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January Reviews
, Passion, Politics, and Philosophie: Rediscovering J.-P. Brissot. Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. xxii + 304 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313- 31779-8.
Review by Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 1
, Human Nature and the French Revolution: From the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code. Translated by Patrick Corcoran. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2001. v + 292 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-571-81415-9.
Review by Ronald Schechter, The College of William and Mary.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 2
, Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xiv + 451 pp. Diagrams, halftones, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0226772616.
Review by Michael E. Hoenicke Moore, University of Houston.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 3
, The Faith and Fortunes of France’s Huguenots, 1600-8. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2001, xiv + 336 pp. Maps, tables, notes and index. $99.95 U.S. ISBN 0 7546 0225 7.
Review by Daniel Hickey, Université de Moncton.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 4
, Medieval Conduct. Medieval Cultures, no. 29. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. xx + 241 pp. Notes, list of contributors, and index. $54.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8166-3575-7; $19.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8166-3576-5.
Review by Cordelia Beattie, University of Edinburgh.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (January 2003), No. 5
February Reviews
, Plagues, Poisons and Potions: Plague-Spreading Conspiracies in the Western Alps c. 1530-1640. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002. xiv + 242 pp. Maps, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7190-4641-6.
Review by Matthew Vester, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 6
, Haitian Revolutionary Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xii + 348 pp. Maps, appendices, notes, index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-253-34104-3.
Review by Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 7
, Les Orphelins de la République: Destinées des députés et sénateurs français (1940-1945). Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2001. 458 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. 24,39 € (pb.). ISBN 2-02-034036-4.
Review by Vicki Caron, Cornell University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 8
, The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. x + 269 pp. Four colour plates, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl), ISBN 0-8122-3658-0. $19.95 U.S. (pb); ISBN 0-8122-1806-X.
Review by John H. Arnold, Birkbeck College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 9
, Salamanca 1812. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. xiv + 322 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-300-08719-5.
Review by Michael Broers, University of Aberdeen (UK).
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 10
, The Making of Revolutionary Paris. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2002. xiv + 382 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected readings, and index. $34.95 US/£24.95 (cl). ISBN 0-520-23253-4.
Review by Colin Jones, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 11
, The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria 1930-1954. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2002. xiii + 234 pp. Map, illustrations, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 1-58046-105-0.
Review by Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Texas Tech University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 12
, Napoléon et les cultes: Les religions en Europe à l’aube du XIXe siècle, 1800-1815. Paris: Fayard, 2002. 369 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. 20 € (pb). ISBN 9-78213-61414-4.
Compte-rendu par Pierre Legal, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 13
, Childhood in the Promised Land: Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880-1960. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 2002. xv + 411 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $74.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-2928-x; $24.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-2944-1.
Review by Stephen L. Harp, University of Akron.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 14
, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xiv + 238 pp. Diagrams, figures, notes, and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 080186626X.
Review by William H. TeBrake, University of Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (February 2003), No. 15
March Reviews
, Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages. Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. x + 248 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-333-96120-X.
Review by Megan Cassidy-Welch, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 16
, Patronage in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France. Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2002. vi + 286 pp. $105.95. ISBN 0-86078-881-4.
Review by Stuart Carroll, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 17
, Manet Manette. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. xviii, 400 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $50 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-300-09658-5.
Review by James Smalls, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 18
, Jules Breton, Painter of Peasant Life. New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, in association with the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 2002. ??? 264 pp. I illustrations (43 b/w + 158 colors). $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-300-09575-9.
Review by Nadine Vivier, Université du Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 19
, Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. xiv + 250 pp. Notes and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-00927-4.
, The Jews and the Nation: Revolution, Emancipation, State Formation, and the Liberal Paradigm in America and France. Princeton, N.J. and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. x + 295 pp. Notes and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-691-09649-X.
