H-France Reviews: Volume 8 (2008)

 

January Reviews

Helke Rausch, Kultfigur und Nation: Öffentliche Denkmäler in Paris, Berlin und London 1848-1914. Munich: Oldenburg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2006. 797 pp. Notes, black and white illustrations, bibliography and index. € 79.80 (hb). ISBN 978-3-486-57579-8.

Compte-rendu par Elise Julien, Université Paris I / Freie Universität Berlin.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 1

Gabriel Marcel, Music & Philosophy. Trans. Stephen Maddux and Robert E. Wood. Intro., Robert E. Wood. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2005. Index. 147 pp. $17.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN-10: 0-87462-665-X. ISBN-13: 0-87462-665-0.

Review by Gary E. Aylesworth, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 2

Judith Mayne, Le Corbeau. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press/London: Tauris, 2007. x + 114 pp. Stills, notes, credits, filmography, bibliography, and index. $20.00 US (pb). ISBN-13-978-0-252-07457-8.

Review by Christopher Lloyd, Durham University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 3

Birte Wassenberg, Vers une euroregion? La coopération transfrontalière franco-germano-suisse dans l'espace rhénan de 1975 à 2000. Bruxelles, Bern, Frankfurt am Rhein, New York, Oxford, Wien : P.I.E. Lang. 487 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, glossary of terms, and index. €49.80 (pb). ISBN 978-90-5201-340-4.

Review by Malcom Anderson, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 4

James Hogg, Ed., Exposition de nos statuts: Commentaire de la Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès Avignon, vers 1767: Archives de la Grande Chartreuse ms. 1 Com. 50. Analecta Cartusiana 99:36. Salzburg: Instititüt für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2006. xxxviii + 416pp. Notes, facsimiles, and index. (pb). ISBN 3-900033-45-5.

Review by Adam J. Davis, Denison University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 5

David Gascoigne, Ed., Violent Histories: Violence, Culture and Identity in France from Surrealism to the Néo-Polar. Bern: Peter Lang, Cultural Identity Series, 2007. 212 pp. $55.95 U.S. / €43.00 ISBN 978-3-03910-317-1.

Review by Debarati Sanyal, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 6

Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xi + 294 pp. Notes, figures, and bibliography. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-42972-5.

Review by Vernon Rosario, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 7

Ruth E. Iskin, Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist Painting. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv + 283 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-521-84080-4.

Review by Hollis Clayson, Northwestern University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 8

Response by Ruth E. Iskin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 9

Jamel Ostwald, Vauban under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of Spanish Succession. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. xiii + 390. Maps, figures, tables, appendices and index. $159.00 (cl). ISBN 10-90-04-15489-2.

Review by Michael Wolfe, St. John's University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 10

Daniel Denis and Pierre Kahn, Eds., L'Ecole de la Troisième République en questions : Débats et controverses dans le Dictionnaire de pédagogie de Fernand Buisson. Berne : Peter Lang, 2006. vii + 283 pp. $34.95. ISBN : 9-783039-111558.

Review by Sharif Gemie, University of Glamorgan.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 11

Kevin F. Kiley, Once There Were Titans: Napoleon's Generals and Their Battles, 1800-1815. London and St. Paul: Greenhill Books, 2007. 320 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, and index. $39.95 US (hb). ISBN 978-1-85367-710-6.

Review by Ralph Ashby, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 12

John Merriman, Police Stories: Building the French State 1815-1851. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. viii + 254 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. £33 UK; $55.00 US (hb). ISBN 0-19-507253-7.

Review by Paul Lawrence, The Open University (UK).
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 13

Denise Z. Davidson, France after Revolution. Urban Life, Gender, and the New Social Order. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. 257 pages. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-02459-1.

Review by Jo B. Margadant, Santa Clara University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 14

Elena Russo, Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth Century France. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xi + 346 pp. Notes, index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8018-8476-4.

Review by Geoffrey Turnovsky, University of Washington.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 15

Roger Pearson, Voltaire Almighty: A Life in the Pursuit of Freedom. London: Bloomsbury, 2005. xxxii + 424 pp. "Dramatis personae," chronology, note on sources, notes, select bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S.; £8.99 UK (cl). ISBN 9780747579571.

Review by Johnson Kent Wright, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 16

Gilbert Noël, Emilie Willaert Eds., Georges Pompidou, une certaine idée de la modernité agricole et rurale. Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, PIE Peter Lang, 2007, 481 p., coll. " Georges Pompidou - Archives n°2 ", Chronology, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (US) ISBN 978-90-5201-057-1.

Compte-rendu par Alain Chatriot, CNRS, CRH-AHMOC, Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 17

François Igersheim, L'Alsace et ses historiens, 1680-1914. La Fabrique des monuments. Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2006. 524 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. 32 €. ISBN 978-2-86820-269-7.

Review by Rebecca McCoy, Lebanon Valley College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 18

Vincent Kaufmann, Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry. Trans. Robert Bononno. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. xix + 345pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8166-4455-1.

Review by Tom McDonough, Binghamton University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 19

Sarah Leahy, Casque d'or. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xii + 116 pp. Filmographies, Bibliography, Index. $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07472-1.

Review by Alan Williams, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 20

Mary E. Davis, Classic Chic: Music, Fashion, and Modernism. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2006. xix + 332 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $ 39.95. ISBN: 978-0-520-24542-6.

