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God's Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the ABBE Migne
ISBN: 9780226059716 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) God's Plagiarist is an entertaining account of the abbe Jacques-Paul Migne, one of the great entrepreneurs of the nineteenth century. A priest in Orleans from 1824 to 1833, Migne then moved to Paris, where, in the space of a decade, he built one of the most extensive publishing ventures of all time.
How did he do it? Migne harnessed a deep well of personal energy and a will of iron to the latest innovations in print technology, advertising, and merchandising. His assembly-line production and innovative marketing of the massive editions of the Church Fathers placed him at the... God's Plagiarist is an entertaining account of the abbe Jacques-Paul Migne, one of the great entrepreneurs of the nineteenth century. A priest ...
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126,06 zł |
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In the King's Wake: Post-Absolutist Culture in France
ISBN: 9780226093123 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Long before the guillotines of the 1789 Revolution brought a grisly political end to the ancien regime, Jay Caplan argues, the culture of absolutism had already perished. "In the King's Wake" traces the emergence of a post-absolutist culture across a wide range of works and genres: Saint-Simon's memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency; Voltaire's first tragedy, "Oedipe;" Watteau's last great painting, "L'Enseigne de Gersaint;" the plays of Marivaux; and Casanova's "History of My Life."
While absolutist culture had focused on value directly represented in people (e.g., those of noble blood)... Long before the guillotines of the 1789 Revolution brought a grisly political end to the ancien regime, Jay Caplan argues, the culture of absolutism h...
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175,39 zł |
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The Possession of Loudun
ISBN: 9780226100357 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery that led to the demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of provincial Loudun in France, confesses his sins on the porch of the church of Saint-Pierre, then perishes in flames lit by his own exorcists. A dramatic tale that has inspired many artistic retellings, including a novel by Aldous Huxley and an incendiary film by Ken Russell, the story of the possession at Loudun here receives a compelling analysis from the renowned Jesuit historian Michel de Certeau.
Interweaving substantial excerpts from primary historical... It is August 18, 1634. Father Urbain Grandier, convicted of sorcery that led to the demonic possession of the Ursuline nuns of provincial Loudun in Fr...
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153,47 zł |
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The Autumn of the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780226359922 / Angielski / Twarda / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "Here is the first full translation into English of one of the 20th century's few undoubted classics of history." -Washington Post Book World
The Autumn of the Middle Ages is Johan Huizinga's classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the only previous translation, is vastly different from the original Dutch, and incompatible will all other European-language translations. For Huizinga, the fourteenth- and... "Here is the first full translation into English of one of the 20th century's few undoubted classics of history." -Washington Post Book World <...
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438,48 zł |
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The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
ISBN: 9780226424156 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French democracy, and editor in chief of the fascist weekly "Je Suis Partout," in whose pages he regularly printed wartime denunciations of Jews and resistance activists.
Was Brasillach in fact guilty of treason? Was he condemned for his denunciations of the resistance, or singled out as a suspected homosexual? Was it right that he was executed when others,... On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction a prolific novelist and ...
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126,06 zł |
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The Left Bank
ISBN: 9780226493688 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This story begins in the Paris of the 1930s, when artists and writers stood at the center of the world stage. In the decade that saw the rise of the Nazis, much of the thinking world sought guidance from this extraordinary group of intellectuals. Herbert Lottman's chronicle follows the influential players Gide, Malraux, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Koestler, Camus, and their pro-Fascist counterparts through the German occupation, Liberation, and into the Cold War, when the struggle between superpowers all but drowned out their voices.
"Surprisingly fresh and intense. . . . A retrospective... This story begins in the Paris of the 1930s, when artists and writers stood at the center of the world stage. In the decade that saw the rise of the N...
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131,54 zł |
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Leisure Settings: Bourgeois Culture, Medicine, and the Spa in Modern France
ISBN: 9780226500751 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The artful use of one's free time was a discipline perfected by the French in the nineteenth century. Casinos, alpine hiking, hotel dinners, romantic gardens, and lavish parks were all part of France's growing desire for the ideal vacation. Perhaps the most intriguing vacation, however, was the ever popular health resort, and this is the main topic of Douglas Mackaman's fascinating study.
Taking us into the vibrant social world of France's great spas, Mackaman explores the links between class identity and vacationing. Mackaman shows how, after 1800, physicians and entrepreneurs zealously... The artful use of one's free time was a discipline perfected by the French in the nineteenth century. Casinos, alpine hiking, hotel dinners, romantic ...
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164,43 zł |
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Dialogues and Addresses
ISBN: 9780226502427 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Born Françoise d'Aubigné, a criminal's daughter reduced to street begging as a child, Madame de Maintenon (1653-1719) made an improbable rise from impoverished beginnings to the summit of power as the second, secret wife of Louis XIV. An educational reformer, Maintenon founded and directed the celebrated academy for aristocratic women at Saint-Cyr. This volume presents the dialogues and addresses in which Maintenon explains her controversial philosophy of education for women.
Denounced by her contemporaries as a political schemer and... Born Françoise d'Aubigné, a criminal's daughter reduced to street begging as a child, Madame de Maintenon (1653-1719) made an impro...
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164,43 zł |
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Rethinking France, 1: Les Lieux de Mémoire, Volume 1: The State
ISBN: 9780226591322 / Angielski / Twarda / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Les Lieux de memoire is perhaps one of the most profound historical documents on the history and culture of the French nation. Assembled by Pierre Nora during the Mitterand years, this multivolume series has been hailed as "a magnificent achievement" (The New Republic) and "the grandest, most ambitious effort to dissect, interpret and celebrate the French fascination with their own past" (The Los Angeles Times). Written during a time when French national identity was undergoing a pivotal change and the nation was struggling to define itself, this unprecedented series...
