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Areas of Research/Interest: Modern French social and cultural history; modern European history.
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Select Publications:
Populist Religion and Left-Wing Politics in France. Princeton University Press, 1984
The Trial of Madame Caillaux. University of California Press, 1992; paperback, 1993; Korean translation 2007
Heroes of Empire: Manliness, Media, and Charisma in Europe's Conquest of Africa (forthcoming, Berkeley: University of California Press)
Constructing Charisma: Fame, Celebrity and Power in 19th-Century Europe, co-editor with Eva Giloi (forthcoming, New York: Berghahn Books)
"The Politics of Divorce in France of the Belle Epoque: The Case of Joseph and Henriette Caillaux," American Historical Review, February 1988
"Making a Colonial Culture? Empire and the French Public, 1880-1940," French Politics, Culture, and Society, summer 2004.
"The Society for French Historical Studies : The Early Years," French Historical Studies, Fall 2005 (with Nancy L. Green)
"L'histoire culturelle du colonialisme français vue d'Amérique," in Laurent Martin and Sylvain Venayre, eds., L'histoire culturelle du contemporain (Paris : Editions du nouveau monde, 2005)
"France, a Political Romance," in Stephane Gerson and Laura Downs, eds., Why France : American Historians Reflect on their Enduring Fascination (Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2006), pp. 137-150. French translation, "France une idylle politique," in Pourquoi la France ? (Paris: Seuil, 2007)
"Jean-Baptiste Marchand and the French Imperial Myth," Yale French Studies, May 2007, pp. 129-142.
"Unifying the French Nation : Savorgnan de Brazza and the Third Republic," in Barbara Kelly, ed, Music, Culture, and National Identity in France, 1870-1939 (Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2008), pp. 15-31 plus notes, pp. 203-207
"L'Histoire culturelle aux Etats-Unis," in Philippe Poirrier (dir.), L'histoire culturelle: un tournant mondial? (Dijon : Editions universitaires de Dijon, 2008 and Cambridge : Polity Press, 2008)
"Les héros de la colonisation et la réception de l'Empire en Grande-Bretagne et en France, 1870-1914," in Sylvain Venayre, ed., La réception des objets médiatiques (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2009)
"Charisma and the Making of Imperial Heroes in Britain and France, 1880-1914," in Edward Berenson and Eva Giloi, eds, Constructing Charisma: Fame, Celebrity and Power in 19th Century Europe (forthcoming Berghahn Books)
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