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Friend or Foe
Orion 2012; US$ 24.45Britain's premier historian on France from Caesar to Mitterrand - to coincide with the centenary of the Entente Cordiale. more...
Friend or Foe
Orion 2012; Not AvailableBritain's premier historian on France from Caesar to Mitterrand - to coincide with the centenary of the Entente Cordiale. more...
French Warship Crews 1789-1805
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 14.95This book gives a detailed and authentic account of the life and experiences of French warship crews from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802) up to Trafalgar. It describes the recruitment and composition of crews, the different duties performed and the living conditions they had to endure at sea. Their experiences of fighting the British are... more...
The Emperor's Last Island
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.00In 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St. Helenad surreal exile that would last until his death six years later. "A resonant meditation on exile, fame, the stories we tell about ourselves (and) the bigger stories we tell about our great figures."--Los Angeles Times Book Review. more...
Pederasts and Others
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 52.95Examine how a community of support in Nineteenth-Century Paris became a blueprint for modern sexual identity! A unique social history, Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris is a valuable addition to the growing field of gay and lesbian studies. The book examines the interaction between the city's male... more...
Shades of Orange with Many Greens
Hillcrest Media Group, Inc. 2012; US$ 9.99Paul Cézanne lived most of his life either in self-imposed obscurity or scorned notoriety. Even in his circle there were detractors and doubters. Shades of Orange with Many Greens: Visions of Paul Cézanne concerns the years before the artist was vindicated. Painter and art historian Walter E. Thompson brings together the work and personality... 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...
British Frigate vs French Frigate
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 15.95In the Age of Fighting Sail (1650-1820), ambitious officers of the navies of many nations sought command of a frigate. Speedy, nimble and formidably armed, frigates often operated independently, unlike the larger ships of the line. Legendary sailors such as Edward Pellew and Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand, Comte de Linoise, found that commanding such... more...
The A to Z of the Wars of the French Revolution
Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 33.99The A to Z of the French Revolution describes significant persons, places and events, encounters and battles, that substantially changed the nature of warfare at the end of the 18th century in Europe. Additionally, it gives a sense of the impact of these changes on the general course of human history, drawing connections between events to map out... 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...









