Philip Whalen is Professor of History at Coastal Carolina University, USA. Patrick Young is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, USA.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsThe Local in French History: Changing Paradigms and PossibilitiesPatrick Young and Philip WhalenI Space1. The Republic of Marseille and the Making of Imperial France Ian Coller2. Mapping Locality in Provincial France: The Cartographic Construction of Identity, Space, and Boundaries in Alsace-LorraineCatherine Dunlop3. Modern Burgundy as Gastronomic RegimePhilip Whalen4. Imagining Greater France in the Provinces: The Strasbourg Colonial ExhibitionAlison Carrol5. Localizing Universalism: Annales Historians in Contested Transformations of LocalityJoseph Tendler6. A Local/Transnational Approach to Migration: The International Migration Service and its Marseilles Office in the First Half of the 20th CenturyLinda GuerryII Culture7. La Lorraine Artiste: Modernity, Nature, and the Nation in the Work of Émile Gallé and the École de NancyJessica Dandona8. The Casbah des Oudaya: The Colonial Production of a Historic District in MoroccoStacy Holden9. Facing the Nation: National Sentiment and National Belonging in the Wartime Writings of Irène Némirovsky and Léon WerthNathan Bracher10. Remembering Oradour and Struthof: Struggles of Regional Memory and National CommemorationElizabeth Vlossak11. Judging a Book Town by Its Cover: Advertising Strategies of France’s Villages du LivreAudra Merfeld-Langston12. Our Cousins in the New World: Celebrating Mexico in the French AlpsN. Christine BrookesIII Politics13. Local Identities and Internal Migration: Networking as a Survival Strategy in Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary FranceDenise Davidson14. Soldiers of the Pays: Localism and Nationalism in the Revolutionary-Era ArmyChristopher Tozzi15. From mal du pays to l’amour du pays: Fatal Nostalgia and the Local in Nineteenth-Century FranceThomas Dodman16. An Uncertain Icon: The Changing Significance of the Croix Occitane in the Post-War MidiAndrew Smith17. Adoption and Adaptation: The Survival French DépartementsThomas Procureur18. Le Président? Georges Frêche and the Making of a Local Notable in Late Twentieth Century FranceEmile Chabal Index

The strength of the collection is the ways in which the articles represent new directions in the long tradition of French historiography on the role of the regional ... The collection does this especially well in defining themes such as economic change, reinvention of tradition, the redefinition of local spaces and places, and the significance of France’s overseas empire.