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This book examines the power held by the French medieval queens during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their larger roles within the kingdom at a time when women were excluded from succession to the throne. Well before Catherine and Marie de’ Medici, the last...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-31
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This book examines a range of visual images of military recruitment to explore changing notions of glory, or of gloire, during the French Revolution. It raises questions about how this event re-orientated notions of ‘citizenship’ and of service to ‘la Patrie’. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-26
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1755 marked the point at which events in America ceased to be considered subsidiary affairs in the great international rivalry that existed between the colonial powers of Great Britain and France. This book examines the Braddock Campaign of 1755, a segment of the wider...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-28
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«Un tissu de révoltes, de séditions et de perfidies». È forse questa l’immagine dell’Impero bizantino che, uscita dalla penna di Montesquieu nel 1734, in quella riflessione sulla caducità degli imperi – quello romano soprattutto – pubblicata col titolo di Considérations...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-29
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Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language. He enjoyed a meteoric rise from Toulouse and Bordeaux to Paris and, despite his non-conformist tendencies, he escaped the guillotine. In fact, the revolutionaries...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-29
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This book breaks new ground by analyzing the reciprocal relationship between a fascism that had reached the power phase (Nazi Germany) and fascist movements in two neighbouring countries which were attempting to come to power in their respective societies.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-13
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Ruling Women is the first study of its kind devoted to an analysis of the debate concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a wide range of political, feminist and dramatic texts, Conroy sets out to demonstrate that the dominant discourse...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-28
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Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI of France andQueen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England were two of the most notorious queens in European history. They both faced accusations that they had transgressed social, gender and regional norms, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the conflicting discourses concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. In this second volume, Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama, Conroy analyzes over 30 plays...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context.
David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good and ill--that Napoleon represented. By...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-05
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Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French.Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.Was the guillotine a French invention?Non!...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2015-06-05
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This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete.
In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the deposed Emperor of the French mused about a great treatise on the art of war, but in the end changed his mind and ordered the destruction of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-05-14
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This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete.
In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the deposed Emperor of the French mused about a great treatise on the art of war, but in the end changed his mind and ordered the destruction of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-05-14
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The Gospel According to Renan provides a new and holistic interpretation of one of the non-fiction sensations of the nineteenth century: Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus (Vie de Jésus). Published in 1863, Renan's book aroused enormous controversy through its claim to be a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-02-12
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The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engaging and thought-provoking insights into the history and historiography of this epochal event. Each chapter presents the foremost summations...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-01-22
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The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution brings together a sweeping range of expert and innovative contributions to offer engaging and thought-provoking insights into the history and historiography of this epochal event. Each chapter presents the foremost summations...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-01-22
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For a full month in the autumn of 1812 the 2,000-strong garrison of the fortress the French had constructed to overawe the city of Burgos defied the Duke of Wellington. In this work a leading historian of the Peninsular teams up with a leading conflict archaeologist to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-15
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You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-09-25
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You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-09-25
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Set in the first half of the twentieth century, but reaching back to Bavaria in the late nineteenth century, The Stone Carvers weaves together the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art. At the centre of a large cast of characters is Klara...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2014-09-18
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