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  • Stories from the Faerie Queene

    de Mary Jane McLeod Bethune ...
    A cornerstone of English Renaissance literature, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene weaves together allegory, chivalry, and myth in a sprawling poetic epic. Yet its original sixteenth-century language can be daunting for readers. In this volume, Mary Macleod offers a faithful retelling that preserves the grandeur of Spenser's vision while presenting it in clear, accessible prose.Her narrative ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France

    de Jacob Melish, Judith DeGroat, Cynthia Truant, Nancy Locklin, Rafe Blaufarb, Jane McLeod, James Collins, Bonnie Smith ...
    In the eighteenth century, French women were active in a wide range of employments-from printmaking to running whole-sale businesses-although social and legal structures frequently limited their capacity to work independently. The contributors to Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France reveal how women at all levels of society negotiated these structures with determination and ingenuity in ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Licensing Loyalty

    Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France

    de Jane McLeod ...
    Series series Penn State Series in the History of the Book
    In Licensing Loyalty, historian Jane McLeod explores the evolution of the idea that the royal government of eighteenth-century France had much to fear from the rise of print culture. She argues that early modern French printers helped foster this view as they struggled to negotiate a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the French state. Printers in the provinces and in Paris ... Leer más

    $26.59 USD

  • What Determines Harm from Addictive Substances and Behaviours?

    Edición de Lucy Gell, Jane McLeod, Sarah Forberger, John Holmes, Anne Lingford-Hughes, Petra S. Meier, Gerhard Bühringer ...
    Series series Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours Series
    The multifaceted nature of harmful substance use and gambling requires interdisciplinary analysis to assess the underlying causes. What Determines Harm from Addictive Substances and Behaviours? draws together evidence from twelve disciplines including anthropology, genetics, neurobiology, and public policy. Using a developmental approach, the book presents evidence on the factors that influence ... Leer más

    $43.19 USD

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  • Liberty or Death

    The French Revolution

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Counter-Democracy

    Politics in an Age of Distrust

    de Pierre Rosanvallon, Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Series Libro 7 - The Seeley Lectures
    Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives that has become one of the major political issues of our time. Amidst these challenges, the paradox remains that while citizens are less likely to make the trip to the ballot box, the world is far from ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • A History of Masculinity

    From Patriarchy to Gender Justice

    de Ivan Jablonka ...
    Traducido por Nathan Bracher ...
    **'Exhilarating . . . a work of scholarship, but also inspiration. . . Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An unexpected bestseller in France. . . it has sparked conversations' ChallengesA highly acclaimed, bestselling work from one of France's preeminent historians**What does it mean to be a good man? To be a good father, or a good partner? A good brother, ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • Along a River

    The First French-Canadian Women

    de Jan Noel ...
    French-Canadian explorers, traders, and soldiers feature prominently in this country's storytelling, but little has been written about their female counterparts. In Along a River, award-winning historian Jan Noel shines a light on the lives of remarkable French-Canadian women — immigrant brides, nuns, tradeswomen, farmers, governors' wives, and even smugglers — during the period between the ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Erotic Exchanges

    The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris

    de Nina Kushner ...
    Nina Kushner's Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris brings to life a vibrant but relatively unknown part of early modern urban life, the world of the demimonde, the quasi-respectable underworld, with its elite prostitutes, wealthy patrons, and juicy scandals.... Kushner reveals the complexity and influence of this corner of Parisian social and cultural life ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • A Colonial Affair

    Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India

    de Danna Agmon ...
    Danna Agmon's gripping microhistory is a vivid guide to the "Nayiniyappa Affair" in the French colony of Pondicherry, India. The surprising and shifting fates of Nayiniyappa and his family form the basis of this story of global mobilization, which is replete with merchants, missionaries, local brokers, government administrators, and even the French royal family.Agmon's compelling account draws ... Leer más

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  • The French Revolution, 1789-1799

    de Peter McPhee ...
    This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides an accessible and reliable overview and one which deliberately introduces students to central debates among historians. The book has two main aims. One aim is to consider the origins and nature of the Revolution of 1789-99. Why was there a ... Leer más

    $67.49 USD

  • The French Revolution in Global Perspective

    Edición de Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson ...
    The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms—at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing—were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.Believe iSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD