January Reviews
Ellen R. Welsh, A Taste for the Foreign: Worldly Knowledge and Literary Pleasure in Early Modern French Fiction. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011. xxviii + 224 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-61149-062-6.
Review by Sara E. Melzer, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 1
Sean Takats, The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2011. xi + 203pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13: 978-1-4214-0283-3 (hb; alk. pb). ISBN-10:1-4214-0283-1 (hb; alk. pb).
Review by Kathryn Norberg, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 2
Nicole Garnier-Pelle, Anne Foray-Carlier, Marie-Christine Anselm, The Monkeys of Christophe Huet, translated by Sharon Grevet, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2011. 176 pp. 360 color illustrations, Notes, Bibliography $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1 60606-065-0.
Review by Susan Taylor-Leduc, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 3
Natacha Coquery, Tenir boutique à Paris au xviiie siècle: Luxe et demi-luxe. Paris: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (CTHS HISTOIRE), 2011. 406 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 28.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-7355-0733-7.
Review by Daryl M. Hafter, Eastern Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 4
Daniel Baugh, The Global Seven Years War,1754-1763. London and New York: Pearson Press, 2011. xi + 660 pp. Maps, notes, and index. £24.99 U.K. (pb). ISBN 978-0-582-09239-6.
Review by Julia Osman, Mississippi State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 5
Charlotte A. Stanford, Commemorating the Dead in Late Medieval Strasbourg: the Cathedral’s Book of Donors and its Uses (1320-1521). Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2011. xx + 327 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $124.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1409401-360.
Review by Emilia Jamroziak, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 6
Christopher Braider, The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2012. xii + 339 pages. Plates, figures, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781442643482.
Review by April G. Shelford, American University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 7
Le fil de l’esprit. Augustin Girard, un parcours entre recherche et action.Paris, Collection du Comité d’histoire du ministère de la Culture, 2011. 334 pp. Bibliography, index, and illustrations. 18€. (pb). ISBN: 978-2-11-128143-1.
Review by Jean-Louis Fabiani, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris) and Central European University (Budapest).
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 8
Elizabeth Greenhalgh, Foch in Command. The Forging of a First World War General. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xviii + 550 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $110.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521-1956-4.
Review by Robert J. Young, University of Winnipeg.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 9
Rosemary O’Neill, Art and Visual Culture on the French Riviera, 1956-1971: the Ecole de Nice. Farnham and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. xii + 258 pp. Figures, notes, select bibliography, and index. $119.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6471-0.
Review by Tania Woloshyn, McGill University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 10
Sarah Betzer, Ingres and the Studio: Women, Painting, History. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. 328 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $84.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 978-0-271-04875-8.
Review by Barbara Ann Day-Hickman, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 11
Anne Verjus and Denise Davidson, Le roman conjugal: Chroniques de la vie familiale à l’époque de la Révolution et l’Empire. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2011. 342 pp. Figures, list of characters, family trees, notes, and bibliography. 26 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-87673-546-0.
Review by Christine Haynes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 12
Clifford Conner, Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the People. London: Pluto Press, 2012. xiii + 178. Notes and index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7453-3194-2; $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7453-3193-5
Review by Stephen Miller, University of Alabama at Birmingham
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 13
Ffion Mair Jones, Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution 1793-1815. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2012. xxii + 486 pp. Preface, introduction, figures, appendix, musical scores, bibliography, and index. £24.99 U.K. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7083-2461-5; (eb). 978-0-7083-2462-2.
Review by Donald Braid, Butler University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 14
Florence Bourillon et Annie Fourcaut, eds, Agrandir Paris, 1860-1970 Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, Comité d’histoire de la Ville de Paris, 2012. 428 pp. 23.75€. (pb). ISBN: 978-2-85944-695-6
Review by Judith Stone, Western Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 15
Jennifer Tsien, The Bad Taste of Others: Judging Literary Value in Eighteenth-Century France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 268 pp. Notes, works cited, index, acknowledgments. $47.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4359-8.
Review by William Ray, Reed College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 16
Paul du Quenoy, Wagner and the French Muse: Music, Society, and Nation in Modern France. Bethesda, Palo Alto, London: Academica Press, 2011. xi + 219 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-930901-80-1.
Review by Margaret Miner, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 17
Philippe R. Girard, The Slaves Who Defeated Napoleon: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian War of Independence, 1801-1804. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011. ix + 444 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliographic essay, glossary, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8173-1732-4; $45.00 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-0-8173-8540-8.
Review by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, California State University, San Marcos
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 18
Roland Barthes, Travels in China. Edited and annotated by Anne Herschberg Pierrot; translated by Andrew Brown. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2012. xi + 226 pp. Notes and index. $19.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0745650807.
Review by Haun Saussy, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 19
Sylvie Durmelat and Vinay Swamy, eds., Screening Integration: Recasting Maghrebi Immigration in Contemporary France. Lincoln & London: Nebraska University Press, 2011. 282 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0803228252.
Review by Florence Martin, Goucher College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (January 2013), No. 20
February Reviews
Daniel J. Sherman, French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xii + 248 pp. £29.00. (hb). ISBN 978-0-22675-269-3.
Review by Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 21
Rousseau Online: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Collection complète des oeuvres, http://www.rousseauonline.ch/.
Review by Angela Hunter, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 22
Arnault Skornicki, L’économiste, la cour et la patrie. L’ économie politique dans la France des Lumières. Paris: CNRS editions, 2011. 446 pp. Bibliographie, index nominum, table des matières. 28 €. ISBN: 978-2-271-07238-2.
Compte-rendu par Loïc Charles, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) et Institut National d’Études Démographiques (INED).
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 23
Didier Michel, Blondel de Nouainville: L’itinéraire d’un noble normand 1753-1793). Cherbourg-Octeville: Éditions Isoète, 2012. 214 pp. Maps, tables, illustrations, appendices, indices, bibliography, glossary. 23 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-35776-042-4.
