Barton shows how France welcomed foreign-born men and women, mobilizing naturalization, family law, social policy, and welfare assistance to ensure they would procreate, bearing French-assimilated children...
60 min
384
S. Burrows and G. Roe, "Digitizing Enlightenmen...
78 min
385
Betty Rojtman, "The Fascination with Death in C...
Rojtman analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the centrality of death in our sense of human existence...
39 min
386
Niklas Frykman, "The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the...
The 1790s were a decade of turmoil and strife across the West. With the French Revolution, a new era of wars began that invoked the language of equal rights...
47 min
387
Dónal Hassett, "Mobilizing Memory: The Great Wa...
Hassett explores the experiences and political aims of key constituencies throughout Algerian society, including: socialists and trade unionists; European and Algerian veterans; and even the Algerian widows and orphans...
59 min
388
Judith G. Coffin, "Sex, Love, and Letters: Writ...
When Judith G. Coffin discovered a virtually unexplored treasure trove of letters to Simone de Beauvoir from Beauvoir's international readers, it inspired Coffin to explore the intimate bond between the famed author and her reading public...
37 min
389
Julie Hardwick, "Sex in an Old Regime City: You...
How did young workers spend time together? When would they initiate sexual relationships outside of marriage?
57 min
390
Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth...
French offers a comprehensively researched and finely argued book that traces Barthes engagement with questions of cinema from early research pre-dating the publication of Mythologies to his last work, Camera Lucida,,,
71 min
391
Pernille Røge, "Economistes and the Reinvention...
Røge charts the confluence and reciprocal impacts of ideas and policies espoused by political economists, colonial administrators, planters, and entrepreneurs to reform the French empire in the second half of the eighteenth century....
52 min
392
Rachel Mesch, "Before Trans: Three Gender Stori...
Mesch reads the biographies and work of three writers who did not conform to the gender norms of the period...
59 min
393
Dan Edelstein, "On the Spirit of Rights" (U Chi...
By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did “rights” come to justify such measures?
82 min
394
William G. Pooley, "Body and Tradition in 19th-...
Pooley explores how these changes were experienced and negotiated by the people who lived there, drawing on the immense ethnographic archive of Felix Arnaudin (1844-1921)....
Centering the experiences and stories of Black women as ‘political protagonists,’ the book considers questions of race, gender, and political agency.
59 min
396
Patrice Gueniffey, "Napoleon and de Gaulle: Her...
Gueniffey provides us with a compelling reminder of the importance of heroes in history, in this powerful dual biography of two transformative leaders, Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle....
36 min
397
Greg Beckett, "There is No More Haiti: Between ...
Beckett offers an examination of “crisis” in Haiti, and pushes back against the widespread racist idea that Haiti is inherently lawless by showing the ongoing production of disorder, the scripting of crisis, and the concatenation of disaster...
59 min
398
Linda Goddard, "Savage Tales: The Writings of P...
Goddard investigates the role that Paul Gauguin’s writings played in his artistic practice and in his negotiation of his colonial identity...
50 min
399
Sophie White, "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, La...
White beautifully brings to life the lives and experiences of a number of enslaved women and men whose individual stories have heretofore never been told..,
73 min
400
Laurie M. Wood, "Archipelago of Justice: Law in...
Wood recasts our view of France’s empire by evaluating the interwoven trajectories of the people, like itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates,..