H-France Reviews: Volume 7 (2007)
January Reviews
, Charles Nicolle, Pasteur’s Imperial Missionary: Typhus and Tunisia. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2006. xix + 384 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-58046-197-2.
Review by Harry W. Paul, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 1
, After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting and Propaganda Under Napoleon. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xiv + 288 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. 149 illustrations in color. $65 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-271-02305-8.
Review by Barbara Day-Hickman, Temple University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 2
, Conflicting Visions: War and Visual Culture in Britain and France c. 1700-1830. Aldershot and Burlington,VT: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2005. xiv + 231 pp. Illustrations, notes, works cited, index. 54 b&w ills. $99.95/£55.00. ISBN 0-7546-0575-2.
Review by David O’Brien, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 3
, France and 1848: The End of Monarchy. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. viii + 216 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $105.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0415314615; $33.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-31462-3.
Review by Bradford C. Brown, Bradley University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 4
, Hitler’s African Victims, The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 202pp. Sources, index. $65 (hb). ISBN: 0-521-85799-6.
Review by Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 5
, Making Up the Rococo. François Boucher and His Critics. Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute, 2006. 272 pp., 7 x 10 inches, 18 color and 53 b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $ 49.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-89236-743-1.
Review by Elena Russo, Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (January 2007), No. 6
February Reviews
, The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. 496 pp. Notes, index. $35.00 U.S. ISBN 978-0-300-12132-2.
Review by Robert Zaretsky, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 7
, The French Communist Party During the Fifth Republic: A Crisis of Leadership and Ideology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. x + 233 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-9612-1.
Review by Brian Newsome, Alfred University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 8
, André Gide and the Second World War: A Novelist’s Occupation. New York: State University of New York Press, 2006. xii + 256. $ 65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7914-6713-9.
Review by David H. Walker, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 9
. Blowing Up Paradise. 60 min., DVD and VHS. First Run/Icarus Films, 2005. $390.00 U.S.
Review by Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 10
, Staging Politics and Gender: French Women’s Drama, 1880-1923. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 186 pp. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN-10 140-3965-854.
Review by Jennifer Birkett, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 11
, The Question. Translated from the French by John Calder. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press Bison Books, 2006. xliv + 102 pp. Foreword, introduction, preface, afterword. $16.95 U.S. (pb) ISBN 0-8032-5960-3.
Review by Kim Munholland, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 12
, Changing France: The Politics that Markets Make (Houndmills, UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 322 pgs. $74.95 hardcover. ISBN 1-4039-9696-2.
, Redefining the French Republic (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006), 179 pp. $84.95 ISBN 0-7190-7150-X.
Review by Timothy B. Smith, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 13
, After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France. Afterword by François Dosse. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2004. vii + 426 pp. Bibliography, index, and about the contributors. $90.00 U.S. ISBN 0-7391-0792-5.
Review by Melanie A. Bailey, Centenary College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 14
, Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xiii + 327 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8047-5251-6.
Review by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, California State University--San Marcos.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 15
, 1805: Austerlitz, Napoleon and the Destruction of the Third Coalition. Greenhill: London, 2005. 368 pp. Appendices, Maps, Tables, Illustrations and Index. ISBN 1-85367644-6.
Review by Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 16
, Napoleon’s Conquest of Europe: the War of the Third Coalition. London and Westport, Connecticutt: Praeger, 2005. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography and index. ISBN 0-275-98096-0.
Review by Charles J. Esdaile, University of Liverpool.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 17
Response by Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University. H-France Review Vol. 7 (February 2007), No. 18
H-France Discussion
March Reviews
, Fashion, Work and Politics in Modern France. New York and Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xv + 384 pp. Illustrations, select bibliography, and index. $69.95 US. (hb). ISBN 1-4039-72170-6.
Review by Mary Lynn Stewart, Simon Fraser University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 19
, Lettres de Paul Claudel à Jean Paulhan (1925-1954). Berne: Peter Lang, 2004. v + 300 pp. Notes and indices. $49.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 3 03910 452 7.
Review by Martyn Cornick, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 20
, Ouvriers, villes, et société: autour d’Yves Lequin et de l’histoire sociale. Paris: Nouveau Monde éditions, 2005. 296 pp. Introduction, bibliography. €34.00 (pb). ISBN 2-84736-142-1.
