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Adventures of the Dialecticby Maurice Merleau-PontyISBN 0810105969 (0-8101-0596-9)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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After the French Revolution: Six Critics of Democracy and Nationalismby Jack HaywardISBN 0814734804 (0-8147-3480-4)
Hardcover, New York Univ Pr
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The Age of Napoleonby J. Christopher HeroldISBN 0828104913 (0-8281-0491-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Napoleon'Book summary:Called an "outstanding work of popular history" by The New York Times, this book is the biography of an enigmatic and legendary personality, as well as the portrait of an entire age. The author explores relevant political, cultural, military, commercial, and social history. [via]
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The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question 1700-1775by Steven Laurence KaplanISBN 0822317060 (0-8223-1706-0)
Hardcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question 1700-1775'Book summary:In preindustrial Europe, dependence on grain shaped every phase of life from economic development to spiritual expression, and the problem of subsistence dominated the everyday order of things in a merciless and unremitting way. Steven Laurence Kaplans The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 17001775 focuses on the production and distribution of Frances most important commodity in the sprawling urban center of eighteenth-century Paris where provisioning needs were most acutely felt and most difficult to satisfy. Kaplan shows how the relentless demand for bread constructed the pattern of daily life in Paris as decisively and subtly as elaborate protocol governed the social life at Versailles.[via]
Despite the overpowering salience of bread in public and private life, Kaplans is the first inquiry into the ways bread exercised its vast and significant empire. Bread framed dreams as well as nightmares. It was the staff of life, the medium of communion, a topic of common discourse, and a mark of tradition as well as transcendence. In his exploration of breads materiality and cultural meaning, Kaplan looks at breads fashioning of identity and examines the conditions of supply and demand in the marketplace. He also sets forth a complete history of the bakers and their guild, and unmasks the methods used by the authorities in their efforts to regulate trade.
Because the bakers and their bread were central to Parisian daily life, Kaplans study is also a comprehensive meditation on an entire society, its government, and its capacity to endure. Long-awaited by French history scholars, The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 17001775 is a landmark in eighteenth-century historiography, a book that deeply contextualizes, and thus enriches our understanding of one of the most important eras in European history.More editions of The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question 1700-1775:
The Bayonets of the Republic: Motivation and Tactics in the Army of Revolutionary France, 1791-94by John LynnISBN 0813329450 (0-8133-2945-0)
Softcover, Westview Pr
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Charles Dickens' Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Holly HughesISBN 0812034147 (0-8120-3414-7)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charles Dickens' Great Expectations'Book summary:Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]
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Christmas Booksby Charles DickensISBN 0749308672 (0-7493-0867-2)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Common Sense: Library Editionby Thomas Paine, Gregory TietjenISBN 0760712026 (0-7607-1202-6)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Common Sense: Library Edition'Book summary:"These are the times that try men's souls," begins Thomas Paine's first Crisis paper, the impassioned pamphlet that helped ignite the American Revolution. Published in Philadelphia in January of 1776, Common Sense sold 150,000 copies almost immediately. A powerful piece of propaganda, it attacked the idea of a hereditary monarchy, dismissed the chance for reconciliation with England, and outlined the economic benefits of independence while espousing equality of rights among citizens. Paine fanned a flame that was already burning, but many historians argue that his work unified dissenting voices and persuaded patriots that the American Revolution was not only necessary, but an epochal step in world history. [via]
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Democracy and Political Theoryby Claude LefortISBN 0816617554 (0-8166-1755-4)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Emilie's Voiceby Susanne DunlapISBN 0743265068 (0-7432-6506-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emilie's Voice'Book summary:Set against the backdrop of Paris and the court of Versailles, émilie's Voice introduces a young heroine of modest upbringing who possesses a special gift: the voice of an angel. When distinguished composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier hears émilie's voice, he offers to instruct her in the art of singing with the ultimate goal of presenting her at the court of Louis XIV. Her head filled with dreams of elegant gowns, opulent jewels, and the thrill of someday performing in the great houses of Paris, she begins her training -- until a scheming noblewoman looking to unseat the king's official mistress interferes by preemptively bringing émilie to Versailles.
There, amid royal pomp and splendor, she is swept up in dangerous palatial intrigues, becoming a pawn in aristocratic power games. But it is the passionate battle for control over her life and career waged between Charpentier and Louis XIV's official court composer, Jean-Baptiste Lully, that has far-reaching consequences for a girl on the verge of becoming a woman and a singer on the verge of becoming extraordinary. [via]
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Farewell, My Queenby Moishe Black, Chantal ThomasISBN 0743260783 (0-7432-6078-3)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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French Army Regiments and Uniforms from the Revolution to 1870by William Alexander ThorburnISBN 0853680159 (0-85368-015-9)
Hardcover, Arms & Armour P.
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The French Revolutionby Hippolyte A. TaineISBN 0865971277 (0-86597-127-7)
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French Revolutionby George F.E. RudeISBN 0802132723 (0-8021-3272-3)
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Further Reflections on the Revolution in Franceby Edmund Burke, Daniel E. RitchieISBN 0865970998 (0-86597-099-8)
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The Gilded Youth of Thermidorby Francois Gendron, James CooksonISBN 077350902X (0-7735-0902-X)
Hardcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Great Expectationsby Charles Dickens, Charles BrownISBN 0743487613 (0-7434-8761-3)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Expectations'Book summary:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged. [via]
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The Hundred Daysby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0786217499 (0-7862-1749-9)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hundred Days'Book summary:The year is 1815, and Europe's most unpopular (not to mention tiniest) empire-builder has escaped from Elba. In The Hundred Days, it's up to Jack Aubrey--and surgeon-cum-spymaster Stephen Maturin--to stop Napoleon in his tracks. How? For starters, Aubrey and his squadron have been dispatched to the Adriatic coast, to keep Bonapartist shipbuilders from beefing up the French navy. Meanwhile, one Sheik Ibn Hazm is fomenting an Islamic uprising against the Allies. The only way to halt this maneuver is to intercept the sheik's shipment of gold--because in the Napoleonic era, as in our own, even the most ardent of mercenaries requires a salary.
