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Neuf mois de règne d'un géant sur Lilliput : intrigues, secrets et préparatifs du retour enfin dévoilés. Napoléon resta trois cents jours à l'île d'Elbe, du 3 mai 1814 au 26 février 1815. Cette péri……続きを見る

Une aventure collective au service d'une conception révolutionnaire de la littérature. Publié le 17 avril 1880, le recueil des Soirées de Médan rassemble autour d'Émile Zola cinq de ses amis : Maupa……続きを見る

La fin du Premier Empire. La campagne de France ne dura que deux mois, du 25 janvier au 30 mars 1814, et se déroula dans un vaste quadrilatère devant Paris, entre Oise, Marne, Aube et Seine. Elle fu……続きを見る

Lydia Pinkham was one of the 19th century’s most remarkable businesswomen, her influence spreading beyond the late 1800s and her native New England. A champion of equal rights for women and blacks a……続きを見る

Jaurès ? Quel est cet homme, assassiné le 31 juillet 1914, alors que le mot même de socialisme auquel il était identifié semble vidé de sa part de rêve ? Pour répondre, Max Gallo, avec érudition et ……続きを見る

Between 1870 and 1914 Europe experienced mounting diplomatic tensions and the division of the continent into rival alliance systems. The outbreak of war in 1914 had long term origins which are compl……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1949, is an important work in Victorian studies, and directs light on Ruskin’s personal tragedy, his public life, and on the character of his work. This book will be of……続きを見る

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was one of the most influential jurists of his time. From the antebellum era and the Civil War through the First World War and into the New Deal years, Holmes' long life ……続きを見る

Guinea's Other Suns is a classic collection of essays on the forced and voluntary migration to Trinidad of West and West-Central Africans during the 1800s, extending through both the slavery and pos……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Thomas Edison et ses inventions en moins d’une heure ! Inventeur de génie, Thomas Edison est aussi l’un des plus prolifiques de tous les temps. Pourtant……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Lafayette en moins d’une heure ! Parti en Amérique contre la volonté de son entourage et même du roi, Lafayette, tout juste âgé de 20 ans, se lance à co……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur l’affaire Dreyfus en moins d’une heure ! Fait marquant de l’histoire de France, l’affaire Dreyfus provoque de vifs débats en cette fin de XIXe siècle. L……続きを見る

A New Gospel for Women tells the story of Katharine Bushnell (1855-1946), author of God's Word to Women, one of the most innovative and comprehensive feminist theologies ever written. An internation……続きを見る

Religion Around Emily Dickinson begins with a seeming paradox posed by Dickinson’s posthumously published works: while her poems and letters contain many explicitly religious themes and concepts, th……続きを見る

In Church and Estate, Thomas Rzeznik examines the lives and religious commitments of the Philadelphia elite during the period of industrial prosperity that extended from the late nineteenth century ……続きを見る

Cette petite anthologie, qui restitue dans leur contexte les écrits des propagandistes antijuifs s'inscrivant à gauche, bouscule les idées reçues en démontrant que les grands ancêtres du socialisme,……続きを見る

How skirting the law once defined America’s relation to the world. In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence made international headlines when he was arrested for smuggling silk worth $60 mi……続きを見る

In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globa……続きを見る

"This is a book with great meaning for those of us who grew up on farms, and a book to be shared with young people eager to know more about pioneer life." --Jerry Apps, author of "Old Farm: A Histor……続きを見る

First published more than 100 years ago, Hard Tack And Coffee is John Billings’ absorbing first-person account of the everyday life of a U.S. Army soldier during the Civil War. Billings attended a r……続きを見る

The discovery of a nugget in California in 1848 set off the first gold rush in history. In 1849 alone, the population increased 500 percent as 80,000 men rushed to claim its riches; three years late……続きを見る

In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. sailed to California as a common seaman. His account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, quickly became an American classic. But literary acclaim……続きを見る

A stunningly vivid account of the manhunt for Geronimo and the Apaches’ decades-long struggle for their homelandーa vibrant saga of blood, power, family, and revenge from the renowned historian and ……続きを見る

As British women writers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries sought to define how they experienced their era's social and economic upheaval, they helped popularize a new style of b……続きを見る

This book, covering the period 1832 to 1868, describes how the so-called "church rates" controversy contributed to the rise of a secular liberal state in England and Wales. The church rate was an an……続きを見る

La biographie mouvementée, d'un siècle à l'autre, d'un citoyen du monde dont le nom est tout un programme. La Fayette, le voici, nageur entre deux rives. " J'aurais aimé être gaulois ", dit un jour ……続きを見る

Custer’s Last Stand remains one of the most iconic events in American history and culture. Had Custer prevailed at the Little Bighhorn, the victory would have been noteworthy at the moment, worthy o……続きを見る

The theatre started to sparkle during Ann Matilda's career. Limelight had arrived. This is the life story of Ann Matilda Distin. It is the chronicle of a minor 19th century celebrity who peeps out o……続きを見る

Our Indigenous Ancestors complicates the history of the erasure of native cultures and the perceived domination of white, European heritage in Argentina through a study of anthropology museums in th……続きを見る

The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education revises the traditional interpretation of the land-grant college movement, whose institutions were brought into being by the 1862 Morrill Act to p……続きを見る