The year of 1832 marked a turning point in France as the country struggled to find its way in the wake of the French Revolution. Following the Revolution of 1830, Legitimists, supporters of the recently ousted Bourbon dynasty's claim to the throne, continued to plot against King Louis-Philippe and his July Monarchy. In early 1832, after failing to launch a coup in Southern France, Legitimists plotted an unsuccessful uprising in the Vendee, a region in Western France that had supported the royalist cause during the French Revolution. The Duchesse de Berry led the rebellion in the hopes of...
The year of 1832 marked a turning point in France as the country struggled to find its way in the wake of the French Revolution. Following the Revolut...
This wide-ranging work relates the entire saga of the Italian-American experience from immigration through assimilation to achievement. The book highlights the enormous contributions that Italian Americans the fourth largest European ethnic group in the United States have made to the professions, politics, academy, arts, and popular culture of America. Going beyond familiar names and stories, it also captures the essence of everyday life for Italian Americans as they established communities and interacted with other ethnic groups. In this single volume, readers will be able to explore why...
This wide-ranging work relates the entire saga of the Italian-American experience from immigration through assimilation to achievement. The book hi...
During his lifetime, the biracial French writer Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), grandson of a Caribbean slave, faced forms of racial prejudice in France. He constantly strove to find a place where he could belong, an isolated figure in search for an identity within a larger collectivity. For him, ""Monte Cristo"" seemed to symbolize this quest.
During his lifetime, the biracial French writer Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), grandson of a Caribbean slave, faced forms of racial prejudice in France....
