H-France Reviews: Volume 9 (2009)
January Reviews
, Une histoire de l’identité. France 1715-1815. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2008. 466 pp. Notes, bibliography, annex, and table. €30 (pb); ISBN 978-2-87673-477-7.
Review by Jacob Soll, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 1
, Origins of the French Welfare State: The Struggle for Social Reform in France 1914-1947. Cambridge University Press: 2002, 251 pp. $60.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-81334-4.
Review by George Weisz, McGill University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 2
, L’Aristocratie de l’épiderme. Le combat de la Société des Citoyens de Couleur 1789-1791. Préf. Pierre Philippy. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2007. 446 pp. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-271-06576-6.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 3
, Inventing Human Rights: A History. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. 272 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $14.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-393-33100-8.
Review by Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 4
, Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques [Landmarks in Music since 1950]. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. xii + 128 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, notes, and compact disc. $69.95 U.S. / £35.00 U.K. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-5630-2.
Review by Jonathyne Briggs, Indiana University Northwest.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 5
, France and the American Tropics to 1700: Tropics of Discontent? Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xiii + 372 pp. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8018-8725-3; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8018-8726-0.
Review by Laurent Dubois, Duke University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 6
(with contributions by Edward Gregg, Howard Erskine-Hill and Geoffrey Scott), A Court in Exile: The Stuarts in France, 1689-1718. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi + 386 pp. Appendix, bibliography, and index. $111.00 U.S. (hb).ISBN 9-780521-584623.
Review by Mark Bryant, University of Chichester.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 7
, Adela of Blois, Countess and Lord (c. 1067-1137). Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. xxv + 663 pp. Maps, family trees, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85182-563-0.
Review by Constance B. Bouchard, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 8
, Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citzenship in France. Burlington, UK: Ashgate, 2007. 225 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, footnotes, index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-754-64795-1.
Review by Scott Gunther, Wellesley College.
<H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 9
, The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2007. 304 pp, bibliography, notes and index. $25.95 (US). ISBN-10:0-262-04237-1.
Compte-rendu par Marc Décimo, Université d’Orléans.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 10
, trans., Troubadour Poems from the South of France. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2007. xiii + 278 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $85.00 U. S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84384-129-6.
Review by Sarah-Grace Heller, Ohio State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 11
, Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008. Black and white illustrations, notes, and index. 215 pp. $24.95 US (pb). ISBN: 978-0-253-21899-5.
Review by J. P. Daughton, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 12
, Albuera 1811: The Bloodiest Battle of the Peninsular War, Frontline Books: London, 2008. 336 pp. Foreward and Appendices, £25 (hb). ISBN 978-84832-499-2.
, The Battle of Albuera 1811: “Glorious Field of Grief’, Pen & Sword: Barnsley, 2007. 176 pp. Appendices and Notes. £ 19.99 (hb). ISBN 1-84415-461-0.
Review by Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 13
, Socialism’s Muse: Gender in the Intellectual Landscape of French Romantic Socialism, Lanhan, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006. 210 pp. $66.00 (hb). ISBN 10-0739-108-441.
Review by Lynn Sharp, Whitman College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 14
, A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom. Pivotal Moments in World History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxx + 253 pp. Maps, genealogical tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-517131-0.
Review by James Given, University of California, Irvine.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 15
, So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke: The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008. xvi + 217pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4131-8.
Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 16
, Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, vii + 343 pp. $ 35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 9780300119251.
Review by K. Steven Vincent, North Carolina State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 17
, La Bourgogne et ses vins: image d’origine contrôlée. Paris : Belin, 2006. 319 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. € 22 (pb). ISBN 9-782701-142982.
Review by Marion Demossier, University of Bath.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 18
February Reviews
, Montaigne’s Politics: Authority and Governance in the Essais Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008. vii+207 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $29.95, £17.95 (hb). ISBN 978-0691-13122-1.
Review by David Potter, University of Kent
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 19
, Muslim Women on the Move: Moroccan Women and French Women of Moroccan Origin Speak Out. Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books, 2008. v + 199pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-1804-8; $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1805-6.
Review by Gillian B. Glaes, Carroll College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 20
, Napoleon: The Path to Power. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. xiii + 651 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-300-13754-5.
Review by Michael V. Leggiere, University of North Texas.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 21
, Brittany 1750-1950: the Invisible Nation (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007). xvi + 308 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7083-2002-0.
