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Reproducingthe French RaceImmigration, Intimacy,and Embodiment in theEarly Twentieth Century
Elisa CamisCioli
Reproducing the French Race skillfully
traces underlying connections among
immigration, gender, and national identity
in interwar France, while fundamentally
reguring seemingly settled scholarship on
pronatalism and labor rationalization by
demonstrating the still under-recognized
centrality of race to them. Elisa Camiscioli
has written an accomplished and ambitious
work that integrates issues typically treatedseparately into an innovative argument
about embodiment that challenges
conventional assumptions about French
republicanism as essentially abstract and
universal.Gary Wilder, author ofThe
French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude
and Colonial Humanism between the Two
World Wars
In Reproducing the French Race, ElisaCamiscioli argues that immigration was a
dening feature of early-twentieth-century
France, and she examines the political,
cultural, and social issues implicated in
public debates about immigration and
national identity at the time. Camiscioli
demonstrates that mass immigration
provided politicians, jurists, industrialists,
racial theorists, feminists, and others with
ample opportunity to explore questionsof French racial belonging, Frances
relationship to the colonial empire and
the rest of Europe, and the connections
between race and national anxieties
regarding depopulation and degeneration.
She also shows that discussions of the
nation and its citizenry consistently returned
to the body: its color and gender, its
expenditure of labor power, its reproductive
capacity, and its experience of desire. Of
paramount importance was the question of
which kinds of bodies could assimilate into
the French race.
By focusing on telling aspects of the
immigration debate, Camiscioli reveals
how racial hierarchies were constructed,
how gender gured in their creation, and
how only white Europeans were cast as
assimilable. Delving into pronatalist politics,
she describes how potential immigrants
were ranked according to their imagined
capacity to adapt to the workplace and
family life in France. She traces the links
between racialized categories and concerns
about industrial skills and output, and
she examines medico-hygienic texts on
interracial sex, connecting those to the
crusade against prostitution and the related
campaign to abolish white slavery, the
alleged entrapment of (white) women for
sale into prostitution abroad. Camiscioli
also explores the debate surrounding the
1927 law that rst made it possible for
French women who married foreigners to
keep their French nationality. She concludes
by linking the Third Republics impulse to
create racial hierarchies to the emergence
of the Vichy regime.
Elisa Camiscioli is Associate Professor of
History and Womens Studies at Binghamton
University.
2009. 232 pages, 10 illustrations978-0-8223-4565-7, paper $22.95
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Mobilizing YouthCommunists and Catholicsin Interwar France
susan B. WhitnEy
In this fascinating book, the social history
of French youth in the interwar years
has nally found its historian. Susan B.Whitneys extensive and careful research
in the archives of communist and Catholic
youth movements introduces us to the
critical issues at stake: competition for
the allegiance of the young between
communists and Catholics, the key role
played by adults in shaping youth activism,
the inuence of the changing political scene
in the 1920s and 1930s, and the long-term
effects membership had on those who
joined up. Whitney is particularly astute
in her analysis of the place of gender;
she shows us how traditional notions of
sexual difference were at once reinforced
and changed in the experience of young
Catholics and communists who participated
in these movements.Joan W. Scott,
Institute for Advanced Study
Mobilizing Youth offers an ambitious and
imaginative look at two vital movements
in interwar France, with a comparison that
adds greatly to our understanding not just
of French social and political history, but of
the emergence of youth as an organized
(and manipulated) force.Peter N.
Stearns, Provost, George Mason University
In Mobilizing Youth, Susan B. Whitneyexamines how youth moved to
the forefront of French politics in the
two decades following the First World
War. In those years, Communists and
Catholics forged the most important
youth movements in France. Focusing
on the competing efforts of the two
groups to mobilize the young and harness
generational aspirations, Whitney traces the
formative years of the Young Communistsand the Young Christian Workers, including
their female branches. She analyzes the
ideologies of the movements, their major
campaigns, their styles of political and
religious engagement, and their approaches
to male and female activism. As Whitney
demonstrates, the recasting of gender
roles lay at the heart of Catholic efforts and
became crucial to Communist strategies in
the mid-1930s.
