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...

"Sex and Secularism" is a compelling analysis of the discourse of secularism in the modern democratic (imperial) nation-states of “the West”.

The year 1453 marked the end of an intermittent yet seemingly endless series of wars between the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England that, some four hundred years later, was dubbed the Hundred Years War...

Fahrenthold sheds a timely light on Syrian and Lebanese immigrants who established vibrant diaspora communities in the Americas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

Francesca Trivellato draws upon the economic, cultural, intellectual, and business history of the period to trace the origin of this myth and what its usage in early modern Europe reveals about contemporary views of both commerce and Judaism...

Nolan also challenges the hoary concept of the military "genius," even of the Great Captains--from Alexander to Frederick and Napoleon--mapping instead the decent into total war...

Black explores the forty-one years from the beginning of the Great War in August 1914 to the surrender of Japan in August 1945....

Lasso argues compellingly that the construction of the Panama Canal prompted the destruction of a bustling network of towns, along with the livelihoods and democratic traditions of their inhabitants...

Harold J. Cook talks about the travels and trials of the young Descartes, a man who spent as much time traveling and fighting as he did studying philosophy...

Though she died in 1847 at a young age, Marie Duplessis inspired one of the greatest operas ever composed...

Focused on suspects and surveillance in the port city of Dakar in Senegal, the book traces a variety of ways in which colonial authorities sought to suppress forms of political activity including communism, pan-Africanism, anticolonialism, black radicalism, and pan-Islamism...

From the cassoulet that won a war to the crêpe that doomed Napoleon, from the rebellions sparked by bread and salt to the new cuisines forged by empire, the history of France is intimately entwined with its gastronomic pursuits...

Through Baker, Cheng invites us to reconsider the mutual imbrication of object/subject, surface/depth, and exploitation/fascination...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

How did Rolland, and other French leftists, come to celebrate and actively promote the authoritarian regime of Joseph Stalin?