Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author : Felix M. Whithehurst
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368184407
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author : Felix M. Whitehurst
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 1873
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Fenton Bresler
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 24,86 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Emperors
ISBN : 9780006388142
Prince Louis Napoleon was born with a compelling sense of destiny. The eldest nephew of Bonaparte, he came from exile and ignominy to rule France, first as President then as Emperor for 22 years, from 1848 to 1870. Under his benevolent dictatorship, the nation grew in artistic fulfilment, industrial wealth and international influence - until catastrophic defeat at the hands of Bismarck in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 cast her back into the shadows.
Author : Jean F. Tulard
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780828824910
Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0195389417
The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.
Author : William L. Shirer
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 1948 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0795342470
The National Book Award–winning historian’s “vivid and moving” eyewitness account of the fall of France to Hitler’s Third Reich at the outset of WWII (The New York Times). As an international war correspondent and radio commentator during World War II, William L. Shirer didn’t just research the fall of France. He was there. In just six weeks, he watched the Third Reich topple one of the world’s oldest military powers—and institute a rule of terror and paranoia. Based on in-person conversations with the leaders, diplomats, generals, and ordinary citizens who both shaped the events and lived through them, Shirer constructs a compelling account of historical events without losing sight of the human experience. From the heroic efforts of the Freedom Fighters to the tactical military misjudgments that caused the fall and the daily realities of life for French citizens under Nazi rule, this fascinating and exhaustively documented account brings this significant episode of history to life. “This is a companion effort to Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, also voluminous but very readable, reflecting once again both Shirer’s own experience and an enormous mass of historical material well digested and assimilated.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Author : Napoleon I (Emperor of the French)
Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 34,20 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Edward James Kolla
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1107179548
This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.
Author : Toussaint L'Ouverture
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 30,87 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1788736575
Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates L’Ouverture’s profound contribution to the struggle for equality.
Author : William H. Sewell (Jr.)
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822315384
What Is the Third Estate? was the most influential pamphlet of 1789. It did much to set the French Revolution on a radically democratic course. It also launched its author, the Abbé Sieyes, on a remarkable political career that spanned the entire revolutionary decade. Sieyes both opened the revolution by authoring the National Assembly's declaration of sovereignty in June of 1789 and closed it in 1799 by engineering Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état. This book studies the powerful rhetoric of the great pamphlet and the brilliant but enigmatic thought of its author. William H. Sewell's insightful analysis reveals the fundamental role played by the new discourse of political economy in Sieyes's thought and uncovers the strategies by which this gifted rhetorician gained the assent of his intended readers--educated and prosperous bourgeois who felt excluded by the nobility in the hierarchical social order of the old regime. He also probes the contradictions and incoherencies of the pamphlet's highly polished text to reveal fissures that reach to the core of Sieyes's thought--and to the core of the revolutionary project itself. Combining techniques of intellectual history and literary analysis with a deep understanding of French social and political history, Sewell not only fashions an illuminating portrait of a crucial political document, but outlines a fresh perspective on the history of revolutionary political culture.