Les Lieux de memoire is perhaps one of the most profound historical documents on the history and culture of the French nation. Assembled by Pie...
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328,86 zł |
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French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment
ISBN: 9780226701745 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This study of power/knowledge in France, from the 1830s through the 1930s, uses the tools of anthropology, philosophy, and cultural criticism to examine how the social environment was described. It aims to show how modernity was revealed in urban planning, architecture, and social legislation.
This study of power/knowledge in France, from the 1830s through the 1930s, uses the tools of anthropology, philosophy, and cultural criticism to exami...
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202,80 zł |
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The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism
ISBN: 9780226723686 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Georges-Louis Buffon, an eighteenth-century French scientist, was the first to promote the widespread idea that nature in the New World was deficient; in America, which he had never visited, dogs don't bark, birds don't sing, and by extension humans are weaker, less intelligent, and less potent. Thomas Jefferson, infuriated by these claims, brought a seven-foot-tall carcass of a moose from America to the entry hall of his Parisian hotel, but the five-foot-tall Buffon remained unimpressed and refused to change his views on America's inferiority.
Buffon, as Philippe Roger demonstrates here,... Georges-Louis Buffon, an eighteenth-century French scientist, was the first to promote the widespread idea that nature in the New World was deficient;...
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169,91 zł |
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The Construction of Memory in Interwar France
ISBN: 9780226752860 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) One of the bloodiest conflicts in human history, World War I devastated France, leaving behind battlefields littered with the remains of the dead. Daniel Sherman takes a close look at the human impact of this Great War by examining the ways in which the French remembered their veterans and war dead after the armistice. Arguing that memory is more than just a record of experience, Sherman's cultural history offers a radically new perspective on how commemoration of WWI helped to shape postwar French society and politics. Sherman shows how a wartime visual culture saturated with images of...
One of the bloodiest conflicts in human history, World War I devastated France, leaving behind battlefields littered with the remains of the dead. Dan...
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246,65 zł |
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Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France
ISBN: 9780226757544 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) At one time in Europe, there was a point to pain: physical suffering could be a path to redemption. This religious notion suggested that truth was lodged in the body and could be achieved through torture. In "Tortured Subjects, " Lisa Silverman tells the haunting story of how this idea became a fixed part of the French legal system during the early modern period.
Looking closely at the theory and practice of judicial torture in France from 1600 to 1788, the year in which it was formally abolished, Silverman revisits dossiers compiled in criminal cases, including transcripts of... At one time in Europe, there was a point to pain: physical suffering could be a path to redemption. This religious notion suggested that truth was lod...
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153,47 zł |
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Utopia's Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution
ISBN: 9780226768632 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle.
E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Museum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why... The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific pract...
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197,32 zł |
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The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I: The Complete Text
ISBN: 9780226805306 / Angielski / Miękka / 459 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Alan Kahan's translation provides a faithful, readable rendering of Tocqueville's last masterpiece, and includes notes and variants which reveal Tocqueville's sources and include excerpts from his drafts and revisions. The introduction by France's most...
The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the ...
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147,99 zł |
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Under the Shadow of Defeat: The War of 1870-71 in French Memory
ISBN: 9780230005198 / Angielski / Twarda / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The French defeat of 1870-1 sparked soul-searching and a reassessment of the character of the nation. This book is the first to explore how memories of the Franco-Prussian War shaped French political culture and identities. It argues that these memories reawakened deep political divisions, distorting them through the prism of the "terrible year." It sheds new light on how people constructed memories not only to define and articulate their ideas, but also to situate themselves within new concepts of France.
The French defeat of 1870-1 sparked soul-searching and a reassessment of the character of the nation. This book is the first to explore how memories o...
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384,63 zł |
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French Masculinities: History, Politics and Culture
ISBN: 9780230006614 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This volumes offers a comprehensive and critical overview of ideas of how virilite has been imagined in France from the Eighteenth century. Incorporating insights of cultural and social historians, this collection approaches masculinities in a complex and interdisciplinary manner that will appeal to a wide range of readers.
This volumes offers a comprehensive and critical overview of ideas of how virilite has been imagined in France from the Eighteenth century. Incorporat...
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461,56 zł |
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The Bee and the Eagle: Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806
ISBN: 9780230008939 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This volume's juxtaposition of the empires of Germany and France in 1806, at the dissolution of The Holy Roman Empire, allows a comparison of their transition towards modernity, explored through the themes of Empire, monarchy, political cultures, feudalism, war and military institutions, nationalism and identity, and everyday experience.
This volume's juxtaposition of the empires of Germany and France in 1806, at the dissolution of The Holy Roman Empire, allows a comparison of their tr...
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461,56 zł |
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Refuge in the Land of Liberty: France and Its Refugees, from the Revolution to the End of Asylum, 1787-1939
ISBN: 9780230507753 / Angielski / Twarda / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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 policy was a matter for national government, or international agreement.
This book examines changing responses towards refugees in modern France through French legal, intellectual, political and social history. Critical que...
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192,30 zł |
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The Uncertain Foundation: France at the Liberation 1944-47
ISBN: 9780230521216 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) France's liberation was expected to trigger a decisive break both with the Vichy regime 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, economic renewal, social transformation, and adjustment to a fast-evolving world."
France's liberation was expected to trigger a decisive break both with the Vichy regime and with the pre-war Third Republic. What happened was an unti...
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192,30 zł |
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