Review by Frieda Fuchs, The College of Wooster.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 21
, Images de guerre 1940-1945 (Academic Edition). Box 1. DVD-ROM Mac/pC. INA and Nouveau Monde Éditions, 2005.
Review by Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 22
, Rethinking France. Les Lieux de Mémoire. Vol. 2. Space. Translation directed by David P. Jordan. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiv + 480 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-59133-6.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 23
, Lettres d’un lion: Correspondance inédite du général Mouton, comte de Lobau (1812-1815). Paris: Nouveau Monde/Fondation Napoléon, 2005. 206 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, and chronology. €25.00 (pb). ISBN 2-84736-088-3.
Review by David P. Jordan, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 24
, French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. x +198 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-8258-3.
Review by Jean-Philippe Mathy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 25
, Marxism and National Identity: Socialism, Nationalism, and National Socialism during the French Fin de Siècle. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. x + 305 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7914-6670-1.
Review by Torbjörn Wandel, Truman State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 26
, The Dreyfus Affair: A Chronological History. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xxxiv + 526 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, appendices, and index. $185.00 U.S.(hb). ISBN 1-4039-3829-6.
Review by Julie Kalman, the University of New South Wales.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 27
H-France Discussion
, Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State and Public Space, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. 290 pp. $27.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-691-12506-6.
Review by Alec G. Hargreaves, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 28
H-France Discussion
, Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xii + 281 pp. Notes, select bibliography, index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-78169-0.
Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 29
Response by Karen Sullivan, Bard College. H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 30
, Democracy Past and Future, ed. Samuel Moyn, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, ix + 294 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-231-13740-0.
Review by Edward Berenson, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 31
, Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiii + 492 pp. Index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-81012-4.
Review by Allyson J. Delnore, Marquette University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (March 2007), No. 32
April Reviews
, Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Edited by Allyson Poska and Abby Zanger. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2006. xii + 345 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S./£47.50 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-5354-4.
Review by Katharine J. Hamerton, Columbia College, Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 33
Response by Faith Beasley, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 34
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 34
, The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. ix + 172 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $60 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-845545-169-4.
Review by William Doyle, University of Bristol.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 35
Response by Henry Heller, University of Manitoba. H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 36
H-France Discussion
, Athens in Paris: Ancient Greece and the Political in Post-War French Thought. Classical Presences. Oxford and New-York: Oxford University Press, 2005. viii + 264 pp. Notes, references and index. $74.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-927725-7.
Review by Béatrice Blanchet, University of Bath.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 37
, Antisémythes: L’image des juifs entre culture et politique (1848-1939). Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2005. 465 pp. Figures, notes. 34 Euros (pb). ISBN 2-84736-104-9.
Review by Allan Arkush, Binghamton University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 38
, Beyond Papillon: The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xx + 213 pp. Maps, photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35:00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13-978-0-8032-4449-8.
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 39
Response by Stephen A. Toth, Arizona State University. H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 40
, Captive Histories: English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006. xxii + 298 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-55849-542-8; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-55849-543-6.
Review by Dale Miquelon, University of Saskatchewan.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 41
, The Conversion of Imagination: From Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. 285 pp. Notes and index. $49.95 (cl). ISBN: 0-674-02188-6.
Review by Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University, Bloomington.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 42
, Euro-Orientalism: Liberal Ideology and the Image of Russia in France (c. 1740-1880). Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 358 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $66.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 3-03910-516-7.
Review by N. Christine Brookes, Central Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 43
, The Terror: The Shadow of the Guillotine: France 1792-1794. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004. xi + 436 pp. Illustrations, revolutionary calendar, bibliography and index. $30.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-312-35224-7.
Review by Leigh Whaley, Acadia University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 44
, French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 268 pp. Bibliographical references and index. $65.00 (hb.). ISBN-13 978-0-8032-2212-0.
Review by Benjamin Claude Brower, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 45
, Policing Paris: the Origins of Modern Immigration Control between the Wars. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. xvii + 241 pp. $23.95 U.S. (pb.) Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography and index. ISBN 0-8014-7315-2.
