Why France? : American historians reflect on an enduring fascination / with an afterword by Roger Chartier ; edited by Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Downs, Laura Lee, 1955-
Gerson, Stéphane
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
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Physical Description:242 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Medievalist and Francophile despite himself / John W. Baldwin
  • A mid-Atlantic identity / Robert O. Paxton
  • Tough love for France / Herman Lebovics
  • Fantasy meets reality : a Midwesterner goes to Paris / Lynn Hunt
  • Défense d'afficher-- / Steven Laurence Kaplan
  • France for Belgium / Gabrielle M. Spiegel
  • Why Paris? / Barbara B. Diefendorf
  • Catholic connections, Jewish relations, French religion / Thomas Kselman
  • Europe without personal angst / Jan Goldstein
  • France, a political romance / Edward Berenson
  • Choosing history, discovering France / Herrick Chapman
  • An African American in Paris / Tyler Stovall
  • Writing at the margins / Leonard V. Smith
  • It's not about France / Ken Alder
  • Pilgrim's progress : from suburban Canada to Paris (via Montreal, Tokyo, and Tehran) / Clare Haru Crowston
  • Between Douai and the U.S.A. / Todd Shepard.