January Reviews
, When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity. Baltimore, Md. and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xi + 245 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-7164-6.
Review by Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 1
, Les rapports des procureurs généraux de la Cour d’appel de Dijon (décembre 1849–juillet 1870). Préface de Jean-Jacques Clère. Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2003. 765 pp. Cartes, tableaux, notes, bibliographie, et index de personnes et de lieux. 40.00 €. ISBN 2-905965-79-7.
Review by Pierre Legal, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 2
, When the King Took Flight. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press, 2003. xi + 270pp. Maps, illustrations, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01054-X.
Review by Hugh Gough, University College Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 3
, Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the
Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière. Tr. Alisa Hartz. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2003. xxi + 385 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-262-04215-0.
Review by Judith Surkis, Harvard Unversity.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 4
, From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780–1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi + 331 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-82443-5.
Review by Rafe Blaufarb, Auburn University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 5
, Forging Rousseau: Print, Commerce, and Cultural Manipulation in the Late Enlightenment. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2001:08. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2001. ix + 281 pp. Bibliography and index. £49.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0770-5.
Review by Sheryl Kroen, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 6
, The Politics of Appearances: Representations of Dress in Revolutionary France. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 2002 . 310 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl); ISBN 1-85973-504-5. $25.00 U.S. (pb); ISBN 1-85973-509-6.
Review by Dorinda Outram, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 7
., Tocqueville Unveiled. The Historian and His Sources for The Old Regime and the Revolution. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xiii + 246 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-28108-6.
Review by Helena Rosenblatt, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
H-France Review Vol. 4 (January 2004), No. 8
February Reviews
, Paris in the Age of Absolutism. An Essay. Revised and expanded edition. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. 403 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02221-3.
Review by David Garrioch, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 9
, L’espace des francs-maçons: Une sociabilité européene au XVIIIe siècle. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2003. 234 pp. Notes, illustrations, documents, and index. €16.00 (pb). ISBN 2-86847-852-2.
Review by Michael R. Lynn, Agnes Scott College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 10
, A Rule for Children and Other Writings. Ed. and trans. John J. Conley. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxxii + 171 pp. Bibliography and index. $47.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-64831-1; $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-64833-8.
Review by Christopher Corley, Minnesota State University at Moorhead.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 11
, The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750–1850. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. x + 255 pp. Notes and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01046-9.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 12
, The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715–99. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xxix + 651. Maps, introduction, notes, further reading, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-231-12882-7.
Review by Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University (State University of New York).
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 13
, The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870–1871. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 327 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-58436-1.
Review by Gary P. Cox, Gordon College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 14
, The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 2003. v + 384 pp. Acknowledgements, forewords, introduction, notes, contributors, and index. $74.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3130-6; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-3117-9.
Review by Kim Munholland, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 15
, Press, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830–1835. University Park, Penn.: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. vii + 329 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-271-02153-50.
Review by Christopher H. Johnson, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 16
, Chamfort and the French Revolution. A Study in Form and Ideology. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002. xv + 180 pp. Bibliography and index. £39.00 U.K.; $67.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0801-9.
Review by Richard Whatmore, University of Sussex.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 17
, Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, 2003. xv + 213 pp. Illustrations, notes, works cited, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8143-3042-8.
Review by Leslie Tuttle, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 18
, From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 246 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. £31.50 U.K.; $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3699-8; £12.50 U.K.; $17.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8122-1834-5.
Review by P.J.P. Goldberg, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (February 2004), No. 19
March Reviews
, Assassination, Politics, and Miracles: France and the Royalist Reaction of 1820. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003. ix + 301 pp. Figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2457-6.
Review by Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 20
, La mobilité d’une génération de Français. Recherche sur les migrations et les déménagements vers et dans Paris à la fin du XIXe siècle. Paris, Institut national d’études démographiques, cahier n° 151, 2003. 591pp. CD Rom. 35.00 €. ISBN 2- 7332-0151-4.
Review by Nathalie Montel, Laboratoire Techniques-Territoires-Sociétés, Ecole national des Ponts et Chaussées.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 21
, Judaism and Enlightenment. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xv + 314 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-82015-4.
Review by Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 22
, France in the Later Middle Ages 1200–1500. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xiv + 288 pp. Further reading, chronology, genealogical tables, chief office-holders of France, glossary, maps, and index. £14.99 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0-19-925047-2.
Review by William Chester Jordan, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 23
, Pillages sur ordonnances: Aryanisation et restitution des banques en France 1940–1953. Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2003. iii + 475 pp. 25.00 €. (pb). ISBN 2-213-61327-3.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 24
, The Anonymous Marie de France. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xii + 367 pp. Notes and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-05968-5.
Review by R. W. Hanning, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 25
, A French Genocide: The Vendée. Translated by George Holoch. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. xvi + 305 pp. Tables, maps, and notes. $40.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-268-02865-6.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 26
, Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647–1785. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii + 411 pp. Illustrations, music examples, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-80188-5.
Review by David Charlton, Royal Holloway, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 27
, The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 324 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S., £33.50 (cl); $24.95 U.S., £14.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-4134-X (cl); ISBN 0-8014-8873-7 (pb).
Review by Daniel J. Sherman, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 28
, Reform, Revolution and French Global Policy, 1787–1791. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. vi + 259 pp. Bibliography and index. $89.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0672-4.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 29
, The Peninsular War: A New History. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003. ix + 587 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6231-6.
Review by John Lawrence Tone, The Georgia Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 30
, The French in Texas: History, Migration, Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. ix + 330pp. Illustrations, selected bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S.(cl.), $24.95 U.S.(pb.) ISBN 0-292-70528-X.
Review by Kay Goldman, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 31
, Qu’est-ce qu’un français? Histoire de la Nationalité française depuis la Révolution. Paris: Editions Grasset et Fasquelle, 2002. 401 pp. Notes, maps, documents, tables, bibliography, indexes (names and subjects) and glossary. 21.50 € (pb). ISBN 2-246-60571-7.
Review by Mike Rapport, University of Stirling.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 32
, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture 1766–1870. Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series, Volume 28. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2003. xii + 394 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-086193-2587.
Review by Robert M. Schwartz, Mount Holyoke College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 33
, Legislating the French Family: Feminism, Theater and Republican Politics, 1870–1920. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2003. v + 271 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8135-3279-5.
Review by Kristen Stromberg Childers, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 34
April Reviews
, Remembrance of Things to Come (Le Souvenir d’un avenir). Les films de l’Equinoxe, produced for ARTE. 42 minutes. VHS format. B&W. First Run Icarus Films, 2001. $390.00 U.S. (rental $125.00).
Review by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 35
, Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. viii + 368 pp. Notes, illustrations, annotated bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-8-997-5.
, The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750–2000. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ix + 234 pp. Notes and indices. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-81493-6.
Review by Sarah A. Curtis, San Francisco State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 36
, In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth-Century France. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003. ix + 317. Notes, bibliography and index. $84.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3134-9; $23.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-3121-7.
Review by Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 37
Please see the continued discussion that occurred on H-France.
, The Story of Sappho. Edited and translated by Karen Newman. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, ed. Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxxii + 155 pp. $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-14399-6.
Review by Katharine J. Hamerton, Southwest Missouri State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 38
, A History of the Devil From the Middle Ages to the Present. Translated by Jean Birrell. Cambridge: Polity, 2003. x + 349 pp. Notes, bibliography, filmography, and index. £55.00 U.K., $62.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7456-2815; £17.99 U.K., $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7456-2816-8. Originally published as Une histoire du diable, XIIe–XXe siècle. Paris: Seuil, 2000.
Review by Moshe Sluhovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 39
, Vienna and Versailles: The Courts of Europe’s Dynastic Rivals, 1550–1780. New Studies in European History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi + 349 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82262-9.
Review by Tryntje B. Helfferich, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 40
, A Workforce Divided: Community, Labor and the State in Saint-Nazaire’s Shipbuilding Industry, 1880–1910. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. X + 233 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl) ISBN 0-313-31775-5.
Review by Steve Zdatny, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 41
, The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War: Kings, Courts, and Confessors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 300 pp. Notes, bibliography, map, illustrations, and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82017-0.
Review by Brian Sandberg, Medici Archive Project.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 42
, Race Politics in Britain and France: Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 233 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl); $23.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-81101-5 (cl); ISBN 0-521-00953-7 (pb).
