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41 produkter
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution
Av Martyn Lyons
Häftad, 1994
637 kr
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The Napoleonic period cannot be interpreted as a single historical 'block'. Bonaparte had many different persona: the Jacobin, the Republican, the reformer of the Consulate, the consolidator of the Empire and the 'liberal' of the Hundred Days. The emphasis here will be on Napoleon as the heir and …
History of Reading and Writing
In the Western World
Av Martyn Lyons
Häftad, 2009
531 kr
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Martyn Lyons surveys the changing relationships enjoyed by men and women with the written word, from early times to the present day. He provides a highly-readable account of the social history of reading and writing, relating it to key historical moments such as the Renaissance, the Reformation and …
History of Reading and Writing
In the Western World
Av Martyn Lyons
Inbunden, 2009
1897 kr
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Martyn Lyons surveys the changing relationships enjoyed by men and women with the written word, from early times to the present day. He provides a highly-readable account of the social history of reading and writing, relating it to key historical moments such as the Renaissance, the Reformation and …
Post-revolutionary Europe
1815-1856
Av Martyn Lyons, Richard J. Overy
Inbunden, 2006
2043 kr
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Martyn Lyons offers a fresh interpretation of European history in the half-century following the fall of Napoleon. Instead of seeing the period in traditional terms of Restoration and Reaction, this new account emphasizes the problems of remembering and forgetting the recent revolutionary and …
Post-revolutionary Europe
1815-1856
Av Martyn Lyons, Richard J. Overy
Häftad, 2006
574 kr
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Martyn Lyons offers a fresh interpretation of European history in the half-century following the fall of Napoleon. Instead of seeing the period in traditional terms of Restoration and Reaction, this new account emphasizes the problems of remembering and forgetting the recent revolutionary and …
Books: A Living History
Av Martyn Lyons
Häftad, 2013
156 kr
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This ambitious volume, newly available in paperback, explores the rich history of the book, one of the most efficient, influential and enduring technologies ever invented. For more than 2,500 years, the book, in a wide range of forms, has been used to document, to educate and to entertain. The …
France under the Directory
Av Martyn Lyons
Häftad, 1975
636 kr
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On 9 thermidor Year 2, Robespierre fell; on18 brumaire Year 8, a coup d'état brought Bonaparte to power. This book demonstrates that the interval between these two momentous events was also of crucial importance. Using the findings of recent research, it presents a balanced appraisal of the …
Reading Culture & Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Martyn Lyons
Inbunden, 2008
796 kr
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Between about 1830 and the outbreak of the First World War, print culture, reading, and writing transformed cultural life in Western Europe in many significant ways. Book production and consumption increased dramatically, and practices such as letter- and diary-writing were widespread. This study …
Modern History of Andorra
Autonomy in the Pyrenean Borderlands
Av Martyn Lyons
Inbunden, 2025
1026 kr
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This book examines the fascinating survival of Andorra, one of Europe's micro-states nestled between France and Spain. Despite its medieval institutional framework, Andorra endured into the late 20th century without an army, police, currency, or customs barriers. The book uncovers how Andorra …
Modern History of Andorra
Autonomy in the Pyrenean Borderlands
Av Martyn Lyons
Häftad, 2026
382 kr
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This book examines the fascinating survival of Andorra, one of Europe's micro-states nestled between France and Spain. Despite its medieval institutional framework, Andorra endured into the late 20th century without an army, police, currency, or customs barriers. The book uncovers how Andorra …
Modern History of Andorra
Autonomy in the Pyrenean Borderlands
Av Martyn Lyons
E-bok, 2025
393 kr
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This book examines the fascinating survival of Andorra, one of Europe''s micro-states nestled between France and Spain. Despite its medieval institutional framework, Andorra endured into the late 20th century without an army, police, currency, or customs barriers. The book uncovers how Andorra …
Modern History of Andorra
Autonomy in the Pyrenean Borderlands
Av Martyn Lyons
E-bok, 2025
393 kr
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This book examines the fascinating survival of Andorra, one of Europe''s micro-states nestled between France and Spain. Despite its medieval institutional framework, Andorra endured into the late 20th century without an army, police, currency, or customs barriers. The book uncovers how Andorra …
Pregnancy Declarations in 18th-Century France
The Judge, the Maid and Her Seducer
Av Martyn Lyons
Inbunden, 2026
1012 kr
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Pregnancy Declarations in 18th-century France: The Judge, the Maid and her Seducer examines pregnancy declarations (déclarations de grossesse) in eighteenth-century France, analyzing how unmarried pregnant women navigated legal requirements established by Henry II's 1556 edict that made concealing …
The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c.1860-1920
Av Martyn Lyons
Inbunden, 2012
1677 kr