Review by Edward J. Woell, Western Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 24
Eric Saugera, Reborn in America: French Exiles and Refugees in the United States and the Vine and Olive Adventure. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2011. xii + 572 pp. Maps, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $30.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8173-1723-2.
Review by R. Darrell Meadows, Kentucky Historical Society.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 25
Frederick C. Schneid, Napoleonic Wars. Washington, D. C.: Potomac Books, 2012. 121 pp. Bibliography. $14.95 U. S. (pb). ISBN 978 -1-59797-209-3.
Review by Ralph Ashby, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 26
Guillaume Ansart, ed. and trans, Condorcet: Writings on the United States. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. 147 pp. $62.95. ISBN 978-0-271-05381-3.
Review by Thomas C. Sosnowski, Kent State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 27
Richard Neupert, French Animation History. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. xviii + 192 pp. Figures, plates, references, further reading, and index. $115.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4443-3836-2; $94.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-1-4443-9257-9.
Review Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 28
Thomas Hinton,The Conte du Graal Cycle: Chrétien de Troyes’s Perceval, the Continuations, and French Arthurian Romance. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2012. x + 277 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and index of manuscripts. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-8434-285-9.
Review by Keith Busby, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 29
Pierre Bras and Michel Kail, eds., Simone de Beauvoir et la psychanalyse. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2011. 348 pp. 35.50€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-296-56713-9.
Review by Linda L. Kick, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (February 2013), No. 30
March Reviews
Zachary Sayre Schiffman, The Birth of The Past. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. With a foreword by Anthony Grafton. xvi + 316 pp. Notes. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN978-1-4214-0278-9.
Review by Carol Symes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (March 2013), No. 31
Allan Mitchell, The Devil’s Captain: Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2011. 120 pp. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-85745-114-9.
Review by Pascal Ifri, Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (March 2013), No. 32
Jeremy Jennings, Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. viii + 548 pp. Chronology and index. $185.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-198-20313-1.
Review Michael C. Behrent, Appalachian State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (March 2013), No. 33
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Rethinking the Political: The Sacred, Aesthetic Politics, and the Collège de Sociologie. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011. xv + 294 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7735-3901-3.
Review by Sandrine Sanos, Texas A & M University- Corpus Christi.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (March 2013), No. 34
Sudhir Hazareesingh, In the Shadow of the General. Modern France and the Myth of de Gaulle. New York: Oxford University Pres, 2012. xiv + 238 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (hb); £18.99 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19- 530888-4.
Review by Andrew Knapp, University of Reading, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (March 2013), No. 35
Antonin Cohen, De Vichy à la Communauté européenne. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2012. 427 pp. 25.00€. (cl). ISBN 978-2-13-059472-7.
Review by Irwin Wall, University of California, Riverside and New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (March 2013), No. 36
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April Reviews
Philippe Büttgen and Christophe Duhamelle, eds., Religion ou confession: Un bilan franco-allemand sur l’époque moderne (XVIe – XVIIIe siècles). Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’hommes, 2010, 609 pp. 35.00€. (pb). ISBN 2735112691.
Review by Charles Lipp, University of West Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013), No. 37
Jon Balserak, Establishing the Remnant Church in France: Calvin’s Lectures on the Minor Prophets, 1556-1559. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. 224 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. (hb). $123.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-90-04-19144-0.
Review by Jeannine Olson, Rhode Island College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013) No. 38
Stein Tønnesson, Vietnam 1946: How the War Began. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. xxiv + 361pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 9780520256026; $27.95. U.S. (pb). ISBN: 9780520269934; $27.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN: 9780520944602.
Review by David W. Del Testa, Bucknell University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013), No. 39
Margaret Simons and Marybeth Timmermann, eds., Simone de Beauvoir: “The Useless Mouths” and Other Literary Writings. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xi + 408 pp. Notes on contributors and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-252-03634-7.
Review by Ashley King Scheu, Eckerd College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013) No. 40)
Frédéric Bozo, Marie-Pierre Rey, N. Piers Ludlow and Bernd Rother, eds., Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012. vii + 358 pp. Introduction, bibliography, notes on contributors, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-85745-288-7.
Review by Michael H. Creswell, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013) No. 41
Matthew G. Stanard, Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. xiv + 387 pp. Images, chart, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8032-3777-3.
Review by Sarah Van Beurden, Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013), No. 42
Paula J. Birnbaum, Women Artists in Interwar France: Framing Femininities.Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 358 pp. Illustrations, and appendix. £70.00. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6978-4.
Review Karen E. Brown, Trinity College, Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013), No. 43
Eric Jabbari, Pierre Laroque and the Welfare State in Postwar France. Oxford University Press, 2012. vi + 188 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. £57.00. (hb). ISBN 0199289638.
Compte-rendu par Bruno Valat, Centre Universitaire J.-F. Champollion, Université de Toulouse.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013), No. 44
Marion Fontaine, Le Racing Club de Lens et les “Gueules Noires.” Paris: Les Indes savantes, 2010. 291 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and photographs. €29.00. (pb). ISBN 978-2-84654-248-7.
Review Philip Dine, National University of Ireland, Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (April 2013), No. 45
May Reviews
William A. Peniston and Nancy Erber, Queer Lives: Men’s Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France. Lincoln, Neb. and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 292 pp. $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-6036- 8.
Review by Scott E. Gunther, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013), No. 46
Tyler Stovall, Paris and the Spirit of 1919: Consumer Struggles, Transnationalism, and Revolution. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xii + 342 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-107-01810-3.
Review by Kathryn E. Amdur, Emory University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 47
Shannon L. Fogg, The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France: Foreigners, Undesirables, and Strangers. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxii + 226 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-052-1899-444.
Allan Mitchell, Nazi Paris: the History of an Occupation, 1940-1944. New York: Berghahn, 2008. xiv + 230 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl).ISBN 978-1-84545-451-7.
