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Not by bread alone :the thousand years of the French Revolution
by Douglas Bullis  Book News Annotation A quaint and thoroughly beguiling book--an imaginative reconstruction of fragments, wisps really, of daily life in France from the year 1003, through the French Revolution, and into the 20th century. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR...
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What's left? :the Ecole normale supâerieure and the right
by Diane Rubenstein Book News Annotation A non-ideological, non-rhetorical, non-deconstructionist description of the politics of writing in France during the 20th century. Focuses on the signifying forms that produce a political subject or agent, particularly in relation to educational...
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Paris and the Right in the Twentieth Century.
by Jessica Wardhaugh Book News Annotation Paris, France has had a long and storied association with the political left, but Wardhaugh (junior research fellow, modern History, Christ Church, Oxford, UK) argues that the relationship between the French capital and the right is also one that has...
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Etienne Pasquier on Ethics and History
by James H Dahlinger Publisher Comments Etienne Pasquier (1529-1615) was a renowned magistrate of the parliament of Paris, a poet, and a counselor to four French kings. This book examines his use of historical vignettes to counsel the king and to teach ethics during the French Civil Wars of...
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Identity of France Volume 1
by Fernand Braudel Book News Annotation The last work written by the prominent French historian, this history was first published in France in 1986 under the title L'identite de la France (Les Editions Athaud). The English translation was published in Great Britain in 1988 by William...
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Forgotten Migrants: Foreign Workers in Switzerland Before World War I
by Madelyn Holmes Publisher Comments This study focuses on the impact of German and Italian foreign workers on the industrialization of Switzerland prior to World War I. Included in the analysis are case studies of the textile and engineering industries, demographic profiles of the workers,...
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Life in the French Country House
by Mark Girouard Publisher Comments Mark Girouard, author of Life in the English Country House and other superb books, extends his realm to France in this perceptive and witty portrait of the upper classes at home in their châteaux, manoirs, and gentilhommières. ...
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The Bourbons: The History of a Dynasty
by J.h Shennan Synopsis This book tells the fascinating story of this great French dynasty....
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Industrialization, family life, and class relations :Saint Chamond, 1815-1914
by Elinor Accampo Publisher Comments In this provocative study, Elinor Accampo explores the interrelationship between the structure of work and strategies of family formation in Saint Chamond, a French city that underwent intensive industrialization during the nineteenth century. Through a...
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Illegitimate Children of the Enlightenment; Anarchists and the French Revolution, 1880-1914.
by C. Alexander Mckinley Publisher Comments The early years of Third French Republic (1880-1914) saw multiple political factions vying for the legacy of the French Revolution. This book examines one of those factions, the anarchist movement, and the role played by the French Revolution in its...
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France 1848 1945 Volume 1
by Theodore Zeldin Publisher Comments This is a history of the French, which attempts to explain their idiosyncrasies, enthusiasms, and prejudices. It goes beyond a mere recital of events to investigate the attitudes and behavior over an unusually wide range of activities. The first part...
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Pétan
by Charles Williams Publisher Comments Trade paperback. Military hero and national leader, Philippe Petain (1856-1951) embraced a fascinating and dramatic period of French history, helping to define it....
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Age of Water: The Urban Environment in the North of France, A.D. 300-1800
by Andre E. Guillerme Book News Annotation Structuralist history, first published in French in 1983, traces sixteen centuries of hydrographic technological change and urban development in 18 cities of northern France. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Tucholsky and France
by Stephanie Burrows Book News Annotation Kurt Tucholsky was one of the most prominent German journalists of the Weimar period. This volume, originally written as a dissertation, combines a biographical study with analysis of Tucholsky's published journalism, focusing on the significance of...
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The Intellectual Background of the French Revolution; Original Texts of ologues, 1789-1825 With an Interpretive Commentary.
by B.g. Garnham Book News Annotation Garnham (language, literature and thought, U. of Geneva, U. of Aberdeen and U. of Durham) gathers together the philosophes known collectively as the Id...
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Identity of France Volume 2 People &
by Fernand Braudel Book News Annotation Originally intending this volume to complete the first part of a larger work, Braudel died before he could produce the further planned volumes. Nonetheless, volumes 1 and 2 form a most fitting memorial to the great historian. First published in France...
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Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies #22: France/China: Intercultural Imaginings
by Alex Hughes Synopsis China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated their Annee de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the movements into China made by groups as diverse as the Jesuits and the Tel Quel intellectuals, whose will...
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France 1848-1945 'Anxiety and Hypocrisy'
by Theodore Zeldin
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Histoire Populaire Contemporaine de la France, Nouvelle Edition, 4 Volumes
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Confessions of a Concierge
by Bonnie G Smith
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