Review by Dr. Véronique Pouillard, Columbia University/Université Libre de Bruxelles.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (January 2008), No. 21

February Reviews

Pierre Benoist, Le Père Joseph. L'Eminence grise de Richelieu. Paris. Perrin, 2007. 476 pp. Notes, genealogies, bibliography, index. 24 € (cl). ISBN 978-2-262-02244-0.

Review by Joseph Bergin, University of Manchester, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 22

Randall C. Zachman, Image and Word in the Theology of John Calvin. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, xii + 548 pp. Notes, indices. $55.00 U.S. (cl), ISBN 0-268-04500-3.

Review by R. Ward Holder, Saint Anselm College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 23

James H. Dahlinger, Etienne Pasquier on Ethics and History. New York, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007. x + 147 pp. Frontispiece, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-8204-9547-7.

Review by Katherine MacDonald, University College London.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 24

James K. Farge, Students and Teachers at the University of Paris: The Generation of 1500. A Critical Edition of Bibliothèque de l'Université de Paris (Sorbonne), Archives, Registres 89 and 90. edited with intoduction and annotation by James K. Farge. Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, volume 25. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. xxxi + 617pp. $204 (hb) ISBN 978-90 04 15162 8; ISSN 0926-6070.

Review by Ann Blair, Harvard University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 25

Mary Dewhurst Lewis, The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918-1940 . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xv + 361pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00. ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-5582-5 (cl). $24.95. ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-5722-5 (pb).

Review by Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 26

Victor Acker, The French Educator Célestin Freinet (1896-1966): An Inquiry into How His Ideas Shaped Education . Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2007. xvi + 108 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7391-1923-0 / 978-0-7391-1923-5; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7391-1924-9 / 978-0-7391-1924-2.

Review by David Clandfield, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 27

The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville , Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859). A Special Bicentennial Issue. Vol. XXVII, No. 2, 2006, 600 pp. ISSN 0730-479X.

Review by Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University, Bloomington.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 28

Anne-Monika Lauter, Sicherheit und Reparationen: Die französische Öffentlichkeit, der Rhein, und die Ruhr . Vol. 74, Düsseldorfer Schriften zur Neueren Landesgeschichte und zur Geschichte Nordrhein-Westfalens. Essen: Klartext, 2006. 431 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, index. € 39.50 ISBN 3-89861-495-6.

Review by Christopher Fischer, Indiana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 29

Jim House and Neil MacMaster, Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror, and Memory . Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 375pp. Bibliographical references and index. £60.00 UK (hb). ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924725-7.

Review by Sarah Howard, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 30

Gregory S. Brown, Literary Sociability and Literary Property in France, 1775-1793: Beaumarchais, the Société des Auteurs Dramatiques and the Comédie Française. Aldershot and Burlington, Vt: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. x + 186 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $94.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0386-5.

Review by Marisa Linton, Kingston University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 31

Joseph F. Byrnes, Catholic and French Forever: Religious and National Identity in Modern France . University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. xxiii + 278 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cl) ISBN 0-271-02704-5.

Review by James F. McMillan, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 32

Maurice Crosland, Scientific Institutions and Practice in France and Britain, c.1700-c.1870 . Aldershot, Hampshire, UK and Burlington Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007. xvi + 270 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $109.95 (cl). ISBN-13:978-0-7546-5913-6.

Review by Judith P. Zinsser, University of Miami (Ohio).
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 33

John Shovlin, The Political Economy of Virtue, Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2006. Xi-265 pp. ill. $39.99 (cl) and $25.00 (pb). ISBN 0-801-4447-99 (cl) and ISBN 0-801-4741-83 (pb).

Review by Liana Vardi, University at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 34

Olivier Lanotte, La France au Rwanda (1990-1994). Entre abstention impossible et engagement ambivalent. Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang S.A., 2007. 533 pp. Bibliography. $60.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 13: 978-90-5201-344-2.

Review by David Ambrosetti, CNRS / Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique, Université Paris Ouest – Nanterre La Défense.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 35

Laurent Joly, Vichy dans la “Solution Finale”: Histoire du Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives, 1941-1944. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 2006. 1015 pp. Appendix, chronology, bibliography and index. 35.00 € (pb). ISBN 2 246 63841 0 37 1833-5 2006-IV.

Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (February 2008), No. 36

March Reviews

Isabelle Vanderschelden, Amélie: Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. x + 114 pp. Stills, notes, film credits, box office statistics, filmography, selected bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-252-03221-9. $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07470-7.

Review by Guy Austin, University of Sheffield, U.K.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 37

Maurice Samuels, Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. xi + 280 pp. Illustrations, notes, appendix, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4249-0; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-8965-2.

Review by Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 38

Susan Rubin Suleiman, Crises of Memory and the Second World War.Cambridge, MA. and London: Harvard University Press, 2006. x + 286 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-674-02206-8

Review by Sanford Gutman, State University of New York (SUNY) at Cortland.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 39

Jad Adams, Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. 294 pp. $24.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-29-200-000-0.

Marie-Claude Delahaye, L’absinthe au feminine. Saint Remy-de-Provence: Equinoxe, 2007. 136 pp. €19 (pb). ISBN 978-2-84135559-4.

Review by Scott Haine, University of California Santa Cruz and Holy Names College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 40

Victor Segalen, Stèles..Translated, edited, and annotated by Timothy Billings and Christopher Bush. Foreword by Haun Saussy. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. Vol. 1, xxxiv + 415 pp. Introduction by Billings and Bush, facsimile of 1914 edition of Stèles, English translation of the stèles, brief summaries of each stèle, critical notes, and bibliography. $80.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8195-6833-3. $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8195-6832-5.

