $68.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4331-0630-9

Review by Loïc Charles, Université de Reims and Institut National d’Études Démographiques.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2010), No. 5


Larissa Juliet Taylor
The Virgin Warrior: The Life and Death of Joan of Arc , New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. 280 pp. $21.90 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978 0 300 11458 4

Review by Anne Curry, University of Southhampton.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2010), No. 6


Barbara Lebrun
Protest Music in France: Production, Identity and Audiences , Farnham and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2009. xi + 292 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, discography and index. £50.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6472-7

Review by Hugh D Dauncey, Newcastle University
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2010), No. 7


Sara Beam 
Laughing Matters. Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France , Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2007. 280 pp, 8 ill. Notes, index. $55/ £27.95. ISBN 978-0-8014-4560-6

Review by Christian Jouhaud, Directeur d’études à l’E.H.E.S.S. (C.R.H.).
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2010), No. 8


Jan K. Bulman
The Court Book of Mende and the Secular Lordship of the Bishop: Recollecting the Past in Thirteenth-Century Gévaudan , Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2008. xiv + 179 pp. Map, tables, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $52.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-8020-9337-0

Review by Richard Keyser, Western Kentucky University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2010), No. 9


Susan B. Whitney
Mobilizing Youth: Communists and Catholics in Interwar France , Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 2009. xii + 249. Notes, bibliography and index. $24.94 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8223-4613-5

Review by Robert Lewis, Gettysburg College .
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2010), No. 10


Therese Lichtenstein
Twilight Visions: Surrealism and Paris, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press; Nashville: Frist Center for the Visual Arts. 2009. ix + 208 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 US (cl). ISBN 978-0-520-26081-8

Review Amy Lyford, Occidental College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 11


Monique Yaari
Rethinking the French City: Architecture, Dwelling, and Display after 1968, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. xxxi + 491 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $162.50 U.S. ISBN-13: 978-9042025004

Review Patricia A. Morten, University of California, Riverside.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 12


Matthew F. Jordan
Le Jazz: Jazz and French Cultural Identity,Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2010. x + 300 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $75 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03516-6; $25 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-252-07706-7

Review Colin Nettelbeck, The University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 13


Joseph Mai
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2010. Photographs, bibliography and images. xvii and 156 pp. $65 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-0252-03528-9; $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 978-0252-07111-1

Review Martin O’Shaughnessy, Nottingham Trent University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 14


Michael Marrinan
Romantic Paris: Histories of a Cultural Landscape, 1800-1850, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2009. xviii + 467 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 10: 0804750629; $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 10: 0804761515

Review Andrew Carrington Shelton, The Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 15


Frédéric Monier
La politique des plaintes. Clientélisme et demandes sociales dans le Vaucluse d’Édouard Daladier (1890-1940), Paris, La boutique de l’histoire, 2007. 413 pp., notes and index. 29€ (pbk). ISBN 978-2-910828-40-0

Review Paul Smith, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 16


Thomas M. Kavanagh
Enlightened Pleasures: Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicurianism, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. 254 pp. Notes, illustration credits, and index. (cl). ISBN 978-0-300-14094-1

Review Downing A. Thomas, The University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 17


Hafid Gafaïti, Patricia M. E. Lorcin and David G. Troyansky, eds.
Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xxvi + 460 pp. Notes and index. $ 40.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-4452-8

Review Andrew Stafford, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 18


Monica L. Wright
Weaving Narrative: Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance, University Park, Penn.: Penn State University Press, 2009. xi + 192. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-271-03565-9; $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-271-03565-6

Review by Sarah-Grace Heller, The Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 19


John McCann
Michel Houellebecq: Author of our Times , Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2010. ix + 219pp. Select bibliography and index. €36.80/£31.00/$53.95 (Pb). ISBN 978-3-03911-373-6

Review by Douglas Morrey, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 20


Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Lessons from America. Liberal French Nobles in Exile 1793-1798 , Pennsylvania State University Press, Philadelphia, 2010. 204 pp. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-271-03637-3

Review by Kirsty Carpenter, Massey University, New Zealand.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 21


Colin Heywood
Growing Up in France: From the Ancien Régime to the Third Republic , Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 313 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $108.99 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-86869-6; $43.00 U.S. (pb) ISBN-13: 9780521123112

Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 22


Thomas J. Laub
After the Fall: German Policy in Occupied France, 1940-1944 , Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv +330 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $110 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-953932-1

Review Review by Talbot Imlay, Université Laval.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 23


Julie Kalman
Rethinking Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France, New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2009. 246 pp. $88 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0521897327.

Review Review by Vicki Caron, Cornell University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 24


Grégory Champeaud
Le Parlement de Bordeaux et les paix de religion (1563-1600). Une genèse de l’Édit de Nantes. Nérac: Éditions d’Albret, 2008. 440 pp. Appendices, chronology, and bibliography. 23 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-913055-22-3.

Review Review by  Penny Roberts, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 25


André Burguière
The Annales School. An Intellectual History. Translated from French by Jane Marie Todd. Foreword by Timothy Tackett. Cornell University Press: Ithaca and London 2009, xiv + 309 pp., $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4665-8

Review Review by Matthias Middell, University of Leipzig.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 26


Virginia Scott and Sara Strum-Maddox
Performance, Poetry and Politics on the Queen’s Day: Catherine de Médicis and Pierre de Ronsard at Fontainbleau.* Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. ix  + 267 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index.  $99.95 US (hb).  ISBN 978-0-7546-5839-9.

Review Review by  Lawrence Bryant, California State University, Chico.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 27


Susan L. Siegfried
, Ingres: Painting Reimagined. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009. ix + 518 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, list of illustrations, and index. $75.00 (U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-300-14883-1.

Review Review by Heather Belnap Jensen, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 28


Tony Pipolo
Robert Bresson: a Passion for Film , Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press 2010. 407 pp. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 978-0-19-531979-8

Review by Roland-François Lack, University College London.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 29


Matthew Lauzon
Signs of Light: French and British Theories of Linguistic Communication, 1648-1789 , Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2010. x + 256 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4847-8

Review by Joanna Stalnaker, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 30


Karl Heidecker
The Divorce of Lothar II: Christian Marriage and Political Power in the Carolingian World , translated from the Dutch by Tanis M. Guest. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2010. x + 226 pp. Map, genealogical tables, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-8014-3929-2

Review by Sam Collins, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 31


John Bender and Michael Marrinan
The Culture of Diagram, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010. 296 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0804745048

Review by Christopher Drew Armstrong, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 32


Évelyne Combeau-Mari
Le sport colonial à Madagascar, 1896-1960 , Paris: Société française d’histoire d’outre-mer, 2009. 241 pp. Maps, figures, notes, and bibliography. €40.00 (pb). ISBN 2-85970-042-0

Review by Philip Dine, National University of Ireland, Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (January 2011), No. 33

February Reviews

Thomas BouchetNoms d’oiseaux: L’insulte en politique de la Restauration à nos jours , Paris: Éditions Stock, 2010. 303 pp. Bibliography and index. 19,50 € (paper). ISBN 978-2-234-06313-6

Review by Anthony J. Steinhoff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 34


Natalie Zemon Davis
A Passion for History: Conversations with Denis Crouzet , Edited by Michael Wolfe. Translated by Michael Wolfe and Natalie Zemon Davis. Kirksville, Miss.: Truman State University Press, 2010. xiii + 218 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-931112-97-0

Review by Sara Beam, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 35


Vincent Giroud
French Opera: A Short History , New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. x + 366 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl) ISBN 978-0-300-11765-3; eBook ISBN 978-0-300-16821-1

Review by Jeffrey Langford, Manhattan School of Music.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 36


William R. Nester
The Epic Battles for Ticonderoga, 1758, Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press. 2008. 276 pp. $65.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0791473221

Review by Steven C. Eames, Mount Ida College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 37


Pierre Assouline
Hergé: The Man Who Created Tintin , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xi+276. Notes, bibliography and index. Translated from the French by Charles Raus. $24.95 U.S.(pb). ISBN 978-0-19-539759-8

Review by Hugo Frey, University of Chichester.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 38


Edward Benson, trans., Roger Schlesinger, ed., André Thevet
Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion , OEarly Modern Studies 3, Kirksville, Mo..: Truman State University Press, 2010. xxxiv + 214 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $ 39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-931112-98-7

