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French Resistance
University of Minnesota Press 2000; US$ 35.00Consistently illuminating and often polemical, French Resistance focuses on recent transatlantic debates over critical theory, national identity, and multiculturalism.orStarting from well-publicized controversies such as the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the 1989 Affair of the Veil, or the more recent Sokal Affair, Jean-Philippe Mathy looks... more...
Reproductions of Banality
University of Minnesota Press 1986; US$ 51.00Reproductions of Banality was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. An established fascist state has never existed in France, and after World War II there was a tendency to... more...
The Defense of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Northern Italy, 1813-1814
Greenwood Publishing Group 2001; US$ 125.00A discussion of the two-year campaign in Northern Italy (1813-14) within the larger context of the Napoleonic Wars. Outnumbered by three to one, the French commander, Eugene Beauharnais fought an outstanding campaign, covering all of Napoleon's southern front. more...
The Franco-Prussian War
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 22.00Wawro describes the Franco-Prussian War, 187071, that violently changed the course of European history. more...
Vice And Virtue
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 29.95From the courtesans of Versailles to the back halls of Chiracs government, from Danton revealed to have been a paid agent for England to the shady bankers of Mitterands era, from the buddies of Mazarin to the builders of the Panama Canal, Paul Lomba more...
Rome in the Pyrenees
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Written by an acknowledged authority on this period and region, this is the first full-length book published in English on a Roman-Gallic town. Drawing from the extensive excavation that he has carried out on the site for many years, Simon Esmonde-Cleary presents this historical and archaeological survey of the important Roman and medieval site... more...
Richelieu
IHS Press 2005; US$ 15.95A biography of Cardinal Richelieu of France?considered by many to be the founder of modern Europe?this book does not seek to make Richelieu a figure either of irrational worship or irrational hate. Belloc impartially examines Richelieu's life and career, delves into his Catholic and family roots, and pinpoints their relevance to the development of... more...
Charlemagne
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 24.00A major new re-examination of Charlemagne the ruler and his reputation. more...
French Intellectuals and Politics from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 110.00A companion volume to Drake's Intellectuals and Politics in Post-War France (2002), French Intellectuals from the Dreyfus Affair to the Occupation traces the political positions adopted by French writers and artists from the end of the 19th century to the Liberation. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, it offers a clear and... more...
Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.95From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, the brilliant life of Napoleon's favorite sister, with color photos, paintings, and illustrations. Considered by many in Europe to be the most beautiful woman at the turn of the nineteenth century, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese shocked the continent with the boldness of her love affairs, her opulent wardrobe... more...