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As war and mass emigration across oceans increased the distances between ordinary people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many of them, previously barely literate and unaccustomed to writing, began to communicate on paper. This fascinating account explores this surge of …
The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c.1860-1920
Av Martyn Lyons
Häftad, 2014
574 kr
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As war and mass emigration across oceans increased the distances between ordinary people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many of them, previously barely literate and unaccustomed to writing, began to communicate on paper. This fascinating account explores this surge of …
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution
Av Martyn Lyons
E-bok, 1994
674 kr
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The Napoleonic period cannot be interpreted as a single historical ''block''. Bonaparte had many different persona: the Jacobin, the Republican, the reformer of the Consulate, the consolidator of the Empire and the ''liberal'' of the Hundred Days. The emphasis here will be on Napoleon as the heir …
Pyrenees in the Modern Era
Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775-2012
Av Martyn Lyons
Inbunden, 2018
1897 kr
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This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The …
Pyrenees in the Modern Era
Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775-2012
Av Martyn Lyons
E-bok, 2018
562 kr
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This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The …
Pyrenees in the Modern Era
Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775-2012
Av Martyn Lyons
E-bok, 2018
550 kr
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This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The …
Pyrenees in the Modern Era
Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775-2012
Av Martyn Lyons
Häftad, 2019
516 kr
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This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The …
Reading Culture & Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Martyn Lyons
E-bok, 2008
919 kr
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Between about 1830 and the outbreak of the First World War, print culture, reading, and writing transformed cultural life in Western Europe in many significant ways. Book production and consumption increased dramatically, and practices such as letter- and diary-writing were widespread. This study …
Reading Culture & Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France
Av Martyn Lyons
E-bok, 2008
993 kr
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Between about 1830 and the outbreak of the First World War, print culture, reading, and writing transformed cultural life in Western Europe in many significant ways. Book production and consumption increased dramatically, and practices such as letter- and diary-writing were widespread. This study …
Typewriter Century
A Cultural History of Writing Practices
Av Martyn Lyons
Häftad, 2021
363 kr
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This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it. Drawing on examples from the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia, The Typewriter Century …
Typewriter Century
A Cultural History of Writing Practices
Av Martyn Lyons
E-bok, 2021
450 kr
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This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it. Drawing on examples from the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia, The Typewriter Century …
Typewriter Century
A Cultural History of Writing Practices
Av Martyn Lyons
E-bok, 2021
450 kr
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This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it. Drawing on examples from the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia, The Typewriter Century …
Common Writer in Modern History
Av Martyn Lyons
Inbunden, 2023
1450 kr
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This book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of uses to which it was put. In eleven new studies by thirteen leading historians of scribal culture, it foregrounds the ‘common writer’ and contributes to a ‘New History from Below’. The book presents …
common writer in modern history
Av Martyn Lyons
Häftad, 2026
509 kr
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This book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of uses to which it was put. In eleven new studies by thirteen leading historians of scribal culture, it foregrounds the ‘common writer’ and contributes to a ‘New History from Below’. The book presents …
Dear Prime Minister
Letters to Robert Menzies 1949-1966
Av Martyn Lyons
Häftad, 2021
352 kr
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'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean', wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance.Robert Menzies received 22,000 letters during his 1949-1966 record-breaking second term as Australian Prime Minister. From war veterans, widows and …
Uses of Literacy in Colonial Australia
Av Martyn Lyons
Inbunden, 2025
1516 kr
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What did Australians read? This book answers this question in terms of books rather than newspapers and considers the long nineteenth century, interpreted as running from 1788 to 1901. In the wake of this primary question, several others arise: how did Australians acquire the books they read, and …
Uses of Literacy in Colonial Australia
Av Martyn Lyons
E-bok, 2025
498 kr
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What did Australians read? This book answers this question in terms of books rather than newspapers and considers the long nineteenth century, interpreted as running from 1788 to 1901. In the wake of this primary question, several others arise: how did Australians acquire the books they read, and …
