De son avènement, en 1715, -alors âgé de cinq ans- jusqu´à sa mort, en 1774, Louis XV aura incarné une époque où la France connaît una profonde effervescence. Homme discret, secret, sachant se montrer séducteur et autoritaire, il reflète pleinement le siècle des Lumières ...
De son avènement, en 1715, -alors âgé de cinq ans- jusqu´à sa mort, en 1774, Louis XV aura incarné une époque où la France connaît una profonde effervescence. Homme discret, secret, sachant se montrer séducteur et autoritaire, il reflète pleinement le siècle des Lumières ...
Le 10 mai 1774, la mort de Louis XV place sur le trône un jeune homme inexpérimenté, timide, cultivé mais élevé sans affection, et peu formé à l'exercice du pouvoir. Durant quinze ans, Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette vivent dans l'univers clos de Versailles ...
Le 10 mai 1774, la mort de Louis XV place sur le trône un jeune homme inexpérimenté, timide, cultivé mais élevé sans affection, et peu formé à l'exercice du pouvoir. Durant quinze ans, Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette vivent dans l'univers clos de Versailles ...
In this original and widely researched book, Billie Melman explores the culture of history during the age of modernity. Her book is about the production of English pasts, the multiplicity of their representations and the myriad ways in which the English looked at history (sometimes ...
In this original and widely researched book, Billie Melman explores the culture of history during the age of modernity. Her book is about the production of English pasts, the multiplicity of their representations and the myriad ways in which the English looked at history (sometimes ...
This is the first comprehensive study of the traditional European ruling class during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Distilling the wealth of recent research for students and general readers, Wasson analyzes the role of aristocracy, focusing on the tensions that exist between modern egalitarian values ...
This is the first comprehensive study of the traditional European ruling class during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Distilling the wealth of recent research for students and general readers, Wasson analyzes the role of aristocracy, focusing on the tensions that exist between modern egalitarian values ...
Most scholars agree that during the sixteenth century, the centre of European international trade shifted from Antwerp to Amsterdam, presaging the economic rise of the Dutch Republic in the following century. Traditionally this shift has been accepted as the natural consequence of a dynamic and ...
Most scholars agree that during the sixteenth century, the centre of European international trade shifted from Antwerp to Amsterdam, presaging the economic rise of the Dutch Republic in the following century. Traditionally this shift has been accepted as the natural consequence of a dynamic and ...
Durant des siècles, les Européens pratiquèrent le troc sur la côte du Sénégal et à l'embouchure des fleuves, sans chercher à en connaître davantage. Il fallut attendre le Siècle des lumières pour que la curiosité s'éveille. Dans les archives du général Decaen se ...
Durant des siècles, les Européens pratiquèrent le troc sur la côte du Sénégal et à l'embouchure des fleuves, sans chercher à en connaître davantage. Il fallut attendre le Siècle des lumières pour que la curiosité s'éveille. Dans les archives du général Decaen se ...
This book address a number of interrelated themes over two hundred years and more in the political, religious, cultural, and social history of a broad but often neglected swathe of the European continent. It seeks - against the grain of conventional presentations - to apprehend the era ...
This book address a number of interrelated themes over two hundred years and more in the political, religious, cultural, and social history of a broad but often neglected swathe of the European continent. It seeks - against the grain of conventional presentations - to apprehend the era ...
The 1790s was a fateful period for Britain. The French Revolution of 1789 opened an era of seismic political upheaval, one in which many features of the modern world made their first significant appearance. Democracy, mass nationalism, wholesale military mobilisation, and anti- colonial revolt all ...
The 1790s was a fateful period for Britain. The French Revolution of 1789 opened an era of seismic political upheaval, one in which many features of the modern world made their first significant appearance. Democracy, mass nationalism, wholesale military mobilisation, and anti- colonial revolt all ...
Magnificada por unos como la derrota que provocó el derrumbe del imperio donde nunca se ponía el sol, relegada por otros al nivel de un irrelevante revés táctico: al margen de dichos extremismos, la batalla de Rocroi continúa envuelta hasta hoy en un aura legendaria ...
Magnificada por unos como la derrota que provocó el derrumbe del imperio donde nunca se ponía el sol, relegada por otros al nivel de un irrelevante revés táctico: al margen de dichos extremismos, la batalla de Rocroi continúa envuelta hasta hoy en un aura legendaria ...
