An interview with Philip Mansel

An interview with Augustin Jomier

Interview with Jillian C. Rogers

Interview with Steven Press

An interview with Jason Berry

Interview with Oliver Gloag

An interview with Robin Mitchell

An interview with Jean Casimir

Patel rethinks the development of the European Communities and the European Union from first principles...

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...

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...

Rojtman analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the centrality of death in our sense of human existence...

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...

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...

How did young workers spend time together? When would they initiate sexual relationships outside of marriage?

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,,,

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....

Mesch reads the biographies and work of three writers who did not conform to the gender norms of the period...

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?

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.

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...