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Emile and Isaac Pereire
Bankers, Socialists and Sephardic Jews in nineteenth-century France
Häftad, 2016
374 kr
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Emile (1800–75) and Isaac Pereire (1806–80) were pivotal and sensational figures, their lives and careers a lens through which to re-examine the history of France in the nineteenth century. Among the first generation of Jews emancipated by the French Revolution, they became significant …
Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being
The Search for a Republican Morality
Häftad, 2018
371 kr
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Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being provides an exciting new study of an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career of its principal actor, Maximilien Robespierre, the Festival of the Supreme Being. This day of national celebration was held to …
Confiscating the common good
Small towns and religious politics in the French Revolution
Av Edward Woell
Inbunden, 2022
1227 kr
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Comprising five microhistories, this book proposes that the French Revolution’s religious politics in small towns weakened democratic society to such an extent that it precluded political democracy. It details two revolutionary dynamics that damaged the civic life of small towns: social …
Herminie and Fanny Pereire
Elite Jewish women in nineteenth-century France
Häftad, 2026
456 kr
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Herminie and Fanny Pereire were sisters-in-law, married to the eminent Jewish bankers and Saint-Simonian socialists Emile and Isaac. They were also mother and daughter. This book, a companion to the author's acclaimed Emile and Isaac Pereire (2015), sheds new light on elite Jewish families in …
Catholicism and Children's Literature in France
The Comtesse De SéGur (1799–1874)
Inbunden, 2011
1302 kr
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This is the first book-length history of the classic French children’s author, the comtesse de Ségur. Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, in France Ségur is a national icon and a cultural phenomenon. Generations of children have grown up reading her stories. This book combines a …
Aristocratic Families in Republican France, 1870–1940
Av Elizabeth Chalmers MacKnight
Inbunden, 2012
1263 kr
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This is a study of the daily life, concerns, and dynamics of aristocratic families in the France of the Third Republic. Elizabeth Macknight draws on a vast range of material from private archives to contest assumptions about the irrelevancy of the nobility under the republican regime. Within a …
Routes to Exile
France and the Spanish Civil War Refugees, 1939–2009
Av Scott Soo
Inbunden, 2013
1263 kr
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As they trudged over the Pyrenees, the Spanish republicans became one of the most iconoclastic groups of refugees to have sought refuge in twentieth-century France. This book explores the array of opportunities, constraints, choices and motivations that characterised their lives. Using a wide range …
From Empire to Exile
History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962–2012
Inbunden, 2016
1263 kr
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This book explores the commemorative afterlives of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), one of the world's most iconic wars of decolonisation. It focuses on the million French settlers - pieds-noirs - and the tens of thousands of harkis - the French army's native auxiliaries - who felt …
Emile and Isaac Pereire
Bankers, Socialists and Sephardic Jews in Nineteenth-Century France
Inbunden, 2014
1263 kr
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Emile (1800–75) and Isaac Pereire (1806–80) were pivotal and sensational figures, their lives and careers a lens through which to re-examine the history of France in the nineteenth century. Among the first generation of Jews emancipated by the French Revolution, they became significant …
Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being
The Search for a Republican Morality
Inbunden, 2016
1201 kr
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This study examines an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career of its principal actor, Maximilien Robespierre: the Festival of the Supreme Being. This day of national celebration was held to inaugurate the new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, and …
Stadium Century
Sport, Spectatorship and Mass Society in Modern France
Inbunden, 2016
1263 kr
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The stadium century traces the history of stadia and mass spectatorship in modern France from the vélodromes of the late nineteenth century to the construction of the Stade de France before the 1998 soccer World Cup. As the book demonstrates, the stadium was at the centre of debates over public …
Aristocratic Families in Republican France, 1870–1940
Av Elizabeth Chalmers MacKnight
Häftad, 2017
529 kr
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This is a study of the daily life, concerns, and dynamics of aristocratic families in the France of the Third Republic. Elizabeth Macknight draws on a vast range of material from private archives to contest assumptions about the irrelevancy of the nobility under the republican regime. Within a …
Routes to Exile
France and the Spanish Civil War Refugees, 1939–2009
Av Scott Soo
Häftad, 2017
529 kr
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As they trudged over the Pyrenees, the Spanish republicans became one of the most iconoclastic groups of refugees to have sought refuge in twentieth-century France. This book explores the array of opportunities, constraints, choices and motivations that characterised their lives. Using a wide range …
Mutinous Memories
A Subjective History of French Military Protest in 1919
Av Matt Perry
Inbunden, 2019
1236 kr
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This book explores the eight-month wave of mutinies that struck the French infantry and navy in 1919. Based on official records and the testimony of dozens of participants, it is the first study to try to understand the world of the mutineers. Examining their words for the traces of sensory …
Mutinous Memories
A Subjective History of French Military Protest in 1919
Av Matt Perry
Häftad, 2021
382 kr
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This book explores the eight-month wave of mutinies that struck the French infantry and navy in 1919. Based on official records and the testimony of dozens of participants, it is the first study to try to understand the world of the mutineers. Examining their words for the traces of sensory …