Chris Pearson, Scarred Landscapes: War and Nature in Vichy France. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xii + 253 pp. Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-230-22012-6.
Review by Andrew Knapp, University of Reading, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013), No. 48
Miriam Ticktin, Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2011. xvi + 295 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 9780520269040; $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 9780520269057.
Review by Richard Keller, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 49
Martin S. Staum, Nature and Nurture in the French Social Sciences, 1859-1914 and Beyond. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011. xvi + 266 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 979-0-77-353892-4.
Review by Allyson J. Delnore, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 50
Naomi Davidson, Only Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012. xvii + 299 pp. Bibliography and index. $25.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-7831-4.
Review by Bronwyn Winter, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 51
Julie Fette, Exclusions: Practicing Prejudice in French Law and Medicine, 1920-1945. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2012. xi + 314 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-5021-1
Review by Linda L. Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 52
Liana Vardi, The Physiocrats and the World of the Enlightenment. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 328 pp. Notes, figures, bibliography and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN-13: 978-1107021198.
Compte-rendu par Arnault Skornicki, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013), No. 53
Martin Hurcombe, France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural Representations of the War Next Door. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2011. 245 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4094-2082-8.
Review by Jessica Wardhaugh, University of Warwick, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No.54
John Tresch, The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. xvii + 449 pp. Map, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-226-81220-5.
Review by Sofie Lachapelle, University of Guelph.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013), No. 55
Louis Clerc, La Finlande et l’Europe du Nord dans la diplomatie française : Relations bilatérales et intérêt national dans les considérations finlandaises et nordiques des diplomates et militaires français, 1917-1940. Bruxelles: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2011. 381 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-90-5201-750-1.
Review by Michael Jabara Carley, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 56
Ludovic Tournès, Sciences de l’homme et politique, les fondations philanthropiques américaines en France au XXe siècle. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2011. 412 pp. 59.00€. (cl). ISBN 978-2-8124-0254-8.
Compte-rendu par Gérard Bossuat, Université de Cergy-Pontoise.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 57
Marc Humbert and Yoschimichi Sato, eds., Social Exclusion: Perspectives from France and Japan Sato: Tohoku University, 2012. xiv + 162 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-920901-69-1.
Review by Marion Demossier, University of Southampton.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 58
Owen White and J.P. Daughton, eds., In God’s Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 324 pp. Contributors, notes, photos, select bibliography, and index. $74.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-539644-7.
Review by Roger B. Beck, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 59
Patricia Simons, The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe: A Cultural History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xvi + 327 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and figures. $99.00. U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-1107004917.
Review by Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 60
David Hopkin, Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiv + 296 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521- 51936.
Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No.61
Nicolas Delalande, Les Batailles de l’Impôt: Consentement et résistances de 1789 à nos jours. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2011. 445 pp. 24.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-02-096448-7.
Review by Martin Horn, McMaster University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013), No. 62
Raf Geenens and Helena Rosenblatt, eds., French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xi + 318 pp. Notes, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-107-01743-6.
Review by R. S. Alexander, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 63
Robert Fox, The Savant and the State: Science and Cultural Politics in Nineteenth-Century France. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. viii + 394 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliographical note, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4214-0522-3.
Review by Peter Jones, University of Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 64
Robert Ziegler, Satanism, Magic, and Mysticism in Fin-de- siècle France. Basingstoke (UK) and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. vi + 229 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-230-29038- 3.
Review by David Harvey, New College of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 65
Sean L. Field, The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor: The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart. Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 2012. x + 407 pp. $45.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 10: 0-268-02892- 3.
Review by Joanne Maguire Robinson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 66
Sharon Kinoshita and Peggy McCracken, eds., Marie de France: A Critical Companion. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2012. x + 230 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781843843016.
Review by Mark Cruse, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 67
Siân Reynolds, Marriage and Revolution: Monsieur and Madame Roland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xv + 326 pp. $125.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-956042-4.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 68
Condorcet, Political Writings. Steven Lukes and Nadia Urbinati, eds. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xlv + 209 pp. Editors’ introduction, notes, bibliography, notes for further reading and index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-107-02101-3. $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-107-60539- 8.
Review by Robert H. Blackman, Hampden-Sydney College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013) No. 69
Aurelian Craiutu, A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012. xix + 338 pp. Index. $49.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0691-14676-8.
Review by William Olejniczak, College of Charleston.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (May 2013), No. 70
June Reviews
Ari Blatt, Pictures into Words: Images in Contemporary French Fiction. Lincoln and London: Nebraska University Press, 2012. x + 249 pp. Images, notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0- 8032-3805-3.
Review by William Cloonan, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No.71
Charlotte Baker, Enduring Negativity: Representations of Albinism in the Novels of Didier Destremau, Patrick Grainville and Williams Sassine. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2011. viii + 218 pp. Bibliography and index. $51.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-0179-4; $51.95 U.S. (eb). ISBN 978-3-0353-0110-6.
Review by David Gascoigne, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013), No. 72
Christie Davies, Jokes and Targets. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2011. xi + 278 pp. References and index. $85.66 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-253-35619-2; $28.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0 -253-22302-9.
Review by Alleen Pace Nilsen, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 73
Debbie Lackerstein, National Regeneration in Vichy France: Ideas and Policies, 1930-1944. Farnham, U.K. and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2012. 267 pp. $124.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546- 6721-6.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of Alberta.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 74
Edward Baron Turk, French Theatre Today: The View from New York, Paris, and Avignon. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011. xxix + 367 pp. Figures, notes, select annotated bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-58729-992-6.
Review by Les Essif, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 75
Miranda Frances Spieler, Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. 296 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780674057548.
Review by Naomi J. Andrews, Santa Clara University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 76
Janet E. Snyder, Early Gothic Column-figure Sculpture in France: Appearance, Materials and Significance. Farnham, United Kingdom and Burlington, Vt: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. xx + 266pp. 203 b&w illus., 20 color plates, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $119.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4094-0065-3.
