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  • Ultraroyalism in Toulouse

    From Its Origins to the Revolution of 1830

    by David Higgs ...
    Series series The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Originally published in 1973. Ultraroyalism in Toulouse examines in detail the origins of ultraroyal hostility to the social and political changes rendered by the French Revolution. France has produced a variety of theories of decline, corresponding to the nation's changing political fortunes in Europe and the world. The Revolution represented another, at least temporary, victory of the state ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Queer Sites

    Gay Urban Histories Since 1600

    Edited by David Higgs ...
    There are areas which can be described as gay space in that they have many lesbians and gays in the population. Queerspace: A History of Urban Sexuality, edited by David Higgs, offers a history of gay space in the major cities form the early modern period to the present. The book focuses on the changing nature of queer experience in London, Amsterdam, Rio de Janiero, San Francisco, Paris, Lisbon ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Nobles in Nineteenth-Century France

    The Practice of Inegalitarianism

    by David Higgs ...
    Series Book 105 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Originally published in 1987. David Higgs's Nobles in Nineteenth-Century France: The Practice of Inegalitarianism provides a history of the nobility against the backdrop of changing French political conditions following the French Revolution. Since Jean Juarès, the influential historian of the French Revolution, many writers have argued that the French Revolution marked the political triumph of a ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

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  • The Return of Martin Guerre

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  • The Revolutionary Temper

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  • The Fall of Robespierre

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    The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year directed the Reign of Terror, was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced. By 12.00 midnight ... Read more

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  • The French Revolution

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  • An Infinite History

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