It is now 200 years since the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, French aristocrat, liberal politician and writer of genius whose great works, "Democracy in America", and the "Ancien Regime", are ever more influential and discussed. As the son of a noble family, which was ...
It is now 200 years since the birth of Alexis de Tocqueville, French aristocrat, liberal politician and writer of genius whose great works, "Democracy in America", and the "Ancien Regime", are ever more influential and discussed. As the son of a noble family, which was ...
A la fin du Moyen Age, l'excommunication apparaît aux yeux des réformateurs comme galvaudée par son usage courant pour des causes mineures. Appliquée à la province ecclésiastique de Reims, l'étude s'attache à analyser le poids réel de l'excommunication pour les fidèles ...
A la fin du Moyen Age, l'excommunication apparaît aux yeux des réformateurs comme galvaudée par son usage courant pour des causes mineures. Appliquée à la province ecclésiastique de Reims, l'étude s'attache à analyser le poids réel de l'excommunication pour les fidèles ...
Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling "Radical Enlightenment", and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer ...
Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling "Radical Enlightenment", and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he returns to the original sources to offer ...
"The War for a Nation" provides a brief introduction to the American Civil War from the perspective of military personnel and civilians who participated in the conflict. Susan-Mary Grant brings the war, its many battles, and those who fought them - male and female, black and ...
"The War for a Nation" provides a brief introduction to the American Civil War from the perspective of military personnel and civilians who participated in the conflict. Susan-Mary Grant brings the war, its many battles, and those who fought them - male and female, black and ...
The construction of an important element in British national identity is explored in "Naval Engagements", looking at the ways in which the navy - a major symbol of national community - was given meaning by a range of social groupings. The study is at once a cultural ...
The construction of an important element in British national identity is explored in "Naval Engagements", looking at the ways in which the navy - a major symbol of national community - was given meaning by a range of social groupings. The study is at once a cultural ...
En los primeros años del siglo en que nos hallamos, el vulgo no conocía en el Norte más héroe que Carlos XII. Su valor personal, más propio de un soldado que de un rey, y el esplendor de sus victorias e incluso de sus derrotas ...
En los primeros años del siglo en que nos hallamos, el vulgo no conocía en el Norte más héroe que Carlos XII. Su valor personal, más propio de un soldado que de un rey, y el esplendor de sus victorias e incluso de sus derrotas ...
This is the first detailed study of the political significance of the seventeenth century's most notorious and sensational court scandal - the Overbury murder. The book challenges earlier approaches to the history of court scandal, rejecting both the assumption that it inevitably undermined royal authority ...
This is the first detailed study of the political significance of the seventeenth century's most notorious and sensational court scandal - the Overbury murder. The book challenges earlier approaches to the history of court scandal, rejecting both the assumption that it inevitably undermined royal authority ...
Qu'est-ce que l'esclavage ? Un " crime contre l'humanité ", tel que le définit la loi Taubira du 10 mai 2001 ? Toute sorte d'exploitation féroce de l'homme par l'homme ? Ou la forme extrême des rapports de dépendance, à laquelle toutes les autres ...
Qu'est-ce que l'esclavage ? Un " crime contre l'humanité ", tel que le définit la loi Taubira du 10 mai 2001 ? Toute sorte d'exploitation féroce de l'homme par l'homme ? Ou la forme extrême des rapports de dépendance, à laquelle toutes les autres ...
Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona. Barcelona, 2006
Eclipsada durante la eclosión de la historia social y económica, la historia política ha experimentado una profunda transformación durante los últimos lustros. Desde nuevas conceptualizaciones y dotada de gran capacidad analítica, se ha erigido como una de las corrientes más dinámicas en la investigación histórica ...
Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona. Barcelona, 2006
Eclipsada durante la eclosión de la historia social y económica, la historia política ha experimentado una profunda transformación durante los últimos lustros. Desde nuevas conceptualizaciones y dotada de gran capacidad analítica, se ha erigido como una de las corrientes más dinámicas en la investigación histórica ...
C'est un des rois les moins aimés de l'Ancien Régime, et l'un des plus méconnus, que le poignard de Jacques Clément fait mourir. Ayant fui sa capitale en insurrection, au milieu de ces guerres de Religion qui n'en finissent pas, Henri ...
C'est un des rois les moins aimés de l'Ancien Régime, et l'un des plus méconnus, que le poignard de Jacques Clément fait mourir. Ayant fui sa capitale en insurrection, au milieu de ces guerres de Religion qui n'en finissent pas, Henri ...
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