Review by Luc Racaut, Newcastle University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 39


Guy Halsall
Cemeteries and Society in Merovingian Gaul: Selected Studies in History and Archaeology, 1992-2009 , OBrill, Leiden/Boston, 2010. pp. xvii, 417. 126£. ISBN-10: 9004179992

Review by Bernard S. Bachrach, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 40


Jeffrey H. Jackson
Paris Under Water: How the City of Light survived the Great Flood of 1910 , New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010. x + 262 pp. Figures, notes, selected bibliography and index. $27.00 (cl). ISBN 978-0-230-61706-3

Review by Julian Wright, University of Durham.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 41


François Dosse
Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari: Biographie croisée , Paris: Editions La Découverte, 2007. 643 pp. 29.50€ (pb). ISBN-10: 2707158720

Review by Tom Conley, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 42


Evelyne Diebolt, ed.
Dictionnaire biographique: Militer au XXe siècle: Femmes, féminismes, Eglises et société , Paris: Michel Houdiard Editeur, 2009. 348 pp. Bibliography and index. 28€ (pb.) ISBN 978-2-35692-015-7

Review by Siân Reynolds, University of Stirling.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 43


Simon Burrows
A King’s Ransom: The Life of Charles Théveneau de Morande, Blackmailer, Scandalmonger & Master-Spy, London and New York: Continuum, 2010. xvi + 288 pp. Illustrations, glossary, notes, sources, acknowledgements, and index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978- 0826-41989-7

Review by Donald C. Spinelli, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 44


Richard D. Sonn
Sex, Violence and the Avant-Garde: Anarchism in Interwar France, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. x + 259 pp. Figures, photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-271-03663-2

Review by Robyn Roslak, University of Minnesota, Duluth.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 45


Joel E. Vessels
Drawing France: French Comics and the Republic, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010. xii + 305 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-60473-444-7

Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 46


Richard Wolin
The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. xiv + 391pp. Photographs, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-691-12998- 3

Review by Michael C. Behrent, Appalachian State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 47


Ralph Ashby
Napoleon against Great Odds: the Emperor and the Defenders of France, 1814, Santa Barbara, Cal., Denver, Co., and Oxford: Praeger, 2010. xiii + 230 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography and index. $44.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN978-0-313-38190-4

Review by Charles Esdaile, University of Liverpool.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 48

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Alison Fell, ed
French and Francophone Women Facing War/Les femmes face à la guerre. Modern French Identities, ed. Peter Collier, vol. 67. Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2009. xiv + 285 pp. $57.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-03911-332-3

Review by Martha Hanna, University of Colorado, Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 49


Leonid Livak
Russian Émigrés in the Intellectual and Literary Life of Interwar France: A Bibliographical Essay, Montreal & Kingston, London, Ithaca: McGill- Queen’s University Press, 2010. viii + 542 pp. Notes, bibliographies, appendices, and index. $125 CDN/ $125 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7735-3723-1

Review by N. Christine Brookes, Central Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 50


Raymonde Monnier, éd.
Paris et Londres en Miroir, extraits du Babillard de Jean-Jacques Rutlidge , Saint-Étienne, Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2010. 152 pp. 15€. ISBN-10: 2862725447

Review by Laurent Turcot, Université de Québec, Trois Rivières.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 51


Julian Jackson
La Grande Illusion ,London: British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 116 pp. Still shots, film posters, notes, credits, and bibliography. $14.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-84457-285-4

Review by Thibaut Schilt, College of the Holy Cross.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 52


Chris Roulston
Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France , Burlington, Vt. and Farnham, Surrey. 2010. xi + 227 pp. 3 black and white illustrations, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6839-8

Review by Nadine Bérenguier, University of New Hampshire.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 53


Philippe Carrard
The French Who Fought For Hitler: Memories from the Outcasts,New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xi + 260 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-52119-822-6

Review Nathan Bracher, Texas A & M University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 54


Tracy Adams
The Life and Afterlife of Isabeau of Bavaria,Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xxxvi + 338 pp. Map, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8018-9625-5

Review Larissa Juliet Taylor, Colby College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 55


David E. Lambert
The Protestant International and the Huguenot Migration to Virginia,New York: Peter Lang, Studies in Church History, 2010. Ix + 222 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $74.95 U.S. (hb) ISBN 978-1-4331-0759-7

Review John McGrath, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 56


Richard Copans, director
Paris Périph (Paris Ring),54 minutes. DVD. (Les Films d’Ici/Arte Éditions/Icarus Films, 2004). $398 U.S

Review W. Brian Newsome, Elizabethtown College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 57


Bruno Hübsch
Le Ministère des prêtres et des pasteurs: Histoire d’une controverse entre catholiques et réformés français au début du XVIIe siècle,Lyon: Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes, 2010. Collection Chrétiens et Sociétés, Documents et Mémoires No. 10. 251pp. Foreword, appendix, bibliography, and index. 22.00€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-85317-122- 9

Review Diane C. Margolf, Colorado State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 58


Leah L. Chang
Into Print: The Production of Female Authorship in Early Modern France,Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009. 284 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $58.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-87413-053-9

Review Elizabeth Goldsmith, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 59

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Jeffrey D. Burson
The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment: Jean- Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth-Century France,Foreword by Dale Van Kley. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. xxiv + 494. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 US (cl). ISBN 978-0-268-02220-4

Review Alan Charles Kors, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 60


Rémi Dalisson
Les fêtes du Maréchal. Propagande festive et imaginaire dans la France de Vichy,* Préface de Pascal Ory Paris: Editions Tallandier, 2008. 473 pp. 32€ (cl). ISBN-10: 2847343555

Review Miranda Pollard, University of Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 61


Joann DellaNeva
Unlikely Exemplars: Reading and Writing beyond the Italian Canon in French Renaissance Poetry,Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009. 328 pp. Notes, bibliography. $57.50. U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-87413-055-3

Review Ann Rosalind Jones, Smith College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (February 2011), No. 62

March Reviews

Susanna A. Throop and Paul R. Hyams, eds.Vengeance in the Middle Ages: Emotion, Religion and Feud., Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. ix + 232 pp. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-6421-5

Review by Geoffrey Koziol, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 63


Janice Best,
Les Monuments de Paris sous la Troisième République: Contestation et commémoration du passé., Paris: L’Harmattan, 2010. 282 pp. Illustrated. 28 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-296-11413-5

Review by Neil McWilliam, Duke University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 64

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Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose
The Good Wife’s Guide: Le Ménagier de Paris: A Medieval Household Book, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009. xii + 366 pp. Introduction, glossary, bibliography, index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-7474-3

Review by Roberta Krueger, Hamilton College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 65


Michael A. H. Newth, ed. and trans.
Fierabras and Floripas: A French Epic Allegory, New York: Italica Press, 2010. 292 pages, 17 illustrations, glossary, bibliography. $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-59910-157-6. $10.00 U.S. (electronic) ISBN 978-1-59910-158-3

Review by Lynn Ramey, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 66


Sonja Kmec
Across the Channel: Noblewomen in Seventeenth-Century France and England: A Study of the Lives of Marie de La Tour, ‘Queen of the Huguenots’, and Charlotte de la Trémoïlle, Countess of Derby, Trier, Kliomedia, 2010. 336 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. 36€ (pb) ISBN 978-3-89890-138-3

Review by Susan Broomhall, The University of Western Australia.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 67


Susan Hiner
Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France., Philadelphia and Oxford: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. viii + 281 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $47.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8122- 4259-1

Review by Dorothy Kelly, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 68


Van Nguyen-Marshall
In Search of Moral Authority: The Discourse on Poverty, Poor Relief, and Charity in French Colonial Vietnam, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2008. X + 180 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4331-0215-8.

