January Reviews
, L’Invention du Patrimoine en Bourgogne. Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2004. 100 pp. (pb). €25 ISBN 2-905965-99-1.
Review by Kirrily Freeman, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 1
, France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xx + 376 pp. Figures, maps, bibliography, notes, index. $44.95 (hb). ISBN 0-8018-1823-3.
Review by John Tolan, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 2
, Un Outre-Mer Bancaire Méditerranéen : Histoire du Crédit Foncier d’Algérie et de Tunisie (1880-1997). Paris : Publications de la Société Française d’Histoire d’Outre-Mer, 2004. Notes, charts, illustrations, bibliography, index. 369 pp. 24 €. ISBN 2-85970-030-7.
Review by Samir Saul, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 3
, Fighting Napoleon: Guerrillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain, 1808-1814. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. xi + 272 pp. Map, illustrations, table of abbreviations, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-300-10112-0.
Review by Owen Connelly, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 4
, La France et le temps de travail (1814-2004). Paris: Odile Jacob, 2004. 237 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. 23.90 € (pb). ISBN 2-7381-1392-3.
Review by Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 5
, Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought. London & New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. xxxii + 713 pp. Notes, chronology, index. $175.00, ISBN 1-57958-384-9.
Review by Patrick H. Hutton, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 6
, The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxiv + 404 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-64124-1.
Review by James B. Collins, Georgetown University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 7
Response by Guy Rowlands to the review of his book by James B. Collins.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 8
, Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (hb); $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8078-5548-0.
Review by Whitney Walton, Purdue University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 9
, The Rise of Cities in North-West Europe. Trans. Alison Mouthaan-Gwillim. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiii + 174 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $54.95 (hc). ISBN 0-521-46491-9 (hc), 0-521-46909-0 (pb).
Review by Constance B. Bouchard, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 10
, Vincent de Paul, the Trailblazer. Translated by Gertrud Graubert Champe. Note Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. xi + 327 pp. Images, chronology, notes, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-04361-2.
Review by Susan E. Dinan, Long Island University–CW Post.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 11
, Religion and the Conduct of War c.300-c.1215. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2003. iv + 216 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-85115-944-3.
, War and Combat, 1150-1270: The Evidence from Old French Literature. Cambridge, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2003. iii + 261 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-85991-781-9.
Review by Malcolm Barber, University of Reading.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (January 2005), No. 12
February Reviews
, Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic, and the Poetics of Didacticism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. xv + 210 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cl). ISBN # 0-8047-3009-1.
Review by Constance B. Bouchard, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 13
, The Populist Challenge: Political Protest and Ethno-Nationalist Mobilization in France. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004. 272 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S./£50.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 1-57181-643-7; $24.95 U.S./£14.95 U.K. (pb). ISBN 1-57181-691-7.
Review by Richard L. Derderian, National University of Singapore.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 14
, Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-71). Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxxi + 485 pages, 216 illustrations. $55 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-10951-8.
Review by Jann Matlock, University College London.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 15
, Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France 1938-1940. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. x + 366pp. Appendix, tables, bibliography, and index. $91.42 (hb). ISBN 0-19-926122-9.
Review by Joel Blatt, University of Connecticut (Stamford).
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 16
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, France Since the Revolution: Texts and Contexts. London and New York: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2003. 154 pp. Glossary of names, chronology, and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-340-763-61-2.
Review by Lori R. Weintrob, Wagner College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 17
, Day of Reckoning: Power and Accountability in Medieval France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. vi + 270 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3796-X.
Review by William Chester Jordan, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 18
Response by Robert F. Berkhofer III to the review of his book by William Chester Jordan.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 19
, De la petite fille velue et autres conférences du Bureau d’Adresse (1632-1642). Edited by Simone Mazauric. Paris: Klincksieck, 2004. xxxviii + 154 pp. Notes. €14 E.U. (pb). ISBN 2-252-3444-0.
Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 20
, The Edict of Nantes and its implications in France, Britain and Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003. 304 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85182-481-1.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 21
, Dialogues and Addresses. Edited and translated by John J. Conley, S.J. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxxiii + 177 pp. Introduction, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-50241-4; $22.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-50242-2.
Review by Lauren Clay, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 22
, Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. ix + 751 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $80.00 / £51.95 (cl.) ISBN 0-691-11541-9.
