Author: Elizabeth Cartwright Penrose
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Reign of Victoria
Author: Elizabeth Cartwright Penrose
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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The Past in French History
Author: Robert Gildea
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300067118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This fascinating book examines how the past pervades French public life, how the French both commemorate their past triumphs, heroes, and martyrs and attempt to erase the more violent events in their history. The book surveys the ways that various political communities in France during the past two centuries have manufactured different versions of the past in order to define their identities and legitimate their goals. Beginning with a discussion of the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, Robert Gildea moves backward in time to show how rival factions have used various elements of French political culture--from the grandeur of the ancien r�gime to Catholicism, Jacobinism, Anarchism, and Bonapartism--to further their ends. Gildea shows how proponents of revolution and counterrevolution, church and state, centralism and regionalism, and national identity and nationalism campaigned to achieve the widest possible acceptance of their own view of the past. He describes the continuing battle between Left and Right for association with national heroes such as Joan of Arc and Napoleon. He exposes the reworking of collective views of the past by political communities, in order to increase or recover political legitimacy. Written in clear and trenchant prose, the book offers a new perspective on French history and political culture.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300067118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This fascinating book examines how the past pervades French public life, how the French both commemorate their past triumphs, heroes, and martyrs and attempt to erase the more violent events in their history. The book surveys the ways that various political communities in France during the past two centuries have manufactured different versions of the past in order to define their identities and legitimate their goals. Beginning with a discussion of the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, Robert Gildea moves backward in time to show how rival factions have used various elements of French political culture--from the grandeur of the ancien r�gime to Catholicism, Jacobinism, Anarchism, and Bonapartism--to further their ends. Gildea shows how proponents of revolution and counterrevolution, church and state, centralism and regionalism, and national identity and nationalism campaigned to achieve the widest possible acceptance of their own view of the past. He describes the continuing battle between Left and Right for association with national heroes such as Joan of Arc and Napoleon. He exposes the reworking of collective views of the past by political communities, in order to increase or recover political legitimacy. Written in clear and trenchant prose, the book offers a new perspective on French history and political culture.
A History of France
Author: John Julius Norwich
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802146708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
An “engaging, enthusiastic, sympathetic, funny” journey through French history from the New York Times–bestselling author of Absolute Monarchs (The Wall Street Journal). Beginning with Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul in the first century BC, this study of French history comprises a cast of legendary characters―Charlemagne, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Joan of Arc, and Marie Antoinette, to name a few―as John Julius Norwich chronicles France’s often violent, always fascinating history. From the French Revolution―after which neither France nor the world would be the same again―to the storming of the Bastille, from the Vichy regime and the Resistance to the end of the Second World War, A History of France is packed with heroes and villains, battles and rebellion—written with both an expert command of detail and a lively appreciation for the subject matter by this “true master of narrative history” (Simon Sebag Montefiore).
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802146708
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
An “engaging, enthusiastic, sympathetic, funny” journey through French history from the New York Times–bestselling author of Absolute Monarchs (The Wall Street Journal). Beginning with Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul in the first century BC, this study of French history comprises a cast of legendary characters―Charlemagne, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Joan of Arc, and Marie Antoinette, to name a few―as John Julius Norwich chronicles France’s often violent, always fascinating history. From the French Revolution―after which neither France nor the world would be the same again―to the storming of the Bastille, from the Vichy regime and the Resistance to the end of the Second World War, A History of France is packed with heroes and villains, battles and rebellion—written with both an expert command of detail and a lively appreciation for the subject matter by this “true master of narrative history” (Simon Sebag Montefiore).
The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688
Author: David Hume
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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History of Julius Caesar
Author: Napoleon III (Emperor of the French)
Publisher:
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Category : Emperors
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emperors
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 ...
Author: David Hume
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
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Catalog, 1903
Author: Indiana State Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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A. Mary F. Robinson
Author: Patricia Rigg
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228010144
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Born in England in 1857, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson contributed to cultural and literary currents from nineteenth-century Victorianism to twentieth-century modernism; she was equally at home in London and Paris and prolific in both English and French. Yet Robinson remains an enigma on many levels. This literary biography integrates Robinson's unorthodox life with her development as a writer across genres. Best known for her poetry, Robinson was also a respected biographer, history writer, travel writer, and contributor of reviews and articles to the Times Literary Supplement for nearly forty years. She had a romantic friendship with the writer Vernon Lee and two happy – and celibate – marriages. Her salons in London and Paris were attended by major literary and artistic figures, and she counted amongst her friends Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, John Addington Symonds, Gaston Paris, Ernest Renan, and Maurice Barrès. Reflecting a decade of research in international archives and family papers, A. Mary F. Robinson reveals the extraordinary woman behind the popular writer and critically acclaimed poet.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228010144
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Born in England in 1857, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson contributed to cultural and literary currents from nineteenth-century Victorianism to twentieth-century modernism; she was equally at home in London and Paris and prolific in both English and French. Yet Robinson remains an enigma on many levels. This literary biography integrates Robinson's unorthodox life with her development as a writer across genres. Best known for her poetry, Robinson was also a respected biographer, history writer, travel writer, and contributor of reviews and articles to the Times Literary Supplement for nearly forty years. She had a romantic friendship with the writer Vernon Lee and two happy – and celibate – marriages. Her salons in London and Paris were attended by major literary and artistic figures, and she counted amongst her friends Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, John Addington Symonds, Gaston Paris, Ernest Renan, and Maurice Barrès. Reflecting a decade of research in international archives and family papers, A. Mary F. Robinson reveals the extraordinary woman behind the popular writer and critically acclaimed poet.
Books of 1912-
Author:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Catalog
Author: Indiana State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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