(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300285901)
A major new political history of the French Revolution In 1786, Frances ancien regime was functioning as usual. Its alliance with the victorious American colonies had restored its diplomatic prestige, the economy seemed to be flourishing, and inte...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Nov-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300285901)
A major new political history of the French Revolution In 1786, Frances ancien regime was functioning as usual. Its alliance with the victorious American colonies had restored its diplomatic prestige, the economy seemed to be flourishing, and inte...Loe edasi...
Uncover the truth among the myths, fictions, and lore of the French Revolution.Did Marie Antoinette really say the famed words, "e;Let them eat cake "e; Were throngs of prisoners released during the storming of the Bastille? This book answers...Loe edasi...
Uncover the truth among the myths, fictions, and lore of the French Revolution.Did Marie Antoinette really say the famed words, "e;Let them eat cake "e; Were throngs of prisoners released during the storming of the Bastille? This book answers...Loe edasi...
The eighteenth century saw more years of war than of peace. Though victimhood might jump most readily to mind when thinking about how this affected young people, it is only a small part of the picture. The Seven Years War and the Revolutionary and N...Loe edasi...
The eighteenth century saw more years of war than of peace. Though victimhood might jump most readily to mind when thinking about how this affected young people, it is only a small part of the picture. The Seven Years War and the Revolutionary and N...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Dec-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691262598)
A sweeping history of intimacy and family life in France during the age of revolutionThe French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars devastated Europe for nearly a quarter of a century. The Soldiers Reward recovers the stories of soldiers and their relati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Dec-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691262598)
A sweeping history of intimacy and family life in France during the age of revolutionThe French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars devastated Europe for nearly a quarter of a century. The Soldiers Reward recovers the stories of soldiers and their relati...Loe edasi...
This book describes momentous events in the American and French Revolutions. The American revolutionaries were nationalist patriots, who wanted independence from Great Britain and to create a new nation based on the principles of classical liberalism...Loe edasi...
Highlights the centrality of non-canonical, middle-ranking women writers to the production of literature and culture in Britain, Ireland, Europe and Russia in the late eighteenth century.The Irish writers and editors Katherine (1773-1824) and Martha...Loe edasi...
Highlights the centrality of non-canonical, middle-ranking women writers to the production of literature and culture in Britain, Ireland, Europe and Russia in the late eighteenth century.The Irish writers and editors Katherine (1773-1824) and Martha...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Sep-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501776632)
The Peoples Revolution of 1789 analyzes the historic events that unleashed a vast panoply of anarchic, destructive, and creative disorders that demolished Frances Old Regime and founded a new revolutionary order. It captures the complex and dynamic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Sep-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501776625)
The Peoples Revolution of 1789 analyzes the historic events that unleashed a vast panoply of anarchic, destructive, and creative disorders that demolished Frances Old Regime and founded a new revolutionary order. It captures the complex and dynamic...Loe edasi...
Gateway to the French Revolution features voices critical of the French Revolution and its aftershocks. Edmund Burkes critique of the Revolution is widely known and set into motion the development of political Conservatism. Also decrying the excesse...Loe edasi...
A look at the leading figure in the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint Louverture, challenging myths and exploring the vivid, often horrifying events of colonial history.The French Revolution was a period of radical political and societal change in the ei...Loe edasi...
A look at the leading figure in the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint Louverture, challenging myths and exploring the vivid, often horrifying events of colonial history.The French Revolution was a period of radical political and societal change in the ei...Loe edasi...
The epic histories of the French Revolution, Enlightenment, and colonialism in the West Indies, told through the history of one family.The Labottieres were the largest printing and bookselling dynasty in eighteenth-century Bordeaux. From the 1680s to...Loe edasi...
The epic histories of the French Revolution, Enlightenment, and colonialism in the West Indies, told through the history of one family.The Labottieres were the largest printing and bookselling dynasty in eighteenth-century Bordeaux. From the 1680s to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526183699)
This book deals with the various types of revolutionary history and the numerous schools of historical thought concerned with the French Revolution. By the time of the Bicentenary celebrations in 1989, the historiographical field had been opened up s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526183828)
Conspiratorial views of events abound even in our modern, rational world. Often such theories serve to explain the inexplicable. Sometimes they are developed for motives of political expediency: it is simpler to see political opponents as conspirator...Loe edasi...
Antoine-Chrysosthome Quatremere de Quincy (1755-1849) was the most distinguished writer on art and architecture at the end of the enlightenment. However, as David Gilks shows in Quatremere de Quincy: Art and Politics during the French Revolution, he...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691268354)
A riveting portrait of the radical and militant partisans who changed the course of the French RevolutionA phenomenon of the preindustrial age, the sans-culottesmaster craftsmen, shopkeepers, small merchants, domestic servantswere as hostile to the i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691268354)
A riveting portrait of the radical and militant partisans who changed the course of the French RevolutionA phenomenon of the preindustrial age, the sans-culottesmaster craftsmen, shopkeepers, small merchants, domestic servantswere as hostile to the i...Loe edasi...
