The Stones Of Balazuc
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Download The Stones Of Balazuc PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Stones Of Balazuc book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Stones Of Balazuc
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : John M. Merriman
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2002
The Stones Of Balazuc written by John M. Merriman and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
This is a story of resilience. It is also a love letter from an acclaimed historian who with his family has made Balazuc his adopted home. Here, fully realized, is a place that is both universal and irreducibly French. 15 photos. Map.
History On The Margins
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : John Merriman
language : en
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2018-12-01
History On The Margins written by John Merriman and has been published by University of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-01 with History categories.
In his distinguished career as a historian of modern France, John Merriman has published ten books and scores of scholarly articles. This volume collects some of his most notable and significant explorations of French history and culture. In a wide-ranging introduction Merriman reflects on his decades of research and on his life, lived increasingly in France. At the beginning of his career he was determined to be not a narrow specialist but a historian who engaged with all the regions of France. So he set himself the goal of doing archival research in every single département of the country. A permanent resident of the small village of Balazuc in the Ardèche for more than twenty-five years, he laments what he sees as the over-professionalization of history at the expense of passion for one’s field. Yet Merriman is no cranky, tweed-bound scholar. Beloved by generations of historians of France, many of whom he has mentored (both as a graduate advisor and more informally), Merriman offers reflections on his life in history that will be of interest to a broad audience of historians.
Massacre
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : John M. Merriman
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-23
Massacre written by John M. Merriman and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-23 with History categories.
One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that held power in Paris across eight weeks between 18 March and 28 May. Its brief rule ended in ‘Bloody Week’ – the brutal massacre of as many as 15,000 Parisians, and perhaps even more, who perished at the hands of the provisional government’s forces. By then, the city’s boulevards had been torched and its monuments toppled. More than 40,000 Parisians were investigated, imprisoned or forced into exile – a purging of Parisian society by a conservative national government whose supporters were considerably more horrified by a pile of rubble than the many deaths of the resisters. In this gripping narrative, John Merriman explores the radical and revolutionary roots of the Commune, painting vivid portraits of the Communards – the ordinary workers, famous artists and extraordinary fire-starting women – and their daily lives behind the barricades, and examining the ramifications of the Commune on the role of the state and sovereignty in France and modern Europe. Enthralling, evocative and deeply moving, this narrative account offers a full picture of a defining moment in the evolution of state terror and popular resistance.
Hunting Mona Lisa
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Carson Morton
language : en
Publisher: Spring-Heeled Jack Press
Release Date : 2017-07-13
Hunting Mona Lisa written by Carson Morton and has been published by Spring-Heeled Jack Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-13 with Fiction categories.
In his follow up to his award-winning novel, STEALING MONA LISA, Carson Morton takes us on a thrilling race through war-torn France as French patriots attempt to keep Leonardo d Vinci’s masterpiece out of the hands of the rapacious Nazis.In the opening days of World War II, 15-year-old Delphine Fournier is abandoned by her museum curator father when he spirits the Mona Lisa out of Paris ahead of the advancing German army. Four years later, news of her father’s arrest for murder in a village in the South of France forces 19-year-old Delphine to escape occupied Paris in an attempt to save him and to keep the world’s greatest painting out of the clutches of a cunning Nazi agent.
A Social History Of France 1780 1914
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Peter McPhee
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-03-03
A Social History Of France 1780 1914 written by Peter McPhee and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-03 with History categories.
This volume provides a lively and authoritative synthesis of recent work on the social history of France and is now thoroughly updated to cover the 'long nineteenth century' from 1789-1914. Peter McPhee offers both a readable narrative and a distinctive, coherent argument about this remarkable century and explores key themes such as: - Peasant interaction with the environment - The changing experience of work and leisure - The nature of crime and protest - Changing demographic patterns and family structures - The religious practices of workers and peasants - The ideology and internal repercussions of colonisation. At the core of this social history is the exercise and experience of 'social relations of power' - not only because in these years there were four periods of protracted upheaval, but also because the history of the workplace, of relations between women and men, adults and children, is all about human interaction. Stimulating and enjoyable to read, this indispensable introduction to nineteenth-century France will help readers to make sense of the often bewildering story of these years, while giving them a better understanding of what it meant to be an inhabitant of France during that turbulent time.
Children Of The Revolution
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Robert Gildea
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-07-31
Children Of The Revolution written by Robert Gildea and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-31 with History categories.
Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumultuous century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the French Revolution's 'children' would experience their own wars, revolutions and terrors. From soldiers to priests, from peasants to Communards, from feminists to literary figures such as Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac, Robert Gildea's brilliant new history explores every aspect of these rapidly changing times, and the people who lived through them.
Meteors That Enlighten The Earth
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Matthew D. Zarzeczny
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2012-11-16
Meteors That Enlighten The Earth written by Matthew D. Zarzeczny and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-16 with History categories.
