Author: Albin-Barthélémy-Fleury de L'HormePublisher:
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Languages : fr
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Opinion de M. le chevalier Del'Horme sur le projet de loi relatif aux douanes... Séance du 18 novembre 1814
Author: Albin-Barthélémy-Fleury de L'HormePublisher:
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Languages : fr
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Opinion de M. le chevalier Del'horme, sur le projet de loi relatif aux douanes
Author: Albin-Barthélemy-Fleury L'HormePublisher:
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : fr
Pages : 12
Book Description
Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Art and Illustrated Books
Author: J. LewineA Velvet Empire
Author: David ToddPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691205337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth century After Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a global history of French imperialism in the nineteenth century, providing new insights into the mechanisms of imperial collaboration that extended France's power from the Middle East to Latin America and ushered in the modern age of globalization. David Todd shows how French elites pursued a cunning strategy of imperial expansion in which conspicuous commodities such as champagne and silk textiles, together with loans to client states, contributed to a global campaign of seduction. French imperialism was no less brutal than that of the British. But while Britain widened its imperial reach through settler colonialism and the acquisition of far-flung territories, France built a "velvet" empire backed by frequent military interventions and a broadening extraterritorial jurisdiction. Todd demonstrates how France drew vast benefits from these asymmetric, imperial-like relations until a succession of setbacks around the world brought about their unravelling in the 1870s. A Velvet Empire sheds light on France's neglected contribution to the conservative reinvention of modernity and offers a new interpretation of the resurgence of French colonialism on a global scale after 1880. This panoramic book also highlights the crucial role of collaboration among European empires during this period—including archrivals Britain and France—and cooperation with indigenous elites in facilitating imperial expansion and the globalization of capitalism.
Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson
Author: Power and Profit
Author: Peter SpuffordPublisher:
ISBN: 9780500285947
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Newly available in paperback, this is a wonderfully readable account of the role of merchants and money in the medieval world. Professor Spufford, who has made a lifelong study of the subject, brings together a vast amount of material from archives all over the world to build up this important economic history of the origins of capitalism essential reading for the scholar, but also engaging and entertaining to the layman.
Divorçons
Author: Victorien SardouPhilostratus
Author: Philostratus (the Athenian)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Analecta: Or, Materials For a History of Remarkable Providences; Mostly Relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians
Author: Robert WodrowPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385129664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Richard Darlington
Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434457362
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This dramatization of Sir Walter Scott's The Surgeon's Daughter tells how an ambitious politician, Richard Darlington, murders his wife to further his political career, becoming the epitome of the saying, "All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely."