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To the Maginot Line
The Politics of French Military Preparation in the 1920’s
Häftad, 2006
254 kr
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“[A] stimulating and excellently documented book…Individual personalities are particularly well handled. Foch and Pétain, Poincaré and Blum—all emerge with veritable life in them. The trends of French interwar history are deftly carried through onto these pages with an unobtrusive lucidity and …
Carroll Wright and Labor Reform
The Origin of Labor Statistics
Av James Leiby
Inbunden, 1960
315 kr
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Contemporaries of Carroll D. Wright (1840-1909) lived through the transformation of American society by the industrial revolution. For the most part they thought the transformation represented growth and progress, but many also found occasion for doubt and fear in its consequences. Their anxieties …
Church, Politics, and Society in Spain, 1750-1874
Inbunden, 1984
537 kr
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This contribution to European historical literature--based on extensive research in Madrid--provides a clear and dispassionate account of successive ecclesiastical-secular conflicts and controversies, and deftly summarizes the diverse ideological and intellectual currents of the times.Nowhere in …
Congressional Insurgents and the Party System, 1909–1916
Av James Holt
Inbunden, 1967
246 kr
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James Holt offers a new answer to the question "What happened to progressivism in the Republican party?" The battles over the Payne-Aldrich tariff, the powers of Speaker Cannon, military preparedness, the elections of 1912 and 1916, and Wilson's New Freedom are used to exemplify the attempts of …
Disarmament and Peace in British Politics, 1914-1919
Inbunden, 1957
448 kr
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Since the beginning of modern warfare, one of the favorite crusades of the international peacemakers has been toward disarmament. This book investigates the British origin of the disarmament idea--from World War I through the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. It traces the development of …
Fall of Stein
Av R. C. Raack
Inbunden, 1965
351 kr
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Baron Friedrich vom Stein's leadership of the reform movement in Prussia has long been considered part of a critically important phase of early nineteenth-century German history. R. C. Raack describes in vivid detail the combination of forces and circumstances which brought about Stein's fall from …
Florentine Public Finances in the Early Renaissance, 1400-1433
Inbunden, 1971
377 kr
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In his application of statistical methods to history, Mr. Molho offers a new approach to the study of Florentine politics.Scholars have long recognized that Florence’s deficit-financing of its wars of independence against the Visconti of Milan had far-reaching economic, political, and social …
George Henry Lewes
A Victorian Mind
Inbunden, 1978
293 kr
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George Henry Lewes, consort of George Eliot biographer of Robespierre and Goethe, novelist, editor, and critic, was also a scientist and philosopher. An intellectual figure of great importance on the Victorian scene, he has never before received adequate modern scholarly appreciation. In this book …
Germany and the Diplomacy of the Financial Crisis, 1931
Inbunden, 1962
486 kr
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Using documents only recently available, this pioneering book explores the interaction of German, British, French, and American policy at a time when the great depression and the growing political power of the Nazis had created a European crisis—the only such crisis between 1910 and 1941 in which …
Old Hatreds and Young Hopes
The French Carbonari against the Bourbon Restoration
Inbunden, 1971
509 kr
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After the defeat and exile of Napoleon and the restoration of the Bourbons, the political climate of France was one of seething unrest, intrigue, and dissent. A clandestine and conspiratorial movement known as the Carbonari, or Charbonnerie, arose in the early 1820's with the aim of overthrowing …
Parisian Order of Barristers and the French Revolution
Inbunden, 1987
465 kr
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Did barristers as a professional group support the French Revolution, or were they most often “in flight from politics”? A close inquiry into the Order of Barristers at Paris—the largest and most important in France, with over six hundred members in 1789—reveals that the vast majority within the …
Provincial Magistrates and Revolutionary Politics in France, 1789-1795
Inbunden, 1972
486 kr
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It is commonly agreed that the history of France at the end of the eighteenth century was influenced powerfully, at times decisively, by collective interests and group actions. Yet, as Philip Dawson shows, this consensus has been the foundation of endless scholarly argument over the purposes of …
Sisters of Liberty
Marseille, Lyon, Paris and the Reaction to a Centralized State, 1868-1871
Inbunden, 1971
448 kr
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Although the Paris Commune of 1871 has been the subject of voluminous writing, especially on the place of the uprising in the development of socialist thought and practice, little was previously done on provincial communal movements. First published in 1971, this book offers an exploration of the …