Moving back and forth between the
constantly shifting tactics devised
to mobilize young people and the
circumstances of their lives, Whitney
gives special consideration to the context
in which the youth movements operated
and in which young people made choices.
She traces the impact of the First World
War on the young and on the formulation
of generation-based political and religious
identities, the place of work and leisure
in young peoples lives and political
mobilization, the impact of the Depression,
the role of Soviet ideas and intervention
in French Communist youth politics,
and the states new attention to youth
following the victory of Frances Popular
Front government in 1936. Mobilizing
Youth concludes by inserting the eras
youth activists and movements into thecomplicated events of the Second World
War.
Susan B. Whitney is Associate Professor
of History and Associate Dean of the Faculty
of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton
University in Ottawa.
2009. 336 pages, 13 illustrations978-0-8223-4613-5, paper $24.95
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How to Be FrenchNationality in the Making since 1789
PatriCk WEilTranslaTedby CaTherine PorTer
[A] densely organised and thoroughly
researched analysis of jurists debates and
legal decisions since 1789. The book isclearly signposted and writtenand very
carefully translated by Porter. . . . [Weils]
dispassionate and scholarly book sheds
much-needed light on the complex legal
aspects of the question for these post-
colonial times.Sian Reynolds, Times
Higher Education Supplement
How to be French is a critical history of
nationality law and politics that illuminates
decisive moments in the making of
French nationality while making new and
sophisticated theoretical claims about
the articulations of nationality, the state,
and history itself. This is a stupendous
achievement by one of the most important
French scholars and public intellectuals
writing today.Peter Sahlins, author of
Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in theOld Regime and After
How to Be French is a magisterial historyof French nationality law from 1789to the present, written by Patrick Weil,
one of Frances foremost historians. First
published in France in 2002, it is lled
with captivating human dramas, with legal
professionals, and with statesmen including
La Fayette, Napoleon, Clemenceau, deGaulle, and Chirac. France has long
pioneered nationality policies. It was France
that rst made the parents nationality the
childs birthright, regardless of whether
the child is born on national soil, and
France has changed its nationality laws
more often and more signicantly than any
other modern democratic nation. Focusing
on the political and legal confrontations
that policies governing French nationalityhave continually evoked and the laws
that have resulted, Weil teases out the
rationales of lawmakers and jurists. In so
doing, he denitively separates nationality
from national identity. He demonstrates
that nationality laws are written not to
realize lofty conceptions of the nation
but to address specic issues such as the
autonomy of the individual in relation to the
state or a sudden decline in population.
Patrick Weil is a senior research fellow
at the Centre National de Recherche
Scientique and a professor at the
Paris School of Economics. The author
of many books, he was a member of
Frances Governmental Advisory Council
on Integration from 1996 to 2002, and a
member of the Presidential Commission
created by President Jacques Chirac on
the implementation of the principle of
secularism within the French Republic in
2003. In 1997, following a request from
Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, he produced
two inuential reports on nationality and
immigration legislation. Under its original
title, Quest-ce qu-un Franais, How to Be
French won the Franois Furet prize.
Catherine Porter, Professor Emeritus in
the Foreign Languages Department at theState University of New York, Cortland, won
the Chevalier dOr des Palmes Acadmiques
for advancing Franco-American relations
through translation and teaching.
2008. 456 pages, 3 maps978-0-8223-4331-8, paper $24.95
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Breadwinnersand CitizensGender in the Making ofthe French Social Model
laura lEvinE FradEr
In this thoughtful and balanced
reassessment of work, wages, and state
welfare policies in interwar France,
Frader examines how employers, labour
unions, and the state drew on enduring
stereotypes of appropriate gender roles
in order to reinforce the legitimacy of the
male breadwinner, often through the very
policies that accorded benets to women
as mothers.Patricia E. Prestwich,
Canadian Journal of History
Fraders thematic approach allows for
a detailed discussion of the motivations
of both state and industry, the key
stakeholders in the development of
employment policy and practice. . . . [T]his
book provides and important contribution to
the literature on social reform, employment
and gender. As a result, it would be of
interest to historians of gender and labour,as well as to historians of twentieth-century
France.Alison Carrol, History
A stunning analysis of why defence of
the French male breadwinner became a
keystone of social policy after 1918, even
as France depended mightily on the labor
of women and foreigners to revitalize its
economy. Frader has mastered an immense
social and cultural landscape to make aconvincing case for the interwar origins
of todays social-policy mix in France. She
is superb, too, on the interplay of race,
ethnicity, and gender.Herrick Chapman,
New York University, coeditor ofA Century
of Organized Labor in France: A Union
Movement for the Twenty-rst Century?
