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Forthcoming April 2025 Passing Misery
The Journal of a Forced Laborer in the Third Reich
Pasquiers, J. L. M. (au) & Thompson, R.L. (ed)
An illuminating translation of the journal of Jean Louis Mary Pasquiers, a former teacher and forced laborer, Passing Misery documents Pasquiers’ life within war-torn Europe, in unwilling service to the Nazi regime. In doing so, this book offers an unrivalled insight into the reality of collaboration and culpability during war.
Subjects: History: World War II Genocide History History: 20th Century to Present
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Published December 2024
The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
The Challenge of a New World Order
Badel, L., Conze, E., & Dröber, A. (eds)
An illuminating and geographically wide-ranging reassessment of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, this volume reconsiders how this watershed treaty gave rise to new dynamics of global power and politics, reshaping the ideas of imperiality and nationality that have continued to shape the geopolitical landscape.
Subjects: History: World War I Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published October 2023
Foreigners in Their Own Country
Identity and Rejection in France
Martin, L. M.
Paying close attention to how people speak about themselves and their acceptance and rejection by others, this book provides an intimate account of the challenges faced by the millions of people in France—and throughout Western Europe—who fully participate in the life of their country but are often not seen as belonging there.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Sociology
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Published January 2023
The Marseille Mosaic
A Mediterranean City at the Crossroads of Cultures
Ingram, M. & Kleppinger, K. (eds)
Moving across disciplines, The Marseille Mosaic integrates a diverse range of sources and methods to reveal France’s second city in the national imagination as a critical site for postcolonial memory and urban transformation as they crucially interact with debates in contemporary French society.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Sociology Urban Studies
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Published September 2022
Francophone Migrations, French Islam and Wellbeing
The Soninké Foyer in Paris
Accoroni, D.
Addressing several issues of significance in the fields of Anthropology of Migration, Politics of Healthcare, Religious and Francophone Studies, this book pursues an unprecedented line of research by bringing to the fore the geopolitical dimension of francophonie, understood as a political construct, as much as a cultural, artistic and a linguistic space, with French as common language.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology of Religion
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Published May 2022
Making Better Lives
Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris
Lenhard, J.
In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the best place to sleep at night and what role drugs and alcohol play in their lives.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Urban Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Published January 2022
France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence
Quarrels and Convergences during the Cold War and Beyond
Badalassi, N. & Gloriant, F. (eds)
France, Germany, and the Nuclear Deterrence employs a multi-archival approach to the legacy of World War II and the bipolar division of Europe. The volume longitudinally covers the post-war, Cold War and post-Cold War eras and leads into the present day to focus on the history of Franco-German strategic and nuclear relations within an evolving Euro-Atlantic security architecture.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published May 2020
The Candle and the Guillotine
Revolution and Justice in Lyon, 1789–93
Johnson, J. P.
Using Lyon as a lens for understanding the politics of revolutionary France, this book reveals the widespread enthusiasm for judicial change in Lyon at the time of the Revolution, as well as the conflicts that ensued between elected magistrates in the face of radical democratization.
Subject: History: 18th/19th Century
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Published December 2019
A Human Garden
French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation
Rosental, P.-A.
A Human Garden explains the longevity of the Ungemach Gardens, an experimental eugenic city that survived on the outskirts of Strasbourg from the 1920s to the 1980s. He reveals the inheritance of eugenics, examining ways in which eugenics have come to influence social, health, and educational policymaking in the post-war era.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published November 2019
Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies
The Case of France and Belgium
Merchant, J. (ed)
Despite France and Belgium sharing and interacting constantly, access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies are strikingly different. The contributors to this volume are social scientists from France, Belgium, England and the United States and represent different disciplines. Each author has attempted, through the prism of their specialties, to demonstrate and analyse how and why this striking difference in access to ART exists.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Sociology
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Published July 2019
France and the German Question, 1945–1990
Bozo, F. & Wenkel, C. (eds)
This book revisits France’s attitude towards the German question as it existed and evolved during the post-World War Two and the Cold War eras in order to shed light on previously neglected aspect of the history of the Cold War, of Germany, and of Europe in the second half of the twentieth century.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2019
Concentrationary Art
Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts
Pollock, G. & Silverman, M. (eds)
The seminal work of Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. Concentrationary Art represents the first translation into English of Cayrol’s two essays on concentrationary art, as well as the first book-length study of his theory.