Review by Alec G. Hargreaves, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 43
, Marie Pape-Carpantier: Fondatrice de l’école maternelle. Paris: Fayard, 2003. 415 pp. Figures and notes. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-213-61527-6.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 44
, Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, xiii + 249 pp. Maps, notes and bibliography, and index. $75 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-333-68274-2; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-333-68275-0.
Review by Malcolm Crook, Keele University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 45
, Enlightenment Phantasies: Cultural Identity in France and Germany, 1750–1914. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 227 pp. $39.95 U.S. £23.95 (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4144-7.
Review by K. Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 46
, The Jacobin Republic under Fire: The Federalist Revolt in the French Revolution. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. x + 262 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (cl). ISBN 0-271-02281-7.
Review by James Livesey, Trinity College, Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 47
, Paris Between Empires: Monarchy and Revolution, 1814–1852. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003. ix + 559 pages. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-312-30857-4.
Review by Victoria E. Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (April 2004), No. 48
May Reviews
, Talleyrand, le prince immobile. Paris: Fayard, 2003. 796 p. Deux cahiers d’illustrations, notes, bibliographie, iconographie, filmographie, généalogie, et index. 30.00 €. ISBN 2-213-61326-5.
Review by Anne Jourdan, Université d’Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 49
, Paris: Capital of the World. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. Illustrations, maps, notes, and index. 493 pp. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-00887-1.
Review by Pamela Pilbeam, Royal Holloway, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 50
, Distant Lands and Diverse Cultures: The French Experience in Asia, 1600–1700. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2003. xvii + 269 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-313-30864-0.
Review by Adrian Carton, Macquarie University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 51
, Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy: The Estates General of Burgundy, 1661–1790. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xvi + 460 pp. Map, figures, appendices, bibliography, and index. $85 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82767-1.
Review by William Beik, Emory University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 52
, The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting. Ed. Colin B. Bailey. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2003. ix + 412 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-09946-0.
Review by Paula Radisich, Whittier College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 53
, Les conseillers municipaux de Paris sous la IIIe République (1871–1914). Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2002. 375 pp. Tables, annexes, bibliography, and index. 30.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-85944-440-8.
Review by Patricia R. Turner, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 54
, The Consumption of Justice: Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264–1423. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 277 pp. Tables, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4105-6.
Review by Esther Cohen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 55
, Opera, Liberalism and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France: The Politics of Halévy’s La Juive. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii + 390 pp. Illustrations, music, appendices, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-521-65086-0.
Review by Lisa Moses Leff, Southwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 56
, Accursed Politics: Some French Women Writers and Political Life, 1715-1850. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003. vii + 288 pp. Illustrations, chronology, notes, and index. $27.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-56663-499-7.
Review by Lisa Jane Graham, Haverford College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 57
, Popular Music in France from Chanson to Techno: Culture, Identity and Society. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. xii + 282 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. ISBN 0-7546-0849-2.
Review by Susan Weiner, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 58
, Labeling People: French Scholars on Society, Race, and Empire, 1815–1848. Montreal and Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003. xiv + 245 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $49.95 Can., $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2580-7.
Review by Michael A. Osborne, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 59
, Football in France: A Cultural History. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003. xiii + 226 pp. Tables, glossary, appendices, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85973-657-2; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-85973-662-9.
Review by Christopher S. Thompson, Ball State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (May 2004), No. 60
June Reviews
, Music’s Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac. Rochester and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 2003. xi + 547 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-58046-133-6.
Review by Andrea Mansker, Loyola Marymount University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 61
, La Caisse des dépôts et consignations, la Seconde Guerre mondiale et le XXe siècle. Paris : Albin Michel, 2003. 670 pages, € 32.00. ISBN 2-226-13894-3.
Review by Hubert Bonin, Institut d’études politiques de Bordeaux.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 62
, Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688–1789. xii + 210 pp. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Tables, figures, notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-80967-3.
Review by Thomas M. Luckett, Portland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 63
, Affinity, that Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. xii + 599 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-262-11273-6.
Review by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Christine Lehman, Université Paris X.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 64
, Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713–1763. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002. xxii + 319 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-7735-2444-4.