Review by James Smith Allen, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 20
, The Poet and the King: Jean de La Fontaine and His Century. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. vii + 536 pp. Notes and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-03877-5
Review by Robert A. Schneider, Catholic University of America.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 21
, Histoire des curés. Paris: Fayard, 2002. 523 pp. Notes, glossary, and index. 23.00 €. ISBN 35-1412-2.
Review by Joseph F. Byrnes, Oklahoma State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 22
, The Political Theory of Christine de Pizan. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Burlington, Vert. and Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2002. xvi + 187 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-0173-0; $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-7546-0174-9.
Review by Nadia Margolis, Independent Scholar, Leverett, Mass.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 23
, Fashion under the Occupation. Trans. Miriam Kochan. Oxford and New York : Berg, 2002. xi + 205 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes and index. $70.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1 85973 543-6; $23.00 (pb). ISBN 1-85973-548-7.
Compte-rendu par Jean-Pierre Le Crom, Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 24
, Le Grand Marché: L’approvisionnement alimentaire de Paris sous l’Ancien Régime. Paris: Fayard, 2002. 1030 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 45.00 € (pb). ISBN 9-782213-611440.
Review by Cynthia Bouton, Texas A&M University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 25
. Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. Illustrations, notes and index. $65.00 (cl). xi + 392 pp. ISBN 0-300-08887-6
Review by Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 26
, Ingénieurs et fortifications avant Vauban. L’organisation d’un service royal aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles. Paris: Éditions du CTHS, 2002. 142 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 33.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-7355-0478-6.
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 27
, The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present: From de Maistre to Le Pen. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. x + 209 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-415-23981-8; $25.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-415-23982-6.
Review by Andrés H. Reggiani, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 28
, Daughters of Eve: A Cultural History of French Theater Women from the Old Regime to the Fin-de-Siècle. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. xiv + 300 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-674-00596-1.
, Comédienne: De Mlle Mars à Sarah Bernhardt. 416 pp. Paris: Seuil, 2001. Notes, chronology, bibliography, and index. 21.04 € (pb). ISBN 2-02-039904-0.
Review by Charles Sowerwine, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (March 2003), No. 29
April Reviews
, Huguenot Heartland: Montauban and Southern French Calvinism during the Wars of Religion (St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History). Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2002. xiv + 257 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $84.95 U.S., £47.50 U.K. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0762-3.
Review by Mack P. Holt, George Mason University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 30
, Une science impériale pour l’Afrique? La construction des savoirs africanistes en France, 1878-1930. Paris: Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2002. 358 pp. Maps, illustrations, biographical notices, notes, bibliography, and index. 32.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-7132-1784-9.
Review by Alice L. Conklin, University of Rochester.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 31
, Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works, The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxviii + 176 pp. Bibliography and index. $49.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-305556-2.
Review by Michelle Marshman, Green River College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 32
, A Field of Honor: Writers, Court Culture, and Public Theater in French Literary Life from Racine to the Revolution. www.gutenberg-e.org and Columbia University Press, 2002. 387 pp. Links, images, notes, and bibliography. $49.95 U.S. (e-text). ISBN 0-231-12460-0.
Review by Emmet Kennedy, George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 33
Gregory Brown's commentary on electronic publishing
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 34
, Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in JazzAge France. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002. xii + 273 pp. Photographs, notes, and index. $35.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-5584-935-65.
Review by Michael G. Vann, Santa Clara University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 35
, Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress. London: Yale University Press, 2002. 176 pp. Bibliography, notes, index, and illustrations. $35.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 1-85709-977-X.
Review by Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 36
, Republican Identities in War and Peace: Representations of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 2002. xi + 288 pp. Pictures, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85973-621-1; $25.00 U.S. (pb). 1-85973-626-2.
Review by James R. Lehning, The University of Utah.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 37
, The Algerian War and the French Army, 1954-1962: Experiences, Images, Testimonies. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2002. xi + 269 pp. Notes, appendix on witness testimonies, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-333-77456-6.
Compte-rendu par Sylvie Thénault, L’Institut d’histoire du temps présent (IHTP) CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 38
, Ideas and Contexts in France and England from the Renaissance to the Romantics. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Aldershot and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2000. xii + 304 pp. Index. $105.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-86078-835-0.
