To complement a recent special issue of French Historical Studies, “War Makes Monsters: Crime and Criminality in Times of Conflict,” the issue editors, Claire Eldridge and Julie M. Powell, have curated a collection of articles probing the interconnectedness of war and crime, analyzing their complex relationship.
Access the articles, all freely available, and read the introduction to the collection on our website.
Who Goes There?: To Live and Survive during the Wars of Religion, 1562–1598
Jérémie Foa, August 2017
French Historical Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3
A Second Terror: The Purges of French Revolutionary Legislators after Thermidor
Mette Harder, February 2015
French Historical Studies, Volume 38, Issue 1
Colonial Techniques in the Imperial Capital: The Prefecture of Police and the Surveillance of North Africans in Paris, 1925-circa 1970
Amit Prakash, August 2013
French Historical Studies, Volume 36, Issue 3
The Silver Foxhole: The Gis and Prostitution in Paris, 1944–1945
Mary Louise Roberts, February 2010
French Historical Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1
“They Are Undesirables”: Local and National Responses to Gypsies during World War II
Shannon L. Fogg, April 2008
French Historical Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2
War Makes Monsters: Crime and Criminality in Times of Conflict
An issue of: French Historical Studies
Claire Eldridge and Julie Powell, issue editors
Through case studies from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, contributors to this special issue explore how crime and war are connected both materially and imaginatively. Arguing that notions of crime and criminality are not fixed but under constant negotiation—particularly in times of crisis and great societal change, such as war—the authors posit that war renegotiates what constitutes “crime,” making criminals of some while exonerating others and providing cover for certain misdeeds while spotlighting others.
Read “War/Crime,” the issue introduction, and “Mercy at War: Military Violence and the politics of Royal Pardon in Fifteenth-Century France,” by Quentin Verreycken, both made freely available.
French Historical Studies, the official journal of the Society for French Historical Studies, publishes articles and commentaries on all periods of French history from the Middle Ages to the present.
Christine Haynes and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer, co-editors
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