French History catalog from Duke University Press

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Reproducingthe French RaceImmigration, Intimacy,and Embodiment in theEarly Twentieth Century

Elisa CamisCioli

Reproducing the French Race skillfully

traces underlying connections among

immigration, gender, and national identity

in interwar France, while fundamentally

reguring seemingly settled scholarship on

pronatalism and labor rationalization by

demonstrating the still under-recognized

centrality of race to them. Elisa Camiscioli

has written an accomplished and ambitious

work that integrates issues typically treatedseparately into an innovative argument

about embodiment that challenges

conventional assumptions about French

republicanism as essentially abstract and

universal.Gary Wilder, author ofThe

French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude

and Colonial Humanism between the Two

World Wars

In Reproducing the French Race, ElisaCamiscioli argues that immigration was a

dening feature of early-twentieth-century

France, and she examines the political,

cultural, and social issues implicated in

public debates about immigration and

national identity at the time. Camiscioli

demonstrates that mass immigration

provided politicians, jurists, industrialists,

racial theorists, feminists, and others with

ample opportunity to explore questionsof French racial belonging, Frances

relationship to the colonial empire and

the rest of Europe, and the connections

between race and national anxieties

regarding depopulation and degeneration.

She also shows that discussions of the

nation and its citizenry consistently returned

to the body: its color and gender, its

expenditure of labor power, its reproductive

capacity, and its experience of desire. Of

paramount importance was the question of

which kinds of bodies could assimilate into

the French race.

By focusing on telling aspects of the

immigration debate, Camiscioli reveals

how racial hierarchies were constructed,

how gender gured in their creation, and

how only white Europeans were cast as

assimilable. Delving into pronatalist politics,

she describes how potential immigrants

were ranked according to their imagined

capacity to adapt to the workplace and

family life in France. She traces the links

between racialized categories and concerns

about industrial skills and output, and

she examines medico-hygienic texts on

interracial sex, connecting those to the

crusade against prostitution and the related

campaign to abolish white slavery, the

alleged entrapment of (white) women for

sale into prostitution abroad. Camiscioli

also explores the debate surrounding the

1927 law that rst made it possible for

French women who married foreigners to

keep their French nationality. She concludes

by linking the Third Republics impulse to

create racial hierarchies to the emergence

of the Vichy regime.

Elisa Camiscioli is Associate Professor of

History and Womens Studies at Binghamton

University.

2009. 232 pages, 10 illustrations978-0-8223-4565-7, paper $22.95


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Mobilizing YouthCommunists and Catholicsin Interwar France

susan B. WhitnEy

In this fascinating book, the social history

of French youth in the interwar years

has nally found its historian. Susan B.Whitneys extensive and careful research

in the archives of communist and Catholic

youth movements introduces us to the

critical issues at stake: competition for

the allegiance of the young between

communists and Catholics, the key role

played by adults in shaping youth activism,

the inuence of the changing political scene

in the 1920s and 1930s, and the long-term

effects membership had on those who

joined up. Whitney is particularly astute

in her analysis of the place of gender;

she shows us how traditional notions of

sexual difference were at once reinforced

and changed in the experience of young

Catholics and communists who participated

in these movements.Joan W. Scott,

Institute for Advanced Study

Mobilizing Youth offers an ambitious and

imaginative look at two vital movements

in interwar France, with a comparison that

adds greatly to our understanding not just

of French social and political history, but of

the emergence of youth as an organized

(and manipulated) force.Peter N.

Stearns, Provost, George Mason University

In Mobilizing Youth, Susan B. Whitneyexamines how youth moved to

the forefront of French politics in the

two decades following the First World

War. In those years, Communists and

Catholics forged the most important

youth movements in France. Focusing

on the competing efforts of the two

groups to mobilize the young and harness

generational aspirations, Whitney traces the

formative years of the Young Communistsand the Young Christian Workers, including

their female branches. She analyzes the

ideologies of the movements, their major

campaigns, their styles of political and

religious engagement, and their approaches

to male and female activism. As Whitney

demonstrates, the recasting of gender

roles lay at the heart of Catholic efforts and

became crucial to Communist strategies in

the mid-1930s.

