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History Of The Consulate And The Empire Of France Under Napoleon Vol. IX [Illustrated Edition]

by Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers
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...

History Of The Consulate And The Empire Of France Under Napoleon Vol. VIII [Illustrated Edition]

by Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers
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...

The Background Of Napoleonic Warfare: The Theory Of Military Tactics In Eighteenth-Century France

by Professor Robert S. Quimby
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Professor Emeritus Robert S. Quimby examines the strategic and tactical revolution that swept through the French military hierarchy in the Eighteenth Century and forged the superb instrument that became lethal in the hands of Napoleon and his generals. “The period from the opening of the...

Vichy France

by Robert O. Paxton
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015

Uncompromising, often startling, meticulously documented—this book is an account of the government, and the governed, of colaborationist France. Basing his work on captured German archives and contemporary materials rather than on self-serving postwar memoirs or war-trial testimony, Professor...

The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present

From de Maistre to Le Pen

by Peter Davies
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2002

The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the Present surveys the history of a fascinating but contentious political and intellectual tradition. Since 1789 the far right has been an important factor in French political life and in different eras has taken on a range of guises including traditionalism,...

Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform

by Alison Forrestal
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017

Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform offers a major re-assessment of the thought and activities of the most famous figure of the seventeenth-century French Catholic Reformation, Vincent de Paul. Confronting traditional explanations for de Paul's prominence in the dévot...

France, 1800-1914

A Social History

by Roger Magraw
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014

Nineteenth-century France was a society of apparent paradoxes. It is famous for periodic and bloody revolutionary upheavals, for class conflict and for religious disputes, yet it was marked by relative demographic stability, gradual urbanisation and modest economic change, class conflict and ongoing...

Religious Differences in France

Past and Present

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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006

This volume examines the history of religious dissent and discord in France from the time of the Wars of Religion to the present day. Contributors analyze the various solutions elaborated by the government, by religious institutions, and by private groups in response to the serious problems raised by...

The Savant and the State

Science and Cultural Politics in Nineteenth-Century France

by Robert Fox
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

There has been a tendency to view science in nineteenth-century France as the exclusive territory of the nation’s leading academic centers and the powerful Paris-based administrators who controlled them. Ministries and the great savants and institutions of the capital seem to have defined the field,...

Maurice Thorez

A Biography

by John Bulaitis
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018

Maurice Thorez (1900–1964) was a major figure in the history of twentieth-century France and European Communism for over three decades. Under his leadership, the French Communist Party (PCF) became France's largest political party and one of the most important communist parties in the Western world....

The Republic of Men

Gender and the Political Parties in Interwar France

by Geoff Read
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

In The Republic of Men, Geoff Read explores the intersection of gender bias and the eight most important political parties in interwar France, breaking new scholarly ground in profound ways. The first to compare gender discourse across the political spectrum in a national context and trace the origins...

Reproducing the French Race

Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century

by Elisa Camiscioli
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009

In Reproducing the French Race, Elisa Camiscioli argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France, and she examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time. Camiscioli demonstrates that...

Licensing Loyalty

Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France

by Jane McLeod
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011

In Licensing Loyalty, historian Jane McLeod explores the evolution of the idea that the royal government of eighteenth-century France had much to fear from the rise of print culture. She argues that early modern French printers helped foster this view as they struggled to negotiate a place in the...

France in the Age of Henri IV

The Struggle for Stability

by Mark Greengrass
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013

This study was the first systematic attempt to reach behind the myth of Henri IV - famous for having brought order to France after long civil war - and explores the reality of his achievement. This Second Edition has been substantially updated.

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