January Reviews
Lucien Febvre, lecteur et critique. Paris: Albin Michel, 2003. 467 pp. Notes, annexes, selective bibliography. €26 (pb). ISBN 2-226-13282-1.
Le rôle social de l’historien: De la chaire au prétoire. Paris: Albin Michel, 2003. 343 pp. Notes. €22.50 (pb). ISBN 2-226-13484-0.
Review by John L. Harvey, St. Cloud State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 1
, L’Histoire à rebrousse-poil: Les élites, la Restauration, la Révolution. Paris: Fayard, 2005. 190 pp. Notes and index. 14€ France (pb). ISBN 9-782213-625324.
Review by Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University (State University of New York).
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 2
, France in Crisis: Welfare, Inequality and Globalization since 1980. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 296 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $23.99 (pb). ISBN: 0-521-84414-2.
Review by Jan Windebank, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 3
, Histoire de la qualité alimentaire, XIXe-XXe siècle. Paris: Seuil, 2005. 440 pp. Notes, index of concepts, and index of names. €26 (pb). ISBN: 2-02-078841-1.
Review by Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 4
, A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823-2000. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005, 286 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl), £20.50. ISBN 0-8014-4282-6.
Compte rendu par Renaud Morieux, Université de Reims.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 5
, Rulership in France, 15th-17th Centuries. Variorum Collected Studies Series CS794. Aldershot, Hamps. and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. xii + 336 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $109.95 U.S./£57.50 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-86078-920-9.
Review by Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 6
, Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires. Maryland: Lexington Books, 2003. xv + 335. Notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95 US (pb) ISBN 0-7391-0658-9; $80.00 US (cl) ISBN 0-7391-0657-0.
Review by Richard Whatmore, University of Sussex.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 7
, Étrangers à la carte. L’administration de l’immigration en France (1945-1975). Grasset, avril 2005, 402 pages, annexes, inventaire des sources, bibliographie, index des noms de personnes, 21 €90, ISBN 2-246-65801-2.
Compte rendu par Pierre Piazza, l’Institut national des hautes études de sécurité (INHES).
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 8
, François de Neufchâteau : biographie intellectuelle. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2005, 557 pp. Bibliography, Index. €30.40 (cloth). ISBN 2-85944-525-0.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (January 2006), No. 9
February Reviews
, Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. xii + 279 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-253-34442-5; $24.95 U.S. (pb) ISBN: 0-253-21705-9.
Review by Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 10
, Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005. 288 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. $53.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-87413-897-3.
Review by Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 11
, Popular Protest in Late Medieval Europe: Italy, France and Flanders. Manchester Medieval Sources. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004. xxiv + 389 pp. Maps, notes, suggested reading, and index. $74.95 (hb) + $24.95 (pb) ISBN 0-7190-6730-8 (hb), 0-7190-6731-6 (pb).
Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 12
, Perrier, c’est nous! Histoire de la source Perrier et de son personnel. Paris: Editions de l’Atelier/ Editions Ouvrières, 2005. 254 pp. Map, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 24 € (pb). ISBN 2-7082-3816-7.
Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 13
, The Inverted Mirror: Mythologizing the Enemy in France and Germany, 1898-1914. Vol. 2, Studies in Contemporary European History. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. ix + 141 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, and index. $50.00 (hb). ISBN 1-57181-669-0.
Review by Christopher Fischer, Indiana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 14
, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 2005. 237 pp. Color plates, black and white illustrations, notes, and index. $30.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-10872-9.
Review by Gretchen van Slyke, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 15
, From Perfectibility to Perversion: Meliorism in Eighteenth-Century France. New York: Peter Lang, 2005. xii + 184 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $64.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-8204-7495-9.
Review by Michael R. Lynn, Agnes Scott College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 16
, La Voix et le Geste. Une approche culturelle de la violence socio-politique. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2005. 384 pp. Appendices and illustrations. €38 (pb). ISBN 2-84516-276-6.
Review by Charles Tilly, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (February 2006), No. 17
March Reviews
, The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. 441 pp. Figures, maps, notes, and index. $26.00. ISBN 0-374-27341-3.
