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“mark traugott”

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  • On Institutional Analysis

    by Emile Durkheim ...
    Ranging from Durkheim's original lecture in sociology to an excerpt from the work incomplete at his death, these selections illuminate his multiple approaches to the crucial concept of social solidarity and the study of institutions as diverse as the law, morality, and the family. Durkheim's focus on social solidarity convinced him that sociology must investigate the way that individual behavior ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Insurgent Barricade

    by Mark Traugott ...
    "To the barricades!" The cry conjures images of angry citizens, turmoil in the streets, and skirmishes fought behind hastily improvised cover. This definitive history of the barricade charts the origins, development, and diffusion of a uniquely European revolutionary tradition. Mark Traugott traces the barricade from its beginnings in the sixteenth century, to its refinement in the insurrectionary ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Armies of the Poor

    Determinants of Working-class Participation in in the Parisian Insurrection of June 1848

    by Mark Traugott ...
    In June 1848, two irregular armies of the urban poor fought a four-day battle in the streets of Paris that decided the fate of the French Second Republic. The Parisian National Workshops and the Parisian Mobile Guard-organizations newly created at the time of the February Revolution-provided the bulk of the June combatants associated with the insurrection and repression, respectively. According to ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • The French Resistance

    by Olivier Wieviorka ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    “Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not and will not go out.” As Charles de Gaulle ended his radio address to the French nation in June 1940, listeners must have felt a surge of patriotism tinged with uncertainty. Who would keep the flame burning through dark years of occupation? At what cost?Olivier Wieviorka presents a comprehensive history of the French Resistance, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Choices in Vichy France

    The French Under Nazi Occupation

    by John Sweets ...
    Post-World War II scholarship and films like The Sorrow and the Pity have frequently replaced the old Gaullist notion of widespread resistance, and cultivated the impression that the French may well have been a "nation of collaborators," embracing the dream of a new authoritarian order in France as embodied by the puppet Vichy regime of Marshall Petain, and hindering the network of the French ... Read more

    $24.89 USD

  • France 1814 - 1914

    by Robert Tombs ...
    Series series Longman History of France
    Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begins with an exploration of national obsessions and attitudes. It considers the tendency to revolution and war, the preoccupation with the idea of a New Order and the deep strain of national paranoia that ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Engineering the Revolution

    Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815

    by Ken Alder ...
    Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the “technological life.” Here, Ken Alder rewrites the history of the eighteenth century as the total history of one particular artifact—the gun—by offering a novel and historical account of how material artifacts ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Paris Commune 1871

    by Robert Tombs ...
    Series series Turning Points
    The Paris Commune was the biggest and last popular revolution in western Europe - ending the cycle of revolutions that started in 1789. The Parisians, reeling from defeat in the Franco-Prussian War set up their own revolutionary administration. Government troops eventually retook the city and took a terrible revenge: thousands died in the bloodbath that followed. The short-lived Commune and its ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • René Cassin and Human Rights

    From the Great War to the Universal Declaration

    by Jay Winter, Antoine Prost ...
    Series series Human Rights in History
    Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a man of his generation, committed to moving from war to peace through international law, and whose work ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • What Nostalgia Was

    War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion

    by Thomas Dodman ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly.What Nostalgia Was unearths that history. Thomas Dodman begins his story in Basel, where a nineteen-year-old medical student ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948

    Choices and Constraints

    by Hanna Diamond ...
    Series series Women And Men In History
    This is the first book (in either English or French) to offer readers an overview of women's experience of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath in France. It examines objectively the part that women played in both collaboration and resistance, synthesising much recent scholarship on the subject in French and English, and drawing on the author's own extensive research (including oral ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Fall of France 1940

    by Andrew Shennan ...
    Series series Turning Points
    Offering a fresh critical perspective on this momentous event, Andrew Shennan examines both the continuities and discontinuities that resulted from the events of 1940. The main focus is on the French experience of the war, but this experience is framed within the larger context of France's - and Europe's - protracted mid-twentieth century crisis. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD