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Alan Spitzer approaches the history of the French Restoration by examining the experience of a particular age group born between 1792 and 1803: the generation of 1820. A predominantly male, middle-class, educated minority of this group was perceived as representing all that was most promising and specifically youthful in the period. Their response

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Goes beyond the sphere of party politics to explore the industrial aspects of French wartime history.

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Explores the industrial aspects of French wartime history.

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Originally published by the Princeton University Press, 1975.

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This volume tells the story of the French overseas empire, assembled as much by chance as by systematic design, an imperial presence that brought commerce, technology, and culture to indigenous peoples, while at the same time promoting the slave trade and suppressing independence movements.

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This volume tells the story of the French overseas empire, assembled as much by chance as by sytematic design. It was an imperial presence that brought commerce, technolgy and culture to indigenous peoples, while at the same time promoting the slave trade and suppressing independence movements.

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A study of the French religious wars which took place between 1562 and 1598. It provides a portrait of the realities of civil war as seen through the eyes of those who participated. It also covers the developments in artillery, fortification and portable firearms that characterized the period.

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General Louis Eugene Cavaignac has been a symbol of reactionary violence ever since he crushed the insurgent workers of Paris in the "bloody June Days" of 1848. Professor de Luna presents a fresh interpretation of the General, as well as a detailed examination of the turbulent year of European revolution, until Cavaignac was defeated by Louis Bonap

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In addition to a historical overview, other essays explore the deterioration of the ancien rgime and the birth of the revolution, the Terror, the culture of the Revolution, Revolution-era diplomacy, and the ambiguous legacy of the Revolution.

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A history of the Church during the French Revolution and its impact on the course of world history. The understanding of what happened to the Church during this period is seen as a distinct aid to one's understanding of the Revolution itself.

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Citizenship is a fundamental concept in social life, entailing rights, obligations, and relationships with others. The topics discussed in this book, which detail these rights and obligations, will be of interest to French historians as well as to political scientists and sociologists.

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The French Revolution of 1789 was the central event of modern history. This work paints a portrait of the common people of France, in the towns and in the countryside; in Paris and Lyon; in the Vendee, Britanny, Provence. It is a story of conflict, violence and death, but there were winners as well as losers and not all the suffering was in vain.

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Focusing on the social, economic, and political developments in one neighborhood, and particularly on the origin, growth, and decline of its revolutionary institutions, he shows the impact of the Revolution on its citizens. At the same time, he reveals the contributions of average men and women, the so-called petits gens, to the changes that occurr

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This selection of original documents examines the constitutional and political problems of France in the decade 1785-1795 through the writings of contemporaries.

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Uncover the truth among the myths, fictions, and lore of the French Revolution.