(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...