Vol. 2, viii + 246 pp. Chinese sources and contexts for Stèles; unpublished stèles; critical notes, Chinese sources and contexts for unpublished stèles; Segalen’s draft of “To the Scholars of the Extreme Occident”; dates of composition and revision of the stèles; and bibliography. Freely available on line at http://www.steles.org.

Review by Yvonne Y. Hsieh, University of Victoria, Canada.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 41

Todd Porterfield and Susan L. Siegfried, Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. viii+287pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, list of illustrations, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02858-0.

Review by David O’Brien, University of Illinois.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 42

Xavier Vigna, L’insubordination ouvrière dans les années 68: Essai d’histoire politique des usines. . Rennes: Presses universitaire de Rennes, 2007. 378pp. Chronology, index, sources and bibliography. €22.00 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7535-0446-2.

Review by Nick Parsons, Cardiff University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 43

Ronnie Ellenblum, Crusader Castles and Modern Histories. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 362 pp. Figures, maps, tables and index. £50 U.K. (cl.). ISBN 0-521-86083-0.

Review by Denys Pringle, Cardiff School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 44

Thomas Cragin, Murder in Parisian Streets: Manufacturing Crime and Justice in the Popular Press, 1830 – 1900. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2006. 273 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8387-5579-8.

Review by Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 45

Peter McPhee, Living the French Revolution, 1789-99. Basingstoke, England, and New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2006. x + 319 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $ 74.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-333-99739-5.

Review by Edward J. Woell, Western Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 46

Hervé Joly, ed.,  L’Économie de la zone non occupée 1940-1942.  Paris:  CTHS, 2007.  378 pp.  32.00 €  ISBN 9-782735-506279.

Review by Kenneth Mouré, University of California at Santa Barbara.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 47

Malcolm Walsby, The Counts of Laval: Culture, Patronage and Religion in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2007. xii + 220 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $99.95 U.S./ ₤55 U.K. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-5811-5.

Review by Katharine J. Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 48

James R. Lehning, The Melodramatic Thread: Spectacle and Political Culture in Modern France. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. 180 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-820717-X.

Review by Sally Debra Charnow, Hofstra University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 49

Claire L. Carlin, ed., Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe. Houndmills, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $74.95 (hb). ISBN 1-4039-3926-8.

Review by William G. Naphy, University of Aberdeen.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 50

Larry Riggs, Molière and Modernity: Absent Mothers and Masculine Births. Charlottesville, Virginia: Rookwood Press, 2005. 234 pp. $45.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-188-63655-51.

Review by Julia Prest, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 51

Roland J. Teske, Studies in the Philosophy of William of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris (1228-1249). Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2006. 274 pp. Table, introduction, notes, bibliography, and indexes. $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-87462-674-9.

Review by Steven P. Marrone, Tufts University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 52

Xavier Fraudet, France’s Security Independence: Originality and Constraints in Europe 1981-1995. Bern, Peter Lang 2006. $54.95 U.S. (pb). U.S. ISBN 978-0-8204-8377-1.

Review by Jolyon Howorth, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (March 2008), No. 53

April Reviews

Anne Kraatz, Le commerce franco-russe. Concurrence et contrefaçons de Colbert à 1900.  Paris : Les Belles Lettres, 2006. 446pp. 25€.  ISBN 2-251-44316-9.

Review by Roger Price, Aberystwyth University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 54

Michael Breen, Law, City, and King: Legal Culture, Municipal Politics, and State Formation in Early Modern Dijon. Rochester, New York, and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 2007. xv + 307 pp. Maps, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $75 U.S. (cl). ISBN-10: 1580462367.

Review by Jonathan Dewald, University at Buffalo.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 55

Willy, The Third Sex.  Translated and introduction by Lawrence R. Schehr.  Urbana and Chicago:  University of Illinois Press, 2007.  xii + 138 pp. Notes, bibliography and index.  $35.00 U.S. (cl).  ISBN 978-0-252-03216-5

Review by Brett A. Berliner, Morgan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 56

Lisa Dicaprio, The Origins of the Welfare State: Women, Work, and the French Revolution.  Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007.  xiv +259 pp.  Notes and index.  $40.00. (cl).  ISBN: 13-978-0-252-032021-5.

Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 57

Boris Noguès, Une archéologie du corps enseignant: les professeurs des collèges parisiens au XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (1598-1793). Histoire de l’éducation. Paris: Bélin, 2006. 240 pp. Notes and index. €24.00 (pb). ISBN 2-7011-4348-9.

Review by Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 58

Thierry Rigogne, Between State and Market:  Printing and Bookselling in Eighteenth-Century France.  Foreword by Robert Darnton.  Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2007 (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century). xiii + 313 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, bibliography, and index. $132.00 U.S. (pb); ISBN 978-0729409070.

Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 59

Simone de Beauvoir, Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27. Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir and Margaret Simons, with Marybeth Timmerman, eds. Translation, notes, and annotations
by Barbara Klaw. Champaign, Ill: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xi + 392 pp. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 978-0-252-03142-7.

Review by Shannon M. Mussett, Utah Valley University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 60

Graham Robb, The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War.  New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2007. vii + 455 pp.  Maps, figures, notes bibliography, and index. $27.95 U.S. (hb).  ISBN:  0-393-05973-1.

Review by Steven Kale, Washington State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 61

Simon Gaunt, Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature:  Martyrs to Love. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.  xii + 235pp.  Bibliography and index.  ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927207-5; ISBN-10: 0-19-927207-7. 