Review by E.C. Spary, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 23
, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. viii + 357. Maps, figures, notes, index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-674-01304-2.
Review by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, California State University – San Marcos.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 24
, Édith Thomas: A Passion for Resistance. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. 240 pp. Photos, notes, and index. $27.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4223-0.
Review by Donald Reid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 25
, Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution. London: Arnold, 2004, viii + 259 pp. Bibliography, Index. $19.95 U.S. (Pb). ISBN 0-340-56434-2.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 26
, The Fall of France. The Nazi Invasion of 1940. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvii + 274 pp. Maps, photos, illustrations, notes, further reading, and index. $14.95 U.S.(pb). ISBN 0-19-280550-9.
Review by Robert J. Young, University of Winnipeg.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (February 2005), No. 27
March Reviews
, Talleyrand. London: Longman Press, 2002. x + 232 pp. Maps, tables, notes, plate, bibliographical essay, and index. (pb). $15.95 U.S. ISBN 0-582-32384-3.
Review by William Olejniczak, College of Charleston.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 28
Response by Philip Dwyer to the review of his book by William Olejniczak.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 29
, France 1815-2003: Modern History for Modern Languages. London: Arnold Publishers, 2004. xi + 219 pp. Maps, figures, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-340-76140-7; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-340-76141-5.
Review by Brett Bowles, Iowa State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 30
, Women’s Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. ix + 448 pp. Acknowledgements, contributors, notes, supplementary bibliography, and index of names. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0804747644.
Review by Sara L. Kimble, University of Northern Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 31
, The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xv + 484 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $125.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0199271364.
Review by Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 32
, Revolutionary Currents: Nation Building in the Transatlantic World. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004. 192 pp. Notes, select bibliography, and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7425-2165-6.
Review by Doina Pasca Harsanyi, Central Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 33
, La Révolution, une exception française? Paris: Flammarion, 2004. 461pp. Appendices, bibliography and index. €24 (pb). ISBN 2-082-10318-8.
Review by James Livesey, University of Sussex.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 34
, Letters from France, Neil Fraistat and Susan L. Lanser, Eds., Orchard Park, N.Y. and Ormskirk, Lancashire: Broadview Press, 2001. 295 pp. Introduction, chronology, appendices, and bibliography. $15.95 U.S. (pb.). ISBN 1-55111-255-8.
Review by Laura Emerson Talamante, Loyola Marymount University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 35
, Letters of François de Callières to the Marquise d’Huxelles. Introduction by Laurence Pope. In collaboration with William S. Brooks. Studies in French Civilization, Vol. 35. Lewiston, N.Y. and Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen, 2004. xxii + 314 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $119.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7734-6297-X.
Review by Marsha L. Frey, Kansas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 36
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, Reflections on the Revolution in France. Edited by Frank M. Turner with essays by Darrin M. McMahon, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Jack N. Rakove and Alan Wolfe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. xliii + 322 pp. Notes, suggested readings, and glossary index. $21.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-09978-9; $9.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-300-09979-7.
Review by Rachel Hammersley, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (March 2005), No. 37
April Reviews
, Contemporary France: A Democratic Education. Lanham, M.D., and Oxford, U.K.: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. xi + 340 pp. Notes, appendixes, and index. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7425-0198-1.
Review by W. Brian Newsome, Alfred University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 38
, Femmes et diplomatie: France–XXe siècle. Bruxelles: P. I. E.-Peter Lang, 2004. vii+200 pp. Index. $32.95 U.S. (pbk). ISBN 90-5201-233-4.
Review by Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 39
, Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution. Cambridge Mass.: The MIT Press, 2004. xi + 532 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $55 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-262-12258-8.
Review by Douglas C. Baxter, Ohio University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 40
, Order and Exclusion: Cluny and Christendom face Heresy, Judaism and Islam (1000-1500). Translated by Graham Robert Edwards. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. xv + 407 pp. £ 47.24 (hb); ISBN 0-8014-3708-3.
Review by Peter Biller, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 41
, Colonialism and Homosexuality. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. xii + 436 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $104.95 US (cl.). ISBN 0-415-19615-9. $32.95 (pb.). ISBN 0-415-19616-7.
Review by Rudi C. Bleys, Antwerp, Belgium.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 42
, Consuming the Past: The Medieval Revival in fin-de-siècle France. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003. xii + 295 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0319-9.
