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"Lo Thesaur del Hospital de Sant Sperit"
De Gruyter 1989; US$ 224.00"Lo Thesaur del Hospital de Sant Sperit" : Edition eines Marseiller Urkundeninventars (1399-1511) mit sprachlichem und geschichtlichem Kommentar unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Rechtswortschatzes 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...
Achtzehnhundertdreizehn
Konrad Theiss Verlag 2012; US$ 22.03Hauptbeschreibung »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...
Adventure Guide to Paris & the Ile de France
Hunter Publishing 2004; US$ 15.00Provides information on the neighborhoods of Paris, sights, museums, shopping, entertainment, outdoor activities, hotels, and restaurants. 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...
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...
Africa and France
Indiana University Press 2013; US$ 23.99Africa and France reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production, especially in theatre, literature, film, and even museum construction. A hated of foreigners, accompanied by new forms of intolerance and racism, has crept from policy into popular expressions of ideas about the postcolony and ethnic minorities.... 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...
Against Marriage
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 20.00In seventeenth-century France, aristocratic women were valued by their families as commodities to be married off in exchange for money, social advantage, or military alliance. Once married, they became legally subservient to their husbands. The duchesse de Montpensier—a first cousin of Louis XIV—was one of very few exceptions, thanks to... more...
The Age of Napoleon
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 70.00Hegel called him an idea on horseback, a description that suggests Napoleon Bonaparte's complexity, as well as the extent to which he changed France, Europe, and the world. Napoleon has been called a visionary, a pragmatist, a cynical opportunist, an ogre, and a demigod. Here, he is described in his own words and the words of his contemporaries: from... more...









