The Old Regime and the French Revolution [ebook ed.] 0307773655, 9780307773654

The Colonial Machine English; French: French Science and Overseas Expansion in the Old Regime 9782503532608, 2503532608

The rise of modern science and European colonial and imperial expansion are indisputably two defining elements of modern

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French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848 0801883865, 9780801883866

Challenging many of the conclusions of recent historiography, including the depiction of salonnières as influential powe

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The French Idea of Freedom: The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789 9780804788168

“The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789” is the French Revolution’s best known utterance. By 1789,

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Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After 0801441420, 9780801441424, 0801488397, 9780801488399

In his rich and learned new book about the naturalization of foreigners, Peter Sahlins offers an unusual and unexpected

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Tocqueville and Old Regime 9781400879311

Professor Herr's brief and attractively presented Tocqueville and the Old Regime is to be commended to all who are

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Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue and the Old Regime 9780226514680

How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science cont

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The French Revolution and the People 9781474210249

The French Revolution of 1789 was the central event of modern history. Although the Revolution started with the resistan

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Montesquieu and the Old Regime [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520335554

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Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France 9780226522890

From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of th

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Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848 9780511096785, 9780521234429, 9780521299510

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