Review by Julian Wright, Durham University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 22
, Jacques- Louis David: Empire to Exile. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., 2005. xvii +379 pp. 80 color and 88 black and white illus., notes, bibliography, and index. $ 50.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-9311102-60-x.
Review by Heather McPherson, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 23
, Refuge in the Land of Liberty: France and its Refugees, from the Revolution to the End of Asylum, 1787-1939. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. 218 pp. Bibliography and index. $85.00 (cl). ISBN 13: 978-0-230-50775-3.
Review by Vicki Caron, Cornell University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 24
, The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xv + 334 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-521-88260-6.
Review by Robert Adelson, Palais Lascaris-Musée de la Musique de Nice.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 25
, A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2007. xvi + 335 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 978-0-8014-4581-1.
Review by Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 26
, Early Modern French Thought: The Age of Suspicion. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 271 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $170.50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-926146-6.
, Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xviii + 430 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $125.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-929103-9.
Review by Paul Cohen, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 27
, trans. and eds., Leonarde’s Ghost: Popular Piety and “The Appearance of a Spirit” in 1628. Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies v. 82. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2008. xiii + 125pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-931112-79-6.
Review by Katherine Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 28
, Voix des abbesses du Grand Siècle: La prédication au féminin à Port-Royal. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2006. 360pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. €58.00 (cl). ISBN 3-8233-6189-9.
Review by Daniella Kostroun, Indiana University--Purdue University Indianapolis.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 29
, A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom. Pivotal Moments in World History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xxx + 253 pp. Maps, genealogical tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-517131-0.
Review by James Given, University of California, Irvine.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 30
, So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke: The Beguin Heretics of Languedoc. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008. xvi + 217pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4131-8.
Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 31
, La Fibre littéraire: Le Discours médical sur la lecture au XVIIIe siècle. Genève: Droz, 2007. 358 pp. Bibliography and index. € 44.84. ISBN 978-2-600-01173-0. ISSN 1660-5829.
Review by Suellen Diaconoff, Colby College (emerita).
H-France Review Vol. 9 (February 2009), No. 32
March Reviews
, ed., Acceuillir ou soigner? L’hôpital et ses alternatives du Moyen Äge à nos jours. Rouen and Le Havre: Publications des Universités de Rouen et du Havre, 2007. 453 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes and index. € 35.00. ISBN 978-2-87775-423-1.
Review by Daniel Hickey, Emeritus, Université de Moncton.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 34
, Surrealism and the Art of Crime. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. xi + 324 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-8014-4674-0.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 35
Mode et philosophie ou le néoplatonisme en silhouette, 1470-1500. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2005. 368 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 2-251-42024-X.
Review by Donald Gilman, Ball State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 36
, Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The icon and the image. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. Xxi + 368 pp. 54 photographs, chronology, notes, bibliography, discography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03157-1. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-252-07412-7.
Review by Elizabeth Ezra, University of Stirling.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 37
, Napoleon’s Enfant Terrible: General Dominique Vandamme. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. 362 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U. S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8061-3875-6.
Review by Ralph Ashby, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 38
, A Concise History of the French Revolution. Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2008. v + 287 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0742534117.
Review by Stephen Auerbach, Georgia College and State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 39
, ed., The Nature of Rousseau’s “Rêveries”: Physical, Human, Aesthetic. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2008: 03. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2008. v + 281 pp. Tables, illustrations, notes, summaries, bibliography, index. £60/€85/$125 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-7294-0928-5
Review by Charly Coleman, Washington University in St. Louis.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 40
, French Music, Culture, and National Identity, 1870-1939. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2008. xix + 260 pp. Illustrations, chronology, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-58046-272-3.
Review by Philip Nord, Princeton University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 41
, Histoire de l’anticolonialisme en France du XVIe siècle à nos jours. Paris: Armand Colin, 2007. 304 pp. Preface, notes, appendices, indices. 24.50 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-2003-5093-2.
Review by John Strachan, Lancaster University, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 42
, Fictions of Childhood: The Roots of Identity in Contemporary French Narratives. Lanham, Maryland and Plymouth, United Kingdom: Lexington Books, 2008. xi + 95 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-1829-3.
