Author: Louis FiguierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The World Before the Deluge
Author: Louis FiguierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The World Before the Deluge
Author: Louis FiguierPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781512009293
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"The World Before the Deluge" from Louis Figuier. French scientist and writer (1819-1894).
Before the Deluge
Author: Otto FriedrichPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060926791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
A fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.
The World Before the Deluge
Author: Louis FiguierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The World Before the Deluge
Author: Figuier LouisPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318033232
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
The World Before the Deluge
Author: L. FiguierThe World Before the Deluge. Translated from the Fourth French Edition
Author: Louis FiguierBefore the Deluge
Author: Michael SonenscherPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400827701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Après moi, le déluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a different kind of selfish recklessness--not toward the flood of revolution but, rather, toward the flood of public debt. In Before the Deluge, Michael Sonenscher examines these fears and the responses to them, and the result is nothing less than a new way of thinking about the intellectual origins of the French Revolution. In this nightmare vision of the future, many prerevolutionary observers predicted that the pressures generated by modern war finance would set off a chain of debt defaults that would either destroy established political orders or cause a sudden lurch into despotic rule. Nor was it clear that constitutional government could keep this possibility at bay. Constitutional government might make public credit more secure, but public credit might undermine constitutional government itself. Before the Deluge examines how this predicament gave rise to a widespread eighteenth-century interest in figuring out how to establish and maintain representative governments able to realize the promise of public credit while avoiding its peril. By doing so, the book throws new light on a neglected aspect of modern political thought and on the French Revolution.
The World Before the Deluge
Author: Louis FiguierThe Deluge
Author: Adam ToozePublisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143127977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath—from the prizewinning economist and author of Shutdown, Crashed and The Wages of Destruction Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History Finalist for the Kirkus Prize - Nonfiction In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and matériel reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrialorder. A century after the outbreak of fighting, Adam Tooze revisits this seismic moment in history, challenging the existing narrative of the war, its peace, and its aftereffects. From the day the United States enters the war in 1917 to the precipice of global financial ruin, Tooze delineates the world remade by American economic and military power. Tracing the ways in which countries came to terms with America’s centrality—including the slide into fascism—The Deluge is a chilling work of great originality that will fundamentally change how we view the legacy of World War I.