Laura Levine Fraders synthesis of laborhistory and gender history brings tothe fore failures in realizing the French
social model of equality for all citizens.
Challenging previous scholarship, she
argues that the male breadwinner ideal was
stronger in France in the interwar years
than scholars have typically recognized,
and that it had negative consequences
for womens claims to the full benets of
citizenship. She describes how ideas about
masculinity, femininity, family, and work
affected postWorld War I reconstruction,
policies designed to address Frances
postwar population decit, and efforts to
redene citizenship in the 1920s and 1930s.
She demonstrates that gender divisions and
the male breadwinner ideal were reafrmed
through the policies and practices of labor,
management, and government. The socialmodel that France implemented in the
1920s and 1930s incorporated fundamental
social inequalities.
Laura Levine Frader is Professor of
History and Chair of the History Department
at Northeastern University.
2008. 360 pages978-0-8223-4198-7, paper $24.95
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The French AtlanticTriangleLiterature and Cultureof the Slave Trade
ChristoPhErl. millEr
[A] massive, and massively researched,
contribution to studies of the French slave
trade. . . . [A]n invaluable resource for
other scholars.Celia Britton, French
Studies
This is a book of encyclopedic reach and
vast dimensions. . . . The French Atlantic
Triangle is meticulously researched,
almost comprehensive in its treatment of
the literary corpus, and makes diligentuse of historical scholarship. It offers an
astonishing web of circuits of reception,
rereadings and intertextual relations
between key texts . . . and thus lls a
troubling gap in French literary and cultural
history. . . . The French Atlantic Triangle is
a tremendous achievement that is possible
only on the basis of decades of committed
research and teaching. Most importantly,
it is an important rectication of areprehensible cultural narrative. Perhaps the
day will come when French literary history
can no longer be written without mentioning
the slave trade and the slave colonies that
subtended the motherland of liberty.
Sibylle Fischer,Journal of Colonialism and
Colonial History
The French slave trade forced more
than one million Africans across theAtlantic to the islands of the Caribbean.
It enabled France to establish Saint-
Domingue, the single richest colony on
earth, and it connected France, Africa, and
the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact
of the slave trade on the cultures of France
and its colonies has received surprisingly
little attention. Until recently, France had
not publicly acknowledged its history as a
major slave-trading power. Miller proposes
a thorough assessment of the French
slave trade and its cultural ramications,
in a broad, circum-Atlantic inquiry. This
magisterial work is the rst comprehensive
examination of the French Atlantic slave
trade and its consequences as represented
in the history, literature, and lm of France
and its former colonies in Africa and the
Caribbean.
Miller offers a historical introduction to
the cultural and economic dynamics of
the French slave trade, and he shows
how Enlightenment thinkers such as
Montesquieu and Voltaire mused about the
enslavement of Africans, while Rousseau
ignored it. He follows the twists and turns of
attitude regarding the slave trade through
the works of late-eighteenth- and early-
nineteenth-century French writers, including
Olympe de Gouges, Madame de Stal,
Madame de Duras, Prosper Mrime, and
Eugne Sue. Turning to twentieth-century
literature and lm, Miller describes how
artists from Africa and the Caribbean
including the writers Aim Csaire, Maryse
Cond, and Edouard Glissant, and the
lmmakers Ousmane Sembene, Guy
Deslauriers, and Roger Gnoan MBalahave
confronted the aftermath of Francesslave trade, attempting to bridge the
gaps between silence and disclosure,
forgetfulness and memory.
Christopher L. Miller is Frederick Clifford
Ford Professor of African American Studies
and French at Yale University.
2008. 592 pages, 17 illustrations978-0-8223-4151-2, paper, $27.95
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Avant-Garde FascismThe Mobilization of Myth, Art, andCulture in France, 19091939
mark antliFF
If one wants to learn a great deal about
how numerous art and cultural critics during
the interwar period, especially in France,
exploited modernist aesthetics on behalf of
fascism, Antliffs book is the place to go.
Robert Soucy,American Historical Review
This outstanding study adds an important
dimension to our understanding of French
fascism. Mark Antliff deftly identies a
variety of ways in which fascists in France
and elsewhere activated myths of the pastto propel challenging yet seductive visions
of achievable futures. This approach is not
only crucial to a better grasp of the real
causes of fascisms success in the early
twentieth century; it also implies a similar
alertness to the threatsand the appeal
posed by the fundamentalisms that seek
power in apparently democratic societies
today.Terry Smith, editor ofIn Visible
Touch: Modernism and Masculinity
Investigating the central role that theories
of the visual arts and creativity played in
the development of fascism in France, Mark
Antliff examines the aesthetic dimension
of fascist myth-making within the history
of the avant-garde. Between 1909 and
1939, a surprising array of modernists were
implicated in this project, including such
well-known gures as the symbolist painterMaurice Denis, the architects Le Corbusier
and Auguste Perret, the sculptors Charles
Despiau and Aristide Maillol, the New
Vision photographer Germaine Krull, and
the fauve Maurice Vlaminck.
Antliff considers three French fascists:
Georges Valois, Philippe Lamour, and
Thierry Maulnier, demonstrating how they
appropriated the avant-garde aesthetics ofcubism, futurism, surrealism, and the so-
called Retour lOrdre (Return to Order),
and, in one instance, even dened the
dynamism of fascist ideology in terms of
Soviet lmmaker Sergei Eisensteins theory
of montage. For these fascists, modern art
was the mythic harbinger of a regenerative
revolution that would overthrow existing
governmental institutions, inaugurate an
anticapitalist new order, and awaken the
creative and artistic potential of the fascist
new man.
In formulating the nexus of fascist ideology,
aesthetics, and violence, Valois, Lamour,
and Maulnier drew primarily on the writings
of the French political theorist Georges
Sorel, whose concept of revolutionary myth
proved central to fascist theories of cultural
and national regeneration in France. Antliff
analyzes the impact of Sorels theory of
myth on Valois, Lamour, and Maulnier.
Valois created the rst fascist movement
in France; Lamour, a follower of Valois,
established the short-lived Parti Fasciste
Rvolutionnaire in 1928 before founding two
fascist-oriented journals; Maulnier forged a
theory of fascism under the auspices of the
journals Combat and Insurg.
Mark Antliffis Professor of Art, Art History,
and Visual Studies at Duke University.
2007. 376 pages, 67 illustrations978-0-8223-4034-8, paper, $24.95
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Good Bread is BackA Contemporary History of FrenchBread, the Way it Is Made, and thePeople Who Make It
stEvEn laurEnCE kaPlanTranslaTedby CaTherine PorTer
A magnicent combination of polemic and
scholarship, it asks how the superlative
French bread of the eighteenth, nineteenth,and early twentieth centuries gave way to
the disappointing industrial loaves of the
1960s onwards; and how these in turn,
have been happily supplanted by a new
generation of artisananal baguettes, batards
and boules.Bee Wilson, Times Literary
Supplement
[Kaplan is] not just the leading authority
on French bread but the conscience ofFrench baking a conscience that does not
hesitate to tug. . . . Good Bread is Back
[is] a punchy, compendious account of how
French baking returned to its artisanal roots
and sparked a revival in quality crusts.