Review by Andrea Tarnowski, Dartmouth College. 
H-France Review Vol. 8 (April 2008), No. 62

May Reviews

Gareth Glover, ed.  From Corunna to Waterloo: The Letters and Journals of Two Napoleonic Hussars, 1801-1816.  London: Greenhill Books, 1999.  287  pp.  Notes, bibliography, and index.  $39.95 U.S. (cl).  ISBN 978-1-85367-709-0.

Review by Michael V. Leggiere, Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 63

Janet T. Marquardt, From Martyr to Monument: The Abbey of Cluny as Cultural Patrimony. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. xix + 286 pp. Maps, figures, notes bibliography, and index. ISBN 9-781847-182128 (cl).

Review by Matt Matsuda, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 64

Rafe Blaufarb, Bonapartists in the Borderlands. French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2005. xx + 302 p. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography and index.  $50.00. ISBN 13: 978-0-8173-1487-3 (cl).

Compte rendu par Nicole Fouché, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Centre d’études nord-américaines/École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 65

Moya Longstaffe, The Fiction of Albert Camus: A Complex Simplicity. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Vienna: Peter Lang, 2007. 300 pp. Footnotes, bibliography, and index. $68.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 3-03910-304-0.

Review by William E. Duvall, Willamette University
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 66

Alain Boureau, Satan the Heretic: the Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West. Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xiii + 255 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $30.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-06748-3.

Review by Christine Caldwell Ames, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 67

Carolyn Podruchny, Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xx + 414. Maps, tables, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-8790-7.

Review by Michael A. McDonnell, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 68

Adrian Armstrong and Malcolm Quainton, eds. Book and Text in France, 1400-1600: Poetry on the Page. Aldershot, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. xiii + 223 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, bibliography, and index. Notes. $99.95 U.S./£50.00 UK (cl.). ISBN 978-0-7546-5590.

Review by Corinne Noirot-Maguire, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 69

James O'Neill, Garrison Tales from Tonquin: An American’s Stories of the French Foreign Legion in Vietnam in the 1890s. Ed., and intro by Charles Royster. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. lix + 119pp. $30.00 U.S. ISBN 0-8071-3180-6.

Review by Edmund F. Wehrle, Eastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 70

Thomas M. Carr, ed., The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent  Voices. Studies in Early Modern France, volume 11. Charlotteville, VA: Rookwood Press, Inc., 2007. 267 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49. 95 U. S. (pb). ISBN 978-1-886365-64-4.

Review by Susan E. Dinan, William Paterson University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 71

Richard Scholar, The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early-Modern France: Encounters with A Certain Something (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). 352 pp. $99.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-1992-74401.

Review by TEMS, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 72

Carl J. Ekberg, Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country.  Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007.  xvi +236 pp.  Maps, tables, figures, notes, and index.  $38.00 U.S. (cl).  ISBN 978-0-252-03208-0.

Review by Bob Morrissey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 73

John Merriman, Police Stories: Building the French State 1815-1851. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. viii + 254 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography and index. £33 UK; $55.00 US (hb). ISBN 0-19-507253-7.

Review by Paul Lawrence, The Open University (UK).
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 74

Vincent Wright, Les préfets de Gambetta. Texte complété, mis à jour et présenté par Éric Anceau et Sudhir Hazareesingh.  Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2007.  482 pp.  Preface, tables, notes, and index.  45€ (pb).  ISBN 978-2-84050-504-4.

Review by Rachel Chrastil, Xavier University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (May 2008), No. 75

 

June Reviews

Frédéric Régent,  La France et ses esclaves:  De la colonisation aux abolitions (1620-1848).  Paris: Grasset et Fasquelle, 2007. 354 pp. 19.50 €.  ISBN 2-246-702119.

Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 76

Kirsty Carpenter, The Novels of Madame de Souza in Social and Political Perspective, Bern, Peter Lang, 2007. 280 pp. $63.95 (pb). ISBN 10-303-9108-980.

Compte rendu par Brigitte Louichon, Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV- IUFM d’Aquitaine.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 77

Leonard V. Smith, The Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2007. ix + 214 pp. Bibliography and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 13: 978-0-8014-4523-1.

Review by Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 78

Raymond Birn, La Censure royale des livres dans la France des Lumières. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2007. 179 pp. Notes. 26 € (pb).  ISBN 978-2-7381-1851-6.

Review by Geoffrey Turnovsky, University of Washington.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 79

Tamara Chaplin, Turning on the Mind: French Philosophers on Television. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2007, xvi + 334 pp.  48 halftones. $62.50 U.S., £39.50 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-226-50990-7; $24.00 U.S., £13.00 (pb) ISBN 0-226-50991-5

Review by Michael Kelly, University of Southampton, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 80

Elizabeth Dachowski, First Among Abbots: The Career of Abbo of Fleury. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2008. xii + 299 pp. Map, table, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8132-1510-5.

Review by Adam J. Davis, Denison University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 81

Ann Cooper Albright, Traces of Light: Absence and Presence in the Work of Loïe Fuller. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2007. xvi + 229 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $ 75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8195-6842-7; $ 27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8195-6843-0.

Rhonda Garelick, Electric Salome: Loie Fuller’s Performance of Modernism. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. xiv + 246 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $ 35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-01708-2. 

Review by Lucia Ruprecht, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 82

Leonie V. Hicks, Religious Life in Normandy, 1050-1300:  Space, Gender and Social Pressure.  Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, N.Y.:  The Boydell Press, 2007.  x + 240 pp.  Maps, notes, bibliography, and index.  $80 U.S. (cl).  ISBN 1-84383-329-8.

