Algerian Jews During the French-Algerian War
A Review of The Heart of the Diaspora: Algerian Jews During the War for Independence, 1954–1962, by Jessica Hammerman. The…
Text and Performance in 17th-Century French Theater
A review of Playwrights on the Threshold Between Stage and Study: Paratexts and Polemical Texts in Seventeenth-Century French Theater, by…
Social Hygiene and Architecture in France, 1870–1940
A review of Children in Glass Houses: Toward a Hygienic, Eugenic Architecture for Children During the Third Republic in France…
Futuristic Writings in 19th-Century France
A Review of The Future Looks Backward: Projection and the Historical Imagination in 19th-Century France, by Thomas Chapman Wing. A…
Organization and Social Function of Templar Communities in France
A review of Templar Communities in Medieval Champagne: Local Perspectives on a Global Organization, by Michael Joseph Peixoto. The history of…
Photographic Imaginary and the Engineering of Modern Paris
A review of Engineering, Photography, and the Construction of Modern Paris, 1857–1911, by Sean R. Weiss. Sean R. Weiss’s Engineering,…
The Jewish Body in Postwar France
A review of L’Esprit du Corps: Bodies, Communities, and the Reconstruction of Jewish Life in France, 1914–1940, by Erin Corber.…
Patronage and Music Composition in France
A review of Toward a Theory of Patronage: Funding for Music Composition in France, 1918–1939, by Louis Epstein. Louis Epstein’s…
Violence and Masculinity in 19th c. France
A review of Revolutionary Histrionics: Violence and the Creation of Bourgeois Masculinity in Post-Napoleonic France. Dana Drew Irwin’s Revolutionary Histrionics:…
Debt & Credit in Post-Revolutionary France
A review of In the Red and in the Black: Bankruptcy, Debt Imprisonment, and the Culture of Credit in Post-Revolutionary…