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Europe's Physician: The Various Life of Theodore de MayerneEurope's Physician: The Various Life of Theodore de Mayerne
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Among the papers of Hugh Trevor-Roper, who died in 2003, was a manuscript to which he had...
French Instrumental Music Between the RevolutionsFrench Instrumental Music Between the RevolutionsThe Conduct Of War, 1789-1961: A Study Of The Impact Of The French, Industrial, And Russian Revolutions On War And Its Conduct (Quality Paperbacks Series)The Conduct Of War, 1789-1961: A Study Of The Impact Of The French, Industrial, And Russian Revolutions On War And Its Conduct (Quality Paperbacks Series)
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Author is a reputed Military Historian.But his views is faulty , reactionary.Fuller traces the...
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied ParisDeath in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
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Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed...
Napoleon III and His Carnival EmpireNapoleon III and His Carnival Empire
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Napoleon III, the nephew of Napolean Bonaparte, was elected President of France in 1848 and...


The Counter Revolution in France, 1787-1830The Counter Revolution in France, 1787-1830
Although the framework of this book is a narrative, the main themes of the Counter-Revolution...
Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940: Vol.2, M-Z (Contributions in Political Science)Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940: Vol.2, M-Z (Contributions in Political Science)
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War, Revolution, and the Bureaucratic State: Politics and Army Administration in France, 1791-1799 (Oxford Historical Monographs)War, Revolution, and the Bureaucratic State: Politics and Army Administration in France, 1791-1799 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
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This book examines a period of particular importance in the formation of the modern French...
The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume VIII: The French Revolution 1790-1794 (Writings & Speeches of Edmund Burke)The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume VIII: The French Revolution 1790-1794 (Writings & Speeches of Edmund Burke)
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This is the first edition of Burke's famous Reflections on the Revolution in France to...
Modern France: 1880-2002 (Short Oxford History of France)Modern France: 1880-2002 (Short Oxford History of France)
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A highly readable account of the history of France from the Belle Époque to the...


Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Volume II: Historical Chronology (Oxford-Warburg Studies)Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Volume II: Historical Chronology (Oxford-Warburg Studies)
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This book describes the later life of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), the most original scholar of...
Bodies of Thought: Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early EnlightenmentBodies of Thought: Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment
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Examining the development of a secular, purely material conception of human beings in the early...
Republicanism and the French Revolution: An Intellectual History of Jean-Baptiste Say's Political EconomyRepublicanism and the French Revolution: An Intellectual History of Jean-Baptiste Say's Political Economy
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Richard Whatmore's "Republicanism and the French Revolution: An Intellectual History of...
Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France 1938-1940Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France 1938-1940
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Talbot Imlay's new book on Allied politics and strategy presents a new picture of the Phoney...
Madagascar, Past and Present; With Considerations as to the Political and Commercial Interests of Great Britain and France and as to the Progress of Christian CivilisationMadagascar, Past and Present; With Considerations as to the Political and Commercial Interests of Great Britain and France and as to the Progress of Christian Civilisation
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a...

The French Right : From De Maistre to Maurras (Roots of the Right : Readings In Fascist, Racist and Elitist Ideology)The French Right : From De Maistre to Maurras (Roots of the Right : Readings In Fascist, Racist and Elitist Ideology)
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This book is divided into little extracts of the writings from the hands of eight French...
Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815
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Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and...
France in Revolution (Access to History)France in Revolution (Access to History)
This second edition provides an updated narrative and analysis of one of modern Europe's...
Access to History France in RevolutionAccess to History France in Revolution
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The Access to History series is the most popular and trusted series for AS- and A-level...
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris AtelierThe Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
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I loved reading The Piano Shop on the Left Bank. Thad Carhart's rediscovery of the piano,...

Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in ParisYankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris
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Hardcover book with dust jacket relates the history of representatives of the newly founded...
The Secrets of Marie AntoinetteThe Secrets of Marie Antoinette
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This book was published in the UK under the title of "imperial Mother, Royal...
Communities and Conflict in Early Modern Colmar: 1575-1730 (Studies in German Histories)Communities and Conflict in Early Modern Colmar: 1575-1730 (Studies in German Histories)
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French Drama of the Revolutionary YearsFrench Drama of the Revolutionary Years
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In an analysis of seven plays from the Revolution, Rodmell discusses their political and...
Politics, Culture and Class in the French RevolutionPolitics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution

The Era of the French Revolution, 1789-1799The Era of the French Revolution, 1789-1799
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Softback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a...
Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes HavocEinstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc
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In this intriguing new book, science historian Arthur I. Miller looks in parallel at the...
A Genealogy of Manners: Transformations of Social Relations in France and England from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth CenturyA Genealogy of Manners: Transformations of Social Relations in France and England from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century
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Remarkable for its scope and erudition, Jorge Arditi's new study offers a fascinating...
The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000
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The accelerating interpenetration of nature and culture is the hallmark of the new...
The Permanent Revolution: The French Revolution and Its Legacy, 1789-1989The Permanent Revolution: The French Revolution and Its Legacy, 1789-1989
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Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de SiecleAncients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siecle
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As the end of the century approaches, many predict our fin de siècle will mirror the...
The Three Orders: Feudal Society ImaginedThe Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined
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The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval TaleThe Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale
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Replete with shady merchants, scoundrels, hungry mercenaries, scheming nobles, and maneuvering...
Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French CuisineAccounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine
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French cuisine is such a staple in our understanding of fine food that we forget the accidents...
The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth CenturyThe Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century
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THE BURDEN OF RESPONSIBILITY is a marvelous book of intellectual history -- specifically...

Cartography in France, 1660-1848: Science, Engineering, and StatecraftCartography in France, 1660-1848: Science, Engineering, and Statecraft
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French scientists, engineers, and public officials were responsible for the most important and...
Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle FranceDisruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France
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In fin-de-siècle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never...
Ezra Pound in London and Paris 1908-1925Ezra Pound in London and Paris 1908-1925
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This book systematically traces Pound's career from his arrival in London in 1908 to his...
Panorama of Paris: Selections from Le Tableau De ParisPanorama of Paris: Selections from Le Tableau De Paris
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Panorama of Paris offers English-language readers an introduction to one of the forgotten...
The Jacobin Republic Under Fire: The Federalist Revolt in the French RevolutionThe Jacobin Republic Under Fire: The Federalist Revolt in the French Revolution
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The Jacobin Republic Under Fire is a major contribution to modern European history, one that...

The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments And New ApproachesThe French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments And New Approaches
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Historians have long been fascinated by the nobility in pre-Revolutionary France. What...
The Book of Peace (Penn State Romance Studies)The Book of Peace (Penn State Romance Studies)
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?An impressive work of erudition and collaborative scholarship. There is much to admire...
Charlemagne and Louis the Pious: Lives by Einhard, Notker, Ermoldus, Thegan, and the AstronomerCharlemagne and Louis the Pious: Lives by Einhard, Notker, Ermoldus, Thegan, and the Astronomer
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Thomas Noble has gathered all of the essential contemporary or near contemporary Lives of...
The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France (The Curti Lectures)The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France (The Curti Lectures)
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Must a gift be given freely? How can we tell a gift from a bribe? Are gifts always a part of...
Lay Culture, Learned Culture: Books and Social Change in Strasbourg, 1480-1599Lay Culture, Learned Culture: Books and Social Change in Strasbourg, 1480-1599
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The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance EuropeThe Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe
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A century and a half after the Black Death killed over a third of the population of Western...
The SommeThe Somme
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This book claims to be the first book to look at primary sources in writing a account of the...
Utopia's Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to RevolutionUtopia's Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution
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The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French...
The Old Regime and the Revolution : Volume I: the Complete TextThe Old Regime and the Revolution : Volume I: the Complete TextFrom Valmy to Waterloo: France at War, 1792-1815 (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850)From Valmy to Waterloo: France at War, 1792-1815 (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850)
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Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book investigates the everyday human experience...