Review by Paul R. Hanson, Butler University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 18
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, Les Tribunaux criminels sous la Révolution et l’Empire, 1792-1811. Collection « Histoire » Translated by James Steven Bryant (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2005) 318 pp. 22€ ISBN 2-7535-00095-9.
Review by Judith A. Miller, Emory University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 19
, The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. xvi + 412 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $89.95 (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3453-4; $24.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8223-3465-8.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 20
, Greuze and the Painting of Sentiment. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii + 335 pp. Illustrations, bibliography and index. $120.00 (cl). ISBN 0-521-55508-6.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 21
, Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 266 pp. Plates, notes, and index. $80.00 (cl). ISBN 0-521-83726-X.
Review by Benjamin Harvey, Mississippi State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 22
, Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. ix+234 pp. Notes and index. $42.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-8014-4110-2.
Review by Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 23
, Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. xiv + 322 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN (cloth): 0-226-84976-7.
Review by Stuart Carroll, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 24
Response by Kate van Orden to the review of her book by Stuart Carroll.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 25
, Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xi + 449 pp. Notes and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8020-8718-3.
Review by Joseph F. Byrnes, Oklahoma State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 26
, Récits des Antilles: Le Bois de la Soufrière, suivis d’un choix de poèmes. L’Harmattan : Paris, Budapest, Torino, 2004. xlvii +157pp. Introduction (par Adrianna M. Paliyenko), Note technique, Bibliographie sélective (Ecrits d’Anaïs Ségalas, ouvrages critiques, historiques et littéraires, bibliographie complémentaire : esquisses de moeurs coloniales), couverture illustrée, frontispice de la couverture de l’édition de 1886, six gravures, titres en perspectives chez cet éditeur. 17,50 euros (pb). ISBN 2-7475-7461-X.
Compte-rendu par Hélène N. Sanko, John Carroll University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 27
, French Intellectuals and Politics from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 214 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-33-3778-12X.
Compte-rendu par Christophe Prochasson, EHESS (AHMOC).
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 28
, Caring for Body and Soul. Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. xiii + 255 pp. Abbreviations, acknowledgements, maps, figures, notes, select bibliography, and index. $49.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02196-9.
Review by Felice Lifshitz, Florida International University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 29
Response by Bonnie Effros to the review of her book by Felice Lifshitz.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 30
Arcisse de Caumont (1801-1873). Érudit normand et fondateur de l’archéologie française. Caen: Société des antiquaires de Normandie, 2005. 514 pp. Notes and figures. 35 € (pb). ISBN 2-9510558-2-X.
Review by Stéphane Gerson, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (March 2006), No. 31
April Reviews
Les comités d’organisation et l’économie dirigée de Vichy. Actes du colloque international des 3 et 4 avril 2003. Caen: Centre de recherche en histoire quantitative, 2004, 320 pp. 25 euros. ISBN 2-9519438-5-7.
Compte-rendu par Alain Beltran, Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 32
, Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam: Women, Words, and War. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2004. x + 163. Bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-831-X.
Review by Marie-Paule Ha, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 33
, Parité!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. ix + 191 pp. Notes, index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-74107-9. $22.00 U.S. (pb) ISBN 0-226-74108-7.
Review by Carolyn J. Dean, Brown University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 34
, Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair. Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2005. 416 pp. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-580-4618-59.
Review by Tamara Levitz, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 35
, The Reform of the Frankish Church: Chrodegang of Metz and the Regula canonicorum in the Eighth Century. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, 61. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 342 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and indices. £50 U.K./$80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-83931-9.
Review by Abigail Firey, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 36
, Napoleon and the British. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. xii + 354 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. Cloth, $40.00, £25. ISBN: 0-300-09001-3.
Review by J. E. Cookson, University of Canterbury.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 37
Histoire du thermalisme en France au XIXe siècle: Eau, médecine et loisirs. Paris: Economica (Collection économies et sociétés contemporaine), 2005. xi + 334 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and bibliography. 39 € (pb). ISBN 2-717-8490-41.