Review by Kathleen A. Parrow, Black Hills State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 39
, Courtly Love Undressed: Reading through Clothes in Medieval French Culture. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 326 pp. Notes and bibliography. $49.95 U.S./£35.00 G.B. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3671-8.
Review by Jane H. M. Taylor, University of Durham.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 40
, Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2002. viii + 282 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $69.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-0671-6.
Review by Katharine J. Lualdi, University of Southern Maine.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (April 2003), No. 41
May Reviews
, Beautiful Death: Jewish Poetry and Martyrdom in Medieval France. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. xii + 219 pp. Bibliography and index. $35.00 U.S.; £24.95 G.B. (cl). ISBN 0-691-09053-X
Review by Miri Rubin, Queen Mary College, University of London.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 42
, Symbolist Journals: A Culture of Correspondence. Series “Studies in European Cultural Transition.” Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2002. xviii + 352 pp. Notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $84.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-7546-0010-6.
Review by Robin Walz, University of Alaska Southeast.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 43
, Family Dynasty, Revolutionary Society: The Cochins of Paris, 1750-1922. Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. vii + 247 pp. Notes, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, and index. $72.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313-31361-X.
Review by Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 44
, The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy. The War against God, 1801-1814. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. xvi + 238pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $80.00 U.S (hb). ISBN 0-415-26670-X.
Review by Malcolm Crook, Keele University (UK).
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 45
, Descartes et la France: Histoire d'une passion nationale. Paris: Fayard, 2001. 366 pp. Notes and index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-213-61045-2.
, Radical Cartesianism: The French Reception of Descartes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiv + 288 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-521-81134-1.
, Descartes: Essai d'histoire culturelle d'une grandeur philosophique. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2002. 352 pp. Notes, chronology, bibliography, and index. 16.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-7246-0825-9.
, Cogito, Ergo, Sum: The Life of René Descartes. Jaffrey, N. H.: David R. Godine, 2002. viii + 376 pp. Index and bibliography. $35.00 (hb). ISBN 1-56792-184-1.
Review by J. B. Shank, University of Minnesota.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 46
, Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture and the Thirty Years' War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii + 304 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-65268-5.
Review by Matthew Vester, West Virginia University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 47
, Contesting Sacrifice. Religion, Nationalism, and Social Thought in France. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2002. ix + 228 pp. Notes and index. $37.50 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0226777367.
Review by Stephen Schloesser, Boston College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 48
, Résister à la conscription, 1798-1814. Le cas des départements aquitains. Paris: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2002. 598 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and bibliography. 32.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-7355-0512-X.
Review by Alan Forrest, University of York.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 49
, Napoleon (London and New York: Arnold, 2001). 273 pp. Illustrations. $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-340-71916-8.
Compte-rendu par Annie Jourdan, University of Amsterdam.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 50
, A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917-1945. Contributions to the Study of World History, no. 97. Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. xiv + 323 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313-32026-8.
Review by Judith Wishnia, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 51
, Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002. xxvi + 670 pp. Figures, maps, graphs, bibliographical notes, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-300-08812-4.
Review by Raymond A. Mentzer, University of Iowa.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 52
, AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. ix + 204 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN: 0-299-17290-2 and $19.95 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 0-299-17294-5.
Review by Andrew Aisenberg, Scripps College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 53
, Tricolor over the Sahara: The Desert Battles of the Free French, 1940-1942. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. xii + 134 pp. Illustrations, select bibliography, and index. $64.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-313-31654-6.
Review by Elizabeth Greenhalgh, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 54
, La France des camps: l’internement 1938-1946. Paris: Gallimard, 2002. 456 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, sources, and index. 26.50 € (pb). ISBN 2-07-073138-3.
Review by Donna F. Ryan, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 55
, Certain Ideas of France: Essays on French History and Civilization. Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. xvi + 205 pp. Notes and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-313-32341-0.
