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Achtzehnhundertdreizehn
Konrad Theiss Verlag 2012; US$ 21.56Hauptbeschreibung »Es kann mich den Thron kosten, aber ich werde die Welt in ihren Trümmern begraben.« (Napoleon Bonaparte am 26. Juni 1813) Am 26. Juni 1813 trafen sich im Palais Marcolini in Dresden die großen Kontrahenten Napoleon und Metternich zu einer achtstündigen Unterredung. Nach der Katastrophe in Russland steht für den Kaiser alles auf... more...
Karl der Große
Primus Verlag 2011; US$ 15.09Hauptbeschreibung Karl der Große gehört zu den bekanntesten historischen Persönlichkeiten des Abendlandes. Er gilt als Vater Europas. Selbst verstand er sich als Erneuerer des Römischen Reiches und somit direkten Nachfolger der römischen Kaiser. Welche Voraussetzungen führten zur Kaiserkrönung des Karolingers? Warum gilt der fränkische König als... more...
Politische Freundschaft bei Hofe
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2013; US$ 53.91Hauptbeschreibung Welche Rolle spielt Freundschaft in der Welt des französischen Adels im siebzehnten Jahrhundert und insbesondere in der politischen Dynamik am Hof? Diese Frage nimmt Christian Kühner in diesem Band in den Blick. Gestützt auf Briefe und Memoiren stellt er verschiedene Dimensionen der Freundschaft vor. Neben der Semantik... more...
Hundred Years War, Revised Edition
Routledge 1991; US$ 37.95`In this first full-length study of the conflict for more than a decade, Robin Neillands takes the story back to the roots of the quarrel ... A lively tale, well illustrated with maps and photographs.' - France, Magazine more...
French Relations with the European Union
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 160.00This scholarly work examines how key actors within French politics and society have related to the challenges and opportunities posed by the European Union, and how these relations have driven or hindered change in France. The collection invites the reader to explore below the surface image of a France troubled by its relations with the EU in... more...
Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 30.95Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism is a classic critique of France's policies in Algeria in the 1950s and 1960s and inspired much subsequent writing on colonialism, post-colonialism, politics, and literature. It includes Sartre's celebrated preface to Fanon's classic Wretched of the Earth. Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism had a profound impact... more...
Families, friends, and allies
BRILL 2004; US$ 204.00Tanner (history, Ohio State U.) offers a new model of the development of medieval government from the later ninth century in northern France, drawing on a cluster of insights developed by social historians and historians that she calls the anthropological school, because it draws on anthropological models in order to discuss political and social co more...
Adventure Guide to Provence & the Cote d'Azur
Hunter Publishing 2005; US$ 15.00Here is the most detailed and informative guide to this fascinating region, from the Côte d?Azur and its seaside towns of St. Tropez, Cannes, Nice and Antibes, to the mountainous regions of Vaucluse, the Lubéron and Mont Ventoux. See the papal palaces and cathedrals massed inside Avignon?s intact 14th-century walls. Or visit Nîmes, with its Amphitheater,... more...
Bonne Chance
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2006; US$ 14.99Deep in the Limousin countryside, Richard Wiles bought his dream home. But little did he expect to be living full time in the dilapidated farmhouse while struggling to finish the conversion during the insect plagues of summer and the harsh blizzards of winter. Watched by his bemused neighbours, Richard also pursues his more unusual dreams of raising... more...
An Account of Corsica, the Journal of a Tour to That Island
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 109.99Focusing on Corsica since the eighteenth century, this title contains a comprehensive annotation, textual apparatus, and a critical introduction. These contextualize the Corsican issue, and underline its significance as a forerunner of the American and French revolutions. more...









