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Adventures in the French Trade
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 21.95This memoir is less a chronicle of the life of a leading scholar/critic of matters French (and a key figure in the naturalization of French "theory" in English) than a series of differently angled fragments, episodes, each with its attendant surprise, in what one commentator has called his amour vache, his injured and occasionally injurious love, for... more...
After the Fall
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 109.99German policy in occupied France during the Second World War was in many ways a story of bitter internal conflict between the various German agencies in charge of the occupation. After the Fall provides a detailed analysis of the struggle between these different agencies, highlighting the significant differences in ideology, policy, and method between... more...
Alexis de Tocqueville
Campus Verlag 2005; US$ 11.86Hauptbeschreibung Wenn ein Aristokrat die Demokratie favorisiert, ein Franzose die Amerikaner lobt und ein Freigeist nach Religion verlangt, scheint dies paradox. Tocqueville (1805-1859) beweist, dass der erste Blick oft täuschen kann. Seine Werke werfen Probleme auf, die bis heute ungelöst sind: Wie viel Demokratie darf man wagen? Gibt es einen... more...
Alexis de Tocqueville
Campus Verlag 2005; US$ 11.86Hauptbeschreibung Wenn ein Aristokrat die Demokratie favorisiert, ein Franzose die Amerikaner lobt und ein Freigeist nach Religion verlangt, scheint dies paradox. Tocqueville (1805-1859) beweist, dass der erste Blick oft täuschen kann. Seine Werke werfen Probleme auf, die bis heute ungelöst sind: Wie viel Demokratie darf man wagen? Gibt es einen... more...
Alexis de Tocqueville
HarperCollins 2006; US$ 10.99Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first foreigners to recognize and trumpet the grandness of the American project. His two-volume classic, Democracy in America , published in 1835, not only offered a vivid account of what was then a new nation but famously predicted what that nation would become. His startling prescience, as well as the endurance... more...
Bad Faith
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.95Bad Faith tells the story of one of history?s most despicable villains and con men?Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and ?Commissioner for Jewish Affairs? in France?s Vichy government. Darquier set about to eliminate Jews in France with brutal efficiency, delivering 75,000 men, women, and children to the Nazis and confiscating Jewish... more...
Bourgeois Politics in France, 19451951
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 53.00A pioneering study of the defence of French bourgeois interests and the nature of French conservatism. more...
A Brief History of France
Constable & Robinson 2011; US$ 11.65When we think of France we often evoke images of fine food and wine, the elegant boulevards of Paris, the chic beaches of St Tropez. Yet, as the largest country in Europe, it is a place of huge diversity. The idea of 'Frenchness' emerged from over 2000 years of history and it is a riveting story from Roman conquest to the present day. Cecil Jenkins... more...
Children, Welfare and the State
SAGE Publications 2002; US$ 48.95This interdisciplinary text provides an accessible introduction to childhood studies. The text reviews and critiques contemporary theories of childhood, and gives a clear introduction to key areas of child-related policies. more...
Contemporary France
Taylor & Francis Ltd 2003; US$ 35.00Contemporary France provides an introduction to French society and institutions with a particular focus on political issues. It covers all the basic information, concepts and facts, while giving students a fundamental understanding of political analysis at the same time. more...