In 1740, the French King Louis XV granted his Swedish-led forces the title of Royal Swedish Regiment, for which it received the same privileges as all royal regiments, including the protection of the king, new flags, and ordinance. Louis XV acted to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jan-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000991833)
A Short History of the French Revolution is an up-to-date survey of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era that introduces readers to the origins and events of this turbulent period in French history, and historians interpretations of these events...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jan-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000991802)
A Short History of the French Revolution is an up-to-date survey of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era that introduces readers to the origins and events of this turbulent period in French history, and historians interpretations of these events...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003801405)
This book investigates the impact of revolution on the French from the Revolution of 1789 to its centenary in 1889. It explores specific and linking factors in the main revolts and how historians have differed in their explanations.Revolution has bee...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003802808)
This book investigates the impact of revolution on the French from the Revolution of 1789 to its centenary in 1889. It explores specific and linking factors in the main revolts and how historians have differed in their explanations.Revolution has bee...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198901129)
This book is a study of the relationship between revolution and terror. Historically many have claimed that revolution inevitably devolves into terror, best reflected in the way in which after coming to power the revolutionary elite turns on itself,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Nov-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198901112)
This book is a study of the relationship between revolution and terror. Historically many have claimed that revolution inevitably devolves into terror, best reflected in the way in which after coming to power the revolutionary elite turns on itself,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520335875)
Written from widely different perspectives, these essays characterize the Great Revolution as the dawn of the modern age, the grand narrative of modernity. The scope of issues under scrutiny is extremely broad, ranging from the analyses of the hotly...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520335875)
Written from widely different perspectives, these essays characterize the Great Revolution as the dawn of the modern age, the grand narrative of modernity. The scope of issues under scrutiny is extremely broad, ranging from the analyses of the hotly...Loe edasi...
A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the Year Robert Darnton is one of the world s greatest historians, and this is an exceptional book: a huge social and cultural portrait of Paris in the build-up to the French Revolution...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691253114)
A new account of the relevance of Hegels ideas for todays world, countering the postwar anti-Hegel insurgencyG.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as reli...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691253114)
A new account of the relevance of Hegels ideas for todays world, countering the postwar anti-Hegel insurgencyG.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as reli...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526167675)
Stuart Brisley is a pioneering multi-media and performance artist who developed performance art as a form of social action in the 1960s and 1970s. This book assesses his seminal influence on British art through a focus on his lifelong engagement with...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526167651)
Stuart Brisley is a pioneering multi-media and performance artist who developed performance art as a form of social action in the 1960s and 1970s. This book assesses his seminal influence on British art through a focus on his lifelong engagement with...Loe edasi...
Sister Perpetue is not to move. She is not to fall asleep. She is to sit, keeping guard over the patients room. She has heard the stories of his hunger, which defy belief: that he has eaten all manner of creatures and objects. A child even, if the r...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jun-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487545420)
The Cartulary of Premontre offers a full critical edition, consisting of a transcription of the cartularys 509 charters together with historical notes and apparatus. The thirteenth-century cartulary of the abbey of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Premontre i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jun-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487545437)
The Cartulary of Premontre offers a full critical edition, consisting of a transcription of the cartularys 509 charters together with historical notes and apparatus. The thirteenth-century cartulary of the abbey of Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Premontre i...Loe edasi...
"e;An unforgettable portrait of a woman who became one of the most notorious figures of her day and whose scandalous story sheds fascinating light not only on her own tumultuous time but ours as well."e; - Harold Schechter, author of Hells P...Loe edasi...
The French Revolution facilitated the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, but after gaining power he knew that his first task was to end it. In this book William Doyle describes how he did so, beginning with the three large issues that had destabilized revol...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Aug-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526159144)
Comprising five microhistories, this book proposes that the French Revolutions religious politics in small towns weakened democratic society to such an extent that it precluded political democracy. It details two revolutionary dynamics that damaged...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Aug-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526159120)
Comprising five microhistories, this book proposes that the French Revolutions religious politics in small towns weakened democratic society to such an extent that it precluded political democracy. It details two revolutionary dynamics that damaged...Loe edasi...
Sari: Routledge Library Editions: The French Revolution
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jul-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781134795505)
The volumes in this set, originally published between 1953 and 1992, discuss the causes and conditions which allowed the French Revolution to happen and its impact on wider European politics and society. As well as charting key events in the revoluti...Loe edasi...
This book explores the constitutional debates of the Year 3 of the French Revolution (also known as Year 1 of the French Republic) and the drafts for the Declaration and the Constitution of 1793. It presents the revolutionaries distinct view on huma...Loe edasi...
This book explores the constitutional debates of the Year 3 of the French Revolution (also known as Year 1 of the French Republic) and the drafts for the Declaration and the Constitution of 1793. It presents the revolutionaries distinct view on huma...Loe edasi...
This book provides a critical examination of over 300 historical works about the French Revolution, published in Europe (in particular in France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Russia) as well as in the United States between 1789 and 1989. It also...Loe edasi...
