Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumult...
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The period 1870 - 1914 in France saw the consolidation of republican government and the recovery of national self-confidence. Though political crises such as the Dreyfus Affair...
The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy, searching for a stable politica...
Robert Gildea presents an ambitious and wide-ranging but succinct history of France from 1945 to 2024, which seeks to provide a sympathetic understanding of the forces that have...
This is a survey of European history, from the coup d'etat of Napoleon, to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo. It concentrates on the twin themes of revolution...
This fascinating book examines how the past pervades French public life, how the French both commemorate their past triumphs, heroes, and martyrs and attempt to erase the more v...
A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill le...
Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation
Robert Gildea · ISBN 9780312423599
Julkaistu 2004 Kieli englanti nidottu
A startling and original view of the occupation of the French heartland, based on a new investigation of everyday life under Nazi rule In France, the German occupation is called...
Writing Contemporary History
Robert Gildea; Anne Simonin · ISBN 9780340950005
Julkaistu 2008 Kieli englanti nidottu
Writing Contemporary History brings together some of the world's most pre-eminent historians to discuss the core issues confronting students of contemporary history today. Tackl...
The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. Robert Gildea returns to the testimonies of those involved, asking who they w...
Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914
Robert Gildea · ISBN 9780674057241
Julkaistu 2010 Kieli englanti nidottu
For those who lived in the wake of the French Revolution, from the storming of the Bastille to Napoleon's final defeat, its aftermath left a profound wound that no subsequent ki...
Robert Gildea's penetrating history of France during World War II sweeps aside the French Resistance of a thousand cliches. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means...
'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead t...
The period 1870 - 1914 in France saw the consolidation of republican government and the recovery of national self-confidence. Though political crises such as the Dreyfus Affair...
'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead t...
“History”, suggests Robert Gildea, “is a battlefield.” Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries s...
Caught between the eras of Hitler and Putin, the Baby Boomers experienced unprecedented transformations - from becoming the first television generation to enjoying new healthcar...
Caught between the eras of Hitler and Putin, the Baby Boomers experienced unprecedented transformations - from becoming the first television generation to enjoying new healthcar...
American Politics in the Gilded Age
Robert W. Cherny · ISBN 9780882959337
Julkaistu 2014 Kieli englanti nidottu
Often Gilded-Age politics has been described as devoid of content or accomplishment, a mere spectacle to divert voters from thinking about the real issues of the day. But by foc...
The Gilded Age is renowned for a variety of reasons, including its culture of conspicuous consumption among the newly rich. In the domain of food, conspicuous consumption manife...