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The Englishman's Daughter
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002; US$ 7.99"I have a rendezvous with death, at some disputed barricade." Alan Seeger, 1916 In the first days of World War I four soldiers, left behind as the British army retreated through northern France under the first German onslaught, found themselves trapped on the wrong side of the Western Front, in a tiny village called Villeret. Just a few miles... more...
France's Lost Empires
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 59.99This collection of essays investigates the fundamental role that the loss of colonial territories at the end of the Ancient Regime and post-World War II has played in shaping French memories and colonial discourses. In identifying loss and nostalgia as key tropes in cultural representations, these essays call for a re-evaluation of French colonialism... more...
French Fortresses in North America 1535-1763
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 13.95Following the discovery of America by Columbus in 1492, European colonists brought their system of fortification to the New World in an attempt to ensure their safety and consolidate their conquests. French and British explorers came later to North America, and thus the establishment of their sizeable settlements only got under way during the 17th... more...
The Forts of New France in Northeast America 1600-1763
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 13.95"New France" consisted of the area colonized and ruled by France in North America from the 16th to the 18th century. At its peak in the early 18th century its territory was huge, stretching from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico. This title reviews the lengthy chain of forts built to guard the French frontier in the American northeast from the province... more...
The Party of Humanity
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 21.95THE ENLIGHTENMENT has long been the victim of uninformed or hostile criticisms. Even so respected a source as the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines the Enlightenment as ?shallow and pretentious intellectualism, unreasonable contempt for authority and tradition,? thus collecting in one sentence most of our current prejudices. In this provocative... more...
The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 144.99This study of the rise and decline of industrialization in the Bas-Languedoc region of France uses a 200-year time-frame to examine the process of how and why a successful industrial region manufacturing woollens transformed itself into an agricultural, wine-growing area. more...
The Red City
Oxford University Press 1985; US$ 18.99A study of the impact of urbanization and large-scale industrialization on Limoges in the 19th century. Merriman confirms that the struggle between traditional and modern forces in French society and politics took place inside cities as well as between cities and the countryside. more...
The French Revolution
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 18.95The French Revolution is ?one of the grand poems of [Carlyle?s] century, yet its poetry consists in being everywhere scrupulously rooted in historical fact.? This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition, complete and unabridged, is unavailable anywhere else. From the Trade Paperback edition. ]]> more...
The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00The most important contribution to our understanding of the French Revolution was written almost one hundred years ago by Alexis de Tocqueville. more...
Le quatrième registre de Tadoussac
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 1982; US$ 14.25Le Quatrième Registre de Tadoussac, appelé aussi Magnus Liber, contient les actes de baptêmes, de mariages et de sépultures faits dans les Postes du Domaine du Roi, du 4 juin 1759 au 25 juillet 1784. Il fournit une information considérable sur les Montagnais. La géographie et la toponymie, la société et la vie... more...