Review by Julian Wright, University of Durham.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 46
(in collaboration with Jean-Maurice de Montremy), My Quest for the Middle Ages. Trans. Richard Veasey. New York and Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. ix + 133 pp. Index, bibliography. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-4039-7247-8.
Review by Paul Freedman, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 47
, The Stereotype of the Priest in the Old French Fabliaux: Anticlerical Satire and Lay Identity. Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2005. 265 pp. $50.95 U. S. (hb). ISBN 0-82-046888-86.
Review by Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 48
, Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Burlington, VT, and Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006. x + 190 pp. Notes, chronology, maps, bibliography, appendices, and index. $89.95 U.S./£45.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0754655539.
Review by Linda Lierheimer, Hawai’i Pacific University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 49
, Six Authors in Captivity: Literary Responses to the Occupation of France during World War II. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 192 pp. Bibliography and index. (Pb). ISBN 3-03910-520-5.
Review by William J. Cloonan, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 50
May Reviews
, Massacre at Oradour, France, 1944: Coming to Grips with Terror. Translated by David Sices and James B. Atkinson. Introduction by Jay Winter. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005. xvii + 270 pp. Maps, photographs, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87580-601-5.
Review by Shannon L. Fogg, University of Missouri-Rolla.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 51
, Local Politics in the French Wars of Religion. The Towns of Champagne, the Duc de Guise, and the Catholic League, 1560-95. Aldershot and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2006. 300 pp. Maps, acknowledgements, bibliography, and index. n.p. ISBN 0-0-7546-5593-8.
Review by Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 52
, Vichy et l’ordre moral. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2005, 319 pp. Notes, graphiques, tableaux. Préface de Gérard Noiriel. € 26.00. ISBN 2-13-055339-7.
Review by Jean-Pierre Le Crom, CNRS-Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 53
, Youth Mobilization in Vichy Indochina and its Legacies, 1940-1970. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2005. v + 273 pp. $70.00 US (hb) ISBN 0-7391-1146-9.
Review by Nguyen Thu Huong and Frances Gouda, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 54
, Bains de foule: Les voyages présidentiels en province, 1888-2002. Paris: Éditions Belin, 2006. 352 pp. Figures, notes and index. €24.00 (pb). ISSN 1270-914-X, ISBN 2-7011-4452-3.
Review by Paul Smith, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 55
, Zayde: A Spanish Romance. Edited and translated by Nicholas D. Paige. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxi. + 210 pp. Bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-46851-8; $18.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-266-46852-6.
Review by Christie Sample Wilson, St. Edward’s University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 56
, The Spectral Jew: Conversion and Embodiment in Medieval Europe. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xxx + 320 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $78.00 U.S. (hc). ISBN 0-8166-4061-0. $26.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8166-4062-9.
Review by Christine Caldwell Ames, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 57
, The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The Politics of Artistic Display in France after 1968. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xii + 271 pp. Notes, Bibliography and Index. $80.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-84109-7.
Review by Kirrily Freeman, Saint Mary’s University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 58
, Studies in the Ecclesiastical and Social History of Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars. Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West. Burlington, VT, and Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006. 258 pp. Appendices, maps, and index. $99.95 U.S./£ 52.50 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0754653161.
Review by Joshua C. Birk, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 59
, A ‘Belle Epoque’? Women in French Society and Culture 1890-1914. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. xv + 344 pp. Illustrations, notes, select chronology, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-84545-021-3.
Review by Cherilyn Lacy, Hartwick College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 60
, The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. xvii + 384 pp. Bibliography and index. $27.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-226-40955-9.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 61
, Politiques du passé : usages politiques du passé dans la France contemporaine. Collection Le temps de l'histoire. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence, 2006. 266 pp. Notes and index. 26€. ISBN 2-85399-630-1
. Concurrence des passés: Usages politiques du passe dans la France contemporaine. [Actes du colloque les usages politiques du passé dans la France contemporaine des années 1970 à nos jours, organise par le centre d'histoire sociale du XXe siècle, Paris I, et l'équipe pouvoirs, savoirs, sociétés, Paris VIII]. Collection Le temps de l'histoire. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence, 2006. 300pp. Notes and index. 26€. ISBN 2-85399-631-X.
