Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

北欧世界における民主化
Andersen, David Delfs Erbo, Democratization in the Nordic World. (Nordic World) 120 pp. 2024:2 (U. Wisconsin Pr., US) <708-771>
ISBN 978-0-299-34594-5 paper ¥3,523.- (税込) US$ 16.95 *

Denmark, Norway, and Sweden enjoy some of the happiest populations and highest standards of living in the world, thanks in part to stable, democratic systems of government. Here, David Delfs Erbo Andersen presents a syncretic history of political and socioeconomic developments in the three Scandinavian countries since the early modern period, and contrasts their peaceful transitions with the more dramatic histories of otherwise similar European countries, like France and Germany. Unlike these and many other countries-the United States among them-Scandinavia's transition to democracy from monarchy was not marked by major violent upheavals or extreme political antagonism. Rather, Scandinavia's peaceful process of democratization owed itself to the development of a penetrative bureaucracy in the early modern period and the activism of cooperative associations, first of farmers in the early nineteenth century and then of industrialized workers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thanks to the gradual, relatively consensual adoption of political reforms and social norms, the history of "Nordic democratic exceptionalism" today helps account for the ongoing stability of the Scandinavian countries.

Montalbano, Gabriele, Les Italiens de Tunisie: la construction d'une communaute entre migrations, colonisations et colonialismes (1896-1918). (Collection de l'Ecole francaise de Rome) 471 p. 2023:6 (Ecole francaise de Rome, IT) <708-906>
ISBN 978-2-7283-1585-7 paper ¥7,462.- (税込) EUR 32.00

Rizzo, Alessandro, Florence et le sultanat mamelouk: les documents de la diplomatie (debut XVe - debut XVIe siecle). (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1: The Near and Middle East 174) 340 pp. 2023:12 (Brill, NE) <708-911>
ISBN 978-90-04-67965-8 hard ¥31,482.- (税込) EUR 135.00

Ce livre presente l'edition, la traduction en francais et l'analyse de tous les documents de chancellerie concernant les echanges diplomatiques et commerciaux entre Florence et le sultanat mamelouk (debut XVe - debut XVIe siecle). This book offers the edition, translation into French and analysis of all the chancery documents related to the exchanges established between Florence and the Mamluk sultanate from the third decade of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the sixteenth.

Herisson, Arthur, Pour le pape-roi: les catholiques francais et l'unification italienne (1856-1871). (Bibliotheque des ecoles francaises d'Athenes et de Rome 412) viii, 611 p. 2023 (Ecole francaise de Rome, IT) <708-1488>
ISBN 978-2-7283-1601-4 paper ¥8,628.- (税込) EUR 37.00 *

Alfante, Azariah, Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production. (Campos Ibericos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures) 254 pp. 2023:11 (Bucknell U. Pr., US) <708-1497>
ISBN 978-1-68448-496-6 hard ¥31,185.- (税込) US$ 150.00 *
ISBN 978-1-68448-495-9 paper ¥8,928.- (税込) US$ 42.95 *

In this elegantly written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, and clergy who responded to cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the movement toward secularization in Spain. Focusing on the social experience, this book probes the tensions between traditionalism and liberalism that influenced public opinion of the clergy, sacred buildings, and religious orders. The writings of Cecilia Boehl de Faber (Fernan Caballero), Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Benito Perez Galdos, and Jose Maria de Pereda addressed conflicts between modernizing forces and the Catholic Church about the place of religion and its signifiers in Spanish society. Foregrounding expropriation (government confiscation of civil and ecclesiastical property) and exclaustration (the expulsion of religious communities), and drawing on archival research, the history of disentailment, cultural theory, memory studies, and sociology, Alfante demonstrates how Spain's liberalizing movement profoundly influenced class mobility and faith among the populace.

Faber, Sebastiaan, Exhuming Franco: Spain's Second Transition. 2nd ed. 300 pp. 2023:11 (Vanderbilt U. Pr., US) <708-1499>
ISBN 978-0-8265-0637-5 hard ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 27.95 *

Through dozens of interviews, intensive reporting, and deep research and analysis, Sebastiaan Faber sets out to understand what remains of Francisco Franco's legacy in Spain today. Faber's work is grounded in heavy scholarship, but the book is an engaging, accessible introduction to a national conversation about fascism. Spurred by the disinterment of the dictator in 2019, Faber finds that Spain is still deeply affected-and divided-by the dictatorial legacies of Francoism. This new edition, with additional interviews and a new introduction, illuminates the dangers of the rise of right-wing nationalist revisionism by using Spain as a case study for how nations face, or don't face, difficult questions about their past.

Kergomard, Zoe, Faire campagne: les partis politiques suisses face a l'electorat depuis 1945. (Le savoir suisse) 172 p. 2023:6 (Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, SZ) <708-1503>
ISBN 978-2-88915-515-6 paper ¥3,473.- (税込) EUR 14.90

Ilacqua, Talitha, Inventing the Modern Region: Basque Identity and the French Nation-State. (Studies in Modern French and Francophone History) 264 pp. 2024:2 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <708-152>
ISBN 978-1-5261-6925-9 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite its origins in pre-modern customs, this stereotypical identity was invented as part of France's process of nation-building. The abolition of privileges in 1789 prompted a new interest in local culture as the defining feature of provincial France, shaping the transition from the pre-'modern' province to the 'modern' region. The relationship between the region and the nation, however, was difficult. Regional culture favoured the integration of the French Basque provinces into the French nation-state but also challenged the authority of the central state. As a result, Basque region-building reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the unitary model of French nationhood, in the nineteenth century as well as today.

Jones, Pamela M., Teresa of Avila. (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700) 378 pp. 2023:12 (Brill, NE) <708-155>
ISBN 978-90-04-54890-9 hard ¥30,082.- (税込) EUR 129.00

Teresa of Avila's cult was dramatically disseminated in previously unknown celebrations honoring her beatification (1614) and canonization (1622) in Italy and Portuguese Asia, the purview of her Discalced Carmelite Order's Italian Congregation. Reconstructions and analyses of the festivities in Genoa, Rome, Naples, Hormuz, and Goa center on the presentation of Teresa's gender, deeds, virtues, and miracles. The geopolitical roles played by religious, secular, and family networks in particularizing and propagating Teresa's universal cult are emphasized. The desired goal of converting Muslims and Hindus is addressed in light of attitudes toward ethnic and religious diversity shared by lay and ecclesiastical authorities.

Roelens, Jonas, Citizens and Sodomites: Persecution and Perception of Sodomy in the Southern Low Countries (1400-1700). (Crime and City in History 6) 420 pp. 2024 (Brill, NE) <708-1228>
ISBN 978-90-04-68595-6 hard ¥28,683.- (税込) EUR 123.00 *

The Southern Low Countries were among Europe's core regions for the repression of sodomy during the late medieval period. As the first comprehensive study on sodomy in the Southern Low Countries, this book charts the prosecution of sodomy in some of the region's leading cities, such as Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp, from 1400 to 1700 and explains the reasons behind local differences and variations in the intensity of prosecution over time. Through a critical examination of a range of sources, this study also considers how the urban fabric perceived sodomy and provides a broader interpretive framework for its meaning within the local culture.