Reproducing

the French Race

Immigration, Intimacy,
and Embodiment in the
Early Twentieth Century
Elisa Camiscioli

“Reproducing the French Race skillfully

traces underlying connections among
immigration, gender, and national identity
in interwar France, while fundamentally
refiguring 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 treated
between racialized categories and concerns
separately into an innovative argument
about industrial skills and output, and
about ‘embodiment’ that challenges
she examines medico-hygienic texts on
conventional assumptions about French
interracial sex, connecting those to the
republicanism as essentially abstract and
crusade against prostitution and the related
universal.”—Gary Wilder, author of The
campaign to abolish “white slavery,” the
French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude
alleged entrapment of (white) women for
and Colonial Humanism between the Two
sale into prostitution abroad. Camiscioli
World Wars
also explores the debate surrounding the
1927 law that first made it possible for

I n Reproducing the French Race, Elisa

Camiscioli argues that immigration was a
defining feature of early-twentieth-century
French women who married foreigners to
keep their French nationality. She concludes
by linking the Third Republic’s impulse to
France, and she examines the political,
create racial hierarchies to the emergence
cultural, and social issues implicated in
of the Vichy regime.
public debates about immigration and
national identity at the time. Camiscioli
Elisa Camiscioli is Associate Professor of
demonstrates that mass immigration
History and Women’s Studies at Binghamton
provided politicians, jurists, industrialists,
University.
racial theorists, feminists, and others with
ample opportunity to explore questions 2009. 232 pages, 10 illustrations
of French racial belonging, France’s 978-0-8223-4565-7, paper $22.95

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 figured 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


Mobilizing Youth
Communists and Catholics
in Interwar France
Susan B. Whitney

“In this fascinating book, the social history

of French youth in the interwar years
has finally found its historian. Susan B.
Whitney’s 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 influence 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
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 people’s lives and political
mobilization, the impact of the Depression,
the role of Soviet ideas and intervention
in French Communist youth politics,
and the state’s new attention to youth
following the victory of France’s Popular
Front government in 1936. Mobilizing
Youth concludes by inserting the era’s

I n Mobilizing Youth, Susan B. Whitney youth activists and movements into the
examines how youth moved to complicated events of the Second World
the forefront of French politics in the War.
two decades following the First World
War. In those years, Communists and Susan B. Whitney is Associate Professor
Catholics forged the most important of History and Associate Dean of the Faculty
youth movements in France. Focusing of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton
on the competing efforts of the two University in Ottawa.
groups to mobilize the young and harness 2009. 336 pages, 13 illustrations
generational aspirations, Whitney traces the 978-0-8223-4613-5, paper $24.95
formative years of the Young Communists
and 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.


How to Be French
Nationality in the Making since 1789
Patrick Weil
Translated by Catherine Porter

“[A] densely organised and thoroughly

researched analysis of jurists’ debates and
legal decisions since 1789. The book is
clearly signposted and written—and very
carefully translated by Porter. . . . [Weil’s]
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 the
Old Regime and After
Patrick Weil is a senior research fellow
at the Centre National de Recherche
Scientifique and a professor at the
Paris School of Economics. The author
of many books, he was a member of
France’s 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

H ow to Be French is a magisterial history Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, he produced

of French nationality law from 1789 two influential reports on nationality and
to the present, written by Patrick Weil, immigration legislation. Under its original
one of France’s foremost historians. First title, Qu’est-ce qu-un Français, How to Be
published in France in 2002, it is filled French won the François Furet prize.
with captivating human dramas, with legal
professionals, and with statesmen including Catherine Porter, Professor Emeritus in
La Fayette, Napoleon, Clemenceau, de the Foreign Languages Department at the
Gaulle, and Chirac. France has long State University of New York, Cortland, won
pioneered nationality policies. It was France the Chevalier d’Or des Palmes Académiques
that first made the parent’s nationality the for advancing Franco-American relations
child’s birthright, regardless of whether through translation and teaching.
the child is born on national soil, and 2008. 456 pages, 3 maps
France has changed its nationality laws 978-0-8223-4331-8, paper $24.95
more often and more significantly than any
other modern democratic nation. Focusing
on the political and legal confrontations
that policies governing French nationality
have continually evoked and the laws
that have resulted, Weil teases out the
rationales of lawmakers and jurists. In so
doing, he definitively separates nationality
from national identity. He demonstrates
that nationality laws are written not to
realize lofty conceptions of the nation
but to address specific issues such as the
autonomy of the individual in relation to the
state or a sudden decline in population.


