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The Fall of Robespierre
24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
Av Colin Jones
Häftad, 2023
160 kr
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The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year directed the Reign of Terror, was …
Shortest History of France
From Roman Gaul to Revolution and Cultural Radiance - A Global Story for Our Times
Av Colin Jones
Häftad, 2025
130 kr
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France has long been feted for its unsurpassed cultural and historical riches. Gothic architecture, Louis XIV opulence, revolutionary spirit, café society . . . what could be more quintessentially French? Rarely do we think of France as a melting pot, and yet historian Colin Jones asserts it’s no …
Paris
Biography of a City
Av Colin Jones
Häftad, 2006
214 kr
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'Paris is the World, the rest of the Earth is nothing but its suburbs' - MarivauxIn this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining new history, Colin Jones seeks to give a sense of the city of Paris as it was lived in and experienced over time. The focal point of generation upon generation …
The Fall of Robespierre
24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
Av Colin Jones
Inbunden, 2021
378 kr
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The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year directed the Reign of Terror, was …
Paris
Biography of a City
Av Colin Jones
E-bok, 2006
136 kr
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'Paris is the World, the rest of the Earth is nothing but its suburbs' - MarivauxIn this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining new history, Colin Jones seeks to give a sense of the city of Paris as it was lived in and experienced over time. The focal point of generation upon generation …
Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon
The New Penguin History of France
Av Colin Jones
E-bok, 2003
170 kr
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There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to his successors in 1715 became the discredited, debt-ridden failure toppled by Revolution in1789. The further story of the bloody unravelling …
Fall of Robespierre
24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
Av Colin Jones
E-bok, 2021
252 kr
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The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year directed the Reign of Terror, was …
The Medical World of Early Modern France
Av Laurence Brockliss, Colin Jones
Inbunden, 1997
2441 kr
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The Medical World of Early Modern France recounts the history of medicine in France between the sixteenth century and the French Revolution. Physicians, surgeons and apothecaries are centre-stage, and the study provides an overview of long-term changes in their ideas about medicine and their craft. …
The Smile Revolution
In Eighteenth-Century Paris
Av Colin Jones
Inbunden, 2014
324 kr
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You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century …
Urban Economy
Real Estate Economics and Public Policy
Av Colin Jones
Häftad, 2021
852 kr
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Urban Economy: Real Estate Economics and Public Policy analyses urban economic change and public policy in a more practical way than a typical urban economics book. The book has a distinctive framework that considers the underlying reasons, and the consequences of urban change for real estate …
Urban Economy
Real Estate Economics and Public Policy
Av Colin Jones
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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Urban Economy: Real Estate Economics and Public Policy analyses urban economic change and public policy in a more practical way than a typical urban economics book. The book has a distinctive framework that considers the underlying reasons, and the consequences of urban change for real estate …
Reassessing Foucault
Power, Medicine and the Body
Inbunden, 1994
2513 kr
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Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences.Focusing on the social history of medicine, …
Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State
Av Jonathan Barry, Colin Jones
Häftad, 1994
637 kr
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What have been the roles of charities and the state in supporting medical provision? These are issues of major relevance, as the assumptions and practices of the welfare state are increasingly thrown into doubt. This title offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine …
Reassessing Foucault
Power, Medicine and the Body
Häftad, 1998
648 kr
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Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences.Focusing on the social history of medicine, …
Introduction to Soil Mechanics
Av Béla Bodó, Colin Jones
Häftad, 2013
600 kr
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INTRODUCTION TO SOIL MECHANICSIntroduction to Soil Mechanics covers the basic principles of soil mechanics, illustrating why the properties of soil are important, the techniques used to understand and characterise soil behaviour and how that knowledge is then applied in construction. The authors …
Right to Buy
Analysis and Evaluation of a Housing Policy
E-bok, 2008
2248 kr
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An evaluation of the most enduring privatisation of the Thatcher era … Written in an accessible style, this is a key reference for students and researchers in housing and planning; geography; and social policy. The book analyses the operation and impact of the right to buy policy (RTB). It includes …
Age of Cultural Revolutions
Britain and France, 1750-1820
Häftad, 2002
289 kr
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In this vanguard collection, a stellar group of internationally known scholars explores a key period in the making of the modern West. Although the long-standing notion of 'dual revolutions,' economic in Britain and political in France, has been vigorously challenged in recent years, these authors …
Charity and Bienfaisance
The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region 1740-1815
Av Colin Jones
Häftad, 2005
586 kr
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This book is a case study, based on the Montpellier region in southern France, which analyses charity and poor relief from 1750 to the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, and the effect of the French Revolution on the treatment of the poor. The breadth of the book's timescale is one of its most …
The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London
Av Doreen Evenden, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
720 kr
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This book is a comprehensive and detailed study of early modern midwives in seventeenth-century London. Until quite recently, midwives, as a group, have been dismissed by historians as being inadequately educated and trained for the task of child delivery. The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London …
Spreading Germs
Disease Theories and Medical Practice in Britain, 1865-1900
Av Michael Worboys, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
426 kr
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Spreading Germs discusses how modern ideas on the bacterial causes of communicable diseases were constructed and spread within the British medical profession in the last third of the nineteenth century. Michael Worboys surveys many existing interpretations of this pivotal moment in modern medicine. …
Last Resort
Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine
Av Jack D. Pressman, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1391 kr
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During the 1940s and 1950s, tens of thousands of Americans underwent some form of psychosurgery; that is, their brains were operated upon for the putative purpose of treating mental illness. From today's perspective, such medical practices appear foolhardy at best, perhaps even barbaric; most …
Quality and Quantity
The Quest for Biological Regeneration in Twentieth-Century France
Av William H. Schneider, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1861 kr
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This book, first published in 1991, examines in detail how eugenics in early twentieth-century France provided a broad cover for a variety of reform movements that attempted to bring about the biological regeneration of the French population. Like several other societies during this period, France …
The Physician-Legislators of France
Medicine and Politics in the Early Third Republic, 1870-1914
Av Jack D. Ellis, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1744 kr
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Between the birth of the Third Republic and the outbreak of World War I, French medical doctors gained a far-reaching influence over the political life of their country, serving as mayors on the local level and ranking second only to lawyers in parliament. Their frequent medical contact with the …
Mission and Method
The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement
Av Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
2146 kr
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In Mission and Method Ann La Berge shows how the French public health movement developed within the socio-political context of the Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy, and within the context of competing ideologies of liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and statism. The dialectic between …
International Health Organisations and Movements, 1918-1939
Av Paul Weindling, Paul Weindling m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1780 kr
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This is a collection of original studies on the new international health and welfare organisations between the First and the Second World Wars. The diversity of such organisations and their many-sided activities make this a rich and complex area of historical investigation which has direct …
Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy
Benefactors and their Motives in Turin, 1541-1789
Av Sandra Cavallo, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1559 kr
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Through its examination of a city marginal to the Italian tradition of communes and city-states during the post-Renaissance period, the book offers an extended reassessment of what has been regarded as the typical Italian model of welfare. Acts of charity have often been interpreted either within a …
Public Health in British India
Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859-1914
Av Mark Harrison, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
502 kr
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After years of neglect the last decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the medical history of India under colonial rule. This is the first major study of public health in British India. It covers many previously unresearched areas such as European attitudes towards India and its inhabitants, …
The Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages
Medicine, Science, and Culture
Av Joan Cadden, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
356 kr
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In describing and explaining the sexes, medicine and science participated in the delineation of what was 'feminine' and what was 'masculine' in the Middle Ages. Hildegard of Bingen and Albertus Magnus, among others, writing about gynecology, the human constitution, fetal development, or the …
Public Health in Papua New Guinea
Medical Possibility and Social Constraint, 1884-1984
Av Donald Denoon, Charles Rosenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
586 kr
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This book concerns the development of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care during the initial colonisation and later colonial rule of Papua New Guinea. It discusses the relationship between public health and the medical profession and colonial bureaucracy, and also analyses the …
