An innovative study revealing that folklore collections can shed new light on the lives of the socially marginalized.

In the first decade of the twentieth century, the sleepy vineyard towns of the Aude department of southern France exploded with strikes and protests. Agricultur

France's Third Republic confronts historians and political scientists with what seems a paradox: it is at once France's most long-lived experiment with republic

In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did workin

Describes the negotiation of French national identity during the nineteenth century in terms of the relationship between the French and their rural cultures.