Vol. 19 · No. 2 · Summer 2001 · pp. 114-142(29)

Book Reviews

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Sheryl Kroen, Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
Review by William M. Reddy, Duke University

Robin Walz, Pulp Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Paris (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
Review by Willa Z. Silverman, The Pennsylvania State University

Marjorie A. Beale, The Modernist Enterprise: French Elites and the Threat of Modernity, 1900-1940 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).
Review by Lenard R. Berlanstein, The University of Virginia

Catherine Omnès, Ouvrières parisiennes: marchés du travail et trajectoires professionnelles au vingtième siècle (Paris: Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1997).
Review by Laura Lee Downs, University of Michigan

Elizabeth Ezra, The Colonial Unconscious: Race and Culture in Interwar France (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2000).
Review by Mary D. Lewis, Smith College; Minda de Gunzburg for European Studies, Harvard University

Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
Review by Seth Armus, Saint Joseph's College

Susan J. Terrio, Crafting the Culture and History of French Chocolate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
Review by Robert C. Ulin, Western Michigan University

Marcel Detienne, Comparer l'incomparable (Paris: Seuil, 2000).
Review by Thomas Bénatouïl, Université Paris XII-Val de Marne

Sophie Body-Gendrot, The Social Control of Cities: A Comparative Perspective (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2000).
Review by John Mollenkopf, The City University of New York

Jonah D. Levy, Tocqueville's Revenge: State, Society, and Economy in Contemporary France (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Review by W. Rand Smith, Lake Forest College