French History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

John Henderson
The French Disease in Renaissance Italy

This Element provides a fresh approach to the representation and experience of the French Disease, by reassessing a wide range of textual and visual sources through the lens of contemporary medical ideas.…

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David Gilks
Quatremère de Quincy

Quatremère de Quincy: Art and Politics during the French Revolution is a thoroughly researched and richly detailed contextual study of the most eventful period in Quatremère's life, but it also offers an …

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Mélanie Lamotte
By Flesh and Toil

In By Flesh and Toil, Mélanie Lamotte explores the rise of the French Empire across both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Charting the development of a pan-imperial legal culture of race, she also shows ho…

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Alban Bargain-Villéger
Red Missionaries

Red Missionaries explores the communication strategies of French and German Socialist parties during the inter-war period (1920-1939). With the help of eighteen newspapers -- ten Bavarian and eight Breton…

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Hugues Canuel,
French Navy 1939-42

An authoritative, illustrated analysis of the official French Navy in World War II, under the command of the Third Republic and of Vichy. At the outbreak of World War II, the Marine nationale was the most…

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Gentilly

Between 1818 and 1851, Auvignac Dorville, a Louisiana Creole, managed the day-to-day operations of the Gentilly plantation, located a few miles from New Orleans along Bayou St. John. The plantation belong…

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Frédéric Barthet
British Experiences in the French Foreign Legion During the Interwar Period

British Experiences in the French Foreign Legion during the Interwar Period examines how, during the Interwar period, a few Britons joined the French Foreign Legion, in spite of the fact that they had the…

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Aime Cesaire,
Toussaint Louverture

This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire's account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue - a slave revolt against French colonial ru…

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Aime Cesaire,
Toussaint Louverture

This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire's account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue - a slave revolt against French colonial ru…

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Venita Datta
Rival Modernities

What do Buffalo Bill and Gustave Eiffel have in common? These celebrities are both part of Venita Datta's analysis of competing notions of modernity and French-American relations at the turn of the twenti…

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Shannon E French
The Code of the Warrior

Combining ethics, history, and psychology, this book examines historical and contemporary warrior cultures, arguing that today's warriors need a code to navigate the moral line between soldier and killer.…

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Venita Datta
Rival Modernities

What do Buffalo Bill and Gustave Eiffel have in common? These celebrities are both part of Venita Datta's analysis of competing notions of modernity and French-American relations at the turn of the twenti…

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Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah
Decolonizing Emotions in French Algeria

How emotions were used by anti-colonial activists in the Algerian Revolution

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Paul French
Her Lotus Year

"New York Times bestselling author Paul French examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis, Duchess of Windsor-her one year in China. Before she was the Du…

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Daniel J Sherman
Sensations

"Delves into two controversies from the French archaeological world to illuminate the tension between the discipline's scientific ambitions and its hunger for media attention. For well over a century…

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James P Bevill
Spies in Saigon

The Central Intelligence Agency scaled up operations in Vietnam during the early 1950s. Using personal stories, eyewitness accounts, and recently declassified CIA reports from the field, author James P. B…

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Zvi Jonathan Kaplan
French Jewry and the Church-State Dilemma

As this book demonstrates, the organized French Jewish community strategically charted the political waters by steering clear of extremist political positions and by adopting a "soft clerical" a…

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Howard W French
The Second Emancipation

The Second Emancipation, a work of Odyssean dimension, recasts the liberation of post-Second World War colonial Africa and the American civil rights struggle through the lens of Ghana's revolutionary visi…

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Robert St Clair
Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature explores a counterview of modernity in late nineteenth-century French literature (1848-1891). The principal claim of this book is that what we f…

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M J M Innes
Politics, Polemic, and Political Thought During the French Wars of Religion

Lawyer and royalist, political prisoner and polemicist, Pierre de Belloy (c. 1550-1611) had the misfortune to live through interesting times. During the 1580s, Belloy became a notorious opponent of the Fr…

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