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ordered by best selling| Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) | |||
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Author(s) : Sarah Maza | ||
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| Brief From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza argues that the reporting of these private scandals had a decisive effect on the way in which the French public came to understand public issues in the years before the Revolution....Read More |
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| Violette Nozière: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris | |||
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Author(s) : Sarah Maza | ||
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| Brief On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced “medication,” which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survive...Read More |
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| A Companion to Western Historical Thought (Blackwell Companions to World History) | |||
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| Brief This broad survey introduces readers to the major themes, figures, traditions and theories in Western historical thought, tracing its evolution from biblical times to the present.Surveys the evolution of historical thought in the Western World from biblical times to the present day. Provides student...Read More |
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| The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850 | |||
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Author(s) : Sarah Maza | ||
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| Brief Who, exactly, were the French bourgeoisie? Unlike the Anglo-Americans, who widely embraced middle-class ideals and values, the French--even the most affluent and conservative--have always rejected and maligned bourgeois values and identity.In this new approach to the old question of the bourgeoisie,...Read More |
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| Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture | |||
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Author(s) : Mita Choudhury | ||
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| Brief Representations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France. Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material, Mita Choudhury analyzes how, between 1730 and 1789, lawyers, religious pamphleteers, and men of letters r...Read More |
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| Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture | |||
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| Brief Different conceptions of the world and of reality have made witchcraft possible in some societies and impossible in others. How did the people of early modern Europe experience it, what was it, and what was its place in their culture? The news essays in this collection illustrate the latest trends i...Read More |
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| Nobility Reimagined: The Patriotic Nation in Eighteenth-Century France | |||
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Author(s) : Jay Smith | ||
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| Brief The mature nationalism that fueled the French Revolution grew from patriotic sensibilities fostered over the course of a century or more. Jay M. Smith proposes that the French thought their way to nationhood through a process of psychic adjustment premised on the reimagining of nobility, a social ca...Read More |
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