Review by Michael G. Vann, California State University, Sacramento.
H-France Review Vol. 11 March 2011), No. 69


W. Brian Newsome
French Urban Planning 1940-1968: The Construction and Deconstruction of an Authoritarian System,New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009. Xviii + 250 pp. List of abbreviations, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $76.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4331-0400-8

Review by Nicole C. Rudolph, Adelphi University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 March 2011), No. 70


Whitney Walton
Internationalism, National Identity, and Study Abroad: France and the United States, 1890-1970., Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2010. 280 pp. $65 U.S. (cl). ISBN 10: 0804762538

Review by Irwin Wall, University of California, Riverside.
H-France Review Vol. 11 March 2011), No. 71


Dorothy Kelly
Reconstructing Woman: From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. 184 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-271-03267-2

Review by Hannah Thompson, Royal Holloway, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 11 March 2011), No. 72

 

Jeffrey MehlmanAdventures in the French Trade: Fragments Toward a Life, Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2010. xvi + 173 pp. Figures and notes. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8047-6961-7; $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8047-6962-4

Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 11 March 2011), No. 73


Margaret Morgan Grasselli
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800,Washington: National Gallery of Art in association with Lund Humphries, 2009. x + 310 pp. Figures, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, and list of artists. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84822-043-0.

Review David O’Brien, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 74


Louis Marchesano and Christian Michel
Printing the Grand Manner: Charles Le Brun and Monumental Prints in the Age of Louis XIV,Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2010. ix + 110 pp. Illustrations in black and white and colour, notes, bibliography and index (catalogue of the exhibition, Printing the Grand Manner: Charles Le Brun and Monumental Prints in the age of Louis XIV, Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, 18 May-17 October 2010). $50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-89236-980-5

Review Dr Christopher Allen, Sydney Grammar School.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 75


Leo van Bergen
Before My Helpless Sight; Suffering, Dying and Military Medicine on the Western Front, 1914-1918,trans. Liz Waters. Farnham, UK and Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2009. Viii+528 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 978-0-7546-5853- 5.

Review John E. Talbott, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 76


Hanna Diamond
Fleeing Hitler: France 1940,Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. xv + 255 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-19-280618-5

Review Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 77


Carol Mossman
Writing with a Vengeance: The Countess de Chabrillan’s Rise from Prostitution,Toronto, Buffalo and London: Toronto University Press, 2009. xiii + 195 pp. Notes, works cited, index. $50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8020-9691-3

Review Rachel Mesch, Yeshiva University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 78


Allan A. Tulchin
That Men Would Praise the Lord: The Triumph of Protestantism in Nîmes, 1530-1570,New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xxii + 287 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $74.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-973652-2.

Review Barbara B. Diefendorf, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 79


Miranda Gill
Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth- Century Paris,Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Notes, bibliography, and index. £60.80 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-954328-1

Review Melissa Wittmeier, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 80


Martin O’Shaughnessy
La Grande Illusion,London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2009. 126 pp. Notes, 4 appendices. $24.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-84885-057-6

Review Marja Warehime, The University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 81


Osama W. Abi-Mershed
Apostles of Modernity: Saint-Simonians and the Civilizing Mission in Algeria,Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010. xii +328 pp., Tables, figures, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl); ISBN 978- 0804769099. $60.00 U.S. (E-book) ISBN 978-0804774727

Review by Naomi J. Andrews, Santa Clara University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 March 2011), No. 82


Stephen Zank
Irony and Sound: The Music of Maurice Ravel,Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press and Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell and Brewer Limited, 2009. xii + 438 pp. Musical examples, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-58046-189-4

Review by Kelly Maynard, Grinnell College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 March 2011), No. 83


Simon Desjardins and Pierre Pharoux
Castorland Journal: An Account of the Exploration and Settlement of New York State by French Emigrés in the Years 1793 to 1797,Ed. and trans. by John A. Gallucci. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2010. xxx + 410 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8014-4626-9

Review by Thomas J. Schaeper, St. Bonaventure University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 March 2011), No. 84


Sarah A. Curtis
Civilizing Habits: Women Missionaries and the Revival of French Empire,Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. x + 373 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $74.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-539418-4

Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 11 March 2011), No. 85


Paul Cheney
Revolutionary Commerce: Globalization and the French Monarchy,Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2010. xii + 305 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0674047266

Review by Rebecca L. Spang, Indiana University Bloomington.
H-France Review Vol. 11 March 2011), No. 86


Nadine Vivier, ed.
Elites et progrès agricole, XVIe-XXe siècles, Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009. 346 pp. 19€ (pb). ISBN-10: 2753508259

Review Liana Vardi, University of Buffalo, SUNY.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 87


Bertrand Taithe
The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii + 324 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-923121-8

Review Richard S. Fogarty, University at Albany, State University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 88


Janet McLean, ed.
Impressionist Interiors, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin 2008. 152 pp. Notes, bibliography. $17.50 U.S. (pb) ISBN 978- 1-904288-30-5

Review Frances Fowle, University of Edinburgh and National Galleries of Scotland.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 89


Spencer D. Segalla
The Moroccan Soul. French Education, Colonial Ethnology, and Muslim Resistance, 1912-1956, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. xiv + 318 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $55.00 (cl). ISBN 978-0-8032-1778-2

Review John Strachan, Lancaster University, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 90


Bertrand Blancheton and Hubert Bonin, eds.
La croissance en économie ouverte (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles): hommages à Jean-Charles Asselain, Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2009. 466 pp. ISBN 978-90-5201-498-2

Review David Todd, King’s College, London.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (March 2011), No. 91

April Reviews

Antónia Szabari Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth- Century France. , Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010. 304 pp. 35 illustrations. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0804762929

Review by Jeff Persels, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (April 2011), No. 92


Noah Shusterman
Religion and the Politics of Time: Holidays in France from Louis XIV through Napoleon , Washington, D.C.: the Catholic University of America Press, 2010. xv + 299 pp. 5 maps, 5 figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $74.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9-780813- 217253

Review by William Doyle, University of Bristol.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (April 2011), No. 93


Heidi Bostic
The Fiction of Enlightenment: Women of Reason in the French Eighteenth Century , Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2010. 270 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-87413-074-4

Review by Bonnie Arden Robb, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (April 2011), No. 94


Nathalie Genet–Rouffiac and David Murphy, eds.
,Franco–Irish military connections, 1590–1945, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009, 304 pp. Figures, appendices, bibliography, and index. €49.50. (hb). ISBN 978–1–84682–198–1

Review by Mary Ann Lyons, National University of Ireland.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (April 2011), No. 95


Lawrence D. Kritzman
The Fabulous Imagination: On Montaigne’s Essays. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. x + 227 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-231-11992-4.

Review by Hassan Melehy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (April 2011), No. 96

May Reviews

Jennifer Anne BoittinColonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti- Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris, Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. xxix + 320 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0- 8032-2545-9

Review Kate Marsh, University of Liverpool.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2010), No. 97


Jeremy D. Popkin
You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery, Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xv + 422 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521-51722-5; $24.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-73194-2

Review Sue Peabody, Washington State University Vancouver.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2010), No. 98


Annegret Fauser and Mark Everist eds.
Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. x + 439 pp. Appendix, bibliography, discography and filmography, contributors, index. $55.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-226-23926-2

Review Clair Rowden, Cardiff University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2010), No. 99


Didier Boisson and Yves Krumenacker, eds.
La coexistence confessionnelle à l’épreuve: Études sur les relations entre protestants et catholiques dans la France moderne , Chrétiens et Sociétés: Documents et Mémoires No. 9. [Lyon:] Équipe Religions, Sociétés et Acculturation (RESEA) du Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA, UMR 5190), 2009. 264 pp. 22€ (pb). ISSN 1761-3043

Review Allan A. Tulchin, Shippensburg University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2010), No. 100


Gérard de Nerval
The Salt Smugglers: History of the Abbé de Bucquoy, Translated from the French by Richard Sieburth. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2009. Notes and translator’s postscript. 147 pp. $16.00 US (pb). ISBN 978-0-9800330-6-9

Review Michal Peled Ginsburg, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2010), No. 101


Amy Livingstone
Out of Love for My Kin: Aristocratic Life in the Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200, Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2010. xi + 280. Maps, charts, notes, appendices, bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4841- 6

Review Katrin E. Sjursen, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2010), No. 102


Keith Mann
Forging Political Identity: Silk and Metal Workers in Lyon, France, 1900-1939, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010. xv + 264 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $98/£58 (hb). IBN 978-84545-645-0

Review Steve Zdatny, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2011), No. 103

Response by Keith Mann, Cardinal Stritch University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2011), No. 104


Joyce Block Lazarus
In the Shadow of Vichy: the Finaly Affair, New York: Peter Lang, 2008. 154 pp. Notes, archival sources, bibliography, and index. $66.95 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-4331-0212-7

