Celebrated on July, 14, Bastille Day is the French national day and one of the most important bank holidays in France. The day commemorates the beginning of the French Revolution with the storming of the Bastille on the 14th July 1789, a medieval fortress and prison which was a symbol of tyrannical Bourbon authority and had held many political dissidents, and symbolizes the end of absolute monarchy and the birth of sovereign Nation.
Joining the celebration Berghahn is pleased to highlight our Berghahn Monographs in French Studies series, as well as offer a selection of related interest titles and FULL ACCESS to French Politics, Culture & Society journal* until July 21, 2022! Scroll down for details.
Series Spotlight: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies
France has played a central role in the emergence of the modern world. The Great French Revolution of 1789 contributed decisively to political modernity, and the Paris of Baudelaire did the same for culture. Because of its rich intellectual and cultural traditions, republican democracy, imperial past and post-colonial present, twentieth-century experience of decline and renewal, and unique role in world affairs, France and its history remain important today. This series publishes monographs that offer significant methodological and empirical contributions to our understanding of the French experience and its broader role in the making of the modern world.
Volume 17
THE CANDLE AND THE GUILLOTINE
Revolution and Justice in Lyon, 1789–93
Julie Patricia Johnson
Using Lyon as a lens for understanding the politics of revolutionary France, this book reveals the widespread enthusiasm for judicial change in Lyon at the time of the Revolution, as well as the conflicts that ensued between elected magistrates in the face of radical democratization.
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Volume 16
A HUMAN GARDEN
French Policy and the Transatlantic Legacies of Eugenic Experimentation
Paul-André Rosental
Translated from the French by Carolyn Avery
Foreword by Theodore M. Porter
“Paul-André Rosental has recovered each of the threads that led to this remarkable experiment … we discover piece by piece, within the history of Ungemach Gardens, the scientific and moral wellsprings of eugenics.” • Le Monde
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Volume 5 In Paperback
THE BOURGEOIS REVOLUTION IN FRANCE 1789-1815
Henry Heller
“The book is well worth reading as a lively critique of the various revisionist attempts to deny the class character of the French Revolution, and a summary of (some of) the relevant evidence.” • Weekly Worker
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For a full list of titles in the series please visit the webpage.
Of Related Interest
HUMAN NATURE AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
From the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code
Xavier Martin
“Martin should be commended for finding a niche in this vast literature and managing to say something original … His book is worth reading because it reminds us of an important aspect of Enlightenment thinking, one that questioned the freedom of the will.” · H-France
THE JACOBIN CLUBS IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1793-1795
Michael L. Kennedy
“… prodigious research … results in a perceptive analysis … the outcome is an exemplary work and a major contribution in understanding the role of the Jacobin clubs in the history of the French Revolution.” · Choice
FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY SINCE 1945
An Introduction
Frédéric Bozo
Translated by Jonathan Hensher
“This elegant survey of the subject…is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of its subject available and should be read by students, fellow-scholars and anyone engaged in foreign relations with France.” • French History
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A YEAR OF REVOLUTIONS
Fanny Lewald’s Recollections of 1848
Translated, edited, and annotated by Hanna Ballin Lewis
“… if the reader wishes to hear the street cries of the revolution, climb the barricades …, experience the hopes and anxieties of a city gripped with political uncertainty and stripped of its trees from the boulevards, and witness the actress Rachel Felix sing the Marseillaise at the end of her performance …, then this is the book to buy.” · French History
THE EVENT OF CHARLIE HEBDO
Imaginaries of Freedom and Control
Edited by Alessandro Zagato
The volume observes that the events being attributed to Charlie Hebdo go beyond sensationalist reports of the mainstream media, transcend the spatial confines of nation states, and lend themselves to an ever-expanding number of mutating discursive formations.
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FRANCE, GERMANY, AND NUCLEAR DETERRENCE
Quarrels and Convergences during the Cold War and Beyond
Edited by Nicolas Badalassi and Frédéric Gloriant
“France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence offers a much-needed and updated (re-)appraisal of the complex strategic and nuclear relationship between France and Germany.” • Carine Germond, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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MAKING BETTER LIVES
Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris
Johannes Lenhard
“The book is very timely as there haven’t been many ethnographic monographs published on homelessness in recent years despite homelessness growing considerably in many Western countries. In my view, the monograph makes several original contributions to the literature on homelessness.” • Jennifer Hoolachan, Cardiff University
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FRANCOPHONE MIGRATIONS, FRENCH ISLAM AND WELLBEING
The Soninké Foyer in Paris
Dafne Accoroni
Addressing several issues of significance in the fields of Anthropology of Migration, Politics of Healthcare, Religious and Francophone Studies, this book pursues an unprecedented line of research by bringing to the fore the geopolitical dimension of francophonie, understood as a political construct, as much as a cultural, artistic and a linguistic space, with French as common language.
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New and Forthcoming in French Studies
Forthcoming in October 2023! OPEN ACCESS!
FOREIGNERS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY
Identity and Rejection in France
Lawrence M. Martin
Based on in-depth interviews with people throughout France who trace their origins to non-European countries, Foreigners in Their Own Country reports on the experience of not being seen as “French” because of one’s physical appearance.
THE MARSEILLE MOSAIC
A Mediterranean City at the Crossroads of Cultures
Edited by Mark Ingram and Kathryn Kleppinger
Formerly the gateway to the French empire, the city of Marseille exemplifies a postcolonial Europe reshaped by immigrants, refugees, and repatriates. The Marseille Mosaic addresses the city’s past and present, exploring the relationship between Marseille and the rest of France, Europe, and the Mediterranean.
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Now also available in Paperback
POSTCOLONIALITY
The French Dimension
Margaret A. Majumdar
“Postcolonial theory” has become one of the key issues of scholarly debates worldwide; debates, so the author argues, which have become rather sterile and are characterized by a repetitive reworking of old hackneyed issues, focussing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular. Gradually, a gulf has emerged between Anglophone and Francophone thinking in this area. The author investigates the causes for the apparent stagnation that has overtaken much of the current debate and explores the particular characteristics of French global strategy and cultural policy, as well as the divergent responses to current debates on globalization.
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