Review by Linda Seidel, University of Chicago, emerita.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 77
Jean-Luc Chappey, Bernard Gainot, Guillaume Mazeau, Frédéric Régent and Pierre Serna, Pour Quoi Faire la Révolution. Marseille: Agone, 2012. 200 pp. 15.00€. (pb). ISBN-10:2748901614.
Review by Micah Alpaugh, University of Central Missouri.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 78
Barbara Will, Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. xviii + 274 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0231-152624; $26.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 978-0-231- 15263-1.
Review by Karen Leick, Wilbur Wright College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013), No. 79
Nicholas de Villiers, Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. xii +218 pp. Notes and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8166 -7570-8; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8166-7571-5.
Review by David A. Powell, Hofstra University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 80
Rachel Stone, Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xx + 399 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography and index. $99 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-107-00674- 4.
Review by Valerie L. Garver, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 81
Sara McDougall, Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late Medieval Champagne. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 216 pp. Notes, appendix and bibliography. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4398- 7.
Review by Anne E. Lester, University of Colorado, Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 82
Sheila Crane, Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. xi + 352 pp. Maps, figures, plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $82.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978- 0-8166-5361-4; $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8166-5362-1.
Review by Mark Crinson, University of Manchester, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 83
Bernard Barbiche and Christian Sorrel, eds., La Jeunesse Étudiante Chrétienne, 1929-2009: Actes de la Journée d’Étude Organisée par le Centre National des Archives de l’Église de France. Paris, 7 décembre 2009. Lyon: Equipes Religions, Sociétés et Acculturation (RESEA) du Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LAHRA, UMR 5190), 2011. 283 pp. Notes, table of abbreviations, and bibliography. 20.00€ (pb.) ISBN 9782953792812.
Review by Gearóid Barry, National University of Ireland, Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No.84
Geffrei Gaimar, Estoire des Engleis/History of the English. edited and translated by Ian Short. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. liii + 496 pp. £150. ISBN 978-0-19-956942-7.
Review by Jean Blacker, Kenyon College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (June 2013) No. 85
July Reviews
Laurent Brassart, Jean-Pierre Jessenne, and Nadine Vivier, eds., Clochemerle ou République villageoise? La conduite municipale des affaires villageoises en Europe du XVIIIe au XXe siècle. Villeneuve d’Asq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2012. 356 pp. 27.00€. (cl). ISBN 978-2-7574-0346- 4.
Review by Stéphane Gerson, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013), No. 86
Léonard Dauphant, Le Royaume des quatre rivières. L’espace politique français (1380-1515). Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2012. 431 pp. Preface by Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, 61 maps, 17 figures, 7 tables, 4 annexes (including bibliography), 2 indexes. $XX.00. U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-2-87673-594- 1.
Review by Daisy Delogu, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 87
Mark Darlow, Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opéra, 1789-1794. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi + 421 pp. Tables, illustrations, graphs, musical examples, bibliography and index. $ 65.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-977372-5.
Review by Wayne Wentzel, Butler University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 88
Matthew Vester, Renaissance Dynasticism and Apanage Politics: Jacques de Savoie-Nemours, 1531-1585. Early Modern Studies 9. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2012. xiii + 290 pp. Maps, genealogies, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-61248-071-8.
Review by Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 89
Olivia Carpi, Les guerres de religion (1559-1598). Un conflit franco-français. Paris: Ellipses, 2012. 719 pp. Maps, tables, glossary, notes, bibliography and index. 19 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-7298-73370.
Review by Hugues Daussy, Université du Maine (France).
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 90
Paul Friedland, Seeing Justice Done: the Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. x + 334 pp. Figures, notes, and index, 334 pp. $65 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-959269-2.
Review by Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University, State University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No.91
David P. Jordan, Napoleon and the Revolution. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xiii + 327 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $90.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-230-36281-9.
Review by R. S. Alexander, University of Victoria, British Columbia.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No.92
Mary McAlpin, Female Sexuality and Cultural Degradation in Enlightenment France: Medicine and Literature. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2012. xii + 195. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). 978-1-4094-2241-9.
Review by Pamela Cheek, University of New Mexico.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No.93
Nicholas L. Paul, To Follow in Their Footsteps: The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2012. iv + 350 pp. Figures, maps, charts, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S (cl). ISBN-10 )-8014-5097-7.
Review by Natasha R. Hodgson, Nottingham Trent University UK.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No.94
Virginia Reinburg, French Books of Hours: Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400-1600. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xiv +297 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-107-00721-5.
Review by Moshe Sluhovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013), No. 95
Anne E. Lester, Creating Cistercian Nuns. The Women’s Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2011. xxiv-261 pp. Map, appendix, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-8014-4989-5.
Review by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013), No. 96
Janet Burton and Julie Kerr, The Cistercians in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press, 2011. viii + 244 pp. Map, glossary, bibliography, index of Cistercian houses, general index. £25, $45.00 US (hb). ISBN 978-1-84383-667-4.
Review by Brian Patrick McGuire, Roskilde University, Denmark.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 97
Matthew Gerber, Bastards: Politics, Family, and Law in Early Modern France. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 288 pp. $74.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 019975537X.
Review by Janine Lanza, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 98
Olivier Poncet, La France et le pouvoir pontifical (1595-1661): L’esprit des institutions. Rome: École française de Rome, 2011. Figures, tables, pièces justificatives, appendices, index. xiv + 966 pp. €110.00 (cl.). ISBN 978-2-7283-0910-8.
