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Extrait : « Un grafitto ! s’écria mentalement le professeur. » Et il prit garde que la tête de ce bonhomme était surmontée de deux cornes et qu’on avait écrit à côté, pour le faire reconnaître : Ber……続きを見る

Extrait : M. Bergeret préparait sa leçon sur le huitième livre de l’Énéide, et il aurait trouvé dans ce travail, à défaut de joie, la paix de l’esprit et l’inestimable tranquillité de l’âme, s’il n’……続きを見る

Extrait : Le salon où se tenait le cardinal-archevêque pour recevoir les visites avait été revêtu, sous Louis XV, de lambris de bois sculpté peints en gris clair. Des figures de femmes assises parmi……続きを見る

Extrait : Comment ? la Liberté déchaîne ses colères ; Partout, contre l’effort des erreurs séculaires ; La Vérité combat pour s’ouvrir un chemin ; Et ……続きを見る

Gender Remade explores a little-known experiment in gender equality in Washington Territory in the 1870s and 1880s. Building on path-breaking innovations in marital and civil equality, lawmakers ext……続きを見る

What use is thinking? This study addresses the ways in which modern American thinkers have intervened in the public sphere and attempted to mediate relations between social and political institution……続きを見る

David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large almsh……続きを見る

Jane Austen is one of England’s greatest and best-loved novelists, whose works are still widely read and enjoyed nearly two hundred years after her death. Memories of Jane were increasingly recorded……続きを見る

Queen Victoria reigned for sixty-four years, and in those years Britain changed enormously. Not only were there many scientific and technological advances, such as the spread of railways, a transatl……続きを見る

In 1811, the Prince of Wales was officially appointed Prince Regent to act in place of his ailing father, King George III. The Regency marked a period of high fashion and low morals, famous today fo……続きを見る

During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting ……続きを見る

Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study……続きを見る

Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study……続きを見る

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Telegraph Editor’s Choice An Evening Standard “Best Books about London” Selection In popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London f……続きを見る

Une vie : Alphonsine Plessis, petite Normande à l'enfance misérable, montée à Paris pour y vendre ses charmes sous le nom de Marie Duplessis, entretenue de plus en plus richement, et morte de tuberc……続きを見る

In this book, Muncy explains the continuity of white, middle-class, American female reform activity between the Progressive era and the New Deal. She argues that during the Progressive era, female r……続きを見る

Refusing the Favor tells the little-known story of the Spanish-Mexican women who saw their homeland become part of New Mexico. A corrective to traditional narratives of the period, it carefully and ……続きを見る

A lány megpróbálja követni a szabályokat… Amikor Elizabeth Hotchkiss munkaadója könyvtárában a Hogyan fogjunk márkit egy péld……続きを見る

attraktív – vonzó „Soha senkit még ennyire attraktívnak nem találtam. Vagy szerelmes vagyok, vagy romlott volt a hal, amelyet tegnap este ettem.” Caroline Trent saját szótárából Amikor Blake Ravensc……続きを見る

One of the first Anglo-Americans to record their travels to New Mexico, Dr. Rowland Willard (1794–1884) journeyed west on the Santa Fe Trail in 1825 and then down the Camino Real into Mexico, taking……続きを見る

Sir Richard Kenworthynek kevesebb, mint egy hónapja van, hogy feleséget találjon magának. Tudja, hogy nem lehet túl válogatós, de amikor meglátja a csellója mögött elbújó Iris Smythe-Smitht a hírhed……続きを見る

Lady Arabella Blydon szép és okos, és elege van az olyan férfiakból, akik csak az egyik tulajdonságát hajlandók értékelni, a másikat figyelmen kívül hagyják. Amikor egy kérő kijelenti Arabellának, h……続きを見る

This is Book 2 in the History Events Series, and is a companion to History of Christmases Past. This book gives a brief description of Easter and traditions from countries across the world, includin……続きを見る

Coming of Age in Chicago explores a watershed moment in American anthropology, when an unprecedented number of historians and anthropologists of all subfields gathered on the 1893 Chicago Columbian ……続きを見る

The exploration of the North-South relationship and the growth of of antebellum Mobile. Cotton City offers a compelling exploration of Mobile, Alabama’s transformation into a thriving urban center d……続きを見る

Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George ……続きを見る

Learn about the role that patent models played in American history--and even learn to build your own replica! Patent models, working models required for US patent filings from 1790 to 1880, offer in……続きを見る

The Battle of Gettysbur was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest ……続きを見る

2017 James F. Sulzby Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages with a domain stretching across large ……続きを見る

Few historical subjects have generated such intense and sustained interest in recent decades as Britain's imperial past. What accounts for this preoccupation? Why has it gained such purchase on the ……続きを見る