Review by Matt K. Matsuda, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 43
, Henry IV of France and the Politics of Religion, 1572-1596. 2 vols. Bristol and Portland: Elm Bank, 2002. xvi + 628 pp. $99.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-84150-846-2.
Review by Ronald S. Love, University of West Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 44
, Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris. New York: Harrington Park, 2004. xii + 258. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 US (hb). ISBN 1-56023-485-7; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-506023-486-5.
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 45
. From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 340 pp. List of contents, biographical appendix, list of Abbreviations, notes, index. $51.34 (hb). ISBN 0-19-509582-0.
Review by Megan Armstrong, University of Utah.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (April 2005), No. 46
May Reviews
, Jacques Coeur: Entrepreneur and King’s Bursar. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2005. ix + 187 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, glossary and index. $? U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-321-08537-X.
Review by Gayle K. Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 47
, Charlemagne: Father of a Continent. Translated by Allan Cameron. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2004. 426 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 (hb). ISBN 0-520-23943-1.
Review by Hans Hummer, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 48
, Napoleon in Egypt. Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing Ltd., 2003. v + 187 pp. Notes. $49.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-86372-299-7.
Review by Ernest Tucker, U.S. Naval Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 49
, The Bayeux Tapestry: Embroidering the Facts of History, The Proceedings of the Cerisy Colloquium (1999). Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2004. 426 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography. €39.50 E.U. (hb). ISBN 2-84133-213-6.
Review by Asa Simon Mittman, Bucknell University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 50
, Un camp de concentration français: les tsiganes alsaciens-lorrains à Crest, 1915-1919. Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2004. 181 pp. Illustrations, bibliography. 20 €, (pb) ISBN 2-7061-1187-9.
Review by Leonard V. Smith, Oberlin College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 51
, The Subject Medieval/Modern: Text and Governance in the Middle Ages. Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xiv + 446 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $65 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0804747431; $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8047-4744-X.
Review by Carol Symes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 52
Response by Peter Haidu to the review of his book by Carol Symes.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 53
, Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France during the German Occupation. New York: Picador, 2002. xx + 507 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $17.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-312-42359-4.
Review by Shannon L. Fogg, University of Missouri-Rolla.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 54
, Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots’ New World, 1517-1751. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xxiv + 1058 pp. Figures, maps, notes, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-80187390-8.
Review by John McGrath, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 55
, Histoire sociale et culturelle des caisses d’épargne en France, 1818-1881. Collection Economies et Sociétés Contemporaines. Paris: Economica, 2004. x + 694 pp. Cahier central de 12 p. couleur, chronologie, index des noms de personnes. 35 €. (pb.) ISBN 2-7178-4905-X.
Compte rendu par Olivier Ménard, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 56
, Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 333 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.96 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3816-8.
Review by Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 57
, Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2005, xiv + 285 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 U. S. (hb). ISBN 1-57488-786-6.
Review by Barry Shapiro, Allegheny College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 58
, Faire Voir, Faire Croire: L’opinion publique sous Louis XIII. Paris: Champ Vallon, 2003. 537 pp. Illustrations, charts, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. €34 (pb). ISBN 2-87673-372-2.
Review by Sharon Kettering, Professor Emerita, Montgomery College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 59
, Taking Liberties: Problems of a New Order from the French Revolution to Napoleon. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002. ix + 210 pp. Notes and index. £45.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0-7190-6431-7; £14.99 U.K. (pb). ISBN 0-7190-6431-7.
Review by Jill Maciak Walshaw, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (May 2005), No. 60
June Reviews
, Les îles bretonnes: Une image en construction (1750-1914). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2003. 466 pp. Notes, maps, figures, bibliography, index. 24€ (pb). ISBN 2-86847-824-7.
Review by Caroline Ford, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 61
, Richelieu. Paris: Flammarion, 2004. 590 pp. Images, notes, chronology, appendices, maps, bibliography, and index. €26 (pb). ISBN 2-08210290-4.
Review by Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 62
, A Gothic Sermon: Making a Contract with the Mother of God, Saint Mary of Amiens. University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 2004, 173 pages, 15 illustrations. $39.95 (cl). ISBN: 0520238478.
Review by Beverly Kienzle, Harvard Divinity School.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 63
, Lessons For My Daughter. Ed. and trans. by Sharon L. Jansen. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004. xiii + 105 pp. Notes, bibliography and Index. $70.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1843840162.