Review by Constance B. Bouchard, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 83
Response by Leonie V. Hicks, University of Southampton.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 84

Catherine A. Reinhardt, Claims to Memory: Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. xiii + 202 pp. Notes, bibliography, illustrations, and index. ISBN 1-84545-079-5 (cl).

Review by Sibylle Fischer, New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 85

Raymond Jonas, The Tragic Tale of Claire Ferchaud & the Great War.  Berkley and London: University of California Press, 2005. xiv +217 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-24297-1; $21.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-520-24299-8

Review by Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 86

Walter Benjamin, The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaire. Ed. Michael W. Jennings. Trans. Howard Eiland, Edmund Jephcott, Rodney Livingston, and Harry Zohn. Cambridge, Mass. and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. 306 pp. Introduction, notes, and index. $15.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-674-02287-4.

Review by Beryl Schlossman, Carnegie Mellon University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 87

Philippe Boutry and André Encrevé, eds., Vers la liberté religieuse: La séparation des Eglises et de l’Etat. Actes du colloque organisé à Créteil les 4 et 5 février 2005 par l’Institut Jean-Baptiste Say de l’Université Paris XII-Val-de-Marne. Bordeaux: Editions Bière, 2006. 346 pp. 29€. ISBN 2-85276-090-8.

Review by Julian Wright, Durham University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 88

Adam J. Davis, The Holy Bureaucrat: Eudes Rigaud and Religious Reform in Thirteenth-Century Normandy.  Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2006.  xiii + 268 pp.  Map, figures, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index.  $45.00 US (cl).  ISBN 978-0-8014-4474-6.

Review by Bruce L. Venarde, University of Pittsburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 89

Nicolas Mariot, C’est en marchant qu’on devient président: la république et ses chefs de l’Etat, 1848-2007. Montreuil: Aux lieux d’être, 2007. 362 pp. Maps, tables, and photographs. €24.50 (pb). ISBN 978-2-916063-42-3.

Review by Nick Parsons, Cardiff University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 90

Geoffrey Adams, Political Ecumenism: Catholics, Jews, and Protestants in de Gaulle’s Free France, 1940-1945. Montreal and London and Ithaca, NY:McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006. 395 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 Cdn and U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7735-3076-8.

Compte rendu par Claire Andrieu, Institut d’études politiques de Paris.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 91

Rachel Mesch, The Hysteric’s Revenge: French Women Writers at the Fin de Siècle. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006. xii + 268 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (cl) ISBN 978-0-8265-1530-8; $34.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8265-1531-5

Review by Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 92

Marianne Thivend, ed. Apprentissage et formations techniques et professionnelles de filles et de garçons, XIXe-XXe siècles, Cahiers Pierre Léon n° 6, Université Lyon 2, 2005, 102 p. ISBN 10-295-1955-456.

Compte rendu par Marc Suteau, GETI, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (June 2008), No. 93

August Reviews

Marnia Lazreg, Torture and the Twilight of Empire. From Algiers to Baghdad, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2008. 354 pp. $29.95 (cl). ISBN 10-069-1131-35X.

Compte rendu par Raphaëlle Branche, Université de Paris-I, Sorbonne.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 94

Claude Cahun, Disavowals or Cancelled Confessions. With original preface by Pierre Mac Orlan. Trans. Susan de Muth. Intro. by Jennifer Mundy. Afterword by François Leperlier. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. xxii + 226 pp. Plates, notes.$25.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-262-53303-4.

Review by Tirza True Latimer, California College of the Arts.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 95

Edward J. Hughes, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Camus.  Cambridge and New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2007.  248 pp.  Notes, bibliography, index.  $29.99 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0521549783.

Review by Amanda Crawley Jackson, University of Sheffield, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 96

Anne Dunan-Page, ed., The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750. Aldershot, U.K., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. xvi + 218 pp. Bibliography and index. $99.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-7546-5495-7.

Review by Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 97

Steven Laurence Kaplan, Good Bread is Back:  A Contemporary History of French Bread, The Way It Is Made, And The People Who Make It.  Durham, N.C., and London:  Duke University Press, 2006 [Originally published as Le retour du bon pain:  une histoire contemporaine du pain, de ses techniques et de ses hommes.  Paris:  Perrin, 2002].  368 pp.  Images, tables, glossary, notes, and index.  $27.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3833-5.

Review by Steve Zdatny, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 98

Nicole Hochner, Louis XII: les dérèglements de l'image royale. Paris: Champ Vallon, 2007. 312 pp. illustrations. € 26 E.U. ISBN 978-2876734531.

Review by Frederic Baumgartner, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 99

Reading Tocqueville: From Oracle to Actor, eds. Raf Geenens and Annelien De Dijn (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 200 pp. $ 74.95 (cl). ISBN 978-0-230-52746-1 (hardcover).

Review by Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University, Bloomington.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 100

Noah D. Guynn, Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages. Basingstoke, U.K., and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xii + 218 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-4039-7147-0; $65.00 U.S. (e-book). ISBN 0-230-60366-1.

Review by Zrinka Stahuljak, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 101

Roger Chartier, Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Notes and index. 203 pp. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0812239959; $22.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0812220469.

Review by Timothy Hampton, University of California, Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 102

Barbara H. Rosenwein, Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages. Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 2006. xv + 228 pp. Map, chart, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8014-4478-4; $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8014-7416-3.

Review by Bonnie Effros, Binghamton University, State University of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 103

Roger Chartier, Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Notes and index. 203 pp. $55.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0812239959; $22.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0812220469.