Review by Pierre H. Boulle, McGill University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 65
, Paris, Capital of Modernity. New York & London: Routledge, 2003, xi + 372 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $30 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-415-94421-X.
Review by Bertrand Taithe, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 66
, Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War. New York and London: New York University Press, 2003. xvi + 205 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8147-6693-5.
Review by Daniella Sarnoff, Xavier University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 67
, Saracens, Demons, and Jews: Making Monsters in Medieval Art. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. 336 pp. Color plates, black and white illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S., £39.95 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-691-05719-2.
Review by Robert Mills, King’s College, London.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (June 2004), No. 68
July Reviews
, Guns in the Desert: General Jean-Pierre Doguereau’s Journal of Napoleon’s Egyptian Expedition. Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger, 2002. xv + 200 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313-32512-X.
Review by Maya Jasanoff, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 69
, Tricolor and Crescent: France and the Islamic World. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2003. Perspectives on the Twentieth Century. xiii + 295 pp. Photos, documents, notes, bibliography and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-275-97470-7.
Review by Charles D. Smith, University of Arizona.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 70
, Re-Writing the French Revolutionary Tradition: Liberal Opposition and the Fall of the Bourbon Monarchy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi + 385 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, and index. $80.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-80122-2.
Review by Philip Nord, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 71
, The Writings of Agnes of Harcourt. The Life of Isabelle of France and the Letter on Louis IX and Longchamp. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. x + 106 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-04403-1; $19.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-268-04404-X.
Review by Christopher K. Gardner, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 72
, Spiritual Sonnets. Ed. and trans. by Melanie E. Gregg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xxxi + 195 pp. Bibliography and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-13983-2; $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-13984-0.
Review by Megan C. Armstrong, University of Utah.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 73
, Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After. Ithaca, New York, and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. xiv + 454 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $67.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4142-0; $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8839-7.
Review by Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 74
, Jews and Gender in Liberation France. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 273 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 0-521-79048-4.
Review by Maud Mandel, Brown University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (July 2004), No. 75
August Reviews
, Allies at War: America, Europe, and the Crisis over Iraq. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution and McGraw-Hill, 2004. vi + 266 pp. $19.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN: 0-07-144120-4.
Review by Irwin Wall, Center for European Studies, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 76
, La liberté ou la mort: essai sur la Terreur et le terrorisme. Paris: La Fabrique Editions, 2003. 111 pp. Notes and acknowledgments. 13.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-913372-25-2.
Review by Charles Walton, Columbia University Institute for Scholars, Reid Hall; Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; and Institut d’Histoire de la Révolution française, Université de Paris I.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 77
, Soil and Stone: Impressionism, Urbanism, Environment. Aldershot and Burlington, VT.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003. xiv + 175 pp. Notes. £52.50 (cl). ISBN 0-7546-3685-2.
Review by William Hauptman, Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 78
, Apology for Raymond Sebond. Translated with notes and introduction by Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 2003. 184 pp. Notes and bibliography. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-87220-680-7; $9.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87220-679-3.
Review by Allan Tulchin, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 79
, L’antisémitisme éclairé. Inclusion et exclusion depuis l’Epoque des Lumières jusqu’à l’affaire Dreyfus / Inclusion and Exclusion: Perspectives on Jews from the Enlightenment to the Dreyfus Affair. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003. xi + 469 pp. Bibliography and index. €105.00, $142.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 90-04-12972-3.
Review by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, California State University at San Marcos.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 80
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, The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood. Baltimore, Md. and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xii + 241 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $46.95 U. S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-7433-5.
Review by Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 81
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, From Africa: New Francophone Stories. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xx + 150 pp. Bibliographical Essay. $40.00 U.S.; £30.50 U.K. (cl) ISBN: 0-8032-2578-2; $15.00 U.S.; £11.50 (pb). ISBN: 0-8032-7810-1.
Review by Lee Whitfield, Wheelock College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 82
, The Regionalist Movement in France 1890–1914: Jean Charles-Brun and French Political Thought. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xvi + 286 pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. £55.00 UK (hb). ISBN 0-19-926488-0.