Review Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2011), No. 105


Joanna Stalnaker
The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encylopedia, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2010. xvi + 240 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-0-8014-4864-5

Review Matthew W. Maguire, Kenyon College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2011), No. 106


Joan DeJean
The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual and the Modern Home Began, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Press, 2009. 295 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $18.48 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13:978-1-59691-405-6; $10.88 U.S. (pb). ISBN-10: 160819230X

Review Kathryn Norberg, University of California Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2011), No. 107


Geoffrey Turnovsky
The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 286 pages. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4195-2

Review Ourida Mostefai, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2011), No. 108


Helene Scheck
Reform and Resistance: Formations of Female Subjectivity in Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Culture, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xii + 238 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (hb). 978-0-7914-7483-9; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7914-7484-6

Review Bruce L. Venarde, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2011), No. 109


Laurent Dubois
Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France, Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2010. xx + 329 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $27.50 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-520-25928-7. $18.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-520-26978-1

Review by Christopher S. Thompson, Ball State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2011), No. 110


Jill Fell
Alfred Jarry, London: Reaktion Books (distributed by the University of Chicago Press), 2010. 219 pp. 40 halftones, notes and bibliography. $16.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-86189-755-8

Review by Sally Debra Charnow, Hofstra University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2011), No. 111


Mark Haworth-Booth
Camille Silvy: Photographer of Modern Life, London and Los Angeles: National Portrait Gallery and J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. 160 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $40.00 US (hb). ISBN:978-1-60606-025-4

Review Review by Margaret Werth, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2011), No. 112


Jean-Marie Mercier
Les francs-maçons du pape. L’art royal à Avignon au XVIIIe siècle, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2010. 246 pp. ISBN 978-2-8124-0108-4

Review Review by Eric Saunier, Université de Havre.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2011), No. 113


Ludovic Frobert, ed.
L’Écho de la fabrique: Naissance de la presse ouvrière à Lyon, 1831-1834, Lyon: ENS Éditions; Institut d’Histoire du Livre, 2010. 366 pp. Tables, graphs, illustrations, and notes. 27 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-84788-207-0

Review Review by Christine Haynes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2011), No. 114


Mary Pickering, 
Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography, 3 volumes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993/2009/2009). I:792 pp; II:652 pp; III:682 pp. $254.35 U.S. (cl). I: ISBN-10: 0521025745. II: ISBN-10: 0521513251. III: ISBN-10: 0521119146

Review Review by H. S. Jones, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2011), No. 115


Jan M. Ziolkowski and Bridget K Balint (with Justin Lake, Laura Light, and Prydwyn Piper), eds. and trans.
A Garland of Satire, Wisdom, and History: Latin Verse from Twelfth-Century France, (Carmina Houghtoniensia). Cambridge, Mass.: Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007. x + 233 p. Illustrations, facsimiles, indices. $35.00. ISBN-10: 0976547279; ISBN-13: 9780976547273

Review Review by M.-A. Bossy, Brown University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (May 2011), No. 116

June Reviews

Sharif GemieFrench Muslims: New Voices in Contemporary France., Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2010. ix + 220 pp. Bibliography and index. $35.00 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 978-0-7083-2320-5

Review by John R. Bowen, Washington University at St. Louis
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2011), No. 117


Jill Fehleison
Boundaries of Faith: Catholics and Protestants in the Diocese of Geneva, Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2010. viii + 269 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $48.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-935503-11-8

Review by Karen E. Spierling, Denison University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2011), No. 118


Katherine Kong
Lettering the Self in Medieval and Early Modern France, Woodbridge, U.K. and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewster, 2010. vii + 275 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $105.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN: 978-1-84384-231-6

Review by E. Bruce Hayes, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2011), No. 119


Meredith Cohen and Justine Firnhaber-Baker, eds.
,Difference and Identity in Francia and Medieval France, Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, V.T.: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. xiii + 237 pp. Figures and index. $124.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-6757-5

Review by Katherine Allen Smith, University of Puget Sound.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2011), No. 120


Pierre Brocheux and Daniel Hémery
Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954, Series “From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective.” Translated by Ly Lan Dill-Klein, with Eric Jennings, Nora Taylor, and Noémi Tousignant. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009. XV + 490 pp. $60 U.S. (hb). Illustrations, notes, index. ISBN 978-0-520-24539-6

Review by David Del Testa, Bucknell University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2011), No. 121


Thomas Cardoza
Intrepid Women: Cantinières and Vivandières of the French Army, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. xiv + 295 pp. $39.95 (hb). ISBN 978-0-253-35451-8

Review by Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University (Shreveport).
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2011), No. 122


Pierre Nora, ed.
Rethinking France: Les Lieux de mémoire., Translation directed by David P. Jordan. Vol. IV: Histories and Memories. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. xiv + 479 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-59135-2

Review by Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2011), No. 123


Stuart Carroll
Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe., Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xv + 345 pp. Maps, genealogical tables, further reading, notes, index. $34.95 U.S.(cl). ISBN 978-0-19-922907-9

Review by Kristen B. Neuschel, Duke University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2011), No. 124


Roger Pearson
Stéphane Mallarmé, London: Reaktion Books, 2010. 219 pp. Bibliography, acknowledgements, photograph acknowledgements. $16.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1- 86189-659-9

Review by Julien Weber, University of California, Irvine.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2011), No. 125


Nadia Malinovich
French and Jewish: Culture and the Politics of Identity in Early Twentieth-Century France., Oxford and Portland: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008. xii + 280 pp. Illustrations, index, and bibliography. $49.50 US (cl). ISBN 978 -1-904113-40-9

Review by Jeffrey Haus, Kalamazoo College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2011), No. 126


John Hardman
Overture to Revolution: The 1787 Assembly of Notables and the Crisis of France’s Old Regime, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. vi-338 pp. Appendices, bibliography, and index. $115.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-958577-9

Review Vivian R. Gruder, Queens College, Emerita, City University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2010), No. 127


Timothy Verhoeven
Transatlantic Anti-Catholicism: France and the United States in the Nineteenth Century, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. ix + 230 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-230-10287-5

Review David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2010), No. 128


Luc Bourgeois, ed.
Une Résidence des Comtes d’Angoulême autour de l’An Mil: le castrum d’Andone (Villejoubert, Charente). Publication des fouilles d’André Debord (1971-1995) , Publications du CRAHM–Caen, 2009. 560 pp. 52.25€ (cl). ISBN-10: 2902685661

Review Bailey K. Young, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2010), No. 129


Paul-André Bempéchat
Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and LettersFarnham, U.K.: Ashgate, 2010. 598 pp. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 075460683X

Review Sylvia Kahan, The Graduate Center and College of Staten Island, City University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2010), No. 130

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Michael Broers
Napoleon’s Other War: Bandits, Rebels and their Pursuers in the Age of Revolution, Oxford: Peter Lang Ltd., 2010. xi + 232 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $43.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-1-906165-11-6

Review Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2010), No. 131


Ursula Haskins Gonthier
Montesquieu and England: Enlightened Exchanges, 1689-1755, London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010. viii + 236 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-85196-997-5

Review David W. Carrithers, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2010), No. 132


Noelle Plack
Common Land, Wine and the French Revolution: Rural Society and Economy in Southern France, c. 1789-1820, Surrey, England and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2009. xiv + 215 pp. Figures, maps, tables, appendices and bibliography. £55.00 UK (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6728-5

Review Jeffrey Houghtby, Iowa State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2010), No. 133


Ralph P. Locke
Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections., Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Figures, musical examples, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl) ISBN 978-0-521-87793-0

Review Jann Pasler, University of California, San Diego.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2010), No. 134


Rae Beth Gordon
Dances with Darwin, 1875-1910. Vernacular Modernity in France, Surrey: Ashgate Press, 2009. xiv + 276 pp. Illustrations and bibliography. $89.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0754652432; ISBN-13: 978-0754652434

Review Vanessa R. Schwartz, University of Southern California.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2010), No. 135


Raymond A. Mentzer, Françoise Moreil and Philippe Chareyre, eds.
Dire l’interdit. The Vocabulary of Censure and Exclusion in the Early Modern Reformed Tradition, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. vii + 359 pp. $147.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-9004-17922-6

Review Mark Greengrass, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2010), No. 136


