Recent Books and Dissertations on French History

General and Miscellaneous

Amselle, Jean-Loup. Affirmative Exclusion: Cultural Pluralism and the Rule of Custom in France. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. 184p. $49.95 cloth; $18.95 paper.

Atkin, Nicholas, and Frank Tallett, eds. The Right in France: From Revolution to Le Pen. New York: Palgrave, 2003. 320p. $24.50.

Baehr, Peter, and Melvin Richter, eds. Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 312p. $23.00.

Barrera, Caroline. Les sociétés savantes de Toulouse au XIXe siècle. Paris: Editions du CTHS, 2003. 430p. 32 €.

Béguin, Katia, Anne Bonzon, and Jean-Yves Grenier. Dictionnaire de la France moderne. Paris: Hachette Education, 2003. 288p. 16.30 €.

Bell, David A. The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. 320p. $18.95.

Boisard, Pierre. Camembert: A National Myth. Trans. Richard Miller. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 254p. $29.95.

Canales, Jimena. "Sensational Differences: Individuality in Observation, Experimentation, and Representation, France, 1853–1895." PhD diss. Harvard University, 2003.

Cohen, Monique Lise, and Elie Szapiro. Histoire des communautés juives de Toulouse. Portet-sur-Garonne: F. Loubatières, 2003. 111p. 14 €.

Decker, Thomas. Dictionnaire des rois, reines et présidents de France. Paris: Lodi, 2003. 480p. 13 €.

Duby, Georges, ed. Histoire de la France, des origines à nos jours. Rev. ed. Paris: Larousse, 2003. 1248p. 26 €.

Foucrier, Annick, ed. The French and the Pacific World, Seventeenth–Nineteenth Centuries: Discoveries, Migrations, and Cultural Exchanges. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. 400p. $129.95.

Gorrara, Claire, and Rachel Langford, eds. France since the Revolution: Texts and Contexts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 160p. $24.95.

Guy, Kolleen M. When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. 288p. $39.95.

Harvey, David. Paris: Capital of Modernity. New York: Routledge, 2003. 384p. $30.00.

Kale, Steven. French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Lagarde, François, ed. The French in Texas: History, Migration, Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. 368p. $24.95.

Levitt, Theresa. "Representation in France, 1789–1848." PhD diss. Harvard University, 2003.

Maza, Sarah. The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750–1850. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. 256p. $39.95.

Mension-Rigau, Eric. Le donjon et le clocher: Nobles et curés de campagne de 1850 à nos jours. Paris: Perrin, 2003. 508p. 25 €.

Nahon, Gérard. Juifs et judaïsme à Bordeaux. Bordeaux: Mollat, 2003. 360p. 30 €.

Peabody, Sue, and Tyler Stovall, eds. The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. 400p. $24.95.

Pitte, Jean-Robert. French Gastronomy: The History and Geography of a Passion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. 176p. $24.95.

Poujol, Geneviève. Un féminisme sous tutelle: Les protestantes, 1810–1960. Paris: Editions de Paris, 2003. 288p. 23 €.

Ruymbeke, Bertrand Van, and Randy J. Sparks, eds. Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. 256p. $39.95.

Sahlins, Peter. Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 480p. $67.50 cloth; $27.95 paper.

Sanson, Henri-Clément. Sept générations d'exécuteurs: Mémoires des bourreaux Sanson, 1688–1847. Ed. François Prado. Toulouse: Futur luxe, 2003. 358p. 27 €.

Schechter, Ronald. Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715–1815. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 368p. $60.00.

Siepierski, Joel Arthur. "The Politics of Education: The University of Poitiers, 1590–1820." PhD diss. State University of New York at Buffalo, 2002. 314p.

Solnon, Jean-François. Histoire de Versailles. Paris: Perrin, 2003. 379p. 8 €.

Tricard, Jean, ed. Le village des Limousins: Etudes sur l'habitat et la société rurale du Moyen Age à nos...