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From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saintsーthe first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the……続きを見る

How scientific discoveries and practice were integrated into nineteenth-century French culture and thought. Winner of the Sarton Medal for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement of the History of Science So……続きを見る

Ford Madox Ford wrote this volume in 1915 as a rebuttal to British pacifists who opposed the war effort during the First World War. This critique of Prussian culture and politics is broad and far re……続きを見る

A TLS, TIMES, PROSPECTAND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever. ……続きを見る

Jean d’Arras’s splendid prose romance of Melusine, written for Jean de Berry, the brother of King Charles V of France, is one of the most significant and complex literary works of the later Middle A……続きを見る

A tribute to the Duke of Wellington, written after his death in 1852 by one of his former aides and a popular author of amusing autobiographical works. In it, the author provides an account of life ……続きを見る

Illustrated with a portrait of the author and multiple illustrations of the mortar weapons “The following account of the work of the Light Trench Mortars in France is given in order that the usefuln……続きを見る

This is a true story of timeless love. The innocent young aspiring nun Charlotte Corday assassinated the radical leader Jean Paul Marat hoping to save her beloved country from the violent turn the r……続きを見る

"Provence" may perhaps be described as the crystallisation of the main idea running through the Great Trade Route, which we published a year ago. Of that book Mr A.G. McDonnell wrote in the Observer……続きを見る

Some Memories of a Soldier, first published in 1928, is the autobiography of influential U.S. Army General Hugh Lenox Scott (1853-1934). This autobiography of General Hugh L. Scott was published in ……続きを見る

This long-awaited book by a leading historian of European music life offers a fresh reading of concert and operatic life by showing how certain musical works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Fr……続きを見る

A bold application of the concept of "canonical" works to the development of French operatic and concert life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This long-awaited book by a leading historia……続きを見る