Review by Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 99
Pierre Birnbaum, A Tale of Ritual Murder in the Age of Louis XIV: The Trial of Raphaël Lévy, 1669. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2012. 192 pp. Notes, illustrations. $60.00 U.S. (cloth). ISBN: 978-0804-7740-48
Review by Leslie Tuttle, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No.100
Jean-Pascal Gay, Jesuit Civil Wars: Theology, Politics and Government under Tirso González (1687-1705). Catholic Christendom, 1300-1800. Farnham and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2012. xii + 323 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $134.95 (hb). ISBN 978-1-4094-3852-6.
Review by Thomas Worcester, S.J., College of the Holy Cross.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No.101
Rebecca Comay, Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2011. xi + 202 pp. Notes, and index. $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN-10: 0-8047-6127-2.
Review by David P. Jordan, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No.102
Julia V. Douthwaite, The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2012. xiii +317 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13: 978-0-22616058-0.
Review by Nanette Le Coat, Trinity University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No.103
Sanja Perovic, The Calendar in Revolutionary France: Perceptions of Time in Literature, Culture, Politics. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2012. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-107-02595-0.
Review by Noah Shusterman, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 104
Gilles Feyel, Dictionnaire de la presse française pendant la Révolution 1789-1799. La Presse départementale T. II. Ferney-Voltaire: Centre International d’Étude du XVIIIe Siècle, 2012. xi + 388 pp. €180.00 (cl). ISBN 978-2-84559-071-7.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 105
Quentin Deluermoz, Le crépuscule des révolutions 1848-1871. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2012. 409 pp. 25.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-02-100596-7.
Review by Pamela Pilbeam, Royal Holloway, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 106
Quentin Deluermoz, Policiers dans la ville. La construction d’un ordre public à Paris, 1854-1914. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2012. 408 pp. 38.00€. (pb). ISBN-978-2-85944-7.
Review by Stephen W. Sawyer, The American University of Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 107
Aurélien Lignereux, Servir Napoléon: Policiers et gendarmes dans les départements annexés (1796-1814). Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2012. 398 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. 27€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-87673-624-5.
Review by David P. Jordan, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 108
Louis-George Tin, The Invention of Heterosexual Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2012. Xi + 197. $21.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-262-01770-1.
Review by Allen J. Frantzen, Loyola University Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 109
Éliane Viennot and Nicole Pellegrin, eds., Revisiter la “querelle des femmes.” Discours sur l’égalité/inégalité des sexes, de 1750 aux lendemains de la Révolution. Saint-Étienne: Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2012. 24 € (pb). 206 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index and tables. ISBN 978-2-86272-603-8.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 110
Eleanor Kaufman, Deleuze, The Dark Precursor: Dialectics, Being, Structure. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. 264 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 142140589X.
Review by Hanjo Berressem, University of Cologne.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 111
Simone de Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir: Two Interviews. 90 min. DVD. (Icarus Films, 2012). $298.00 U.S.
Review by Ursula Tidd, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 112
Lucy O’Meara, Roland Barthes at the Collège de France. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. x + 224 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84631-843-6.
Review byArmine Kotin Mortimer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 113
Alistair Rolls and Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan, eds., Masking Strategies: Unwrapping the French Paratext. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2011. viii + 194 pp. $58.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-746-8.
Review by Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No.114
Sandrine Sanos, The Aesthetics of Hate: Far-Right Intellectuals, Antisemitism, and Gender in 1930s France. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2013. xi + 369 pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8047-7457-4.
Review by Mary Ann Frese Witt, North Carolina State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No.115
Stéphane Van Damme, Métropoles de papier. Naissance de l’archéologie urbaine à Paris et à Londres (XVIIe-XXe siècle). Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012. 310 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. 35.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-251- 44446-8.
Review by Victoria E. Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No.116
Carolina Armenteros, The French Idea of History. Joseph de Maistre and his heirs, 1794-1854. Ithaca, N.Y. and London. Cornell University Press, 2011. xiii + 361 pp. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4943-7.
Review by Jack Hayward, University of Hull.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No.117
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Colin Jones, Juliet Carey, and Emily Richardson, eds., The Saint-Aubin Livre de caricatures:Drawing Satire in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2012. 490 pp. Illustrations, notes, and bibliography. $117.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0729410447.
Review by Michael Marrinan, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 118
Daniel Hucker, Public Opinion and the End of Appeasement in Britain and France. Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2011. vii + 295 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $101.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 9781409406259.
Review by Andrew Webster, Murdoch University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 119
Elizabeth Emery, Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881-1914): Privacy, Publicity, and Personality. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate Press, 2012. xii + 231 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $104.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4094-0877-2.
Review by Masha Belenky, The George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 120
Carl Goldstein, Print Culture in Early Modern France: Abraham Bosse and the Purposes of Print. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xvi + 221 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-107-01214-1.
Review by Luc Racaut, Newcastle University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 121
Melvin Zimmerman, Baudelaire& Co.: Intertexts: Pascal, Franklin, Rousseau, Laclos, Stendhal, Poe, Marx, and Others. Toronto: Editions du GREF, 2009. xii + 160 pp. Illustrations, foreword, and index. $27.56 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-897018-32-3.
Review by Beryl Schlossman, University of California, Irvine.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 122
Olivier Dard, ed., Le corporatisme dans l’aire francophone au XXème siècle. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. viii + 249 pp. Notes, abstracts, and index. 52.80€. (pb). ISBN 978-3-0343-1066-6.
Review by Steve Jefferys, London Metropolitan University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 123
Hugh Dauncey, French Cycling: A Social and Cultural History. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012. vi + 290 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84631-835-1.
Review by Christopher S. Thompson, Ball State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (July 2013) No. 124
August Reviews
Neil Archer,The French Road Movie. Space, Mobility, Identity. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2013. 206 pp. Filmography and bibliography. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0857457705.
Review by Leila Wimmer, London Metropolitan University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (August 2013) No. 125
Carolyn Burke, No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. xvii + 282 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $27.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-307-26801-3.
Review by Joelle Neulander, The Citadel.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (August 2013) No. 126
Cynthia A. Bouton, Interpreting Social Violence in French Culture: Buzançais, 1847-2008. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. 256 pp. Notes, figures, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-9071-3686- 7.
Review by Laird Boswell, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (August 2013) No. 127
Xavier Vigna, Histoire des ouvriers en France au XXe siècle. Paris: Perrin, 2012. 395 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 24.00€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-262-02887-9.
Review by Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (August 2013) No.128
John Bender, Ends of Enlightenment. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2012. xiii + 294 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $25.95 (pb). 978-0-8047-4212-2.
Review by Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (August 2013) No.129
Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmerman, eds., Simone de Beauvoir. Political Writings. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2012. 384 pp. $42.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0252036948.
Review by Tove Pettersen, University of Oslo
H-France Review Vol. 13 (August 2013) No.130
Alain Guéry, ed., Montchrestien et Cantillon: Le commerce et l’émergence d’une pensée économique. Lyon: ENS Éditions, 2011. x + 452 pp. Notes and bibliography. 34€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-84788-216-2.
Review by Henry C. Clark, Clemson University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (August 2013) No.131
Timothy Jenkins, The Life of Property: House, Family and Inheritance in Béarn, South-West France. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2010. ix + 181 pp. Bibliography and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84545-667- 2.
Review by Daniel Ringrose, Minot State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (August 2013) No. 132
Corin Braga, Les Antiutopies classiques. Paris : Classiques Garnier, coll. “Lire le XVIIe siècle” 2012. 350 pp. Bibliography, index, and table of contents; €32 (pb). ISBN 978-2-8124-0380-4.
Review by Denis D. Grélé, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (August 2013) No. 133
Daniel Morgan, Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2013. xvi + 308 pp. Notes and index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-520-27333-7.
Review by Codruta Morari, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (August 2013) No. 134
September Reviews
Jeremy L. Caradonna, Enlightenment in Practice: Academic Prize Contests and Intellectual Culture in France, 1670-1794. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012. xii + 352 pp. Maps, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl).
Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No. 135
Déborah Blocker, Instituer un « art » : Politiques du théâtre dans la France du premier XVIIe siècle. Paris : Honoré Champion, 2009. 540 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 109€ (hb). ISBN 978-2-7453-1921-0.
Review by Stephen Bold, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No. 136
Charles Rearick, Paris Dreams, Paris Memories: The City and its Mystique. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2011. 296 pp. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN-10: 080477093X.
Review by Roxanne Panchasi, Simon Fraser University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No. 137
Edward Baring, The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945- 1968. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xi + 326 pp. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1 -107-00967-7.
Review by Michael Kelly, University of Southampton.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No.138
E. C. Spary, Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. xii + 366 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00/£29.00 (cl). ISBN-10 0-226-76886-4 (cl); ISBN-10: 0-226-76888-0 (eb).
Review by Gary Kates, Pomona College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No.139
Jann Pasler, ed., Camille Saint-Saëns and His World. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. xviii + 422 pp. Index and notes on contributors. $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-691-15556-2.
Review by Clair Rowden, Cardiff University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No.140
Patricia Lorcin, Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia: European Women’s Narratives of Algeria and Kenya 1900-Present. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xii + 317 pp. Maps, photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-230-33865-4.
Review by Seth Graebner, Washington University in St. Louis.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No.141
Leslie Page Moch, The Pariahs of Yesterday: Breton Migrations in Paris. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 2012. xi + 255 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $84.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8223-5169-6; $23.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8223- 5183-2
Review by Amelia H. Lyons, University of Central Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No.142
Saskia Coenen Snyder, Building a Public Judaism: Synagogues and Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2013. 360 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-674-05989-4.
Review by Jeffrey Haus, Kalamazoo College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No. 143
Claudi Baldoli and Andrew Knapp, Forgotten Blitzes: France and Italy under Allied Air Attack, 1940-1945. London: Continuum, 2012. x + 296 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $120.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-4411-3109-6; $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-4411- 8581-5.
Review by Talbot Imlay, Université de Laval.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No. 144
Julian Wright and H. S. Jones, eds., Pluralism and the Idea of the Republic in France. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. x + 270 pp. Notes and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 9-780230-272095.
Review by Sean Kennedy, University of New Brunswick.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No. 145
Michael B. Miller, Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xvi + 435 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-107-02455-7.
Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H- France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No.146
Claire Gorrara, French Crime Fiction and the Second World War: Past Crimes, Present Memories. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2012. vii- viii + 151 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7190-8265-8.
Review by Elissa Gelfand, Mount Holyoke College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No.147
Gabriel Goodliffe, The Resurgence of the Radical Right in France: From Boulangisme to the Front National. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xi + 361 pp. Tables, figures, notes, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-1-107-00670- 6.
Review by Sean Kennedy, University of New Brunswick.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No.148
Philip S. Gorski, ed., Bourdieu and Historical Analysis. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013. vii + 422 pp. Tables, figures, appendices, works cited, contributors, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8223-5255-6; $27.95 (pb). ISBN 978-0-8332-5273-0.
Review by Deborah Reed-Danahay, State University of New York at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No.149
Samuel Llano, Whose Spain? Negotiating “Spanish Music” in Paris, 1908- 1929. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xxii + 270 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-985846-0.
Review by Leslie Sprout, Drew University
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No. 150
Kirk D. Read, Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France: Stories of Gender and Reproduction. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011. xiv + 206 pp. index. Bibl. $99.95 ISBN: 978-0-7546-6632-5.
Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No. 151
Peter Mangold, Britain and the Defeated French. From Occupation to Liberation, 1940-1944. London: I.B. Tauris, 2012. xviii + 312 pp. $37.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN-10: 1848854315.
Review by Jay Winter, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013) No. 152
October Reviews
Christopher Hodson, The Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth- Century History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xi + 260 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978 -0-19-973977-6.
Review by Kenneth Banks, Wofford College.