Alastair Minnis and Rosalynn Voaden, eds.
Medieval Holy Women in the Christian Tradition, c. 1100-c.1500,(Turnhout: Brepols, 2010). xii + 748 pp. Tables, notes, index. $181.00 US (cl) ISBN 2503531806

Review Sean L. Field, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2010), No. 137


Janine Mileaf
Please Touch: Dada and Surrealist Objects After the Readymade,Lebanon, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press, 2010. 296 pp. figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 US (cl). ISBN 978-1-58465-882-5

Review Allan Antliff, University of Victoria, Canada.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2010), No. 138


Evelyne Diebolt
Matériaux pour l’histoire du mouvement jeunes femmes (1950-2010),Paris: Michel Houdiard Editeur, 2010. 452 pp. 38€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-35692-040-9

Review Gill Allwood, Nottingham Trent University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2010), No. 139


Nancy Duvall Hargrove
T.S. Eliot’s Parisian Year,Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. xvi + 324 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 (pb). ISBN 10:0813035538

Review Pamela A. Genova, University of Oklahoma.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2010), No. 140


Francesco Benigno
Mirrors of Revolution: Conflict and Political Identity in Early Modern Europe,(Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2010). Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, v. 16. For the most part, this volume is a translation of the 1999 book, Specchi della rivoluzione: Conflitto e identità politica nell’Europa moderna. 293 pp. $102.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 9782503528977

Review James Collins, Georgetown University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (June 2010), No. 141

July Reviews

Barbara R. WoshinskyImagining Women’s Conventual Spaces in France, 1600-1800: The Cloister Disclosed, Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2010. vii + 344 pp. Figures, bibliography, and index

Review by Elizabeth Rapley, University of Ottawa.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 142


Hassan Melehy
The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England, Farnham, U.K. and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2010. viii + 277 pp. Index. $104.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-6445-1

Review by Christine Sukic, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 143


Kevin J. Callahan and Sarah A. Curtis, eds.
Views from the Margins: Creating Identities in Modern France, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press 2008. 277 pp. $31.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-1559-7/p>

Review by Matthew Matsuda, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 144


Nicolas Mariot and Claire Zalc
Face à la persecution: 991 Juifs dans la guerre, Paris: Odile Jacob, with the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, 2010. 302 pp. Maps, documents, tables, graphs, notes. 23.90€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-7381-2175-2

Review by Shannon L. Fogg, Missouri University of Science and Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 145


Sylvie Aprile
La Révolution inachevée, 1815-1870, Paris: Éditions Belin, 2010. 670 pp. Tables, maps, illustrations, notes. €36 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7011-3615-8

Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 146


Paula Amad
Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn’s Archives de la Planète, New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. xiii + 408 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-231-13500-9; $34.40 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-231-13501-6

Review by Barbara Creed, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 147


Richard S. Fogarty
Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Ix +374 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13:978-0-8018-8824-3

Review by Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 148


Robert Darnton
Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Cambridge, Mass. and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. vi + 224 pp. Photographs, figures, notes, and index. $25.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-674-05715-9

Review by Lauren Clay, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 149


Robert Descimon and Élie Haddad, eds.
Épreuves de noblesse. Les expériences nobiliaires de la haute robe parisienne (xvi-xviii siècle), Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2010, 459 pp. Notes. 35€ (pb). ISBN 978-1-251-38107-7

Review by John J. Hurt, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 150


Scott Allan and Mary Morton, eds.
Reconsidering Gérôme, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, J. Paul Getty Museum, September 14, 2010. 162 pp. Index, list of contributors, 8 color plates, 27 black-and-white figures, acknowledgements. $27.50 (pb). ISBN 10-1606060384 and ISBN 13-978-1606060384

Review by Shaw Smith, Davidson College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 151


William Brooks
Philippe Quinault, Dramatist, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2009. Collection: Medieval and Early Modern French Studies (Volume 6). 512pp. $89.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-03911-533-4

Review by Stella Spriet, University of Saskatchewan.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 152


Stephen E. Hanson
Post-Imperial Democracies. Ideology and Party Formation in Third Republic France, Weimar Germany, and Post-Soviet Russia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xi + 274 pp. Notes, index. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-88351-1; $26.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN ISBN 978-0-521-70985-9

Review by Nicolas Roussellier, Institut d’études politiques, ‘Sciences Po’, Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 153


Adrian Velicu
Civic Catechism and Reason in the French Revolution, Ashgate, 2010. 155 pp. Bibliography and Index. $114.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 075466998X

Review by Jeremy L. Caradonna, University of Alberta.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 154


Laurent Turcot, ed.
L’Ordinaire parisien des Lumières: Edition critique de trois textes du for privé parisien du XVIIIe siècle, Quebec: Presses universitaires de Laval, 2010. 262 pp. $30 Can. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7637-9218-7

Review Review by Noah Shusterman, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 155


Laurence W. Marvin
The Occitan War: A Military and Political History of the Albigensian Crusade, 1209-1218, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008, digitally printed 2009. xxvi + 328 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0521123658

Review Review by David Stewart Bachrach, University of New Hampshire.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 156


Marie-Cécile Bouju
Lire en communiste. Les Maisons d’édition du Parti communiste français 1920-1968, Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010. 360 p. 20€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535-1230-6

Review Review by Jean Vigreux, Université de Franche-Comté.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 157


Michael Dietler
Archaeologies of Colonialism: Consumption, Entanglement, and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2010. xi + 464 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $60 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-520-26551-6

Review Review by Daniel Lord Smail, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 158


Michael Pasquier
Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. ix + 295 pp. Notes and index. $74.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-537233-5

Review Review by Sarah A. Curtis, San Francisco State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 159


Nina L. Dubin
Futures and Ruins: Eighteenth-Century Paris and the Art of Hubert Robert, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2010. 210 pp. 24 color and 54 b/w illustrations, index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 13:978-1-60606-023-0

Review Review by Janet T. Marquardt, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 160


Raphaëlle Branche
L’Embuscade de Palestro: Algérie 1956, Paris: Armand Colin, 2010. 256 pp. 19.40€ (pb). ISBN-10: 2200353855

Review Review by Joshua Cole, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 161


Rebecca J. Pulju
Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Xiv + 260 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-107-00135-0

Review Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of Alberta.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 162


Richard Scholar
Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010. x + 229 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $51.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-906165-21-5

Review Review by Zachary S. Schiffman, Northeastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 163


Rori Bloom
Man of Quality, Man of Letters: The Abbé Prévost between Novel and Newspaper, Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2009. 205 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $47.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN-978-0-8387-5724-6

Review Review by Suzanne R. Pucci, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 164


Sébastien Allard and Marie-Claude Chaudonneret
Le Suicide de Gros: Les peintres de l’Empire et la génération romantique, Montreuil, France: Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2010. 159 pp. Notes, index, illustration list, and 60 illustrations. 29.00€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-35340-090-4.

Review Review by Patricia Mainardi, The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 165


Yasmin Sabina Khan
Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of Liberty, Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2010. viii + 186 pp. Illustrations and author notes. $24.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4851-5

Review Review by Heidi A. Strobel, University of Evansville.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 166


Thierry Dutour, ed.
Les nobles et la ville dans l’espace francophone (XIIe-XVIe siècles), Presse de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne: Paris, 2010. 401 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, tables, index. 26€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-84050-678-2

Review Review by Michael Wolfe, St. John’s University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (July 2011), No. 167

August Reviews

Madeleine DobieTrading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2010. 424 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 978-080144-9024

Review Sue Peabody, Washington State University, Vancouver.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2010), No. 168


Danielle Bailly, ed.
The Hidden Children of France, 1940–1945. Stories of Survival, Albany:Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press, 2010. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 978-4384-3196-3

Review Renée Poznanski, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2010), No. 169


Alison J. Murray Levine
Framing the Nation: Documentary Film in Interwar France, London and New York: Continuum Books, 2010. xiii+ 223 pp. $130.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8264-3187-5

Review Kate Ince, University of Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2010), No. 170


Colin Jones, Josephine McDonagh and Jon Mee, eds.
,Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities and the French Revolution, (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009). 240 pp. $80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-230-53778-1

Review Micah Alpaugh, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2010), No. 171


Colette Zytnicki and Habib Kazdaghli, eds.
Le Tourisme dans l’ empire français: politiques, pratiques et imaginaires (XIXe—XXe siècle). Un outil de la domination coloniale?, Paris: Publications de la Société française d’histoire d’ outre-mer, 2009. 444 pp. 40€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-85970-041-6