Review by Rosemary Lloyd, Indiana University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 43
, eds., L’Enquête du Régent 1716-1718 : Sciences, Techniques et Politique dans la France pré-industrielle. Turnhout, Belgium: BREPOLS, 2008. 1019 pp. Notes and index. €100. ISBN: 978-2-503-52817-5.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 44
, Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2007, ix + 225 pp. Notes. $52.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13: 978-0-520-24640-9.
Review by Carolyn J. Dean, Brown University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (March 2009), No. 45
April Reviews
, Diplomatic Tours in the Gardens of Versailles under Louis XIV. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. viii + 171 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes and index. $55 U.S. (Cl.) ISBN 978-08122-4107-5
Review by Linda Frey, University of Montana, and Marsha Frey, Kansas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 46
, eds. From Perversion to Purity: The Stardom of Catherine Deneuve. Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press, 2007. 188 pp. Illustrations, notes, works cited, index. $57.56 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978 0 7190 7338 0.
Review by Sylvie Blum-Reid, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 47
, Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2008. 280 pp. Photographs. $79.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13-978-0-8223-4175-8. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 13-978-0-8223-4192-5.
Review by David Pettersen, Davidson College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 48
, Women’s Work and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Brittany. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. viii + 162 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-5819-1.
Review by Daryl Hafter, Eastern Michigan University (Emerita).
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 49
, C. M., Agency, Visuality and Society at the Chartreuse de Champmol. Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. xviii + 251 pp. Plates, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $114.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 10: 075466046X. ISBN 13: 978-0754660460.
Review by Janet T. Marquardt, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 50
, It’s So French! Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press. 2007. 272 pp. Color plates, halftones. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780226742427.
Review by Siân Reynolds, Stirling University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 51
, eds., Travailler dans les entreprises sous l’Occupation. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2007. 523pp. €15.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84867-211-3.
Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 52
, The Politics of the Veil. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. vii + 208 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $24.94 U.S. (cl), ISBN 978-0-691-1243-5.
Review by Rebecca Rogers, Université Paris Descartes, UMR Cerlis.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 53
, Eugène Morel: Pioneer of Public Libraries in France. Duluth, Minn.: Litwin Books, LLC, 2008. 260 p. $ 32.00 US (pb). ISBN 978-0-9778617-8-1.
Compte-rendu par Anne-Marie Thiesse, Directrice de recherche au CNRS, Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 54
, Compass of Society: Commerce and Absolutism in Old-Regime France. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2007. xx + 388 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1483-2
Review by John Shovlin, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 55
, Normandy: The Landings to the Liberation of Paris. Translated by M.B. DeBevoise. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. xvii + 446 pp. Abbreviations, illustrations, notes, archival sources, select bibliography, index.$29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-674-02838-8.
Review by Hilary Footitt, University of Reading, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 56
, Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xix + 672 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $140.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521-87728-2.
Review by Laurent Mayali, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 57
, La pensée de l’abbé Grégoire: despotisme et liberté. Studies on Voltaire & the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2008, xiii + 338 pp. Table, bibliography, and index. €90 E.U./$140 U.S. (hdbk). ISBN 978-0-7294-0927-8.
Review by Yvon Le Gall, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (April 2009), No. 58
May Reviews
, Réformes fiscales et crises politiques dans la France de Louis XV: De la taille tarifée au cadastre general. Brussels and New York: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2008. 402 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $ 71.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 9789052014142
Review by Stephen Miller, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 59
, Seducing the Eighteenth-Century Reader: Reading, Writing, and the Question of Pleasure. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. vi + 167 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-6417-8.
Review by Philip Stewart, Duke University
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 60
, The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Misérables. Trans. John King. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 196 pp. Notes, index. $24.95 (cl). ISBN 13 9780691131115
Review by Isabel K. Roche, Bennington College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 61
, Jacques de Savoie-Nemours; l’apanage du Genevois au cœur de la puissance dynastique savoyarde au XVIe siècle. Trans. Eléonore Mazel and Déborah Engel. Geneva: Droz, 2008. Vol. 85, Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance. 360 pp. 47.06 € (pb). ISBN 9872600012119.
Review by Orest Ranum, The Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 62
, Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006. ix + 177 pp. Notes, select bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780719073731.
Review by Matthew Ramsey, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 63
, Topologies: The Urban Utopia in France, 1960-1970. Cambridge, Mass. and London : M.I.T. Press, 2007. ix + 229 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $24.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-262-02611-6.