H- France Review Vol. 13 (october 2013) No. 153
Florence Bourillon & Nadine Vivier, eds., La mesure cadastrale. Estimer la valeur du foncier, series “Histoire.” Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2012, 260 pp. €20 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535- 1775-2.
Review by Hubert Bonin, Sciences Po Bordeaux.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (October 2013) No. 154
Loïc Charles, Frédéric Lefebvre, and Christine Théré, eds., Le cercle de Gournay, Savoirs économiques et pratiques administratives en France au milieu du XVIIIe siècle. Paris, INED, 2011. 29€ (pb). ISBN 978-2733-210390.
Review by Liana Vardi, University at Buffalo, SUNY
H-France Review Vol. 13 (October 2013) No. 155
Sharon A. Stanley, The French Enlightenment and the Emergence of Modern Cynicism. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012. 225 pp., footnotes, bibliography and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). Online ISBN: 9781139035682. Hardback ISBN: 9781107014640.
Review by Elena Russo, Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (October 2013) No.156
Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Allies with the Infidel: The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century. London: I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2011. 274 pp. Map, bibliographical references and index. $100 U.S. (cl). £55 U.K. ISBN 1848857284.
Review by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Tufts University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (October 2013) No.157
Gary B. McCollim, Louis XIV’s Assault on Privilege. Nicholas Desmaretz and the Tax on Wealth. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2012, and Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell and Brewer Limited. xi + 317pp. Illustrations, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13: 978 -1-58046-414-7.
Review by John J. Hurt, University of Delaware.
H- France Review Vol. 13 (October 2013) No.158
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, ed; translations with Phyllis B. Katz, Blessed Louis, The Most Glorious of Kings: Texts Relating to the Cult of Saint Louis of France. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. xi + 307 pp. Illustrations, notes, and bibliography. $39.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-268-02984-9.
Review by Ronald J. Stansbury, Roberts Wesleyan College.
H-France ReviewVol. 13 (October 2013) No.159
Michael Broers, Peter Hicks and Agustín Guimerá, eds., The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xv + 352. Notes and index. £70 (hb). ISBN 9780230241312.
Review by Philip Dwyer, University of Newcastle.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (October 2013) No.160
Reynald Abad, La grâce du roi: Les lettres de clémence de Grande Chancellerie au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2011. 964 pp. Tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. 28.00€ (cl). ISBN 978-2-84050-781-9.
Review by Julius R. Ruff, Marquette University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (October 2013) No.161
November Reviews
Alexander Wenger, Le Médecin et le philosophe: Théophile de Bordeu selon Diderot. Paris: Hermann- Essais, 2012. 131 pp. Abbreviations, bibliography. 17€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-7056-8333-7.
Review by Andrew H. Clark, Fordham University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No. 162
Aurélie Élisa Gfeller, Building a European Identity: France, the United States, and the Oil Shock, 1973-74. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012. x + 252 pp. Acronyms and abbreviations, introduction, bibliography, and index. $75.00 US. (cl). ISBN 978-0-85745-225-2.
Review by Michael H. Creswell, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No. 163
Benjamin Thomas White, The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East: The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011. xiii + 239 pp. Maps, chronology, bibliography, and index. $104.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10:0748685405.
Review by Jennifer M. Dueck, University of Manitoba.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No. 164
Diane Roussel, Violences et passions dans le Paris de la Renaissance. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2012. 386 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes and appendix. 28€ (pb) ISBN 978-2-87673-603-0.
Review by Malcolm Greenshields, University of Lethbridge.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.165
Erik H. Cohen, The Jews of France Today: Identity and Values. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xxii + 238 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 102.00€. (cl). ISBN 978-90-04-20753-0.
Review by Ethan Katz, University of Cincinnati.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.166
Michelle R. Warren, Creole Medievalism: Colonial France and Joseph Bedier’s Middle Ages. Minneapolis.: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. xxxii + 379 pp. Bibliography and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8166-6526-6.
Review by Andrew M. Daily, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.167
Jon Stewart, ed., Kierkegaard’s Influence on Philosophy. Tome II: Francophone Philosophy. Farnham and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2012. xiii + 266 pp. Indices of Persons and Subjects. £65.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-4094-4638-5.
Review by Clare Carlisle, King’s College London.
H-France ReviewVol. 13 (November2013) No.168
Nicolas Beaupré, Les Grandes Guerres 1914-1945. Paris: Éditions Belin, 2012. 1152 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €56.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7011-3387-4.
Review by James E. Connolly, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.169
Philip Benedict and Nicolas Fornerod, eds., L’organisation et l’action des Eglises réformées de France (1557-1563): synodes provinciaux et autres documents. Archives des Églises réformées de France 3. Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance 504. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2012. cxxviii + 362 pp. $132.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-2-600-01603-2.
Review by Raymond A. Mentzer, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.170
Robert I. Weiner and Richard E. Sharpless, An Uncertain Future: Voices of a French Jewish Community, 1940- 2012. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. xxxviii + 374 pp. Map, chronology, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $89.95 U.S. (hb); ISBN 978-1-4426-0559-6; $26.96 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1442605596.
Review by Daniella Doron, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.171
Sara Maza, Violette Nozière. A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. 336 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. $52.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-520-26070-2.
Compte-rendu par Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini, Université Paris-Diderot-Paris 7.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.172
Alain Corbin, Jean-Jacques Courtine and Georges Vigarello, eds., Histoire de la virilité. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2011. Illustrations, notes, and index of names. Volume I: Georges Vigarello, ed., De l’Antiquité aux Lumières: l’invention de la virilité. 588 pp. 38.00€. (cl). ISBN 10: 2020980673. Volume II: Alain Corbin, ed., Le Triomphe de la virilité: le XIXe siècle. 493 pp. 38.00€. (cl). ISBN 10: 2020980681. Volume III: Jean-Jacques Courtine, ed., La Virilité en crise? XXe-XXe siècle. 566 pp. 38.00€. ISBN 10: 202098069X.
