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Author : François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Authors, French
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Author : Sarah Collins
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Composers
ISBN : 1843843420
Author : James Edward McClellan (III)
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
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File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2011
Category : France
ISBN : 9782503532608
The rise of modern science and European colonial and imperial expansion are indisputably two defining elements of modern world history. James E. McClellan III and Francois Regourd explore these two world-historical forces and their interactions in this comprehensive and in-depth history of the French case in the Old Regime presented here for the first time. The case is key because no other state matched Old-Regime France as a center for organized science and because contemporary France closely rivaled Britain as a colonial power, as well as leading all other nations in commodity production and participating in the slave trade. Based on extensive archival research and vast primary and secondary literatures and sharply reframing the historiography of the field, this landmark volume traces the development and significance for early-modern history of the Colonial Machine of Old-Regime France, an unparalleled agglomeration of institutions geared to the success of the French colonial enterprise, including the Royal Navy, the Academie Royale des Sciences, the Jardin du Roi, and a host of related specialist institutions working together at home and overseas. Mainly supported by the French state, the Colonial Machine reveals itself through its actions from the time of Colbert and Louis XIV as it grappled with fundamental problems facing contemporary European colonialism: cartography and navigation; medical care of sailors, colonists, and slaves; and applied botany and commodity production. Historians of globalization and European overseas expansion, of Old-Regime France, and of science in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will henceforth take this stimulating volume as a necessary starting point for further reflection and research. Nominated for the Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize.
Author : W. Draper Bolton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781018039459
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1134871392
Through an explanation of forty figures in European culture, ^The Seduction of the Mediterranean argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing and art from the 1750s to the 1950s. Episodes of exile, murder, drug-taking, wild homosexual orgies and court cases are woven into an original study of a significant theme in European culture. The myth of a homoerotic Mediterranean made a major contribution to general attitudes towards Antiquity, the Renaissance and modern Italy and Greece.
Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824815585
For some, Tahiti, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna are idyllic tropical islands with a French flavour, while for others they represent continuing French colonialism, thwarted independence movements and nuclear-testing. This book looks at the realities of the French territories in Oceania, and the former Franco-British condominium of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), as well as changing French policy in the region. This study is based on published sources as well as archival material and interviews, and is a sequel to the highly praised The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842-1940.
Author : François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
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Page : 462 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 1859
Category : French fiction
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Author : François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand
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Page : 326 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 1998-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052141461X
This comprehensive and authoritative book is about the last colonies, those remaining territories formally dependent on metropolitan powers. It discusses the surprisingly large number of these territories, mainly small isolated islands with limited resources. Yet these places are not as obscure as might be expected. They may be major tourist destinations, military bases, satellite tracking stations, tax havens or desolate, underpopulated spots that can become international flashpoints, such as the Falklands. The authors find that at a time of escalating nationalism and globalization, these remnants of empire provide insights into the meanings of political, economic, legal and cultural independence, as well as sovereignty and nationhood. This book provides a broad-based and provocative discussion of colonialism and interdependence in the modern world, from a unique perspective.