Breadwinners
and Citizens
Gender in the Making of
the 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 benefits to women
as mothers.”—Patricia E. Prestwich,
Canadian Journal of History

“Frader’s thematic approach allows for

L aura Levine Frader’s synthesis of labor
history and gender history brings to
the fore failures in realizing the French
a detailed discussion of the motivations
social model of equality for all citizens.
of both state and industry, the key
Challenging previous scholarship, she
stakeholders in the development of
argues that the male breadwinner ideal was
employment policy and practice. . . . [T]his
stronger in France in the interwar years
book provides and important contribution to
than scholars have typically recognized,
the literature on social reform, employment
and that it had negative consequences
and gender. As a result, it would be of
for women’s claims to the full benefits of
interest to historians of gender and labour,
citizenship. She describes how ideas about
as well as to historians of twentieth-century
masculinity, femininity, family, and work
France.”—Alison Carrol, History
affected post–World War I reconstruction,
policies designed to address France’s
“A stunning analysis of why defence of
postwar population deficit, and efforts to
the French male breadwinner became a
redefine citizenship in the 1920s and 1930s.
keystone of social policy after 1918, even
She demonstrates that gender divisions and
as France depended mightily on the labor
the male breadwinner ideal were reaffirmed
of women and foreigners to revitalize its
through the policies and practices of labor,
economy. Frader has mastered an immense
management, and government. The social
social and cultural landscape to make a
model that France implemented in the
convincing case for the interwar origins
1920s and 1930s incorporated fundamental
of today’s social-policy mix in France. She
social inequalities.
is superb, too, on the interplay of race,
ethnicity, and gender.”—Herrick Chapman,
Laura Levine Frader is Professor of
New York University, coeditor of A Century
History and Chair of the History Department
of Organized Labor in France: A Union
at Northeastern University.
Movement for the Twenty-first Century?
2008. 360 pages
978-0-8223-4198-7, paper $24.95


The French Atlantic
Triangle
Literature and Culture
of the Slave Trade
Christopher L. 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 diligent
Miller offers a historical introduction to
use of historical scholarship. It offers an
the cultural and economic dynamics of
astonishing web of circuits of reception,
the French slave trade, and he shows
rereadings and intertextual relations
how Enlightenment thinkers such as
between key texts . . . and thus fills a
Montesquieu and Voltaire mused about the
troubling gap in French literary and cultural
enslavement of Africans, while Rousseau
history. . . . The French Atlantic Triangle is
ignored it. He follows the twists and turns of
a tremendous achievement that is possible
attitude regarding the slave trade through
only on the basis of decades of committed
the works of late-eighteenth- and early-
research and teaching. Most importantly,
nineteenth-century French writers, including
it is an important rectification of a
Olympe de Gouges, Madame de Staël,
reprehensible cultural narrative. Perhaps the
Madame de Duras, Prosper Mérimée, and
day will come when French literary history
Eugène Sue. Turning to twentieth-century
can no longer be written without mentioning
literature and film, Miller describes how
the slave trade and the slave colonies that
artists from Africa and the Caribbean—
subtended the motherland of liberty.”—
including the writers Aimé Césaire, Maryse
Sibylle Fischer, Journal of Colonialism and
Condé, and Edouard Glissant, and the
Colonial History
filmmakers Ousmane Sembene, Guy
Deslauriers, and Roger Gnoan M’Bala—have

T he French slave trade forced more

than one million Africans across the
Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean.
confronted the aftermath of France’s
slave trade, attempting to bridge the
gaps between silence and disclosure,
It enabled France to establish Saint-
forgetfulness and memory.
Domingue, the single richest colony on
earth, and it connected France, Africa, and
Christopher L. Miller is Frederick Clifford
the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact
Ford Professor of African American Studies
of the slave trade on the cultures of France
and French at Yale University.
and its colonies has received surprisingly
little attention. Until recently, France had 2008. 592 pages, 17 illustrations
not publicly acknowledged its history as a 978-0-8223-4151-2, paper, $27.95

major slave-trading power. Miller proposes

a thorough assessment of the French
slave trade and its cultural ramifications,
in a broad, circum-Atlantic inquiry. This
magisterial work is the first comprehensive
examination of the French Atlantic slave
trade and its consequences as represented
in the history, literature, and film of France
and its former colonies in Africa and the
Caribbean.


