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Product Description: Renowned historian, essayist, and journalist David A. Bell has long made France and its history the subject of his scholarly gaze and the object of his enduring affection. Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present gathers together his writing, composed over a period of more than 25 years, into a single volume...read more

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9780190262686 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 5, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Renowned historian, essayist, and journalist David A.

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9781559364942 | Theatre Communications Group, September 13, 2016, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: Winner of the Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished ScholarshipMarie Antoinette has remained atop the popular cultural landscape for centuries for the daring in style and fashion that she brought to 18th century France. For the better part of the queen’s reign, one man was entrusted with the sole responsibility of ensuring that her coiffure was at its most ostentatious best...read more

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9780762791538 | Lyons Pr, October 16, 2013, cover price $26.95

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9781493000630 | Reprint edition (Lyons Pr, June 1, 2015), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Winner of the Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished ScholarshipMarie Antoinette has remained atop the popular cultural landscape for centuries for the daring in style and fashion that she brought to 18th century France.

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By Roger Price (editor)

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9780333676271 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 4, 2015, cover price $104.00

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9780333676288 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 4, 2015, cover price $36.99

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Product Description: This book examines French motivations behind the decolonisation of Tunisia and Morocco and the intra-Western Alliance relationships. It argues that changing French policy towards decolonisation brought about the unexpectedly quick process of independence of dependencies in the post-WWII era...read more

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9781137368942 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 5, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This book examines French motivations behind the decolonisation of Tunisia and Morocco and the intra-Western Alliance relationships.

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By Lan Dill (trans)

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9780373195541, titled "Taming the Sheik" | Harlequin Books, November 1, 2001, cover price $3.99 | also contains Taming the Sheik

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Product Description: Kourou was to be a wonderful revenge, a French colony in America after the Seven Years War in 1763. However, the fantastic ideal became a grand failure and political disaster, marking the end of the French attempts for an American colony.

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9781137363466 | Italian edition edition (Palgrave Macmillan, March 30, 2015), cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Kourou was to be a wonderful revenge, a French colony in America after the Seven Years War in 1763.

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Product Description: This new study of Napoleon emphasizes his ties to the French Revolution, his embodiment of its militancy, and his rescue of its legacies. Jordan's work illuminates all aspects of his fabulous career, his views of the Revolution and history, the artists who created and embellished his image, and much of his talk about himself and his achievements...read more

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9780230362819 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 21, 2012, cover price $110.00

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9781137427984 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, July 8, 2014), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: This new study of Napoleon emphasizes his ties to the French Revolution, his embodiment of its militancy, and his rescue of its legacies.

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Product Description: A provocative rethinking of France's long relationship with the Arab world To fully understand both the social and political pressures wracking contemporary France and, indeed, all of Europe as well as major events from the Arab Spring in the Middle East to the tensions in Mali, Andrew Hussey believes that we have to look beyond the confines of domestic horizons...read more

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9780865479210 | Faber & Faber, April 22, 2014, cover price $35.00
9780312150334, titled "On Writing Research: The Braddock Essays 1975-1998" | Bedford/st Martins, June 1, 1999, cover price $10.01 | also contains On Writing Research: The Braddock Essays 1975-1998 | About this edition: This compiliation includes twenty-six of the Braddock essays, recently written afterwords as each author reflects on his or her essay, and an introduction that revisits the essays and the field to explore where it's been — and where it's going.

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9780865478268 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 31, 2015), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A provocative rethinking of France's long relationship with the Arab world To fully understand both the social and political pressures wracking contemporary France and, indeed, all of Europe as well as major events from the Arab Spring in the Middle East to the tensions in Mali, Andrew Hussey believes that we have to look beyond the confines of domestic horizons.

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Product Description: Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy, and mystery.   Throughout most of the late medieval period, from 1300 to 1500, England and France were bitter enemies, often at war or on the brink of it...read more

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9780300148862 | Yale Univ Pr, January 7, 2014, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy, and mystery.

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Product Description: "Daniel Singer is the left's most brilliant arsonist. He sets ablaze whole forests of desiccated clichés about 'the end of history' and 'the triumph of the market' in order to light the way forward for the next generation of radical thinkers and activists...read more

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9781608462735 | 2 edition (Haymarket Books, July 9, 2013), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: "Daniel Singer is the left's most brilliant arsonist.
9780896086821 | Revised edition (South End Pr, August 1, 2002), cover price $20.00

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Product Description: A phenomenal bestseller in France, Metronome presents a fascinating history of Paris through the lens of the city's iconic Metro systemDid you know that the last Gallic warriors massacred by the Romans lie beneath the Eiffel Tower? That the remains of Paris's first cathedral are under a parking lot in the Fifth District? Metronome follows Loránt Deutsch, historian and lifelong Francophile, as he goes on a compelling journey through the ages, treating readers to Paris as they've never seen it before...read more

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9781250023674 | Reprint edition (Griffin, December 3, 2013), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A phenomenal bestseller in France, Metronome presents a fascinating history of Paris through the lens of the city's iconic Metro systemDid you know that the last Gallic warriors massacred by the Romans lie beneath the Eiffel Tower?

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Product Description: Marriage and Revolution is a double biography of Jean-Marie Roland (1734-1793) and Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, later Madame Roland (1754-1793), leading figures in the French Revolution. J.-M. Roland was minister of the Interior for a total of eight months during 1792...read more

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9780199560424 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 26, 2012, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Marriage and Revolution is a double biography of Jean-Marie Roland (1734-1793) and Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, later Madame Roland (1754-1793), leading figures in the French Revolution.

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Product Description: A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honour system. Whether activists demanded admission to the popular ritual of the duel or publicly shamed men for their extramarital sexual behaviour, they appropriated extralegal honour codes to enact new civic and familial identities...read more

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9780230294035 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 2011, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: A repositioning of French women's struggle for suffrage within the distinct cultural landscape of the masculine honour system.

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Frantz Fanon has influenced generations of activists and scholars. His life's work continues to be debated and discussed around the world. This book is an event: an international, interdisciplinary collection of debates and interventions by leading scholars and intellectuals from Africa, Europe and the United States.
By Nigel C. Gibson (editor)

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9780230114968 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 15, 2011, cover price $105.00

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9780230114975 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 15, 2011, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Frantz Fanon has influenced generations of activists and scholars.

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Product Description: This compiliation includes twenty-six of the Braddock essays, recently written afterwords as each author reflects on his or her essay, and an introduction that revisits the essays and the field to explore where it's been — and where it's going.

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9780312150334 | Bedford/st Martins, June 1, 1999, cover price $10.01 | also contains The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs | About this edition: This compiliation includes twenty-six of the Braddock essays, recently written afterwords as each author reflects on his or her essay, and an introduction that revisits the essays and the field to explore where it's been — and where it's going.

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9780312202644 | Bedford/st Martins, March 1, 1999, cover price $39.80 | About this edition: This compiliation includes twenty-six of the Braddock essays, recently written afterwords as each author reflects on his or her essay, and an introduction that revisits the essays and the field to explore where it's been — and where it's going.

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