Edward Berenson: 3 books
by Mr. Edward Berenson
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
A universally recognized icon, the Statue of Liberty is perhaps the most beloved of all American symbols. Yet no one living in 1885, when the crated monument arrived in New York Harbor, could have foreseen the central place the Statue of Liberty would come to occupy in the American imagination. With...
by Edward Berenson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1992
Edward Berenson recounts the trial of Henriette Caillaux, the wife of a powerful French cabinet minister, who murdered her husband's enemy Le Figaro editor Gaston Calmette, in March 1914, on the eve of World War I. In analyzing this momentous event, Berenson draws a fascinating portrait of Belle Epoque politics and culture.
Heroes of Empire
Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
During the decades of empire (1870–1914), legendary heroes and their astonishing deeds of conquest gave imperialism a recognizable human face. Henry Morton Stanley, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Charles Gordon, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, and Hubert Lyautey all braved almost unimaginable dangers among...