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Historians of France sometimes refer to recent writings on colonial Saint-Domingue and on slavery as part of a new “colonial turn” in the field. However, US-based historians of France have long been interested in these topics. In this introduction, I... -
To complement the special issue “War Makes Monsters: Crime and Criminality in Times of Conflict,” we highlight articles probing the interconnectedness of war and crime, analyzing their complex relationship. A common thread is that notions of crime an... -
One of the foremost historians of early modern France, Daniel Roche (1935-2023) had a tremendous impact on both sides of the Atlantic. A 2004 special issue of French Historical Studies devoted to his work contained reflections by leading Anglophone h... -
With this curated issue, I invite us to consider how questions of gender have shaped the rich and growing historiography on Muslims, France, citizenship, empire, and migration across the Mediterranean in the twentieth century, in conversation with wo... -
On 4 March 2024, the legislators of the French Fifth Republic made history by expanding article 34 of the French constitution to state that “the law determines the conditions under which may be exercised the liberty guaranteed to a woman to have reco...
