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“eric hazan”

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  • A People's History of the French Revolution

    by Eric Hazan ...
    Translated by David Fernbach ...
    Discover French history as you’ve never read it before in this bold account of the French Revolution from the perspective of the lower classes.This blow-by-blow narrative busts pervasive myths and reveals how the French Revolution shaped the Western world.The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Invention of Paris

    A History in Footsteps

    by Eric Hazan ...
    Translated by David Fernbach ...
    The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan.Hazan reveals a city whose squares echo with the riots, rebellions and revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Combining the raconteur’s ear for a story with a historian’s command of the facts, he introduces an incomparable ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Balzac's Paris

    The City as Human Comedy

    by Eric Hazan ...
    Exploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France’s most famous novelist and observerIn Balzac’s vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete picture of contemporary French society and manners. Within this work is a loving ode to Paris and an incomparable introduction to the first capital of the modern world.To this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A History of the Barricade

    by Eric Hazan ...
    How the French invented the barricade, and its symbolic impact on popular protests throughout historyIn the history of European revolutions, the barricade stands as a glorious emblem. Its symbolic importance arises principally from the barricades of Eric Hazan’s native Paris, where they were instrumental in the revolts of the nineteenth century, helping to shape the political life of a continent ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • First Measures of the Coming Insurrection

    by Eric Hazan ...
    We have witnessed a beginning, the birth of a new age of revolt and upheaval. In North Africa and the Middle East it took the people a matter of days to topple what were supposedly entrenched regimes. Now, to the west, multiple crises are etching away at a 'democratic consensus' that has, since the 1970s, plagued and suppressed any sparks of revolutionary potential. It is time to prepare for the ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Paris in Turmoil

    A City between Past and Future

    by Eric Hazan ...
    A kaleidoscopic look at Paris’s ever-changing forms and people"Since the disastrous Pompidou years, working-class Paris has been steadily nibbled away, either by destruction or more insidiously by a kind of internal colonization.Take for example a small outlying district populated by Arabs, blacks and poor whites twenty years ago, the L’Olive neighbourhood north of La Chapelle The area is noted as ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Walk Through Paris

    A Radical Exploration

    by Eric Hazan ...
    Translated by David Fernbach ...
    A walker’s guide to Paris, taking us through its past, present and possible futuresEric Hazan, author of the acclaimed Invention of Paris, takes the reader on a walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, roughly following the meridian that divides Paris into east and west, and passing such familiar landmarks as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Pompidou Centre, the Gare du Nord and Montmartre, as well as forgotten ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Reflections On Anti-Semitism

    by Alain Badiou, Eric Hazan, Ivan Segre ...
    Dissecting how facile accusations of “anti-Semitism” are used to stifle dissentSince the inception of the “War on Terror,” Israel has become increasingly important to Western imperial strategy and ever more aggressive in its policies towards the Palestinians. A key ideological weapon in this development is the cynical and unjustified accusation of “anti-Semitism” to silence protest and dissent.For ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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