Moving back and forth between the

constantly shifting tactics devised

to mobilize young people and the

circumstances of their lives, Whitney

gives special consideration to the context

in which the youth movements operated

and in which young people made choices.

She traces the impact of the First World

War on the young and on the formulation

of generation-based political and religious

identities, the place of work and leisure

in young peoples lives and political

mobilization, the impact of the Depression,

the role of Soviet ideas and intervention

in French Communist youth politics,

and the states new attention to youth

following the victory of Frances Popular

Front government in 1936. Mobilizing

Youth concludes by inserting the eras

youth activists and movements into thecomplicated events of the Second World

War.

Susan B. Whitney is Associate Professor

of History and Associate Dean of the Faculty

of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton

University in Ottawa.



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How to Be FrenchNationality in the Making since 1789

PatriCk WEilTranslaTedby CaTherine PorTer

[A] densely organised and thoroughly

researched analysis of jurists debates and

legal decisions since 1789. The book isclearly signposted and writtenand very

carefully translated by Porter. . . . [Weils]

dispassionate and scholarly book sheds

much-needed light on the complex legal

aspects of the question for these post-

colonial times.Sian Reynolds, Times

Higher Education Supplement

How to be French is a critical history of

nationality law and politics that illuminates

decisive moments in the making of

French nationality while making new and

sophisticated theoretical claims about

the articulations of nationality, the state,

and history itself. This is a stupendous

achievement by one of the most important

French scholars and public intellectuals

writing today.Peter Sahlins, author of

Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in theOld Regime and After

How to Be French is a magisterial historyof French nationality law from 1789to the present, written by Patrick Weil,

one of Frances foremost historians. First

published in France in 2002, it is lled

with captivating human dramas, with legal

professionals, and with statesmen including

La Fayette, Napoleon, Clemenceau, deGaulle, and Chirac. France has long

pioneered nationality policies. It was France

that rst made the parents nationality the

childs birthright, regardless of whether

the child is born on national soil, and

France has changed its nationality laws

more often and more signicantly than any

other modern democratic nation. Focusing

on the political and legal confrontations

that policies governing French nationalityhave continually evoked and the laws

that have resulted, Weil teases out the

rationales of lawmakers and jurists. In so

doing, he denitively separates nationality

from national identity. He demonstrates

that nationality laws are written not to

realize lofty conceptions of the nation

but to address specic issues such as the

autonomy of the individual in relation to the

state or a sudden decline in population.

Patrick Weil is a senior research fellow

at the Centre National de Recherche

Scientique and a professor at the

Paris School of Economics. The author

of many books, he was a member of

Frances Governmental Advisory Council

on Integration from 1996 to 2002, and a

member of the Presidential Commission

created by President Jacques Chirac on

the implementation of the principle of

secularism within the French Republic in

2003. In 1997, following a request from

Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, he produced

two inuential reports on nationality and

immigration legislation. Under its original

title, Quest-ce qu-un Franais, How to Be

French won the Franois Furet prize.

Catherine Porter, Professor Emeritus in

the Foreign Languages Department at theState University of New York, Cortland, won

the Chevalier dOr des Palmes Acadmiques

for advancing Franco-American relations

through translation and teaching.

2008. 456 pages, 3 maps978-0-8223-4331-8, paper $24.95


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Breadwinnersand CitizensGender in the Making ofthe French Social Model

laura lEvinE FradEr

In this thoughtful and balanced

reassessment of work, wages, and state

welfare policies in interwar France,

Frader examines how employers, labour

unions, and the state drew on enduring

stereotypes of appropriate gender roles

in order to reinforce the legitimacy of the

male breadwinner, often through the very

policies that accorded benets to women

as mothers.Patricia E. Prestwich,

Canadian Journal of History

Fraders thematic approach allows for

a detailed discussion of the motivations

of both state and industry, the key

stakeholders in the development of

employment policy and practice. . . . [T]his

book provides and important contribution to

the literature on social reform, employment

and gender. As a result, it would be of

interest to historians of gender and labour,as well as to historians of twentieth-century

France.Alison Carrol, History

A stunning analysis of why defence of

the French male breadwinner became a

keystone of social policy after 1918, even

as France depended mightily on the labor

of women and foreigners to revitalize its

economy. Frader has mastered an immense

social and cultural landscape to make aconvincing case for the interwar origins

of todays social-policy mix in France. She

is superb, too, on the interplay of race,

ethnicity, and gender.Herrick Chapman,

New York University, coeditor ofA Century

of Organized Labor in France: A Union

Movement for the Twenty-rst Century?

