H-France Reviews: Volume 1 (2001)
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February Reviews
, Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900: Integration and Deregulation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xx + 173 pp. Sources, bibliography, index. $59.95 U.S. ISBN 0 521 65096 8.
Review by Jonathan J. Liebowitz, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Feb. 2001), No. 1
, The Sphinx in the Tuileries and Other Essays in Modern French History: Papers Presented at the Eleventh George Rudé Seminar. University of Sydney, 1999. vi + 399, notes. ISBN 1-86487-026-5.
Review by Kenneth Margerison, Southwest Texas State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Feb.2001), No. 2
, The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2000. xvi + 308pp. Notes and index. $25.00 (cl). ISBN 0-226-42414-6.
, The Expectation of Justice: France 1944-1946. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. xviii + 340pp. Notes, maps, index and bibliography. ISBN 0-8223-2373-7.
Review by Robert Zaretsky, Honors College, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Feb. 2001), No. 3
, Revolution and Environment in Southern France: Peasants, Lords, and Murder in the Corbières 1780-1830. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xi + 272 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-19-820717-4.
Review by Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Feb. 2001), No. 4
March Reviews
,Des Terroristes à la retraite. 1983/France/Color. Studio: Zek Productions. Running Time: 84 min.
Review by Patrick Young.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Mar. 2001), No. 5
, The Modernist Enterprise: French Elites and the Threat of Modernity, 1900-1940. Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 1999. ix + 231 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50 (cl). ISBN #0-8047-3511-5.
, Pulp Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Paris. U. of California Press, 2000. xii + 206 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 (cl). ISBN#0-520-21619-9.
Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts/ Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Mar. 2001), No. 6
April Reviews
, On Jean-Jacques Rousseau Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. xiii+ 320 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $55.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8047-3555-7.
Review by Richard Lebrun, University of Manitoba.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Apr. 2001), No. 7
. The Politics of Racism in France. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998. xiv + 240 pp., tables, biblio., index. $69.95.
Review by Steven Zdatny, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Apr. 2001), No. 8
, The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 Years. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press and The German Historical Institute, 1998. ix + 674 pp. Bibliography and index. ISBN 0-521-62132-1
Review by Joel Blatt, University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Apr. 2001), No. 9
, The Legacy of the Great War: Peacemaking, 1919. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. vii + 259 pp. Chronology of Events, Principal Proper Names, Maps, and Bibliography. ISBN 0-669-41711-4.
Review by Joel Blatt, University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Apr. 2001), No. 10
, Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xix+275 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography and index. $125.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0521651298.
Review by Charlotte C. Wells, University of Northern Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Apr. 2001), No. 11
, Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiii + 270 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $42.50 US. ISBN 0-8018-6204-3.
, Eve’s Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 308 pp. Notes, selected bibliography and index. $49.50 US. ISBN 0-8047-3754-1.
Review by Victoria Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Apr. 2001), No. 12
May Reviews
. Crescendo of the Virtuoso: Spectacle, Skill, and Self-Promotion in Paris during the Age of Revolution. Studies in the History of Society and Culture, no. 30. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xii + 385 pp. Notes, index. $50.00 (cl.), ISBN 0-520-20684-3.
. Liberalism and Social Reform: Industrial Growth and Progressiste Politics in France, 1880-1914. Contributions to the Study of World History, no. 55. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. 226 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $65.00 (cl.), ISBN 0-313-29811-4.
, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France. New York: Zone Books, 1998. 1088 pp. Notes. $58.00 (cl.), ISBN 1-890951-06-4; $32.00 (pb.), ISBN 1-890951-07-2.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (May 2001), No. 13
June Reviews
. Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism. Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif., and London: University of California Press, 2001. xvi + 584 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 0-520-22297-0.
Review by Edgar Leon Newman, New Mexico State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (June 2001), No. 14
. Joan of Arc: Her Story. Trans. and rev. Jeremy duQuesnay Adams. Ed. Bonnie Wheeler. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999. xxii + 304 pp. Appendices, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $14.95 US (pb). ISBN 0-312-22730-2.
Review by Rene S. Marion, Ball State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (June 2001), No. 15
July Reviews
, Ideology and Royal Power in Medieval France. Kingship, Crusades and Jews. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2001. x+ 276 pp. Preface, notes, and index. $99.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-86078-856-3
Review by Michael Goodich, University of Haifa.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 16
, The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present. Translated by M. B. DeBevoise. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. xii + 281 pp. Chronology, notes, bibliography and index. $29.95 (cl). ISBN 0-691-05984-5.
, France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 1999. xiv + 210 pp. Appendix, footnotes, bibliography and index. $39.95 (cl). ISBN 0-312-21813-3.
, Uneasy Asylum: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-1942. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xi + 605 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $65.00 (cl). ISBN 0-8047-3312-0.
Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 17
, The French Experience from Republic to Monarchy, 1792-1824: New Dawns in Politics, Knowledge and Culture. < Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave, 2000. xii + 232 pp. Index. £42.50 UK (cl). ISBN 0-333-77265-2.
Review by Jeff Horn, Manhattan College.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (July 2001), No. 18
August Reviews
, Balancing the Scales of Justice. Local Courts and Rural Society in Southwest France, 1750-1800. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. Notes, maps, index and bibliography. xx + 257pp. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02077-6. $19.95 U.S. ISBN 0-271-02078-4.
Review by Peter McPhee, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Aug. 2001), No. 19
, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2001. xiii + 212. Maps, illustrations, index, CD-ROM. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-271-02088-1.
