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John Iceland, Poverty in America (Berkeley: UCP, 2006)—Emmanuelle Le Texier, Université Lille 3, France

Virginie Iché, L'esthétique du jeu dans les Alice de Lewis Carroll (Paris : L'Harmattan, 2015—Recension de Laurent Bury, Université Lumière – Lyon 2

Lionel Ifrah, Moïse à Washington : Les racines bibliques des États-Unis (Paris : Albin Michel, 2019)— Recension de  Nathalie Caron, Sorbonne Université

Raphaël Ingelbien, Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood Since the Second World War (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2002)—Jo Gill

Robert Ingham & Duncan Brack (eds.), Peace, Reform and Liberation : A History of Liberal Politics in Britain, 1679-2011 (London: Biteback Publishing, 2011)—Reviewed by Kenneth O. Morgan, The Queen’s College, Oxford

Ronald Inglehart & Pippa Norris, eds., Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)—Chris Bell

Billy Ingram, TV Party! Television's Untold Tales (Chicago: Bonus Books, 2002)—Barbara Villez

William Henry Ireland, L’Abesse (Edition d’Élizabeth Durot-Boucé, Lettres & Langues, Lettres Modernes, Éditions Publibook, Paris, 2006)—Pierre Morère, Grenoble 3

John H. Irsfeld, Radio Elvis and Other Stories (Fort Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University Press, 2002)—Lincoln Geraghty

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go ( London , Faber & Faber, 2005, 282 pages, £6.99, ISBN 0571224113)—Alain Blayac, Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III

Jonathan I. Israel Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006)—Franck Lessay, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France

Velichka D. Ivanova (ed.), Reading Philip Roth’s American Pastoral (Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2011)—Reviewed by Françoise Palleau-Papin, Université Paris Nord-13

Velichka D. Ivanova, Architecture d’un rêve : American Pastoral de Philip Roth : Une étude narrative (Toulouse : Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2012)—Recension de Françoise Palleau-Papin, Université Paris Nord-13

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Ashley Jackson & David Tomkins, Illustrating Empire : A Visual History of British Imperialism (Oxford: The Bodleian Library, 2011)—Reviewed by Adam Stephenson, Université de Picardie Jules-Verne, Amiens

Ben Jackson & Robert Saunders (eds.), Making Thatcher’s Britain (Cambridge: University Press, 2012)—Reviewed by Timothy Whitton, Université Université Blaise-Pascal Clermont II

John S. Jackson, The American Political Party System : Continuity and Change over Ten Presidential Elections (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2014)—Reviewed by Olivier Richomme, Université de Lyon  

Lee Jackson, Palaces of Pleasure : From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football : How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment (Yale University Press, 2019)— Reviewed by Jacqueline Banerjee, The Victorian Web

Robert H. Jackson, That Man: An Insider’s Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt (John Q. Barrett, ed.)—Thomas J. Mayock

Troy Jackson, Becoming King : Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011)—Reviewed by Cécile Cottenet, Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille

W.M. Jacob, Religious Vitality in Victorian London (Oxford: University Press, 2021—Reviewed by Richard Gibson, The Victorian Web

David Jacques, Gardens of Court and Country: English Design 1630-1730 (Yale University Press, 2017)—Reviewed by Peter Borsay, Aberystwyth University

Nathalie Jaëck. Charles Dickens : L’écriture comme pouvoir, l’écriture comme résistance. (Paris : Ophrys, 2008)—Recension de Marc Porée, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3

Michael Jago, Rab Butler : The Best Prime Minister We Never Had? (London: Biteback Publishing, 2015)—Reviewed by Trevor Harris, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens)

Pierre Jamet. Shakespeare et Nietzsche : La volonté de joie. (Paris : Publibook, 2008) — Recension de François Laroque, Université Paris III -Sorbonne Nouvelle  

Églantine Jamet-Moreau, Le Curé est une femme : L’ordination des femmes à la prêtrise dans l’Église d’Angleterre (Paris : L’Harmattan, 2012)—Recension de Rémy Bethmont, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis

Beth Kiyoko Jamieson, Real Choices: Feminism, Freedom, and the Limits of the Law (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001)—Diana Dominguez

Mark Jancovich, The Cultural Politics of New Criticism ([1993] Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006)—Jamil Khader, Stetson University, Deland, Florida, USA.