Laura Levine Fraders synthesis of laborhistory and gender history brings tothe fore failures in realizing the French

social model of equality for all citizens.

Challenging previous scholarship, she

argues that the male breadwinner ideal was

stronger in France in the interwar years

than scholars have typically recognized,

and that it had negative consequences

for womens claims to the full benets of

citizenship. She describes how ideas about

masculinity, femininity, family, and work

affected postWorld War I reconstruction,

policies designed to address Frances

postwar population decit, and efforts to

redene citizenship in the 1920s and 1930s.

She demonstrates that gender divisions and

the male breadwinner ideal were reafrmed

through the policies and practices of labor,

management, and government. The socialmodel that France implemented in the

1920s and 1930s incorporated fundamental

social inequalities.

Laura Levine Frader is Professor of

History and Chair of the History Department

at Northeastern University.

2008. 360 pages978-0-8223-4198-7, paper $24.95


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The French AtlanticTriangleLiterature and Cultureof the Slave Trade

ChristoPhErl. millEr

[A] massive, and massively researched,

contribution to studies of the French slave

trade. . . . [A]n invaluable resource for

other scholars.Celia Britton, French

Studies

This is a book of encyclopedic reach and

vast dimensions. . . . The French Atlantic

Triangle is meticulously researched,

almost comprehensive in its treatment of

the literary corpus, and makes diligentuse of historical scholarship. It offers an

astonishing web of circuits of reception,

rereadings and intertextual relations

between key texts . . . and thus lls a

troubling gap in French literary and cultural

history. . . . The French Atlantic Triangle is

a tremendous achievement that is possible

only on the basis of decades of committed

research and teaching. Most importantly,

it is an important rectication of areprehensible cultural narrative. Perhaps the

day will come when French literary history

can no longer be written without mentioning

the slave trade and the slave colonies that

subtended the motherland of liberty.

Sibylle Fischer,Journal of Colonialism and

Colonial History

The French slave trade forced more

than one million Africans across theAtlantic to the islands of the Caribbean.

It enabled France to establish Saint-

Domingue, the single richest colony on

earth, and it connected France, Africa, and

the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact

of the slave trade on the cultures of France

and its colonies has received surprisingly

little attention. Until recently, France had

not publicly acknowledged its history as a

major slave-trading power. Miller proposes

a thorough assessment of the French

slave trade and its cultural ramications,

in a broad, circum-Atlantic inquiry. This

magisterial work is the rst comprehensive

examination of the French Atlantic slave

trade and its consequences as represented

in the history, literature, and lm of France

and its former colonies in Africa and the

Caribbean.

Miller offers a historical introduction to

the cultural and economic dynamics of

the French slave trade, and he shows

how Enlightenment thinkers such as

Montesquieu and Voltaire mused about the

enslavement of Africans, while Rousseau

ignored it. He follows the twists and turns of

attitude regarding the slave trade through

the works of late-eighteenth- and early-

nineteenth-century French writers, including

Olympe de Gouges, Madame de Stal,

Madame de Duras, Prosper Mrime, and

Eugne Sue. Turning to twentieth-century

literature and lm, Miller describes how

artists from Africa and the Caribbean

including the writers Aim Csaire, Maryse

Cond, and Edouard Glissant, and the

lmmakers Ousmane Sembene, Guy

Deslauriers, and Roger Gnoan MBalahave

confronted the aftermath of Francesslave trade, attempting to bridge the

gaps between silence and disclosure,

forgetfulness and memory.

Christopher L. Miller is Frederick Clifford

Ford Professor of African American Studies

and French at Yale University.