The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages: Power, Faith, and Crusade (New Middle Ages)The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages: Power, Faith, and Crusade (New Middle Ages)
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These essays take advantage of a new, exciting trend towards interdisciplinary research on the...
The French Enlightenment and the JewsThe French Enlightenment and the Jews
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Hertzberg develops his daring thesis that the "modern, secular, anti-Semitism was fashioned...
The End of the SoulThe End of the Soul
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On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, joined together to form the Society of...
Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète (Film and Culture Series)Counter-Archive: Film, the Everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Plančte (Film and Culture Series)
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Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert...
Carmen on Film: A Cultural HistoryCarmen on Film: A Cultural History
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The story of Carmen, the Spanish Gypsy femme fatale, is one of the most adapted stories in the...

Resurrection, A War Journey: A Chronicle of Events During and Following the Attack on Fort Jeanne d'Arc at Metz, France, by F Company of the 37th ... 95th Infantry Division, November 14-21, 1944Resurrection, A War Journey: A Chronicle of Events During and Following the Attack on Fort Jeanne d'Arc at Metz, France, by F Company of the 37th ... 95th Infantry Division, November 14-21, 1944
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Gajdusek's Resurrection astoundingly re-creates his wounding and survival of the World War...
The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment: Jean-Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth-Century FranceThe Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment: Jean-Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth-Century France
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In The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment , Jeffrey D. Burson analyzes the history of...
The Dreyfus AffairThe Dreyfus Affair
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On October 15, 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery captain attached to the French General...
Napoleon Against Great OddsNapoleon Against Great Odds
French defeat in 1814 is too often shrugged off as the result of obvious and understandable...
Athenais: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the Real Queen  Of FranceAthenais: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, the Real Queen Of France
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People have always been fascinated by beautiful, glamorous royal mistresses. They are the...

French Revolution Debate in Britain: The Origins of Modern Politics (British History in Perspective (MacMillan))French Revolution Debate in Britain: The Origins of Modern Politics (British History in Perspective (MacMillan))
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Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of...
The French North African Crisis: Colonial Breakdown and Anglo-French Relations, 1945-62 (Studies in Military and Strategic History (New York, N.Y.).)The French North African Crisis: Colonial Breakdown and Anglo-French Relations, 1945-62 (Studies in Military and Strategic History (New York, N.Y.).)
The French North African Crisis analyzes the postwar breakdown in French imperial rule in North...
The Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition and Revolutionary Socialism (European History in Perspective)The Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition and Revolutionary Socialism (European History in Perspective)
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At the end of the "Bloody Week" in May 1871, which saw the defeat of the Paris...
Century of Organized Labor in FranceCentury of Organized Labor in France
Since 1895, When the Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT) was born, the trade union movement...
The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution, 1789-99The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution, 1789-99
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This study challenges the conventional polarities used to describe British politics of the...

French Intellectuals and Politics from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation (French Politics, Society and Culture)French Intellectuals and Politics from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation (French Politics, Society and Culture)
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This volume traces the political positions adopted by French writers and artists from the end of...
The French Revolution SourcebookThe French Revolution Sourcebook
This collection of original documents examines the constitutional and political problems of...
Behind the Bamboo Hedge: The Impact of the Homeland Politics in the Parisian Vietnamese CommunityBehind the Bamboo Hedge: The Impact of the Homeland Politics in the Parisian Vietnamese Community
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The author proposes to study the Vietnamese expatriates living in Paris, France and arriving in...
Early French Cookery: Sources, History, Original Recipes and Modern AdaptationsEarly French Cookery: Sources, History, Original Recipes and Modern Adaptations
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I bought this book a few years ago and it was the best cookery book I could have received....
The Old Regime and the French Revolution (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)The Old Regime and the French Revolution (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)
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Originally published in 1856, this volume by the celebrated political thinker and historian...

