France has long attracted the attention of many of America's
most accomplished historians. The field of French history has been
vastly influential in American thought, both within the academy and
beyond, regardless of France's standing among U.S. political and
cultural elites. Even though other countries, from Britain to
China, may have had a greater impact on American history, none has
exerted quite the same hold on the American historical imagination,
particularly in the post-1945 era.
To gain a fresh perspective on this passionate relationship,
Laura Lee Downs and Stephane Gerson commissioned a diverse array of
historians to write autobiographical essays in which they explore
their intellectual, political, and personal engagements with France
and its past. In addition to the essays, Why France? includes a
lengthy introduction by the editors and an afterword by one of
France's most distinguished historians, Roger Chartier. Taken
together, these essays provide a rich and thought-provoking
portrait of France, the Franco-American relationship, and a
half-century of American intellectual life, viewed through the lens
of the best scholarship on France.
Contributors: Ken Alder, Northwestern University; John W.
Baldwin, The Johns Hopkins University; Edward Berenson, New York
University; Herrick Chapman, New York University; Roger Chartier,
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; Clare Haru Crowston,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Barbara Diefendorf,
Boston University; Laura Lee Downs, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales; Stephane Gerson, New York University; Jan
Goldstein, The University of Chicago; Lynn Hunt, UCLA; Steven
Kaplan, Cornell University; Thomas Kselman, Notre Dame University;
Herman Lebovics, SUNY Stony Brook; Robert Paxton, Columbia
University; Todd Shepard, The Johns Hopkins University; Leonard V.
Smith, Oberlin College; Gabrielle Spiegel, The Johns Hopkins
University; Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley"
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