H-France Review, Volume 4 (2004)

January Reviews

Kolleen M. Guy, 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


Jean-Claude Farcy
, 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


Timothy Tackett
, 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


Georges Didi-Huberman
, 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


Michael Rowe
, 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


Raymond Birn
, 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


Richard Wrigley
, 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


Robert T. Gannett Jr
., 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

Orest Ranum, 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


Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire
, 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


Jacqueline Pascal
, 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


Sarah Maza
, 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


Colin Jones
, 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


Geoffrey Wawro
, 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


Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall, Eds.
, 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


Jeremy D. Popkin
, 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


David McCallam
, 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


Holly Tucker
, 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


Ruth Mazo Karras
, 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

David Skuy, 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


Jean-Claude Farcy et Alain Faure
, 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


Adam Sutcliffe
, 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


David Potter, Ed.
, 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


Jean-Marc Dreyfus
, 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


R. Howard Bloch
, 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


Reynald Secher
, 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


Downing A. Thomas
, 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


Stéphane Gerson
, 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


Jeremy J. Whiteman
, 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


Charles Esdaile
, 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


François Lagarde, Ed.
, 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


Patrick Weil
, 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


David M. Hopkin
, 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


Jean Elisabeth Pedersen
, 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

Chris Marker and Yannick Bellon, 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


Christopher Clark and Wolfram Kaiser, Eds.
, 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.

Hugh McLeod and Werner Ustorf, Eds., 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


Maud Mandel
, 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

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Madeleine de Scudéry
, 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


Robert Muchembled
, 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


Jeroen Duindam
, 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


Leslie A. Schuster
, 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


Robert Bireley
, 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


Erik Bleich
, 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


Colette Cosnier
, 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


Alexander Grab
, 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


Harold Mah
, 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


Paul R. Hanson
, 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


Philip Mansel
, 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

Emmanuel de Waresquiel, 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


Patrice Higonnet
, 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


Glenn J. Ames and Ronald S. Love, Eds.
, 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


Julian Swann
, 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


Colin B. Bailey, Philip Conisbee, and Thomas W. Gaehtgens
, 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


Nobuhito Nagaï
, 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


Daniel Lord Smail
, 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


Diana R. Hallman
, 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


Renee Winegarten
, 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


Hugh Dauncy and Steve Cannon, Eds.
, 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


Martin S. Staum
, 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


Geoff Hare
, 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

Sylvia Kahan, 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


Alya Aglan, Michel Margairaz, and Philippe Verheyde, Eds.
, 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


David Stasavage
, 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


Mi Gyung Kim
, 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


Kenneth J. Banks
, 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


David Harvey
, 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


Tammy M. Proctor
, 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


Debra Higgs Strickland
, 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

Rosemary Brindle, Trans. and Ed., 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


William E. Watson
, 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


Robert Alexander
, 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


Sean L. Field
, 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


Gabrielle de Coignard
, 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


Peter Sahlins
, 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


K.H. Adler
, 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

Philip Gordon and Jeremy Shapiro, 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


Sophie Wahnich
, 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


Frances Fowle and Richard Thomason, Eds.
, 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


Michel de Montaigne
, 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


Ilana Y. Zinguer and Sam W. Bloom, Eds.
, 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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Christopher E. Forth
, 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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Adele King, Ed.
, 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


Julian Wright
, 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


Martin S. Alexander and J. F. V. Keiger, Eds.
, 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

P. M. Jones, 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


Herve Le Guyader
, 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


Natalie Petiteau
, 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


Mark Potter
, 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


Mary Ann Lyons
, 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


Michael Sonenscher, Ed.
, 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


Yves Bénot and Marcel Dorigny, Eds.
, 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


Jeremy Black
, 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


Donna Kuizenga, Ed. and trans.
, 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


Stanis Perez, Ed.
, 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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Sudhir Hazareesingh
, 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


Jane Donawerth and Julie Strongson, Eds. and trans.
, 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


W. J. Eccles
, 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


Joan B. Wolf
, 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


Robert J. Young
, 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

Michael C. E. Jones, 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


Paul-André Rosental
, 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


Steven Harris
, 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


Bruce Venarde, Ed. and trans.
, 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


Thelma Fenser and Daniel Lord Smail, Eds.
, 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


W. A. Sibly and M. D. Sibly, Eds.
, 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


Conor McCarthy, Ed.
, 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


James Lowth Goldsmith
, 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


Steven Kale
, 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

L. Leigh Westerfield, “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


Peter Baehr and Melvin Richter, Eds.
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


Elisabeth A. Fraser
, 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


Laura Lunger Knoppers and Joan B. Landes, Eds.
, 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


Alan S. Kahan
, 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


Kimberley J. Healey
, 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


Regina M. Sweeney
, 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


Annette Fierro
, 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


Alison McQueen
, 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


Ronald Aronson
, 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


Roger Price
, 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

Pierre Boisard, 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


John Tully
, 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


Robert Zaretsky
, 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


Patrick H. Hutton
, 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