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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Reducere. In the New York Times-bestselling Out of the Dark, Earth defeated the alien invasion. We're recovering and rebuilding. Now we've got to make sure t...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

Reducere. Eugenia Ginzburg's critically acclaimed memoir of the harrowing eighteen years she spent in prisons and labor camps under Stalin's rule By the late...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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Reducere. This Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader is based on Disney Encanto--in theaters November 24th, 2021! Disney Encanto tells the tale of an extra...

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

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

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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. Alida lives in paradise, so what could go wrong? When she meets a boy from the opposing tribe, their friendship quickly blossoms into something mor...

Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neill's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts...

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...

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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...

Written around 1940, but not staged until 1956, this autobiographical work by the Nobel Prize-winning playwright recreates his own family experienc...

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

Reducere. This Step 3 Step into Reading leveled reader is based on Disney Encanto--in theaters November 24th, 2021! Disney Encanto tells the tale of an extra...