Review by Seth Armus, Saint Joseph’s College, New York.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (May 2007), No. 62
June Reviews
, The Eagle’s Last Triumph: Napoleon’s Victory at Ligny, June 1815. London: Greenhill Books, 2006. 272 pp. Plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85367-688-8.
Review by Wayne Hanley, West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 63
, Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. v + 341 pp. Index. $26.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-02318-8.
Review by Margaret Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 64
, Louis XIV face à l’Europe du Nord: L’absolutisme vaincu par les libertés. Bruxelles: Éditions Racine, 2005. 334 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, and index. € 24.95. ISBN 2-87386-390-0.
Review by Erik Thomson, University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 65
, Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006. 333 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography and index. $84.95 (hb); $23.95 (pb). ISBN: 0-8223-3755-X (hb) 0-8223-3768-1 (pb).
Review by Mary Dewhurst Lewis, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 66
, Murder in Marrakesh: Emile Mauchamp and the French Colonial Adventure. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2006, xvi + 376 pp. Notes, photographs, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-0-253-34815-9.
Review by Edward Berenson, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 67
, La Banque nationale de crédit : Histoire de la quatrième banque de dépôts française en 1913-1932. Paris: Éditions P.L.A.G.E., 2002. 237 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. 70€ (pb). ISBN 2-914369-04-2.
Review by Samir Saul, Université de Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 68
, Robert of Arbrissel: Sex, Sin and Salvation in the Middle Ages. Trans. Bruce L. Venarde. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America, 2006. xxxi + 188 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $ 24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-8132-1439-4.
Review by Fiona Griffiths, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 69
, Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France: Transmission and Style in the Trouvère Repertoire. Oxford Monographs on Music. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xv + 226 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-816547-1.
Review by Catherine Léglu, University of Bristol.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 70
, Send Me God: The Lives of Ida The Compassionate of Nivelles, Nun of La Ramée, Arnulf, Lay Brother Of Villers, and Abundus, Monk of Villers, by Goswin of Bossut. Brepols Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 6. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 258 pp. Black and white illustrations. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 027-10268-39.
Review by Laura Wertheimer, Cleveland State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 71
, Proust’s Deadline. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x + 140 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03070-3.
Review by William C. Carter, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 72
The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xviii + 234 pp. $27.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-53782-7.
Review by Timothy Raser, University of Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 73
, France during World War II: from Defeat to Liberation. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. xiv + 254 pp. Map, notes, index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8232-2562-3; $24.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8232-2563-1.
Review by Nicole Dombrowski Risser, Towson University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 74
, An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv + 330 pp. Notes, Bibliography and Index. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530530-2.
Review by Patricia Lorcin, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 75
, Secular Spirituality: Reincarnation and Spiritism in Nineteenth-Century France. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2006. xxiii + 245 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-1338-0; $28.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1339-9.
Review by David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 76
, Descartes and the Passionate Mind. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xi + 231 pp. Bibliography and index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-85728-4.
Review by Matthew Lauzon, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 77
, Sunspots and the Sun King: Sovereignty and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century France. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. ix + 316. Notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-252-03056-7.
Review by Michael P. Breen, Reed College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 78
, The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007. 374 pp. Sources, index. $22.95 (pb). ISBN: 0-674-02392-7.
Review by Edward Wehrle, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (June 2007), No. 79
July Reviews
, Decolonization and the Decolonized. Translated by Robert Bononno. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xii + 148 pp. $17.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-8166-4735-6.
Review by Richard L. Derderian, California Lutheran University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 80
, Between Justice and Politics: The Ligue des Droits de l’Homme, 1898-1945. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 253 pp. Bibliography and Index. $60.00 (cl). ISBN: 978-0-8047-5317-3.
Review by J. P. Daughton, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 81
, Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France. New York : Knopf, 2006. 640 pp. $30.00 (hb). ISBN 0-37-54113-13.
Compte-rendu par Laurent Joly, Université de Paris I.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 82
, Visions croisées Franco-Allemandes de la Première Guerre mondiale. Étude de deux quotidiens: la Metzer Zeitung et L’Est Républicain. Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2007. xii + 396 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 68.50 € (pb). ISBN 978-3-03911-250-0.