Review by Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.   
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 104 

Tony Hunt, Miraculous Rhymes: The Writing of Gautier de Coinci. Woodbridge, U.K., and Rochester, N.Y.: D.S. Brewer, 2007. x + 212 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, and index. $85.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-1-84384-126-5.

Review by Kathy M. Krause, University of Missouri—Kansas City.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 105

Nancy L. Green and François Weil, eds., Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. x +318 pp. Notes and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03161-8; $24.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-252-07429-5.

Review by G. Daniel Cohen, Rice University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 106

Lynn Festa, Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. viii + 300 pp. Notes, figures, bibliography, and index. $55.00 US (hb). ISBN 978-0-8018-8430-6.

Review by Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 107

Roy L. McCullough, Coercion, Conversion and Counterinsurgency in Louis XIV’s France. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Notes, bibliography and index. vii + 265 pp. $128.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-90-04-15661-6.

Review by W. Gregory Monahan, Eastern Oregon University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (August 2008), No. 108

September Reviews

James A. Winders, Paris Africain: Rhythms of the African DiasporaPalgrave/MacMillan, 2006. xvi + 231 pp. Notes and index. $39.95 (hb). ISBN 978-1-4039-6004-7.

Review by James E. Genova, The Ohio State University-Marion.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (September 2008), No. 109

Denis Varaschin, ed., Les entreprises du secteur de l’énergie sous l’Occupation. Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2006. Pp. 447. 30€. ISBN 284832-0451.

Review by Kathryn E. Amdur, Emory University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (September 2008), No. 110

Pierre H. Boulle, Race et esclavage dans la France de l’Ancien Régime. Paris: Perrin, 2007. 288 pp. Maps, figures, tables, notes, appendices, and index of proper names. 21€ (pb.) ISBN 978-2-262-02672-1.

Review by Sue Peabody, Washington State University Vancouver.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (September 2008), No. 111

Madeleine de l’Aubespine, Selected Poems and Translations: A Bilingual Edition. Edited and translated by Anna Klosowska. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2007. xxx + 136 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-226-14193-4; $.20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN: 0-226-14194-2.

Review by Isabelle Fernbach, Montana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (September 2008), No. 112

Elizabeth K. Menon, Evil by Design:  The Creation and Marketing of the Femme Fatale.  rbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006.  xi + 339 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl).  ISBN 0-252-03083-4; $30.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07323-31.

Review by Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
H-France Review Vol. 8 (September 2008), No. 113

Valerie Orpen, Cléo de 5 à 7. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xi + 111 pp. Appendices, bibliography and index. $50.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03217-2. $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-252-07458-5.

Review by Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Rutgers University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (September 2008), No. 114

Olivier Ferret, La Fureur de nuire: échanges pamphlétaires entre philosophes et antiphilosophes (1750–1770).  Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2007.  xxii + 487 pp. Notes, figures, annexes, bibliography, and index.  €121,33 (pb); ISBN 978-729408912.

Review by Darrin M. McMahon, Florida State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (September 2008), No. 115

David Lawday, Napoleon’s Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press, 2007. 386 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $26.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-312-37297-3.

Review by William Olejniczak, College of Charleston.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (September 2008), No. 116

Raymond Queneau, Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays, 1928-1970. Translated Jordan Stump. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xvi + 251 pp. Introduction, drawings, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-252-03187-8.

Review by D. Brian Mann, North Georgia College & State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (September 2008), No. 117

Emily R. Grosholz, ed., The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xl + 200 pp. Select bibliography and name index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-19-926535-6. $43.50 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-926536-7.

Review by Catherine Rodgers, Swansea University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (September 2008), No. 118

Angela Kimyongür, Memory and Politics: Representations of War in the Work of Louis Aragon. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007. xv + 207 pp. Introduction, notes, bibliography, and index. £75.00/$85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-7083-2088-4.

Review by Richard D. Sonn, University of Arkansas.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (September 2008), No. 119

Bette W. Oliver, From Royal to National: The Louvre Museum and the Bibliothèque Nationale (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006). ix +110pp. Bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN-10: 0-7391-1422-0 and ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1422-3; and $18.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN-10: 0-7391-1861-7 and ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-1861-0.

Review by Rachel A. Lindheim, California State University, Fullerton.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (September 2008), No. 120

Catherine Nesci, Le Flâneur et les flâneuses : Les femmes et la ville à l’époque romantique. Grenoble: Ellug, 2007. 430 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 32€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-84310-150-2.

Review by Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (September 2008), No. 121

John Warne Monroe, Laboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008.  xiv + 293 pp.  Figures, footnotes, bibliography, and index.  $35.00 U.S. (cl).  ISBN 978-0-8014-45620-0.

Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (September 2008), No. 122

Sarah Kay, The Place of Thought: The Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic Poetry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. x + 236 pp. Figures (8 b&w illustrations, 2 tables), notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 978-0-8122-4007-8.

Review by Michel-André Bossy, Brown University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (September 2008), No. 123

October Reviews

Denis Varaschin, ed., Les entreprises du secteur de l’énergie sous l’Occupation.  Arras: Artois Presses Université, 2006.  Pp. 447. 30€. ISBN 284832-0451. 

Review by Kathryn E. Amdur, Emory University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (October 2008), No. 125

Jeanne-Marie Tuffery-Andrieu, Le Concile National en 1797 et en 1801 à Paris: L’Abbé Grégoire et l’utopie d’une Eglise républicaine. Bern, New York: Peter Lang, 2007, xxiv +383 pp. Notes.$105.95. U.S. (pb), .ISBN 978-3-03911-426-9.

