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  • England, France and Aquitaine

    From Victory to Defeat in the Hundred Years War

    The author of The Unseen Terror "looks at the fortunes of Richard II and Charles VI of France in a fascinating account of that war" (Books Monthly).This is a narrative history of England and France during the Hundred Years War, from the triumphs of Henry V to the defeat of the English and loss of Gascony and Bordeaux—a huge blow to English prestige and economic interest. This is a military history ... Leer más

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  • Louis XIV's Architect

    Louis Le Vau, France's Most Important Builder

    A must-read for those seeking to understand the intersection of politics and art in a pivotal moment of European history. This is a study of royal absolutism in a most extreme form in modern European history, and of the nature of Louis XIV's concept of personal glory and of the embodiment of France as a new superpower. It is a study of political ideas expressed in architecture to establish ... Leer más

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  • A Child's War

    In the 1940 London blitz, George Ryland, a skilled engineer, and his wife Edna lose the style of life it took them years of struggle to obtain when they are bombed out of the house they own in a pleasant suburb. The nostalgic story of their small son Alex is set in the apparent calm of Oxford. Alex reacts with a mixture of hope and anxiety coloured by a selfpreserving humour to the unresolved ... Leer más

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  • Knowing the City

    South African Urban Scholarship from Apartheid to Democracy

    Series Libro 74 - Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
    South African cities are marked by the legacies of racialized dispossession that were inscribed in colonial and apartheid spatial patterns. From the late 1970s, the “urban” has been presented as both a key scene for visions of the reform of apartheid and as a site for the potentially revolutionary transformation of South African society. Cities therefore play a pivotal role in shaping the ... Leer más

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Social Change

    Edición de Richard Ballard, Clive Barnett ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Social Change provides an interdisciplinary primer to the intellectual approaches that hold the key to understanding the complexity of social change in the twenty-first century.We live in a world of intense social transformation, economic uncertainty, cultural innovations, and political turmoil. Established understandings of issues of well-being, development, ... Leer más

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  • The Unseen Terror

    The French Revolution in the Provinces

    From the fall of the Bastille to the rise of Napoleon, Paris was the stage for most of the greatest crises of the French Revolution. Indeed, for many historians, the Revolution was a distinctly Parisian phenomenon, restricted to the galleries of the Tuileries and the chambers of the Jacobin Club. But Paris was only one setting for a national terror which was frequently and painfully felt outside ... Leer más

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  • A New Dictionary of the French Revolution

    The French Revolution was a huge, brutal yet inspiring phenomenon that changed global political thinking and action, and its echoes resound even in the twenty-first century. It was an intensely complex mix of events, concepts and individuals and 'The New Dictionary' is an invaluable aid to unravelling its complications, and an essential companion for students and general readers alike. There are ... Leer más

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  • The Secret Wife of Louis XIV

    Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon

    Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was born in a bleak French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the warden's seduced daughter. A timely pardon and a hopeful Caribbean colonial venture failed to mend the family's fortunes, and Françoise was reduced to begging in the streets. Yet, armed with beauty, intellect, ... Leer más

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  • Martyrs and Murderers

    The Guise Family and the Making of Europe

    The House of Guise was one of the greatest princely families of the sixteenth century, or indeed of any age. Today they are best remembered through the tragic life of one family member, Mary Queen of Scots. But the story of her Guise uncles, aunts and cousins is if anything more gripping - and certainly of greater significance in the history of Europe. The Guise family rose to prominence as the ... Leer más

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  • Éminence

    Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France

    Chief minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century, and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. Among the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he was one of the early realist politicians, practicing in the wake of Niccolò Machiavelli. Truly larger than life, he has captured the ... Leer más

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  • Henry V: The Warrior King of 1415

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    From an award-winning historian: "A new and convincing likeness of medieval England's most iconic king" ( The Sunday Times).This biography by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England takes an insightful look at the life of Henry V, casting new light on a period in history often held up as legend.A great English hero, Henry V was lionized by Shakespeare and revered by ... Leer más

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  • The Louvre

    The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum

    de James Gardner ...
    The centuries-long history of the Louvre, from humble fortress to Royal palace to the world's greatest art museum—with photos and building maps.Some ten million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre each year to enjoy its incomparable art collection. Yet few of them are aware of the remarkable history of the site and buildings themselves—a fascinating story that historian James ... Leer más

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