Review Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2010), No. 172


Aurélie Barjonet
Zola d’Ouest en Est: Le naturalisme en France et dans les deux Allemagnes., Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010. 282 pp. 20€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535-1178-1

Review Eduardo A. Febles, Simmons College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2010), No. 173


Christine de Pizan et al
., Debate of the Romance of the Roseed. and trans. David F. Hultz, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xxviii + 286 pp. $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-67012-0 (cl), 0-226-67013-9 (pb)

Review Rosalind Brown-Grant, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2010), No. 174


Daniel Zisenwine
The Emergence of Nationalist Politics in Morocco: The Rise of the Independence Party and the Struggle against Colonialism after World War II., London and New York, N.Y.: Tauris Academic Studies, 2010. xi + 260 pp. Bibliography and index. $92.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1848853232

Review Susan Gilson Miller, University of California, Davis.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2010), No. 175


Carolyn J. Dean
Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust., Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2010. viii + 103 pp. $29.95 (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4944-4

Review Michael R. Marrus, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2010), No. 176


Brian Joseph Martin
Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy & Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France, Durham, N.H.: University of New Hampshire Press, 2011; published by University Press of New England. xvii + 379 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 978-1-58465-956-3

Review Michael J. Hughes, Iona College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2010), No. 177


Albert Mathiez
La réaction thermidorienne, Paris: La Fabrique éditions, 2010. 410 pp. Notes and index. 25€ (pb). ISBN 9-782358-720120

Review Laura Mason, John Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2010), No. 178


Linda Patterson
Culture and Society in Medieval Occitania, Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate Variorum, 2011. xi +297pp. Tables, graphs, plates, notes, and index. $165.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4094-2398-0

Review Claire Taylor, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 179


Laurence Grove
Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinée in Context., New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. xiv + 346 pp. notes, bibliography, and index. 100€ (pb). ISBN 978-1-84545-588-0

Review Chris Reyns-Chikuma and Kenneth Mouré, University of Alberta.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 180


Kirsten Fudeman
Vernacular Voices: Language and Identity in Medieval French Jewish Communities, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. xi + 254 pp. including two appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $59.95 in US. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4250-8

Review Susan L. Einbinder, Hebrew Union College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 181


Katherine M. Kuenzli
The Nabis and Intimate Modernism: Painting and the Decorative at the Fin-de-Siècle, Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. xix + 274 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $ 109.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-7546-6777-3

Review Laura Morowitz, Wagner College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 182


Yann Lagadec and Stéphane Perréon, with the collaboration of David Hopkin
La bataille de Saint-Cast (Bretagne, 11 septembre 1758): Entre histoire et mémoire, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009. 445 pp. Documentary annexes, maps, figures, notes, bibliography. 22€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-7555-0948- 1

Review Michael Duffy, University of Exeter.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 183


Stefanos Geroulanos
, An atheism that is not humanist emerges in French thought., Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press,2010. xiii + 448 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S (cl). ISBN 978-0-8047-6298-4 ; $27.95 U.S (pb). ISBN: 978-0-8047-6299-1. ISBN: 9780804774246 E-book $27.95

Review Stéphan Soulié, E.H.E.S.S.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 184


Roy J. Pearc
Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux. An Essay in Applied Narratology, Woodbridge, Suffolk (U.K.) and Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell & Brewer, 2007. viii + 251 pp. Appendices, fabliau inventory, bibliography, and index. $95.00 US (hb). ISBN 9781843841227

Review Francis Gingras, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 185


Niilo Kauppi
Radicalism in French Culture: A Sociology of French Theory in the 1960s, Farnham, England and Burlington, Vt..: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. x + 154 pp. Bibliography and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4094-0783-6

Review Julian Bourg, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 186


Maurice Blanchot
Political Writings, 1953-1993, New York: Fordham University Press, 2010. lx + 200 pp. Translator’s note, foreword, introduction, chronology, notes, index of names. $65.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN: 9780823229970 ; $28.00 U.S. (pb) ISBN: 9780823229987

Review David Uhrig, University of Leicester.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 187


Matei Candea
Corsican Fragments. Difference, Knowledge, and Fieldwork, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. viii + 202 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-253-35474-7; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-253-22193-3

Review Andrea L. Smith, Lafayette College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 188


Gérard Sabatier and Margarita Torrione, eds.
¿Louis XIV espagnol? Madrid et Versailles, images et modeles, Versailles and Paris, Centre de recherche du château de Versailles; Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme. Collection Aulica. 2009. 341 pp. Notes, illustrations, index. 43.00€ (cl). ISBN 978-2- 7351-1244-9

Review by Jeroen Duindam, Leiden University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 189


Joan Sherwood
Infection of the Innocents: Wet Nurses, Infants, and Syphilis in France, 1780–1900., (McGill-Queen’s/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society; no. 37.) Montreal: McGill- Queen’s University Press, 2010. xiii + 214 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9-780773-537415

Review by Sean M. Quinlan, University of Idaho.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 190


Philip Daileader and Philip Whalen, eds.
French Historians, 1900-2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France, Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. viii + 610 pp. $199.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4051-9867- 7

Review by Torbjörn Wandel, Truman State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 191


Lynn Hunt, Margaret C. Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt
The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard’s ‘Religious Ceremonies of the World, Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010. xi+383 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, and index. $32.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-674-04298-4

Review by Daniel Stolzenberg, University of California, Davis.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 192


Julie Hardwick
Family Business: Litigation and the Political Economies of Daily Life in Early Modern France., Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. ix + 257 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $135 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780199558070

Review by Clare Haru Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 193


Wiep van Bunge and Hans Bots, eds.
Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), Le Philosophe de Rotterdam: Philosophy, Religion, and Reception. Selected Papers of the Tercentenary Conference held at Rotterdam, 7-8 December 2006, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. Viii + 280 pp. Index. $144.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-16536-6

Review by J. B. Shank, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 194


Mark Traugott
The Insurgent Barricade., Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xviii + 436 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0520266323.

Review by Jill Harsin, Colgate University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 195


Olivier Zunz, ed.
Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and their Travels, Translated by Arthur Goldhammer (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2010), 784 p. $ 60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 9780813930626

Review by Annelien de Dijn, Fellow, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 196


Memoirs of Mademoiselle de Montpensier (La Grande Mademoiselle)
, Translated by P. J. Yarrow with the collaboration of William Brooks, MHRA New Translations, vol. I. London: MHRA, 2010. xxxiii + 246 pp. Pb. £9.99 / $15.99 / €11.99. Kindle Ebook £4.99/ $7.99. ISBN 978-1-907322-01-3

Review by Jonathan Spangler, Manchester Metropolitan University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 197

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Philipp Ziesche
Cosmopolitan Patriots: Americans in Paris in the Age of Revolution, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. xv + 239 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.50 US (cl). ISBN 978-0-8139-2891-3

Review by Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin- Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 198


Rachel Chrastil
Organizing for War: France 1870–1914, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. xiii + 226 pp. Map, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45 (hb and pdf). ISBN 978-0-8071-3679-9

Review by Elizabeth Greenhalgh, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (August 2011), No. 199

September Reviews

Katherine BergeronVoice Lessons: French Mélodie in the Belle Epoque, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2010. 424 pp. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 10: 0195337050

Review D. Kern Holoman, University of California, Davis.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2010), No. 200


Alexandre Gady, ed., Georges Fessy, et. al.
Jules Hardouin- Mansart: 1646-1708, Paris: Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2010, viii + 612 pp. 494 black and white illustrations and color plates, bibliography, index. 96,00 €. ISBN-10 2-7351-1187-3 / ISBN-13 978-2-7351-1187-9

Review Rochelle Ziskin, University of Missouri- Kansas City.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2010), No. 201


Yann Scioldo-Zürcher
Devenir métropolitain. Politique d’ intégration et parcours de rapatriés d’Algérie en métropole (1954-2005), Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2010. 462 pp. Maps, tables, figures, photographs, bibliography and list of sources. 34.40€ (pb). ISBN 10: 2713222303

Review Jim House, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2010), No. 202


