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This, the first volume, begins with a Section on Church and State, the theology and political theory justifying their alliance, the wealth of the Clergy and their Assemblies voting taxation, their role in the official life of the nation, from the Court at Versailles to...
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Clarendon Press
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1998-07-30
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French Peasant Fascism is the first account of the Greenshirts, a militant right-wing peasant movement in 1930s France that sought to transform the Republic into an authoritarian, agrarian state. Author Robert Paxton examines the Greenshirts in five case studies,...
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Oxford University Press
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1997-10-23
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There Are No Slaves in France examines the paradoxical emergence of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution. Sue Peabody shows how the political culture of late Bourbon France created ample opportunities for...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-10-24
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In this seminal book, Christopher Johnson writes a full-scale study of the rise and decline of industrialization in the Bas-Languedoc region of France. Working within a broad 200-year frame, Johnson examines the process of how and why a successful industrial region...
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Oxford University Press
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1995-05-04
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A sociocultural analysis of the relationships among law, religion, and sexual morality in Burgundy during the Catholic Reformation, this book is divided into two, interrelated parts: the world of prescription and the world of practice. The first part examines the...
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Oxford University Press
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1995-01-05
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David Bell's new book traces the development of the French legal profession between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution, showing how lawyers influenced, and were influenced by, the period's passionate political and religious conflicts. Bell analyzes how...
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Oxford University Press
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1994-04-14
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This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the important and paradoxical relation between women and the French Revolution. Although the male leaders of the Revolution depended on the women's active militant participation, they denied to women the rights they...
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Oxford University Press
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1992-05-21
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The Margins of Urban Life brings to life the "floating worlds of the periphery" in nineteenth-century French cities--the world of beggars, the most miserable prostitutes, ragpickers, casual labor, and unwanted people; the location of slaughterhouses, gas factories,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1991-04-18
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In the mid-eighteenth century in France, the royal authorities launched a new campaign to sweep beggars from the streets, pinning their hopes on the creation of a uniform royal network of lock-ups in which anyone found begging might be detained.In this study, Adams...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1991-01-31
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The problem of the general political inclinations of the petite bourgeoisie, and especially its relationship to fascism, is one of the major questions currently facing historians dealing with European society in the past one hundred years. Independent artisans have at...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1990-01-11
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Between the outbreak of war with Austria in 1792 and Napoleon's final debacle in 1814, France remained almost continously at war, recruiting in the process some two to three million frenchmen--a level of recruitment unknown to previous generations and widely resented as...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1989-11-23
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In this work, Henry Vyverberg traces the evolution and consequences of a crucial idea in French Enlightenment thought--the idea of human nature. Human nature was commonly seen as a broadly universal, unchanging entity, though perhaps modifiable by geographical, social,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
1989-08-17
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This imaginative study recaptures 100 years in the life of Limoges, France's first socialist city, at a time when Limoges rode high on the crest of every wave of social, political, and industrial change. The story of this single city is the story of urban transformation...
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Oxford University Press
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1985-09-05
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In Paul Verlaine, Stefan Zweig presents a sensitive and penetrating portrait of one of France’s most tragic and lyrical poets. With the psychological depth and moral empathy that characterize all of Zweig’s biographical studies, he explores the contradictions that...
Editeur :
Asimis Books
Parution :
2025-10-29
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“The Mississippi Bubble” was a wild, giddy, devastating, international episode in eighteenth century French and American history that ought to be better known, if, as nothing else, a cautionary tale. At its simplest, a Scottish fugitive named John Law convinced the...
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Rare Treasure Editions
Parution :
2022-06-15
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Il 21 aprile 1944, il diritto di voto alle donne fu concesso in Francia da un'ordinanza del Comitato francese di liberazione nazionale. Questo passo avanti è avvenuto dopo un secolo e mezzo di dibattiti sul posto che le donne dovrebbero avere nella società civile e...
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50Minutes.com (IT)
Parution :
2023-03-10
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Op 21 april 1944 werd het stemrecht voor vrouwen in Frankrijk toegekend door een verordening van het Franse Comité voor de Nationale Bevrijding. Deze stap voorwaarts kwam er na anderhalve eeuw discussie over de plaats die vrouwen in de burgermaatschappij moesten krijgen...
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50Minutes.com (NL)
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2023-03-10
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Gabrielle Chanel, meglio conosciuta come Coco Chanel, è stata una delle stiliste più influenti del XX secolo, che ha dato nuova vita al mondo della moda con i suoi abiti eleganti ma pratici. Dall'iconico tubino nero ai suoi abiti ispirati all'abbigliamento maschile e al...
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50Minutes.com (IT)
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2023-02-23
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Gabrielle Chanel, beter bekend als Coco Chanel, was een van de meest invloedrijke modeontwerpers van de 20e eeuw en blies de modewereld nieuw leven in met haar elegante maar praktische kleding. Van de iconische kleine zwarte jurk tot haar op mannenmode geïnspireerde...
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50Minutes.com (NL)
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2023-02-23
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life and career of Coco Chanel in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the work of the iconic French fashion designer Coco Chanel. Chanel entered the...
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50Minutes.com
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2018-03-05
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History
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