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Glory and terror
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Antoine de Baecque |
"Fully engaging our fascination with the macabre, Glory and Terror illustrates how certain corpses became highly charged political symbols during the course of the French Revolution. Arguing that the… |
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The problem of slavery in the age of Revolution, 1770-1823
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David Brion Davis |
"David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation. The Problem of Slavery in the Age… |
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The place of the French Revolution in history
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Marvin Cox |
Selections from the writings of various historians on the interpretation of the French Revolution's place in history. |
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A turbulent time
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David Geggus,David Barry Gaspar |
"This volume examines several slave societies in the Greater Caribbean to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutionary age on the region. Built precariously on the exploitat… |
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The French Revolution
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Doyle, William |
Beginning with a discussion of familiar images of the French Revolution, this work looks at how the ancien régime became ancien as well as examining cases in which achievement failed to match ambitio… |
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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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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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