Review by James E. Genova, Indiana State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 56
, Gendarmerie, état et société au XIXe siècle. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2002. 510 pp. Appendices. 30.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-85944-449-1.
Review by Anthony J. Steinhoff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 57
, L'Amnistie: De la Commune à la guerre d'Algérie. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2002. 428 pp. Notes; bibliography; index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN
Review by John S. Hill, Immaculata University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 58
, Destins immigrés: Cher, 1920-1980, trajectoires d'immigrés d'Europe. Besançon: Annales littéraires de l'Université de Franche Comté, 2001. 447 pp. Bibliography, notes, and index. 39.64 € (pb). ISBN 2-84627-014-7.
Review by Clifford Rosenberg, The City College of New York.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 59
, Du jeu ancien au show sportif: La naissance d'un mythe. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2002. 236 pp. Notes. 21.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-02-053038-4.
Review by Christopher Thompson, Ball State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (May 2003), No. 60
June Reviews
, Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siècle France. Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2002. xi + 353 pp. Notes, illustrations, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-72124-8.
Review by Siân Reynolds, University of Stirling, Scotland.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 61
, Catching up with America. Productivity Missions and the Diffusion of Amercian Economic and Technological Influence after the Second World War. Paris: Presse de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002. 477 pp. Tables, notes, and index. 29.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-84050-240-2.
Review by Ove Bjarnar, Molde University College, Norway.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 62
, Histoires de papier. La papeterie auvergnate et ses historiens. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2002. 410 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, illustrations and index. 27.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-84516-178-6.
Compte-rendu par Philippe Minard, Université Lille-3 and CNRS.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 63
, The Joy of Life. The Idyllic in French Art, circa 1900. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2002. xviii + 361 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-22182-6.
Review by William Hauptman, Independent Scholar, Lausanne, Switzerland.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 64
, A Social History of the Cloister: Daily Life in the Teaching Monasteries of the Old Regime. McGill-Queens Studies in the History of Religion, series two. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2001. xi + 379 pp. Illustrations, appendix, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2222-0.
Review by Ann W. Ramsey, Independent Scholar, Esopus, New York.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 65
, The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xii + 268 pp.. Index, plates, and notes. £47.50 (hb). ISBN: 0521814324.
Review by David A. Bell, Johns Hopkins University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 66
, Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. 296 pp., 3 halftones, 39 line drawings, bibliography, and index, $25.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-72079-9.
Review by Kathleen Wellman, Southern Methodist University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 67
, La Société des Observateurs de l'homme: Des anthropologues au temps de Bonaparte (1799-1804). Paris: Société des études robespierristes, 2002. 573 pp. Tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. 46.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-908327-45-7.
Review by Paul Edison, University of Texas at El Paso.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 68
, Possible Worlds: The Idea of Happiness in the Utopian Vision of Louis-Sébastien Mercier. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002. 326 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 27.00 € (pb). ISBN 951-746-355-3.
Review by Paul R. Hanson, Butler University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 69
, Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. ix + 351 pp. Figures, notes, and index. $42.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3982-5. $21.00 U.S. (pb). $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8809-5.
Review by Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 70
, Negritude Women. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. ix +168 pp. Appendix, notes, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8166-3679-6. $17.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8166-3680-X.
Review by Tyler Stovall, University of California at Berkeley.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 71
, De Michel de L'Hospital à l'Édit de Nantes. Politique et religion face aux Églises. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaire Blaise-Pascal, 2002. 612 pp. Notes. 37.00 €. ISBN 2-84516-159-X (pb).
Review by Michael Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University at Altoona.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 72
, Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. ix + 209 pp. Table and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-43023-5. $19.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-43024-3.
Review by Raymond Birn, University of Oregon.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 73
, Missionnaires de la République. Paris: Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2002. 624 pp. Notes and index. 32.00 € (cl.). ISBN 2-735-50516-2.
