Product Description: This book has long established itself as the most authoritative guide to the modern history of French politics and society. This new edition broadens the book's scope and appeal by adding three new chapters on ideas, identities and culture, exploring the themes of "Frenchness," the distinctiveness of French political culture, the role of intellectuals and the avant-garde, and the creation of a mass culture...read more

Product Description: France and Women, 1789-1914 is the first book to offer an authoritative account of women's history throughout the nineteenth century. James McMillan, author of the seminal work Housewife or Harlot, offers a major reinterpretation of the French past in relation to gender throughout these tumultuous decades of revolution and war...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: James F. McMillan is Professor of European History at the University of Strathclyde. This book is intended for women's history courses. Women's studies. French history courses run both in French depts and history depts. Modern European history courses. European studies.

Product Description: James F. McMillan is Professor of European History at the University of Strathclyde. This book is intended for women's history courses. Women's studies. French history courses run both in French depts and history depts. Modern European history courses. European studies.

Product Description: In this assessment James McMillan moves away from ideologically-based representations of the man to focus on his use of power. He recognises the Emporer as a highly skilled operator who in the face of innumerable obstacles, attempted to conduct an original policy.