2008. 592 pages, 17 illustrations978-0-8223-4151-2, paper, $27.95


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Avant-Garde FascismThe Mobilization of Myth, Art, andCulture in France, 19091939

mark antliFF

If one wants to learn a great deal about

how numerous art and cultural critics during

the interwar period, especially in France,

exploited modernist aesthetics on behalf of

fascism, Antliffs book is the place to go.

Robert Soucy,American Historical Review

This outstanding study adds an important

dimension to our understanding of French

fascism. Mark Antliff deftly identies a

variety of ways in which fascists in France

and elsewhere activated myths of the pastto propel challenging yet seductive visions

of achievable futures. This approach is not

only crucial to a better grasp of the real

causes of fascisms success in the early

twentieth century; it also implies a similar

alertness to the threatsand the appeal

posed by the fundamentalisms that seek

power in apparently democratic societies

today.Terry Smith, editor ofIn Visible

Touch: Modernism and Masculinity

Investigating the central role that theories

of the visual arts and creativity played in

the development of fascism in France, Mark

Antliff examines the aesthetic dimension

of fascist myth-making within the history

of the avant-garde. Between 1909 and

1939, a surprising array of modernists were

implicated in this project, including such

well-known gures as the symbolist painterMaurice Denis, the architects Le Corbusier

and Auguste Perret, the sculptors Charles

Despiau and Aristide Maillol, the New

Vision photographer Germaine Krull, and

the fauve Maurice Vlaminck.

Antliff considers three French fascists:

Georges Valois, Philippe Lamour, and

Thierry Maulnier, demonstrating how they

appropriated the avant-garde aesthetics ofcubism, futurism, surrealism, and the so-

called Retour lOrdre (Return to Order),

and, in one instance, even dened the

dynamism of fascist ideology in terms of

Soviet lmmaker Sergei Eisensteins theory

of montage. For these fascists, modern art

was the mythic harbinger of a regenerative

revolution that would overthrow existing

governmental institutions, inaugurate an

anticapitalist new order, and awaken the

creative and artistic potential of the fascist

new man.

In formulating the nexus of fascist ideology,

aesthetics, and violence, Valois, Lamour,

and Maulnier drew primarily on the writings

of the French political theorist Georges

Sorel, whose concept of revolutionary myth

proved central to fascist theories of cultural

and national regeneration in France. Antliff

analyzes the impact of Sorels theory of

myth on Valois, Lamour, and Maulnier.

Valois created the rst fascist movement

in France; Lamour, a follower of Valois,

established the short-lived Parti Fasciste

Rvolutionnaire in 1928 before founding two

fascist-oriented journals; Maulnier forged a

theory of fascism under the auspices of the

journals Combat and Insurg.

Mark Antliffis Professor of Art, Art History,

and Visual Studies at Duke University.

2007. 376 pages, 67 illustrations978-0-8223-4034-8, paper, $24.95


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Good Bread is BackA Contemporary History of FrenchBread, the Way it Is Made, and thePeople Who Make It

stEvEn laurEnCE kaPlanTranslaTedby CaTherine PorTer

A magnicent combination of polemic and

scholarship, it asks how the superlative

French bread of the eighteenth, nineteenth,and early twentieth centuries gave way to

the disappointing industrial loaves of the

1960s onwards; and how these in turn,

have been happily supplanted by a new

generation of artisananal baguettes, batards

and boules.Bee Wilson, Times Literary

Supplement

[Kaplan is] not just the leading authority

on French bread but the conscience ofFrench baking a conscience that does not

hesitate to tug. . . . Good Bread is Back

[is] a punchy, compendious account of how

French baking returned to its artisanal roots

and sparked a revival in quality crusts.

Michael Steinberger, Financial Times

Steven Laurence Kaplan is the Goldwin

Smith Professor of European History at

Cornell University and Visiting Professor

of Modern History. His many books

include The Bakers of Paris and the Bread

Question, 17701775, also published

by Duke University Press. The French

government has twice knighted Kaplan for

his contributions to the sustenance and

nourishment of French culture.

