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France

  • Von Outremer bis Flandernby

    De Gruyter 2013; US$ 140.00

    This volume assembles contributions to Papal documentary research related to the works in the Gallia Pontificia. It presents detailed accounts about important topics, including the French-speaking world, the importance of the office of cardinal, and diplomacy. Following the restructuring of the work on the Gallia Pontificia in 2012, this compendium... more...

  • The Letters and Other Writingsby Abelard & Heloise; William Levitan; Stanley Lombardo; Barbara Thorburn

    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2007; US$ 14.50

    The most comprehensive compilation of the works of Abelard and Heloise ever presented in a single volume in English, The Letters and Other Writings features an accurate and stylistically faithful new translation of both The Calamities of Peter Abelard and the remarkable letters it sparked between the ill-fated twelfth-century philosopher and his brilliant... more...

  • Apostles of Modernityby Osama Abi-Mershed

    Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 62.50

    This study of the specialized military Offices of Arab Affairs in Algeria during the formative decades of French rule from 1830 to 1870 disputes the conventional view that the doctrine of assimilation governed France's colonial policies and practices in the nineteenth century. more...

  • The Huguenots and French Opinion, 1685-1787by Geoffrey Adams

    Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 42.95

    The decision of Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes and thus liquidate French Calvinism was well received in the intellectual community which was deeply prejudiced against the Huguenots. This antipathy would gradually disappear. After the death of the Sun King, a more sympathetic view of the Protestant minority was presented to French readers... more...

  • The Call of Conscienceby Geoffrey Adams

    Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 42.95

    Initially, when the government in Paris responded with force to the November 1, 1954 insurrection of Algerian nationalists, French public opinion offered all but unanimous support. Then it was revealed that hundreds of thousands of Muslims were herded into resettlement camps in Algeria; that Algerians suspected of nationalist sympathies were imprisoned... more...

  • Mont Saint Michel and Chartresby Henry Adams

    Digireads.com Publishing 2005; US$ 5.99

    "Mont Saint Michel and Chartres" by Henry Adams is a classic work of literature that can be enjoyed by all. Download "Mont Saint Michel and Chartres" and enjoy another quality Digireads.com publication. more...

  • Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartresby Henry Adams; Raymond Carney

    Penguin Group US 1986; US$ 17.00

    Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monuments of a past civilization. With daring and... more...

  • Bureaucrats and Beggarsby Thomas McStay Adams

    Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 124.99

    Thomas Adams explores the social context in which the French Enlightenment arose by focusing on the response of 18th-century French society to the problem of poverty, and examining the institutions which were established in this period to rehabilitate the poor. more...

  • Nelson's Trafalgarby Roy Adkins

    Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 17.00

    An explosive chronicle of history's greatest sea battle In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy under Lord Horatio Nelson dealt a decisive blow to the forces of Napoleon. The Battle of Trafalgar comes... more...

  • Jews and Gender in Liberation Franceby K. H. Adler; Jay Winter; Paul Kennedy; Antoine Prost; Emmanuel Sivan

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 50.00

    This book takes a new look at France during and after the German occupation. It challenges traditional chronology that concentrates on the Vichy government and punctures standard interpretations that divide occupied France into resisters and collaborators. Throughout, race - specifically Jewishness - and gender are drawn together in original and illuminating... more...