Review by Alex Dracobly, University of Oregon.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 38
, Beyond Enlightenment. Occultism and Politics in Modern France. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. Bibliography and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 087580344X.
Compte-rendu par Nicole Edelman, Université Paris-10.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 39
, The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France (1590-1615). Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2005. vi + 275 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. $94.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-7546-3888-X.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 40
, Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. xiv + 257 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. (cl); ISBN 0-7546-3619- 4.
Review by Julie Hardwick, University of Texas at Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 41
, France in 1938. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. x + 252 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 (cl). ISBN 0-8071-3050-8.
Review by Sean Kennedy, University of New Brunswick.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 42
, Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. ix + 370 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-515297-2.
Review by Paul Mazgaj, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 43
, The Interpreter. (New York and London: Free Press, 2005). 256 pp. $25.00 US (hbk). ISBN 0-743-25424-4.
Review by Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 44
, The Tragic Tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War. Berkley and London: University of California Press, 2005. xiv +217 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-24297-1; $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-520-24299-8.
Review by Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 45
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, Through the Reading Glass: Women, Books, and Sex in the French Enlightenment. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. vii + 268 pages. Bibliography and index. $75.00 US (cl). ISBN: 0-7914-6421-0.
Review by Jennifer Heuer, University of Massachusetts.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 46
, Rock of Contention: Free French and Americans at War in New Caledonia, 1940-1945. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005. xii + 251 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-57181-682-8.
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 47
Men, Women and the Birthing of Modern Science. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. viii + 215 pp. Notes, index, and list of contributors. $38.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-87580-340-7.
Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 48
, Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii + 587pp. Maps, notes, essay on sources, index. ISBN 0–674–01880–X. $39.95 (hb).
Review by Elizabeth Greenhalgh, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (April 2006), No. 49
May Reviews
, Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance. Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xii + 311 pp. Bibliography. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-4039-6294-4.
Review by Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 50
, Huguenot Prophecy and Clandestine Worship in the Eighteenth Century: ‘The Sacred Theatre of the Cévennes. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. ix + 220 pp. Illustrations, map, table, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-5182-7.
Review by W. Gregory Monahan, Eastern Oregon University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 51
Response by Georgia Cosmos to the review of her book by W. Gregory Monahan.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 52
, Paul Doumer, gouverneur général de d’Indochine (1897-1902): le tremplin colonial. Paris: l’Harmattan, 2004. 248 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. 21.20 € (pb.). ISBN 2-7475-6954-3.
Review by Michael G. Vann, California State University, Sacramento.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 53
Réponse par Amaury Lorin au compte rendu de son ouvrage par Michael G. Vann.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 54
, The Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition and Revolutionary Socialism. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xii + 226 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 US (cl). ISBN: 0-333-72302-3. $28.95 US (pb). ISBN: 0-333-72303-1.
Review by Steven C. Hause, Washington University in St. Louis.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 55
Marchés, migrations et logiques familiales dans les espaces français, canadien et suisse, 18e-20e siècles. Bern, Switz.: Peter Lang, 2005. 321 pp. + illustrations, graphs, and tables. $59.95 (U.S.). ISBN 3-03910-497-7.
Review by Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 56
, Popular Resistance in the French Wars: Patriots, Partisans and Pirates. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. vii + 233 pp. Figures, notes, index. $74.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 14-03938-261.
Review by David P. Jordan, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 57
. Colette. VHS; 29 minutes, black & white. Distributed in the U.S. by First/Run Icarus Films, 2003 [1951].
Review by Judith Mayne, Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 58
, Sartre: The Philosopher of the Twentieth-Century. Translated by Andrew Brown. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2003. v + 536 pp. Notes and Index. $30.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7456-3009-X.
Review by Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 59
, Marguerite: A Reflection of Herself. Brooklyn, N.Y.: First Run / Icarus Films, 2002. VHS, 61 minutes. Color and black and white. $390.00 U.S.
Review by Catherine Rodgers, University of Wales, Swansea.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 60
, Interpreting the Musical Past: Early Music in Nineteenth-Century France. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxii + 295 pp. Personalia, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-517682-0.
