Another century and a half would pass before the town made history again, but this time there was nothing quiet about it. Incorporating the newest interpretations of past events, Sowerwine seamlessly integrates culture, gender, . I confess: I ran to Google again to learn that “supplementary spouses” are “an important but often unrecognized relationship” in a marriage, rather like the third leg of a tripod. A History of France is] a delightful book—engaging, enthusiastic, sympathetic, funny and sometimes, one has to add, quirky.

He has a wry sense of humor and will always through in tidbits that enlighten, as well as entertain. Challenging the conventional wisdom that French environmentalism can be dated only to the post-1945 period, Caroline Ford argues that a broadly shared environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. A period rich with debates on the nature of man, truth and the place of God, with the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. However, if you want an overview of the history of France, an introduction to that history, a recap of what you already know or simply a very entertaining read, this book is ideal. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the .At the unity rally in Paris on 11 January this year demonstrators carry placards that show the eyes and glasses of murdered Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane Charbonnier.

It is a ‘great man’ history also literally: the only things we learn about French women is whether they were extraordinarily beautiful or extraordinarily fat (‘corpulent’).In it, he re-examines the war in the context of global imperialism, looks at the influence of socialist and labour movements in home countries and pay particular attention to the role of non-Europeans in the conflict. The Black Jacobins is the authoritative history of the Haitian Revolution of 1794, the first revolution in the Third World. William and Mary QuarterlyThis volume examines several slave societies in the Greater Caribbean to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of .

This thoroughly revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text surveys the cultural, social and political history of France from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the Paris Commune through to Emmanuel Macron's presidency. He wrote and presented more than 30 television documentaries including Maestro, The Fall of Constantinople, Napoleon's Hundred Days, Cortés and Montezuma, Maximilian of Mexico, The Knights of Malta, The Treasure Houses of Britain, and The Death of the Prince Imperial in the Zulu War. The real question, unanswered in both books, is not what the French think, but what they will do next. Princeton University's Florent Masse offers us a reading from the point of view of teaching theater.From 1920 until the present, the working-class suburbs of Paris, known as the Red Belt, have constituted the heart of French Communism, providing the Party not only with its most solid electoral base but with much of its cultural identity as well.