Review by Martin Simpson, University of Liverpool.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 83
, France and the Algerian War, 1954–62: Strategy, Operations and Diplomacy. London and Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass, 2002. xviii + 213 pp. Chronology, maps, figures, abstracts, and index. $59.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7146-5297-0; $26.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7146-8264-0.
Review by Michael Creswell, The Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (August 2004), No. 84
September Reviews
, The French Revolution 1787–1804. London and New York: Pearson Longman, 2003. xviii + 154 pp. Chronology, maps, documents, glossary, who’s who, bibliography, and index. $16.00 (pb). ISBN 0-582-77289-3.
Review by Edward J. Woell, Western Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 85
, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: A Visionary Naturalist. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. 288 pp. Illustrations and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-47091-1.
Review by Paul Lawrence Farber, Oregon State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 86
, Lendemains d’Empire. Les soldats de Napoléon dans la France du XIXe siècle. Paris: La Boutique de l’Histoire, 2003. 399 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. 22.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-910828-29-8.
Review by Robert S. Alexander, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 87
, Corps and Clienteles: Public Finance and Political Change in France, 1688–1715. Aldershot, Hampshire, and Burlington, Vert.: Ashgate, 2003. x + 217 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, appendices, and index. $79.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-754-63726-3.
Review by Jonathan Dewald, State University of New York at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 88
, Franco-Irish Relations, 1500–1610: Politics, Migration and Trade. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Royal Historical Society and The Boydell Press, 2003. ix + 242 pp. Notes, bibliography, glossary, and index. £40.00; $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-861-93266-8.
Review by Gayle K. Brunelle, California State University at Fullerton.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 89
, Sieyès: Political Writings, Including the Debate between Sieyès and Tom Paine in 1791. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing, 2003. lxiv + 190 pp. Bibibliography and index. $12.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87220-430-8.
Review by Paul Cheney, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 90
, Rétablissement de l’esclavage dans les colonies françaises. Aux origines de Haïti. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2003. 592 pp. 35.00 €. ISBN 2-7068-1692-9.
Review by Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 91
, France and the Grand Tour. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. x + 234 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00. ISBN 1-4039-0690-4.
Review by Munro Price, University of Bradford.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 92
, Madame de Villedieu (Marie-Catherine Desjardins), Memoirs of the Life of Henriette-Sylvie de Molière: A Novel. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil Jr., Eds. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxxi + 194 pp. Maps, footnotes, and bibliography. $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-14420-8.
Review by Stephanie O’Hara, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 93
, Journal de santé de Louis XIV, écrit par Vallot, Daquin et Fagon. Grenoble, France: éditions Jérôme Millon, 2004. 445 pp. € 27.00 (pb). ISBN: 2-84137-159-X.
Review by Colin Jones, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 94
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, The Saint-Napoleon: Celebrations of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century France. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. xiv + 307pp. Notes and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01341-7.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 95
, Madeleine de Scudéry: Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxxi + 174 pp. Bibliography and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-14404-6.
Review by Nancy L. Locklin, Maryville College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 96
, Frontenac: The Courtier Governor. Reprint of the original 1959 ed. with a new introduction by Peter N. Moogk. Lincoln and London, U.K.: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xvii + 405. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8032-6750-9.
Review by Dale Miquelon, University of Saskatchewan.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 97
, Harnessing the Holocaust: The Politics of Memory in France. Palo Alto, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2004. xii + 249 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8047-4889-6.
Review by K. H. Adler, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 98
, Marketing Marianne: French Propaganda in America, 1900–1940. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. Notes, bibliography, index. $60.00 US (cl.). ISBN 0-8135-3377-5.
Review by William Keylor, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (September 2004), No. 99
October Reviews
, Between France and England: Politics, Power and Society in Late Medieval Brittany (Variorum Collected Studies Series). Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003. ix + 326 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical references and index. $105.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-86078-906-3.
Review by Craig Taylor, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 100
, L’Intelligence démographique: Sciences et politiques des population en France (1930–1960). Paris: Odile Jacob, 2003. 366 pp. 2 tables, bibliography, notes, index. €27 (pb). ISBN 2-7381-1258-7.
Review by Joshua Cole, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 101
, Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and the Psyche. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 328 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 (hb). ISBN 0-521-82387-0.