Nobility and Patrimony in Modern France
Av Elizabeth Chalmers MacKnight
Inbunden, 2018
1236 kr
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This study of tangible and intangible cultural heritage explains the significance of nobles’ conservationist traditions for public engagement with the history of France. During the French Revolution nobles’ property was seized, destroyed, or sold off by the nation. State intervention during the …
In Pursuit of Politics
Education and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
Inbunden, 2017
1263 kr
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This study offers a new interpretation of the debates over education and politics in the early years of the French Revolution. Following these debates from the 1760s to the Terror (1793–94) and putting well-known works in dialogue with previously neglected sources, it situates education at the …
From Empire to Exile
History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962–2012
Häftad, 2018
382 kr
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This book explores the commemorative afterlives of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), one of the world's most iconic wars of decolonisation. It focuses on the million French settlers - pieds-noirs - and the tens of thousands of harkis - the French army's native auxiliaries - who felt …
Terror and Terroir
The Winegrowers of the Languedoc and Modern France
Häftad, 2018
382 kr
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Terror and terroir investigates the Comité Régional d'Action Viticole (CRAV), a loose affiliation of militant winegrowers in the sun-drenched, southern vineyards of the Languedoc. Since 1961, they have fought to protect their livelihood. They were responsible for sabotage, bombings, hijackings and …
In Pursuit of Politics
Education and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
Häftad, 2019
382 kr
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This study offers a new interpretation of the debates over education and politics in the early years of the French Revolution. Following these debates from the 1760s to the Terror (1793–94) and putting well-known works in dialogue with previously neglected sources, it situates education at the …
Death and the Crown
Ritual and Politics in France Before the Revolution
Av Anne Byrne
Inbunden, 2019
1263 kr
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Looking at royal ritual in pre-revolutionary France, Death and the crown examines the deathbed and funeral of Louis XV in 1774, the lit de justice of November 1774 and the coronation of Louis XVI, including the ceremony of the royal healing touch for scrofula. It reviews the state of the field in …
Time and Radical Politics in France
From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War
Inbunden, 2023
786 kr
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This book investigates how people have thought about and experienced time, and how their ideas about time have shaped their political views and actions. Using French thinkers and activists of the radical left and right between the Dreyfus Affair and the First World War as a case study, it argues …
Sport and Physical Culture in Occupied France
Authoritarianism, Agency, and Everyday Life
Inbunden, 2022
1263 kr
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Sport and physical culture in Occupied France examines the Vichy state’s attempts to promote physical education and sports in order to rejuvenate French men and women during the Occupation. Through this cultural lens, it illuminates the central paradox of state power during the Vichy Regime. The …
Psychoanalysis and the Family in Twentieth-Century France
FrançOise Dolto and Her Legacy
Inbunden, 2022
1263 kr
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In the last quarter of the twentieth century, if French people had a parenting problem or dilemma there was one person they consulted above all: Françoise Dolto (1908–88). But who was Dolto? How did she achieve a position of such influence? What ideas did she communicate to the French public? This …
Death and the Crown
Ritual and Politics in France Before the Revolution
Av Anne Byrne
Häftad, 2022
442 kr
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Looking at royal ritual in pre-revolutionary France, Death and the crown examines the deathbed and funeral of Louis XV in 1774, the lit de justice of November 1774 and the coronation of Louis XVI, including the ceremony of the royal healing touch for scrofula. It reviews the state of the field in …
Republican Passions
Family, Friendship and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France
Inbunden, 2023
1263 kr
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Republican passions demonstrates the crucial role of family and friendship networks in the creation of the French Third Republic. Based on the family archives of Léon Laurent-Pichat, journalist, Deputy and Life Senator, this study paints a rich picture of republican intimacy, sociability and …
Inventing the Modern Region
Basque Identity and the French Nation-State
Inbunden, 2024
1255 kr
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This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite its origins in pre-modern customs, this stereotypical identity was invented as part of France’s process of nation-building. The abolition …
Generation Moulinex
Work, consumption and gender in France, 1950s–2010s
Inbunden, 2026
1255 kr
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Moulinex is widely known as a brand that brought domestic appliances into many homes during the 1950s and 1960s. Its history also illuminates broader changes in working-class lives and the organisation of work in postwar France. Based in Normandy, the company was central to the transformation of a …
Make cheese not war
Transnational resistance and the Larzac in modern France
Inbunden, 2026
1224 kr
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In 1971, the French government announced a massive extension of its military base on the Larzac plateau in southern France. Land was to be expropriated from 107 farms around the small town of La Cavalerie. Limited resistance was expected, but what happened next exceeded all expectations. Local …
Fertile expectations
The politics of involuntary childlessness in twentieth-century France
Inbunden, 2025
1263 kr
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An engaging history of motherhood, demography, and infertility in twentieth-century France, this book explores fraught political and cultural meanings attached to the notion of an “ideal” family size. When statistics revealed a sustained drop in France’s birthrate, pronatalist activists pushed for …