Review by Roxanne Panchasi, Simon Fraser University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 64
, From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris. Gender, Economy, and Law. Aldershot, England and Burlington, Vt.T : Ashgate, 2007. ix +252 pp. Bibliography and index. $114.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9780754656432.
Review by Jennifer M. Jones, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 65
, This Bright Era of Happy Revolutions: French Consul Michel-Ange-Bernard Mangourit and International Republicanism in Charleston, 1792-1794. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. xiii + 273 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-1-57003-745-0.
Review by Marsha Frey, Kansas State University, and Linda Frey, University of Montana.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 66
Response by Robert J. Alderson, Jr., Georgia Perimeter College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 67
, Marie de France and the Poetics of Memory. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2008. xii + 208 pp. Appendices, table, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 9780813215099.
Review by Seeta Chaganti, University of California, Davis.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 68
, Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles or, The Book of Galehaut Retold. Jaffrey, N. H.: David Godine, 2006. xxvii +228 pp. $26.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781567923247.
Review by Tracy Adams, University of Auckland.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 69
, The Plain Truth: Descartes, Huet, and Skepticism. Leiden: Brill, 2008. xi + 255 pp. Bibliography and index. $145.00 (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-17115-2.
Review by José R. Maia Neto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/CNPq, Brazil.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 70
, ed., ‘The Contending Kingdoms’: France and England 1420—1700. Aldershot and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2008. xii +191 pp. Notes, appendices, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-5789-7.
Review by Thomas Worcester, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 71
, Fontenelle et l’invention de l’histoire des sciences à l’aube des Lumières. Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2007. 399 pp. Notes and bibliography. €24 (pb). ISBN 978-2-213-63306-0.
Review by J.B. Shank, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (May 2009), No. 72
June Reviews
, Writing Places: Sixteenth-Century City Culture and the Des Roches Salon. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. 269 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $56.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-87413-965-5.
Review by Hilary J. Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 73
, Prisoners of Want: The Experience and Protest of the Unemployed in France, 1921-45. Aldershot, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. xiv + 296 pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-5607-4
Review by Laird Boswell, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 74
, Henri IV of France: His Reign and Age. Baltimore MA: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. xviii + 477 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-0818-9027-7.
Review by Eric Nelson, Missouri State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 75
, The New Bibliopolis: French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print 1880-1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. xvii + 312 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8020-9211-3.
Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 76
, Meat Matters: Butchers, Politics, and Market Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. x +232 pp. $75.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-58046-211-1.
Review by Julie Hardwick, University of Texas at Austin.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 77
, The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. viii + 260 pp. Notes, figures, bibliography, and index. $95.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521-87944-6.
Review by Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 78
, Strange Words: Retelling and Reception in the Medieval Roland Textual Tradition. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. x + 332pp. Bibliography and index. $37.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0268022038.
Review by Lynn Ramey, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 79
, eds., Vauban, architecte de la modernité?. Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté: Paris, 2008. 301 pp. Notes, bibliography, maps and illustrations. 29€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-84867-232-8.
Review by Michael Wolfe, St. John’s University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 80
,Ed., Les artistes étrangers à Paris: De la fin du Moyen Âge aux années 1920: Actes des journées d’études organisées par le Centre André Chastel les 15 et 16 décembre 2005. Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. xii + 288 pp. Illustrations and Author Notes. $81.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-3-03911-192-3.
Review by Heidi A. Strobel, University of Evansville.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 81
, Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. xx + 540 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-674-03209-5.
Review by Steven Rowe, Chicago State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 82
, The Religious Paintings of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863): The Initiator of the Style of Modern Religious Art. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellon Press, 2008. xiii+ 318 pp. 12 color plates and 29 black and white figures, preface, acknowledgements, endnotes, chronological list of 220 religious subjects considered to be done by Eugène Delacroix, selected bibliography, index. $119.95 U.S. (hb); ₤74.95 U.K. (hb). ISBN-13:978-0-7734-4973-2 and ISBN-10:0-7734-4973-6.
