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ordered by best selling| Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 | |||
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Author(s) : Philip Mansel | ||
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| Brief Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital of Constantinople - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family. In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love affair w...Read More |
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| The Court of France 1789-1830 | |||
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Author(s) : Philip Mansel | ||
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| Brief This attractively illustrated volume describes the succession of courts and monarchies in France from the revolutionary period to the fall of Charles X. It shows decisively that the revolution resulted in a stronger monarchy and a larger and more elitist series of courts than had previously existed...Read More |
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| Monarchy and Exile: The Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Medicis to Wilhelm II | |||
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| Brief Using detailed studies of fifteen exiled royal figures, the role of Exile in European Society and in the evolution of national cultures is examined. From the Jacobite court to the exiled Kings' of Hanover, the book provides an alternative history of monarchical power from the 16th to 20th c...Read More |
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| The Prince of Europe: The Life of Charles-Joseph De Ligne 1735-1814 | |||
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Author(s) : Philip Mansel | ||
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| Brief The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he met. He stayed with Madame du Barry, dined with Frederick the Great and tr...Read More |
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| Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean | |||
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Author(s) : Philip Mansel | ||
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| Brief Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom—Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut—cities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In these key ports at the crossroads of East and West, against all expectations, co...Read More |
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| Paris Between Empires, 1814-1852 | |||
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Author(s) : Philip Mansel | ||
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| Brief Between 1814 and 1852 Paris was a city of power and pleasure, a magnet for people of all nationalities that exerted an influence far beyond the borders of France. Paris was the stage where the great conflicts of the age, between nationalism and cosmopolitanism, revolution and royalism, socialism and...Read More |
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| Sultans in Splendor | |||
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Author(s) : Philip Mansel | ||
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| Aristocracy and its Enemies in the Age of Revolution | |||
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Author(s) : William Doyle | ||
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| Brief Since time immemorial Europe had been dominated by nobles and nobilities. In the eighteenth century their power seemed better entrenched than ever. But in 1790 the French revolutionaries made a determined attempt to abolish nobility entirely. "Aristocracy" became the term for everything they were ag...Read More |
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| Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions about the World's Fastest-Growing Faith | |||
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Author(s) : Robert Spencer | ||
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| Brief In "Islam Unveiled," Robert Spencer dares to face the hard questions about what the Islamic religion actually teaches--and the potentially ominous implications of those teachings for the future of both the Muslim world and the West. Going beyond the shallow distinction between a "true" peaceful Isla...Read More |
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| The Sun King (New York Review Books Classics) | |||
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Author(s) : Nancy Mitford | ||
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| Brief The Sun King is a dazzling double portrait of Louis XIV and Versailles, the opulent court from which he ruled. With characteristic élan, Nancy Mitford reconstructs the daily life of king and courtiers during France’s golden age, offering vivid sketches of the architects, artists, and garde...Read More |
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