Michael Steinberger, Financial Times
Steven Laurence Kaplan is the Goldwin
Smith Professor of European History at
Cornell University and Visiting Professor
of Modern History. His many books
include The Bakers of Paris and the Bread
Question, 17701775, also published
by Duke University Press. The French
government has twice knighted Kaplan for
his contributions to the sustenance and
nourishment of French culture.
2006. 384 pages, 46 color illustrations
978-0-8223-3833-8, cloth $28.95
Native SonsWest African Veterans and Francein the Twentieth Century
GrEGory mann
Mann has elegantly captured the dense
web of human relations, discourses of
obligation, and recongured social ties
that link the dusty town of San to the
many other outposts of the empire, aswell as to the postcolonial capitals of Paris
and Bamako.Alice L. Conklin, French
Historical Studies
The publication of . . . Manns studies
suggest new directions in the elds of
French colonial history, African studies,
and twentieth-century military history. By
bringing to light important and overlooked
aspects of the imperial dynamic . . . . Mann
[has] made meaningful contributions to our
understanding of the connections between
Europe and Africa and of the legacies of
the colonial encounters for both regions.
James E. Genova, International History
Review
This elegantly written study of the complex
pattern of ambiguous relationships between
France and the West African veterans of
the French army is as much about the
present as the past. . . . [A]n engaging and
compelling history and it leaves the reader
with some intriguing issues to chew on.
Ineke van Kessel, Leeds African Studies
Bulletin
Gregory Mann is Associate Professor of
History at Columbia University.Politics, History, and Culture2006. 344 pages, 9 illustrations978-0-8223-3768-3, paper $24.95
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Curing the ColonizersHydrotherapy, Climatology,and French Colonial Spas
EriC t. JEnninGs
This is a very well constructed study, with
the case studies rounded off by a measured
conclusion. The main themes are clearly
argued and demonstrated, the text nicely
illustrated with postcards, advertisementsand other illustrations. It is a very welcome
addition to the growing literature on the
spas.Alastair J. Durie, French History
By telling the history of colonial France
through the fascinating and focused lens
of hydrotherapy and spa going, Jennings
reminds us that dispensing with the deep
meanings of Vichy is not as simple as
Capt. Louis Renault makes it appear in the
nal scene ofCasablanca.Sebastian
Normandin, Canadian Journal of History
Like all good books, this one raises many
intriguing questions. Coupled with its clear
prose and well-argued themes, it provides
an excellent teaching tool and makes a ne
contribution to the growing literature on the
French colonies.Patricia M. E. Lorcin,
The International History Review
Eric T. Jennings is Professor of History at
the University of Toronto.
2006. 288 pages, 29 illustrations978-0-8223-3822-2, paper $22.95
Disciplining StatisticsDemography and Vital Statistics inFrance and England, 18301885
liBBy sChWEBEr
[S]cholars will want to read this book if
they are interested in comparative history,
the sociology of discipline formation, or the
intellectual history of population studies in
particular.Graham Mooney, VictorianStudies
[Schwebers] work adds to a growing body
of literature about the origins of the new
social sciences in the nineteenth century,
and their relationship to other sciences,
the state, and public-policy formation. . . .
The work is a closely argued, careful, and
detailed reading of the organizational forms,
intellectual debates, and scientic practicescreated by the men who dened, literally
named, and built the new population
sciences.Margo J. Anderson,Journal of
Interdisciplinary History
[T]his book is highly interesting . . . a
systematic and comparative piece of
research [that] contributes to interesting
approaches in the history of sciences which
are at the crossroads of social, political and
scientic arenas.Alain Blum, European
Sociological Review
Libby Schweber is a Reader in the
Department of Sociology at the University
of Reading.
2006. 288 pages978-0-8223-3814-7, paper $23.95
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Imperialism andthe Corruption ofDemocracieshErman lEBoviCs
[T]his volume is an important collection
from a prominent historian that contributes
to the critical history of imperialism. . . . [I]t
is a useful and signicant book. Lebovicsprovides several sophisticated ways in which
we can see the inter-related history of the
colonies and the metropole. His approach is
wide ranging, linking cultural developments
to specic political moments and economic
processes.Michael G. Vann,Journal of
Colonialism and Colonial History
Herman Lebovics is among the most
innovative cultural historians working onmodern France.Mary Dewhurst Lewis,
Journal of Modern History
Lebovicss light touch masks the extensive
research that supports his arguments.