Compte-rendu par Yvon Le Gall, Université de Nantes.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (June 2003), No. 74
July Reviews
, Nobles jeux de l'arc et loges maçonniques dans la France des Lumières: Enquête sur une sociabilité en mutation. Collection "Les Architectes de la Connaissance." Grosley, Val d'Oise: Éditions Ivoire-Clair, 2002, 255 pp. Notes, documents, and bibliography. 18 € (pb). ISBN 2-913882-15-3.
Review by Gail Bossenga, University of Kansas at Lawrence.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 75
, Terror and its Discontents: Suspect Words in Revolutionary France. London and Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. xxii + 298 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $63.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8166-388; $22.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8166-3887-X.
Review by James Livesey, Trinity College, Dublin.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 76
, Hatred in Print: Catholic Propaganda and Protestant Identity during the French Wars of Religion. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2002. xiv + 161 pp., $74.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7546-0284-2
Review by Ronald S. Love, The State University of West Georgia.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 77
, Mademoiselle de Joncoux: polémique janéseniste à la veille de la bulle Unigenitus. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2002. 358 pp. Appendices, bibliography, and index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-204-0701202.
Review by Mita Choudhury, Vassar College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 78
, Les Femmes dans l'action sanitaire, sociale et culturelle, 1901-2001: Les Associations face aux institutions. Prefaces by Michelle Perrot and Emile Poulat. Paris: Femmes et Associations, 2001. 372 pp. Notes, tables, illustrations, bibliography, and index. 22.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-9517478-0-2
Review by Linda L. Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 79
, Le Quadrige: Un Siècle d’édition universitaire, 1860-1968. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001. 492 pp. Sources, bibliography, and index. 38.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-13-051-727-7.
Review by Craig Keating, Langara College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (July 2003), No. 80
August Reviews
, Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxx + 324 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, appendix, and index. $35.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-226-20787-0.
Review by Laura A. Smoller, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 81
, Les Domestiques commensaux du roi de France au XVIIe siècle. Paris: Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002. 557 pp. Tables, maps, notes, and bibliography. 42.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-8050-225-9.
Review by Sharon Kettering, Professor Emerita, Montgomery College in Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 82
, In Old Paris. An Anthology of Source Descriptions, 1323-1790. New York: Italica Press, 2002. xi + 194 pp. Footnotes, maps, and appendices. $15.00 U.S. ISBN 0-934977-66-6.
Review by Colin Jones, University of Warwick.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 83
, Les origines du mal: une histoire du péché original. Paris: Fayard, 2002. 440 pp. Bibliography and index. 22.00 €. ISBN 2-213-61149-1.
Review by Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 84
, Barricades: The War of the Street in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 417 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-312-29479-4.
Review by Pierre Simoni, Laurentian University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 85
, A Question of Self-Esteem. The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy, 1944-1958. Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger Publishers, 2002. xvi + 315 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $79.95 U.S.(cl). ISBN 0-275-97293-3.
Review by Julius W. Friend, George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 86
, La Commune (Paris 1871). 1999/France/Black and white. Studio: 13 Production, La Sept ARTE, Musée d’Orsay. Running Time: 5 hours 45 minutes. Distributor: First Run/Icarus Films.
Review by Victoria E. Thompson, Arizona State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 87
, The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France: Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 244 pp. Notes, appendix, and index. £35.00 U.K. (cl.). ISBN 0-19-925646-2.
Review by David G. Troyansky, Texas Tech University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 88
, L'américanisation de l'Europe occidentale au XXe siècle: Mythe et Réalité. Paris: Presse de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2002. 274 pp. Tables, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. 24.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-84050-241-0.
Review by Seth Armus, Saint Joseph's College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 89
, Changing Minds: The Shifting Perception of Culture in Eighteenth-Century France. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 2002. 279 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-87413-788-8.
Review by Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (August 2003), No. 90
September Reviews
, Every Valley Shall Be Exalted : The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 2003. xvi + 171 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-4058-0.
