Fogarty's study forms a nice addition to the study of modern European imperialism, and it should also be of interest to students of modern French military history.
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Choice 2009)
Subtle and extraordinarily informative book... This is an elegant and well-argued study that deserves wide circulation, in the classroom and beyond.
(Leonard V. Smith
American Historical Review 2009)
The author presents a fresh picture of how France dealt with these tensions while fighting and winning a total war.
(Len Shurtleff
Western Front Association 2009)
Fogarty's success... ensures that readers interested in France and in the history of colonial relations will appreciate this excellent book.
(Kelly Duke Bryant
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 2009)
Fogarty provides readers with a solid review of the challenges of war, human rights, and colonialism in a very readable and well-documented book.
(David C. Bennett
Parameters 2009)
Wide-ranging and informative... Through his meticulous research, the breadth of his study's scope, and his valuable comparative perspective, Fogarty has made an ambitious and enduring contribution.
(Joe Lunn
War in History 2009)
Fogarty... contributes greatly to our understanding of the Great War, colonial policies and French beliefs about the indigenous other.
(Brett A. Berliner
Journal of Intercultural Studies 2010)
A welcome and significant contribution.
(Laura Levine Frader
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2010)
Clearly written and well-researched.
(Lorelle D. Semley
Journal of World History 2010)
Race and War in France is a well-written, carefully argued study that advances in significant ways our understanding of the important place of empire in the Great War... It is a sad but important tale that needed to be told, and Richard Fogarty has told it well.
(Martha Hanna
French Politics, Culture & Society 2010)
Well written, intelligently conceptualized, and exhaustively researched. Fogarty provides a nicely nuanced portrait of French racial thinking. The fact that he combines both metropolitan and colonial perspectives gives him an especially powerful vantage point on the role played by racial difference in French life. An impressive and valuable example of historical scholarship.
(Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley 2011)
Richard Fogarty builds on a considerable body of scholarship and adds creative research of his own in Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914–1918.
(Clifford Rosenberg )
An impressive achievement, one that both supports and advances the historiography of colonial and postcolonial France.
(Tyler Stovall
H-France )