Conrad E. Heidenreich and K. Janet Ritch, eds
Samuel de Champlain before 1604: Des Sauvages and other Documents Related to the Period, Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press for the Champlain Society, Toronto, 2010. xxxi + 490 pp. Maps, tables, figures, appendices, references, and index. $75.00 U.S. and CAN. (hb). ISBN 9780773537576

ReviewCéline Carayon, Utah Valley University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2010), No. 203


Malika Rahal
Ali Boumendjel (1919-1957). Une affaire française. Une histoire algérienne,Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2010. 248 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 27€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-251-90005-6

ReviewJennifer Johnson Onyedum, Lehman College/CUNY.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2010), No. 204


Julia S. Torre
For Their Own Good”: Civilian Evacuations in Germany and France, 1939-1945.,Oxford: Berghahn, 2010. 269 pp. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84545-725-9

Review by Simon Kitson, Institute for Historical Research.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2011), No. 205


Julia Ann Clancy-Smith
Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900.,Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xiv + 445 pp. Notes, figures, notes, bibliography and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-520-25923-2

Review by Gillian Weiss, Case Western Reserve University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2011), No. 206


John D. Lyons and Kathleen Wine, eds.
Chance, Literature and Culture in Early Modern France, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. x + 223 pp. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 075466435X

Review by Zahi Zalloua, Whitman College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2011), No. 207


Pierre Claude Reynard
Ambitions Tamed: Urban Expansion in Pre- revolutionary Lyon, Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009. xxii, 264 pp. $85.00 Cdn (cloth). ISBN 978-0-7735-3492 6

Review by Allan Potofsky, Université Paris- Diderot.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2011), No. 208


Olivier Ferret, Anne-Marie Mercier-Faivre and Chantal Thomas
Dictionnaire des Vies Privées (1722-1842), Preface by Robert Darnton. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2011 (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2011:2). Pp. xviii + 450. Notes, figures, index. $115.00 U.S. (paper). ISBN 978-07294-10090

Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2011), No. 209


Karen E. Carter
Creating Catholics: Catechism and Primary Education in Early Modern France., Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. xiii + 314 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $40.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0- 268-02304-1

Review by Eric Nelson, Missouri State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2011), No. 210


Gisèle Sapiro, ed.
Translatio: Le marché de la traduction en France à l’heure de la mondialisation, Paris: CNRS éditions, 2008. 427 pp. Tables, graphs, and bibliography. 35.00 ? (pb). ISBN 978-2-271-06729-6

Review Review by Martyn Lyons, University of New South Wales.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2011), No. 211


H. Hazel Hahn
Scenes of Parisian Modernity: Culture and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 289 pp. 36 black and white illustrations. $90 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-0-230-61583-0

Review Review by Karen L. Carter, Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2011), No. 212


Hugh Dauncey and Philippe Le Guern, eds.
Stereo: Comparative Perspectives on the Sociological Study of Popular Music in France and Britain, Surrey and Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2011. xvi + 281 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $114.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4094-0568-9

Review Review by Jonathyne Briggs, Indiana University Northwest.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2011), No. 213


Hubert Bonin
Les Tabous de Bordeaux, Éditions Le Festin: Bordeaux, 2010. 253 pp. 20? (pb). ISBN 978-2-36062-006-7

Review Review by Seth Armus, Saint Joseph’s College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2011), No. 214


Jean-Claude Daumas, en collaboration avec Alain Chatriot, Danièle Fraboulet, Patrick Fridenson et Hervé Joly
Dictionnaire historique des patrons français, Paris: Flammarion, 2010. 1614 pp. 65 ?. ISBN 978-2-08-122834-4

Review Review by Jean-Pierre Le Crom, Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2011), No. 215


Georges Hatton
Les enjeux financiers et économiques du Protectorat marocain (1936-1956). Politique publique et investisseurs privés, Paris : Publications de la Société française d’histoire d’outre-mer, 2009. 445 pp. Tables, illustrations, bibliography, and index. 30.00 ? (pb). ISBN 978-285-970-040-9

Review Review by Samir Saul, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (September 2011), No. 216

October Reviews

Harry LiebersohnThe Return of the Gift: European History of a Global Idea, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xi + 210 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-107-00218-0

Review by Kenneth Loiselle, Trinity University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 217

Gabriel Piterberg, Teofilo F. Ruiz, and Geoffrey Symcox, eds., Braudel Revisited: The Mediterranean World, 1600-1800, UCLA Center/Clark Series, 13. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. vii + 281 pp. Notes. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4426-4133-4.

Review by Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 218


Ethel Groffier
Un encyclopédiste réformateur: Jacques Peuchet (1758-1830), Québec City: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2009. 440 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. 39.95$CA (pb). ISBN 978-2-7637-8898-2

Review by Jeremy L. Caradonna, University of Alberta.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 219


Jill Carrick
Nouveau Réalisme, 1960s France, and the Neo-avant- garde. Topographies of Chance and Return, Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. xii + 184 pp. B&w illustrations, facsimilies, plan, bibliography and index. $104.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6141-2.

Review by Sarah Wilson, Courtauld Institute of Art
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 220


John C. O’Neal
Changing Minds: the Shifting Perception of Culture in Eighteenth-Century France, Newark and London, University of Delaware Press, 2002. xiii + 273 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50. (hb). ISBN: 0-87413- 788-8.

Review by Johnson Kent Wright, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 221


Patricia A. Tilburg
Colette’s Republic: Work, Gender, and Popular Culture in France, 1870-1914, New York: Berghan Books, 2009; 2010. xiv + 231 pp. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-84545-789-1

Review by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 222


Christophe Belaubre, Jordana Dym, and John Savage, eds.
Napoleon’s Atlantic. The Impact of Napoleonic Empire in the Atlantic World, Brill, London and Boston, 2010, 332 p. , 99€ or 147 US $147.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 9004181547

Review by Annie Jourdan, University of Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 223


Christine Adams
Poverty, Charity, and Motherhood: Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France, Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2010. Xi + 251 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03547-0

Review by Jennifer J. Popiel, Saint Louis University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 224


Sylvie Aprile
Le siècle des exilés: Bannis et proscrits de 1789 à la Commune, Paris: CNRS Editions, 2010. 336 pp. Table, bibliography, and index. 28€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-271-06910-8

Review by Mary Ashburn Miller, Reed College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 225


Elizabeth Vlossak
Marianne or Germania: Nationalizing Women in Alsace, 1870-1946, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xvi and 330 pp. Sources, bibliography, index. $125.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-019956-1117

Review by Christopher Fischer, Indiana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 226


Eliza Earle Ferguson
Gender and Justice: Violence, Intimacy, and Community in Fin-de-Siècle Paris, Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. 268 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 US (cl). ISBN 978-0-8018- 9428-2

Review by Elisa Camiscioli, Binghamton University (SUNY).
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 227


Emmanuel Fureix
La France des larmes: deuils politiques à l’âge romantique (1814-1840), Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2009. 502 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 30 € (pb.) ISBN 978-2-87673-497-5

Review Ronen Steinberg, Michigan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 228


Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings, Translated by Isabelle Bour and Judith P. Zinsser. Edited by Judith P. Zinsser. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-226-16807-4

Review Matthew L. Jones, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 229


Cynthia J. Brown
The Queen’s Library: Image Making at the Court of Anne of Brittany, 1477-1514,Philadelphia and Oxford: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. xi + 384 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8122-4282-9

Review Elizabeth L’Estrange, Université de Liège.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 230


Danielle Tartakowsky
Manifester à Paris, 1880-2010, Paris: Champ Vallon, 2010. 284pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography. 25€ (pb). ISBN 978-2- 87673-535-4

Review Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 231


Diane E. Booton,
Manuscripts, Market and the Transition to Print in Late Medieval Brittany., Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2010. xviii + 469. Illustrations. £75.00. ISBN 0-75-466623-9

Review Daniel Hobbins, Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 232


Gregory B. Sadler, ed. and tr.
Reason Fulfilled by Revelation: The 1930s Christian Philosophy Debates in France, Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011. x + 317 pp. Bibliography and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0813217-215 & ISBN-10: 0-81321-721-0

Review Stephen Schloesser, Loyola University Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 233


John Culbert
Paralyses: Literature, Travel, and Ethnography in French Modernity, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. x + 444 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S., £45 (cl). ISBN 0-8032-2991-4

Review Daniel J. Sherman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 234


Anne-Sophie Bruno
Les chemins de la mobilité: Migrants de Tunisie et marché du travail parisien depuis 1956,Paris: Editions de l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences, 2010. 287 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. 23€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-7132-2263-4; ISSN 1962-7505

Review Review by Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 235


Chris Tinker
Mixed Messages: Youth Magazine Discourse and Sociocultural Shifts in Salut les copains (1962-1976), Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang 2010. x + 193 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $53.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-03911-905- 9

Review Review by Richard Ivan Jobs, Pacific University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 236


Elliott Antokoletz and Marianne Wheeldon, eds.
,Rethinking Debussy, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xvii + 289 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-975556-9; $45.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-075564-7

Review Review by Pamela A. Genova, University of Oklahoma.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 237


Jean Philippe Mathy
Melancholy Politics: Loss, Mourning, and Memory in Late Modern France, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. 248 pp. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0271037830

Review Review by Matt Matsuda, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 238


Josette Rivallain and Hélène d’Almeida-Topor, eds
,Éboué, soixante ans après., Review by Paris: Publications de la SFHOM, 2008. 432 pp. 40€ (cl). ISBN 2-85970-039-3.