Review by Rachel Fulton, The University of Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 91
, Merovingian Mortuary Archaeology and the Making of the Early Middle Ages. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2003. xvi + 272 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-23244-5.
Review by Deborah M. Deliyannis, Indiana University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 92
, L'Incident électoral de la Révolution française à la Ve République. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2002. 334 pp. Maps, tables, notes, and index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-84516-208-1.
Review by Cherilyn Lacy, Hartwick College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 93
, Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. xxi + 352 pp. Map, plates, figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-22217-2.
Review by Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 94
, Educating the Faithful: Religion, Schooling, and Society in Nineteenth-Century France. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. xii + 255 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $38.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-87580-262-1.
Review by Barry H. Bergen, Gallaudet University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 95
, Vital Crossroads; Mediterranean Origins of the Second World War, 1935-1940. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. xi + 285pp. Bibliography and index. $36.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-8014-3772-5.
Review by Andrew Barros, Université du Québec à Montréal.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 96
, Marie-Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen. . New York and London: Routledge, 2003. x + 307 pp. Illustrations and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-41593-394-3; $23.95 (pb). ISBN 0-41593-395-1.
Review by Jeffrey Merrick, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 97
, The Gold Standard Illusion. France, the Bank of France and the International Gold Standard, 1914-1939. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 297 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $72.00 (cl.) ISBN 019-924904-0.
Review by Julian Jackson, University of Wales, Swansea.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 98
, Creating the Welfare State in France, 1880-1940. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003. viii + 241 pp. Notes and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7735-2409-6.
Review by Paul V. Dutton, Northern Arizona University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 99
, France Since 1800. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii + 277 pp. Maps, figures, list of abbreviations, tables, suggestions for further reading, and index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-19-925229-7.
Review by Michelle K. Rhoades, Wabash College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 100
, Sexual Antipodes: Enlightenment Globalization and the Placing of Sex. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xi + 320 pages. Notes and index. $49.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8047-4663-X.
Review by Jennifer Heuer, Middlebury College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 101
. The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000. Illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. xvi + 173. $39.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8014-3726-1; $16.95 (pb). ISBN 0-8014-8647-5.
Review by Brett Bowles, Iowa State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 102
, The French Army, 1750-1820: Careers, Talent, Merit. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002. xii + 227 pp. Tables, illustrations, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. £45.00 (cl). ISBN 0-7190-6262-4.
Compte-rendu par Annie Crépin, Université d’Artois.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 103
, Le cens de la famille: Les femmes et le vote, 1789-1848. Collection Socio-histoires. Paris: Belin, 2002. 255 pp. Notes. 22.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-7011-3261-4.
Review by Karen Offen, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 104
, Decadence of the Nude/La décadence du nu. Ed. Sarah Wilson. Introduction by Alyce Mahon. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2003. 205 pp. Figures, bibliographies, and notes. $26.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 1-901033-62-7.
Review by Brett Bowles, Iowa State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (September 2003), No. 105
October Reviews
, Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel. New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii + 304 pp. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-521-81371-9.
Review by Lawrence M. Earp, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 106
, The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France, 1876-1936. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xii + 402pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-231-12846-0.
Review by Martin S. Staum, University of Calgary.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 107
, The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2002. xi + 222 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN 0-8014-4020-3.
Review by David Klinck, University of Windsor.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 108
, Gaston Roupnel, âme paysanne et sciences humaines. Collection “Sociétés.” Dijon: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2001. 202 pp. 20.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-905965-54-1.
Review [in English] by Philippe Poirrier, Université de Bourgogne.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 109
Review [en français] by Philippe Poirrier, Université de Bourgogne.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 110
Response by Philip Whalen to the review of his book by Philippe Poirrier.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 111
, Napoleon’s Men: The Soldiers of the Revolution and Empire. London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2002. xix + 248 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography and index. $29.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-85285-269-0.
Compte-rendu par Annie Crépin, Université d’Artois.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 112
, Anne-Marie-Louise d’Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier. Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle. University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxix + 86 pp. Bibliography and index. $14.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-53492-8.