Review by Linda Lierheimer, Hawaii Pacific University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 64
, Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. 310pp. Abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.94 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-074-01541-X.
Review by Jonathan Dewald, University of Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 65
, The Genesis of Napoleonic Propaganda, 1796-1799. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Gutenberg e-book. www.gutenberg-e.org Figures/Illustrations, Bibliography, Appendix, Web Links and Search Facility. Access $49.50. ISBN: 0-231-12456-2.
Review by Malcolm Crook, Keele University, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 66
, Patronat, bourgeoisie, catholicisme et libéralisme. Autour du Journal d’Auguste Isaac. Actes de la journée d’étude du 18 juin 2003. Cahiers Pierre Léon n° 5. Lyon: LARHRA, 2004. 230 pp. Notes. €20 (pb) ISBN 2-9519554-4-8.
Review by Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 67
, Gender and Voice in the French Novel, 1730-1782. Burlington, Vt. and Hants, England: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2004. 209 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography and index. $79.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-3702-6.
Review by Lesley H. Walker, Indiana University, South Bend.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (June 2005), No. 68
July Reviews
, Marie de Gournay: Itinéraires d’une femme savante. Paris: Fayard, 2004. 397 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 25€ (pb). ISBN 2-213-61890-9.
Review by Katharine J. Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 69
, Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear: Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetian. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. 1 Map. Notes. xiv + 163 pp. $ 29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-12120-6.
Review by Patrick Nold, Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 70
, The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism & Political Ideology in Renaissance France. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004. xi + 322 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8132-1384-3.
Review by Hilary J. Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 71
, The Cubist Painters. Translated with commentary by Peter Read. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. 234p. Bibliography. $29.95. ISBN 0-520-24354-4.
Review by William Hauptman, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 72
, Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France, 1925-1945. Afterword by Zeev Sternhell. Wayne State University Press, Detroit Michigan, 2004. Bibliography. $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8143-3227-7.
Review by Nadia Malinovich, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 73
, La France et les juifs de 1789 à nos jours. Paris: Éditions de Seuil, 2004. 385 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index of proper names. 22€. (pb.). ISBN 2-02-060954-1.
Review by Jeffrey Haus, Kalamazoo College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 74
, Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2005. viii + 255 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0 8014 4248 6.
Review by Sarah A. Curtis, San Francisco State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 75
, Esclavage, métissage, liberté: La Révolution française en Guadeloupe, 1789-1802. Paris, Grasset, 2004. 507 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. 22€ (pb). ISBN 2 246 64481 X.
Review by Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 76
, Des barrages, des usines et des hommes. L’industrialization des Alpes du Nord entre ressources locales et apports extérieurs. Études offertes au professeur Henri Morsel. Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2002. 386 pp. €35 (hb) ISBN 2-7061-1063-5.
, Enterprises et Pouvoir Économique dans la Région Rhône-Alpes (1920-1954). Lyon: Éditions Réné Georges, 2003. 295 pp. €15 (pb) ISBN 2-9519554-3-X.
Review by Daniel Ringrose, Minot State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 77
, Blood Libel: The Damascus Affair of 1840. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. viii + 257 pp. Bibliography and index. $35.00 US (cl.). ISBN 0-299-20280-1.
Review by Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (July 2005), No. 78
August Reviews
, Montesquieu and the Spirit of Modernity. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2002: 9. ix + 257 pp. Index. $74.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0796-9.
Review by Johnson Kent Wright, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 79
, Culture, Identity, and Nationalism: French Flanders in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Suffolk, U.K. and Rochester, N.Y.: The Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2004. x + 233 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 (cl). ISBN 0-86193-269-2.
Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 80
, Black Skins, French Voices: Caribbean Ethnicity and Activism in Urban France. Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press, 2004. xx + 156 pp. $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8133-4254-6.
, Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2004. xi + 284 pp. Notes. $19.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-253-21712-1.
Review by Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 81
, Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-Ruled West Africa, 1914-1956. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2004. xi + 300 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $72.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-8204-6941-6.
Review by Owen White, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 82
, The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies and Tabloids in Early Modern France. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xi + 204pp. Notes. $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-226-14141-1.
Review by Kathryn Norberg, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 83
, Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791. Reacting to the Past Series. London and New York: Longman, 2005. v + 184 pp. $18.80 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-321-33229-6.
