Atheism in France, 1650-1729, Volume I: The Orthodox Sources of Disbelief
ISBN: 9780691609065 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although most historians have sought the roots of atheism in the history of "free thought," Alan Charles Kors contends that attacks on the existence of God were generated above all by the vitality and controversies of orthodox theistic culture itself. In this first volume of a planned two-volume inquiry into the sources and nature of atheism, he shows that orthodox teachers and apologists in seventeenth-century France were obliged by the logic of their philosophical and pedagogical systems to create many models of speculative atheism for heuristic purposes. Unusual in its broad sampling of... Although most historians have sought the roots of atheism in the history of "free thought," Alan Charles Kors contends that attacks on the existenc... |
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The Wine Revolution in France: The Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780691600871 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the past eight decades French vineyards, wineries, and wine marketing efforts have undergone such profound changes--from technological, scientific, economic, and commercial standpoints--that the transformation is revolutionary for an industry dating back thousands of years. Here Leo Loubre examines how the modernization of Western society has brought about new conditions in well-established markets, making the introduction of novel techniques and processes a matter of survival for winegrowers. Not only does Loubre explain how altered environmental conditions have enabled... During the past eight decades French vineyards, wineries, and wine marketing efforts have undergone such profound changes--from technological, scie... |
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The Negro in the French West Indies
ISBN: 9780813153858 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the research for his book on the opportunities of the black population in Metropolitan France, Shelby T. McCloy found the treatment accorded to people of color in the French colonies so significantly different as to warrant a separate book. This historical study examines the black experience in the French West Indies -- the islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Santo Domingo -- from the days of slavery and the brutal Code Noir through struggle and revolution to freedom. McCloy provides a detailed account of the black popluation's increasingly important place in the... In the research for his book on the opportunities of the black population in Metropolitan France, Shelby T. McCloy found the treatment accorded to ... |
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136,28 zł |
French Inventions of the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9780813153865 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The eighteenth century, age of France's leadership in Western civilization, was also the most flourishing period of French inventive genius. Generally obscured by England's great industrial development are the contributions France made in the invention of the balloon, paper-making machines, the steamboat, the semaphore telegraph, gas illumination, the silk loom, the threshing machine, the fountain pen, and even the common graphite pencil. Shelby T. McCloy believes that these and many other inventions which have greatly influenced technological progress made prerevolutionary France the... The eighteenth century, age of France's leadership in Western civilization, was also the most flourishing period of French inventive genius. Genera... |
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116,09 zł |
A Revision Of The Treaty: The Economic Consequences Of The Peace
ISBN: 9781500336561 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Paris: Les Boulevards
ISBN: 9780847845040 / Angielski / Twarda / 8 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pulled from the shelf of a rare-book store by collector Neale M. Albert, Paris: Les Boulevards is a true gem that was forgotten for well over a century but will now enchant readers once again in this charming facsimile edition. Paris's romantic architecture and vibrant street culture make it one of the most enjoyable cities in the world to stroll and people watch in. This charming little illustrated volume by Charles Franck captures just that through delicately rendered Victorian-era illustrations of panoramic cityscapes of the most gorgeous Parisian boulevards. Complete with horse...
Pulled from the shelf of a rare-book store by collector Neale M. Albert, Paris: Les Boulevards is a true gem that was forgotten for well over a...
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Gender and Genre: German Women Write the French Revolution
ISBN: 9781611495294 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling dynasties was as predictable as the change in the seasons. Contemporaries wrestled with the meaning of this historical rupture, which represented both the progress of the Enlightenment and the darkness of the Terreur. French authors discussed the political events in their country, but they were not the only ones to do so. As the effects of the French Revolution became more palpable across the border, German authors pondered their implications in newspapers, political...
In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling dynasties was as predicta...
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409,10 zł |
France and Britain, 1900-1940: Entente and Estrangement
ISBN: 9781138835719 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first of a two volume study, which will analyse the complex relationship between Britain and France in the twentieth century: a relationship which has been crucial to European politics and to both World Wars.This volume (fully self-contained) runs from the period of intense imperial rivalry at the turn of the century to the Fall of France. Philip Bell discusses diplomatic, economic and military policy, combining absorbing narrative with revealing commentary about the two countries.
The first of a two volume study, which will analyse the complex relationship between Britain and France in the twentieth century: a relationship which...
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656,16 zł |
Richelieu
ISBN: 9781138835863 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This concise and up-to-date assessment of Richelieu's career provides an enthralling introduction to the character and exercise of his power. Richelieu governed France for 18 years until his death and until the mid-20th century was viewed by Anglo-Saxon historians as cold, clever and ruthless. Recent interpretations have been more favourable and in this incisive study R. J. Knecht uses recent research to reassess Richelieu's career and achievements.
This concise and up-to-date assessment of Richelieu's career provides an enthralling introduction to the character and exercise of his power. Richelie...
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630,92 zł |
An Account of a Voyage in Search Ofla Pérouse: Undertaken by Order of the Constituent Assembly of France, and Performed in the Years 1791, 1792, and 1
ISBN: 9781108073769 / Angielski / Miękka / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the mysterious disappearance of the La Perouse expedition after it sailed out of Botany Bay in 1788, the French botanist Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardiere (1755 1834) took part in the search that departed in 1791 from Brest in two ships, Recherche and Esperance. In the space of three years, the expedition's naturalists collected numerous specimens, with Labillardiere focusing on Australian flora, but their missing countrymen were never found. Notwithstanding the later confiscation of the scientific collections by the British - Sir Joseph Banks helped to secure their return -...