Review by Shaw Smith, Davidson College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 83
, The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings. Published by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA and distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London. 2007. xi + 313 pp. 223 color and 74 black and white illustrations, exhibition checklist, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl) ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11862-9. (pb). ISBN-13: 978-0-931102-71
Review by Grace Seiberling, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 84
, eds., Artful Deceptions: Verbal and Visual Trickery in French Culture; éds, Les Supercheries littéraires et visuelles: la Tromperie dans la culture française. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, New York, etc.: Peter Lang, 2006. 386 pages. Figures and index. $74.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 3-03910-701-1; US-ISBN 978-0-8204-7966-8; ISBN-13 978-3039107018.
Review by Catherine Nesci, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 85
, Picasso and Apollinaire: The Persistence of Memory (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Books). University of California Press: Berkeley, 2008. 334 pp. + illustrations. $49.95 (hb). ISBN 052-0243-617.
Review by John Finlay, Independent Scholar.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 86
, Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947, ed. Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi, trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. xli + 334 pp. Notes, chronology, and bibliography. $39.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-691-12004-8.
Review by Margaret Atack, University of Leeds.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 87
, Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion (Cambridge: University Press, 2008). 275 pp. $ 99.00 U.S. (hb) ISBN 978-0-521-89825-6.
Review by Robert Alexander, University of Victoria.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 88
, ed., Nowhere is Perfect: French and Francophone Utopias/Dystopias. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008. 251 pp. Notes. $30.00 U.S (pb). ISBN 978-0-87413-048-5.
Review by Sanja Perovic, King’s College London.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 89
, Je Suis Australienne: Remarkable Women in France, 1880-1945. Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2008. 234 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $26.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-921401-13-8
Review by Karen Offen, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 90
, Flesh Made Word: Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2008. xii + 340 pp. Notes and index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-674-02647-0
Review by J. K. Kitchen, University of Alberta.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 91
, Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts: Experience and Reflection in Camus and Sartre. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 241 pp. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-518157-3.
Review by William E. Duvall, Willamette University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (June 2009), No. 92
July Reviews
, Un Jeudi à l’Assemblée: Politiques du discours et droit au travail dans la France de 1848. Québec: Editions Nota Bene, 2007. 195 pp. Notes, index. $24.95 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 978-2-89518-250-4.
Review by Cynthia A. Bouton, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 93
, The Upper Country: French Enterprise in the Colonial Great Lakes. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xii +202 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8018-8838-7
Review by Sara E. Chapman, Oakland University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 94
, Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. x + 415 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12499-5 (hb).
Review by Henry C. Clark, Canisius College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 95
, The Second Battle of the Marne. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008. xii + 217 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-253-35146-3.
Review by Elizabeth Greenhalgh, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 96
, Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxiii + 255 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $145 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-19-925829-5.
Review by H. Hazel Hahn, Seattle University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 97
, The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth-Century Typefaces. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. viii + 564 pp. in 2 vols. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. 195 €; $299.00 U.S. ISBN 978-90-04-16982-1.
Review by Stephen Rawles, University of Glasgow.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 98
, War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. xvi + 174 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $32.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12917-4.
Review by David Todd, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (July 2009), No. 99
August Reviews
, The Screen in Surrealist Art and Thought. Aldershot and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. xi + 328 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb); £60.00 UK (hb). ISBN: 978-0-7546-6116-0.
Review by Raymond Spiteri, Victoria University at Wellington.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 100
, Charles Baudelaire. London: Reaktion Books, 2008. 192 pp. References, Further Reading. $16.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-781861-893635.
Review by Maria Scott, National University of Ireland, Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 101
, Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2008. 202 pp. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7391-1657-9.
Review byCarine M. Mardorossian, University at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 102
, “Es gibt ein grosses und herrliches Land, das sich selbst nicht kennt…es heisst Europa.” Die Diskussion um die Paneuropaidee in Deutschland, Frankreich und Grossbritannien 1922-1933. Berlin: Lit Verl, 2008. 404 pp. € 34.90 (pb). ISBN 978-3-8258-1104-4.
Review by Talbot Imlay, Université Laval.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 103
, My Father & I: The Marais & the Queerness of Community. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009. x + 264 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4773-0.
Review by William A. Peniston, The Newark Museum.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 104
, The Gods of the City: Protestantism and Religious Culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008. xviii + 518 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $168.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-90-04-16405-5.
Review by Steven C. Hause, Washington University in St. Louis.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 105
, Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xxxiii+ 402 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. $95.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8223-4143-7; $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8223-4164-2.