Review by Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University, SUNY.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Aug. 2001), No. 20
, Naissance de la police privée: Détectives et agences de recherches en France, 1832-1942. Civilisations et Mentalités. Paris: Plon, 2000. 328 pp. Illustrations, documents, notes, bibliography, and index. 139FF (pb). ISBN 2-259-18291-7.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Aug. 2001), No. 21
, Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. vii + 493 pp. Tables, graphs, notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-2662-0; $21.95 U.S (pb). ISBN 0-8223-2666-3.
Review by Kathryn Norberg, University of California, Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Aug. 2001), No. 22
, Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi + 179pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliographical references, index. $54.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-64090-3. $19.95 U.S. (pb). 0-521-64090-3.
Review by David Higgs, University of Toronto.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Aug. 2001), No. 23
, Economy and Nature in the Fourteenth Century: Money, Market Exchange, and the Emergence of Scientific Thought. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th series, volume 35. Cambridge, U.K. and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 2000 (pb). x + 273 pp. Notes, index, and bibliography. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-57276-2; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-79386-6.
Review by Laura A. Smoller, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Aug. 2001), No. 24
. Esau’s Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxiv + 568 pp. Index. $22.95 (pb). ISBN 0 521 79538 9.
Review by Michael R. Shurkin, The Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Aug. 2001), No. 25
, Courtly Song in Late Sixteenth-Century France. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. xvi + 560 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography and index. $80.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-226-07587-7.
Review by David Buisseret, The University of Texas at Arlington/The Newberry Library, Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Aug. 2001), No. 26
September Reviews
, Religion and Identity in Modern France: The Modernization of the Protestant Community in Languedoc, 1815-1848. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1999. xxi + 237 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 (cl). ISBN 0-7618-1382-9.
Review by Sarah A. Curtis, St. Louis University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Sept. 2001,: No. 27
October Reviews
, Napoleonic Art, Nationalism, and the Spirit of Rebellion in France (1815-1848), Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998; and London: Associated University Presses, 1999. 176 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Price $55.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-87413-615-6.
Review by Annie Jourdan, Université d'Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Oct. 2001), No. 28
, The Virtuous Marketplace: Women and Men, Money and Politics in Paris, 1830-1870. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. viii + 229 pp. Illustrations, notes bibliography, and index. $32.00 US (hb). ISBN 0-8018-6414-3.
Review by William M. Reddy, Duke University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Oct. 2001), No. 29
November Reviews
, Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. ix + 342 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $46.50 US (cl.). ISBN 0-8122-3588-6.
Review by Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 30
, The Corruption of Angels: The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. x + 238pp. Notes, map, index and bibliography. $35.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-691-00656-3.
Review by John H. Arnold, University of East Anglia.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 31
, Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2000. xiv + 394 pp. Illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. $55.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-520-22214-8.
Review by Carol E. Harrison, Kent State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 32
, Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xv +264 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $42.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-75753-6. $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-75754-4.
Review by Robert A. Schneider, The Catholic University of America.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 33
, La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France, 1627-1693. Baltimore, Md. and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiv+367 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $42.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-8018-6466-6
Review by Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 34
, A History of Pedlars in Europe. Translated by Vicki Whittaker. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. 280pp. Appendix, notes, index. $54.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-1786-9. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-1794-X.
Review by Daniel Heimmermann, University of North Alabama.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 35
, Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xix + 274 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.95 (pb), $49.50 (cl). ISNB 0-8047-3894-7.
Review by Charles Rearick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 36
, “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. xii + 249 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-8122-3590-8.
Review by Kimberly A. LoPrete, National University of Ireland, Galway.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 37
, Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2000. viii + 380 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $55 US (cl). ISBN 0-8047-3878-5.
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 38
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H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 39
, The French North African Crisis: Colonial Breakdown and Anglo-French Relations, 1945-1962. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. xv +305 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-333-71560-8
Review by Phillip Naylor, Marquette University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 40
, Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. xvi + 234 pp. Figures, illustrations, notes, and index. $40.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-300-08252-5.
Review by Zachary S. Schiffman, Northeastern Illinois University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 41
, La fin des corporations, traduit de l’américain par Béatrice Vierne. Paris: Fayard, 2001. ix + 740 pp. Notes and index of names. 220 FF. ISBN 2-213-60829-6
Review by Christopher H. Johnson, Wayne State University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 42
, Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave, 2001. X + 200 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 US (cl). ISBN 0-333-92242-5.
Review by Thomas Brennan, U.S. Naval Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 43
, When Poetry Ruled the Streets: The French May Events of 1968, Foreword by Douglas Kellner. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. xxiv + 192 pp. Pictures, map, notes, bibliography, and index. $57.50 U.S. (hc). ISBN 0-7914-4965-3. $18.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7914-4966-1.
Review by Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Nov. 2001), No. 44
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December Reviews
, Forests and Peasant Politics in Modern France. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. xii +288 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $35 US (cl) ISBN 0-30-008227-4.
Review by Robert M. Schwartz, Mount Holyoke College.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Dec. 2001), No. 45
, Memory and Modernity: Viollet-le-Duc at Vézelay. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. xiv + 200 pp. 53 black and white illustrations. $45.00 US (cl). ISBN 0-271-01850-X.
Review by Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University.
H-France Review Vol. 1 (Dec. 2001), No. 46
, Papermaking in Eighteenth-Century France. Management, Labor, and Revolution at the Montgolfier Mill, 1761-1805. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. xiv + 210 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $48.00 (cl.). ISBN 0-8018-6392-9.