Review by Emmet Kennedy, The George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (October 2008), No. 126

Marilène Patten Henry, A Zouave’s Journey: Recollections of a Footsoldier in the 37th African Division. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2007. xi + 142 pp. Illustrations, notes, and bibliography. $61.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 978-0-8204-9708-2.

Review by Michelle K. Rhoades, Wabash College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (October 2008), No. 127

Guia Migani, La France et l’Afrique sub-saharienne, 1957-1963: Histoire d’une decolonisation entre idéaux eurafricains et politique de puissance. Bern and New York: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2008. 295 pp. Notes, tables, bibliography and index. €34.90 (pb). ISBN 978-90-5201-382-4. 

Review by Louisa Rice, Drury University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (October 2008), No. 128

Tricia Danille Keaton, Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics and Social Exclusion. Indiana University Press 2006.  223 pages, Bibliography, Index. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 0 253 21834 9. 

Review by Bronwyn Winter, Dept of French Studies, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (October 2008), No. 129

Jeremy D. Popkin, Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xvi + 400 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-226-67583-1.

Review by William S. Cormack, University of Guelph.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (October 2008), No. 130

Lorna Milne, ed. Postcolonial Violence, Culture and Identity in Francophone Africa and the Antilles. Bern : Peter Lang, 2007. 233 pp. Collection of eight essays, introduction, conclusion, notes, bibliography and index. $66.95 (U.S.) ISBN 978-3-03910-330-0.

Compte-rendu par Sonia Lee, Trinity College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (October 2008), No. 131

François Cadilhon, Jean-Baptiste de Secondat de Montesquieu.  Au Nom du père. Pessac:  Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2008. , 254 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography.  21€ (pb). ISBN 978-2-86781-485-3.

Review by Rebecca E. Kingston, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (October 2008), No. 132

Daniela Kroslak, The French Betrayal of Rwanda. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008. 330 pp. Glossary, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-253-21974-9.

Review by Berny Sèbe, University of Durham.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (October 2008), No. 133

Simon Kitson, The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. xix + 218 pp. Maps, glossary, chronology, bibliography, notes, and index. $25.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-43893-7.

Review by Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (October 2008), No. 134

Danièle Fraboulet, Quand les patrons s’organisent. Stratégies et pratiques de l’Union des industries métallurgiques et minières (1901-1950), Villeneuve d’Ascq, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2007, 370 p. Notes, graphiques, tableaux, CD-Rom. Préface de Patrick Fridenson. 25€. ISBN 978-2-85939-994-8.

Compte rendu par Jean-Pierre Le Crom, CNRS – université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (October 2008), No. 134

Jan Ziolkowski, trans., Letters of Peter Abelard: Beyond the Personal. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University Press of America, 2008. lii + 231 pp. Bibliography, general index, index of scriptural references. $29.95 U.S. (pb) ISBN 978-0813215051.

Review by Kevin Guilfoy, Carroll College.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (October 2008), No. 136

November Reviews

Lynette R. Muir, Love and Conflict in Medieval Drama: The Plays and Their Legacy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xv + 294 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $96.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-82756-6.

Review by Noah D. Guynn, University of California, Davis.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (November 2008), No. 137

Robert Tombs and Isabelle Tombs, That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British From the Sun King to the Present, New York: Knopf, 2007. 816 pp. $40.00 (US). ISBN-10: 1400040248.

Review by Irwin Wall, University of California, Riverside and New York University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (November 2008), No. 138

Patrice Gueniffey, Le Dix-huit Brumaire: L’épilogue de la Révolution française: 9-10 novembre 1799.  Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2008.  422 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, chronology, index, and appendix. €24.00 (pb); ISBN 978-2-07-012032-1. 

Review by Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University (State University of New York). 
H-France Review Vol. 8 (November 2008), No. 139

Mark Greengrass, Governing Passions, Peace and Reform in the French Kingdom, 1576-1585, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. 423 pp. Notes, tableaux, bibliographie et index. $150.00 (US). ISBN 978-0-19-9214907.

Compte-rendu par Stéphane Gal, Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble 2.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (November 2008), No. 140

Elinor Accampo, Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France, Baltimore, Md : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 336 pp. $50.00 (hb). ISBN 978-0-8018-8404-7.

Compte-rendu par Anne Cova, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (November 2008), No. 141

Simon Burrows, Blackmail, Scandal, and Revolution:  London’s French libellistes, 1758-92.  Manchester and New York:  Manchester University Press, 2006.  xvi + 256pp.  Tables, sources, and index.  $80.00 U.S. (cl).  ISBN 0-7190-6526-7. 

Review by Gary Kates, Pomona College. 
H-France Review Vol. 8 (November 2008), No. 142

A. J. B. Johnston, Endgame, 1758: The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg’s Last Decade.  Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.  x + 365 pp.  Notes, illustrations, maps, appendices, and index.  $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-0-8032-6009-2.

Review by Kenneth Banks, University of Ottawa/l’Université d’Ottawa. 
H-France Review Vol. 8 (November 2008), No. 143

Olivier Cabayé.  Albi au XVIe siècle: Gens de bien et autres “apparens”.  Albi:  Presses du centre universitaire Champollion, 2008.  901 pp.  Figures, notes, bibliography, annexes, index.  30€ (pb).  ISBN 978-2-915699-60-9. 

Review by Gayle Brunelle, California State University, Fullerton. 
H-France Review Vol. 8 (November 2008), No. 144

Ursula Haskins Gonthier, ed., Opinion, Voltaire, nature et culture. SVEC, 2007:12. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2007. xi + 307 pp. 36 illustrations. $140 U.S. (pb); ISBN 978 0 7294 09186. 