Avant-Garde Fascism
The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and
Culture in France, 1909–1939
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, Antliff’s 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 identifies a
variety of ways in which fascists in France
and elsewhere activated myths of the past
In formulating the nexus of fascist ideology,
to propel challenging yet seductive visions
aesthetics, and violence, Valois, Lamour,
of achievable futures. This approach is not
and Maulnier drew primarily on the writings
only crucial to a better grasp of the real
of the French political theorist Georges
causes of fascism’s success in the early
Sorel, whose concept of revolutionary myth
twentieth century; it also implies a similar
proved central to fascist theories of cultural
alertness to the threats—and the appeal—
and national regeneration in France. Antliff
posed by the fundamentalisms that seek
analyzes the impact of Sorel’s theory of
power in apparently democratic societies
myth on Valois, Lamour, and Maulnier.
today.”—Terry Smith, editor of In Visible
Valois created the first fascist movement
Touch: Modernism and Masculinity
in France; Lamour, a follower of Valois,
established the short-lived Parti Fasciste
Investigating the central role that theories
Révolutionnaire in 1928 before founding two
of the visual arts and creativity played in
fascist-oriented journals; Maulnier forged a
the development of fascism in France, Mark
theory of fascism under the auspices of the
Antliff examines the aesthetic dimension
journals Combat and Insurgé.
of fascist myth-making within the history
of the avant-garde. Between 1909 and
Mark Antliff is Professor of Art, Art History,
1939, a surprising array of modernists were
and Visual Studies at Duke University.
implicated in this project, including such
well-known figures as the symbolist painter 2007. 376 pages, 67 illustrations
Maurice Denis, the architects Le Corbusier 978-0-8223-4034-8, paper, $24.95
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 of
cubism, futurism, surrealism, and the so-
called Retour à l’Ordre (“Return to Order”),
and, in one instance, even defined the
“dynamism” of fascist ideology in terms of
Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s 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.”


Good Bread is Back
A Contemporary History of French
Bread, the Way it Is Made, and the
People Who Make It
Steven Laurence Kaplan
Translated by Catherine Porter
“A magnificent 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 of
French 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, 1770–1775, 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 Sons
West African Veterans and France
in the Twentieth Century
Gregory Mann
“Mann has elegantly captured the dense
web of human relations, discourses of
obligation, and reconfigured social ties
that link the dusty town of San to the
many other outposts of the empire, as
well as to the postcolonial capitals of Paris
and Bamako.”—Alice L. Conklin, French
Historical Studies
“The publication of . . . Mann’s studies
suggest new directions in the fields 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 Culture
2006. 344 pages, 9 illustrations
978-0-8223-3768-3, paper $24.95

Curing the Colonizers
Hydrotherapy, 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, advertisements
and 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
final scene of Casablanca.”—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 fine
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 illustrations
978-0-8223-3822-2, paper $22.95

Disciplining Statistics
Demography and Vital Statistics in
France and England, 1830–1885
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, Victorian
Studies
“[Schweber’s] 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 scientific practices
created by the men who defined, 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
scientific arenas.”—Alain Blum, European
Sociological Review
Libby Schweber is a Reader in the
Department of Sociology at the University
of Reading.
2006. 288 pages
978-0-8223-3814-7, paper $23.95
Imperialism and Bringing the
the Corruption of Empire Back Home
Democracies France in the Global Age
Herman Lebovics Herman Lebovics

“[A] tour de force. Through its lively

“[T]his volume is an important collection
narrative, [Bringing the Empire Back
from a prominent historian that contributes
Home] succeeds in painting a complex
to the critical history of imperialism. . . . [I]t
portrait of contemporary French identity
is a useful and significant book. Lebovics
and of the tools that socially and politically
provides several sophisticated ways in which
construct it. The book is particularly strong
we can see the inter-related history of the
in showing how the current struggle
colonies and the metropole. His approach is
to contest globalization arose from the
wide ranging, linking cultural developments
interplay between French cultural policy and
to specific political moments and economic
decolonization, and from the fact that the
processes.”—Michael G. Vann, Journal of
French centralized model manifests itself in
Colonialism and Colonial History
all walks of life—from controlling academic
curricula to deciding on the content of
“Herman Lebovics is among the most
museums’ collections.”—Sophie Meunier,
innovative cultural historians working on
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
modern France.”—Mary Dewhurst Lewis,
Journal of Modern History
“It is hard to imagine a more appropriate
moment for Bringing the Empire Back
“Lebovics’s light touch masks the extensive
Home. The shocking view of thousands of
research that supports his arguments.
enraged young men issues de l’immigration
His enjoyable and profound treatise on
setting their suburban neighborhoods on
contemporary France should be read by
fire in October 2005 have made Lebovics’ an
anyone interested in the dilemmas of the
unusually timely book.”—Andrés Reggiani,
postcolonial world.”—John R. Bowen,
French Politics, Culture, and Society
American Anthopologist

“Herman Lebovics provides the most

Herman Lebovics is Professor of History at
sophisticated guide we have to the past
Stony Brook University.
generation’s identity politics in France.”—
2006. 192 pages, 14 b&w photographs Clifford Rosenberg, Journal of Modern
978-0-8223-3697-6, paper $21.95
History

Radical Perspectives
2004. 248 pages, 29 b&w photographs
978-0-8223-3260-2, cloth $29.95


