Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914

Reducere. France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived ...

Secular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern for...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) ReynoldsNumber of pages: 360Publicati...

Reducere. The National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat t...

Following on from her hugely popular books, My Good Life in France and My Good Year in France, ex-pat Janine Marsh shares more heart-warming and en...

In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his...

Conveys the excitement, diversity and richness of London at a time when the city was arguably at the height of its power, uniqueness and attraction...

Reducere. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 violently changed the course of European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian a...

Reducere. The French... -Smoke, drink and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet live longer and have fewer heart problems than Americans -Work 35-hour w...

German Social Democracy through British Eyes uses diplomatic reports sent from Germany to Britain to document the rise of social democracy as well ...

The inspiring story of how the Salisburys, enthusiastic but amateur gardeners, transformed an unloved rural wasteland into a thriving, renowned wil...

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across th...

The words of Unknown Warriors resonate as powerfully today as when first written. The book offers a very personal glimpse into the hidden world of ...

July Crisis: The World's Descent into War, Summer 1914 - T. G. Otte

Debates around the 'woman question' originated in France in the late Middle Ages, and Karen Offen here offers a panoramic account of changing ideas...

This new edition of an established text has been thoroughly revised and updated, bringing the story up to Hollande's presidency. It now incorporate...

After reaching the heights as a successful fashion editor, Karen said goodbye to all that and set about renovating a run-down house in rural France...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Elizabeth (Montclair State University, USA) EmeryIllustration(s): 13 colour and 48 bw illusNumber of...

Building on an original interpretation of social theory and an interdisciplinary approach, this book creates a new paradigm in the Russian studies....

In Perfect French Country Ros Byam Shaw celebrates relaxed rural France at its finest, visiting timeless and beautiful French country homes that fe...

In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shape...

Publisher: Practical Action PublishingAuthor(s): Jan Douwe (Wageningen University) van der PloegNumber of pages: 158Collection: Agrarian Change and...

Reducere. Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 - 20 March 1945), nicknamed Bosie, was a British author, poet, translator, and political commentator, be...

Reducere. The states and peoples of Southeastern Europe have been divided by wars over the twentieth century, but they have since worked to re-establish them...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionThe Mexican Revolution was like no other: it was fueled by no vanguard party, no coherent ideology, no international ambitions; and ulti...

Reducere. In 1936, the people of Spain rose up, overthrew their masters and took power into their own hands. In the villages and small towns of Aragon, they ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Alan SteeleIllustration(s): Colour artwork plates and maps; black & white and colour photographs and...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The authors trace the emergence of Ataturk and Reza Shah through the constitutional revolutions in Iran and the Ottoman Empire, which led to the in...

First published in 1940, this book was written by Charles S. Myers, who was Consulting Psychologist to the British Armies in France and the First W...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Storytellers, said Walter Benjamin, are descended from one of two tribes: the mariners or the peasants. We revel in the stories of the sailors. Sai...

Before being rediscovered in the 1980s by the Post-Modernists, his work was nearly forgotten; now his importance is unquestioned. As a designer he ...

The agricultural privatization strategy adopted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania was based on the premise that family farms are the most effective ...

Publisher: Alan Godfrey MapsAuthor(s): Malcolm HolmesCollection: Old Ordnance Survey Maps of LondonPublication date: 2000Dimensions: 213 x 122 x 2C...

This is the first book to address and review The Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) which was a...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates 150 years by presenting its evolution into one of the world's greatest museums and its vision for the fut...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sophie WhiteBased on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians ex...

Contributor(s): Author: Kenneth E. BaileyHonored in 2006 as a "Year's Best Book for Preachers" by Preaching magazine. Where is the cross in the par...

Reducere. James Bonwick (8 July 1817 - 6 October 1906) was an English-born Australian historical and educational writer.Bonwick was born Lingfield, Surrey, E...

Reducere. The 1870 Ghost Dance was a significant but too often disregarded transformative historical movement with particular impact on the Native peoples of...

Seasons of Hunger. Fighting Cycles of Starvation Among the World's Rural Poor - Stephen Devereux

Reducere. From both Jewish and non-Jewish viewpoints, this study presents the developing interrelationship between Jews and their Gentile environment from 17...

Modernization, Path-Dependence and Cultural Change - Malina Voicu

Small Town Capitalism in Western India: Artisans, Merchants, and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870–1960 - Douglas E. Haynes