, Le mélomane et l’historien. Paris: Armand Colin, 2005. 227 pp. Index. €23 E.U. (pb). ISBN 2-20-026914-5.
Review by William Weber, California State University, Long Beach.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 61
, La IVe République. Que sais-je? Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2004. 128 pp. Appendix, bibliography. €8.00 (pbk). ISBN 2-13-053651-4.
Review by Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University Lincoln Center.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 62
, Surrealism and the Politics of Eros, 1938-1968. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2005. 240 pp. Color plates and black and white illustrations. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-500-23821-9.
Review by Mark Antliff, Duke University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 63
, The Trial of Joan of Arc. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. xii + 251 pp. Appendices, notes, further reading, index. $24.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-674-01894-X.
Review by Larissa Juliet Taylor, Colby College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 64
Medieval Religion: New Approaches. Rewriting Histories. New York and London: Routledge, 2005. xxiii + 422 pp. Figures, notes, index. $105.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-415-31686-3; $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-31687-1.
Review by Christine Caldwell Ames, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 65
, Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. xii + 306 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $114.95 U.S. ISBN 0-86078-961-6.
Review by J. E. M. Benham, University of East Anglia.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (May 2006), No. 66
June Reviews
, Les usages du patrimoine: Monuments, musées et politique coloniale en Algérie (1830-1930). Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2004. 411 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. 45 € (pb.). ISBN: 2-7351-1006-0.
Review by Benjamin Claude Brower, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 67
, Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern France. London and New York: Routledge, 2004. x + 227 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $115 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-415-21264-2; $29.95 US (pb). 0-415-21265-0.
Review by Moshe Sluhovsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 68
, Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii + 449 pp. Illustrations, notes and index. $35.00 US (hb). ISBN 0-674-01703-X.
Review by Siân Reynolds, University of Stirling.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 69
, Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. vii + 327 pp. Figures, maps, notes, and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-24214-9. $ 19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-520-24414-1.
Review by Alice Conklin, The Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 70
, The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xi + 276 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-34972-1; $24.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-34974-8.
Review by William E. Burgwinkle, King’s College, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 71
, Theatre, Politics, and Markets in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Staging Modernity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. ix + 268 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-7041-6.
Review by Jeffrey H. Jackson, Rhodes College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 72
, London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii + 367. Notes. $125.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-926949-1.
Review by Martin Horn, McMaster University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 73
, Calvinism’s First Battleground: Conflict and Reform in the Pays de Vaud, 1528-1559. Studies in Early Modern Religious Reforms 4. xvi + 286 pp. Dordrecht: Springer, 2005. Bibliography and index. $139.00 (cl). ISBN 1-4020-4193-4.
Review by Raymond A. Mentzer, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 74
French History and Civilization. Papers from the George Rudé Seminar. Volume One, 2005.Melbourne: The George Rudé Society. 2005. 286 pp. ISSN 1553-9172.
Review by Lenard R. Berlanstein, University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 75
, Sexing la mode: Gender, Fashion and Commercial Culture in Old Regime France. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004. xviii + 244 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $89.95 U.S (cl). ISBN 185973-830-3; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 185973-835-4.
Review by Christine Adams, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (June 2006), No. 76
July Reviews
. Death Squadrons: The French School. New York: First Run/Icarus Films: 2003. 60 Minutes color. Sale: Video/DVD, $390. Rental: Video, $100.
Review by James D. Le Sueur, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 77
, Nobility Reimagined. The Patriotic Nation in Eighteenth-Century France. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. xv + 307pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). $29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8949-0.
Review by Tim Blanning, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 78
, Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early-Modern France. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2005. xxxviii + 357 pp. Map, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8132-1411-4.
Review by Penny Roberts, University of Warwick, U.K.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 79
, Publishing the Prince, History, Reading and the Birth of Political Criticism. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 2005. xxi-202 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Catalog of Works by Abraham-Nicolas de La Houssaye. $49.50 U.S. (hbk). ISBN 0-472-11473-5.
Compte-rendu par Antoine Lilti, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 80
, Crusading in the Age of Joinville. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. 216 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-5363-3.
Review by Philip Daileader, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 81
, Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. xvi + 243 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-98937-2.
