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FiltersHerminie and Fanny Pereire
Elite Jewish women in nineteenth-century France
By Helen M. Davies
Herminie and Fanny Pereire were sisters-in-law, married to the eminent Jewish bankers and Saint-Simonian socialists Emile and Isaac. They were also mother and daughter. This book, a companion to ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7765-0
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£85.00
Buy NowInventing the modern region
Basque identity and the French nation-state
By Talitha Ilacqua
This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite its origins in pre-modern customs, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6925-9
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£85.00
Buy NowRepublican passions
Family, friendship and politics in nineteenth-century France
By Susan K. Foley
Republican passions demonstrates the crucial role of family and friendship networks in the creation of the French Third Republic. Based on the family archives of Léon Laurent-Pichat, journalist, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6153-6
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£85.00
Buy NowTime and radical politics in France
From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War
By Alexandra Paulin-Booth
This book investigates how people have thought about and experienced time, and how their ideas about time have shaped their political views and actions. Using French thinkers and activists of the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4964-0
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£85.00
Buy NowConfiscating the common good
Small towns and religious politics in the French Revolution
By Edward Woell
Comprising five microhistories, this book proposes that the French Revolution's religious politics in small towns weakened democratic society to such an extent that it precluded political ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5913-7
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£80.00
Buy NowSport and physical culture in Occupied France
Authoritarianism, agency, and everyday life
By Keith Rathbone
Sport and physical culture in Occupied France examines the Vichy state's attempts to promote physical education and sports in order to rejuvenate French men and women during the Occupation. ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5328-9
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£85.00
Buy NowDeath and the crown
Ritual and politics in France before the Revolution
By Anne Byrne
Looking at royal ritual in pre-revolutionary France, Death and the crown examines the deathbed and funeral of Louis XV in 1774, the lit de justice of November 1774 and the coronation of Louis ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6076-8
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£30.00
Buy NowPsychoanalysis and the family in twentieth-century France
Françoise Dolto and her legacy
By Richard Bates
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, if French people had a parenting problem or dilemma there was one person they consulted above all: Françoise Dolto (1908-88). But who was Dolto? How ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5962-5
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£85.00
Buy NowMutinous memories
A subjective history of French military protest in 1919
By Matt Perry
This book explores the eight-month wave of mutinies that struck the French infantry and navy in 1919. Based on official records and the testimony of dozens of participants, it is the first study ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1411-2
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£25.00
Buy NowIn pursuit of politics
Education and revolution in eighteenth-century France
By Adrian O'Connor
This study offers a new interpretation of the debates over education and politics in the early years of the French Revolution. Following these debates from the 1760s to the Terror (1793-94) and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4303-7
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£25.00
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