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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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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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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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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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Annalisa Nicholson
A Salon-in-Exile

This book re-evaluates the influence of the ancien régime salons, which were the foremost cultural centres in early modern France. Presided over by women, these salons carved out spaces for poetry recital…

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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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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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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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Bruce Henderson
Midnight Flyboys

The untold history of a top-secret operation in the run-up to D-Day in which American flyers and Allied spies carried out some of the most daring cloak-and-dagger operations of World War II.In 1943, the O…

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Michael P Fitzsimmons
The Forgotten Constitution

The Forgotten Constitution discusses the world historical importance of the little-known French Constitution of 1791. It shows how the Constitution of 1791 gave birth to constitutionalism in the nineteent…

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José-Modesto Diago Ortega
The Battle for Control of the Brass and Instruments Business in the French Industrial Revolution

The Battle for Control of the Brass and Instruments Business in the French Industrial Revolution narrates and analyzes the largest judicial battle in culture and industrial property in nineteenth century …

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Sarah Jones
The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel

This book studies a wide range of canonical authors from across the nineteenth century from the perspective of the medical humanities, focussing on the idealized doctor-patient relationship and the medica…

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George Steinmetz
The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

A new history of French social thought that connects postwar sociology to colonialism and empire In this provocative and original retelling of the history of French social thought, George Steinmetz place…

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Richard Aste, Lisa Small, Cora Michael
French Moderns

French Moderns, which features 59 works from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned European art collection, celebrates France as the artistic centre of international modernism from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-…

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Richard Neer
Painting as a Way of Life

"Painting as a Way of Life offers a fresh look at a brief yet transformative moment in French art. At the beginning of this period, France's painting industry was still underdeveloped compared to tho…

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Kelly M Duke Bryant
Negotiating Childhood

A groundbreaking study of the meaning of childhood in French colonial SenegalNegotiating Childhood explores how colonial child protection policies and African children's responses to them produced new way…

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Kelly M Duke Bryant
Negotiating Childhood

A groundbreaking study of the meaning of childhood in French colonial SenegalNegotiating Childhood explores how colonial child protection policies and African children's responses to them produced new way…

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Arnaud Delmontel,
Paris Patisserie

For all those who love the Parisian lifestyle, this delicious exploration of Paris offers more than seventy iconic recipes from the best patisseries in town.Paris is the home of so many iconic pastry crea…

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Branko Milanovic
Visions of Inequality

Branko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key economists, from Quesnay to Kuznets. In their work and lives, we see how differentl…

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