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SELECTED REVIEWS
From The New Republic and The Book: An Online Review
at The New Republic
Mark
Taylor, Crisis on Campus
Natalie Zemon Davis, A Passion for History
Frederick Brown, For the Soul of France
Dominic Lieven, Russia Against Napoleon
Larissa Juliet Taylor, The Virgin Warrior
Jacob
Soll, The Information Master
Robert
Gildea, Children of the Revolution
Graham Robb, The
Discovery of France
Pierre
Rosanvallon, The Demands of Liberty
John Bowen, Why
the French Don't Like Headscarves
Marcel
Fournier, Marcel Mauss
David
Andress, The Terror
Clark Institute Exhibition, Jacques-Louis David,
Empire to Exile
Steven Englund, Napoleon: A Political Life
Timothy
Tackett, When the King Took Flight and Sarah Maza, The Myth of the
French Bourgeoisie.
Dominique de Villepin, Les
Cent-Jours.
David
Garrioch, The Making of Revolutionary Paris.
Carla Hesse, The Other Enlightenment.
Sophia
Rosenfeld, A Revolution in Language.
Robert
Asprey, The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, and Isser Woloch, Napoleon and his
Collaborators.
Raphael
Samuel, Theaters of Memory.
Graham Robb,
Victor Hugo.
Pierre Nora,
Realms of Memory.
Olwen
Hufton, The Prospect Before Her.
From The London Review of Books
Maurice
Lever, Beaumarchais
Ronald
Fraser, Napoleon's Cursed War
Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights
David
Lawday, Napoleon's Master
Benedetta
Craveri, The Age of Conversation
Sudhir
Hazareesingh, The Saint-Napoleon, Sudhir Hazareesingh, The Legend of Napoleon, Stuart Semmel, Napoleon
and the British
Ben Rogers,
Beef and Liberty
Lawrence
Brockliss, Calvet's Web,
and Colin Jones, The Great Nation.
Andy
Martin, Napoleon the Novelist.
From The New York
Times Book Review
Dorothy
Thompson, The Essential E.P. Thompson.
Alice
Kaplan, The Collaborator.
Richard Cobb,
The French and their Revolution.
Other
Veronica
Buckley, The Secret Wife of Louis XIV (Slate)
John
Burrows, A History of Histories (Slate)
Richard
Vinen, The Unfree French and Carmen Callil, Bad Faith (The Nation)
Roger
Pearson, Voltaire Almighty, and Leo Damrosch, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (The
Nation)
Michael Leggiere, Napoleon and Berlin, and Jean-Yves Guiomar, L'invention de la guerre
total (H-France)
Daniel Moran and
Arthur Waldron, The People in Arms (H-France)
James Livesey, Making Democracy in the French Revolution (H-France)
Pierre Birnbaum, The Anti-Semitic Moment (The
Forward)
Ron Schechter, Obstinate Hebrews (The Forward)
John
J. Miller and Mark Molesy, Our Oldest Enemy; Kenneth Timmerman, The French Betrayal of America (Los Angeles
Times)
SELECTED ESSAYS
(May Require Subscriptions)
"Trapped
by History: France and its Jews," World Affairs, 2009.
"When
the Levee Breaks," World Affairs, 2008.
"The
Peace Paradox," The New York Times Magazine, 2007
"The
Shorn Identity: Why the French Forgot How to Assimilate," The New Republic, 2005 (pdf)
"The
Bookless Future, Part II: Electronic Ink's Coming of Age," The New Republic Online, 2006
"The
Bookless Future: What the Internet is Doing to Scholarship," The New Republic, 2005 (pdf)
"The
Unbearable Lightness of Being French: Law, Republicanism and National
Identity at the End of the Old Regime," The American Historical Review, 2001.
"Violence,
Terror, and War: A Comment on Arno Mayer's The Furies," French
Historical Studies, 2001.
"The Ordeal
of Legitimacy: The Fitful History of French Jewry," The New Republic,
2000.
"Recent
Works on Early Modern French National Identity," The Journal of
Modern History, 1996.
"Bye-Bye
Mitterrand: The Legacy of a Sentimentalist," The New Republic, 1995.
"Lingua
Populi, Lingua Dei: Language, Religion, and the Origins of French
Revolutionary Nationalism," The American Historical Review, 1995.
"The
Public Sphere and the World of the Law in Eighteenth-Century France," French
Historical Studies, 1992.
"Lawyers
into Demagogues: Chancellor Maupeou and the Transformation of Legal Practice
in France, 1771-1789," Past and Present, 1991.
"Paristroika,"
The New Republic, 1988
"Nation-Building
and Cultural Particularism in Eighteenth-Century France: The Case of
Alsace," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1988.
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Bibliography
Excerpt
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INTERNET APPENDICES
Bibliography
Original
Texts of Translated Citations.
Full text
of Antoine-Léonard Thomas, Jumonville
(Paris, 1757).
Full text
and Translation of Antoine-Hyacinthe Sermet, Discours Prounounçat dabant
la legiou de Sant-Ginest (Toulouse, 1790).
Full
Text of Le patriotisme, poëme (Paris, 1767).
Engravings from Les portraits
des hommes illustres françois (Paris, 1668).
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Factums
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OTHER RESEARCH MATERIAL
Primary
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Tableau des avocats au Parlement
de Paris pour l'année 1770
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The
French Revolution
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Art of Narrative History
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French Enlightenment
France
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The
French Revolution and the World (Fall 2009)
Power
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Approaches
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Old
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