Review by Ann W. Ramsey, Independent Scholar, Esopus, N.Y.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 82
, Enlightening the World, Encyclopédie, The Book That Changed the Course of History. New York and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xiii + 372 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6895-0.
Review by Raymond Birn, University of Oregon.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 83
, Genèse d’un droit administratif sous le règne de Louis XV. Les pratiques de l’intendant dans les provinces du Nord (1726-1754). Orléans: Presses Universitaires d’Orléans, 2005. iii + 450 pp. Index, notes, and bibliography. €36 (pb). ISBN 2-913454-26-7.
Review by Gail Bossenga, College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (July 2006), No. 84
August Reviews
, Remaking France: Americanization, Public Diplomacy, and the Marshall Plan. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. xii + 259. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 (cl). ISBN 1-84545-154-6.
Review by William I. Hitchcock, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 85
, France in the Era of Fascism: Essays on the French Authoritarian Right. Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books, 2005. vii + 232 pp. Bibliography, index. $60.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 1-571-8153-76.
Review by Paul Jankowski, Brandeis University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 86
, La Haine. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. x + 118 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and appendices. $40 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-252-03091-5. $15 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07332-0.
Review by Brett Bowles, State University of New York at Albany.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 87
, Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 268. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4394-7.
Review by Nathan Bracher, Texas A & M University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 88
Response by Samuel Moyn to the review of his book by Nathan Bracher.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 89
, Faire l’Europe sans défaire la France. 60 ans de politique d’unité européenne des gouvernements et des présidents de la République française (1943-2003). Brussels: P. I. E. Peter Lang, 2005. 630 pp. €54.50, $64.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 90-5201-249-0.
Review by Helen Drake, Loughborough University, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 90
, The Headless Republic: Sacrificial Violence in Modern French Thought. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. x + 205 pp. Notes and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-8014-4150-1.
Review by Julian Wright, University of Durham.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 91
, Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005. viii + 320 pp. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 03-40-80786-5.
Review by James Given, University of California, Irvine.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 92
, Gender and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Europe. New Approaches to European History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xi + 267 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521- 62102-X; $22.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-62926-8.
Review by Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 93
, Divided Houses: Religion and Gender in Modern France. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. xi + 170 pp. Bibliography and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4367-9.
Review by Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 94
Response by Caroline Ford to the review of her book by Carol E. Harrison.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 95
, Sociolinguistic Variation in Seventeenth-Century France: Methodology and Case Studies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xii + 267 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-82088-X.
Review by Paul Cohen, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 96
, The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France. University Park: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2005. vii + 448 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02520-4.
Review by Judith DeGroat, St. Lawrence University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 97
, The French Empire between the Wars. Imperialism, Politics and Society. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2005. xvii + 408. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $74.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-7190-6518-7.
Review by Owen White, University of Delaware.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 98
, Pétain: How the Hero of France became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xi + 298 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-4039-7011-4.
Review by Gearóid Barry, National University of Ireland, Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 99
September Reviews
, The Family and the Nation: Gender and Citizenship in Revolutionary France, 1789-1830. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2005. x + 256 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-8014-4286-9.
Review by Sarah Maza, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 100
, Holy Tears, Holy Blood: Women, Catholicism, and the Culture of Suffering in France, 1840-1970. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2004. ix + 291 pp. Includes bibliographical references and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-80145-4207-9.
Review by Rebecca Rogers, Université Paris 5, Sorbonne.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 101
La politique culturelle en débat: Anthologie 1955-2005. Paris: La Documentation française, 2006. 212 pp. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 2-11-006089-1.
Review by Scott Gunther, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 102
, La Reine Margot. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. 112 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendices, bibliography. $15.00 (pb) $40.00 (hb). ISBN 0-252-07331-2 (pb), ISBN 0-252-03090-7 (hb).
Review by Sylvie E. Blum-Reid, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 103
Faire l’histoire des entreprises sous l’Occupation: Les acteurs économiques et leurs archives. Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2004. 375 pp. €23.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7355-0559-6.
