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French Intellectuals and Politics from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation
ISBN: 9780333778128 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, it offers a clear and accessible analysis of the intellectuals' engagement with nationalism, pacifism, communism, anti-communism, surrealism, fascism and anti-fascism, which is located within the evolving national and international context of the period.
A companion volume to Drake's Intellectuals and Politics in Post-War France (2002), French Intellectuals from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation tra...
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192,30 zł |
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The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France
ISBN: 9780333949597 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This is the first study to focus on the idea of virtue and its place in political thought in eighteenth-century France. Virtue could be used to impart moral authority to arguments about political power. The development of this strategic idea is traced through the works of key Enlightenment thinkers. There is also consideration of the ways in which numerous popular writers of the day, including clerics, eulogists, journalists, novelists and lawyers, employed the idea of virtue in polemical discussions in their writings.
This is the first study to focus on the idea of virtue and its place in political thought in eighteenth-century France. Virtue could be used to impart...
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384,63 zł |
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The Origins of the French Revolution
ISBN: 9780333949702 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The question of what brought about the French Revolution remains the subject of vigorous debate and perennial interest. This clear collection is an excellent introduction to a complex topic, written by ten distinguished American and British historians at the forefront of their fields. Chapters on political culture, finance, the role of religion, politics, art, the parlement, peasants, pamphlets, and the Estates General go to the heart of recent debate, making the origins of the French Revolution easier to study and teach.
The question of what brought about the French Revolution remains the subject of vigorous debate and perennial interest. This clear collection is an ex...
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573,87 zł |
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The Origins of the French Revolution
ISBN: 9780333949719 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The question of what brought about the French Revolution remains the subject of vigorous debate and perennial interest. This clear collection is an excellent introduction to a complex topic, written by ten distinguished American and British historians at the forefront of their fields. Chapters on political culture, finance, the role of religion, politics, art, the parlement, peasants, pamphlets, and the Estates General go to the heart of recent debate, making the origins of the French Revolution easier to study and teach.
The question of what brought about the French Revolution remains the subject of vigorous debate and perennial interest. This clear collection is an ex...
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177,32 zł |
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Living the French Revolution, 1789-99
ISBN: 9780333997390 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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 impact on daily life from family relations to religious practices.
What did it mean to live through the French Revolution? This volume provides a coherent and expansive portrait of revolutionary life by exploring the ...
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384,63 zł |
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Paris, the Provinces and the French Revolution
ISBN: 9780340564349 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Tensions between Paris and the provinces have played a significant role in French history. This book examines the effect of the French Revolution in the provinces, on the tensions between provincial interests and those of Paris, and the mediations of different political cultures, which ensured that provincial France made a distinctive contribution to the history of the Revolutionary years. Tensions between Paris and the provinces have played a significant role in French history. This book examines the effect of the French Revolution i... |
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219,06 zł |
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France and the World Since 1870
ISBN: 9780340595077 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Here, John Keiger examines the subtle forces that have shaped France's international relations, from material aspects such as geography, demography, and economics, to more abstract features of France's national identity such as the notion of state and the impulse to spread French culture. The first study of its kind in English, the book is divided into thematic chapters that include discussions of how foreign policy is formulated and executed, the nature of strategy and defence, France's allies and adversaries, cultural diplomacy, and an assessment of French espionage. A final chapter...
Here, John Keiger examines the subtle forces that have shaped France's international relations, from material aspects such as geography, demography, a...
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172,11 zł |
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The Terror
ISBN: 9780374530730 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) For two hundred years, the Terror has haunted the imagination of the West. The descent of the French Revolution from rapturous liberation into an orgy of apparently pointless bloodletting has been the focus of countless reflections on the often malignant nature of humanity and the folly of revolution. David Andress, a leading historian of the French Revolution, presents a radically different account of the Terror. In a remarkably vivid and page-turning work of history, he transports the reader from the pitched battles on the streets of Paris to the royal family's escape through... For two hundred years, the Terror has haunted the imagination of the West. The descent of the French Revolution from rapturous liberation into an o... |
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94,71 zł |
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The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars' Rebellion Against the Inquisition, 1290-1329
ISBN: 9780375704413 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Yellow Cross is a harrowing tale of a desperate people in a small corner of France who defied the kings of Europe and the Pope. The Cathars, whose religion was based on the Gospels but contradicted the tenets set forth by Rome, found themselves the focus of ruthless repression. In systematic waves of brutal persecution, thousands of Cathars were captured, summarily tried, and burned at the stake as heretics. Yet so ardent was their faith that during the years 1290 to 1329, the Cathars rose up one last time.
Rene Weis tells the dramatic and moving story of these thirty... The Yellow Cross is a harrowing tale of a desperate people in a small corner of France who defied the kings of Europe and the Pope. The ...
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81,80 zł |
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Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris
ISBN: 9780385334112 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In October 1826, a ship arrived at Marseille carrying the first giraffe ever seen in France. A royal offering from Muhammad Ali, Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, to King Charles X, she had already traveled 2,000 miles down the Nile to Alexandria, from where she had sailed across the Mediterranean standing in the hold, her long neck and head protruding through a hole cut in the deck. In the spring of 1827, after wintering in Marseille, she was carefully walked 550 miles to Paris to the delight of thousands of onlookers. The viceroy's tribute was politically motivated: He commanded the Turkish...
In October 1826, a ship arrived at Marseille carrying the first giraffe ever seen in France. A royal offering from Muhammad Ali, Ottoman Viceroy of Eg...
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81,80 zł |
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Holy Blood, Holy Grail
ISBN: 9780385338455 / Angielski / Miękka / 489 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete?
- Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross? - Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists? - Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom? - Is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the mystery of the Holy Grail? According to the authors of this extraordinarily provocative, meticulously researched book, not only are these things possible -- they are... Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete?
- Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross? - Is i... |
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86,10 zł |
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Families and Frontiers: Re-Creating Communities and Boundaries in the Early Modern Burgundies
ISBN: 9780391041066 / Angielski / Twarda / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The frontier of the Early Modern Burgundies? In this book, Edwards applies in reverse the American frontier concept in order to understand the local changes in family and community in a Burgundy torn in two after the death of Charles the Bold in 1477. During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, residents of the eastern duchy and the western county of Burgundy were in a place and time of transition and transformation, a veritable frontier. While France and the Holy Roman Empire vied for political control of the region, residents struggled to define their social, cultural,...
The frontier of the Early Modern Burgundies? In this book, Edwards applies in reverse the American frontier concept in order to understand the ...
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576,09 zł |
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Degaulle: The Rebel 1890-1944
ISBN: 9780393309997 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Savior of his nation in war; bold man of letters; patriot; a statesman who achieved reality for his political vision by the overwhelming force of his will: the personality that emerges in Jean Lacouture's magnificent biography of Charles de Gaulle seems larger than life, a presence of mythic proportions. The story begins with de Gaulle's childhood in Lille and follows him through his heroic experiences in World War I and his swift rise to prominence in the French army, to that great moment of triumph, the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Perceptions of the private de Gaulle--the schoolboy,...
Savior of his nation in war; bold man of letters; patriot; a statesman who achieved reality for his political vision by the overwhelming force of his ...
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150,68 zł |
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DeGaulle: The Ruler 1945-1970
ISBN: 9780393310009 / Angielski / Miękka / 684 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The second volume of Jean Lacouture's acclaimed biography of Charles de Gaulle opens with the creation of the Fourth Republic in the aftermath of World War II and with the election of de Gaulle--the voice of Free France, the savior of the nation in war--as president of France. But the internal contradictions of the new constitution soon forced de Gaulle to resign, leaving France to a succession of short-lived and generally ineffective coalition governments. In 1958, with the outbreak of the bitter colonial war in Algeria, destiny beckoned again. De Gaulle offered himself as a mediator and in...
The second volume of Jean Lacouture's acclaimed biography of Charles de Gaulle opens with the creation of the Fourth Republic in the aftermath of Worl...
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154,77 zł |
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The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s
ISBN: 9780393314793 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Caught between the memory of a brutal war won at frightful cost and fear of another cataclysm, France in the 1930s suffered a failure of nerve. Brilliantly chronicled here by a master historian, this fateful era could neither solve insoluble problems nor escape from them.
Caught between the memory of a brutal war won at frightful cost and fear of another cataclysm, France in the 1930s suffered a failure of nerve. Brilli...
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111,72 zł |
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Napoleon and His Collaborators: The Making of a Dictatorship
ISBN: 9780393323412 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Eighteenth Brumaire, November 9, 1799: with France in political and economic turmoil, a group of disaffected politicians enlisted the talented general Napoleon Bonaparte to lead a coup d'etat and establish "confidence from below, authority from above." This is the story of how Napoleon managed his ascent from general of the Republic and first consul to dictator and conqueror of Europe. Napoleon did not vault into the imperial throne but moved toward dictatorship gradually; each assertion of new power came gilded with a veneer of legality and a rhetoric of commitment to the ideals of 1789....
The Eighteenth Brumaire, November 9, 1799: with France in political and economic turmoil, a group of disaffected politicians enlisted the talented gen...
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98,81 zł |
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French Revolution
ISBN: 9780393959970 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Bosher situates the revolutionary struggle not in an atmosphere of sharp class alignment, but instead with socially mixed and transient groupings. He goes deeply into the pre-Revolutionary period, examining the stresses in the social and political order of the ancien regime, as well as the ideas of the wealthy that circulated in the salons and permeated the journals and leaflets read by the populace. Central to the account is Professor Bosher's argument, novel and fully documented, that behind the tumult was a generation of revolutionaries whose revolution was not... Bosher situates the revolutionary struggle not in an atmosphere of sharp class alignment, but instead with socially mixed and transient groupings. ... |
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133,25 zł |
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Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen: A New Approach, Exploring the Interrelationship Between the People of a Country and the Power of Its King
ISBN: 9780394717517 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Louis XIV is one of history's most notorious rulers. Ruling for three quarters of a century, the King of France had the longest reign in European history, and the effects of his rule would create the conditions that would lead to the French Revolution. Written by an authority on 17th century Europe, Pierre Goubert not only outlines the life the famous "Sun King." but the millions of subjects under his rule, and the effects his choices had on the them. Praise for Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchman " . . . It is safe to recommend the work as the best book available on the...
Louis XIV is one of history's most notorious rulers. Ruling for three quarters of a century, the King of France had the longest reign in European hist...
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81,80 zł |
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French Historians and Romanticism: Thierry, Guizot, the Saint-Simonians, Quinet, Michelet
ISBN: 9780415021180 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In France, history is central to cultural life. The discourse on the past is a vital component of the discourse on society and politics in general. This reflects the impact of the Revolution and its still unresolved consequences. The ensuing French preference for historical modes of explanation needs to be viewed within a broader perspective: specifically, set within a tradition of historical writing which developed in the first half of the 19th century. That is what this book does. The Romantic period saw the promotion of history as a grand discourse of legitimation. The French Revolution...
In France, history is central to cultural life. The discourse on the past is a vital component of the discourse on society and politics in general. Th...
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704,29 zł |
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Contemporary France: Politics and Society since 1945
ISBN: 9780415025225 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Sets the working of the French political system in its historical, social and economic context.
Sets the working of the French political system in its historical, social and economic context.
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208,62 zł |
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