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  • The First Total War

    Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

    by David A. Bell ...
    "A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel" (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of modern European history, UCLA).The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David A. Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Napoleon

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David A. Bell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction might prove disappointing to those expecting an introduction to a very short man. Dispelling the myth of Napoleon Bonaparte's short stature, as well as the other rumors and legends, David A. Bell provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. This book emphasizes the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Napoleon: A Concise Biography

    by David A. Bell ...
    This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good and ill--that Napoleon represented. By his late twenties, Napoleon was already one of the greatest generals in European history. At thirty, he had become absolute master ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • French Revolutionary Lives

    Edited by David A. Bell, Colin Jones ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Historians have long used biography and life narratives as a means of understanding the French Revolution, as classic studies on major figures such as Robespierre and Napoleon attest. At the current moment, however, many of the most creative such studies are focusing on relatively minor revolutionary figures. Such work, which combines the techniques of classic biography and microhistory, reveals ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • The Cult of the Nation in France

    Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800

    by David A. Bell ...
    In a work of lucid prose and striking originality, Bell offers the first comprehensive survey of patriotism and national sentiment in early modern France, and shows how the dialectical relationship between nationalism and religion left a complex legacy that still resonates in debates over French national identity today.Table of Contents:PrefaceIntroduction: Constructing the NationThe National and ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Shadows of Revolution

    Reflections on France, Past and Present

    by David A. Bell ...
    Renowned historian, essayist, and journalist David A. Bell has long made France and its history the subject of his scholarly gaze and the object of his enduring affection. Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present gathers together his writing, composed over a period of more than 25 years, into a single volume. As the title of this collection suggests, Bell views much of French ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Defining the Age

    Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours

    by Paul Starr, Julian E. Zelizer, Jenny Andersson, David A. Bell, Steven Brint, Stefan Eich, Michael Kazin, Jan-Werner Muller, Margaret O'Mara, Fred Turner ...
    The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell’s major books—The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)—became hotly debated frameworks for understanding the era when they ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Staging Civilization

    A Transnational History of French Theater in Eighteenth-Century Europe

    by Rahul Markovits, David A. Bell ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era’s international scene. Considering the emblematic case of the theater, Rahul Markovits goes beyond the idea of "French Europe" to offer a serious consideration of the intentions and goals of those involved in making this so. Drawing on extensive archival research, Staging Civilization reveals that between ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Defining the Age

    Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours

    by Paul Starr, Julian E. Zelizer, Jenny Andersson, David A. Bell, Steven Brint, Stefan Eich, Michael Kazin, Jan-Werner Muller, Margaret O'Mara, Fred Turner ...
    The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell’s major books—The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)—became hotly debated frameworks for understanding the era when they ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Napoleon: A Concise Biography

    by David A. Bell ...
    This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good and ill--that Napoleon represented. By his late twenties, Napoleon was already one of the greatest generals in European history. At thirty, he had become absolute master ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon

    Toward a Political History of Madness

    by Laure Murat ...
    Translated by Deke Dusinberre ...
    The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon were returned to Paris for burial—and the next day, the director of a Paris hospital for the insane admitted fourteen men who claimed to be Napoleon. The challenge, meanwhile, is the claim by great French ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Rethinking the Age of Revolutions

    France and the Birth of the Modern World

    Edited by David A. Bell, Yair Mintzker ...
    Much of the historiography on the age of democratic revolutions has seemed to come to a halt until recent years. Historians of this period have tried to develop new explanatory paradigms but there are few that have had a lasting impact. David A. Bell and Yair Mintzker seek to break through the narrow views of this period with research that reaches beyond the traditional geographical and ... Read more

    $37.79 USD