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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
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Catherine Clark, "Paris and the Cliché of Histo...
What’s the first image that comes to mind when you hear the words “Paris” and “photography”?
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Michitake Aso, "Rubber and the Making of Vietna...
How can the history of rubber be used as a way to understand the history of 20th-century Vietnam?
80 min
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Cécile Vidal, "Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, R...
Vidal offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery in New Orleans...
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Kate Kirkpatrick, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life" (...
Beauvior is now celebrated, but during her life she was a controversial figure both by conventional and feminists’ standards...
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Katie Jarvis, "Politics in the Marketplace: Wor...
The king’s guards became increasingly nervous as they watched nearly 7,000 individuals march on Versailles on October 5, 1789...
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Susan Jaques, "The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon B...
Jaques offers up a richly detailed and researched account of Napoleon’s fascination with ancient Rome,..
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Lisa Greenwald, "Daughters of 1968: Redefining ...
May ’68 marked a watershed moment in French society, culture, and political life...
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Stephen Alan Bourque, "Beyond the Beach: The Al...
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?
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Erin-Marie Legacey, "Making Space for the Dead:...
Legacey explores the transformation of burial practices in the aftermath of the French Revolution...
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David Stenner, "Globalizing Morocco: Transnatio...
The story of Morocco’s independence struggle against France and Spain is a complicated one...
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Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neill, "Re...
Lacan published his Écrits in 1966, a compilation of his written work up to that middle period in his teaching...
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Donald Reid, "Opening the Gates: The Lip Affair...
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...
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Joan Wallach Scott, "Sex and Secularism" (Princ...
"Sex and Secularism" is a compelling analysis of the discourse of secularism in the modern democratic (imperial) nation-states of “the West”.
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David Green, "The Hundred Years War: A People’s...
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...
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Stacy Fahrenthold, "Between the Ottomans and th...
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...
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Francesca Trivellato, "The Promise and Peril of...
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...
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Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A Histo...
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...
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Jeremy Black, "The World at War, 1914-1945" (Ro...
Black explores the forty-one years from the beginning of the Great War in August 1914 to the surrender of Japan in August 1945....
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Marixa Lasso, "Erased: The Untold Story of the ...
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...
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Harold J. Cook, "The Young Descartes: Nobility,...
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...
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René Weis, "The Real Traviata: The Song of Mari...
Though she died in 1847 at a young age, Marie Duplessis inspired one of the greatest operas ever composed...
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Kathleen Keller, "Colonial Suspects: Suspicion,...
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...
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Anne Cheng, "Second Skin: Josephine Baker and t...
Through Baker, Cheng invites us to reconsider the mutual imbrication of object/subject, surface/depth, and exploitation/fascination...
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Stéphane Henaut and Jeni Mitchell, "A Bite-Size...
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...
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