Author: Daniel Hollander ColmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The Collapse of the Third Republic
Author: William L. ShirerPublisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795342470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1948
Book Description
The 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 correspondent and radio commentator during World War II, William L. Shirer didn’t just research the fall of France. He was there. In just six weeks, he watched the Third Reich topple one of the world’s oldest military powers—and institute a rule of terror and paranoia. Based on in-person conversations with the leaders, diplomats, generals, and ordinary citizens who both shaped the events and lived through them, Shirer constructs a compelling account of historical events without losing sight of the human experience. From the heroic efforts of the Freedom Fighters to the tactical military misjudgments that caused the fall and the daily realities of life for French citizens under Nazi rule, this fascinating and exhaustively documented account brings this significant episode of history to life. “This is a companion effort to Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, also voluminous but very readable, reflecting once again both Shirer’s own experience and an enormous mass of historical material well digested and assimilated.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The Foundation of the French Liberal Republic
Author: Daniel Hollander ColmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution
Author: Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Modern France
Author: Vanessa R. SchwartzPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195389417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.
Jacobin Republic Under Fire
Author: Paul R. HansonPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271047928
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
It is time for a major work of synthetic interpretation, and this is what The Jacobin Republic Under Fire offers.".
Benjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism
Author: K. Steven VincentPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230117104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
This book advances a new interpretation of the timing and character of French (and more broadly European) liberalism, and contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the place of morality, sociability, and conceptions of the "self" in modern liberal thought.
The Long Affair
Author: Conor Cruise O'BrienPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226616568
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
As controversial and explosive as it is elegant and learned, this examination of Thomas Jefferson, as man and icon, through the critical lens of the French Revolution, offers a provocative analysis of the supreme symbol of American history and political culture and challenges the traditional perceptions of both Jeffersonian history and the Jeffersonian legacy. 15 illustrations.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Author: Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271040134
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
[This book] gives readers [an] introduction to the French Revolution that is also grounded in the latest ... scholarship ... The book presents a succinct narrative of the Revolution.-Back cover. [In this book, the authors] follow a wide range of events, including the social and cultural events as well as the military and political ones. Women's history and gender relations ... have been integrated into the general story.-Pref.
The Old Regime and the Revolution
Author: Alexis de TocquevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Oxford History of the French Revolution
Author: William DoylePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191608297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
This new edition of the most authoritative, comprehensive history of the French Revolution of 1789 draws on a generation of extensive research and scholarly debate to reappraise the most famous of all revolutions. Updates for this second edition include a generous chronology of events, plus an extended bibliographical essay providing an examination of the historiography of the Revolution. Opening with the accession of Louis XVI in 1774, the book traces the history of France through revolution, terror, and counter-revolution, to the triumph of Napoleon in 1802, and analyses the impact of events both in France itself and the rest of Europe. William Doyle shows how a movement which began with optimism and general enthusiasm soon became a tragedy, not only for the ruling orders, but for the millions of ordinary people all over Europe whose lives were disrupted by religious upheaval, and civil and international war. It was they who paid the price for the destruction of the old political order and the struggle to establish a new one, based on the ideals of liberty and revolution, in the face of widespread indifference and hostility.