Napoleon promoted and honored great men throughout his reign. In addition to comparing himself to various great men, he famously established a Legion of Honor on 19 May 1802 to honor both civilians and soldiers, including non-ethnically French men. Napoleon not only created an Irish Legion in 1803 and later awarded William Lawless and John Tennent the Legion of Honour; he also gave them an Eagle with the inscription “L’Indépendence d’Irlande.” He awarded twenty-six of his generals the marshal’s baton from 1804 to 1815, and in 1806, he further memorialized his soldiers by deciding to erect a Temple to the Glory of the Great Army, modeled on Ancient designs. From 1806 to 1815, Napoleon had more men interred in the Panthéon in Paris than any other French leader before or after him. In works of art depicting himself, Napoleon had his artists allude to Caesar, Charlemagne, and even Moses. Although the Romans had their legions, Pantheon, and temples in Ancient times and the French monarchy had their marshals since at least 1190, Napoleon blended both Roman and French traditions to compare himself to great men who lived in ancient and medieval times and to recognize the achievements of those who lived alongside him in the nineteenth century. Analyzing Napoleon’s ever-changing personal cult of “great men,” and his recognition of contemporary “great men” who contributed to European or even human civilization and not just French civilization, is original. While work does exist on the French cults of Greco-Roman antiquity and of “great men” prior to 1800, Napoleon appears only fleetingly in other discussions of the cult of great men. None of the bourgeoning historiography adequately takes Napoleon’s place in the story of this cult into perspective. This book serves as a further exploration of the cult of great men, including its place in Napoleonic and European history and the alleged efforts of its members to enlighten the earth.
Divided Village The Cold War In The German Borderlands
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Jason B. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-18
Divided Village The Cold War In The German Borderlands written by Jason B. Johnson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-18 with History categories.
In 1983, then-US Vice President George H.W. Bush delivered a speech in London. He had just been in West Berlin and spoke about his first visit to the Berlin Wall. Bush then went on to describe another German wall he saw after Berlin: "if anything, that wall was an even greater obscenity than its eponym to the north." The story of that wall is a fascinating and valuable slice of the history of post-war Europe. That wall had gone up nearly two hundred miles southwest of Berlin at the edge of divided Germany, in the tiny, remote farming village of Mödlareuth. For nearly half the twentieth century, the Iron Curtain divided Mödlareuth in two. In this little valley surrounded by forests and fields, the villagers of Mödlareuth found themselves on the literal front-line of the Cold War. The East German state gradually militarized the border through the community while eastern villagers exhibited a range of responses to cope with their changing circumstances, reflective of the variable nature of the Cold War border through Germany: along the Iron Curtain, the size and isolation of the divided place influenced the local character of the division.
The Turn To Transcendence
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Glenn W. Olsen
language : en
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press + ORM
Release Date : 2012-07-30
The Turn To Transcendence written by Glenn W. Olsen and has been published by Catholic University of America Press + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-30 with Religion categories.
“Phenomenal . . . A must read for us who desire to topple the dictatorship of relativism and culture of death and replace it with the only alternative” (The Imaginative Conservative). Especially concerned with the public nature of religion, historian Glenn W. Olsen—author of Christian Marriage: A Historical Study and On the Road to Emmaus: The Catholic Dialogue with American and Modernity—sets forth an exhaustively researched and persuasive account of how religion has been reshaped in the modern period. The Turn to Transcendence traces both the loss of transcendence and attempts to recover it while making its own proposals. Neither reactionary nor modernist, it questions how—under conditions of modern life—some form of the sacred and some form of the secular might both flourish at the same time. But it also provides a warning that a religion unable to maintain itself with its own overt architecture, language, and calendars against an enveloping secular culture is destined for oblivion. “Glenn Olsen’s book could hardly be more pivotal or insightful. Confronting the growing amnesia regarding culture’s religious origin and transcendent purpose, Olsen proves both a masterful cartographer of modernity and a visionary of a culture that encourages and enables us to seek beyond ourselves.” —Carl A. Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus “A brilliant book. It rests on an amazing amount of scholarship that is wide-ranging in history, literature, art, science, music, theology, and philosophy.” —James Hitchcock, professor of history, St. Louis University
The Americanization Of France
DOWNLOAD
AUDIOBOOK
READ ONLINE
Author : Barnett Singer
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013
The Americanization Of France written by Barnett Singer and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
This engaging, knowledgeable book traces the American path France has followed since resolving its searing Algerian conflict in 1962. Barnett Singer convincingly demolishes two pervasive clichés about modern France: first, that the country has never been fit to fight wars, including wars on terror; and second, that the French have always been and remain overwhelmingly anti-American. The end of the war led to an important sea change, clearing the way for France to embrace American culture, especially rock 'n' roll, and more generally, an American-style emphasis on personal happiness. The author argues that today's France, wounded by the loss of traditions and stability, is increasingly pro-American, clinging to trends from across the Atlantic as to a lifeline.