Subjects: Literary Studies Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Memory Studies
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Published March 2019
Categories in Context
Gender and Work in France and Germany, 1900–Present
Berrebi-Hoffmann, I., Giraud, O., Renard, L., & Wobbe, T. (eds)
Despite the wealth of empirical research into the interrelationships of gender and labor available, little is known about the forms of classification and categorization shaping these social phenomena. Categories in Context enriches our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, law, and rights have been produced, comprehended, appropriated, and eventually transformed in France and Germany.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Sociology
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Published April 2018
Burgundy
The Global Story of Terroir
Demossier, M.
Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social and cultural world of Burgundy wines and demystifies the terroir ideology to provide a unique long-term ethnographic analysis of what lies behind the concept in Burgundy, raising important questions about the future of quality wine in a global era.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Food & Nutrition Cultural Studies (General)
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Published July 2017
The Bressonians
French Cinema and the Culture of Authorship
Morari, C.
With his meticulous approach to craft, formal innovations, and intensely personal style, Robert Bresson was in many ways the prototypical auteur. This strikingly original study of Bresson and his cinematic afterlives his influence in the work of French filmmakers such as Pialat, Eustache, and Rohmer—directors united by the “problem” of authorial style they inherited from Bresson.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published December 2016
Breaking Rocks
Music, Ideology and Economic Collapse, from Paris to Kinshasa
Trapido, J.
Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music. This book offers insights into both the ideologies of power and value in central Africa’s troubled post-colonial political economy, and the economic flows that make up the hidden side of the globalization.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Cultural Studies (General)
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Published August 2016
The France of the Little-Middles
A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris
Cartier, M., Coutant, I., Masclet, O., & Siblot, Y.
The France of the Little-Middles explores the strained reception of the migrants in The Poplars, a housing development in suburban Paris that dates back to the mid-20th centrury. The authors examine tensions within the complex less as a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Urban Studies
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Published August 2016
French Foreign Policy since 1945
An Introduction
Bozo, F.
This compact and engaging history recounts France’s efforts to reconcile its proud history and global ambitions with a realistic appraisal of its capabilities following World War II. It provides insightful analysis of decolonization, the Cold War, and European unification, always attentive to the challenges posed by an increasingly multipolar, interconnected world.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2016
National Policy, Global Memory
The Commemoration of the “Righteous” from Jerusalem to Paris, 1942-2007
Gensburger, S.
Starting in the late 1990s, European governments began developing national incarnations of the “Righteous among Nations,” the most prominent of which was the “Righteous of France,” honoring those who protected Jews during the Vichy regime. This book uses this instance of appropriation to illuminate debates over memory and nationhood.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Genocide History Memory Studies
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Published September 2015
The Event of Charlie Hebdo
Imaginaries of Freedom and Control
Zagato, A. (ed)
The January 2015 shooting at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris sparked an enormous discussion among citizens and intellectuals worldwide. By analyzing the effects the attacks have had in various spheres of social life including the political, ideology, collective imaginaries, the media, and education, this collection aims to serve as a contribution and a critical response to that discussion.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published July 2014
Nationalism and the Cinema in France
Political Mythologies and Film Events, 1945-1995
Frey, H.
What are the nuances, insider codes, and hidden history of the alignment between cinema and nationalism? Hugo Frey suggests that the concepts of the ‘political myth’ and ‘the film event’ are the essential theoretical reference points for unlocking film history. Nationalism and the Cinema in France offers new arguments regarding those connections in the French case.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2014
The French Right Between the Wars
Political and Intellectual Movements from Conservatism to Fascism
Kalman, S. & Kennedy, S. (eds)
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2013
General de Gaulle's Cold War
Challenging American Hegemony, 1963-68
Martin, G. J.