French Chateau: Life Style TraditionFrench Chateau: Life Style Tradition
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The title of this book is very truthful, it has many more pages about how these extremely...
CartierCartierThe Most Beautiful Villages of France (Most Beautiful Villages)The Most Beautiful Villages of France (Most Beautiful Villages)
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Dominique Reperant's "village" has fewer than 1,050 inhabitants and he defines...
The French and Indian War: An Informal HistoryThe French and Indian War: An Informal HistoryNecker: Reform Statesman of the Ancient RegimeNecker: Reform Statesman of the Ancient Regime
This was required reading for a graduate course in the history of the French Revolution. ...

A Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage, and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of SciencesA Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage, and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences
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Who pays for science, and who profits? Historians of science and of France will discover that...
Jewish MemoriesJewish Memories
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Collective memory: a living, breathing gift from the past, less fragmentary than the...
Behind the Bamboo Hedge: The Impact of the Homeland Politics in the Parisian Vietnamese CommunityBehind the Bamboo Hedge: The Impact of the Homeland Politics in the Parisian Vietnamese Community
Best Price: $55.49
The author proposes to study the Vietnamese expatriates living in Paris, France and arriving in...
Early French Cookery: Sources, History, Original Recipes and Modern AdaptationsEarly French Cookery: Sources, History, Original Recipes and Modern Adaptations
Best Price: $124.00
I bought this book a few years ago and it was the best cookery book I could have received....
The Old Regime and the French Revolution (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)The Old Regime and the French Revolution (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)
Best Price: $6.73
Originally published in 1856, this volume by the celebrated political thinker and historian...

French Chateau: Life Style TraditionFrench Chateau: Life Style Tradition
Best Price: $360.86
The title of this book is very truthful, it has many more pages about how these extremely...
CartierCartierThe Most Beautiful Villages of France (Most Beautiful Villages)The Most Beautiful Villages of France (Most Beautiful Villages)
Best Price: $79.80
Dominique Reperant's "village" has fewer than 1,050 inhabitants and he defines...
The French and Indian War: An Informal HistoryThe French and Indian War: An Informal HistoryNecker: Reform Statesman of the Ancient RegimeNecker: Reform Statesman of the Ancient Regime
This was required reading for a graduate course in the history of the French Revolution. ...

A Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage, and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of SciencesA Company of Scientists: Botany, Patronage, and Community at the Seventeenth-Century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences
Best Price: $95.00
Who pays for science, and who profits? Historians of science and of France will discover that...
Jewish MemoriesJewish Memories
Best Price: $8.50
Collective memory: a living, breathing gift from the past, less fragmentary than the...
A Doctrine Reader: The Navies of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Spain (Newport Paper)A Doctrine Reader: The Navies of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Spain (Newport Paper)The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974
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People changed, not the system. Extremism enriched culture, Marxism disappointed realists....
The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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The French Revolution is one of the most significant events in world history. So much has been...

The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920
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Very interesting book on the historical specifics of this area of the South of France,...
The Memory of the ModernThe Memory of the Modern
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From the outset, the reader of Matt Matsuda's The Memory of the Modern notes a departure...
From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in ParisFrom Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris
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From Penitence to Charity radically revises our understanding of women's place in the...
Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of ModernityEnemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
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It is the most useful value of this book by Darrin McMahon that it shows the fallacy of those...
Normandy Invasion 1944 PosterNormandy Invasion 1944 Poster
Looking for a better way to illustrate World War Two for your history students? Excerpted from...

Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France (Oxford Monographs on Music)Courtly Love Songs of Medieval France (Oxford Monographs on Music)
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Mary O'Neill examines the legacy of the medieval poet composers of Northern France, the...
In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France, 1942-1944 (Clarendon Paperbacks)In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France, 1942-1944 (Clarendon Paperbacks)
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This is a study of the Maquis in southern France, the Resisters who took to the woods and hills...
   
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