Review by John F. Sweets, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 106
, The Screen in Surrealist Art and Thought. Aldershot and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. xi + 328 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb); £60.00 UK (hb). ISBN: 978-0-7546-6116-0.
Review by Raymond Spiteri, Victoria University at Wellington.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 107
, Les Amateurs d’Art à Paris au XVIIIe siècle. Seyssel: Champ Vallon, 2008. 400 pp. Bibliography and index. € 29 (pb). ISBN 9782876734920.
Review by Kristel Smentek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 108
, Charles Baudelaire. London: Reaktion Books, 2008. 192 pp. References, Further Reading. $16.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 9-781861-893635.
Review by Maria Scott, National University of Ireland, Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 109
, Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaisssance: Homosexuality, Gender, Culture. Burlington, Vt., and Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. Ix + 375 pp. Acknowledgements, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $114.95 (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6377-5.
Review by Marc Schachter, Villa I Tatti/Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 110
, We Only Know Men: The Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2007. xxii +192 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-8132-1493-1.
, Diary of a Witness, 1940-1943. Edited with an introduction by Richard I. Cohen. Translated from the French by Isabel Best. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Inc., in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2007. lxvi + 221 pp. Map, illustrations, notes and index. $27.50 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 13-978-1-56663-740-4.
Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 111
, ed. David after David: Essays on the Later Work. Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007; distributed by Yale University Press. xvi + 360 pp. 135 b/w and 15 color illustrations. Notes. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-931102-69-1 and 978-0-300-12151-3.
Review by Jann Matlock, University College London.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (August 2009), No. 112
September Reviews
L’Histoire culturelle : un tournant mondial dans l’historiographie ? Sous la direction de , avec une postface de Roger Chartier (Dijon : Editions universitaires de Dijon, 2008). 198 p. Tables. 20 €. ISBN 978-2-915611-06-9
Compte-rendu de Laurent Martin, Sciences Po Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 113
, Art, luxe et industrie: Bianchini Férier, un siècle de soieries lyonnaises. Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2006. 425 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, lexicon of technical terms, annexes, bibliography and index. €35.00. ISBN 2-7061-0997-3.
Review by Colin Heywood, University of Nottingham.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 114
, The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 314 pp. Notes, index. $35.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-8018-8349-0.
Review by Colin Jones, Queen Mary University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 115
, J.-J. Guyenot de Châteaubourg (1745-1824) ou le commerce des relations. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2008. 206 pp. Notes. €20. ISBN: 978-2-85944-603-1.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 116
, Writing Through Music: Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xiv + 513 pp. Figures, notes, tables, musical examples, appendices, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-19-532489-1.
Review by Keith Clifton, Central Michigan University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 117
, Derrière La Façade--Vivre Au Château de Versailles Au XVIIIe Siècle. Paris: Perrin, 2008. 268 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes. 19€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-262-02930-2.
Review by Jeroen Duindam, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 118
, Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution, Aurelian Craiutu, ed. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2008. vii + 755 pp. Introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $30 (cl) ISBN-0-86597-731-3. $14.50 (pb) ISBN 86597-732-1.
Review by Madelyn Gutwirth, West Chester University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 119
, Beethoven’s Century: Essays on Composers and Themes.Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2008. xii + 255 pp. Musical examples, figures, notes, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13:978-1-58046-275-4.
Review by Glenn Stanley, The University of Connecticut, Storrs.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 120
, eds., At the Border: Margins and Peripheries in Modern France. French and Francophone Studies. Series editors Hanna Diamond and Claire Gorrara. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2008. xvii + 199 pp. Notes, index. $85.00 (hb). ISBN 0-7083-2076-7.
Review by Christopher Fischer, Indiana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 121
, ed., Annales historiques de la Révolution française: Tables du Centenaire 1908-2007. Paris: Société des etudes robespierristes, 2008. Introduction plus CD-Rom. 29 € (pb). ISBN: 978-2-908327-68-7.
Review by Jack Censer, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 122
, Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008, ix + 347 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $89.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8223-4182-6; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8223-4198-7.
Review by Rachel G. Fuchs, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (September 2009), No. 123
October Reviews
, Orientalism in Early Modern France: Eurasian Trade, Exoticism, and the Ancien Régime. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2008. 409 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $105.00 (hb). ISBN 978-1-84520-374-0.
