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Aileen Ribeiro
Fashion in the French Revolution

A beautifully illustrated new edition of a classic text on a key moment in history when sartorial choice became a matter of life, death and provocation, proving that fashion is always political.

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Aileen Ribeiro
Fashion in the French Revolution

This exciting new edition of Fashion in the French Revolution looks at the elaborate dress of French society and the court in the 1780s and the way in which plain clothing became identified with "dem…

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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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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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James P Bevill
Spies in Saigon

America's involvement in Vietnam began in the early 1950s. Using personal stories, eyewitness accounts, and recently declassified CIA reports from the field, author James P. Bevill describes the agency's …

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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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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).

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Bruce Henderson
Midnight Flyboys

The riveting, untold history of a top-secret operation in which a division of the American Eighth Air Force and a group of Allied spies carried out some of the most daring cloak-and-dagger operations of W…

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God and the Liberation of Reason in French Philosophy

A major reconsideration of contemporary French philosophy's encounter with the question of God, with contributions from leading scholars intervening in recent anglophone reception of the "new" p…

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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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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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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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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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Sarah Artt
Quiet Pictures

"Quiet Pictures approaches the films of Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, Câeline Sciamma, and Lucile Hadézhalilovic through the lens of silence. It looks at uses of silence and how this creates a space for…

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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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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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John Carson
The Measure of Merit

A wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuriesHow have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear …

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Raymond Leslie Bryant
Dark Allure of the Côte d'Azur

This is the first critical work on the history of the French Riviera from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day in the English language. It makes the argument that multi-faceted power a…

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