His enjoyable and profound treatise on
contemporary France should be read by
anyone interested in the dilemmas of the
postcolonial world.John R. Bowen,
American Anthopologist
Herman Lebovics is Professor of History at
Stony Brook University.
2006. 192 pages, 14 b&w photographs978-0-8223-3697-6, paper $21.95
Bringing theEmpire Back HomeFrance in the Global Age
hErman lEBoviCs
[A] tour de force. Through its lively
narrative, [Bringing the Empire Back
Home] succeeds in painting a complex
portrait of contemporary French identity
and of the tools that socially and politically
construct it. The book is particularly strong
in showing how the current struggle
to contest globalization arose from the
interplay between French cultural policy and
decolonization, and from the fact that the
French centralized model manifests itself in
all walks of lifefrom controlling academic
curricula to deciding on the content of
museums collections.Sophie Meunier,
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
It is hard to imagine a more appropriate
moment for Bringing the Empire Back
Home. The shocking view of thousands of
enraged young men issues de limmigration
setting their suburban neighborhoods on
re in October 2005 have made Lebovics an
unusually timely book.Andrs Reggiani,
French Politics, Culture, and Society
Herman Lebovics provides the most
sophisticated guide we have to the past
generations identity politics in France.
Clifford Rosenberg, Journal of Modern
History
Radical Perspectives2004. 248 pages, 29 b&w photographs978-0-8223-3260-2, cloth $29.95
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A Tale of Two MurdersPassion and Power inSeventeenth-Century France
JamEs r. Farr
The best micro-histories manage to
convey the texture of a vanished culture
and to dene and amplify the basic issues,
concerns, and imperatives that infused
the society in which the highlighted eventsunfolded. Farrs engrossing study,A Tale
of Two Murders, delivers those insights
in spades.Jay M. Smith,Journal of
Interdisciplinary History
I enjoyed this book immensely. Beautifully
written and carefully structured, it uses
the narration of a murder mystery to
demonstrate how the early modern French
legal system worked, in particular how theinformal system of patronage and inuence
was used to manipulate the legal system.
Based almost entirely on archival sources,
the book is meticulously researched and
exhibits exemplary scholarship. . . . It
is a tour de force, combing popular and
scholarly history, and highly recommended
to everyone.Sharon Kettering, Law and
History Review
A Tale of Two Murders is . . . riveting
and readable, equally appropriate for an
audience of university students or general
readers.Brian Sandberg, Renaissance
Quarterly
James R. Farr is Professor of History at
Purdue University.
2005. 240 pages, 16 illustrations978-0-8223-3471-2, paper $22.95
The Color of LibertyHistories of Race in France
suE PEaBodyand tylErstovall,Editors
[A]n important collection of essays on
the history of race in France. . . . [I]ts
engagement with larger questions of race
and empire make it an important read for
anyone interested in the histories of modernFrance, identity formation, or colonialism.
Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss,Journal of
Colonialism and Colonial History
[These] seminal essays frame important
questions about French histories of race
and contribute to our general understanding
of the role race plays in shaping the modern
world.David H. Slavin,American
Historical Review
Contributors. Leora Auslander, Claude
Blanckaert, Alice Conklin, Fred Constant,
Laurent Dubois, Yal Simpson Fletcher,
Richard Fogarty, John Garrigus, Dana
Hale, Thomas C. Holt, Patricia M. E. Lorcin,
Dennis McEnnerney, Michael A. Osborne,
Lynn Palermo, Sue Peabody, Pierre H.
Boulle, Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, Tyler
Stovall, Michael G. Vann, Gary Wilder
Sue Peabody is Professor of History at
Washington State University Vancouver.
Tyler Stovall is Professor of History at the
University of California, Berkeley.