Review by Martha Hanna, University of Colorado at Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 83
, Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism. Charlottesville, VA: Rookwood Press, 2005. xii + 102 pp. Index. $39.95. ISBN 1-886365-56-3.
Review by Hassan Melehy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 84
, France and Iraq: Oil, Arms and French Policy Making in the Middle East. London and New York: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2006. xii + 234 pp. Table, endnotes, bibliography, and index. $69.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 1-84511-045-5.
Review by Michael Creswell, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 85
, Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006. x + 346 pp. $90.00 cl/$29.95 (pb). ISBN 0-739-1129-02.
Review by James A. Winders, Appalachian State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 86
, Les Affaires étrangères au temps de Richelieu: Les secrétaires d’État, les agents diplomatiques (1624-1642). Diplomatie et histoire, 11. Brussels, Belgium, and New York: Peter Lang , 2006. 377 pp. Notes, bibliography, index, and illustrations. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN-10: 9052012849; ISBN-13: 978-90-5201-284-1.
Review by Paul Sonnino, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 87
, The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830. Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 2006. vi + 383 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-262-08352-3.
Review by Christopher H. Johnson, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 88
, The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Critical Essays. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006. xi + 316 pp. Notes, list of contributors and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-253-34722-X; $24.95 (pb). ISBN 1-800-842-6796.
Review by Alison S. Fell, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 89
, Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 251 pp. Illustrations and index. $69.95 U.S., 52.00 U.K. (cl). ISBN 1-403-93820-2.
Compte-rendu par Jacques Guilhaumou, CNRS, ENS/LSH Lyon.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (July 2007), No. 90
August Reviews
, Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 376 pp. $27.50 (pbk). ISBN-13: 978-0226749181.
Review by Bonnie Smith, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 91
, Vie et mort du couple en Nouvelle-France: Québec et Louisbourg au XVIIIe siècle. Montreal, Que., Kingston, Ont., London, U.K., and Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006. xi + 185 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-3067-6, ISBN-10: 0-7735-3067-3; (pb). ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-3068-3, ISBN-10: 0-7735-3068-1.
Review by Leslie Choquette, Institut français, Assumption College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 92
, A Discourse for the Holy Grail in Old French Romance. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2007. x + 182 pp. Bibliography and index. $85. ISBN 1-84384-109-6.
Review by Amy L. Ingram, Northern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 93
, L’ordre des chartreux au XIIIe siècle. Actes du colloque international d’histoire et de spiritualité cartusienne, VIIIe centenaire de la fondation de la chartreuse de Valbonne, 11-13 juin 2004. Analecta Cartusiana 234. Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2006. 145 pp. Maps, tables, notes. €40.00 (pb) ISBN 3900033595.
Review by Sean L. Field, University of Vermont.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 94
, Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970. University Park (PA): Pennsylvania University Press, 2006, XI-246 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $50.00 (hb). ISBN 0-271-02890-4.
Compte-rendu par Christophe Charle, Université de Paris-1-Panthéon-Sorbonne, IHMC (CNRS/ENS).
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 95
, Screening Reality: French Documentary Film during the German Occupation. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 252 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography. $53.95 (pb). US-ISBN 0-8204-6882-7.
Review by Martin O'Shaughnessy, Nottingham Trent University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 96
, François Truffaut and Friends: Modernism, Sexuality, and Film Adaptation. New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Rutgers University Press, 2006.xvi+239 pp. 25 b&w photographs, chronology, notes, and index. $23.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-8135-3725-8.
Review by Marja Warehime, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 97
, Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. xii + 258pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0226243230; $22.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0226243249.
Review by Jennifer J. Davis, Furman University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 98
, Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2005. vi + 208 pp. Bibliography and index. $65.00 (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0-472-11528-0. ISBN-10: 0-472-11528-6.
Review by Jan Miernowski, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Warsaw.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 99
, Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. xi + 271 pp. Maps, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 082233822X.
Review by Michael G. Vann, California State University, Sacramento.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 100
, Jean Bodin. International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought. Hampshire, U.K., and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. xvii + 453 pp. Index. $225.00 U.S./£ 120 U.K. (hb). ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-2545-2.