, François Poullain de la Barre. Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises. University of Chicago Press, 2002. xxvii + 339 pp. Bibliography and index. $22.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-226-53492-8.
Review by Carolyn Lougee Chappell, Stanford University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 113
, Suffrage, citoyenneté et révolutions 1789-1848. Collections études révolutionnaires, no. 3. Paris: Société des études robespierristes, 2002. 180 pp. Notes, figures, and index of proper names. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-908327-46-5.
Review by Denise Z. Davidson, Georgia State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 114
, L’Europe des francs-maçons, XVIIIe-XXIe siècles. Paris: Éditions Belin, 2002. 320 pp. Notes & bibliography. 15.50 € (pb). ISBN 2-701102835-8.
Review by Margaret C. Jacob, University of California at Los Angeles.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 115
, Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works. Cambridge U.K. and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xx + 456 pp. Illustrations, music, notes, bibliography, and index. £65.00 (cl); $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-41876-3.
Review by Cynthia J. Cyrus, Vanderbilt University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 116
. Charlemagne and France: A Thousand Years of Mythology. Trans. Catherine Tihanyi. The Laura Shannon Series in French Medieval Studies. Notre Dame, In.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. xxii + 391 pp., 24 plates (in theory), notes, and index. $40.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-268-02277-1.
Translation of L'Empereur à la barbe fleurie: Charlemagne dans la mythologie et l'histoire de France. Bibliothèque des histoires. Paris: N.R.F./Gallimard, 1997. 437 pp., 24 plates, index. € 29.73 (pb). ISBN 2-07-073127-8.
Review by Jotham Parsons, Duquesne University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 117
, Families and Frontiers: Re-creating Communities and Boundaries in the Early Modern Burgundies. Boston and Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2002. xiv + 431 pp. Maps, figures, appendix, bibliography, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-391-04106-1.
Review by Mark Potter, University of Wyoming.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 118
, France and the Great War 1914-1918. New Approaches to European History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. vi + 202 pp. Plates, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $58.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0- 521-66176-5; $21.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-521-66631-7.
Review by Martha Hanna, University of Colorado at Boulder.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 119
, The End of Empire in French West Africa: France’s Successful Decolonization? Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002. 264 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 1-85973-552-5. $20.00 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 1-85973-557-6.
Review by Alice Bullard, Georgia Institute of Technology.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 120
, The Fight Against Cancer: France 1890-1940. Trans. David Madell. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. xvii + 243 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $100.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 0-415-27923-2.
Review by Harry W. Paul, University of Florida.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 121
, Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2003. viii + 338 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-52-023557-6.
Review by Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 122
, The Bellicose Dove: Claude Brousson and Protestant Resistance to Louis XIV, 1647-1698. Brighton, U.K. and Portland, Oregon: Sussex Academic Press, 2003. x + 220 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $69.50 U.S. (cl). ISBN 1-903900-31-X.
Review by W. Gregory Monahan, Eastern Oregon University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 123
, The French Revolution and Empire: The Quest for a Civic Order. Malden, Mass., Oxford, Melbourne, and Berlin: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. viii + 424 pp. Map, bibliography, and index. $27.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-631-23363-6.
Review by Tracey Rizzo, University of North Carolina at Asheville.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 124
Response by D.M.G. Sutherland to the review of his book by Tracey Rizzo.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (October 2003), No. 125
November Reviews
, Napoleon and Europe, London and New York: Longman, 2001. xxi + 328 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $23.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-528-31837-8.
Review by David P. Jordan, University of Illinois at Chicago.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 126
, The Historian’s Two Bodies: The Reception of Historical Texts in France, 1701-1790. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001. xiv + 255 pp. Notes, appendix, bibliography, and index. $84.95 U.S. (hb). ISBN 0-7546-0223-0.
