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From Louis XIV to Napoleon
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Jeremy Black |
Much of the period 1661-1815 appeared to be the age of France. France was the greatest power in Western Europe in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and Louis XIV and Napoleon seemed to do… |
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Socialism in Provence, 1871-1914
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Tony Judt |
xiv, 370 pages : 24 cm |
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Forging capitalism
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Ian Klaus |
Vice is the true father of Western capitalism, according to Ian Klaus in this fascinating, wildly entertaining, and often startling history of modern finance. Rather than the noble pursuit of gentlem… |
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The history of modern France
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Jonathan Fenby |
With the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, the next two centuries for France would be tumultuous. Bestselling historian and political commentator Jonathan Fenby pro… |
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Children of the Revolution
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Robert Gildea |
Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumultuous century of politi… |
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The spectacle of nature
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Nicholas Green |
ix, 238 p. : 25 cm |
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The Age of Napoleon
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J. Christopher Herold |
This third munificent Horizon book which represents a great deal of work by a great many people is, quite frankly, an idea-project-production job with a mass market gift book designation. There are 3… |
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Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution
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Deborah Kennedy |
"Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) had a long and prolific career as a writer: she was a celebrated British poet, an influential translator of works of French literature and history, and an important … |
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Victorian murderesses
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Hartman, Mary S. |
This riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen cases from the 1800s involving thirteen French and English women charged with murder. Each incident was a cause célèbre, an… |
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