Review by Jennifer J. Popiel, Saint Louis University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 84
, The Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, 1828–1967. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2004. xvi + 620 pp. Tables, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 (cl). ISBN 0-520-23664-5.
Review by Jolanta T. Pekacz, Dalhousie University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 85
, Formation au travail, enseignement technique et apprentissage: Actes, 127e congrès du CTHS, Nancy, 15-20 avril 2002. Paris: Editions du CTHS, 2005. 300 pp. 22.00€ (pb). ISBN 2735505634.
Compte rendu par Nicolas Marty, Université de Perpignan-Via Domitia.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 86
, Lordship in the County of Maine, c.890-1160. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2004. xvii + 255 pp. Maps, genealogies, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-84383-086-8.
Review by Robert F. Berkhofer III, Western Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 87
, The Politics of Piety: Franciscan Preachers during the Wars of Religion, 1560-1600. Rochester, N.Y. and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 2004. 278 pp. Appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 (cl). ISBN 1-58046-175-1.
Review by Penny Roberts, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 88
, The Forgotten French: Exiles in the British Isles, 1940-44. New York and Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003. x + 340 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 (cl). ISBN 0-7190-6438-4.
Review by Nicole Dombrowski Risser, Towson University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 89
, Between Crown and Community: Politics and Civic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Poitiers. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. xvi + 313 pp. Maps, figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $57.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4234-6.
Review by Keith P. Luria, North Carolina State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (August 2005), No. 90
September Reviews
, Olivier de La Marche and the Rhetoric of Fifteenth-Century Historiography. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press, 2004. viii + 247 pp. Figure, table, notes, bibliography and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-84383-052-3.
Review by Cynthia J. Brown, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 91
, Dido’s Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xiv + 506 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-24312-5.
Review by Lynn Wood Mollenauer, University of North Carolina–Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 92
, Napoleon and Berlin: The Franco-Prussian War in North Germany, 1813. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. 385 pp. $30.05 (pb). ISBN 0806133996.
, L’invention de la guerre totale: XVIIIe-XXe siècle. Paris: Le Félin Kiron, 2004. 329 pp. €20 (pb). ISBN 2866455665.
Review by David A. Bell, The Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 93
, The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968. New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2004. x + 310 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, chronology, glossary, and index. $75.00 U.S.(hb). ISBN 1-57181-675-5; $24.95 U.S (pb). ISBN 1-57181-685-2.
Review by Rosemary Wakeman, Forham University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 94
, Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of an Artist. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. 272 pp. Plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-12002-1.
Review by Charles Rearick, The University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 95
, Empire of Love: Histories of France and the Pacific. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 232 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $65 U.S., £39.50 (cl.). ISBN 0-19-516294-3; $21.95 U.S., £13.50 (pb). ISBN 0-19-516295-1.
Review by Daniel J. Sherman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 96
Response by Matt K. Matsuda to the review of his book by Daniel J. Sherman.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 97
, The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2004. xiv + 456 pp. List of primary sources and index. $50.00 (cl) ISBN 0-520-23859-1.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 98
, Regimes of Description: In the Archive of the Eighteenth Century. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2005. xiv + 287 pp. Illustrations, notes, works cited, index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8047-4741-5; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8047-4742-3.
Review by G. Matthew Adkins, Miami University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 99
, Church, Crown, and Episcopate under Louis XIV. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. xii + 526 pp. Maps, tables, notes, appendices, and bibliography. $60.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-300-10356-5.
Review by Barbara B. Diefendorf, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 100
, In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1670-1730. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xxviii + 484 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82742-6.
Review by Saliha Belmessous, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 101
, Abelard and Heloise. Great Medieval Thinkers. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xviii + 308 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $74.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-515688-9; $24.95 U.S. (pb). 0-19-515689-7.
Review by Barbara Newman, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 102
The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2005. 397 pp. Notes and index. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-262-19516-X.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 103
, Through a Glass Darkly: History and Memory in François Mauriac’s “Bloc-Notes”. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2004. 240 pp. + xii, $65.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-813-21380-0.
Review by Samuel Moyn, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (September 2005), No. 104
October Reviews
, Fathers, Families, and the State in France, 1914-1945. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xii + 261 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $41.50 (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4122-6.