Review by Paul Cohen, Université de Paris-VIII.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 127
, Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting. With Deborah L. Roldán and Juliet Wilson-Bareau. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. xi + 592 pp. Illustrations, appendices, chronology, notes, bibliography, and index. $75.00 U.S. (cl.) ISBN 1-58839-038-1. $50.00 U.S. (pb.) ISBN 1-58839-040-3.
Review by Suzanne Singletary, Philadelphia University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 128
, Music Drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824-1828. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xviii + 331 pp. Figures, tables, music examples, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $60.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-520-23445-6.
Review by Jolanta T. Pekacz, Dalhousie University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 129
, Crime et folie: Deux siècles d’enquêtes médicales et judiciaires. Paris: Fayard, 2003. 527 pp. Notes and index. 25.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-213-60833-4.
Review by Alex Dracobly, University of Oregon.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 130
, Saints of the Impossible: Bataille, Weil, and the Politics of the Sacred. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. xxviii + 260 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8166-3903-5.
Review by Christian Roy, Université Laval.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 131
, Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii + 288 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $90.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN: 0-19-820798-0.
Review by Scott Haine, University of Maryland University College.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 132
, Reinterpreting the French Revolution: A Global-historical Perspective. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. viii + 292 pp. Notes and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-521-81147-3.
Review by D.M.G. Sutherland, University of Maryland.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 133
Response by Bailey Stone to the review of his book by D.M.G. Sutherland.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (November 2003), No. 134
December Reviews
, A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003. xx + 380 pp. Tables, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 U.S. (cl.). ISBN 0-7006-1253-X.
Review by Elizabeth Greenhalgh, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 135
, Le Théâtre de la Foire: Des tréteaux aux boulevards. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2002. xix + 386 pp. Notes, illustrations, bibliography. £59.00 U.K. , $101.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-7294-0797-7.
Review by Charles Walton, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and Columbia University’s Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 136
, The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. xii + 178 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $38.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8122-3713-7.
Review by Jeffrey J. Cohen, George Washington University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 137
, La noblesse et l’Eglise en Provence, fin Xe-début XIVe siècle: L'exemple des familles d'Agoult-Simiane, de Baux et de Marseille. Paris: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques, 2002. 806 pp. €32.00 E.U. (pb). ISBN 2735505030.
Review by John Drendel, University of Quebec at Montreal.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 138
, Philippe III le Hardi. Paris: Fayard, 2003. 359 pp. 22.00 € ISBN 2-213-61486-5.
Review by Nathaniel L. Taylor, Brown University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 139
, Penser avec, penser contre: Itinéraire d’un historien. Paris: Belin, 2003. 310 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. 23.00 € (pb.) ISBN 2-7011-3347-5.
Review by Jeremy D. Popkin, University of Kentucky.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 140
, The Night the Old Regime Ended: August 4, 1789 and the French Revolution. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003. x + 245 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-271-02233-7.
Review by Anthony Crubaugh, Illinois State University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 141
, Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xviii + 174 pp. Figures, notes bibliography and index. $49.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-312-22736-1.
Review by Veronika Grimm, Yale University.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 142
Response by Bonnie Effros to the review of her book by Veronika Grimm.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 143
, Liberty and Locality in Revolutionary France: Six Villages Compared, 1760-1820. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiv + 306 pp. Plates, figures, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 U.S. (cl); £45.00 (cl). ISBN 0-521-821777-0.
Review by Gail Bossenga, University of Kansas.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 144
, Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003. xi + 280pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.95 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-8223-3137-3; $19.95 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-8223-3124-1.
Review by Colin Nettelbeck, University of Melbourne.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 145
, The Representation of Place: Urban Planning and Protest in France and Great Britain, 1950-1980. Burlingon, Vermont and Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2003. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, and index. xv + 347 pp. $85.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-75-460653-8.
Review by Michael Seidman, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
H-France Review Vol. 3 (December 2003), No. 146
, La religion dans la ville. Bordeaux: Éditions Bière, 2003. 270 pp. Maps, tables, figures, and notes. 28.00 € (pb). ISBN 2-85276-081-9.