Review Review by Tony Chafer, University of Portsmouth, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 239


Léonard Laborie
L’Europe mise en réseaux: La France et la coopération internationale dans les postes et les télécommunications (années 1850-années 1950), Brussels: Peter Lang, 2010. 494 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €49.80 (pb). ISBN 978-90-5201-679-5

Review Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (October 2011), No. 240

November Reviews

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Christine Blondel, eds.Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment., Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2008. 164 pp., $99.95 (us), ISBN 978-0754663706

Review Review by Noah Shusterman, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (November 2011), No. 24x


Xu Guoqi
Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2011. 336 pp. Photos, appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-674-04999-4

Review Review by Gloria S. Tseng, Hope College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (November 2011), No. 242


Michel Winock
Madame de Staël, Paris: Fayard, 2010. 602 pp. €24.80 (cl). ISBN-10: 2213654514

Steven VincentBenjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism., New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 288 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0230110096

Emmanuelle Paulet-GrandguillotLibéralisme et démocratie: de Sismondi à Constant, à partir du Contrat social (1801-1806), Geneva: Slatkine, 2010. €85.00 (cl). ISBN-10: 2051021678

Review Review by Helena Rosenblatt, CUNY- Graduate Center.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (November 2011), No. 243


Mark Antliff
Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909-1939., Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2007. xi + 352 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $23.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8223-4034-8. $84.95 U.S. (cl). 978 0-8223-4015-7

Review Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (November 2011), No. 244


Brian Sandberg
Warrior Pursuits: Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France., Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xxx + 393 pp. Table, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 10: 0-8018-9729-7

Review Review by Jay M. Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (November 2011), No. 245

Response by Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (November 2011), No. 246


Paul Ryan
Paul Valéry et le dessin, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2007. 352 pp. Frontispiece, text, notes, index of names, bibliography, illustrations comprising 55 plates. $91.95 U.S. (pb). ISSN 1437-3130, ISBN 978-3-631-56414-1.

Review Review by Brian Stimpson, Emeritus Professor, Newcastle University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (November 2011), No. 247


Michael Dorsch
French Sculpture following the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-80. Realist Allegories and the Commemoration of Defeat, Farnham and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2010. 206 pp. Illustrations. $109.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4094-0352-4

Review Review by Neil McWilliam, Duke University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (November 2011), No. 248

Response by Michael Dorsch, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (November 2011), No. 249


Annie Antoine and Julian Mischi, eds.
Sociabilité et politique en milieu rural,Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008. 472 pp. 23€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535-0540-7

Review Review by Patricia R. Turner, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (November 2011), No. 250


Aki Taguchi
Nerval. Recherche de l’autre et conquête de soi. Contribution au suivi d’une genèse du “Voyage en Orient,Bern: Peter Lang, 2010. 326 pp. Footnotes, bibliography, and appendices. $65.00 U.S. (pb, eBook); ISBN 978-3-0343- 0460-3; 978-3-0351-0116-4

Review Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (November 2011), No. 251


Hubert Bonin, Christophe Bouneau, and Hervé Joly, eds.
Les entreprises et l’outre-mer français pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale,Pessac: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine, 2010. 353 pp. Tables, figures, notes, and index. 26€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-85892-366-3

Review Review by Michael Miller, University of Miami.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (November 2011), No. 252


Laura Reeck
Writerly Identities in Beur Fiction and Beyond,Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2011. xv + 191 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7391-4361-2

Review Review by Olivia C. Harrison, University of Southern California.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (November 2011), No. 253


Stéphane Pannekoucke
Des princes en Bourgogne. Les Condé gouverneurs au XVIIIe siècle,Paris: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2010. 338 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. €28.00 (cl). ISBN 978-2-7355-0725-2.

Review Review by Darryl Dee, Wilfrid Laurier University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (November 2011), No. 254


Vincent d’Indy
Cours de composition musicale,Volume 1. Translated from French, edited, and with an introduction by Gail Hilson Woldu. Comparative analysis by Merle Montgomery. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. xviii + 379 pp. Musical examples, figures, notes, and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978 -08061-4134-3

Review Review by Andrew Deruchie, University of Otago, New Zealand.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (November 2011), No. 255

December Reviews

Belinda Thomson, ed.Gauguin: Maker of Myth, Catalog of an exhibition held at Tate Modern, London, from Sept. 30, 2010 to Jan. 16, 2011, and at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., from Feb. 27 to Jun. 5, 2011. London: Tate Publishing, 2010. 255 pp. Figures, plates, chronology, notes, bibliography, catalog of exhibited works, lenders, credits, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0691148861

Review by Marco Deyasi, University of Idaho.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (December 2011), No. 256


Marian Hobson
Diderot and Rousseau: Networks of Enlightenment, edited by Kate E. Tunstall and Caroline Warman, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, SVEC 2011:04. 384 pp., 7 b/w illustrations, footnotes, bibliography and index. £65/€80/$100 (cl). ISBN 9-7807-29410-0113

Review by Elena Russo, Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (December 2011), No. 257


Elizabeth Morrison and Anne D. Hedeman, eds.
,Imagining the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500, Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010. xviii + 366 pp. Map, genealogical tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-60606-028-5; $49.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-60606-029-2

Review by Mark Cruse, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (December 2011), No. 258


Christie McDonald and Susan Rubin Suleiman, eds.
,French Global: A New Approach to Literary History, New York and Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2010. xxiv + 546 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-231-14740-8; $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-231-14741-5

Review by Arcana Albright, Albright College.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (December 2011), No. 259


Valerie L. Garver
Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, thaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009. xix + 310 pages. Figures, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4771-6

Review by Jennifer R. Davis, The Catholic University of America.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (December 2011), No. 260


Katherine Crawford
The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvi + 295 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521-76989-1; $33.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-74950-3

Review by Gary Ferguson, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (December 2011), No. 261

Response by Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University.H-France Review Vol. 11 (December 2011), No. 262


Natasha Gill
Educational Philosophy in the French Enlightenment. From Nature to Second Nature, Surrey, UK and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. vi + 306 pp. Appendices, Works Cited, and Index. $ 124.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6289-1

Review by Samia I. Spencer, Auburn University.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (December 2011), No. 263


Sofie Lachapelle
Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychics in France, 1853-1931, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 198 pp. Figures, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4214-0013-6

Review by David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (December 2011), No. 264


Paula Ruth Gilbert and Miléna Santoro, eds.
Transatlantic Passages: Literary and Cultural Relations between Quebec and Francophone Europe, Montreal & Kingston (Canada) and Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010. xii + 347 pp. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7735-3787-3; $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7735-3790-3

Review by Anthony Purdy, The University of Western Ontario.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (December 2011), No. 265


Kate Marsh and Nicola Frith, eds.
France’s Lost Empires: Fragmentation, Nostalgia, and la fracture coloniale, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011.  viii + 175pp.  Notes and bibliography.  $60.00 U.S. (cl).  ISBN 978-0-7391-4883-9

Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 11 (December 2011), No. 266


Sara B. Pritchard
Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 2011, xvii + 371 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-674-04965-9

Review by Thomas Le Roux, Maison Française d’Oxford / Centre de Recherches Historiques (CNRS/EHESS).
H-France Review Vol. 11 (December 2011), No. 267