2006. 384 pages, 46 color illustrations

978-0-8223-3833-8, cloth $28.95

Native SonsWest African Veterans and Francein the Twentieth Century

GrEGory mann

Mann has elegantly captured the dense

web of human relations, discourses of

obligation, and recongured social ties

that link the dusty town of San to the

many other outposts of the empire, aswell as to the postcolonial capitals of Paris

and Bamako.Alice L. Conklin, French

Historical Studies

The publication of . . . Manns studies

suggest new directions in the elds of

French colonial history, African studies,

and twentieth-century military history. By

bringing to light important and overlooked

aspects of the imperial dynamic . . . . Mann

[has] made meaningful contributions to our

understanding of the connections between

Europe and Africa and of the legacies of

the colonial encounters for both regions.

James E. Genova, International History

Review

This elegantly written study of the complex

pattern of ambiguous relationships between

France and the West African veterans of

the French army is as much about the

present as the past. . . . [A]n engaging and

compelling history and it leaves the reader

with some intriguing issues to chew on.

Ineke van Kessel, Leeds African Studies

Bulletin

Gregory Mann is Associate Professor of

History at Columbia University.Politics, History, and Culture2006. 344 pages, 9 illustrations978-0-8223-3768-3, paper $24.95


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Curing the ColonizersHydrotherapy, Climatology,and French Colonial Spas

EriC t. JEnninGs

This is a very well constructed study, with

the case studies rounded off by a measured

conclusion. The main themes are clearly

argued and demonstrated, the text nicely

illustrated with postcards, advertisementsand other illustrations. It is a very welcome

addition to the growing literature on the

spas.Alastair J. Durie, French History

By telling the history of colonial France

through the fascinating and focused lens

of hydrotherapy and spa going, Jennings

reminds us that dispensing with the deep

meanings of Vichy is not as simple as

Capt. Louis Renault makes it appear in the

nal scene ofCasablanca.Sebastian

Normandin, Canadian Journal of History

Like all good books, this one raises many

intriguing questions. Coupled with its clear

prose and well-argued themes, it provides

an excellent teaching tool and makes a ne

contribution to the growing literature on the

French colonies.Patricia M. E. Lorcin,

The International History Review

Eric T. Jennings is Professor of History at

the University of Toronto.


Disciplining StatisticsDemography and Vital Statistics inFrance and England, 18301885

liBBy sChWEBEr

[S]cholars will want to read this book if

they are interested in comparative history,

the sociology of discipline formation, or the

intellectual history of population studies in

particular.Graham Mooney, VictorianStudies

[Schwebers] work adds to a growing body

of literature about the origins of the new

social sciences in the nineteenth century,

and their relationship to other sciences,

the state, and public-policy formation. . . .

The work is a closely argued, careful, and

detailed reading of the organizational forms,

intellectual debates, and scientic practicescreated by the men who dened, literally

named, and built the new population

sciences.Margo J. Anderson,Journal of

Interdisciplinary History

[T]his book is highly interesting . . . a

systematic and comparative piece of

research [that] contributes to interesting

approaches in the history of sciences which

are at the crossroads of social, political and

scientic arenas.Alain Blum, European

Sociological Review

Libby Schweber is a Reader in the

Department of Sociology at the University

of Reading.

2006. 288 pages978-0-8223-3814-7, paper $23.95


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Imperialism andthe Corruption ofDemocracieshErman lEBoviCs

[T]his volume is an important collection

from a prominent historian that contributes

to the critical history of imperialism. . . . [I]t

is a useful and signicant book. Lebovicsprovides several sophisticated ways in which

we can see the inter-related history of the

colonies and the metropole. His approach is

wide ranging, linking cultural developments

to specic political moments and economic

processes.Michael G. Vann,Journal of

Colonialism and Colonial History

Herman Lebovics is among the most

innovative cultural historians working onmodern France.Mary Dewhurst Lewis,

Journal of Modern History

Lebovicss light touch masks the extensive

research that supports his arguments.

His enjoyable and profound treatise on

contemporary France should be read by

anyone interested in the dilemmas of the

postcolonial world.John R. Bowen,

American Anthopologist

Herman Lebovics is Professor of History at

Stony Brook University.