Erika Janik, Pistols and Petticoats : 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction (Boston: Beacon Press, 2017)—Reviewed by Christophe Gelly, Université Clermont Auvergne

Michael P. Jeffries, Paint the White House Black : Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America (Stanford: University Press, 2013)—Reviewed by George Katito, Université Paris IV Sorbonne

Philip Jenkins, Dream Catchers: How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, $16.95, 306 pages, ISBN 0-19-518910-8)—Malie Montagutelli, Université Paris III

David Fraser Jenkins, John Piper : The Forties (London: Philip Wilson 2012 [2000])—Reviewed by Sophie Aymes, Université de Bourgogne (Dijon)

Deborah Jermyn & Sean Redmond, eds., The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor (London & New York: Wallflower Press, 2003)—Diana Dominguez

Manuel Jobert & Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2018)—Reviewed by Virginie Iché, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3

Flint F. Johnson, Evidence of Arthur : Fixing the Legendary King in Factual Place and Time (Jefferson (North Carolina): McFarland, 2014)—Reviewed by Alan Lupack, University of Rochester (New York State)

E. Patrick Johnson & Mae G. Henderson, eds., Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology ( Durham :  Duke University Press, 2005, $23.95, 377 pages, ISBN 0-8223-3618-9)—Chris Bell, Nottingham Trent University

Devin Johnston, Precipitations; Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice (Middleton: Wesleyan University Press, 2002)—Joanny Moulin

Mark Johnston & Peter Stanley, eds., Alamein: The Australian Story (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002)—Susan Ballyn

Jończyk, Rafał, Affect-Language Interactions in Native and Non-Native English Speakers (Heidelberg: Springer, 2016)—Reviewed by Claire Tardieu, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris3  

Daniel Stedman Jones, Masters of the Universe : Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics (Princeton: University Press, 2012)—Reviewed by Françoise Coste, Université Toulouse—Jean-Jaurès

Charlotte Jones, Realism, Form, and Representation in the Edwardian Novel : Synthetic Realism (Oxford: University Press, 2021)—Reviewed by Georges Letissier, Université de Nantes

David R. Jones & Monika L. McDermott. Americans, Congress and Democratic Responsiveness: Public Evaluations of Congress and Electoral Consequences (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009)—Reviewed by Pierre Sicard, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne (Amiens)

Emily Jones, Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914 : An Intellectual History (Oxford: University Press, 2017)—Reviewed by Iain Hampsher-Monk, University of Exeter

M.G. Jones, Hannah More (Cambridge: University Press, 2013)—Reviewed by Élizabeth Durot-Boucé, Université du Havre

Nicholas Jose (ed.) The Literature of Australia (London & New York: Norton, 2009).

 

Sheri Joseph, Bear Me Safely Over (London: Virago Press, 2003)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Mélanie Joseph-Vilain & Judith Misrahi-Barak (dir). Another Life / Une autre vie (Montpellier : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2012)—Reviewed by Camille Fort, Université de Picardie Jules-Verne, Amiens

Émeline Jouve. Susan Glaspell's Poetics and Politics of Rebellion (University of Iowa Press, 2017)—Reviewed by Linda Ben-Zvi, Tel Aviv University)

John Jowett, Shakespeare & Text (Oxford:University Press, 2019)—Reviewed by Sophie Chiari (Université ClermontAuvergne)

Davis D. Joyce, Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003)—Daniel Opler

Justin A. Joyce, Gunslinging Justice : The American Culture of Gun Violence in Westerns and the Law (Manchester: University Press, 2018)—Reviewed by Ian Scott, University of Manchester

Denis Judd, The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj 1600-1947 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)—Thomas J. Mayock

Henri Justin (traduction et édition), Edgar Poe : Contes policiers et autres (Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2014)—Recension de Camille Fort, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens)

 

