Author : François Guy Hourtoulle
Publisher : Histoire Et Collections
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9782913903333
In the same style as the previous two books by Hourtoulle, here is a fabulous full color book on this major battle in the Napoleonic Wars. A detailed text is accompanied by contemporary paintings and a vast array of graphics illustrating the uniforms and equipment of the soldiers of the time. By the same author and available from Casemate Jena-Auerstaedt: The Triumph of the Eagle Borodino-The Moskova: The Battle for the Redoubts
Author : Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Decorative arts
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Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,31 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 : 20,13 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 : Jean Nicolas baron Corvisart des Marets
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 1812
Category :
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Author : Philippe-Paul comte de Ségur
Publisher : London : Hutchinson
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 1895
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Odette Du Puigaudeau
Publisher : Hardinge Simpole Limited
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843822011
Odette du Puigaudeau is best known for her major ethnographic work, Arts et Coutumes des Maures, a detailed study, in words and drawings, of the cultural world of the nomads of Mauretania. The present work explains how she came to write it. Barefoot Through Mauretania is an account of her first journey across the country by camel in 1933-4, with her life-long companion, Marion Senones. The book records the adventures of the two women during that year, often with a touch of humour. Above all, however, it presents a picture of a way of life that has, as they feared, almost vanished, and their determination that it should be recorded. Odette du Puigaudeau wrote a number of other books on different aspects of nomad life, such as the salt caravans and date markets, as well as articles on prehistoric rock-drawings, and a charming tribute to her pet leopard, Rachid."
Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,99 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.
Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2008-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1134644590
Colonialism and Homosexuality is a thorough investigation of the connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s - the era of 'new imperialism' - until the era of decolonization. Robert Aldrich reconstructs the context of a number of liaisons, including those of famous men such as Cecil Rhodes, E.M. Forster or André Gide, and the historical situations which produced both the Europeans and their non-Western lovers. Colonial lands, which in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century included most of Africa, South and Southeast Asia and the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Caribbean, provided a haven for many Europeans whose sexual inclinations did not fit neatly into the constraints of European society. Each of the case-studies is a micro-history of a particular colonial situation, a sexual encounter, and its wider implications for cultural and political life. Students both of colonial history, and of gender and queer studies, will find this an informative read.
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
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