France

A bold new study of politics and power in 17th-century France, this book argues that the French Crown centralized its power nationally by changing the way it delegated its royal patronage in the provinces. During this period, the royal government of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578730080Author Secret Society of JacobitesFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Secret Society of JacobitesPublisher Secret Society of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857066558Author Fanny LoviotFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 281g

The events of 1968 are often seen purely as a student revolution, but impacted on every aspect of French society - theatre, film, sexuality, race, the countryside, the factories. This volume explores the full diversity of this extraordinary upheaval, and...

Eric Jabbari examines Pierre Laroque's contribution to the rise of the French welfare state, namely his role as the architect of the social security plan which was adopted by the provisional government in 1945. The conception of the Laroque Plan was a...

This book addresses essential questions about the determinants and dynamics of the French political system over the long haul. Beyond 'French exceptionalism', this long term perspective allows for the mapping of key institutions of the Fifth Republic...

Integrating the history of Paris with the history of consumption, the press, publicity, advertising and spectacle, this book traces the evolution of the urban core districts of consumption and explores elements of consumer culture such as the print...

Medieval Violence provides a detailed analysis of the practice of medieval brutality, focusing on a thriving region of northern France in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. It examines how violence was conceptualised in this period, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820422770Author Monique WagnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 530g

In this study, the author connects pedagogical and literary institutions to issues of writing, political position and power. She suggests that the leftist caricature of the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), the training ground for French intellectuals, is...

Now available in paperback, Michael R. Lynn's book analyses the popularisation of science in Enlightenment France. He examines the content of popular science, the methods of dissemination, the status of the popularisers and the audience, and the settings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857062734Author Imbert De Saint-AmandFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

This collection of essays looks at Anglo-French relations from the Second World War to the advent of Margaret Thatcher's government in a new light, focusing on the work of Britain's ambassadors to France. In particular, it looks at moves towards deeper...

Despite the scholarship and political activism devoted to keeping the memory of the Paris Commune alive, there still remains much ignorance both in France and elsewhere, about the traumatic civil war of 1871; some 20,000 to 35,000 people were killed on...

French Peasant Fascism is the first account of the Greenshirts, a militant right-wing peasant movement in 1930s France that sought to transform the Republic into an authoritarian, agrarian state. Author Robert Paxton examines the Greenshirts in five case...

This is the first scholarly study of the political and economic relationship between Louis XIV and the parlements of France, the Parlement of Paris and all the provincial tribunals. The author explains how the king managed to impose strict political...

Emile (1800-75) and Isaac Pereire (1806-80) were pivotal and sensational figures, their lives and careers a lens through which to re-examine the history of France in the nineteenth century. Among the first generation of Jews emancipated by the French...

Between 1789 and 1848, clerks modified their occupational practices, responding to political scrutiny and state-administration reforms. Ralph Kingston examines the lives and influence of bureaucrats inside and outside the office as they helped define...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857067371Author Clemens LampingFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 354g

The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth and eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-century France.Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the...

This book recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria's communist movement. Meticulously researched - and the only English-language book on the Parti Communiste Algerien - it explores communism's complex relationship with Algerian nationalism. During...

In his most explicitly political work to date, Pierre Bourdieu speaks out against the new myths of our time -- especially those associated with neo--liberalism -- and offers a passionate defence of the public interest. The withdrawal of the state from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648934493Author History TitansFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Creek Ridge PublishingPublisher Creek Ridge PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333193846Author Ragnhild Marie HattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 311Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan

This book presents the first in-depth assessment of France's policies towards NATO between 1981 and 1997. It also provides a critical assessment of these policies. It argues that France's arms-length relationship with NATO's integrated military structure...

Religious liberty is usually examined within a larger discussion of church-state relations, but Thomas Kselman looks at several individuals in Restoration France whose high-profile conversions fascinated their contemporaries. Exploring their reasons and...

The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many "wagons west." However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers traveled by land. The other half traveled by sea. And it's the story of this second group that interests Malcolm Rohrbough in...

Confronting an ecological crisis in 1860, French officials initiated an unprecedented policy of alpine reforestation. The Alps, Pyrenees, and Massif Central mountains were fragile and degraded, scientific experts determined, and the salvation of the...

In this classic book, the famed historian Richard Cobb describes the Armees Revolutionnaires of eighteenth-century France and their clashes with the anti-revolutionary rural populace. In so doing, he provides important insights into the social and...

This book explores the political and religious world of early Bourbon France, focusing on the search for stable accord that characterised its political and religious life. Chapters examine developments that shaped the Bourbon realm through the century:...

Based on detailed archival research and site visits, Scarred Landscapes is the first environmental history of Vichy France. From mountains and marshlands to foresters and resisters, it examines the intricate and often surprising connections between war,...

This book advances a new interpretation of the timing and character of French (and more broadly European) liberalism, and contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the place of morality, sociability, and conceptions of the "self" in modern liberal...

There Are No Slaves in France examines the paradoxical emergence of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution. Sue Peabody shows how the political culture of late Bourbon France created ample...

France has been considered the pre-eminent nation of the petit bourgeois, yet fascism had only limited appeal there. This book will significantly revise our understanding of the petit bourgeoisie's own perception of its political interests. In the course...

The primary responsibility of the Academie Francaise to compose a dictionary of the French language intersected with major undercurrents of the French Revolution, and its significance continued through the Napoleonic period and into the Restoration. Yet,...

The novelist Paul Morand described the Exposition of 1900 in Paris: ... a new and ephemeral city hidden in the centre of the other, a whole quarter of Paris in fancy dress, a ball, where the buildings were the masqueraders. To our childish eyes it was a...

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The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513136868Author Victor HugoFormat HardbackPage Count 438Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 558g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611048704Author Henry AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Cedar Lake ClassicsPublisher Cedar Lake ClassicsWeight(grams) 581g