Europe - France
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France
$52.99 Add to cartIn a tour de force, Colin Jones gives a gripping, superbly and intelligently illustrated account of the political, social and cultural history of France, placing an innovatory emphasis on the impact o… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Illustrated Histories
- Author: Jones, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 28 1999
- ISBN10: 0521669928
- Language: English
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The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris
$18.99 Add to cartSet against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The H tel on Place Vend me is the captivating history of Paris’s world-famous H tel Ritz–a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and
- Author: Mazzeo, Tilar J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0061791040
- Language: English
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Paris on the Brink: The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador DalÃ, Simone de Beauvoir, André Gide, Sylvia Beach, Léon Blum, and Their Frie
$29.93 Add to cartParis on the Brink vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s. The decade was marked by violence at home and the rise of Hitler abroad, even as glamour prevailed in fashion and Sur… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1538121794
- Language: English
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When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends
$29.93 Add to cartWhen Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them–one in which art and architecture… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1538121808
- Language: English
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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure
$19.00 Add to cartThe remarkable untold story of France’s courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country’s most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II.
“To be a Frenchman means to- Author: Kladstrup, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0767904486
- Language: English
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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
$15.95 Add to cartIn the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to Paris after the brutal deaths of two magistrates. Reynie, pragmatic and fearless, discovers a network of witches, poisoners,
- Author: Tucker, Holly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355438
- Language: English
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Napoleon Bonaparte: The Biography of a Leader Who Changed the History of France (Including the French Revolution)
$16.99 Add to cartThere is no doubt that Napoleon Bonaparte has attracted legions of biographers over the last two centuries, documenting his endlessly fascinating life, associated with some of the most important and c
- Author: Brown, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: June 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1989711057
- Language: English
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Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartJos駱hine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; T駻騷ia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette R馗amier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarcer
- Author: Higonnet, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0393867951
- Language: English
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The Dream of the Earth
$16.95 Add to cartThis landmark work, first published by Sierra Club Books in 1988, has established itself as a foundational volume in the ecological canon. In it, noted cultural historian Thomas Berry provides nothing… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1619025329
- Language: English
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Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends
$34.43 Add to cartParis in 1871 was a shambles following military defeat, siege, and a bloody uprising, and the question loomed, could this extraordinary city even survive? By 1900, the Belle Epoque was in full flower,… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 16 2014
- ISBN10: 1442209283
- Language: English
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The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours. Beginning in 1789, this period of extre… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Doyle, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198840071
- Language: English
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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
$37.95 Add to cartWith a new introduction by author Le Roy Ladurie, this special paperback edition offers a fascinating history of a fourteenth-century village, Montaillou, in the mountainous region of southern France,… [more below]
- Author: Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: October 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0807616133
- Language: English
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
$14.00 Add to cartBurke’s seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack o… [more below]
- Series: English Library
- Author: Burke, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 16 1982
- ISBN10: 0140432043
- Language: English
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Paris Reborn
$26.00 Add to cartIn the mid-nineteenth century, the Paris we know today was born, the vision of two extraordinary men: the endlessly ambitious Emperor Napol駮n III and his unstoppable accomplice, Baron Haussmann. Thi
- Author: Kirkland, Stephane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1250042682
- Language: English
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Paris Journal, 1956-65
$17.99 Add to cartThis portrait of a city and an era is drawn from the the author’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in The New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature “Gen黎.” Edited by Will… [more below]
- Series: Paris Journal #2
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 015670949X
- Language: English
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The Napoleonic Wars: A Captivating Guide to the Conflicts That Began Between the United Kingdom and France During the Rule of Napoleon Bona
$29.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Napoleonic Wars, then keep reading…
The Napoleonic Wars, which took place between 1803 and 1815, were spearheaded by probably France’s best tact
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: December 02 2019
- ISBN10: 195092498X
- Language: English
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The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940
$31.99 Add to cartThe National Book Award-winning historian’s “vivid and moving” eyewitness account of the fall of France to Hitler’s Third Reich at the outset of WWII (The New York Times).
As an international war cor- Author: Shirer, William L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1050
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0795300336
- Language: English
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Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution
$27.95 Add to cartThe Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, cr
- Series: Princeton Classics #28
- Author: Palmer, R. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175926
- Language: English
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Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
$26.99 Add to cartWith his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways.
In eighteenth-century France, c
- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351807
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Cloth: A History of Stripes
$17.99 Add to cartTo stripe a surface serves to distinguish it, to point it out, to oppose it or associate it with another surface, and thus to classify it, to keep an eye on it, to verify it, even to censor it.
Throu… [more below]- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0743453263
- Language: English
