Les Climats du pouvoir (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2018:03)
by Richard Spavin
Les analyses fondees sur l'environnement, qui font du terrain ou de la temperature des facteurs explicatifs de la diversite humaine, dominent les discours anthropologiques de l'Ancien Regime. Richard Spavin montre que ces theories climatiques revelent des demarches contestataires a lire a cote des theories de la souverainete, du constitutionnalisme et du republicanisme. Richard Spavin fonde son analyse sur trois auteurs qui ont une vision relativiste du determinisme climatique. Si, pour Bodin,...
L'Espion Anglois, Ou Correspondance Secrete Entre Milord All'eye Et Milord All'ear, Vol. 10 (Classic Reprint)
by Mathieu Francois Pidanzat de Mairobert
The Revolutionary Spirit Preceding the French Revolution (Classic Reprint)
by Felix Rocquain
Agnès Sorel and the French Monarchy (Gender and Power in the Premodern World)
by Tracy Adams
In what has been described as the greatest raid of all, Operation Chariot saw heavy destruction of the enemy-occupied port of St Nazaire by British forces. Winged Chariot examines the role that the RAF played during this epic raid on 28th March 1942. With focus on the planning and actions of the operation, Peter Lush explores the three functions carried out by the RAF; the sweeping of the Bay of Biscay, the diversionary raid and protecting the withdrawing survivors. He also outlines the import...
Napoleonic Models in Miniature
Abbot Suger (c.1081-1151) was a pivotal figure in the France of his day. Active in both religious and political affairs, he has numerous claims, in a variety of fields, on the modern reader. He was abbot (from 1122) of one of Europe's most important monasteries, at a time when Gregorian reform and the new monasticism were having an immense impact on the medieval church. He was also a politician and diplomat of international importance, in the service of both Louis VI and his son Louis VII, for w...
Death and Afterlife in Modern France (Princeton Legacy Library)
by Thomas A. Kselman
Although today in France church attendance is minimal, when death occurs many families still cling to religious rites. In exploring this common reaction to one of the most painful aspects of existence, Thomas Kselman turns to 19th-century French beliefs about death and the afterlife not only to show how deeply rooted the cult of the dead is in one Western society, but how death and the behaviour of mourners have been politicized in the modern world. Drawing on sermons preached in rural and urban...
All political actors of the 1790s are assumed to fall into 'radical' or 'conservative' camps according to the strength of their reactions to the French Revolution. The response of the Younger Pitt to that revolution remains unclear and has been contested by historians for the past two centuries. Based on an in-depth analysis of Pitt's actions as Prime Minister, this exciting new study claims that he was intellectually and emotionally untouched by the French Revolution and by the ideological con...
Part legal drama, part political procedural, Abolition is above all a passionate argument against the death penalty and the rare story of politicians' willingness to fight for their principles, even against the popular will. Horrified by the guillotine execution of one of his clients in 1972, Robert Badinter dedicated his life to the abolition of the death penalty. Here, he recounts his efforts to publicly subvert the death penalty system by orchestrating the appeals for a series of notorious...
Memoires-Journaux de Pierre de l'Estoile, Vol. 2
by Pierre De L'Estoile
Registres Des Deliberations Du Bureau de la Ville de Paris, Vol. 3
by Paris Paris
Richelieu, Mazarin, La Fronde Et Le Règne de Louis XIV, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)
by Jean-Baptiste Honore Raymond Capefigue
The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France (Studies in Modern History)
by M Linton
This is the first study to focus on the idea of virtue and its place in political thought in eighteenth-century France. Virtue could be used to impart moral authority to arguments about political power. The development of this strategic idea is traced through the works of key Enlightenment thinkers. There is also consideration of the ways in which numerous popular writers of the day, including clerics, eulogists, journalists, novelists and lawyers, employed the idea of virtue in polemical discus...
Time Past; Memories of Proust and Others
by Marie Scheikevitch and Francoise Roussel DeLisle
France, 1800-1914: A Social History
by Lecturer in Modern History Roger Magraw