2006. 192 pages, 14 b&w photographs978-0-8223-3697-6, paper $21.95

Bringing theEmpire Back HomeFrance in the Global Age

hErman lEBoviCs

[A] tour de force. Through its lively

narrative, [Bringing the Empire Back

Home] succeeds in painting a complex

portrait of contemporary French identity

and of the tools that socially and politically

construct it. The book is particularly strong

in showing how the current struggle

to contest globalization arose from the

interplay between French cultural policy and

decolonization, and from the fact that the

French centralized model manifests itself in

all walks of lifefrom controlling academic

curricula to deciding on the content of

museums collections.Sophie Meunier,

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

It is hard to imagine a more appropriate

moment for Bringing the Empire Back

Home. The shocking view of thousands of

enraged young men issues de limmigration

setting their suburban neighborhoods on

re in October 2005 have made Lebovics an

unusually timely book.Andrs Reggiani,

French Politics, Culture, and Society

Herman Lebovics provides the most

sophisticated guide we have to the past

generations identity politics in France.

Clifford Rosenberg, Journal of Modern

History

Radical Perspectives2004. 248 pages, 29 b&w photographs978-0-8223-3260-2, cloth $29.95


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A Tale of Two MurdersPassion and Power inSeventeenth-Century France

JamEs r. Farr

The best micro-histories manage to

convey the texture of a vanished culture

and to dene and amplify the basic issues,

concerns, and imperatives that infused

the society in which the highlighted eventsunfolded. Farrs engrossing study,A Tale

of Two Murders, delivers those insights

in spades.Jay M. Smith,Journal of

Interdisciplinary History

I enjoyed this book immensely. Beautifully

written and carefully structured, it uses

the narration of a murder mystery to

demonstrate how the early modern French

legal system worked, in particular how theinformal system of patronage and inuence

was used to manipulate the legal system.

Based almost entirely on archival sources,

the book is meticulously researched and

exhibits exemplary scholarship. . . . It

is a tour de force, combing popular and

scholarly history, and highly recommended

to everyone.Sharon Kettering, Law and

History Review

A Tale of Two Murders is . . . riveting

and readable, equally appropriate for an

audience of university students or general

readers.Brian Sandberg, Renaissance

Quarterly

James R. Farr is Professor of History at

Purdue University.


The Color of LibertyHistories of Race in France

suE PEaBodyand tylErstovall,Editors

[A]n important collection of essays on

the history of race in France. . . . [I]ts

engagement with larger questions of race

and empire make it an important read for

anyone interested in the histories of modernFrance, identity formation, or colonialism.

Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss,Journal of

Colonialism and Colonial History

[These] seminal essays frame important

questions about French histories of race

and contribute to our general understanding

of the role race plays in shaping the modern

world.David H. Slavin,American

Historical Review

Contributors. Leora Auslander, Claude

Blanckaert, Alice Conklin, Fred Constant,

Laurent Dubois, Yal Simpson Fletcher,

Richard Fogarty, John Garrigus, Dana

Hale, Thomas C. Holt, Patricia M. E. Lorcin,

Dennis McEnnerney, Michael A. Osborne,

Lynn Palermo, Sue Peabody, Pierre H.

Boulle, Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, Tyler

Stovall, Michael G. Vann, Gary Wilder

Sue Peabody is Professor of History at

Washington State University Vancouver.

Tyler Stovall is Professor of History at the

University of California, Berkeley.



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In the Aftermathof GenocideArmenians and Jews inTwentieth-Century France

maud s. mandEl

Mandel does make a convincing case,

backed up by an impressive bibliography

and extensive notes. The book is

particularly valuable in providing a thorough

historical examination of the status of the

survivors of genocide in French society,

taking into account social, cultural and

religious distinctions, and makes a case

for the essential questions of the twentieth

century where personal identity is becoming

more entrenched in national identity.

