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“james b collins”

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  • The French Monarchical Commonwealth, 1356–1560

    by James B. Collins ...
    How does authority become power? How does power justify itself to achieve its ends? For over two hundred years, the Valois kings relied on a complex mixture of ideologies, ruling a monarchical commonwealth with a coherent theory of shared governance. Forged in the Hundred Years War, this commonwealth built on the defense of the public good (bien public) came undone both practically and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Empire of Fear

    From Monarchical Commonwealth to French Royal State, 1561–1651

    by James B. Collins ...
    While French political discourse in the late Middle Ages had been based on ancient Roman ideas that government existed for the common good (le bien public, or la chose publique, a French translation of the Latin res publica), these ideas began to evolve in the 1570s. Although references to the common good continued to be used right up to the French Revolution, they were gradually overtaken by a ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

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  • Liberty or Death

    The French Revolution

    by Peter McPhee ...
    A strinking account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globeThe French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth ... Read more

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  • The Return of Martin Guerre

    by Natalie Zemon Davis ...
    The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer’s day in 1560, a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of ... Read more

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  • The Great Demarcation

    The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property

    by Rafe Blaufarb ...
    What does it mean to own something? What sorts of things can be owned, and what cannot? How does one relinquish ownership? What are the boundaries between private and public property? Over the course of a decade, the French Revolution grappled with these questions. Punctuated by false starts, contingencies, and unexpected results, this process laid the foundations of the Napoleonic Code and modern ... Read more

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  • Montaigne

    A Life

    by Philippe Desan ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall, Lisa Neal ...
    A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his back on the world, and stoically detaching himself from his ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • A Social History of the French Revolution

    by Norman Hampson ...
    The revolutionary movement which began in 1787 disrupted every aspect of French society, rising to a pitch of such extreme violence that the effects are still felt in France today. The Revolution was the product of social tensions that developed throughout France in the second half of the eighteenth century. Norman Hampson analyses the nature of these social conflicts within their political ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1

    by Henry Martyn Baird ...
    pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. Occupying nearly four columns, appeared in the New York Tribune of Dec. 30th, 1879, from which the following is extracted. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789–1792

    by Ambrogio A. Caiani ...
    The experience, and failure, of Louis XVI's short-lived constitutional monarchy of 1789–92 deeply influenced the politics and course of the French Revolution. The dramatic breakdown of the political settlement of 1789 steered the French state into the decidedly stormy waters of political terror and warfare on an almost global scale. This book explores how the symbolic and political practices which ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre

    The mysteries of a crime of state

    by Arlette Jouanna ...
    Translated by Joseph Bergin ...
    On 18 August 1572, Paris hosted the lavish wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, which was designed to seal the reconciliation of France’s Catholics and Protestants. Only six days later, the execution of the Protestant leaders on the orders of the king’s council unleashed a vast massacre by Catholics of thousands of Protestants in Paris and elsewhere. Why was the celebration of ... Read more

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  • La Duchesse

    The Life of Marie de Vignerot—Cardinal Richelieu's Forgotten Heiress Who Shaped the Fate of France

    by Bronwen McShea ...
    A rich portrait of a compelling, complex woman who emerged from a sheltered rural childhood into the fraught, often deadly world of the French royal court and Parisian high society—and who would come to rule them both.Married off at sixteen to a military officer she barely knew, Marie de Vignerot was intended to lead an ordinary aristocratic life, produce heirs, and quietly assist the men in her ... Read more

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  • Feudalism, venality, and revolution

    Provincial assemblies in late-Old Regime France

    by Stephen Miller ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern European History
    According to Alexis de Tocqueville’s influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners*.* This book challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened assemblies of landowners in the late 1770s and 1780s to discuss policies needed to ... Read more

    $93.59 USD