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Cover of Les Causes de la révolution
by Jacques de Latocnaye
Language: French
Release Date: November 7, 2014

Les Causes de la révolution - Jacques de Latocnaye   Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.   Jacques-Louis de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye (1767-1823) est un voyageur français...
Cover of La Bastille (1370-1789) Histoire, Description, Attaque et Prise

La Bastille (1370-1789) Histoire, Description, Attaque et Prise

( Edition intégrale ) illustré - annoté

by Auguste Coeuret
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2018

Extrait: LA BASTILLE À TRAVERS LES SIÈCLES (1370-1789) La Bastille fut, à l'origine, une des portes fortifiées de l'enceinte de Paris, dite de Charles V. Ce nom de Bastille s'appliquait alors à toute porte de ville flanquée de tours: la bastille Saint-Denis et la bastille Saint-Antoine étaient...
Cover of La Flotte française en 1841
by Louis Reybaud
Language: French
Release Date: May 29, 2016

La Flotte française en 1841, par le journaliste, homme de lettres et homme politique français Louis Reybaud (1799 – 1879). Extrait : Une sérieuse étude à faire serait celle du rôle que joue la marine dans la vie des nations et de l’influence...
Cover of Histoire des hôtelleries, cabarets, hôtels garnis, restaurants et cafés, et des hôteliers, marchands de vins, restaurateurs, limonadiers
by Francisque Michel, Édouard Fournier, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: December 1, 2015

Extrait : "Quelles sont les hôtelleries, dans l'antiquité, chez les Hébreux, chez les Grecs, à Rome ? Fleury va vous le dire, dans une seule phrase, que nous n'aurons plus qu'à appuyer de faits faciles à trouver : Chez les Grecs et les Romains, dit-il, les hôtelleries publiques n'étaient...
Cover of Histoire de Montreuil-sur-Mer et de son château
by Florentin Lefils, Hyacinthe Dusevel, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016

Extrait : "J'ai déjà dit quelque part qu'en écrivant l'histoire de nos anciennes ville de Picardie, je n'avais point la prétention de faire une œuvre parfaite, mais seulement de rassembler dans un seul cadre les documents disséminés dans cent recueils divers. Le volume que je publie aujourd'hui...
Cover of American Places

American Places

Encounters with History

by
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

In American Places, more than two dozen of America's most gifted historians write about their encounters with historic places, bringing a personal viewpoint to bear on a wide variety of sites, ranging from Monticello to Fenway Park. Here James M. McPherson writes about the battlefield of Gettysburg,...
Cover of Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race and the Politics of Memory
by Julie Des Jardins
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004

In Women and the Historical Enterprise in America, Julie Des Jardins explores American women's participation in the practice of history from the late nineteenth century through the end of World War II, a period in which history became professionalized as an increasingly masculine field of scientific...
Cover of Life After J.E.B. Stuart

Life After J.E.B. Stuart

The Memoirs of His Granddaughter, Marrow Stuart Smith

by Sean M. Heuvel
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011

Mary Marrow Stuart Smith (1889-1985) lived a remarkable life as a respected artist and Virginia educator. The eldest grandchild of famed Confederate Cavalry General J.E.B. Stuart, she belonged to one of the Commonwealth's most celebrated families. Based on her original, never-before-published memoirs,...
Cover of An Historical Perspective on the National Football League
by Thomas J. Strang
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). The NFL is one of the four major professional sports leagues in North America, and the highest...
Cover of Isle of Wight
by A. R. Hope Moncrieff
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016

The Island, as its people are in the way of styling it, while not going so far as to deny existence to the adjacent islands of Great Britain and Ireland—the Wight, as it is sometimes called by old writers—has for the first fact in its history that it was not always an island.
Cover of L'écho de l'évènement

L'écho de l'évènement

Du Moyen Âge à l'époque contemporaine

by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: September 26, 2016

Élément fondateur de l’historiographie méthodique, l’événement avait déjà perdu son statut privilégié lorsque l’histoire des Annales promut une histoire davantage inscrite dans la longue durée et ouverte aux sciences sociales. C’est en 1974 que Pierre Nora parla du « retour de l’événement...
Cover of Berkshire (Illustrations)
by H. W. Monckton
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015

Example in this ebook 1. County and Shire. Meaning of the Words. If we take a map of England and contrast it with a map of the United States, perhaps one of the first things we shall notice is the dissimilarity of the arbitrary divisions of land of which the countries are composed....
Cover of Jeremy Johnson: the Collected Plays Vol 2
by Jeremy Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2013

This second collection of work by Jeremy Johnson contains a selection of his plays written between 1994 and 2012 refl ecting his versatility with his American plays: Direct From Broadway and The Palace of Mention, and his return to Australia with The Sheltered Workshop and Better Than Death.
Cover of Understanding Others

Understanding Others

Peoples, Animals, Pasts

by Dominick LaCapra
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018

To what extent do we and can we understand others—other peoples, species, times, and places? What is the role of others within ourselves, epitomized in the notion of unconscious forces? Can we come to terms with our internalized others in ways that foster mutual understanding and counteract the...
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