A Concise History of France |
 Roger Price
ISBN: 052136809X
This book provides a clear and well-informed guide to French history from the emergence of a strong state in the Ile-de-France in the early middle ages, to the trente glorieuses following the Second World War and the Mitterrand presidency. As such, it...(read more) |
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A History of French Passions Vol 1: Ambition, Love, and Politics |
Theodore Zeldin
ISBN: 0198221770
This is a history of the French, which tries to explain their idiosyncrasies, enthusiasms and prejudices. It goes beyond a recital of events to investigate their attitudes and behaviour over an unusually wide range of activities. This first part...(read more) |
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A History of French Passions Vol 2: Intellect, Taste, and Anxiety |
Theodore Zeldin
ISBN: 0198221789
This is a history of the French, which tries to explain their idiosyncrasies, enthusiasms and prejudices. It goes beyond a recital of events to investigate their attitudes and behaviour over an unusually wide range of activities. The first part...(read more) |
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Citizens |
 Simon Schama
ISBN: 0140172068
From the author of "The Embarrassment of Riches", this is a history of the French Revolution. At the heart of this account is the story of the transformation of "subjects" to "citizens". The author aims to show a France infatuated with novelty and...(read more) |
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France and Britain, 1900-1940 |
P. M. H. Bell
ISBN: 0582229537
This is the first of a two-volume study which analyzes the complex relationship between Britain and France in the 20th century. This volume runs from the period of intense imperial rivalry at the turn of the century, to the fall of France to Germany....(read more) |
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France in Modern Times |
 Gordon Wright
ISBN: 0393967050
This text charts the political history of France from the 18th century to the present, interspersing narrative with chapters on society, the economy, culture and historiography. This edition reflects recent research on the French Revolution, taking into...(read more) |
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Industry and Politics in Rural France: Peasants of the Isere, 1870-1914 |
 Raymond A. Jonas
ISBN: 0801428149
Illuminates the successes of socialism in rural France after the fall of the Paris Commune in 1871 by focusing on an area in the southeast where the silk industry converted peasants into workers and brought a thriving capitalist economy to the local...(read more) |
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Luminous Debris |
 Gustaf Sobin
ISBN: 0520222458
This text explores the landscapes of Provence and Languedoc, drawing on prehistory, protohistory, and Gallo-Roman antiquity, focusing on a particular place or artifact for the relevance inherent in each. A Bronze Age earring or the rippling wave pattern...(read more) |
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Parachute Infantry: An American Paratroopers Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich |
 David Kenyon Webster, Stephen E. Ambrose (Introduction)
ISBN: 0385336497
This memoir was written soon after the author's stint as a paratrooper in World War II, using his letters home and recollections that he documented following his discharge. It details places and events, especially D-Day and the fall of the Third Reich. |
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Scents of Time |
 Edwin Morris
ISBN: 3791322176
This book reveals perfume's widespread and permanent place in our culture of the senses, through illustrations, artefacts and paintings dating from 2000 BCE. The reader is guided through the ages through the bronze vessels of Babylon, kohl containers...(read more) |
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The Alps: A Cultural History |
 Andrew Beattie
ISBN: 190495524X
The Alps are Europe's highest mountain range; their broad arc stretches right across the centre of the continent, encompassing a wide range of traditions and cultures. In former times the mountains were feared as the realm of wild and dangerous beasts,...(read more) |
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of France |
 Colin Jones
ISBN: 0521669928
Combining illustration with text, this is a political and social history of France from earliest times to the present day. It emphasizes social, economic and cultural issues throughout. The diversity of the French heritage - scientific and artistic,...(read more) |
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The Cathars |
 Malcolm Lambert
ISBN: 063120959X
Catharism was the most radical of medieval heresies. Since it touched most areas of Europe in some degree, research on its character and fortunes makes formidable demands on the learning and linguistic ability of any scholar who tackles it, not to...(read more) |
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The Cathars: Dualist Heretics in Languedoc in the High Middle Ages |
 Malcolm Barber
ISBN: 0582256615
The Cathars were dualist heretics who, in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, presented more coherent doctrinal opposition to the Catholic church than any contemporary movement. They were present in most areas of Latin Christendom, but they...(read more) |
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Twentieth-Century France |
 James F. McMillan
ISBN: 0340522399
This is a wide-ranging survey of 20th-century French history. Originally published under the title "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this book has been revised and extended to bring the account up to the present day. Additional material has been added which looks...(read more) |
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With Snow on Their Boots: The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France During World War I |
 Jamie H. Cockfield
ISBN: 0312220820
Chronicles the history of two Russian brigades that fought for France in World War I....(read more) |
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