New Books in French Studies
Stefanos Geroulanos, “Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Stefanos Geroulanos
Transparency in Postwar France
A Critical History of the Present
Stanford University Press, 2017

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network February 12, 2019 Roxanne Panchasi

What does it mean to do a “microhistory” of a concept? Stefanos Geroulanos pursues just such a project in the 22 chapters of Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present (Stanford University Press, 2017). A rich and complex history of France in the decades after 1945, the... Read More
Sun-Young Park, “Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
Sun-Young Park
Ideals of the Body
Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018

New Books in ArchitectureNew Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network February 1, 2019 Peter Ekman

We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron Haussmann in the late nineteenth century — the broad boulevards, networked infrastructures, connected apartment houses, and assorted monuments — but little scholarship has seized on its precursors in the half-century prior. In Ideals... Read More
Benoît Majerus, “From the Middle Ages to Today: Experiences and Representations of Madness in Paris” (Parigramme, 2018)
Benoît Majerus
From the Middle Ages to Today
Experiences and Representations of Madness in Paris
Parigramme, 2018

New Books in French StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychoanalysisNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network January 16, 2019 Maia Woolner

With Paris as the organizing locus of his new book, Du moyen âge à nos jours, expériences et représentations de la folie à Paris [From the Middle Ages to Today, Experiences and Representations of Madness in Paris], Benoît Majerus uses an impressively wide range of visual sources, from religious images and... Read More
Julian Jackson, “De Gaulle” (Harvard UP, 2018)
Julian Jackson
De Gaulle

Harvard University Press, 2018

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 & Society January 16, 2019 Charles Coutinho

Charles de Gaulle is one of the greatest figures of twentieth-century history. If Sir Winston Churchill was (in the words of Harold Macmillan) the “greatest Englishman In history,” then Charles de Gaulle was without a doubt, the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon Bonaparte. Why so? In the early summer of 1940,... Read More
Denis Provencher, “Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations” (Liverpool UP, 2017)
Denis Provencher
Queer Maghrebi French
Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations
Liverpool University Press, 2017

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in French StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network January 4, 2019 Roxanne Panchasi

Sometimes a book can take inspiration from a (not so) simple map. At the end of his previous book, Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship (Routledge, 2007), Denis Provencher discusses a map of “gay Paris” drawn by Samir, one of his French interlocutors of North African descent. Samir’s queer... Read More

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