The French Revolution, Paperback - Hilaire Belloc

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Reducere. The French Revolution is no dead event; in turning over the contemporary records of those tremendous days we feel that we are touching live things;...

Reducere. The French Revolution is an historical event unlike any other. It is more than just a topic of intellectual interest: it has become part of a moral...

Think more deeply and work more independently at A level History through a carefully thought-out enquiry approach from SHP. Each enquiry tackles a ...

Reducere. In this New York Timesbestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and...

Reducere. In his treatise on European economic history (The Servile State, 1912) Hilaire Belloc explores the many failings of the Capitalist system. He expla...

Reducere. "Judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point. This is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read....

Reducere. The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of ...

DescriptionSince its first publication to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, this Oxford History has established itself as the ...

This book explores Hegel's response to the French Revolutionary Terror and its impact on Germany. Like many of his contemporaries, Hegel was struck...

Reducere. From Marie Antoinette during her final days in prison, to Charlotte Robespierre, the sister of the man responsible for ordering hundreds to the gui...

Reducere. Works from Les Misirables by Victor Hugo to Citizens by Simon Schama have been inspired by the French Revolution. Now available for the first time ...

In this wholly definitive work, David Andress examines the The French Revolution: the birth of a new ideological age and the bloody emergence of Eu...

Award-winning illustrator turns her hand to Hilaire Belloc's classic cautionary tale of Jim: who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a lion.

The Napoleonic period cannot be interpreted as a single historical 'block'. Instead of seeing the era in terms of a single man, the study will expl...

For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terr...

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M. O. Grenby's book offers an insight into the society which produced and consumed anti-Jacobin novels. He examines the strategies used by conserva...

Reducere. Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century StudiesA Financial Times Best History Book of the Year A Choice Outst...

Reducere. From an award-winning historian, a "vivid" (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern worldThe French Revolution's pri...

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Reducere. QUOTES FROM THE JEWS "I say the word " Anti-Semite" is vulgar and pedantic: that I think will be universally admitted. It is also nonsensical. The ...

A delightful travelogue that is really about religion and history and the meaning of life. He was only about 32 when he made the pilgrimage to Rome...

Reducere. In this straightforward and unsentimental telling of the story of Joan of Arc, Belloc briefly presents the context for Joan of Arc's involvement in...

Reducere. "You have been told 'Christianity (a word, by the way, quite un- historical) crept into Rome as she declined, and hastened that decline.' That is b...

Reducere. DescriptionIntroduction the Catholic Conscience of History 4 I. What was the Roman Empire? 15 II. What was the Church in the Roman Empire? 25 III. ...

These classic tales of Awful Warnings about the consequences of Bad Behaviour are among the best of comic verse ever written for children. This edi...

Belloc cited the many beliefs and theological principles which Islam shares with Catholicism. Where Islam decisively diverges from Catholicism (and...

Reducere. In this new edition of a classic work, the great Catholic apologist and historian Hilaire Belloc examines the five most destructive heretical movem...

Reducere. DescriptionHilaire Belloc examines the five most destructive heretical movements to have affected Christian Civilization: Arianism, Mohammedanism (...

Reducere. There are primal things which move us. Fire has the character of a free companion that has travelled with us from the first exile; only to see a fi...

DescriptionIn January 2006, a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp's Fountain sculpture with a small hammer. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo's David...

Reducere. DescriptionHilaire Belloc (1870-1953)--one of the most prominent Catholic authors of his time--gives a common sense explanation of why the Crusades...

One of the great classics of comic poetry, this special omnibus edition has original illustrations by B.T.B and new pictures and an introduction by...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this collection of short biographies Hilaire Belloc, one of the great Catholic historians of the twentieth century, shares his views ...

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to ...

Reducere. DescriptionJoseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Belloc (1870-1953) was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. His be...

A humorous set of poems advising on perils best avoided, featuring illustrations from B.T.B. and Quentin Blake.

Reducere. In this exciting novel set during the French Revolution, Charles Dickens expresses sympathy for the downtrodden poor and their outrage at the self-...