New Books in French Studies
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Greg Beckett, "There is No More Haiti: Between ...
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...
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Linda Goddard, "Savage Tales: The Writings of P...
Goddard investigates the role that Paul Gauguin’s writings played in his artistic practice and in his negotiation of his colonial identity...
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Sophie White, "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, La...
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..,
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Laurie M. Wood, "Archipelago of Justice: Law in...
Wood recasts our view of France’s empire by evaluating the interwoven trajectories of the people, like itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates,..
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Richard Carswell, "The Fall of France in the Se...
Carswell emphasizes the various contingent factors that led to the military defeat of French forces by the Germans...
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Why Did the Allies Win World War One?
Perhaps nothing was as unexpected in this conflict as the sudden termination of the same in November 1918...
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
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Kevin Duong, "The Virtues of Violence: Democrac...
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...
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Adrian Johnston, "Prolegomena to Any Future Mat...
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...
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David A. Bateman, "Disenfranchising Democracy: ...
Why was mass democratization – abolishing property and tax qualifications – accompanied by the mass disenfranchisement of black, male citizens?
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Laurence Monnais, "The Colonial Life of Pharmac...
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...
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
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Great Books: Melissa Schwartzberg on Rousseau's...
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
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David Lebovitz, "Drinking French" (Ten Speed Pr...
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,..
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Tom Chaffin, "Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Je...
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...
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Great Books: Denis Hollier on Lévi-Strauss' "Tr...
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...
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Alexander Mikaberidze, "The Napoleonic Wars: A ...
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?
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Arthur Asseraf, "Electric News in Colonial Alge...
Asseraf examines the workings of the “news ecosystem” in Algeria from the 1880s to the beginning of the Second World War...
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
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The Origins of World War One
Who or what originated and/or caused the Great War from breaking out in July 1914?
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Sophie White, "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, La...
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...
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John Hardman, "Marie-Antoinette: The Making of ...
Who was the real Marie-Antoinette?
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Jeffrey James Byrne, "Mecca of Revolution: Alge...
Byrne places Algeria at the center of many of the twentieth-century’s international dynamics: decolonization, the Cold War, détente,..
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
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Todd Shepard, "Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-...
Shepard offers a complex analysis of the lasting impact of the Algerian Revolution through the cultural politics of sex, gender, and power in France....
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