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Marianne Kac-Vergne, Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema : Cyborgs, Troopers and Other Men of the Future (London: I.B. Tauris, 2018)—Reviewed by Sébastien Lefait, Université Paris 8

Marvin Kalb, The Road to War : Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2013)—Reviewed by Laura Considine, University of Leeds

Xavier Kalck, ‘"We said Objectivist" : Lire les poètes Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, Charles Reznikoff, Louis Zukofsky (Paris : Sorbonne Université Presses, 2019)—Reviewed by Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec, Université Caen Normandie

Verna Kale, Ernest Hemingway (London: Reaktion Books, 2016)—Reviewed by Steven Trout, University of South Alabama (Mobile)

Kari Kallioniemi, Englishness, Pop and Post-War Britain (Bristol: Intellect, 2016)—Reviewed by Trevor Harris, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens)

Michael Kandiah & Judith Rowbotham (eds.), The Diaries and Letters of Lord Woolton, 1940-1945 (Oxford: University Press, 2020)—Reviewed by Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen

 

Robyn Karney, ed., Cinema Year by Year: 1894-2002 (London: Dorling Kindersley, 2002)—Nicolas Magenham

Marie Nadia Karsky (dir.), Palimpsestes 27 : Traduire le rythme (Paris : PSN, 2014)—Recension de Nicolas Froeliger, Université Paris–Diderot

Jennie A. Kassanoff, Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, $70.00, 226 pages, ISBN 0-521-83089-3)—Chris Bell, Nottingham TrentUniversity

Karolina Katsika, Daniel Peltzman & Pascale Smorag (dir.), Regards croisés sur la ville américaine : Mutations, pratiques et imaginaires urbains des États-Unis (Besançon : Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2018)—Recension de Sophie Croisy, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines  

Sheila M. Katz, Reformed American Dreams : Welfare Mothers, Higher Education, and Activism (New Brunswick (New Jersey): Rutgers University Press, 2019)—Reviewed by Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara

Burton Kaufman. The Post-Presidency from Washington to Clinton (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2013)—Reviewed by Jeffrey H. Bloodworth, Gannon University (Erie, Pennsylvania)

Eric P. Kaufmann, The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004, $49, 95, 384 pages, ISBN 0-674-01303-4)—Gerardo Del Guercio, Independent Researcher

Stanley Kauffmann, Regarding Film: Criticism and Comment (Baltimore: Performing Arts Journal Books / The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)—Nicolas Magenham

Hilda Kean, The Great Cat and Dog Massacre : The Real Story of World War Two's Unknown Tragedy (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press: 2017)—Reviewed by Hugh Clout, University College London

 

Melba Cuddy Keane, Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual & the Public Sphere (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)—Nephie Christodoulides

Evelien Keizer. The English Noun Phrase: The Nature of Linguistic Categorization (Cambridge: University Press, 2007 [2010])—Reviewed by Evelyne Chabert, Université Stendhal – Grenoble 3

Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika, L’Imaginaire de Jamaica Kincaid : Variations autour d’une île caraïbe (Pessac : Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2016)—Recension de Nadia Yassine-Diab, UniversitéToulouse III Paul Sabatier  

Henry Ansgar Kelly, Louis J. Karlin & Gerard B. Wegemer (eds.), Thomas More’s Trial by Jury : A Procedural and Legal Review with a Collection of Documents (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2013)—Reviewed by Isabelle Bore, Université de Picardie–Jules Verne

James R. Keller, Anne Rice and Sexual Politics: The Early Novels (Jefferson & London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2000)—Georges-Claude Guilbert

Jim Kelly (ed.), Ireland and Romanticism : Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)—Reviewed by Sylvie Mikowski, Université de Reims 

Patrick J. Kelly. Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 2011)—Reviewed by Michael Epkenhans, Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, Potsdam

David Kenyon, Bletchley Park and D-Day : The Untold Story of How the Battle of Normandy was Won (Yale University Press, 2019)—Reviewed by Mary Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University

Randall Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (New York: Pantheon Books, 2002)—Françoise Clary