Review by Julia Landweber, Montclair State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 124
, ed. Construire l’exemplarité: pratiques littéraires et discours historiens (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles). Dijon: Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2008. 250 pp. Bibliography. 20 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-915552-87-4.
Review by Natania Meeker, University of Southern California.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 125
, America through European Eyes: British and French Reflections on the New World from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. viii + 288 pp. $65.00 (U.S.) (hb). ISBN 0-27103-390-8.
Review by Harry Liebersohn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champlain.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 126
. Maurice Blondel, Social Catholicism, and Action Française: The Clash over the Church’s Role in Society during the Modernist Era. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009. xii + 297 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-8132-1542-6.
Review by Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 127
, J. J. Rousseau: An Afterlife of Words. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 2004. xi + 160 pp. Notes, works cited, and index. $46.50 (hb). ISBN 0-674-01514-2.
Review by Sean C. Goodlett, Fitchburg State College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 128
, The Extreme Right in Interwar France: The Faisceau and the Croix de Feu. Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008. x+ 265 pp. Bibliography and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7546-6240-2.
Review by Samual Huston Goodfellow, Westminster College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 129
, Le pain maudit: Retour sur la France des années oubliées 1945-1958 Paris: Fayard, 2008. 1124 pp. Maps, tables, photographs, and indexes. 39 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-213-63648-1.
Review by Kyri Watson Claflin, Boston University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 130
, L’abbé Grégoire et l’Église constitutionnelle après la Terreur, 1794-1797, préface de Jean Dubray. Paris: Picard Distributeur, 2008. xviii + 363 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 45 €. ISBN 978-2-7084-0823-4.
, L’Église constitutionnelle, Napoléon et le Concordat de 1801, préface de Jean Tulard. Paris: Picard Distributeur, 2004. xiv + 737 pp. Notes and bibliography. 42 €. ISBN 2-7084-0719-8.
Review by Joseph F. Byrnes, Oklahoma State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 131
, A Spirited Exchange: The Wine and Brandy Trade Between France and the Dutch Republic in its Atlantic Framework, 1600-1650. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2007. xiii + 371 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $139.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 90- 04-16074-4.
Review by Thomas Brennan, U.S. Naval Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 132
, The King’s Bench: Bailiwick Magistrates and Local Governance in Normandy, 1670-1740. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2008. xvi + 326 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 9781580462921.
Review by Jeremy Hayhoe, Université de Moncton.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (October 2009), No. 133
November Reviews
, Les Dames de Femina. Un féminisme mystifié. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009. Viii + 308pp. Illustrations, bibliography, contents. 20 Euros. ISBN 978-2-7535-0812-5.
Review by Lenard Berlanstein, University of Virginia.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (November 2009), No. 134
, Marie de Médicis, La reine dévoilée. Paris: Éditions Payot, 2009. iv + 1039pp. Index, tables, and bibliography. €30 ISBN 2228903936.
Review by Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (November 2009), No. 135
, Women, Imagination, and the Search for Truth in Early Modern France. Hampshire, England and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2008. x +253 pp. Eleven b & w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. £55.00, on-line £49.00(hb). ISBN: 978-0-7546-6138-2.
Review by Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Occidental College and University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (November 2009), No. 136
, L'identité économique de la France. Libre-échange et protectionnisme (1814-1851). Paris: Bernard Grasset, 2008. 487 pp. Maps, charts, notes, glossary, biographical notes, bibliography, indexes. 22.50€. ISBN 13-978-2-246-71181-0.
Compte-rendu par Gabriel Galvez-Behar, Université Lille Nord-de-France.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (November 2009), No. 137
, L’Etat et la culture en France au XXe siècle. 2e éd. augmentée. Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 2006. 258 pp. Notes, bibliographie, index. 6.50 €. (pb). ISBN 978-2-253-90464-9.
Compte rendu par Monique Yaari, The Pennsylvania State University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (November 2009), No. 138
, eds., Les Relations entre la France et les villes hanséatiques de Hambourg, Brême et Lübeck: Moyen Âge - XIXe siècle – Die Beziehungen zwischen Frankreich und den Hansestädten Hamburg, Bremen und Lübeck : Mittelalter – 19. Jahrhundert. Peter Lang: Brussels, 2006. 536 pp. $44 (pb). ISBN 90-5201-286-5.