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H- France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No. 173
Anna Sigrídur Arnar, The Book as Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, the Artist’s Book, and the Transformation of Print Culture. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2011. xv + 395 pp. Colour plates, and halftones. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-226-02701-2.
Review by Helen Abbott, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No. 174
Greg Kerr, Dream Cities: Utopia and Prose by Poets in Nineteenth-Century France. London: Legenda, 2013. ix + 250 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $89.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-907975-53-0.
Review by Suzanne F. Braswell, University of Miami, Coral Gables.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No. 175
Jean-Luc Chappey, Ordres et désordres biographiques: dictionnaires, listes de noms, réputation des Lumières à Wikipédia. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2013. 399 pp. €27.00. ISBN 978-2-87673-600-9.
Review by Daniel Brewer, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.176
Marion Löffler, ed., Welsh Responses to the French Revolution: Press and Public Discourse 1789- 1802. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2012. xx + 332 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7083-2489-9.
Review by Chris Evans, University of South Wales.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.177
Rima Devereaux, Constantinople and the West in Medieval French Literature: Renewal and Utopia. Gallica, 25. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer, 2012. Xii+234 pp. $90.00 US (cl). ISBN: 781843843023.
Review by John M. Ganim, University of California, Riverside.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.178
Candide, The enhanced edition V 2.0. Paris: Orange – Bibliothèque nationale de France – 2012. 754MB, Free.
Review by Eric Johnson, Kutztown University
H-France ReviewVol. 13 (November2013) No.179
Anne Cova and Bruno Dumons, eds., Femmes, genre et catholicisme: Nouvelles recherches, nouveaux objets (France, XIXe-XXe siècles), in Chrétiens et Sociétés, Documents et Mémoires, no. 17. Lyon: Equipe Religions, Sociétés et Acculturation du Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes, 2012. 211 pp. 20.00€. (pb). ISBN 978-2-537928-9-8.
Review by Linda L. Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.180
Gaston Sterckeman [César Fauxbras, pseud.], Le Théâtre de l’Occupation. Journal 1939-1944. ed. Anthony Freestone. Paris: Éditions Allia, 2012. 223 pp. B&W photographs, biographical note, and index. 9.20€. (pb). ISBN 9-782844- 854308.
Review byLynne Taylor, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.181
Ilya Parkins, Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli: Fashion, Femininity and Modernity. London and New York: Berg Publishers, 2012. xii + 193 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-85785-327-1.
Review by Mary Lynn Stewart, Simon Fraser University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.182
Marie-Pierre Rey, L’effroyable tragédie: Une nouvelle histoire de la campagne de Russie. Paris: Flammarion, 2012. 390 pp. 24€ (pb). ISBN-10: 2081228327.
Review by David A. Bell, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.183
Eric Dunning and Jason Hughes, Norbert Elias and Modern Sociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. xi + 239 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $120.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-78093-225-5; $29.95 U.S. (pb). 1-78093-226-2; $30.99 U.S. (eb). 1-78093-339-9.
Review by Paul A. Silverstein, Reed College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.184
Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, and William Max Nelson, eds., The French Revolution in Global Perspective. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2013. vii + 236 pp. Notes, maps, figures, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-7868-0.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (November 2013) No.185
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December Reviews
Alexandre Wenger, ed., Le livre sans titre: Les conséquences fatales de la masturbation. Grenoble: Éditions Jérome Million, 2011. 127 pp., notes, 17 color plates (one unnumbered, others I-XVI). 17€ (pb). ISBN 978-284137262. .
Review by Michael Sibalis, Wilfrid Laurier University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (December 2013) No.186
Richard Whatmore, Against War and Empire. Geneva, Great Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century. New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 2012. Xx+ 393pp, notes, index. $65.00 U. S. ISBN 978-0-300-17557-8.
Review by Edmond Dziembowski, Université de Franche-Comté, LSH EA 2273.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (December 2013) No.187
Jane McKee and Randolph Vigne, eds., The Huguenots: France, Exile & Diaspora. Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2013. vii + 255 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendix, list of editors and contributors, consolidated bibliography, and index. $74.95 (hb). ISBN 978-1-84519-463-5.
Review by Diane C. Margolf, Colorado State University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (December 2013) No.188
Donna L. Sadler, Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral: Royalty and Ritual in Thirteenth-Century France. Farnham, Surrey, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. xvi + 278 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. £60.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4094-3243-2.
Review by Jennifer M. Feltman, Young Harris College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (December 2013) No.189
Stephane Kirkland, Paris Reborn: Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2013. 327 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-312-62689.
Review by David P. Jordan, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (December 2013) No.190
Irit Ruth Kleiman, Philippe de Commynes: Memory, betrayal, text. Toronto, Buffalo and London: Toronto University Press, 2013. viii + 296 pp. Notes and index. $65 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-1-4426-4562-2.
Review by Christopher Fletcher, University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
H-France Review Vol. 13 (December 2013) No.191
Doris Y. Kadish, Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves. Women Writers and French Colonial Slavery. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012. 196 pp. $89.96 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 1846318467.
Review by Madeleine Dobie, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (December 2013) No.192
Gary Ferguson and Mary B. McKinley, eds., A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013. ix + 405 pp. Bibliography and index. $218.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-22189-5.
Review by Leanna Bridge Rezvani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (December 2013) No.193
Brett Rushforth, Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2012. x + 424 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8078-3558-6.
Review by Christian Ayne Crouch, Bard College.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (December 2013) No.194
Corinne Noirot-Maguire, « Entre deux airs »: Style simple et ethos poétique chez Clément Marot et Joachim Du Bellay (1515-1560). Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2011. xx + 751 pp. Notes, figure, table, bibliography, index. $85.00 Can. (pb). ISBN: 978-2-7637-8827-2.
Review by Robert J. Hudson, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 13 (December 2013) No.195