Product Description: Baltimore’s high-spirited, independent and controversial Betsy Patterson married Napoleon’s brother Jerome in 1803, bore a son, and defied the angry Emperor. Originally published in France in 1988, this lively biography takes the reader into the intrigues in France and early 19th-century Baltimore...read more

Product Description: On 16 November 1671, Liselotte von der Pfalz, the nineteen-year-old daughter of the Elector of Palatine, was married to Philippe d'Orléans, "Monsieur," the only brother of Louis XIV. The marriage was not to be a happy one. Liselotte (known in France as Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orléans, or "Madame") was full of intellectual energy and moral rigor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

'Two senior historians of ancien râegime societies have deftly translated and introduced selected pages of this extraordinary diary left by a planter of old lineage who lived through momentous changes in Caribbean society and economy'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Product Description: In this definitive analysis of the Weimar Republic, Hans Mommsen surveys the political, social, and economic development of Germany between the end of World War I and the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor in 1933. His assessment of the German experiment with democracy challenges many long-held assumptions about the course and character of German history...read more

Product Description: The French Revolution is an historical event unlike any other. It is more than just a topic of intellectual interest: it has become part of a moral and political heritage. But after two centuries, this central event in French history has usually been thought of in much the same terms as it was by its contemporaries...read more