Nigel Keohane, The Party of Patriotism : The Conservative Party and the First World War (Farnham: Ashgate, 2010)—Reviewed by Jules Gehrke, Saginaw Valley State University

Stephen C. Kepher, COSSAC : Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan and the Genesis of Operation OVERLORD (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2020)—Reviewed by Robert T. Jones, US Army Cyber School, Fort Gordon (Georgia)

Frank Kermode, Pieces of My Mind ( Allen Lane: London, 2003)—Ann Skea

Simon Kerry, Lansdowne : The Last Great Whig (London: Unicorn, 2017)—Reviewed by Charles Giovanni Vanzan Coutinho, New York

François Kersaudy, De Gaulle et Roosevelt : Le duel au sommet (Paris : Librairie Académique Perrin, 2004) & David Stafford, Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets (Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 2000)—Antoine Capet

Thomas Keymer, Sterne, the Moderns and the Novel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)—Min Wild

Tom Keymer, Jane Austen : Writing, Society, Politics (Oxford: University Press, 2020)—Reviewed by Joe Bray, University of Sheffield

 

Daniel Keyes, Algernon, Charlie, and I (New York: Harvest/Harcourt, 2000/2004)—Megan O'Neill, Stetson University

David Kieran, Forever Vietnam : How a Divisive War Changed American Public Memory (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2014)―Reviewed by Françoise Coste, Université Toulouse–Jean Jaurès

Victor Kiernan, The Lords of Human Kind : European Attitudes to other Cultures in the Imperial Age (London: Zed Books, 2015) Reviewed by Hugh Clout, University College London

Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec, John Ashbery : Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Neuilly : Atlande, 2019)—Reviewed by Noëlle Cuny, Université de Haute-Alsace (Mulhouse)

Desmond King, Robert C. Lieberman, Gretchen Ritter & Laurence Whitehead, (Eds.) Democratization in America : A Comparative-Historical Analysis (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)—Reviewed by Michael L. Krenn, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC  

Geoff King, New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction (London & New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2002)—Nicolas Magenham

Geoff King, Film Comedy (London & New York: Wallflower Press, 2002)—Nicolas Magenham

Geoff King, American Independent Cinema (London: I.B. Tauris, 2005, $14.95, 294 pages, ISBN 1850439389)—Thomas Aiello,University ofArkansas

Peter King. The New Politics : Liberal Conservatism or same old Tories? (Bristol: Policy Press, 2011)—Reviewed by Nicholas Deakin, London School of Economics & Political Science

Stephen King, Écriture : mémoires d’un métier (Paris: Albin Michel, 2001)—Philippe Romanski, Université de Rouen

Steven King & Geoffrey Timmins, Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution: English Economy and Society 1700-1850 ( Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2001) — Alain Lauzanne

Miles Kington, Le Bumper Book of Franglais (Tiverton: Old Street, 2010)—Reviewed by Peter Catterall, Queen Mary University of London

David L. Kirp, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003)—George D. Oberle III

Colin Kirsch, Bad Teeth No Bar : A History of Military Bicycles in the Great War (London: Uniform, 2018)—Reviewed by Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen

Judith Kitchen, The House on Eccles Road (New York: Penguin Books, 2003)—Janne Stigen Drangsholt

Bakari Kitwana, The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture (New York: BasicCivitas Books, 2002)—Joycelyn A. Wilson

Bakari Kitwana, Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America (New York: BasicCivitas, 2005, $23.00, 222 pages, ISBN 0-465-03746-1)—Chris Bell, Nottingham Trent University

Felix Klos, Churchill on Europe : The Untold Story of Churchill's European Project (London: IB Tauris, 2016)—Reviewed by Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen  

 

Ethan Knapp, The Bureaucratic Muse, Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England( Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001)—Blaise Douglas

 

Charles A. Knight, The Literature of Satire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)—Véronique Alexandre, Université de Caen, France.

