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La vie du célèbre courtisan de Louis XIV est un roman. Antonin Nompar de Caumont, comte puis duc de Lauzun, a connu une existence foisonnante et étourdissante d'aventures. Avec lui, c'est toute la c……続きを見る

This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This is a core topic within economic and social history courses which is taught at ……続きを見る

Defining a “historic transition” means understanding how the complex system of intellectual, social, and material structures formed that determined the transition from a certain “universe” to a “new……続きを見る

Als Kind westdeutscher Linker im provinziellen Solingen lernt Richard David Precht schon früh zwischen Gut und Böse zu unterscheiden: Sozialismus und Kapitalismus. Er wächst mit einem klaren Feindbi……続きを見る

Partez à l'aventure en suivant l'incroyable expédition d'Isabel Godin L’expédition dirigée par La Condamine, qui hissa les voiles vers le Pérou en 1735, perdit la plupart de ses membres dans de trag……続きを見る

Les images les plus belles et les plus significatives jamais réunies sur l'Empereur. Sur un texte clair et séduisant de Thierry Lentz, retraçant en chapitres thématiques les différents traits de la ……続きを見る

La période appelée Révolution française, qui se situe entre 1789 et 1799, constitue une rupture considérable, abolissant la monarchie, inventant de nouveaux rapports sociaux et créant une langue pol……続きを見る

Dans la lignée des livres d'Erik Larson, une formidable reconstitution de l'Exposition Universelle de 1889 et de la construction de la tour Eiffel. Quand Gustave Eiffel remporte le concours lui perm……続きを見る

In An Argument Open to All, renowned legal scholar Sanford Levinson takes a novel approach to what is perhaps America’s most famous political tract.  Rather than concern himself with the authors as ……続きを見る

Britannia's Shield: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and the Late-Victorian Imperial Defence presents an in-depth, international study of imperial land defence prior to 1914. The book makes sens……続きを見る

Une nouvelle édition de prestige de ce grand classique écrit par l'éminent biographe des Bourbons. L'édition de prestige de la biographie de référence. S'appuyant sur une documentation considérable,……続きを見る

Napoléon maître de guerre. De tous les chefs de guerre passés à la postérité ‒ Alexandre le Grand, Jules César, Frédéric II de Prusse ‒, seul Napoléon est universellement connu. Aujourd'hui encore, ……続きを見る

Like his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both reflected the personalties of their central figures: hers grand, imperial and pretty stiff; his no less grand, but much more relaxed a……続きを見る

The Penguin Book of English Song anthologizes the work of 100 English poets who have inspired a host of different composers (some English, some not) to write vocal music. Each of the chapters, arran……続きを見る

In 1773, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus, a dramatic, puzzling act that had a profound impact. This volume traces the causes of the attack on the Jesuits, the national expulsions th……続きを見る

Frontier Democracy examines the debates over state constitutions in the antebellum Northwest (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) from the 1820s through the 1850s. Thi……続きを見る

L'histoire de Joseph Serrant débute dans l'époque troublée de la Révolution pour s'achever dans le morne conformisme de la Restauration. Cordonnier à Saint-Pierre, il s'active dans le Club des jeune……続きを見る

The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focus We feel we know Shakespeare’s characters. T……続きを見る

A landmark examination of the resurgence of faith around the globe The Editor in Chief of The Economist and its Lexington columnist show how the global rise of religion will dramatically impact our ……続きを見る

The author of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England takes you through the world of Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I From the author of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England, this po……続きを見る

A New Republic Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012 **A New Yorker Contributors' Pick 2012 A portrait of incredible change and economic development, of social and national transformation told through ind……続きを見る

The story of global cooperation between nations and peoples is a tale of dreamers goading us to find common cause in remedying humanity’s worst problems. But international institutions have also pro……続きを見る

Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks’s #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in IraqーThe Gamble is the next news breaking installment Thomas E. Ricks uses hundreds of hours……続きを見る

Hailed as a classic of war writing in the U.K., The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a revelatory first-hand account of a young enlistee's profound coming of age. Attempting to stave off the tedium ……続きを見る

Award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin chronicles the harrowing account of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for fourteen weeks in the fall of 2010. A resident of Chile since 19……続きを見る

The true story of one man's journey to Islamic fundamentalism and back Raised in a devout but quiet Muslim community in London, at sixteen Ed Husain was presented with an intriguing political interp……続きを見る

In the tradition of 102 Minutes and Columbine, the definitive book on the Boston Marathon bombing and subsequent manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers, written by reporters from The Boston Globe and pub……続きを見る

The recent resurgence of populist movements and parties has led to a revival of scholarly interest in populism. This volume brings together well-established and new scholars to reassess the subject ……続きを見る

White women cut an ambivalent figure in the transnational history of the British Empire. They tend to be remembered as malicious harridans personifying the worst excesses of colonialism, as vacuous ……続きを見る

L’antagonismo tra le due grandi potenze uscite vincitrici dalla Seconda guerra mondiale, gli Stati Uniti e l’Unione Sovietica, ha caratterizzato gran parte della seconda metà del Novecento. Attraver……続きを見る