Making Merry Adventure from Sophisticated French History
France: An Adventure History remains, from cover to cover, a truly different history. It is long and densely packed with knowledge, just not told in a traditional narrative.
Steven C. Hause
Steven C. Hause is a professor emeritus of history. He taught his first class at Washington University in September 1965 and finished his last seminar as Covid arrived in December 2019. In between, his publications included four books of modern French history and three textbooks of European history. For more than a decade, he accompanied Wash U students from his freshman Focus Seminar on a trip to France and Germany, visiting such sites as Vaux-le-Vicomte, Versailles, and Verdun. Without a bicycle.
By Steven C. Hause
Touchstone Texts: The Continuing Importance of a Classic Work
To seek a more cautious understanding of fascism through scholarly literature, there is probably no place to start more respected than Robert O. Paxton’s The Anatomy of Fascism, now more than a decade old.
The Fascist Reign in Spain
Francisco Franco, perhaps the ultimate litmus test for twentieth-century political ideology, gets a new biography of merit. But in attempting a more judicious portrait of Spain's most preeminent political figure, the authors often overlook considerable atrocities.