Review by Daniel Engster, The University of Texas at San Antonio.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 101
, Catholic Activism in South-West France, 1540-1570. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. vii + 190 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S./£50.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-5226-2.
Review by Glenn Richardson, St. Mary’s University College, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 102
, The Cambridge Companion to Molière. Cambridge, U.K. and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xix + 242 pp. Tables, figures, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0521837596; $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0521546656.
Review by Stephen C. Bold, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 103
, The Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Medieval Religious Renewal Movement. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 272 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-4039-6847-0.
Review by Sam Collins, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (August 2007), No. 104
September Reviews
, The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 401 pp. $39.50. ISBN 12-978-0-691-01715-0.
Review by Philip Nord, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 105
, The Demands of Liberty: Civil Society in France Since the Revolution. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. viii + 354 pp. Notes and index. $35.00 (cl). ISBN 13: 978-0-674-02496-0.
Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 106
, The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ix + 276 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (hb), ISBN 0-8018-8308-3.
Review by Susan Blood, SUNY Albany.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 107
, Rethinking Boucher. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2006. xi + 289 pp. Figures, plates, notes, bibliography and index. $55.00 US (pb). ISBN 0-89236-825-X.
Review by Dorothy Johnson, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 108
, Voluptuous Philosophy: Literary Materialism in the French Enlightenment. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. ix + 310 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN: 9780823226962.
Review by Anne Vila, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 109
, Napoléon et Waterloo: la défaite glorieuse de 1815 à nos jours. Paris: La Boutique de l’histoire, 2006. 462 pp. Annexes, bibliography, iconography, and index. 35€ (pb). ISBN 2910828387.
Compte-rendu par Annie Jourdan, Université d’Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 110
H-France Discussion
, Correspondance, 1774-1779. Vol. 1, book 1: 1774-1776. Volume 1, book 2: 1777-1779. Edited by Anne-Marie Bourdin, Philippe Bourdin, Jean Ehrard, Hélène Roi-Tanguy and Alexandre Tchoudinov. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2006. 350 and 380 pp. Introductions, annexes, appendices, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, chronology and index. 32 € . (pb). ISBN 2-84516-309-6.
Review by Robert H. Blackman, Hampden-Sydney College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 111
, Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, and Repression, from the Terror to Napoleon. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. 358 pp. Annexes, notes, bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 081-39254-60.
Compte-rendu par Bernard Gainot, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 112
Response by Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University, State University of New York. H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 113
, When France was King of Cartography. The Patronage and Production of Maps in Early Modern France. Lanham-Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2007. 215 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-1440-9 / 978-0-7391-1440-7 ; $35.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1776-9 / 978-0-7391-1776-7.
Compte-rendu par Jean-Marc Besse, CNRS, Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 114
, Proust at the Movies. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. 261 pp. Color and black-and-white illustrations, filmography, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-75463541-4.
, Proust in Love. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 2006. xiv + 252 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $26 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 0-300-10812-5.
, Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris. New York and London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006. 358 pp. Sources, index. $24.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN-10: 1-58234-471-X.
Review by Patrick M. Bray, Indiana University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 115
, A Savage Mirror: Power, Identity, and Knowledge in Early Modern France. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xii + 306 pp. Figures, plates, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8047-4872-1.
Review by Hilary J. Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 116
Response by Michael Wintroub, University of California, Berkeley. H-France Review Vol. 7 (September 2007), No. 117
October Reviews
, Shantytown Kid [Le Gone du Chaâba]. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Ed., intro., Alec G. Hargreaves; trans. Naïma Wolf and Alec G. Hargreaves. xii + 212 pp. Map, photographs, glossary and bibliography. $15.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-6258-4.
, Ethnicity and Equality: France in the Balance. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Trans., intro., Alec G.Hargreaves. xxvii + 151 pp. Author’s preface, notes, glossary and index. $14.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-6262-1.
, Un mouton dans le baignoire. Paris: Fayard, 2007. 377 pp. 20€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-213-63375-6.
Review by Daniel A. Gordon, Edge Hill University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 118
, Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France. Series “New Anthropologies of Europe.” Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2006. xi + 269 pp. $65.00 US (cl) ISBN: 0-253-21856-x; $24.95 (pb) ISBN: 0-253-34762-9.