Ferzina Banaji, French Studies

Detailed, thorough, and thoughtful,

Mandels book is an excellent addition to

the scholarly literature of genocide and

its consequences. By focusing on an often

neglected aspect of this phenomenon,

the author has contributed greatly to

our understanding of the ways in which

persecuted groups are able to respond to

their victimization, and her book should be

of interest to anyone concerned about theseimportant issues.Alex Alvarez,American

Historical Review

Maud S. Mandel is Dorot Assistant

Professor of Judaic Studies and Assistant

Professor of History at Brown University.

2003. 336 pages978-0-8223-3121-6, paper $23.95

Making Jazz FrenchMusic and Modern Life in Interwar Paris

JEFFrEy h. JaCkson

In the rst half of his book, Jackson

provides a fresh analysis of the context of

the introduction of jazz in Paris and, more

signicantly, how and why jazz symbolized

modern life to the interwar French. . . .

[T]he larger importance of Jacksons studyis as a corrective: interwar xenophobia

and integral nationalism were not the only

cultural responses to modernity and the

interwar crises in France. Rather the almost

mythic French cosmopolitan spirit also

ourished during these troubled times, a

useful reminder in light of horrors of the

1940s.Brett Berliner, LEsprit Crateur

Making Jazz French is a well-writtenintroduction to the subject.Jon Cowans,

French Politics, Culture and Society

Jacksons interesting . . . work traces

how a new cabaret culture replaced big

dancehalls, examines the effect recording

technology had on the spread of jazz,

and shows how, by the end of the 30s,

the indefatigable French had managed

to incorporate jazz into a new idea of a

national cultural tradition.Steven Poole,

The Guardian

Jeffrey H. Jackson is Associate Professor

of History at Rhodes College.

American Encounters/Global Interactions2003. 280 pages, 10 b&w photographhs978-0-8223-3124-7, paper $23.95


12/16

Childhood in thePromised LandWorking-Class Movementsand the Colonies de Vacancesin France, 18801960

laura lEE doWns

[A] remarkable book. . . . [S]o much is

conveyed about ideology, gender, class,

work and leisure that this book is a must

for all who are interested in French society

in the past century.Hugh Clout, Modern

and Contemporary France

[M]eticulously researched. . . . More

than simply a history of summer camps,

Childhood in the Promised Landis ultimately

a rich and perceptive account of the rise

and fall of one particular ideal of social

transformation and solidarity.Katrin

Schultheiss, Labor History

Downs takes great care to show us

how children were often at the center of

ideological and cultural disputes in France

between 1880 and 1960. Her book . . .

opens up new terrain for historians to

discuss how children fared in these cultural

conicts.Anne T. Quartararo, TheHistorian

Laura Lee Downs is Directeur dEtudes

at the Centre de Recherches Historiques of

the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences

Sociales in Paris.


Vichy and theEternal FeminineA Contribution of aPolitical Sociology of Gender

FranCinE muEl-drEyFusTranslaTedby KaThleen a. Johnson

Muel-Dreyfus makes a convincing

argument for a gendered examination of the

Vichy regime in her exhaustively researched

and well-written text. The author provides

an interesting perspective on the paroxysms

of guilt that overtook French society after

its stunning defeat.Susan E. Dawson,

Journal of Womens History

Vichy and the Eternal Feminine elucidates

the impact of gender mythology on Vichy

discourse and, in a larger context, on

much of the European political Right from

the late nineteenth through the mid-

twentieth centuries. It also raises questions

about the reception of these messages

by Frenchwomen, which researchers

since 1996 have begun to address. Duke

University Press is to be commended for

making the book available to Anglophone

readers.Bertram M. Gordon,Journal of

Social History

Francine Muel-Dreyfus is Director

of Studies at the Centre for European

Sociology, School for the Study of Social

Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. Kathleen A.

Johnson is a professional translator who

holds a Ph.D in French literature from the

University of California, Irvine.

2001. 400 pages, 20 b&w photographs978-0-8223-2774-5, paper $24.95


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Winner, Hagley Prizein Business HistoryWinner, 2002 Berkshire Prize

Fabricating WomenThe Seamstresses of Old RegimeFrance, 16751791

ClarE haru CroWston

A wide variety of historians will be eager

to read this study of the most important

female guild and fourth-largest trade

organization in eighteenth-century

Paris. . . .Jennifer Jones,Journal of

Modern History

This impressive and thoroughly researched

book both challenges some long-standing

assumptions and recreates a world. . . .

