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Guest Blog: What Ails France by Brigitte Granville »
Published in 2021, What Ails France? is a provocative but constructive critique of the French model of technocratic, elite leadership. Amidst the ongoing protest over pension law and retirement age in France today, Brigitte Granville’s book remains as relevant as ever. In What Ails France? Granville views the malaise as a peculiarly French symptom of the … Read More >
MQUP Top 5: A reading list for Emily Laxer’s “Unveiling the Nation” »
Below is our third installment of the MQUP Top 5. Each month we ask an MQUP author to compile a list of five books that inspired, informed, or pair well with their most recent publication with us.
May’s MQUP Top 5 comes from Emily Laxer, author of Unveiling the Nation: … Read More >
From May ’68 to May ’18 »
“We disrupted a conference about May 68 … telling speakers: ‘“You commemorate, we start again.”’
Valerie Costa-Kostritsky, a journalist based in London and Moscow, has written for the LRB Blog on the student protests that escalated this May during a commemoration of the protests of May 1968. Costa-Kostritsky outlines in detail the progression of the … Read More >
Book Excerpt from Invasion 14 »
This year marks the centenary of two major events of World War I, the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Verdun. To commemorate, why not add Invasion 14, an epic novel recounting the German occupation of northern France during World War I, to your summer reading list?
Based on personal experience, survivor testimony, and documentary … Read More >
Q&A With A World of Paper Author Ben Trotter »
We are delighted to have Ben Trotter, adjunct professor of history at Columbus State Community College and co-author of A World of Paper: Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State, participate in a Q&A with MQUP Editor Kyla Madden.
Together they discuss how the award-winning book “A World of Paper”, a collaboration between two generations … Read More >
Reconciling France Against Democracy – Times Literary Supplement Review »
RECONCILING FRANCE AGAINST DEMOCRACY. The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Francais, 1927-1945. By Sean Kennedy.
Julian Wright, Times Literary Supplement, 15 Feb 2008
This study of one of the most important and remarked on right-wing groupd of the interwar years in France is refreshing for its careful, scholarly approach …
