Memorias sobre Napoleón

Memorias consagradas esencialmente a la campaña de Italia, Stendhal busca ante todo el elemento auténtico que pueda impresionar al lector, pero también el que corrobore su idea. Por eso basta con que el detalle exista.

Quand les enfants parlaient de gloire

l'armée au coeur de la France de Napoléon

Les baïonnettes luisent, les canons tonnent et la cavalerie charge sur des airs d'opéra. En plein champ de bataille, le reporter affûte sa plume, le peintre pose son chevalet. Dans les rues et sur le parvis des églises, au théâtre, au Louvre ou dans ...

Reflexiones sobre el proceso de la Reina

Este libro es una pieza originalmente anónima que, si bien por su extensión, estilo y retórica podemos considerar como un panfleto, encierra sin embargo una significación, por lo dramático de las circunstancias que la originan (el proceso de María Antonieta) y por la personalidad de ...

Living the French Revolution, 1789-99

What did it mean to live through the French Revolution? "Living the French Revolution" provides a coherent and expansive portrait of revolutionary life by probing the lived experience of the decade's upheaval for the people of France's villages and country towns. The freshness ...

The end of the old order

Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805

From a leading scholar of history and military policy, a monumental account and brilliant new analysis of the Napoleonic era in Europe and the revealing interaction of continental politics and war shaping our modern world. Perhaps no person in history has dominated his or her ...

The debate on the French Revolution

SUMMARY: Preface. Introduction. Immediate Responses. Nineteenth Century - The Liberal Perspective. Nineteenth Century - Idealist and Romantic Views. Nineteenth Century - Tocqueville. Nineteenth Century - Third Republic Historians. Twentieth Century - Marxist 'Orthodoxy'. Twentieth Century - 'Soft Revisionism'. Twentieth Century - 'Hard Revisionism'. Twentieth Century - Bicentenary Re-evaluations. Postscript. Bibliography.

Napoleon's master

a life of Prince Talleyrand

He took on Napoleon with a set of weapons that seemed unsuited to the task: flattery, courtesy and an alarmingly straight face. And he won. Quite as much as the Duke of Wellington it was the club-footed genius of French diplomacy who defeated the greatest ...

Napoleon and his empire

Europe, 1804-1814

"Napoleon and His Empire" brings together some of the world's leading Napoleonic historians, and is born out of a reflection on the Empire two hundred years after its foundation in May 1804. It provides a timely overview of current trends in research and historiography ...

Napoléon

les grands moments d'un destin

A première vue, on pourrait douter qu'il soit seulement possible de dire quelque chose de neuf sur Napoléon : n'avance-t-on pas qu'il s'est publié à son sujet plus de livres qu'il ne s'est écoulé de jours depuis sa mort ? Quant ...

El Antiguo Régimen y la Revolución

Al destacar la continuidad que existe entre el Antiguo Régimen y los acontecimientos de 1789, Alexis de Tocqueville cuestiona, de manera implícita, el mito de la revolución. Poner en tela de juicio es la idea de que una ruptura radical con el pasado, haría posible ...

Post-revolutionary Europe

1815-1856

Martyn Lyons re-assesses European history between the fall of Napoleon and the Crimean War. Instead of seeing the period in traditional terms of Restoration and Reaction, this fresh account emphasizes the problems of remembering and forgetting the recent revolutionary and Napoleonic past, and of either ...

Paris 1871

la commune

Zéphyrin Albert, personnage fictif, crieur de journaux à Paris, nous raconte dans ce livre, au jour le jour, la Commune de 1871. Le désir de changer la société est alors plus vivace que jamais et le peuple, refusant de voir livrer la France aux Prussiens ...

The Paris commune

a revolution in democracy

For such an important event, the Paris Commune of 1871 is rarely remembered even amongst political activists. But the events of the Commune#s 72 days deserve to be read, learnt from and passed on by anyone who has thought that the world we live ...

Las Revoluciones de 1848

Los artículos de Marx y Engels sobre el tema de las revoluciones fueron en conjunto poco más de 200. Se publica ahora una selección considerando en lo fundamental, aquellos que trataron directamente con los movimientos revolucionarios de 1848, en un orden estrictamente cronológico.

Histoire des syndicats

(1906-2006)

Quel a été le rôle des organisations syndicales dans l'évolution de la société française depuis un siècle ? Comment analyser la désyndicalisation contemporaine ? Ce livre propose de répondre à ces questions en partant d'un moment fondateur de l'histoire syndicale : le congrès de la ...

The Routledge Companion to Decolonization

This is an essential companion to the process of decolonization - perhaps one of the most important historical processes of the twentieth century. Examining decolonization in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific, the "Companion" includes: thematic chapters; a detailed chronology and thorough glossary; biographies of ...

Western imperialism in the middle east

1914-1958

The term 'Fertile Crescent' is commonly used as shorthand for the group of territories extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Here it is assumed to consist of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine. Much has been written on the history of these countries which ...

La guerra de los Bóers

Los primeros disparos de la guerra de los Bóers sonaron en Suráfrica el 12 de octubre de 1899. Ese mismo día un jovencísimo Winston Churchill, acreditado como corresponsal de guerra para el Morning Post, zarpó de Southampton rumbo a Ciudad del Cabo. Este libro recoge ...

Le choc colonial et l'islam

les politiques religieuses des puissances coloniales en terres d'islam

" La laïcité est l'arme des nouveaux croisés " proclame aujourd'hui un slogan islamiste. Au-delà de ce jugement abrupt, on doit constater en tout cas que le rapport entre les héritages de la domination coloniale et l'importation de conceptions laïques et/ou sécularisées dans ...

Britain's declining empire

the road to decolonisation, 1918-1968

An authoritative political history of one of the world's most important empires on the road to decolonisation. Ronald Hyam offers a major reassessment of the end of empire which combines a study of British policymaking with case studies on the experience of decolonization across ...