“While there is a lot of information for readers to take in, the subject is inherently complex, spanning different aspects of French foreign policy and the politics of other countries and institutions. In spite of this complexity, Martin displays a good grasp of the material. The book is the product of archival research in England, France, and the United States, as well as engagement with published collections and the relevant secondary literature on the topic. Martin has thus covered most of his bases.” · H-France Review
“[The book] is extremely well researched, well written, and Martin accomplishes his stated objective: namely, to provide a more balanced account of de Gaulle that goes beyond views of him as either a visionary, or an irresponsible and anti-American nationalist…Martin’s analysis makes a unique contribution in that it examines the linkages between the General's economic, political and security policy in order to understand how the three came together to shape his overall policy toward the US.” · Erin Mahan, Chief Historian, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published March 2013
French Film in Britain
Sex, Art and Cinephilia
Mazdon, L. & Wheatley, C.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published February 2013
Palimpsestic Memory
The Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film
SIlverman, M
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History Colonial History
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Published September 2012
Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema
A Beauvoirian Perspective
Boulé, J.-P. & Tidd, U. (eds)
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published July 2012
Building a European Identity
France, the United States, and the Oil Shock, 1973-74
Gfeller, A. E.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2012
Concentrationary Cinema
Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog
Pollock, G. & Silverman, M. (eds)
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Genocide History Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2011
Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema
A Sartrean Perspective
Boulé, J.-P. & MacCaffrey, E. (eds)
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published June 2011
France in the Age of Organization
Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy
Clarke, J.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Sociology
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Published May 2011
The Devil's Captain
Ernst Jünger in Nazi Paris, 1941-1944
Mitchell, A.
Subjects: History: World War II Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published March 2011
Collective Terms
Race, Culture, and Community in a State-Planned City in France
Epstein, B. S.
Subjects: Urban Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2010
Comics in French
The European Bande Dessinée in Context
Grove, L.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Media Studies Literary Studies
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Published July 2010
Constructing Charisma
Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Berenson, E. & Giloi, E. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published March 2010
'For Their Own Good'
Civilian Evacuations in Germany and France, 1939-1945
Torrie, J. S.
The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply. Based on extensive archival research in Germany and France, this is the first broad, comparative study of civilian evacuations in Germany and France during World War II
Subject: History: World War II
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Published March 2010
Alsace to the Alsatians?
Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939
Fischer, C. J.
The region of Alsace, located between the hereditary enemies of France and Germany, served as a trophy of war four times between 1870–1945. With each shift, French and German officials sought to win the allegiance of the local populace. In response to these pressures, Alsatians invoked regionalism—articulated as a political language, a cultural vision, and a community of identity—not only to define and defend their own interests against the nationalist claims of France and Germany, but also to push for social change, defend religious rights, and promote the status of the region within the larger national community.
Subject: History (General)
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Published October 2008
Nazi Paris
The History of an Occupation, 1940-1944
Mitchell, A.
Subject: History: World War II
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Published February 2008
Stardom in Postwar France
Gaffney, J. & Holmes, D. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2008
The New Face of Political Cinema
Commitment in French Film since 1995
O'Shaughnessy, M.
Subject: Film and Television Studies
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Published December 2007
France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007
The Geopolitical Imperative
Sutton, M.
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2007
Postcoloniality
The French Dimension
Majumdar, M. A.
Subject: Colonial History
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Published January 2006
A Belle Epoque?
Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914
Holmes, D. & Tarr, C. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published October 2005
Remaking France
Americanization, Public Diplomacy, and the Marshall Plan
McKenzie, B.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2004
The Imaginary Revolution
Parisian Students and Workers in 1968
Seidman, M.
Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2003
The Road to War
France and Vietnam 1944-1947
Shipway, M.
Subject: Colonial History
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Published August 1997
The French Defeat of 1940
Reassessments
Blatt, J. (ed)
Subject: History: World War II
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