Review by Laura Lee Downs, Centre de Recherches Scientifiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 105
, We’ll Always Have Paris: American Tourists in France since 1930. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xiv + 382 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-226-47378-3.
Review by Christopher Endy, California State University, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 106
, Aymeri of Narbonne: A French Epic Romance. New York: Italica Press, 2005. xxxvii + 169 pp. Maps, glossary, appendices, and bibliography. $17.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-934977-67-4.
Review by Richard W. Kaeuper, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 107
, Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe. (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World). Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi + 275 pp. Illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. $39.50 U.S (cl). ISBN 0-691-09166-8.
Review by Robert Chazan, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 108
, Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. vii + 249 pp. Maps, abbreviations, notes, and index. $30.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-517487-9.
Review by Leslie Choquette, Institut français, Assumption College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 109
, Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin. Ed. and trans. Mary B. McKinley. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxix + 110 pp. Notes, bibliographies, and index. $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-14279-5.
Review by Cynthia J. Cupples, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 110
, An Uncertain Idea of France: Essays and Reminiscence on the Third Republic. New York: Peter Lang, 2005. x + 261 pp. $66.95 U.S. ISBN 0-8204-7481-9.
Review by Talbot C. Imlay, Université Laval.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 111
, Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis 1940-1942: Complexité de la politique de collaboration. Paris: Éditions Autrement – collection Mémoires, 2005. Notes, bibliography, and index. France: €132 (pb); Abroad €161 (pb). ISBN 2-7467-0588-5. ISSN 1157-4488.
Review by Perry Biddiscombe, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 112
Grenoble et le Vercors: De la Résistance à la Libération 1944-1944. Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2003. 271 pp. Appendix, maps, photographs, bibliography, index of people, index of place names, list of abbreviations. €30 (pb). ISBN 2 7061 0998 X.
Review by Julia Torrie, St. Thomas University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 113
Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet! The Bruyas Collection from the Musée Fabre, Montpelllier. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press in association with Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, 2004. 256 pp. 32 b/w + 94 color ills. $60.00 (cl). U.S. ISBN 0-300-10523-1.
Review by Véronique Chagnon-Burke, Christie’s Education, New York.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 114
, The Troubled Republic: Visual Culture and Social Debate in France, 1889-1900. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 255 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, footnotes, index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-10456-0.
Review by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 115
La Scène bâtarde: entre Lumières et romantisme. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2004. 334 pp. Tables, figures, notes. 25€ (pb). ISBN: 2-913323-91-X.
Review by Elizabeth A. Blood, Salem State College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 116
, The Other Within: Ethics, Politics and the Body in Simone de Beauvoir. Lanham and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. xvi + 195 pp. Preface, notes, bibliography and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7425-3476-6.
Review by Alison S. Fell, Lancaster University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (October 2005), No. 117
November Reviews
, Chronicle of a Summer, (Chronique d’un été.) First Run/Icarus Films, VHS, 2003 [1961], 84 minutes.
, Ciné-Ethnography. Ed. and trans. Steven Feld, Series “Visible Evidence” No. 13, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003, viii + 448 p. $25.95 U.S. (pb) ISBN 0-81-664104-8.
Review Article by Yves Laberge, Institut québécois des hautes études internationales.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 118
, The Legend of Napoleon. London, Granta Books, 2004. xiii + 336 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. 20£ U.K. ISBN 1-86207-667-7.
Compte-rendu par Annie Jourdan, Université d’Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 119
Response by Sudhir Hazareesingh to the review of his book by Annie Jourdan.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 120
Please see the continued discussion that occurred on H-France
, France 1715-1804: Power and the People. Harlow, England and New York: Pearson Education, 2004. xv + 307 pp. Maps, glossary, notes, and index., 19.99 U.K. (pb). ISBN 0-582-23925-7.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 121
, Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. 201 pp. Figures, notes, acknowledgments, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01497-9.
Review by Peter M. Jones, University of Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 122
The French Exception. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005. 249 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-57181-684-4.
Review by Sophie Meunier, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 123
, Weaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity. Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past series. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. xvi + 246 pp. Illustrations, plates, notes, bibliography, appendices, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4008-4.
Review by Kathryn A. Edwards, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 124
Foreign Intelligence and Information in Elizabethan England: Two English Treatises on the State of France, 1580-1584. Camden Fifth Series, vol. 25. Cambridge and New York: University Press, 2004. ix + 261 pp. Appendices, notes, and index.$75.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 0-521-84724-9.
