Recent Books and Dissertations on French History

General and Miscellaneous

Avril, Jean-Loup. 1,000 Bretons: Dictionnaire biographique. Rennes: Les Portes du Large, 2003. 451p. €25.

Bernstein, Serge, Philippe Contamine, and Michel Winock, eds. Histoire de la France politique. 3 vols. Paris: Seuil, 2002. €26 per vol.

Besnier, Georges, and Claudine Bougard. Inventaire des archives communales d'Arras antérieures à 1790. Arras: Commission Départementale d'Histoire et d'Archéologie du Pas-de-Calais, 2002. 511p. and 1 CD-ROM. €30.

Bibliographie annuelle de l'histoire de France: Du cinquième siècle à 1958. Vol. 47: Année 2001. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2002. 1080p. €105.

Cabanel, Patrick. Histoire des Cévennes. Paris: PUF, 2003. 127p. €7.50.

Caillot, Patrice. Bibliographie de la presse française politique et d'information générale: Des origines à 1944. Vol. 64: Pyrénées-Atlantiques (anciennement Basses-Pyrénées). Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2002. 152p. €25.

Chassaigne, Philippe, and Michael Dockrill. Anglo-French Relations, 1898–1998: From Fashoda to Jospin. New York: Palgrave, 2002. 227p. $65.00.

Collombet, Danielle, Dominique Monnot, and François Lassus. Bibliographie franccomtoise. Vol. 5: 1990–1995. Besançon: Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises, 2003. 324p. €23.

Day, Charles R. Schools and Work: Technical and Vocational Education in France since the Third Republic. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. US$65.00.

Decaux, Alain, and André Castelot, eds. Dictionnaire d'histoire de France. Rev. ed. Paris: Perrin, 2002. 1200p. €64.

Figeac, Michel, and Pierre Guillaume, eds. Histoire des Bordelais. 2 vols. Bordeaux: Mollat, 2002. €100 the set.

Gitlin, Jay. "Negotiating the Course of Empire: The French Bourgeois Frontier and the Emergence of Mid-America, 1763–1863." Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 2002.

Gosnell, Jonathan. The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930–1954. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer, 2003. 300p. $75.00.

Hellman, John. The Communitarian Third Way: Alexandre Marc and Ordre Nouveau, 1930–2000. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. US$39.95.

Hopkin, David M. Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766–1870. Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer, 2003. 352p. $75.00.

Hulliung, Mark. Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 250p. $39.95.

Jansen, Sabine. Pierre Cot (1895–1977): Les pièges de l'antifascisme. Paris: Fayard, 2002. 450p. €30.

Julliard, Jacques, and Michel Winock, eds. Rev. ed. Dictionnaire des intellectuels français: Les personnes, les lieux, les moments. Paris: Seuil, 2002. 1280p. €30.

Manceron, Gilles. Marianne et les colonies: Une introduction à l'histoire coloniale de la France. Paris: La Découverte, 2002. 317p. €13.50.

Métairie, Guillaume. Des juges de proximité: Les juges de paix, biographies parisiennes (1790–1838). Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003. 261p. €23.

Monroe, John W. "Evidence of Things Not Seen: Spiritism, Occultism, and the Search for a Modern Faith in France." Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 2002. 381p.

Moran, Daniel, and Arthur Waldron, eds. The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization since the French Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 268p. $65.00.

Moriceau, Jean-Marc. Terres mouvantes: Les campagnes françaises du féodalisme à la mondialisation. Paris: Fayard, 2002. €26.

Morrissey, Robert. Charlemagne and France: A Thousand Years of Mythology. Trans. Catherine Tihanyi. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. 391p. $40.00.

Parry, D. L. L., and Pierre Girard. France since 1800: Squaring the Hexagon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 224p. $19.95.

Pontet, Josette, ed. La noblesse, un modèle social? Enquête à travers les régions françaises du XVIe au XIXe siècle. Biarritz: Atlantica, 2002. €40.

Reed, Eric C. "The Tour de France: A Cultural and Commercial History." Ph.D. diss., Syracuse University, 2002.

Ripa, Yannick. Les femmes, actrices de l'histoire: France, 1789–1945. Paris: Armand Colin, 2002. 191p. €13.80.

Romani, Roberto. National Character and Public Spirit in Britain and France, 1750–1914. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 358p. $65.00.

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