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New Books in French Studies
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, “Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire” (Illinois UP, 2020)
Annette Joseph-Gabriel
Reimagining Liberation
How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire
University of Illinois Press, 2020

New Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society August 13, 2020 Roxanne Panchasi

‘Where were the women?’ was the big question that led Annette Joseph-Gabriel to her new book, Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (University of Illinois Press, 2020). This ‘where’ ended up meaning different things as she tracked the lives, ideas, and roles played by Black... Read More
Patrice Gueniffey, “Napoleon and de Gaulle: Heroes and History” (Harvard UP, 2020)
Patrice Gueniffey
Napoleon and de Gaulle
Heroes and History
Harvard University Press, 2020

New Books in BiographyNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network August 11, 2020 Charles Coutinho

One of France’s most famous historians compares and contrasts the two most famous French exemplars of political and military leadership of the past two-hundred and fifty years to make the case that individuals, for better and worse, matter in history. Historians have tried to teach us that the historical past... Read More
Greg Beckett, “There is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince” (U California Press, 2019)
Greg Beckett
There is No More Haiti
Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince
University of California Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Caribbean StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in Latin American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network August 4, 2020 Lachlan Summers

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Greg Beckett, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Western University, about his richly grounded book There is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince (2019, University of California Press – and it is coming out in a paperback edition this November). This... Read More
Linda Goddard, “Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin” (Yale UP, 2019)
Linda Goddard
Savage Tales
The Writings of Paul Gauguin
Yale University Press, 2019

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society July 31, 2020 Allison Leigh

In Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin (Yale University Press, 2019), Linda Goddard investigates the role that Paul Gauguin’s writings played in his artistic practice and in his negotiation of his colonial identity. As a French artist who lived in Polynesia, Gauguin occupies a crucial position in histories of... Read More
Sophie White, “Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana” (UNC Press, 2019)
Sophie White
Voices of the Enslaved
Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
Omohundro Institute/UNC, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network July 29, 2020 Jerrad P. Pacatte

In her prize-winning study Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Colonial Louisiana (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 2019), award-winning historian Sophie White (Professor of American Studies, Africana Studies, History, and Gender Studies, and Fellow of the Nanovic... Read More
Laurie M. Wood, “Archipelago of Justice: Law in France’s Early Modern Empire” (Yale UP, 2020)
Laurie M. Wood
Archipelago of Justice
Law in France’s Early Modern Empire
Yale University Press, 2020

New Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the Indian Ocean WorldNew Books in World Affairs July 23, 2020 Julia M. Gossard

Historians have long treated the Atlantic and Indian Ocean routes of early modern French empire separately. But, early modern people understood France as a bi-oceanic empire, connected by vast but strong pathways of commercial, intellectual, and legal exchange. Laurie M. Wood’s Archipelago of Justice: Law in France’s Early Modern Empire... Read More
Richard Carswell, “The Fall of France in the Second World War: History and Memory” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Richard Carswell
The Fall of France in the Second World War
History and Memory
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network June 25, 2020 Charles Coutinho

This fascinating book by Richard Carswell looks at how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered within French society. The Fall of France in the Second World War: History and Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) argues that explanations of the ‘debacle’ have... Read More
Kevin Duong, “The Virtues of Violence: Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Kevin Duong
The Virtues of Violence
Democracy Against Disintegration in Modern France
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network May 26, 2020 Lilly Goren

Kevin Duong, a political theorist in the Politics Department at the University of Virginia, has written 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.  Duong explores four separate periods... Read More
Kory E. Olson, “The Cartographic Capital: Mapping Third Republic Paris” (Liverpool UP, 2018)
Kory E. Olson
The Cartographic Capital
Mapping Third Republic Paris
Liverpool University Press, 2018

Mobilities and MethodsNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network May 18, 2020 Roxanne Panchasi

When is the last time you looked at/consulted a paper map? Perhaps you have one hanging on a wall at home or work, framed or not. Or maybe you have some old road maps in a stack somewhere, as I do, sitting untouched since various digital forms have made printed... Read More

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