Pearson recounts France’s collision with the UN and World Health Organization in the immediate post-World War II years...

In pre-emancipation Europe, most Jews followed Jewish law most of the time, but by the turn of the twentieth century, a new secular Jewish identity had begun to take shape...

Glaes examines the experiences and agency of African immigrants in France from 1960 through the 1970s.,,

Ross maps out the intersection between histories of sexualities and the urban history of Paris in the 1800s

The Versailles Treaty of 1919, celebrates its one-hundred anniversary this year...

Carayon answers the long-standing question of how, and how well, Indigenous Americans and the Europeans who arrived on their shores communicated with each other...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Weber has done the painstaking research to find out who were the real-life people on whom Proust modeled some of the most memorable characters...

Both colonies and insane asylums are well known institutions of power. But what of asylums in Europe’s early 20th-century colonial empires?

Kim tangles with the question of difference so central to French feminism, theory...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

NIcholls offers the first comprehensive account of French revolutionary thought in the years between the crushing of France's last nineteenth-century revolution and the re-emergence of socialism as a meaningful electoral force,..

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

What’s the first image that comes to mind when you hear the words “Paris” and “photography”?

How can the history of rubber be used as a way to understand the history of 20th-century Vietnam?

Vidal offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery in New Orleans...

Beauvior is now celebrated, but during her life she was a controversial figure both by conventional and feminists’ standards...

The king’s guards became increasingly nervous as they watched nearly 7,000 individuals march on Versailles on October 5, 1789...

Jaques offers up a richly detailed and researched account of Napoleon’s fascination with ancient Rome,..

May ’68 marked a watershed moment in French society, culture, and political life...

Did the Allied bombing plan for the liberation of France follow a carefully orchestrated plan, or was it executed on an ad-hoc basis with little concern or regard for collateral damage?

Legacey explores the transformation of burial practices in the aftermath of the French Revolution...

The story of Morocco’s independence struggle against France and Spain is a complicated one...

Lacan published his Écrits in 1966, a compilation of his written work up to that middle period in his teaching...

Throughout the book, Don plays close attention the interplay between the local story of Lip and the broader national and international contexts of the era...