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French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sebastien Mercier (1740-1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his …
The Life of Wisdom in Rousseau's "e;Reveries of the Solitary Walker"e; is the first complete exegesis and interpretation of Rousseau's final and culminating work, showing …
Histories of French Sexuality contends that the history of sexuality is at a crossroads. Decades of scholarship have shown that sexuality is implicated in a wide range of topics, …
The Crimean War (1854-56) is widely considered the first modern war with its tactical use of railways, telegraphs, and battleships, its long-range rifles, and its notorious …
Despite long-standing assertions that languages, including French and English, cannot sufficiently communicate the experience of smell, much of France's nineteenth-century …
The Invention of Terrorism in France, 1904-1939 investigates the political and social imaginaries of "e;terrorism"e; in the early twentieth century. Chris Millington traces …
The Cartulary of Premontre offers a full critical edition, consisting of a transcription of the cartulary's 509 charters together with historical notes and apparatus. The …
In the aftermath of the Second World War, the French government cultivated images of sensual and sophisticated white French women in an attempt to reestablish its global image as a …