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by Ronald Aminzade  Publisher Comments Using class analysis to understand the dynamics of political conflict in mid-nineteenth-century France, Ronald Aminzade explores political activity among workers in three industrialized French cities--Toulouse, Saint-Etienne, and Rouen. A comparative... (read more)  List Price $25.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by William Wieser Publisher Comments For the artists and expatriates, the aristocrats and arrivistes, Paris in the 1930s lost none of its magical allure, as this lavishly illustrated chronicle of a fascinating decade in the city's cultural history shows. At salons, galleries, palaces, and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Amy Kelly Publisher Comments This account of Queen Eleanor and her century is offered as a study of individuals who set their stamp upon the events of their time, rather than as a study of developing systems of politics, economics, or jurisprudence.... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kelley Synopsis A beloved city is celebrated in a volume that confirms on every page why Paris has been embraced for centuries as the world's most beautiful and romantic metropolis.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joan Wallach Scott Review "A model for urban history studies. Utilizing the current techniques of quantitative measurements but without sacrificing any of the time-tested tools of the profession, [Scott] has traced the impact of industrialization and the development of class... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $4.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Morris Publisher Comments In this comprehensive book, Alan Morris examines the French preoccupation with la mode retro, the renewal of interest in, and re-evaluation of, the Nazi occupation of France.... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sara E Melzer Publisher Comments In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Webster Publisher Comments A controversial in Paris, this shocking history of French collaboration in the Holocaust accuses Ptain and the Vichy government of independently and enthusiastically planning and overseeing the extermination of French Jews.... (read more) List Price $14.90 Your price $8.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Wiser Publisher Comments For the artists and expatriates, the aristocrats and arrivistes, Paris in the 1930s lost none of its magical allure, as this lavishly illustrated chronicle of a fascinating decade in the city's cultural history shows. At salons, galleries, palaces, and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Helen Constantin Publisher Comments If you've never been to Paris, here is your chance to experience it; if you have been there, here is your chance to return. Paris Tales is a highly evocative collection of stories by French and Francophone writers who have been inspired by the mystery... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Antoine De Baecque Publisher Comments Fully engaging our fascination with the macabre, Glory and Terror illustrates how certain corpses became highly charged political symbols during the course of the French Revolution. Arguing that the key moments of the Revolution were "dialogues with the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gilles Plazy Publisher Comments The inimitable French style comes to life in a beautiful volume that covers not only the rich art, architecture, and history of the world's most popular tourist destination, but brings you into jazz clubs, through public gardens, onto film sets, and... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J Christophe Herold Publisher Comments THE AGE OF NAPOLEON is the biography of an enigmatic and legendary personality as well as the portrait of an entire age. J. Christopher Herold tells the fascinating story of the Napoleonic world in all its aspects -- political, cultural, military... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nina Rattne Gelbart Publisher Comments A biography of an uppity midwife commissioned by Kings Louis XV and XVI to teach obstetrics throughout France. She became a celebrity, saving millions of peasant women from the horrors of botched births.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Carol Rogers Publisher Comments 'This book is a refreshing analysis of cultural change that demonstrates the resilience of cultural forms. It is engagingly written and fits well into current debates about the nature of the intersection between anthropology and history, about the way... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Julian Jackson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-264) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Roth Publisher Comments Joseph Roth (1894-1939), the greatest European newspaper correspondent of his age, left the splintering Weimar Republic for Paris in 1925. Translated and collected together here for the first time in English, the exhilarating pieces in this evocative... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Wroe Book News Annotation When Gerald Canac found a pot of gold in a drainpipe and his father-in-law thinks he stole it, the controversy grows to engulf the whole small town of Rodez, now in southwest France, but at the time divided physically and legally between loyalty to... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sa Baumann Reynolds Publisher Comments This book traces the prepresidential career of the Socialist French president, covering his early years, his participation in the Vichy government, the Resistance and the governments of the Fourth Republic, and his 23 year march to the pinnacle of... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $8.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Caroline Weber Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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