Review by Jeremy L. Caradonna, University of Alberta. 
H-France Review Vol. 8 (November 2008), No. 145

Amaury Faivre d’Arcier, Les Oubliés de la Liberté; Négociants, consuls et missionaires français au Levant pendant la Révolution (1784-1798). Brussels and New York: Peter Lang, 2007. 266 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, biographical notices, glossary, bibliography, and index. €21.50 Europe; $25.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978-90-5201-339-8.

Review by Julia Landweber, Montclair State University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (November 2008), No. 146

Diana Holmes, Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 154pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. £44.00. (hb). ISBN 978-0-924984-8.

Review by George Paizis, University College London.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (November 2008), No. 147

Stéphane Gal avec Les Amis de Bayard, eds., Bayard.  Histoires croisées du Chevalier.  Grenoble:  Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 2007. 206 pp. €25 (pb). ISBN 978-2-7061-1420-5.

Review by Matthew Vester, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (November 2008), No. 148

December Reviews

Julie Claustre, Dans les geôles du roi: L’emprisonnement pour dette à Paris à la fin du Moyen Âge. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2007. 495 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. €33.00 E.U. (pb). ISBN 978-2-85944-582-9.

Review by Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (December 2008), No. 149

Antoine Follain, Le village sous l’Ancien Régime. Paris: Fayard, 2008. iii + 609 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. €27 E.U. (pb). ISBN 978-2-213-63554-5.

Review by Peter M. Jones, University of Birmingham, UK.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (December 2008), No. 150

Allan H. Pasco, ed., Nouvelles Françaises du Dix-Neuvième Siècle, Anthologie.  Charlottesville, VA: Rookwook Press, 2006, 487 pp.  $59.95 (hb). ISBN (10 digit) 1-866365-59-8.

Compte-rendu par Marie-Pierre Le Hir, The University of Arizona.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (December 2008), No. 151

Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert, eds., Capital Cities at War, vol. 2, A Cultural History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.  xiii + 545 pp.  Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index.  $110 U.S. (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-87043-6.

Review by Gearóid Barry, National University of Ireland, Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (December 2008), No. 152

Martin Thomas, Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder After 1914.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.  xi + 428 pp.  Bibliography, notes, and index.  Cloth $49.95.  ISBN 978-0-520-25117-5

Review by Clifford Rosenberg, The City College of New York, CUNY.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (December 2008), No. 153

John Dunmore, Storms and Dreams: The Life of Louis de Bougainville (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2007). 296 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, appendix, bibliography and index. $45.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 13: 978-1-60223-000-2.

Review by Margaret Sankey, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (December 2008), No. 154

Sharon Kinoshita, Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Narrative. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.  311 pp. $59.95 (hb).  ISBN 0-8122-3919-9.

Review by Sylvia Huot, Pembroke College, Cambridge.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (December 2008), No. 155

Edna Hindie Lemay, ed., Dictionnaire des Législateurs, 1791-1792. 2 vols. Ferney-Voltaire: Centre International d’Etude du XVIIIe Siècle, 2007. xxxix + 821 pp. Preface, chronology, appendices, bibliography, and thematic index. € 250.00 (hb). ISBN 978-2-84559-025-0

Review by Marisa Linton, Kingston University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (December 2008), No. 156

Maggie Allison and Yvette Rocheron, eds. The Resilient Female Body.  Health and Malaise in Twentieth-Century France.  Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007. 230 pp. Select bibliography, index. $73.95 (hb). ISBN 3-03910-521-3.

Review by Mary Lynn Stewart, Simon Fraser University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (December 2008), No. 157

June K. Burton, Napoleon and the Woman Question: Discourses of the Other Sex in French Education, Medicine, and Medical Law, 1799-1815. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2007. xxx & 288 pp. Notes. $40.00 (hb).  ISBN 0-89672-559-6

Review by Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (December 2008), No. 158

John H. Gill, 1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon’s Defeat of the Habsburgs.  Volume I: Abensberg.  London: Frontline Books (an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd.), 2008.  xvi + 496 pp.  Maps, charts, tables, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index.  £30.00 U.K. (cl). ISBN 978-1-84415-713-6. 

Review by Dale Lothrop Clifford, University of North Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (December 2008), No. 159

Elizabeth Ezra, Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii + 162 pp. Thirty illustrations, filmography, bibliography, and index. ISBN 13978-0-252-03318-6 (cl), $60.00; 13978-0-252-07522-3 (pb), $19.95.

Review by Phil Powrie, University of Sheffield.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (December 2008), No. 160

Martin Thomas, Bob Moore and L.J. Butler, Crises of Empire: Decolonization and Europe’s Imperial States, 1918-1975. London: Hodder Education, 2008. 457 pp. Notes, maps, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 978 0340 731277.

Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (December 2008), No. 161

Emmanuelle Saada, Les Enfants de la colonie : Les métis de l’Empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté. Paris: Editions de la Découverte, 2007. 335 pp. Notes and bibliography. 24€. ISBN 978-2-7071-3982-5. 

Review by Marie-Paule Ha, The University of Hong Kong.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (December 2008), No. 162

Robert W. Berger, ed., Paris. An Electronic Tour of the Old City. New York: Italica Press, 2007. 414 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography. $30.00 U.S. (electronic).  ISBN 1-59910-009-6; ISBN 978-1-59910-009-8. 

Review by David Garrioch, Monash University.
H-France Review Vol. 8 (December 2008), No. 163