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The article of record as published may be located at http://www.jstor.org/stable/20044604 ; The remarkable developments in Europe since late 1989--German unification, the collapse of comm Eastern Europe and the expectation of large-scale withdrawals of Soviet and American forces--have upset long assumptions of French security policy. Stable reference points have been displaced by new risks and uncertain preoccupations about the future of Russia, Germany and Europe's political order and institutions have be pressing and more acute.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Money and Measurements -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Credit and Old Regime Economies of Regard -- Chapter 2 Critiques and Crises of the Credit System -- Chapter 3 Incredible Style -- Chapter 4 Credit in the Fashion Trades of Eighteenth-Century Paris -- Chapter 5 Fashion Merchants -- Chapter 6 Madame Déficit and Her Minister of Fashion -- Chapter 7 Family Affairs -- Conclusion Credit Is Dead! Long Live Credit! -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- 1. Mediterranean Slavery -- 2. Salvation without the State -- 3. Manumission and Absolute Monarchy -- 4. Bombarding Barbary -- 5. Emancipation in an Age of Enlightenment -- 6. Liberation and Empire from the Revolution to Napoleon -- 7. North African Servitude in Black and White -- 8. The Conquest of Algiers -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Appendix 1: Slave Numbers -- Appendix 2: Religious Redemptions and Processions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures, and Tables -- Acknowledgments / Troyansky, David G. -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Aged in the French Population: Numbers and Meanings -- 2. A New Presence: Images of the Aged in Art -- 3. From Ridicule to Respect: Literary Discourses on Old Age -- 4. From Augustinian Retreat to Ciceronian Retirement: Religious and Secular Views -- 5. Reaching Old Age: Scientific and Medical Thought -- 6. The Social Context: The Aged in the Rural Family -- 7. The Aged, the City, and the Hospital -- 8. A Practical Enlightenment and a Deferential Revolution -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- I Political Festivals -- 1 Staging the Napoleonic State -- 2 Renewing Ties with the Bourbon Monarchy -- II Theaters -- 3 Melodramatic Spectatorship on the Parisian Boulevard -- 4 Sex and Politics in Provincial Theaters -- III Social Life -- 5 Building Solidarity Cercles, Salons, and Charities -- 6 Drinking, Dancing, and the Moral Order -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- List of Primary Sources -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- 1 Constructing Status: Family Narratives, Family Myths -- 2 Constructing Identity: Henri de Rohan, 1579–1638 -- 3 Women, Gender, and the Management of Dynastic Capital -- 4 Material Contexts: Wealth, Income, Strategies -- 5 Followers and Servants: Aristocracy as Collective Practice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "The Crisis Is in Man": The Nation, the Self, and Cultural Politics in the 1930s -- 2. A Genealogy of the Far Right -- 3. "Will We Get Out of French Abjection?" The Politics and Aesthetic Insurgency of the Young New Right -- 4. The Absent Author: Maurice Blanchot and the Subjection of Politics -- 5. "Negroid Jews Against White Men": Louis-Ferdinand Céline and the Politics of Literature -- 6. The Race of Fascism: Je Suis Partout, Race, and Culture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Family of the Nation -- Part II. Toward a Nation of Families: Transitions of the Late 1790s -- Part III. The Napoleonic Solution and Its Limits -- Conclusion: Reversals and Lasting Contradictions -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 From Child Criminals to Juvenile Delinquents, 1810–1939 -- 2 The Experience of World War II for Children and Adolescents -- 3 The Wartime Juvenile Crime Wave as Manifested in the Courts -- 4 The Juvenile Delinquency Establishment during the War -- 5 Progressive Change in an Authoritarian Regime: Vichy's Reforms -- 6 The Victory of Juvenile Justice Reform, 1945 to the Present -- Appendix: Informational Sheet -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 "Le Port de Salut et repos de cet etat" -- CHAPTER 2 "Our processes are judged by the ticket on the bagges" -- CHAPTER 3 "Le remède de la sage oubliance" -- CHAPTER 4 "Comme père commun de tous nos sujets" -- CHAPTER 5 "Que la force demeure au roi et à la justice" -- CHAPTER 6 "An annihilation of justice" -- Bibliography -- Index