France category: 4880 books
Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948
Choices and Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This is the first book (in either English or French) to offer readers an overview of women's experience of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath in France. It examines objectively the part that women played in both collaboration and resistance, synthesising much recent scholarship on the...
Marianne in Chains
Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
A startling and original view of the occupation of the French heartland, based on a new investigation of everyday life under Nazi rule
In France, the German occupation is called simply the "dark years." There were only the "good French" who resisted and the "bad French"...
by Michael A. Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
The Emergence of Tropical Medicine in France examines the turbulent history of the ideas, people, and institutions of French colonial and tropical medicine from their early modern origins through World War I. Until the 1890s colonial medicine was in essence naval medicine, taught almost exclusively...
The Road to War
France and Vietnam 1944-1947
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
How did France become embroiled in Vietnam, in the first of long wars of decolonization? And why did the French colonial administration, in late 1946, having negotiated with Ho Chi Minh for a year, adopt a warlike stance towards Ho's régime which ran counter to the liberal colonial doctrine of liberated...
Mobilizing Youth
Communists and Catholics in Interwar France
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
In Mobilizing Youth, Susan B. Whitney examines how youth moved to the forefront of French politics in the two decades following the First World War. In those years Communists and Catholics forged the most important youth movements in France. Focusing on the competing efforts of the two groups to mobilize...
Childhood in the Promised Land
Working-Class Movements and the Colonies de Vacances in France, 1880–1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2002
Childhood in the Promised Land is the first history of France's colonies de vacances, a vast network of summer camps created for working-class children. The colonies originated as a late-nineteenth-century charitable institution, providing rural retreats intended to restore the fragile health of poor...
by Renaud Thomazo
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Alésia, la Bastille, le château de Versailles, l’Arc de Triomphe, le palais de l’Élysée, Rethondes… Autant d’endroits qui ont marqué l’histoire de France. Cet ouvrage évoque avec humour les lieux et monuments de notre histoire. Des grottes ornées de Dordogne aux plages du débarquement, retrouvez tous les lieux emblématiques de notre passé.
by Renaud Thomazo
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2010
52 av. J.-C., 800, 1214, 1515, 1789, 1968, etc. Au-delà de simples chiffres, ces dates sont les jalons essentiels de notre histoire. De la grotte de Lascaux au passage à l’euro, du sacre de Charlemagne à celui de Napoléon, de l’assassinat d’Henri IV à la mort de Jean Moulin, découvrez les 150 dates qui ont marqué l’histoire de France.
by Pierre BELLEMARE, COLLECTIF
Language: French
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Pierre Bellemare présente 10 nouvelles histoires de crimes, de faits divers et de sang : un rendez-vous exceptionnel !
Connu pour ses talents de conteur, Pierre Bellemare présente dans cet ouvrage 10 affaires de faits divers et de crimes, qui permettront au lecteur curieux de découvrir un lieu...
by Dr David Nicolle
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Despite the great English victories at Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, the French eventually triumphed in the Hundred Years War. This book examines the last campaign of the war, covering the great battles at Formigny in 1450 and Castillon in 1453, both of which hold an interesting place in military...
Transparency in Postwar France
A Critical History of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This book returns to a time and place when the concept of transparency was met with deep suspicion. It offers a panorama of postwar French thought where attempts to show the perils of transparency in politics, ethics, and knowledge led to major conceptual inventions, many of which we now take for...
The Enlightenment in Practice
Academic Prize Contests and Intellectual Culture in France, 1670–1794
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Public academic prize contests—the concours académique—played a significant role in the intellectual life of Enlightenment France, with aspirants formulating positions on such matters as slavery, poverty, the education of women, tax reform, and urban renewal and submitting the resulting essays...
Religious Renewal in France, 1789-1870
The Roman Catholic Church between Catastrophe and Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This book provides a study of the manner in which the Roman Catholic Church in France responded to successive revolutions between 1789 and 1870 as well as to the cultural upheaval associated with accelerating socio-economic change. It focuses on the Church as an institution engaged in a dynamic...
The Church and the State in France, 1789-1870
'Fear of God is the Basis of Social Order'
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
This book explores the responses of the Roman Catholic Church to the French Revolution beginning in 1789, to the liberal revolution in 1830, and particularly the democratic revolution of 1848 in France, and asks how these events were perceived and explained. Informed by the collective memory of the...