The authors commitment to her subject

is as infectious as it is impressive. Even

readers with less than a burning interest

in the seamstresses will nd themselves

sharing Crowstons fascination with their

history, if only from the cumulative effects

of her sustained analysis and artful prose.

In short, this book, which bridges the

gap between social and cultural history

as well as any recent study, should nd a

wide readership among historians of theOld Regime and beyond. . . . Crowstons

book is ambitious, a sort of histoire totale,

which, unlike many Annales-inspired

histories, never strays from a clear and

pertinent line of inquiry. . . . Crowstons is

a marvelous book that establishes a model

of thorough, intelligent research.Robert

A. Schneider,Journal of Interdisciplinary

History

Clare Haru Crowston is Associate

Professor of History at the University of

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


A Social Laboratoryfor Modern FranceThe Muse Social and theRise of the Welfare State

JanEt r. hornE

Hornes excellent book is a welcome

addition to a growing body of historical

works on the late nineteenth-century origins

of the French welfare state.Joshua Cole,

Social History

This is an extremely useful analysis for

anyone interested not only in French

social welfare, but also in the history of

the parapolitical sphere, associational life

among Frances elite, and the shifting

boundaries between public and private. . . .

Horne has done an excellent job of widening

the scope of social welfare history, giving us

all a whole new range of actors and issues

to contemplate.Steve M. Beaudoin,

Journal of Social History

A Social Laboratory for Modern France lls

a signicant gap in the literature on French

social policy history. . . . [S]olid archival

research. . . . [T]his book will prove useful

to all the students of turn-of-the-20th-century French society.Daniel Bland,

American Journal of Sociology

Janet R. Horne is Associate Professor of

French at the University of Virginia.



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From Revolutionariesto CitizensAntimilitarism in France, 18701914

Paul B. millEr

Millers study allows us to understand

the complexities of republican citizenship

in modern France.James R. Lehning,

Nineteenth-Century French Studies

From Revolutionaries to Citizens takes

a refreshingly different approach to the

predicament of French antimilitarism before

1914. . . . Drawing upon a wide range of

published and archival sources, Miller makes

his case with commendable aplomb.

Sudhir Hazareesingh, Journal of Modern

History

Miller makes a solid scholarly contribution

to our understanding of French anti-

militarist culture in general and the nuances

between various tendencies in French

socialism, anarchism, and revolutionary

syndicalism. . . . [D]elightful.Keith

Mann, International Labor and Working-

Class History

Paul B. Miller is Associate Professor ofHistory at McDaniel College in Westminster,

Maryland.


French HistoricalStudiesPatriCia m. E. lorCin, Editor

French Historical Studies, the leading jour-

nal on the history of France, publishes

articles, commentaries, and research notes

on all periods of French history from the

Middle Ages to the present. The journals

diverse format includes forums, review

essays, special issues, and articles in

French, as well as bilingual abstracts of the

articles in each issue. Also featured are

bibliographies of recent articles, disserta-

tions and books in French history, and

announcements of fellowships, prizes, and

conferences of interest to French historians.

Current Volume: 31

Frequency: QuarterlyISSN: 0016-1071e-ISSN: 1527-5493

individual subscription includes membership inthe Society for French Historical Studies: $45.00

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Index

Antliff, Mark 6

Camiscioli, Elisa 1

Crowston, Clare Haru 13

Downs, Laura Lee 12

Farr, James R. 10

Frader, Laura Levine 4

Horne, Janet R. 13

Jackson, Jeffrey H. 11

Jennings, Eric T. 8

Johnson, Kathleen A. 12

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Lebovics, Herman 9Lorcin, Patricia M. E. 14

Mandel, Maud S. 11

Mann, Gregory 7

Miller, Christopher L. 5

Miller, Paul B. 14

Muel-Dreyfus, Francine 12

Peabody, Sue 10

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Schweber, Libby 8

Stovall, Tyler 10

Weil, Patrick 3

Whitney, Susan B. 2


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