Review by Ian Coller, University of Melbourne, Australia.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 119
, From the Salon to the School Room: Educating Bourgeois Girls in Nineteenth-Century France. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. xv + 335 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-271-02680-4.
Review by Elinor Accampo, University of Southern California.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 120
, Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice. With contributions by Steven Shepard and Phillip Honenberger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xvi + 288 pp. Tables, notes, index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-51829-9; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-51830-5.
Review by John L. Harvey, St. Cloud State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 121
, Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. xiv + 230 pp. Bibliography and index. $52.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4421-0; $18.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-7300-5.
Review by Julian Bourg, Bucknell University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 122
, French Anti-Americanism (1930-1948): Critical Moments in a Complex History. Lanham, Md. and Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books, 2007. x + 179 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1268-7, ISBN-10: 0-7391-1268-6.
Review by Paul Mazgaj, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 123
, The Cambridge Companion to Émile Zola. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 214 pp. Further reading and specialist resources, notes, and index. $85 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-83594-7. $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-54376-7.
Review by Janice Best, Acadia University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 124
, The Strategic Triangle: France, Germany, and the United States in the Shaping of the New Europe. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 411 pp. Notes and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018856-39. $25.00 U.S. (pb). 0-80-188564-7.
Review by Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., American International College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 125
, Préserver l’art de l’ennemi? Le patrimoine artistique en Belgique et en France occupées, 1914-1918. Bruxelles, P.I.E. Peter Lang, coll. Comparatisme et Société, n°4, 2006, 441 pp. in-8, ill. noir dans le texte. €46.90. $55.95 U.S.
Compte-rendu par Pierre Vaisse, Université de Genève.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (October 2007), No. 126
November Reviews
, The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. xvi + 388 pp. List of interviews and testimony, acronyms of agencies, organizations, and movements, notes and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-268-04021-4.
Review by John F. Sweets, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 127
, Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us about the French and American Past. New York and London: Routledge, 2007. x+245 pp. Figures, notes, index. ISBN 0-415-94953-X.
Review by Joan DeJean, University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 128
, Reconciling France against Democracy: The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français, 1927-1945. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007. xxii + 364 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7735-3205-2.
Review by Brian Jenkins, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 129
, Le temps des sciences humaines. Gaston Roupnel et les années trente. Paris: Éditions le Manuscrit-Maison des sciences de l’homme de Dijon, 2006. 279 pp. Notes. 21.90 € (pb). ISBN 2-7481-8196-4.
Review by John Strachan, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 130
, Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy. Cambridge, Mass. and London, U.K.: Harvard University Press, 2007. xiii + 256 pp. Map, genealogical tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-674-02443-5.
Review by Constance B. Bouchard, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 131
, Beaumarchais in Seville: An Intermezzo. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. xiv + 177 pp. Preface, dramatis personae, postscript, bibliography, index, and illustrations. $25.00 U.S., £16.00 U.K. (cl); ISBN 0-300-12103-2.
Review by Donald C. Spinelli, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 132
. La Révolution à l’oeuvre. Perspectives actuelles dans l’histoire de la Révolution française. Rennes: Presses Universitatires de Rennes, 2005. 375 pp. Notes and bibliography. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7535-0055-X.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 133
, Tragedy Walks the Streets: The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ix + 191 pp. Notes, index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8018-8434-9.
Review by Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 134
, Pauvreté et protection sociale aux XIXe et XXe siècles: des expériences rouennaises aux politiques nationales. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, collection « Carnot », 2006, 404 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography of author’s works, index. 22 € (pb). ISBN 2-7535-0315-X.
Compte-rendu par Bruno Valat, Centre Universitaire Jean-François Champollion, Albi, France.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 135
, Riding the New Wave: Youth and the Rejuvenation of France after the Second World War. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. XIV + 364 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 (cl). ISBN 978-0-8047-5452-1.
Compte-rendu par Ludivine Bantigny, Université de Rouen, Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 136
, Victor Hugo in Exile: From Historical Representations to Utopian Vistas. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press, 2006. 235 pp. Notes, select bibliography, and index. $49.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8387-5628.