2003. 400 pages, 13 illustrations978-0-8223-3117-9, paper $25.95
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In the Aftermathof GenocideArmenians and Jews inTwentieth-Century France
maud s. mandEl
Mandel does make a convincing case,
backed up by an impressive bibliography
and extensive notes. The book is
particularly valuable in providing a thorough
historical examination of the status of the
survivors of genocide in French society,
taking into account social, cultural and
religious distinctions, and makes a case
for the essential questions of the twentieth
century where personal identity is becoming
more entrenched in national identity.
Ferzina Banaji, French Studies
Detailed, thorough, and thoughtful,
Mandels book is an excellent addition to
the scholarly literature of genocide and
its consequences. By focusing on an often
neglected aspect of this phenomenon,
the author has contributed greatly to
our understanding of the ways in which
persecuted groups are able to respond to
their victimization, and her book should be
of interest to anyone concerned about theseimportant issues.Alex Alvarez,American
Historical Review
Maud S. Mandel is Dorot Assistant
Professor of Judaic Studies and Assistant
Professor of History at Brown University.
2003. 336 pages978-0-8223-3121-6, paper $23.95
Making Jazz FrenchMusic and Modern Life in Interwar Paris
JEFFrEy h. JaCkson
In the rst half of his book, Jackson
provides a fresh analysis of the context of
the introduction of jazz in Paris and, more
signicantly, how and why jazz symbolized
modern life to the interwar French. . . .
[T]he larger importance of Jacksons studyis as a corrective: interwar xenophobia
and integral nationalism were not the only
cultural responses to modernity and the
interwar crises in France. Rather the almost
mythic French cosmopolitan spirit also
ourished during these troubled times, a
useful reminder in light of horrors of the
1940s.Brett Berliner, LEsprit Crateur
Making Jazz French is a well-writtenintroduction to the subject.Jon Cowans,
French Politics, Culture and Society
Jacksons interesting . . . work traces
how a new cabaret culture replaced big
dancehalls, examines the effect recording
technology had on the spread of jazz,
and shows how, by the end of the 30s,
the indefatigable French had managed
to incorporate jazz into a new idea of a
national cultural tradition.Steven Poole,
The Guardian
Jeffrey H. Jackson is Associate Professor
of History at Rhodes College.
American Encounters/Global Interactions2003. 280 pages, 10 b&w photographhs978-0-8223-3124-7, paper $23.95
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Childhood in thePromised LandWorking-Class Movementsand the Colonies de Vacancesin France, 18801960
laura lEE doWns
[A] remarkable book. . . . [S]o much is
conveyed about ideology, gender, class,
work and leisure that this book is a must
for all who are interested in French society
in the past century.Hugh Clout, Modern
and Contemporary France
[M]eticulously researched. . . . More
than simply a history of summer camps,
Childhood in the Promised Landis ultimately
a rich and perceptive account of the rise
and fall of one particular ideal of social
transformation and solidarity.Katrin
Schultheiss, Labor History
Downs takes great care to show us
how children were often at the center of
ideological and cultural disputes in France
between 1880 and 1960. Her book . . .
opens up new terrain for historians to
discuss how children fared in these cultural
conicts.Anne T. Quartararo, TheHistorian
Laura Lee Downs is Directeur dEtudes
at the Centre de Recherches Historiques of
the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales in Paris.
2002. 432 pages, 40 illustrations978-0-8223-2944-2, paper $25.95
Vichy and theEternal FeminineA Contribution of aPolitical Sociology of Gender
FranCinE muEl-drEyFusTranslaTedby KaThleen a. Johnson
Muel-Dreyfus makes a convincing
argument for a gendered examination of the
Vichy regime in her exhaustively researched
and well-written text. The author provides
an interesting perspective on the paroxysms
of guilt that overtook French society after
its stunning defeat.Susan E. Dawson,
Journal of Womens History
Vichy and the Eternal Feminine elucidates
the impact of gender mythology on Vichy
discourse and, in a larger context, on
much of the European political Right from
the late nineteenth through the mid-
twentieth centuries. It also raises questions
about the reception of these messages
by Frenchwomen, which researchers
since 1996 have begun to address. Duke
University Press is to be commended for
making the book available to Anglophone
readers.Bertram M. Gordon,Journal of
Social History
Francine Muel-Dreyfus is Director
of Studies at the Centre for European
Sociology, School for the Study of Social
Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. Kathleen A.