Les archives des entreprises sous l’Occupation: Conservation, accessibilité et apport. Paris: IFRÉSI, 2005. 319 pp. €20.00 (pb). ISBN 2-9119-7530-8.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 104
, La cathédrale de Rouen vers 1300: un chantier majeur de la fin du Moyen âge. Portail des Libraires, portail de la Calende, chapelle de la Vierge. Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de Normandie, 41. Caen: Société des antiquaires de Normandie, 2005. 421 pp. Map, plans, computer-generated diagrams, photographs, notes, bibliography, glossary and index. €35 E.U. (pb). ISBN 2-9510558-3-8.
Review by Stephen Murray, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 105
, Le monde des salons. Sociabilité et mondanité à Paris au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Fayard, 2005. 568 pp. Notes and index. €30 E.U. (pb). ISBN 35-2492-3.
Review by Steven Kale, Washington State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 106
, Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700-1855): From Satire to Sanctity. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. xvi + 215 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-5085-5.
Review by Alia Nour-Elsayed and Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Seton Hall University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 107
, Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. xi + 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $35.00 (cl.) ISBN 0-674-01530-4.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 108
, Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. viii + 251 pp. Figures, appendix, notes, index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3860-5.
Review by Thomas M. Luckett, Portland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 109
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, La conjuration contre les carpes. Enquête sur les origines du décret de dessèchement des étangs du 14 frimaire an II. Paris: Fayard, 2006. 200 pp. Annexes, bibliography, and indexes. 20€ (pb). ISBN 9-782-213-62788-5.
Review by Pierre Claude Reynard, The University of Western Ontario
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 110
, Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. xxiii + 330 pp. Figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-81223826-5.
Review by Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 111
, Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases and Early Modern Culture. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xii + 258 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $52.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-8018-8225-7.
Review by Katharine J. Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 112
, The Invention of the Eyewitness: Witnessing and Testimony in Early Modern France. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 279. 195 pp. Notes, bibliography. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8078-9283-1.
Review by Cathy McClive, University of Durham, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 113
The Origins of the French Revolution. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. v + 371. Notes, bibliography and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-333-71704-X; $28.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-333-69348-5.
Review by Jack R. Censer, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 114
, Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture. London: Reaktion Books, 2005. 248 pp. 10 color plates, 90 halftones, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.99 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1861892608.
Review by Kathleen Biddick, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 115
, The Short Chronicle: A Poor Clare’s Account of the Reformation of Geneva. Edited and translated by Carrie F. Klaus. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxix + 214 pp. Engraving, notes, and index. $21.00 (pb), ISBN 0-226-41706-9.
Review by Karen E. Spierling, University of Louisville.
Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 116
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, Essay on Gardens: A Chapter in the French Picturesque. Edited and translated by Samuel Damon. Introduction by Joseph Disponzio. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. x + 104 pp. $29.95 U.S. (hb). Notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8122-3722-6.
Review by Chandra Mukerji, University of California, San Diego.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 117
The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil: A Frenchman between France and North Africa. London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2005. xii + 184 pp. $125.00US (hb). ISBN 0-415-35032-8.
Review by James McDougall, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 118
Complete Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition. Edited with introductions and prose translation by Deborah Lesko Baker; poetry translation by Annie Finch. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxxi + 274 pp. Bibliographies, notes, indexes. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-46714-7; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-46715-5.
Review by Leah Chang, The George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (September 2006), No. 119
October Reviews
, A Certain Emancipation of Women: Gender, Citizenship, and the Causes Célèbres of Eighteenth-Century France. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2004. 132 pp. Bibliography and index. $34.50 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 1-57591-087-X.
Review by Mita Choudhury, Vassar College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 120
, Slavery and the French and Haitian Revolutions (L’Attitude de la France à l’égard de l’esclavage pendant la Révolution). Trans. and ed. Frances Richardson Keller. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005 (French orig. 1925). 159 pp. + Index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7425-4474-5.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 121
Please see the continued discussion that occurred on H-France
, Revolutionary Acts: Theater, Democracy and the French Revolution. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xii + 275 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-8125-0.
