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....

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...

Goddard investigates the role that Paul Gauguin’s writings played in his artistic practice and in his negotiation of his colonial identity...

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..,

Wood recasts our view of France’s empire by evaluating the interwoven trajectories of the people, like itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates,..

Carswell emphasizes the various contingent factors that led to the military defeat of French forces by the Germans...

Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...

Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...

Duong offers a fascinating analysis of the way that violence has been used, in a sense, to create or promote solidarity during the course of the “long nineteenth century” in France...

Johnston looks at three recent French theorists, Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillasoux, arguing that all three ultimately fail to maintain a consistent atheism...

Why was mass democratization – abolishing property and tax qualifications – accompanied by the mass disenfranchisement of black, male citizens?

Monnais examines the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, looking at both circulation and consumption, considering access to drugs and the existence of multiple therapeutic options in a colonial context...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

Lebovitz takes us behind the classic zinc bar and explains what goes on there, from early morning coffee to late-night liqueurs. Drinking French unravels the mystery behind the jewel-tones of Pastis, Chartreuse, Vermouth, and Creme de Cassis,..

Of the many thousands who participated in the American and French revolutions in the late 18th century, only a handful played roles in both events...

Ostensibly a travelogue and ethnographic account of a European's fieldwork among indigenous people in mid-20th century Brazil, it is a work of impassioned curiosity...

Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the battles most closely associated with the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous warfare affect the world beyond Europe?

Asseraf examines the workings of the “news ecosystem” in Algeria from the 1880s to the beginning of the Second World War...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved...

Who or what originated and/or caused the Great War from breaking out in July 1914?

Who was the real Marie-Antoinette?

Byrne places Algeria at the center of many of the twentieth-century’s international dynamics: decolonization, the Cold War, détente,..

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