Johnson is a professional translator who
holds a Ph.D in French literature from the
University of California, Irvine.
2001. 400 pages, 20 b&w photographs978-0-8223-2774-5, paper $24.95
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Winner, Hagley Prizein Business HistoryWinner, 2002 Berkshire Prize
Fabricating WomenThe Seamstresses of Old RegimeFrance, 16751791
ClarE haru CroWston
A wide variety of historians will be eager
to read this study of the most important
female guild and fourth-largest trade
organization in eighteenth-century
Paris. . . .Jennifer Jones,Journal of
Modern History
This impressive and thoroughly researched
book both challenges some long-standing
assumptions and recreates a world. . . .
The authors commitment to her subject
is as infectious as it is impressive. Even
readers with less than a burning interest
in the seamstresses will nd themselves
sharing Crowstons fascination with their
history, if only from the cumulative effects
of her sustained analysis and artful prose.
In short, this book, which bridges the
gap between social and cultural history
as well as any recent study, should nd a
wide readership among historians of theOld Regime and beyond. . . . Crowstons
book is ambitious, a sort of histoire totale,
which, unlike many Annales-inspired
histories, never strays from a clear and
pertinent line of inquiry. . . . Crowstons is
a marvelous book that establishes a model
of thorough, intelligent research.Robert
A. Schneider,Journal of Interdisciplinary
History
Clare Haru Crowston is Associate
Professor of History at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2001. 528 pages, 18 illustrations978-0-8223-2666-3, paper $27.95
A Social Laboratoryfor Modern FranceThe Muse Social and theRise of the Welfare State
JanEt r. hornE
Hornes excellent book is a welcome
addition to a growing body of historical
works on the late nineteenth-century origins
of the French welfare state.Joshua Cole,
Social History
This is an extremely useful analysis for
anyone interested not only in French
social welfare, but also in the history of
the parapolitical sphere, associational life
among Frances elite, and the shifting
boundaries between public and private. . . .
Horne has done an excellent job of widening
the scope of social welfare history, giving us
all a whole new range of actors and issues
to contemplate.Steve M. Beaudoin,
Journal of Social History
A Social Laboratory for Modern France lls
a signicant gap in the literature on French
social policy history. . . . [S]olid archival
research. . . . [T]his book will prove useful
to all the students of turn-of-the-20th-century French society.Daniel Bland,
American Journal of Sociology
Janet R. Horne is Associate Professor of
French at the University of Virginia.
2001. 344 pages, 17 illustrations978-0-8223-2792-9, paper $24.95
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From Revolutionariesto CitizensAntimilitarism in France, 18701914
Paul B. millEr
Millers study allows us to understand
the complexities of republican citizenship
in modern France.James R. Lehning,
Nineteenth-Century French Studies
From Revolutionaries to Citizens takes
a refreshingly different approach to the
predicament of French antimilitarism before
1914. . . . Drawing upon a wide range of
published and archival sources, Miller makes
his case with commendable aplomb.
Sudhir Hazareesingh, Journal of Modern
History
Miller makes a solid scholarly contribution
to our understanding of French anti-
militarist culture in general and the nuances
between various tendencies in French
socialism, anarchism, and revolutionary
syndicalism. . . . [D]elightful.Keith
Mann, International Labor and Working-
Class History
Paul B. Miller is Associate Professor ofHistory at McDaniel College in Westminster,
Maryland.
2001. 296 pages, 4 illustrations978-0-8223-2766-0, paper $24.95
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Index
Antliff, Mark 6
Camiscioli, Elisa 1
Crowston, Clare Haru 13
Downs, Laura Lee 12
Farr, James R. 10
Frader, Laura Levine 4
Horne, Janet R. 13
Jackson, Jeffrey H. 11
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Miller, Paul B. 14
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