Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Balenciaga and Spain Balenciaga and Spain Hamish Bowles 'This unprecedented volume accompanies the first exhibition to consider the impact of Spain's culture, history, and art on one of its greatest designers of the twentieth century, the legendary Balenc… OL16163138W
Socialism in Provence, 1871-1914 Socialism in Provence, 1871-1914 Tony Judt xiv, 370 pages : 24 cm OL1894812W
Pozières Pozières Christopher Wray From July to September 1916, some 23,000 Australians were killed or wounded in the battle of Pozières. It was the first major engagement by Australian soldiers on the Western Front and its casualties… OL22323683W
The history of modern France The history of modern France 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… OL23435728W
Attack on the Somme Attack on the Somme Meleah Hampton 230 pages : 25 cm OL25740611W
A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917–1945 A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917–1945 David Berry David Berry’s study is the first English-language evaluation of the development and lessons of the French anarchist movement between the wars. Using an impressive array of archival sources and person… OL3165244W
The conquest of Morocco The conquest of Morocco Douglas Porch At the turn of the century, the Arican country closest to Europe geographically was probably the least known. Morocco was a nation yet to emerge from the Middle Ages, violent and primitive, a place r… OL3526166W
The French Anarchist Labor Movement and “La Vie Ouvriere”, 1909–1914 The French Anarchist Labor Movement and “La Vie Ouvriere”, 1909–1914 Francis McCollum Feeley Pierre Monatte (1881–1960) was 29 years old when he met with a small group of French anarchists in a Paris apartment and decided to publish a bi-weekly magazine which he named «La Vie Ouvrière». The … OL534232W
Jews and gender in liberation France Jews and gender in liberation France K. H. Adler This book takes a new look at occupied and liberated France through the dual prism of race (specifically Jewishness) and gender - core components of Vichy ideology. The imagining of liberation, and t… OL5751870W
Ambivalent desire Ambivalent desire Brett A. Berliner "The 1920s have long been known as an era of negrophilism in France, a time when everything associated with blacks and black culture became fashionable. The exotic appeal of the negre manifested itse… OL6209297W