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From Valmy to Waterloo
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Marie-Cécile Thoral |
The French declaration of war on Austria on 20 April 1792 committed the nation to more than twenty years of war. Faced with a coalition of European powers, the revolutionaries called upon the citizen… |
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Paris after the Liberation
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Antony Beevor,Artemis Cooper,Artemis Cooper |
In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation. Paris bec… |
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Contagion
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Andrew Robert Aisenberg |
vii, 238 pages ; 22 cm |
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Constructing Muslims in France
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Jennifer Fredette |
The standing of French Muslims is undercut by a predominant and persistent elite public discourse that frames Muslims as failed and incomplete French citizens. This situation fosters the very separat… |
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Whites, Jews, and Us
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Hedi El Kholti,Houria Bouteldja |
«Pourquoi j'écris ce livre? Parce que je partage l'angoisse de Gramsci: "le vieux monde se meurt. Le nouveau est long à apparaître et c'est dans ce clair-obscur que surgissent les monstres". Le monst… |
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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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The new France
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John Ardagh |
733 p. : 18 cm |
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Marianne in chains
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Robert Gildea |
In France, the German occupation is called simply the "dark years." There were only the "good French" who resisted and the "bad French" who collaborated. Marianne in Chains, a broad and provocative h… |
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Sword, miter, and cloister
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Constance Brittain Bouchard |
463 pages : 25 cm |
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France's overseas frontier
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John Connell,Robert Aldrich,Aldrich, Robert |
x, 357 p. : 24 cm |
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The poor of eighteenth-century France, 1750-1789
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Olwen H. Hufton |
x, 414 p., [4] leaves of plates : 22 cm |
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Visualizing the Nation
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Joan B. Landes |
"Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Landes highlights the widespread circulation of images of the female body, notwithstanding the political leadership's suspicions of t… |
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Jews and gender in liberation France
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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… |
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