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This book is the first comprehensive study of French medicine in nineteenth-century Algeria. It argues that the medicalization was a priority for colonial regimes, but this goal was thwarted by ineffectual French medicine, institutional rivalries, and the manner in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-09-24
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The first study of how Genevan Etienne Dumont, and his traumatic experience of the French Revolution, shaped the reception and presentation of 'Benthamism' and masked the true face of Jeremy Bentham, one of the architects of modern society who visualised a new world...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-07-10
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This book examines changing responses towards refugees in modern France through French legal, intellectual, political and social history. Critical questions framed debates and policy: whether individuals had a natural human right to receive asylum and whether refugee...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-02-14
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The French kingdom dissolved into civil wars, known as the 'wars of religion', for a generation from 1562 to 1598. This book examines the reactions of France's governing groups to that experience. Their major political endeavour was securing peace. They attempted to...
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OUP Oxford
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2007-09-13
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France's liberation was expected to trigger a decisive break both with the Vichy régime and with the pre-war Third Republic. What happened was an untidy patchwork of unplanned continuities and false starts. This volume analyses the complex process of regime change,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007-06-27
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This book deals with the culture of Catalan resistance to assimilation, through the maintenance of the Catalan language as an expression of identity.This book argues that the Catalans also developed a series of cultural mechanisms to foster identity through intellectual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2006-12-25
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During the 1930s Europe was convulsed by political violence. The National Socialists rose to power in Germany and Fascists campaigned in Britain, Spain and France. Yet Europe was also transformed in this decade through new applications of film, photography and radio. In...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2006-11-17
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Between 1880 and 1914, tens of thousands of men and women left France for distant religious missions, driven by the desire to spread the word of Jesus Christ, combat Satan, and convert the world's pagans to Catholicism. But they were not the only ones with eyes fixed on...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-11-02
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What did it mean to live through the French Revolution? This volume provides a coherent and expansive portrait of revolutionary life by exploring the lived experience of the people of France's villages and country towns, revealing how The Revolution had a dramatic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-10-10
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The massacre of Algerian demonstrators by the Paris police on the night of 17 October 1961 is one of the most contested events in contemporary French history. This book provides a multi-layered investigation of the repression through a critical examination of newly...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-09-28
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This book explores the fascinating phenomenon of cross-casting and related gender issues in different theatrical genres and different performance contexts during the heyday of French theatre. Although professional acting troupes under Louis XIV were mixed, cross-casting...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-09-04
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The rise of civilized conduct and behaviour has long been seen as one of the major factors in the transformation from medieval to modern society. Thinkers and historians alike argue that violence progressively declined as men learned to control their emotions.The feud...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-05-25
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This history of coiffure in modern France illuminates a host of important twentieth-century issues: the course of fashion, the travails of small business in a modern economy, the complexities of labour reform, the failure of the Popular Front, the temptations of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-05-13
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'Paris is the World, the rest of the Earth is nothing but its suburbs' - MarivauxIn this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining new history, Colin Jones seeks to give a sense of the city of Paris as it was lived in and experienced over time. The focal point of...
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Penguin
Parution :
2006-04-06
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This work considers how Frenchwomen participated in Christian religious practice during the sixteenth century, with their words and their actions. Using extensive original and archival sources, it provides a comprehensive study of how women contributed to institutional,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-12-15
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Volume one of a comprehensive series on the Dreyfus Affair, this account chronicles for the first time in English and day by day, the drama that destabilized French society (1894-1906) and reverberated across the world. A deliberate miscarriage of justice, the public...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-10-12
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The demise of the French Communist Party (PCF) has been a recurrent feature of overviews of the Left in France for the past two decades, and yet the Communists survive. This study examines the factors that undermined the position of the PCF as the premier party of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-08-10
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British Women Writers and the French Revolution provides an overview of a wide range ofBritish women's writings on the French Revolution, from writers sympathetic to the Revolution like Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, and Charlotte Smith, to anti-revolutionary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-08-01
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A companion volume to Drake's Intellectuals and Politics in Post-War France (2002), French Intellectuals from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation traces the political positions adopted by French writers and artists from the end of the 19th century to the Liberation....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-04-05
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In the Napoleonic period warfare ceased to be a matter for armies alone, but also became an affair of the people. So, at least, runs the usual claim.In Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Russia outraged peasants and townsfolk rose against the French armies and fell...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2004-12-14
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