Review by Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 122
Please see the continued discussion that occurred on H-France
, Autobiography and Independence: Selfhood and Creativity in North African Postcolonial Writing in French. Contemporary French and Francophone Letters 2. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2005. vii + 400pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $85.00 (hb). ISBN 0-85323-659-3.
Review by Clarisse Zimra, Southern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 123
, 1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry. New York: Fourth Estate, 2004. 354 pp. $37.31 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-841-15040-1.
Review by Martin K. Foys, Hood College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 124
, Montesquieu en 2005. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2005. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2005:05. ix + 316. Abstracts. $65.00 (pb). ISBN 0-7294-0859-0.
Review by Patrick Coleman, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 125
, The Emergence of Modern Business Enterprise in France, 1800-1930. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 575 pp. Tables, notes and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-01939-3.
Review by Colin Heywood, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 126
, Francois Quesnay, Oeuvres économiques complètes et autres textes. 2 volumes, (Paris, INED, 2005). 1618 pp. + notes. €68.00 (cl). ISBN 2-733-2103-19.
Review by Liana Vardi, State University of New York at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 127
, The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004. ix + 397 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0300100329. Paper, $25.00. ISBN: 0300113463.
Review by Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 128
, Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. 268pp. Index. $27.95 U.S (cl). ISBN 0-674-01339-5.
Review by Harold Mah, Queen’s University, Canada.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 129
, Small-Town Martyrs and Murderers: Religious Revolution and Counterrevolution in Western France, 1774-1914. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press, 2006. 292pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $32.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87462-311-1.
Review by Alan Forrest, York University, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 130
., Tocqueville et l’esprit de la démocratie. The Tocqueville Review / La Revue Tocqueville. Paris: Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 2005. 531 pp. €18 (pb). ISBN 2-7246-0963-8.
Review by Jonathan Beecher, University of California, Santa Cruz.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 131
, Les Diaboliques. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005. vii + 118 pp. Diagrams, still shots, notes, credits, filmography and select bibliography. $35.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-252-03089-3; $15.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07330-4.
Review by Thibaut Schilt, Bucknell University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 132
, L’Humanité de Jaurès à nos jours. Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2004. 419 p. 32.30€ (pb). ISBN 2-84736-081-6.
Review by Dominique Laurent, Dickinson College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 133
, Georges Brassens and Jacques Brel: Personal and Social Narratives in Post-War French Chanson. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005. vi + 179 pp. Notes, bibliography, copyright acknowledgement, and index. $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-85323-768-9.
Review by Adeline Cordier, University of Stirling.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 134
, Le Maréchal Davout. Millau: Foundation Napoléon, 2005. 831 pp. Maps. 34 € (pb); ISBN 2-84736-111-1.
Review by Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 135
, Villes en crise? Les politiques municipales face aux pathologies urbaines (fin XVIIIe–fin XXe siècle). CREAPHIS, 2005. 760 pps ; 32€ (pb); ISBN 2-913610-49-8.
Review by Stephen W. Sawyer, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (October 2006), No. 136
November Reviews
, Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. xx + 172 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and index. $21.95 U.S. ISBN: 0-822-33697-9 (pb).
Review by J. P. Daughton, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 137
, The Tour de France: A Cultural History. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2006. x + 385 pp. Map, photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-24760-4.
Review by Michael B. Miller, University of Miami.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 138
, On Monique Wittig: Theoretical, Political and Literary Essays. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. ix + 230 pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-252-02984-4; $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07231-6.
Review by Cybelle McFadden Wilkens, Macalester College.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 139
, Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History, 1750-1960. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005. 312 pp. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-253-21710-5.
Review by Jennifer J. Popiel, Saint Louis University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 140
, Parisian Scholars in the Early Fourteenth Century. A Social Portrait. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 306 pp. £24.49 (pb) ISBN 0521025109 £55.00 (hb) 0521642124.
Review by Jean Dunbabin, St Anne’s College, Oxford.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 141
, Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France? The Case for St. Florent of Saumur. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. xii + 142 pp. Map, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6670-2.
Review by Shirley Ann Brown, York University, Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 142
, Chemistry, Pharmacy and Revolution in France, 1777-1809. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2005, vi + 196 pp. Bibliography and index. $89.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7546-5044-8.