Review by Peter G. Wallace, Hartwick College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (November 2009), No. 139
, ed., An American Heroine in the French Resistance: The Diary and Memoir of Virginia d’Albert-Lake. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. xxxviii + 270. $29.95 U.S. (hb) ISBN (978-0-8232-2581-1). $16.95 U.S. (pb) ISBN (978-0-8232-2582-8).
Review by Kathryn N. Jones, Swansea University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (November 2009), No. 140
December Reviews
, The Fall of Napoleon, Volume One: The Allied Invasion of France, 1813-1814. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 704 pp. Portraits, maps, appendices, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U. S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-87542-4.
Review by Ralph Ashby, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 141
, ed., The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century. Reassessments and New Approaches, University Park: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 346 pp., further reading, list of contributors, index. $74.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0–271–02898–X.
Review by Peter R. Campbell, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin and University of Sussex.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 142
, French-American Relations: Remembering D-Day after September 11. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2008. vi + 201 pp. $36.78. ISBN: 0-7618-3968-2.
Review by Vera Mark, Pennsylvania State University-University Park.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 143
, Authorship and Publicity Before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. xii + 335 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4155-6.
Review by Michael Randall, Brandeis University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 144
, The Would-Be Commoner: A Tale of Deception, Murder, and Justice in Seventeenth-Century France. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. xxv + 288 pp. Illustrations, maps, and index. $25.00 U.S. (hb.) ISBN 978-0-618-19731-6.
Review by Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 145
, Powerful Connections. The Poetics of Patronage in the Age of Louis XIII, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. 291 p. $60 (hb). ISBN: 0874139937
Compte-rendu par Mathilde Bombart, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 146
, eds., Obéir/désobéir: Les mutineries de 1917 en perspective. Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2008. 448 pp. €28 (pb); ISBN 978-2-7071-5619-8.
Review by Martha Hanna, University of Colorado, Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 147
. The New Face of Political Cinema: Commitment in French Film since 1995. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007. x + 194 pp. Filmography, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. £40.00 UK (hb). ISBN 978-1-84545-322-0.
Review by Phil Powrie, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 148
(dir.), L’épuration économique en France à la Libération, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2008, 343 pp., Tableaux, figures, notes. 22 Euros. ISBN : 978-2-7535-0624-4.
Compte-rendu par Jean-Claude Daumas, Université de Franche-Comté/Institut universitaire de France.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 149
, Abdeker ou l’art de conserver la beauté: 1754. Grenoble: Editions Jérôme Millon, 2008. 277 pp. Notes and bibliography. 20 € (pb). ISBN 978-2-84137-238-6.
Review by Antoinette Sol, University of Texas at Arlington.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 150
, The Stonemasons of Creuse in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008. 331 pp. Maps, graphs, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-87413-020-1.
Review by Cynthia Truant, University of California, San Diego.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 151
, eds. and trans., La Rochefoucauld: Collected Maxims and Other Reflections (Oxford World Classics). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. lxiv + 354 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. £9.99 U.K., $13.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-19-280649-9.
Review by Stephen Bold, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 152
, Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. xv + 281 pp. Plates, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-226-40195-9.
Review by Lauren Clay, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 153
, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xv + 235 pp. Images, notes, bibliography, and index. $81.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-84973-9; $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-521-61495-5.
Review by James Hanrahan, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 154
. The Great Nation in Decline: Sex, Modernity, and Health Crises in Revolutionary France c. 1750-1850. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. xi + 265 pp. Includes bibliographical references. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-6089-9.
Review by Michael Winston, University of Oklahoma.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 155
L’Histoire culturelle : un tournant mondial dans l’historiographie? Sous la direction de Philippe Poirrier, avec une postface de Roger Chartier Editions universitaires de Dijon, 2008. 198 p. Tables. 20 €. ISBN 978-2-915611-06-9.
Compte-rendu par Laurent Martin, Sciences Po Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 156
, Untimely Beggar: Poetry and Power from Baudelaire to Benjamin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. xxiii + 227 pp. Index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8166-4951-8; $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8166-4950-1.
Review by Michal Peled Ginsburg, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 9 (December 2009), No. 157
, Enlightened Feudalism: Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy. Rochester, N.Y. and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 2008. xii + 309 pp. Maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-1-58046-271-6.