Review by Linda Frey, University of Montana.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 125
, In the Court of the Pear King: French Culture and the Rise of Realism. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. xi + 178 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S., 16.50 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4341-5.
Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 126
, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre. Washington: National Gallery of Art and Princeton University Press, 2005. xiv + 294 pp. 370 color plates, 17 halftones. Artists’ Biographies, Checklist of Exhibition, Index, Bibliography. $60.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 0-691-12337-3; $37.80 U.S. (pb) 0-89468-320-9.
Review by Elizabeth K. Mix, Purdue University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 127
, A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. xiii + 382 pp. $39.50 U.S. / £26.95 (UK) (cl). ISBN 0-691-11558-3.
Review by K. Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 128
, Léon Harmel: Entrepreneur as Catholic Social Reformer. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. x + 360 pp. Photographs, maps notes, bibliography and index. $48.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-03360-9.
Review by James F. McMillan, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 129
, The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2004. x + 301 pp. Notes, index. $22.00 U.S. (pb.) ISBN: 0-226-31811-7.
Review by Sandrine Sanos, Earlham College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 130
, The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism. Translated by Sharon Bowman. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp. xiii + 518, $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-72368-2.
Review by Seth Armus, Saint Joseph’s College (New York).
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 131
, The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2005. xii + 341. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S.; £39.95 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-520-24180-0.
Review by Gary Kates, Pomona College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 132
, The Commerce of Cartography: Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ix-345 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, and bibliography. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-65341-2.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 133
, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. x + 301 pp. Maps, pictures, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. ISBN 0521841933.
Review by Gary P. Cox, Gordon College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 134
, Planning Paris Before Haussmann. Baltimore & London: John Hopkins University Press, 2004. xiii + 336 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-801-87930-2.
Review by Colin Jones, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 135
, The Navy and Government in Early Modern France 1572-1661. London: The Royal Historical Society, 2004. ix + 198 pp. Appendices, bibliography and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 0-86193-270-6.
Review by David Buisseret, The University of Texas at Arlington.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (November 2005), No. 136
December Reviews
Tocqueville and Beyond. Essays on the Old Regime in Honor of David D. Bien. Newark: University of Delaware Press, London: Associated University Presses, 2003. 300pp. Bibliography, list of contributors, index. U.S. (cl) $52.50 ISBN 0-87413-830-2.
Review by Keith Michael Baker, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 137
, Shakespeare Goes to Paris: How the Bard Conquered France. London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2005. xix + 240pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $39.95 US (hb). ISBN 1-85285-452-9.
Review by Lenard R. Berlanstein, University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 138
, Locating Bourdieu. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005). xii + 208pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-253-21732-6.
Review by Jeremy F. Lane, Nottingham University, Nottingham UK.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 139
, The French Navy and the Seven Years’ War. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xviii + 445 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8032-1731-5.
Review by Geoffrey Symcox, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 140
, The Southern French Nobility and the Albigensian Crusade. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005. xxviii + 187. Maps, genealogies, notes, bibliography and index. $90.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-84383-129-5.
Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 141
Fleuves et marais, une histoire au croisement de la nature et de la culture: Sociétés préindustrielles et milieux fluviaux, lacustres, et palustres: pratiques sociales et hydrosystèmes. (Archéologie et histoire de l’art, 19). Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2004. 493 pp. Illustrations, maps. €35.00. ISBN 2-7355-0561-8.
Review by Paolo Squatriti, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 142
, Qui parle pour la nation? Les élections en Champagne, 1765-1830. Paris: Société des études robespierristes, 2004. 273pp. Map, tables, notes and bibliography. €32.00 (pb). ISBN 2-908327-49-X.
Review by Alan Forrest, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 143
, The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon’s Brother Joseph. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 269 pp. Plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3872-9.
Review by Wayne Hanley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 144
, The Poor Man’s Son: Menrad, Kabyle Schoolteacher. Trans. Lucy R. McNair. Intro. James D. LeSueur. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xxxiv + 153 pp. Introduction and glossary. $49.50 (cl). ISBN 0-8139-2325-5. $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8139-2326-3.
Review by Lee C. Whitfield, Wheelock College.
H-France Review Vol. 5 (December 2005), No. 145