 

Louise W. Knight, Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2005, $35.00, xvi-582 pages, ISBN 0-226-44699-9)—Alain Suberchicot, Université Jean-Moulin - Lyon 3

Mark Knights & Adam Morton (eds.), The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain : Political and Religious Culture, 1500-1820 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2017)—Reviewed by James Baker, University of Sussex

Thomas J. Knock, The Rise of a Prairie Statesman : The Life and Times of George McGovern (Princeton: University Press, 2016)—Reviewed by Peter Marquis, Université de Rouen

 

U.C. Knoepflmacher & Logan D. Browning, Victorian Hybridities : Cultural Anxiety and Formal Innovation (Baltimore, The John Hopkins University Press, 2010)—Recension de Yann Tholoniat, Université de Lorraine

 

Christina M. Knopf, Politics in the Gutter : American Politicians and Elections in Comic Book Media (University Press of Mississippi, 2021)—Reviewed by Nicolas Labarre, University Bordeaux Montaigne

 

Christopher Knowles, Winning the Peace : The British in Occupied Germany, 1945-1948 (London: Bloomsbury, 2017)—Reviewed by Christoph Strupp, Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg)

Paul L. Knox, London : Architecture, Building and Social Change (London: Merrell, 2015)— Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin, University of Kent (Canterbury)

Paul L. Knox. Metroburbia : The Anatomy of Greater London (London: Merrell, 2017)—Reviewed by Hugh Clout, University College London

Tim Knox (photography by Derry Moore), Sir John Soane’s Museum, London (London: Merrell Publishers, 2009)—Reviewed by Jacques Carré, Université Paris-Sorbonne

Peter Knox-Shaw, Jane Austen and the Enlightenment (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004)—Chloé Beccaria, Université de Provence, France —Caroline Bertonèche, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France.

Wayne Koestenbaum, Andy Warhol (New York: Lipper / Viking, 2001); Annette Michelson, ed., Andy Warhol: October Files #2 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2002)—Georges-Claude Guilbert, Université de Rouen

Marie-Luise Kohlke & Christian Gutleben (eds.), Humour : Comic Subversions and Unlaughter in Contemporary Historical Re-Visions (Leiden: Brill / Rodopi, 2017)— Reviewed by Nadine Böhm-Schnitker, Bergische Universität Wuppertal

Yusef Komunyakaa, Pleasure Dome (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001, $24.95, 445 pages, ISBN 0-8195-6739-6)—Aileen La Tourette, Liverpool John Moores University

Korda, Michael, Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : Defeat into Victory (New York: Liveright, 2017)—Reviewed by Antoine Capet, Université de Rouen

Donna Kornhaber, Charlie Chaplin, Director (Northwestern University Press, 2014)—Reviewed by Delphine Letort, Université du Maine – Le Mans

Barbara Korte & Frédéric Regard (eds.), Narrating Poverty and Precarity in Britain (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014)—Reviewed by Jacques Carré, Université Paris-Sorbonne

Françoise Král, Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture : The Fractal Gaze (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)—Reviewed by Fernando Galván, Universitad de Alcalá (Madrid)

Françoise Král, Sounding out History, Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River (Presses Universitaires de de Paris Nanterre)— Reviewed by Kathie Birat, Université de Lorraine (Metz-Nancy)

Nicole Krauss, The History of Love ( London : Penguin, 2006, £7.99, 272 pages, ISBN 0141019972)—Toni Saldivar, Mount Saint Mary College

Stephan Kraitsowits, J.G. Ballard : Inventer la réalité (Rouen : Publication des Universités de Rouen et du Havre, 2012)—Recension d’Hélène Machinal, Université de Bretagne Occidentale (Brest)

Theodora Kroeber, Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (Berkeley &London:University ofCalifornia Press, 2002, $50.00, 255 pages, ISBN 0-520-00674-7)—Roger E. Chapman,LincolnTrail College

Bruce Kuklick, Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006)—Céline Letemplé, Université du Maine, Le Mans, France

Krishan Kumar, The Making of English National Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)—Steven Guilbert

Harshan Kumarasingham.  A Political Legacy of the British Empire : Power and the Parliamentary System in Post-Colonial India and Sri Lanka (London: I.B. Tauris, 2013)—Reviewed by Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, Cambridge University

Josh Kun, Audiotopia. Music, Race and America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005)—Emmanuelle Le Texier, Université de Lille 3, France