Product Description: The Black Count is the Pulitzer Prize winning biography written by author Tom Reiss. The book traces the life of Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, also known as Alexandre Dumas, a black general who fought in the French Revolution...read more

Product Description: L’objectif de cet ouvrage, à l’occasion du cent cinquantenaire de l’annexion de la Savoie et du comté de Nice à la France, n’était pas de présenter l’événement en détail, mais de dépasser sa signification immédiate en enjambant l’année fatidique de 1860 pour l’inscrire dans un moyen terme, un « long XIXe siècle »...read more

Product Description: 1914-1918 fut un intermede belliciste entre deux epoques marquees par un fort rejet de la guerre. En 1914 il ne fallut que quelques jours pour que les tres nombreuses voix pacifistes qui s'elevaient dans tous les milieux et parmi toutes les sensibilites politiques soient submergees par la vague de violence qui deferlait sur l'Europe...read more

Product Description: The 1956 Suez War, fought between Egypt and the improbable coalition of Britain, France, and Israel, was a key point in the history of the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict. A blitzkrieg-style Israeli victory proved that Israel's victory in the 1948 war was not an accident to be swiftly fixed by Arab armies, and gave the country eleven years of relative peace until the next major conflict...read more

Product Description: Sicard founded the National Institution of Deaf Mutes during the Terror. Paradoxically, the abbé was a non-conformist priest who was arrested frequently, until his supporters intervened. Later his students gave public demonstrations of his grammatical definitions attracting international curiosity...read more

One of the most important results of the French Revolution was the destruction of the old feudal order, which for centuries had kept the common people of the countryside subject to the lords. In this book, John Markoff addresses the ways in which insurrectionary peasants and revolutionary legislators joined in bringing "the time 0f the lords" to an end and how, in that ending, scigncurial rights came to he central to the very sense of the Revolution. He traces the interaction of peasants and legislators, showing how they confronted, challenged, and implicitly negotiated with one another during the course 0f events.Contrary to many historians who see the source of revolutionary change in elite culture, Markoff argues that peasant insurrection was a crucial element of the transformation of France. Of particular importance to the study is Markoff's analysis of the unique cahiers de do/dances, the lists of grievances drawn up in 1789) by rural communities, urban notables, and nobles alike, These documents are invaluable for understanding the Revolution, but until the pioneering work of Markoff and Gilbert Shapiro, they had not been studied systematically at the national level. In addition to an unprecedented quantitative analysis of the cabin's, Matkoff staces the ehh and flow of peasant insurrection across half a decade of revolutionary turbulence. He also offers qualitative analysis through his use of the records of the legislative debates as well as the memoirs and journals of the legislators.The Abolition of Feudalism breaks new ground in chatting patterns of grievance and revolt in one of the most important social and political upheavals in history.

Product Description: In the late seventeenth century the role of printed propaganda in manipulating public consciousness became increasingly explicit, and governments developed systematic controls over the printed word. This book considers the purposes, mechanisms, content, and audience of royal printed propaganda in early modern France...read more

Product Description: This book deals with the French military occupations of Lorraine and Savoy during the personal rule of Louis XIV (1661-1715). It casts important new light on the aims and intentions (and also the limitations) of the French state in the seventeenth century, and makes a significant contribution to understanding a crucial era in the development of civil-military relations...read more

Product Description: A first course in accounting, this Second Edition features a contemporary focus, authoritative and professional content, computer relevancy, flexibility in coverage, and expanded treatment of managerial accounting. Serves majors and non-majors alike by providing all the basics and preparing the student for intermediate accounting and business courses...read more

Complete with hundreds of new addresses, as well as hundreds of e-mail addresses, a guide to the most current addresses of thousands of the world's most powerful, popular, and influential people--including celebrities, important organizations, corporate executives, social and political leaders, famous authors, and many others. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: this book to be an outstanding story of adventure and the perseverance of a single person’s journey. It provided a description of our country before most Europeans had arrived in North America. It also described various tribes and what interested me the most was how the French treated the Native Americans compared to the English...read more

Product Description: The Aesthetics of Hate examines the writings of a motley collection of interwar far-right intellectuals, showing that they defined Frenchness in racial, gendered, and sexual terms. A broad, ambitious cultural and intellectual history, the book offers a provocative reinterpretation of a topic that has long been the subject of controversy...read more