À l’heure où l’on commémore avec faste les 275 ans de la franc-maçonnerie en France, ce livre est né d’un constat inquiétant et d’un espoir. Longtemps pionnière dans l’observation des formes de soci……続きを見る
From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The Roosevelts, and others: a richly illustrated, human-centered history of America’s founding struggleーexpanding o……続きを見る
‘It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russians’ extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.’ Philip Marsden, Spectator
Geoffrey Hosking’s landmark book provid……続きを見る
Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of ……続きを見る
This is the first comprehensive biography of a major, but neglected, figure of his age. John Theophilus Desaguliers made his mark on the eighteenth century in several diverse ways. He was an assista……続きを見る
著者：Fabrice Préyat
出版社： Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles
発売日： 2019年04月29日
Découvrez une nouvelle étude sur le XVIIIe siècle, qui s'intéresse à la place des femmes dans les échanges polémiques censés garantir leur foi et faire taire les propos des philosophes des Lumières.……続きを見る
Originally published in 1967 this book tells the full story of the breach between the United States and Great Britain and the pivotal role played by Benjamin Franklin in both the declaration of inde……続きを見る
著者：Geoffrey Blainey
出版社： Penguin Random House Australia
発売日： 2020年03月31日
In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set sail on a small British naval vessel, the boldly named Endeavour, bound for the Pacific Ocean. He was ordered to establish an observatory at Tahiti in ord……続きを見る
著者：Jeffrey Freedman
出版社： Princeton University Press
発売日： 2020年11月10日
A Poisoned Chalice tells the story of a long-forgotten criminal case: the poisoning of the communion wine in Zurich's main cathedral in 1776. The story is riveting and mysterious, full of bizarre tw……続きを見る
著者：Geoffrey Ellis
出版社： Taylor & Francis
発売日： 2014年06月06日
This invaluable account provides an excellent introduction to the nature and mechanics of Napoleon's power, and how he used it. It explores Napoleon's rise to fame as a soldier of the French Revolut……続きを見る
Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social forc……続きを見る
