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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Louis XVI en moins d’une heure ! Devenu roi malgré lui suite au décès de son frère aîné et de ses parents, Louis XVI n’a pas le tempérament d’un monarqu……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Talleyrand en moins d’une heure ! Rien ne prédestinait Talleyrand à devenir ce diplomate de génie qui connaîtra pas moins de huit régimes différents. C’……続きを見る

L'accoucheur de l'absolutisme. " Pour porter les affaires de la France au plus haut point (...), une seule chose est nécessaire : que les Français soient pour la France ", déclarait Mazarin. Peut-on……続きを見る

Un extrait des Grands procès de l'histoire (Tome 2). Un tribunal, un juge, un accusé... et un crime. Nulle part l'intensité dramatique n'est plus grande que dans la salle où se déroule un procès. Le……続きを見る

American Fatherhood: A Cultural History traces changes in what it means to be a dad in America, from the 1960s through today. The book begins with an overview of fatherhood in America from the “foun……続きを見る

Who’s going to guide you when your military boot camp class is over? What’s going to help you prepare for the next boot camp challenge? With the aid of superb line artworks, SAS and Elite Forces Gui……続きを見る

If you’re born in the Chinese year of the Rat, what are your characteristics? With whom is someone born in the year of the Ox most compatible? And what are the worst flaws associated with your Chine……続きを見る

How did the Great Bear get its name? Where can I find Orion in the sky? And why is the constellation of Cassiopeia hanging upside down? Stories of the Constellations collects 40 classic myths and le……続きを見る

In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by dramatically altering consumer behaviour, helped create new economies and societies in the early modern worl……続きを見る

Ein revolutionäres Experiment mit welthistorischen Folgen Der bewaffnete und schließlich blutig niedergeschlagene Aufstand, der unter der Bezeichnung »Pariser Kommune« in die Geschichte eingegangen ……続きを見る

Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage collects significant work from the 2013 Blackfriars Conference. The conference, sponsored by the American Shakespeare Center, brings together scho……続きを見る

The War of 1812 ranged over a remarkably large territory, as the fledgling United States battled Great Britain at sea and on land across what is now the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada. Native p……続きを見る

Sixteenth-century Europe was powered by commerce. Whilst mercantile groups from many areas prospered, those from the Low Countries were particularly successful. This study, based on extensive archiv……続きを見る

Despite the best efforts of the English government, Elizabethan Ireland remained resolutely Catholic. Hutchinson examines this ‘failure’ of the Protestant Reformation. He argues that the emerging po……続きを見る

Childhood is not only a biological age, it is also a social construct. The essays in this collection range chronologically from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, and geographically across Eng……続きを見る

William Duane is most famous as the editor of "The Aurora", the Philadelphia-based paper which vigorously supported Thomas Jefferson in his 1800 presidential election campaign. Based on archival res……続きを見る

The 1590s have long been considered as having had a distinct character, separate from the remainder of Elizabeth’s reign. This book provides a reassessment of the politics and political culture of t……続きを見る

Opened in 1963, Massey College is a residential college for graduate students at the University of Toronto. The college was the brainchild of Vincent Massey, Canada’s first native-born Governor Gene……続きを見る

This study develops resources in the work of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) for the purposes of contemporary philosophy. It contextualizes Peirce's prevailing influences and provides greater context ……続きを見る

The industrial revolution was and is a huge development and one of the fundamental changes in human experience in the modern world. In Debating the Industrial Revolution, Peter N. Stearns, a leading……続きを見る

Over Your Dead Body is a nonfiction book with a very personal narrative that reads like a novel. It takes in real life experiences, the science of death and caring for the dead, the after-death exis……続きを見る

Volume 34 of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies features eight essays that together demonstrate geographers' diverse scholarly engagement with the practise of their subject. There are two physi……続きを見る

The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville contains a set of critical interpretive essays by internationally renowned scholars on the work of Alexis de Tocqueville. The essays cover Tocqueville's major ……続きを見る

Thomas Rowlandson was one of the most productive and influential artists of Britain's Regency years. He worked hard and enjoyed the company of friends and fellow artists, and his client base was imm……続きを見る

For over thirty years David S. Landes's The Unbound Prometheus has offered an unrivalled history of industrial revolution and economic development in Europe. Now, in this updated edition, the author……続きを見る

Not long ago Italy was Europe's highly touted emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast growth with a lifestyle that was the envy of all. Now it is viewed as a major threat to……続きを見る

The relationship between Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton is like that of two complementary stages of a rocket. Galileo, the argumentative "wrangler" who demanded that the universe be examined throu……続きを見る

With exception to the antiquated language of the original document, the analysis of the enslavement of Europe and the world by Rome as sovereign and then as the bourgeoisie in the original Manifesto……続きを見る

Die 13. Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS "Handžar" bestand zum größten Teil aus 15.000 bosnischen Muslimen, die sich freiwillig gemeldet hatten. Die Division wurde am 1. März 1943 aufgestellt und wurd……続きを見る

Part history, part biography, part social commentary, this fascinating book is about infamous events that shook New Zealand to its core. In 1865, Rev Carl Sylvius Volkner was hanged, his head cut of……続きを見る