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  • The French Language in Russia

    A Social, Political, Cultural, and Literary History

    by Derek Offord, Vladislav Rjéoutski, Gesine Argent ...
    Series series Languages and Culture in History
    With support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK and the Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau , The French Language in Russia provides the fullest examination and discussion to date of the adoption of the French language. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • European Francophonie

    The Social, Political and Cultural History of an International Prestige Language

    Edited by Vladislav Rjéoutski, Gesine Argent, Derek Offord ...
    Series Book 1 - Historical Sociolinguistics
    This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomenon of French language usage is explored in a wide variety of communities, namely Bohemian, Dutch, medieval English, German (Prussian), Italian, Piedmontese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Each chapter offers unique insight into ... Read more

    $111.29 USD

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  • The Dreyfus Affair

    The Scandal That Tore France in Two

    by Piers Paul Read ...
    July 20, 1894. The German Military Attache in Paris. Colonel Maximillien von Schwarzkoppen received a visit from a seedy-looking middle-aged Frenchman who would not give his name. He told Schwarzkoppen that he was a French army officer serving on the General Staff; that he was in desperate need of money; and was therefore prepared to sell military secrets to the Germans.Captain Alfred Dreyfus, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Dreyfus

    Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century

    by Ruth Harris ...
    The definitive, award-winning history of the infamous Dreyfus Affair, a scandal that shook nineteenth-century France and stunned the world.National Jewish Book Awards WinnerIn 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully convicted of being a spy for Germany and was imprisoned on Devil's Island. Over the following years, attempts to correct this injustice tore France ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Past Imperfect

    French Intellectuals, 1944-1956

    by Tony Judt ...
    A "marvelously readable" critique of Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir, and other French postwar intellectuals that "consistently entertains and provokes" ( The Washington Post).The uniquely prominent role of French intellectuals in European cultural and political life following World War II is the focus of this book by the acclaimed author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Tony Judt analyzes ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hedgehog and the Fox

    An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • Fire in the Minds of Men

    Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

    by James Billington ...
    This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History

    by Michael Burns ...
    The unjust conviction of French Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus on charges of treason started the Dreyfus affair, a major event in European anti-Semitism. “This documentary history is designed to introduce the broad outlines and significant legacies of the Dreyfus affair, from the captain’s arrest in 1894 to the 1998 centennial of J’Accuse, Émile Zola’s scathing indictment of the French military... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Simon Leys

    Navigator between Worlds

    by Philippe Paquet ...
    Translated by Julie Rose ...
    An award-winning biography of one of the greats.Simon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australian National University and was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney from 1987 to 1993. He died in 2014.Writing in three languages – French, Chinese and English – he played an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Conquering Peace

    From the Enlightenment to the European Union

    by Stella Ghervas ...
    A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer lasting peace.Political peace in Europe has historically been elusive and ephemeral. Stella Ghervas shows that since the eighteenth century, European thinkers and leaders in pursuit of lasting peace fostered the idea of European unification.Bridging ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Generation Stalin

    French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality

    by Andrew Sobanet ...
    A look at how four French writers of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s contributed to the rise of Stalin in their country and abroad.Generation Stalin traces Joseph Stalin's rise as a dominant figure in French political culture from the 1930s through the 1950s. Andrew Sobanet brings to light the crucial role French writers played in building Stalin's cult of personality and in disseminating Stalinist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unlikely Collaboration

    Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma

    by Barbara Will ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    In 1941, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe Pétain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government. From 1941 to 1943, Stein translated thirty-two of Pétain's speeches, in which he outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD