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  • Selling Paris

    Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital

    Series series Harvard Historical Studies
    In 1871 Paris was a city in crisis. Besieged during the Franco-Prussian War, its buildings and boulevards were damaged, its finances mired in debt, and its new government untested. But if Parisian authorities balked at the challenges facing them, entrepreneurs and businessmen did not. Selling Paris chronicles the people, practices, and politics that spurred the largest building boom of the ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Selling Paris

    Property and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital

    Series Book 186 - Harvard Historical Studies
    In 1871 Paris was a city in crisis. Besieged during the Franco-Prussian War, its buildings and boulevards were damaged, its finances mired in debt, and its new government untested. But if Parisian authorities balked at the challenges facing them, entrepreneurs and businessmen did not. Selling Paris chronicles the people, practices, and politics that spurred the largest building boom of the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • The Bonjour Effect

    The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed

    Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Social Structures of the Economy

    Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions corresponding to them, and so on. But one has only to examine an economic transaction closely, as Pierre Bourdieu does here for the buying and selling of ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • French Management

    Elitism in Action

    This fascinating book is an account of management in the contemporary French business world. The formal nature of work relations and the rituals of French business life are analyzed and set against the role of senior executives, and the book looks at the corporate culture of four leading, but very different companies* Michelin* L'Air Liquide* L'Oreal* Carrefour.Also included is an examination of ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • A Social Laboratory for Modern France

    The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State

    As a nineteenth-century think tank that sought answers to France’s pressing “social question,” the Musée Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded on an optimistic faith in social science. In A Social Laboratory for Modern France Janet R. Horne presents the story of this institution, offering a nuanced explanation of how, despite centuries of deep ideological ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Europe's Century of Crises Under Dollar Hegemony

    A Dialogue on the Global Tyranny of Unsound Money

    Series series History (R0)
    This book showcases written dialogue from Brendan Brown and Philippe Simonnot on the subject of European monetary turmoil past and present and what hope there could be for future reform. Starting with the collapse of the gold standard in 1914, proceeding to the brief gold-dollar standard of the mid inter-war years, on to the collapse of Bretton Woods and the heyday of the Deutsche mark and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Fatal Isolation

    The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003

    In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate change. They were the so-called abandoned victims of the worst natural disaster in French history, the devastating heat wave that struck in August 2003, leaving 15,000 dead. They died alone in Paris and its suburbs, and were then buried at public ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Breadwinners and Citizens

    Gender in the Making of the French Social Model

    Laura Levine Frader’s synthesis of labor history and gender history brings to the fore failures in realizing the French social model of equality for all citizens. Challenging previous scholarship, she argues that the male breadwinner ideal was stronger in France in the interwar years than scholars have typically recognized, and that it had negative consequences for women’s claims to the full ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • History of the Swiss Watch Industry

    From Jacques David to Nicolas Hayek- Third edition

    This book tackles the history of the Swiss watch industry in a global perspective: it gives particular attention to rival nations such as the United Kingdom, the USA and Japan. The author demonstrates how Swiss watchmakers succeeded in facing various challenges: the industrialization of production at the end of the 19th century, the delocalization of production in the interwar years and ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • From Manual Workers to Wage Laborers

    Transformation of the Social Question

    Edited by Robert Castel ...
    In this monumental book, sociologist Robert Castel reconstructs the history of what he calls "the social question," or the ways in which both labor and social welfare have been organized from the Middle Ages onward to contemporary industrial society. Throughout, the author identifies two constants bearing directly on the question of who is entitled to relief and who can be excluded: the degree of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Understanding French Law An Expats Guide

    This book has been written to help anyone who is planning on staying or moving to France. It is also aimed at making life easy when looking for information when things go wrong, and looking for help with housing, setting up a business or getting married. ... Read more

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