Ranked #1
Andrew Smith, “Terror and Terroir: The Winegrowers of the Languedoc and Modern France” (Manchester University Press, 2016)
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6 Oct 2017
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Ranked #2
Kimberly Arkin, “Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France” (Stanford UP, 2013)
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24 Sep 2015
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Ranked #3
Kathleen Wellman, “Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France” (Yale UP, 2013)
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Peter Sahlins, “1668: The Year of the Animal in France” (Zone Books, 2017)
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Katelyn Knox, “Race on Display in Twentieth- and Twenty First-Century France” (Liverpool UP, 2016)
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Maurice Samuels, “The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews” (U. Chicago Press, 2016)
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Jonathan Smyth, “Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being: The Search for a Republican Morality” (Manchester UP, 2016)
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In his speech delivered to the National Convention on 18 Floréal (May 7, 1794), Maximilien Robespierre shocked his liste... Read more
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Cathal J. Nolan, "The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Anita Guerrini, “The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Michaela DeSoucey, “Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food” (Princeton UP, 2016)
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A heritage food in France, and a high-priced obscurity in the United States. But in both countries, foie gras, the speci... Read more
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Robert Darnton, “A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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David Hopkin, “Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, “Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France” (Liverpool UP, 2016)
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18 Jan 2018
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Allan H. Pasco, “Balzac, Literary Sociologist” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
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Kathleen Keller, "Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
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Sarah Hammerschlag, “Broken Tablets: Levinas, Derrida, and the Literary Afterlife of Religion” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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20 Mar 2017
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Andrew S. Curran, "Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely" (Other Press, 2019)
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Gary Wilder, “Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World” (Duke UP, 2015)
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Ranked #20
Tabetha Ewing, “Rumor, Diplomacy, and War in Enlightenment Paris” (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2014)
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