Following the mysterious disappearance of the La Perouse expedition after it sailed out of Botany Bay in 1788, the French botanist Jacques-Julien Hout...
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Die Koenigsaaler Chronik
ISBN: 9783631646366 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 723 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die vermutlich zwischen 1305 und 1338 entstandene Konigsaaler Chronik wurde von Abt Otto von Thuringen (+1314) als Vita Wenzels II. begonnen und nach dessen Tod von seinem Nachfolger Abt Peter von Zittau umgearbeitet und fortgesetzt. Das umfangreiche, in drei Buchern 179 Kapitel umfassende, prosimetrisch angelegte Werk geht weit uber eine reine Klosterchronik hinaus. Darin werden das Schicksal Wenzels II. und Heinrichs VII. sowie das ihrer jeweiligen Kinder, Elisabeth und Johann von Luxemburg verfolgt - auch und gerade jenseits der Grenzen der bohmischen Lander. Der groe geographische...
Die vermutlich zwischen 1305 und 1338 entstandene Konigsaaler Chronik wurde von Abt Otto von Thuringen (+1314) als Vita Wenzels II. begonnen und nach ...
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Jean Jaurès: The Inner Life of Social Democracy
ISBN: 9780271064031 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jean Jaures was a towering intellectual and political leader of the democratic Left at the turn of the twentieth century, but he is little remembered today outside of France, and his contributions to political thought are little studied anywhere. In Jean Jaures: The Inner Life of Social Democracy, Geoffrey Kurtz introduces Jaures to an American audience. The parliamentary and philosophical leader of French socialism from the 1890s until his assassination in 1914, Jaures was the only major socialist leader of his generation who was educated as a political philosopher. As he... Jean Jaures was a towering intellectual and political leader of the democratic Left at the turn of the twentieth century, but he is little remember... |
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185,49 zł |
The Dead and Those about to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach
ISBN: 9780451415301 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and rabble-rousers in the rear. Yet on D-Day, these veterans melded with fresh-faced replacements to accomplish one of the most challenging and deadly missions ever. As the men hit the beach, their equipment was destroyed or washed away, soldiers were cut down by the dozens, and heroes emerged: Sergeant Raymond Strojny, who grabbed a bazooka and engaged in a death duel with a fortified German antitank gun; T/5 Joe Pinder, who braved enemy fire...
Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and ra...
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The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy: Royal Architecture in Thirteenth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9781107025578 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic architecture, the Sainte-Chapelle, constructed in Paris by King Louis IX of France between 1239 and 1248 especially to hold and to celebrate Christ's Crown of Thorns. Meredith Cohen argues that the chapel's architecture, decoration, and use conveyed the notion of sacral kingship to its audience in Paris and in greater Europe, thereby implicitly elevating the French king to the level of suzerain, and establishing an early visual precedent for the political theories of royal sovereignty and French...
This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic architecture, the Sainte-Chapelle, constructed in Paris b...
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541,85 zł |
French Riviera and Its Artists: Art, Literature, Love, and Life on the Côte d'Azur
ISBN: 9781940842059 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Cote d Azur that s sure to delight travelers, Francophiles, and culture lovers alike. Readers will discover the dramatic lives of the legendary artists, writers, actors, and politicians who frequented the world s most luxurious resort during its golden age. In 25 vivid chapters, Baxter introduces the iconic figures indelibly linked to the South of France artist Henri Matisse, writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel,...
Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-stu...
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85,26 zł |
Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
ISBN: 9780300212488 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War
Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest battles: Artois, Flanders, Champagne, Verdun, the Somme, the Argonne. Barthas' riveting wartime narrative, first published in France in 1978,... The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War
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Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine
ISBN: 9781455516094 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amazon Best Book of the Month, July 2014
Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romanee-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine. In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world, received an anonymous note threatening the destruction of his priceless vines by poison-a crime that in the world of high-end wine is akin to murder-unless he paid a one million euro ransom. Villaine... Amazon Best Book of the Month, July 2014
Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Roma... |
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68,38 zł |
The Age of Absolutism 1660-1815 (Routledge Revivals)
ISBN: 9780415736633 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The end of eighteenth century is often regarded as the watershed between the feudal Europe of the Middle Ages and the modern Europe of the nineteenth century and beyond. The chronology covered in this title, first published in 1954, is vast, and yet covers an intellectually stimulating and exciting period of European history. The pinnacle of absolute monarchy is cemented in Louis XIV's France, eventually giving way to reform and revolution; the Russian Empire becomes an important player on the Western stage under Peter I and Catherine the Great; America achieves independence; and, the ideas...
The end of eighteenth century is often regarded as the watershed between the feudal Europe of the Middle Ages and the modern Europe of the nineteenth ...
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237,17 zł |
My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War
ISBN: 9781250074775 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "My Grandfather's Gallery tells Paul Rosenberg's story in bits and pieces that construct a life and a legend through association . . . A detailed and important record of twentieth century art."-The Boston Globe "My Grandfather's Gallery tells Paul Rosenberg's story in bits and pieces that construct a life and a legend through association . . . A det... |
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72,65 zł |
Discours sur l'Histoire universelle
ISBN: 9781505321111 / Francuski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Discours sur l'Histoire universelle" par Jacques Benigne Bossuet. Jacques Benigne Bossuet etait un homme d'Eglise, predicateur et ecrivain francais (1627-1704)."
"Discours sur l'Histoire universelle" par Jacques Benigne Bossuet. Jacques Benigne Bossuet etait un homme d'Eglise, predicateur et ecrivain francais (...
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84,81 zł |