18Th Century category: 835 books
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon
The New Penguin History of France
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2003
There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to his successors in 1715 became the discredited, debt-ridden failure toppled by Revolution in1789. The further story of the bloody unravelling...
The Unseen Terror
The French Revolution in the Provinces
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2010
From the fall of the Bastille to the rise of Napoleon, Paris was the stage for most of the greatest crises of the French Revolution. Indeed, for many historians, the Revolution was a distinctly Parisian phenomenon, restricted to the galleries of the Tuileries and the chambers of the Jacobin Club....
by Pierre de Nolhac
Language: French
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: May 13, 2013
« Vive la Reine ! » est le cri plein d'amour, d'espoir et d'admiration lancé par le peuple français lorsque Marie-Antoinette débute son règne. Elle le termine en entendant sous ses fenêtres : « À mort l'Autrichienne ! Où est la gueuse,...
by Pierre de Nolhac
Language: French
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Quel fabuleux destin que celui de Madame de Pompadour !
Jeune, jolie et intelligente mais petite roturière, comment Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, parvient-elle à conquérir le cœur de Louis XV et à devenir la favorite officielle de ce monarque frivole ? Ayant...
by Pierre de Nolhac
Language: French
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Il est assez nouveau de présenter la Cour de Louis XV en y mettant au centre la figure un peu effacée de la Reine Marie Leczinska. Grâce à ses recherches approfondies, l’historien Pierre de Nolhac nous révèle les véritables traits de son caractère....
La résurrection de Versailles
Souvenirs d’un conservateur, 1887-1920
Language: French
Release Date: January 24, 2016
L’auteur revient sur ses années en tant que conservateur du château de Versailles, et sur les difficiles combats qu’il a dû mener pour sauver du délabrement ce qui est aujourd’hui une des splendeurs de la France. Il nous fait découvrir cette période ambiguë où le château désert louvoyait...
Benjamin Franklin in London
The British Life of America's Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
For more than one-fifth of his life, Benjamin Franklin lived in London. He dined with prime ministers, members of parliament, even kings, as well as with Britain’s most esteemed intellectuals—including David Hume, Joseph Priestley, and Erasmus Darwin—and with more notorious individuals, such as...
The World of the Revolutionary American Republic
Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
In its early years, the American Republic was far from stable. Conflict and violence, including major land wars, were defining features of the period from the Revolution to the outbreak of the Civil War, as struggles over who would control land and labor were waged across the North American continent....
Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty
The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
In 1776, when the Continental Congress declared independence, formally severing relations with Great Britain, it immediately began to fashion new objects and ceremonies of state with which to proclaim the sovereignty of the infant republic. In this marvelous social and cultural history of the Continental...
A Politician Thinking
The Creative Mind of James Madison
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
James Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787–1788 to secure ratification of the U.S. Constitution. As Jack N. Rakove shows in A Politician Thinking, however, those...
by Giovanni Maria Angioy, Omar Onnis
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Il "Memoriale" che qui si presenta e si traduce, in lingua italiana e sarda, raccoglie le memorie inviate da Giovanni Maria Angioy al Governo francese nel corso del 1799, allo scopo di sensibilizzarlo verso la causa rivoluzionaria sarda e chiederne l’aiuto militare per liberare la Sardegna...
50 Dáil Debates that Shaped the Nation
Standing by the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
From the debates of the 1950s that were strikingly similar to what we face today – struggles against bankruptcy, emigration and abuse of power by the State – through the wars in the 70s and 80s over divorce and abortion, to the Jacobean dramas surrounding the fall of Haughey in the 1990s, this...
The French Revolution and Napoleon
A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The upheavals, terror, and drama of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period restructured politics and society on a grand scale, making this the defining moment for modern European history.
This volume collects together a wide selection of primary texts to explain the process behind the...
by Peter Kropotkin
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016