Review by Mark S. Micale, University of Illinois.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 102
, Robert of Arbrissel: A Medieval Religious Life. Medieval Texts in Translation. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003. xxxix + 155 pp. Chronology, introduction, map, notes, and bibliography. $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8132-1354-1.
Review by Thomas Head, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 103
, Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. vii + 227 pp. Figures, selected bibliography, and index. $49.96 (hb). ISBN 0-8014-3939-6; $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8857-5.
Review by Susan J. Dudash, Utah State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 104
, The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens. The Albigensian Crusade and its Aftermath. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2003. xxxvi + 162 pp. Maps, figures, notes, appendices, bibliography and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-85115-925-7.
Review by Elaine Graham-Leigh, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 105
, Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages. A Sourcebook. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. xii + 292 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $96.65 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-415-30745-7; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-30746-5.
Review by Erin Jordan, University of Northern Colorado.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 106
, Lordship in France 500–1500. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. xiv + 529 pp. $88.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-8204-6849-5.
Review by Kathleen Thompson, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 107
, French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848. Baltimore Md. and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. x + 308 pp. Biographical appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $48.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-7729-6.
Review by Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (October 2004), No. 108
November Reviews
, “This Anguish, Like a Kind of Song”: Resistance in Women’s Literature of World War II. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004. 236pp. $72.00 U.S./ €55.00 (pb). ISBN 90-420-1148-3.
Review by Joan Tumblety, University of Southampton.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 109
Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism. Cambridge and New York. Cambridge University Press. 2004. 308 pp. Notes. $65.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 0-521-82563-1.
Review by David Higgs, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 110
, Delacroix, Art and Patrimony in Post-Revolutionary France. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 261 pp. Color plates and figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82829-5.
Review by Heather Belnap Jensen, Brigham Young University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 111
, Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi+304 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $22.50 (pb) ISBN 0-8014-8901-6.
Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 112
, Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage. Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York, N.Y: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. vii + 239 pp. Notes, works cited, and index. $69.95 US (hb). ISBN 1-4039-1174-6.
Review by Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 113
, The Modernist Traveler: French Detours, 1900–1930. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. ix + 175 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8032-2412-5 (cl). $40.00 US.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 114
, Singing Our Way to Victory: French Cultural Politics and Music during the Great War. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2001. x + 355 pp. Figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl) and $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8195-6454-0 (cl). and 0-8195-6473-7 (pb).
Review by Timothy Baycroft, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 115
, The Glass State. The Technology of the Spectacle. Paris, 1981–1998. MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., 2003. xviii + 320 pp. $45. ISBN: 0-262-06233-X.
Review by Colin Jones, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 116
, The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt. Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France. Amsterdam: Amstedam University Press, distributed in the US by the University of Chicago Press, 2003. 388p. bibliography and index. $55.00 (US). ISBN 90-5356-624-4.
Review by William Hauptman, Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 117
, Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. X + 291 pp. Notes and index. $32.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-02796-1.
Review by Michael Scott Christofferson, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 118
, People and Politics in France, 1848-1870. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ix + 477 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $95.00 U.S. (hb.) ISBN 0-521-83706-5.
Review by Sudhir Hazareesingh, Balliol College, University of Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (November 2004), No. 119
December Reviews
, Camembert: A National Myth (California Studies in Food and Culture, 4) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xiii +254 pp. $29.95 (hb) ISBN 0-520-22550-3.
Review by Kolleen M. Guy, University of Texas at San Antonio.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (December 2004), No. 120
, France on the Mekong: A History of the Protectorate in Cambodia, 1863–1953. Lanham-New York-Oxford: University Press of America, 2002. xi-xxvi + 562 pp. Glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $77.00 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 0-7618-2431-6.
Review by Patricia M.E. Lorcin, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (December 2004), No. 121
, Cock and Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. viii + 190 pp. Map, llustrations, bibliography, index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8032-4920-9.
Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (December 2004), No. 122
, Philippe Ariès and the Politics of French Cultural History. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. xxv + 244 pp. Notes, index, bibliography, and 20 illustrations. $80.00 US (cl). ISBN 1-55849-435-9; $24.95 US (pb). ISBN 1-55849-463-4.
Review by Paul Mazgaj, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
H-France Review Vol. 4 (December 2004), No. 123