New Books in French Studies
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Joshua Cole, "Lethal Provocation: The Constanti...
An interview with Joshua Cole
60 min
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S. Palombarin and B. Amable, "The Last Neoliber...
An interview with Stefano Palombarin and Bruno Amable
38 min
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Philip Mansel, "King of the World: The Life of ...
An interview with Philip Mansel
44 min
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Augustin Jomier, "Islam, réforme et colonisatio...
An interview with Augustin Jomier
63 min
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Jillian C. Rogers, "Resonant Recoveries: French...
Interview with Jillian C. Rogers
63 min
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Steven Press, "Rogue Empires: Contracts and Con...
Interview with Steven Press
59 min
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Jason Berry, "City of a Million Dreams: A Histo...
An interview with Jason Berry
52 min
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Oliver Gloag, "Albert Camus: A Very Short Intro...
Interview with Oliver Gloag
99 min
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Robin Mitchell, "Vénus Noire: Black Women and C...
An interview with Robin Mitchell
60 min
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Jean Casimir. "The Haitians: A Decolonial Histo...
An interview with Jean Casimir
78 min
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Kiran Klaus Patel, "Project Europe: A History" ...
Patel rethinks the development of the European Communities and the European Union from first principles...
38 min
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Nimisha Barton, "Reproductive Citizens: Gender,...
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
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S. Burrows and G. Roe, "Digitizing Enlightenmen...
78 min
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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)....
54 min
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Annette Joseph-Gabriel, "Reimagining Liberation...
Centering the experiences and stories of Black women as ‘political protagonists,’ the book considers questions of race, gender, and political agency.
59 min
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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....
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