Review by Isabel K. Roche, Bennington College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 137
, Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxx + 359 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-517969-2.
Review by Alex Dracobly, University of Oregon.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 138
, The Life and Legacy of Baroness Betty de Rothschild. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. xiii + 190 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $68.95 (cl). ISBN: 0-8204-7885-7.
Review by Willa Z. Silverman, The Pennsylvania State University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 139
, Marie Cardinal: New Perspectives. Bern, Switzerland and New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 258 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-3-03910-544-2.
Review by Claire Marrone, Sacred Heart University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 140
, Le Droit sous Vichy. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2006. 498 pp. €89.00 ISBN 10 3-465-04013-9; 13 978-465-04013-2.
Review by Vivian Grosswald Curran, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 141
, Reality Fictions: Romance, History, and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. ix + 294 pp. Abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN-13: 978-0-268-04120-3.
Review by Geoffrey Koziol, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 142
Response by Robert M. Stein, Purchase College and Columbia University. H-France Review Vol. 7 (November 2007), No. 143
December Reviews
, Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison and Sacrilege in Louis XIV’s France. Magic in History Series. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. 224 pp. Illustrations. $70.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0271029153; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0271029160.
Review by Orest Ranum, The Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 144
, Albert Thibaudet, « l’outsider du dedans ». Collection « Histoire et Civilisations », dirigée par Michel Leymarie et Didier Terrier. Villeneuve-d’Ascq : Presses Universitaires du Septentrion., 2006. 368 pp. Notes, bibliographie et index nominorum. 23.00€. ISBN 2-85939-936-4.
Compte-rendu par by Christophe Pradeau, Université Paris 13.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 145
, Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages. Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. xi + 154 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0268035006.
Review by Bonnie Effros, Binghamton University (SUNY).
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 146
, Female Writers’ Struggle for Rights and Education for Women in France (1848-1871). New York, Peter Lang, 2006. Bibliography, notes, index, 168 pages. $62.95. ISBN 0-8204-5531-8.
Review by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 147
, A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. xvi + 238 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-674-02297-3.
Review by Mark Atwood Lawrence, University of Texas, Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 148
, Impressionist Giverny, A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915. Giverny: Musée d’art Américain Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007. 219 pp. Exhibition catalogue with foreword, illustrations, essays, catalogue of the works shown in the exhibition, historical documents, map, list of artists working in Giverny, selected bibliography, index. (cl) ISBN 978-0932171-52-8.
Review by Sally Webster, Lehman College and the Graduate Center CUNY.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 149
, Histoire de l’enseignement, XIXe-XXe siècles : Guide du chercheur. Seconde édition revue et augmentée. Paris: Institut national de recherche pédagogique/Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2006. 728 pp. Notes and index. €29.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7355-0593-6.
Review by Mona L. Siegel, California State University Sacramento.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 150
, Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet’s Paris. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xxi + 215. $22.50 U. S. (pb). ISBN 0-8166-4782-8.
Review by Caroline Ford, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 151
, The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth: Ideas and Expeditions in Four Centuries of Geodesy. Aldershot, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2005. xii + 275 pp. Preface, appendices, figures, maps, table, notes, reading list, and index. 99.95/£50.00. (hb). ISBN0754650200.
Review by James Evans, University of Puget Sound.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 152
, Paris-Edinburgh: Cultural Connections in the Belle Époque. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007. xv + 218 pp. Figures (27 b&w illustrations), bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0754634647.
Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 153
, L’invention du barreau français, 1660-1830: La construction nationale d’un groupe professionnel. Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2006. 446 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.00 (pb) ISBN 2-7132-2106-4 and (cl) ISBN-13 978-2-7132-2106-4.
Review by Michael P. Breen, Reed College.
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 154
Why France ? American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination. With an afterword by Roger Chartier. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. 242 pp. $27.95 (cl). ISBN-10: 0-801-4441-44.
Compte-rendu par Christian Jouhaud, E.H.E.S.S. (C.R.H.)
H-France Review Vol. 7 (December 2007), No. 155
, Thérèse of Lisieux: God’s Gentle Warrior. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Xviii + 398pp. Photographs, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-530721-6.