France category: 4880 books
Socialism and the Experience of Time
Idealism and the Present in Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
How do we make social democracy? Should we seize the unknown possibilities offered by the future, or does real change develop when we focus our attention on the immediate present? The modern tradition of social revolution suggested that the present is precisely the time that needs to be surpassed,...
The Melodramatic Thread
Spectacle and Political Culture in Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2007
In France, both political culture and theatrical performances have drawn upon melodrama. This "melodramatic thread" helped weave the country’s political life as it moved from monarchy to democracy. By examining the relationship between public ceremonies and theatrical performance, James R. Lehning...
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by Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
The product of twenty years of laborious hard work, this is the definitive work on Napoleon and his times at the helm of the French Nation, written by no less than the first President of the Third Republic.
Thiers moved in the highest circles of society and met with many of the surviving generals...
Verdun
The Longest Battle of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next ten hours, twelve hundred German guns showered shells on a salient in French lines. The massive weight of explosives collapsed dugouts, obliterated trenches, severed communication wires,...
Titan
The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
When the leaders of the French Revolution executed Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1793, they sent a chilling message to the hereditary ruling orders in Europe. Believing that monarchy anywhere presented a threat to democratic rule in France, the leaders of the revolution declared war on European...
From Revolutionaries to Citizens
Antimilitarism in France, 1870–1914
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2002
From Revolutionaries to Citizens is the first comprehensive account of the most important antiwar campaign prior to World War I: the antimilitarism of the French Left. Covering the views and actions of socialists, trade unionists, and anarchists from the time of France’s defeat by Prussia in 1870...
The Colonial Legacy in France
Fracture, Rupture, and Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Debates about the legacy of colonialism in France are not new, but they have taken on new urgency in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Responding to acts of religious and racial violence in 2005, 2010, and 2015 and beyond, the essays in this volume pit French ideals against government-sponsored...
by Margie Rynn, Lily Heise, Tristan Rutherford
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Written by outspoken, authoritative experts, Frommer’s France shows travelers how to experience the country the way the locals do. This classic Frommers series includes exact prices, candid reviews of the best and most authentic restaurants, attractions and hotels in every price range (from hostels...
Captives and Corsairs
France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Captives and Corsairs uncovers a forgotten story in the history of relations between the West and Islam: three centuries of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousands of French subjects and citizens in North Africa. Through an analysis of archival...
Bonds of Alliance
Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North America, carrying thousands of Native Americans into bondage in the Great Lakes, Canada, and the Caribbean. In Bonds of Alliance, Brett Rushforth reveals the...
In the Shadow of the General
Modern France and the Myth of De Gaulle
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Charles De Gaulle's leadership of the French while in exile during World War II cemented his place in history. In contemporary France, he is the stuff of legend, consistently acclaimed as the nation's pre-eminent historical figure. But paradoxes abound. For one thing, his personal popularity sits...
Women in France Since 1789
The Meanings of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2004
This compelling study traces the changes in women's lives in France from 1789 to the present. Susan K. Foley surveys the patterns of women's experiences in the socially-segregated society of the early nineteenth century, and then traces the evolution of their lifestyles to the turn of the twenty-first...
Organizing for War
France, 1870-1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
By the end of the Franco-Prussian War (1870--71), Germany occupied one-third of French territory, thousands of Alsatians and Lorrainers had flooded into France, and 140,000 French soldiers had died. France's crushing defeat in the most significant European armed conflict between the Napoleonic wars...
Allegorical Bodies
Power and Gender in Late Medieval France
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Allegorical Bodies begins with the paradoxical observation that at the same time as the royal administrators of late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century France excluded women from the royal succession through the codification of Salic law, writers of the period adopted the female form as the allegorical...