A Tale of Two Murders
Passion and Power in
Seventeenth-Century France
James R. Farr
“The best micro-histories manage to
convey the texture of a vanished culture
and to define and amplify the basic issues,
concerns, and imperatives that infused
the society in which the highlighted events
unfolded. Farr’s 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 the
informal system of patronage and influence
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 illustrations
978-0-8223-3471-2, paper $22.95
10
The Color of Liberty
Histories of Race in France
Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall,
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 modern
France, 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, Yaël 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 illustrations
978-0-8223-3117-9, paper $25.95
In the Aftermath Making Jazz French
of Genocide Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris
Armenians and Jews in Jeffrey H. Jackson
Twentieth-Century France
“In the first half of his book, Jackson
Maud S. Mandel
provides a fresh analysis of the context of
the introduction of jazz in Paris and, more
“Mandel does make a convincing case,
significantly, how and why jazz symbolized
backed up by an impressive bibliography
modern life to the interwar French. . . .
and extensive notes. The book is
[T]he larger importance of Jackson’s study
particularly valuable in providing a thorough
is as a corrective: interwar xenophobia
historical examination of the status of the
and integral nationalism were not the only
survivors of genocide in French society,
cultural responses to modernity and the
taking into account social, cultural and
interwar crises in France. Rather the almost
religious distinctions, and makes a case
mythic French cosmopolitan spirit also
for the essential questions of the twentieth
flourished during these troubled times, a
century where personal identity is becoming
useful reminder in light of horrors of the
more entrenched in national identity.”—
1940s.”—Brett Berliner, L’Esprit Créateur
Ferzina Banaji, French Studies

“Making Jazz French is a well-written

“Detailed, thorough, and thoughtful,
introduction to the subject.”—Jon Cowans,
Mandel’s book is an excellent addition to
French Politics, Culture and Society
the scholarly literature of genocide and
its consequences. By focusing on an often
“Jackson’s interesting . . . work traces
neglected aspect of this phenomenon,
how a new ‘cabaret culture’ replaced big
the author has contributed greatly to
dancehalls, examines the effect recording
our understanding of the ways in which
technology had on the spread of jazz,
persecuted groups are able to respond to
and shows how, by the end of the 30s,
their victimization, and her book should be
the indefatigable French had managed
of interest to anyone concerned about these
to incorporate jazz into a new idea of a
important issues.”—Alex Alvarez, American
national cultural tradition.”—Steven Poole,
Historical Review
The Guardian
Maud S. Mandel is Dorot Assistant
Jeffrey H. Jackson is Associate Professor
Professor of Judaic Studies and Assistant
of History at Rhodes College.
Professor of History at Brown University.
American Encounters/Global Interactions
2003. 336 pages
2003. 280 pages, 10 b&w photographhs
978-0-8223-3121-6, paper $23.95
978-0-8223-3124-7, paper $23.95

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Childhood in the
Promised Land
Working-Class Movements
and the Colonies de Vacances
in France, 1880–1960
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 Land is 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
conflicts.”—Anne T. Quartararo, The
Historian
Laura Lee Downs is Directeur d’Etudes
at the Centre de Recherches Historiques of
the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales in Paris.
2002. 432 pages, 40 illustrations
978-0-8223-2944-2, paper $25.95
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Vichy and the
Eternal Feminine
A Contribution of a
Political Sociology of Gender
Francine Muel-Dreyfus
Translated by 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 Women’s 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 photographs
978-0-8223-2774-5, paper $24.95
Winner, Hagley Prize
in Business History
Winner, 2002 Berkshire Prize
Fabricating Women
The Seamstresses of Old Regime
France, 1675–1791
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 author’s commitment to her subject
is as infectious as it is impressive. Even
readers with less than a burning interest
in the seamstresses will find themselves
sharing Crowston’s 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 find a
wide readership among historians of the
Old Regime and beyond. . . . Crowston’s
book is ambitious, a sort of histoire totale,
which, unlike many Annales-inspired
histories, never strays from a clear and
pertinent line of inquiry. . . . Crowston’s 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 illustrations
978-0-8223-2666-3, paper $27.95
A Social Laboratory
for Modern France
The Musée Social and the
Rise of the Welfare State
Janet R. Horne
“Horne’s 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 France’s 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 fills
a significant 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 Béland,
American Journal of Sociology
Janet R. Horne is Associate Professor of
French at the University of Virginia.
2001. 344 pages, 17 illustrations
978-0-8223-2792-9, paper $24.95
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From Revolutionaries
to Citizens
Antimilitarism in France, 1870–1914
Paul B. Miller
“Miller’s 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
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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 of
History at McDaniel College in Westminster,
Maryland.
2001. 296 pages, 4 illustrations
978-0-8223-2766-0, paper $24.95
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