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The Greater Journeyby David McCullough
Simon & Schuster 2011; US$ 19.99T he G reater J ourney is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work. After risking the hazardous journey across the Atlantic, these Americans embarked on a greater journey in the City of Light. Most had never left home, never experienced a different culture. None had any guarantee of success. That they achieved so much for themselves and their country profoundly altered American history. As David McCullough writes, “Not all pioneers went west.” Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor... more...
Paris, Capital of Modernityby David Harvey
Routledge 2003; US$ 44.95A remarkable collection of David Harvey's finest writings on 19th century Paris. more...
Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Centuryby Simon MacLean; Rosamond McKitterick; Christine Carpenter; Jonathan Shepard
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 48.00This is the first book in any language to deal with the collapse of the pan-European Carolingian empire in 888, as seen through the reign of its last ruler Charles the Fat. It argues against traditionally pessimistic views of this important period, offering new interpretations of early medieval kingship. more...
Brittany and the Angevinsby J. A. Everard; Rosamond McKitterick; Christine Carpenter; Jonathan Shepard
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 42.00This is a political history of Brittany between 1158 and 1203, when it was ruled by the Angevin king of England, Henry II, and his successors. The book examines the process whereby Henry II gained sovereignty over Brittany, and how it was governed thereafter. more...
The Making of Revolutionary Parisby David Garrioch
University of California Press 2002; US$ 27.95The sights, sounds, and smells of life on the streets and in the houses of eighteenth-century Paris rise from the pages of this marvelously anecdotal chronicle of a perpetually alluring city during one hundred years of extraordinary social and cultural change. An excellent general history as well as an innovative synthesis of new research, The Making of Revolutionary Paris combines vivid portraits of individual lives, accounts of social trends, and analyses of significant events as it explores the evolution of Parisian society during the eighteenth century and reveals the city's pivotal role in shaping the French Revolution. David Garrioch rewrites the origins of the Parisian Revolution as the story of an urban metamorphosis stimulated by... more...
Pulp Surrealismby Robin Walz
University of California Press 2000; US$ 15.95In addition to its more well known literary and artistic origins, the French surrealist movement drew inspiration from currents of psychological anxiety and rebellion running through a shadowy side of mass culture, specifically in fantastic popular fiction and sensationalistic journalism. more...
Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europeby Hans J. Hummer; Rosamond McKitterick; Christine Carpenter; Jonathan Shepard
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 38.00Taking Alsace as its focus, this innovative study offers a unique snapshot of localised and centralised political structures in early medieval Europe. Providing a comprehensive exploration of the regional sources, it tracks the development and eventual demise of a distinctive political culture derived from networks of monasteries and kin-groups. more...
Families, friends, and alliesby H. Tanner
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 Paris & the Ile de Franceby Heather Stimmler-Hall
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'Azurby Ferne Arfin
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, built by the Romans, still the venue for festivals and spectacles. Experience the Camargue, paradise for birdwatchers ? the only place outside of Africa where pink flamingos nest by the tens of thousands. The wild Camargue horses here are legendary. more...