Review by Sacha Tomic, Université Paris X.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 143
, Private Ambition and Political Alliances. The Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain Family and Louis XIV’s Government, 1650–1715. Rochester NY and Woodbridge Suffolk, UK: University of Rochester Press, 2004. xv + 292 pp. Illustrations, genealogical charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 1-58046-153-0, ISSN 1542-3905.
Review by Peter R. Campbell, University of Sussex, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 144
, Culture and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century France and Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. xii + 288 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-85182-717-X.
Review by Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 145
, Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to the War in Vietnam. Series “From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective,” Fredrik and Christopher E. Goscha, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xii + 364 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-520-243154-3.
Review by David W. Del Testa, Bucknell University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (November 2006), No. 146
December Reviews
, Napoleon’s Troublesome Americans: Franco-American Relations, 1804-1815. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2005. xiii + 289 pp. Notes and bibliography. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-57488-879-X.
Review by Michael V. Leggiere, Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 147
, Napoléon, David: The Image Enthroned. Brooklyn, N.Y.: First Run / Icarus Films, 2005. VHS, 51 minutes. Color and black and white. $390.00 U.S.
Review by Wayne Hanley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 148
, A Thematic Catalogue of the Works of Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xlvii + 700 pp. Tables, colour plate, figures, facsimiles, music examples, bibliography, and index of titles and first lines. $225.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-816360-6.
Review by Graham Sadler, University of Hull.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 149
. Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models. London, Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003. vi + 245 pp. Index. €54.00 (cl.). ISBN 3-16-148018-X.
Review by Jay R. Berkovitz, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 150
, Napoléon et l’Europe. Regards sur une politique. Paris: Fayard, 2005. 445 pp. €25.00. ISBN 2-213-6239-02.
Review by David P. Jordan, University of Illinois, Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 151
, Gerauld de Cordemoy: Atomist, Occasionalist, Cartesian. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2005. 127 pages. Bibliographical references. $17.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87-46266-76.
Review by April G. Shelford, American University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 152
, Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. viii + 193 pp. Notes, family trees, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6656-7.
Review by Constance B. Bouchard, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 153
, Avec de Gaulle: témoignages. Tome 1, La Guerre et la Libération (1939-1945). Paris: Nouveau monde édition, 2003. 251 pp. €26.00 (pb.) ISBN 2-84736-026-3. , Avec De Gaulle: témoignages. Tome 2, Le temps du rassemblement, (1946-1958). Paris, Nouveau monde édition, 2005. 502 pp. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 2-84736-053-0.
Rreview by Charles Cogan, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 154
, From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames Des Roches. Edited and Translated by Anne R. Larsen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxx + 319 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-72337-2; $24.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-72338-0.
Review by Sara Beam, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 155
, Word, Image and Experience. Dynamics of Miracle and Self-Perception in Sixth-Century Gaul. Variorum Collected Studies Series, 771. Ashgate: Aldershot, U.K., and Burlington, VT, 2003). xiv + 374 pp. Index. $119.00 U.S./£62.50 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0-86078-933-0.
Review by Bailey K. Young, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 156
, Renouveau et décentralisation du théâtre 1945-1981. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004. 512 pp. €38 (pb). ISBN 2130537383.
Compte rendu par Loïc Vadelorge, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 157
, Paris: Biography of a City. New York: Viking, 2005. xxv + 566 pp. Maps, illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-670-03393-6. Reprint ed. New York: Penguin, 2006. $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-143-03671-8.
Review by David Garrioch, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 158
, Women of Valor: The Rochambelles on the WWII Front. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xv + 233 pp. Maps, photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95 U.S. (hb.) ISBN 1-4039-7143-9.
Review by Shannon L. Fogg, University of Missouri-Rolla.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 159
, France and the French: La Vie en Bleu since 1900. Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 2005. xx + 741 pp. Tables, notes, maps, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-58567-733-7.
Review by Samuel Kalman, St. Francis Xavier University.
H-France Review Vol. 6 (December 2006), No. 160