New Books in French Studies
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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...
34 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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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...
54 min
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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...
77 min
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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?
52 min
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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...
46 min
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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."
57 min
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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,..
47 min
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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...
39 min
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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...
53 min
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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...
51 min
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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,..
81 min
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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....
60 min
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
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Great Books: Catherine Stimpson on de Beauvior'...
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Jessica Lynne Pearson, "The Colonial Politics o...
Pearson recounts France’s collision with the UN and World Health Organization in the immediate post-World War II years...
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Sarah Wobick-Segev, "Homes Away from Home: Jewi...
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...
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Andrew Israel Ross, "Public City/Public Sex: H...
Ross maps out the intersection between histories of sexualities and the urban history of Paris in the 1800s
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