 | Why France?: American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination Subjects: Historians -- United States; Americans -- France; France -- History -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; France -- Historiography; A diverse array of historians provide autobiographical essays in which they explore their intellectual, political, and personal engagements with France and its past. Laura Lee Downs is Professor of History at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. She is the author of Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Divisions in the French and British Metalworking Industries (also from Cornell), Childhood in the Promised Land: Working Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France , and Writing Gender History . Stéphane Gerson is Associate Professor of French and French Studies at New York University. He is the author of The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France , also from Cornell. Roger Chartier is a member of the Collége de France, Professor of History at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the author of many books, including The Order of Books and Cultural History: Between Practices and Representations . |
