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"Atatürk: Entelektüel Biyografi" by M. Şükrü Hanioglu is a comprehensive intellectual biography of Atatürk, the founding leader of Turkey. The book aims to provide a historical perspective on Atatürk and challenge previous narratives about him. It explores the development of Atatürk's ideas and presents him as having a consistent outlook throughout his life. The author draws on primary sources and includes extensive footnotes and a detailed index. The book also discusses the influence of French secularism and positivism on Atatürk, as well as his selective readings of philosophers like Rousseau and Wells. The review of the biography highlights its comprehensive exploration of Atatürk's ideas and their historical context. However, it also notes some omissions and criticisms, such as the lack of discussion on the Armenian Genocide and the Kurdish population. Overall, the review suggests that the biography offers valuable insights into Atatürk's legacy but may be too lengthy for some readers. [Extracted from the article]

"Company Politics: Commerce, Scandal, and French Visions of Indian Empire in the Revolutionary Era" by Elizabeth Cross explores the contested spaces of the Indian subcontinent and the French East India Company during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The French presence in India was marked by military setbacks, credit shortages, and public scandal, leading to a reputation for failure. However, the French also reimagined their history in India as one of benevolent colonialism, positioning themselves as a humane alternative to the British empire. The book delves into the ideological battles surrounding the French East India Company and its various agendas and interests, as well as the debates over its reconstitution and the challenges it faced in establishing a commercial presence in India. The author skillfully weaves together different perspectives and plotlines, making the book accessible and relevant to those interested in the political and economic effects of globalization and the complexities of imperial experiments. [Extracted from the article]

Biographers and critics have focused their attention elsewhere, likely due to the relative obscurity in which Saint-Saëns's operas hide, for as Macdonald writes, "there is no living tradition to judge them by" (p. xi). Saint-Saëns himself was a critic; Macdonald frequently uses the composer's own words to bolster his claims that Saint-Saëns was the victim of unjust critical bias. Though Guiraud's contribution was that of a "thoroughly professional composer", in Macdonald's estimation, it was merely "good enough at least for Saint-Saëns to attach his name to it" (p. 254). Saint-Saëns's seemingly Janus-faced career left even contemporary critics and composers grasping for a label that would best fit the composer's changing faces. [Extracted from the article]

In his chapter on Dukas's composition class at the Paris Conservatoire, Christopher Brent Murray proposes to bring administrative records to bear on an understanding of Dukas the teacher hitherto gleaned from student testimonials. Fittingly enough, Laura Watson leads off, with a chapter on Dukas's criticism that works in the interstices of I Paul Dukas: Composer and Critic i . With the arrival a few days later of co-editor Laura Watson's I Paul Dukas: Composer and Critic i , one is tempted to agree with the front matter of the book at hand that a "neglected" composer is finally getting the attention he deserves. [Extracted from the article]

But there were other Algerians who devoured the news: politically active Muslims in the 1950s lead-up to the liberation war in Algeria, for example, would read the French newspaper I Le Monde i , which was flown into Algeria daily, for their own ends. Much of the book is, perhaps inevitably, in conversation with Benedict Anderson's famous model of the newspaper and the nation in I Imagined Communities i (although Anderson is also interested in novels, and Asseraf is not). As Asseraf says, the ubiquity of this song, "opens up a whole world of social contacts between working-class Europeans, particularly Spaniards, and Muslim Algerians.". [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "De Munich à Vichy. L'assassinat de la Troisième République, 1938-1940," by Annie Lacroix-Riz.

The article reviews several books including "France Under the Republic," by by D. W. Brogan, "Chronology of Failure: The Last Days of the French Republic," by Hamilton Fish Armstrong and "These Rule France," by Stanton B. Leeds.

The article reviews the book "The Collapse of the Third Republic," by William L. Shirer.

The article reviews the book "Organizing for War: France, 1870–1914," by Rachel Chrastil.

The article reviews the book "The Right in France: From the Third Republic to Vichy," by Kevin Passmore.

A review of the book "Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France," by Jann Pasler is presented.

The article reviews the book "Le origini della Francia contemporanea. L'Antico Regime," by Hippolyte Taine.

Reviews the book "Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France," by Elinor Accampo.

The article reviews the book "Mapping Memory in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture," edited by Susan Harrow and Andrew Watts, number 369 in the "Faux titre" book series.

The article reviews the book "Sex, Honor and Citizenship in Early Third Republic France," by Andrea Mansker.

A review of the book "Beyond the Contingent: Epistemological Authority, a Pascalian Revival, and the Religious Imagination in Third Republic France," by Kathleen A. Mulhern is presented.

The article reviews the book "Organizing for War: France 1870-1914," by Rachel Chrastil.

A review of the book "Colette's Republic--Work, Gender and Popular Culture in France, 1870-1914," by Patricia A. Tilburg is presented.

A review of the book "Writing History in the Third Republic," by Isabel Noronha-DiVanna is presented.

The article presents a review of the book "Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France," by Jann Pasler.

The article reviews the book "La Science au Parlement. Les débuts d'une politique des recherches scientiflques en France," by Michel Pinault.

Reviews the book "The Troubled Republic: Visual Culture and Social Debate in France 1889-1900," by Richard Thomson.

Reviews the book 'Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940,' edited by Patrick H. Hutton.

Reviews the book 'The Third Republic Defended: Bourgeois Reform in France, 1880–1914,' by Sanford Elwitt.

Reviews the book 'The Radical Bourgeoisie: The Ligue de l'Enseignement and the Origins of the Third Republic, 1866-1885,' by Katherine Auspitz.

Reviews the book 'The War Against Paris, 1871,' by Robert Tombs.

Reviews the book 'French Imperialism in the Middle East: The Failure of Policy in Syria and Lebanon, 1900-1914,' by William I. Shorrock.

A review of the book "An Officer and a Spy" by Robert Harris is presented.

The article reviews the book "Art of the actual: naturalism and style in early Third Republic France, 1880-1900," by Richard Thomson.

The article reviews the book "The Radical Bourgeoisie: The Ligue De l'Enseignement and the Origins of the Third Republic 1866-1885," by Katherine Auspitz.

A review of the book "Sex, Honor & Citizenship in Early Third Republic France," by Andrea Mansker, part of the Gender and Sexualities in History book series, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Sex, Honor and Citizenship in Early Third Republic France," by Andrea Mansker.

A review of the book "For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus," by Frederick Brown is presented.

A review of the book "Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886-1940," by Dana S. Hale is presented.