The Hundred Days is the 19th (and, we are told, the penultimate) installment of O'Brian's epic. Like many of its predecessors, it features a fairly swashbuckling plot, complete with cannon fire, exotic disguises, and Aubrey's suspenseful, slow-motion pursuit of an Algerian xebek. Yet it never turns into a mere exercise in Hornblowerism. Partly this is due to O'Brian's delicate touch with character--the relationship between extroverted Aubrey and introverted Maturin has deepened with each book, and even Aubrey's reunion with his childhood companion Queenie Keith is full of novelistic nuance: "They sat smiling at one another. An odd pair: handsome creatures both, but they might have been of the same sex or neither." Nor does the author focus too exclusively on his dynamic duo. Indeed, The Hundred Days is very much a chronicle of a floating community, which Maturin describes as "his own village, his own ship's company, that complex entity so much more easily sensed than described: part of his natural habitat."
Finally, O'Brian shows his usual expertise in balancing the great events with the most minuscule ones. Other authors have written about battles at sea, and still others have recorded the rapid rise and fall of Napoleon's fortunes after his escape from confinement. But who else would give equal time--and an equal charge of delight--to Maturin's discovery of an anomalous nuthatch? --James Marcus [via]
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Intertextual War: Edmund Burke and the French Revolution in the Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, and James Mackintoshby Steven BlakemoreISBN 0838637515 (0-8386-3751-5)
Hardcover, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr
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The Josephine Bonaparte Collection : The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B., Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe, and the Last Great Dance on Earthby Sandra GullandISBN 0743246217 (0-7432-4621-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Josephine: Napoleon's Incomparable Empressby Eleanor P. DelormeISBN 0810912295 (0-8109-1229-5)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writingsby Marquis De SadeISBN 0802132189 (0-8021-3218-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings'Book summary:This volume contains Philosophy in the Bedroom, a major novel that presents the clearest summation of his political philosophy; Eugénie de Franval, a novella widely considered to be a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French literature; and the only authentic and complete American edition of his most famous work, Justine.[via]More editions of Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings:
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Life and Major Writings of Thomas Paineby Philip S. FonerISBN 0806504145 (0-8065-0414-5)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Love's Charadeby Jane FeatherISBN 0821772023 (0-8217-7202-3)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love's Charade'Book summary:Fighting for survival amid the shadowy boulevards of Paris, beautiful runaway Danny hides a dangerous secret and encounters Justin, Earl of Linton, who takes pity on the bedraggled waif, until he learns a surprising truth. Reissue. [via]
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Madame De Staelby Maria FairweatherISBN 078671705X (0-7867-1705-X)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Madame Du Barry: The Wages Of Beautyby Joan HaslipISBN 0802112560 (0-8021-1256-0)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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The Maiden of Tonnerre: The Vicissitudes of the Chevalier and the Chevaliere D'Eonby Gary Kates, Roland A. Champagne, Nina C. Ekstein, Charles Genevieve Louis Auguste Andre Timothee D' Eon De Beaumont, Charles D'Eon De BeaumontISBN 0801866871 (0-8018-6687-1)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont was born in 1728. Raised as a boy, he was educated as a lawyer and entered the service of Louis XV as a diplomat. In 1756 he was sent to the Russian imperial court as a spy and was said to have dressed as a young woman to gain the confidence of the Empress Elizabeth. He later served in Russia (as a man) as secretary to the French ambassador. Returning to France in 1761, he was appointed a captain of the elite Dragoons, and, after the Treaty of Paris in 1762, went to England as a diplomat and spy. During that time persistent rumors that he was in fact a woman arose, and he did nothing to dispel them. By 1777 he was officially recognized as female in both England and France. Recalled to France, he was reluctantly compelled by Louis XVI to give up his male attire. In 1785 he began to compose his autobiography, which presented much of his experience in religious terms, and he moved back to London. He lived there as a woman until his death in 1810, at which time his body was discovered to be unambiguously male.
This volume includes the first English translations of d'Eon's autobiography (or "historical epistle") and other writings by d'Eon on his life, religious beliefs, and stories of women who concealed their sex to enter religious orders. As historian Gary Kates notes in the introduction, d'Eon's writing can be read on at least two levels: while it ostensibly tells the story of a woman who spent half her life as a man, it is in fact also the story of a man who spent half his life as a woman. As such it demonstrates both the construction and transgression of gender boundaries in personal and historical narrative.
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The Man in the Iron Maskby Alexandre DumasISBN 0812564995 (0-8125-6499-5)
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The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlanticby Marcus Rediker, Peter LinebaughISBN 0807050075 (0-8070-5007-5)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic'Book summary:Globalism is nothing new, argue leftist historians Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. Centuries ago, European trade concerns, such as the Dutch East Indies Company and the Virginia Company, sought to create an overseas empire owned by corporations, not governments. Backed by governments all the same, these companies found themselves opposed only by a congeries of revolutionary sailors, artisans, farmers, and smallholders, who formed a "many-headed hydra" of resistance.
Arguing that this history of resistance to globalism has been unjustly overlooked, Linebaugh and Rediker delineate key episodes. When, for instance, a group of English sailors and common laborers were shipwrecked on the island of Bermuda en route to America, they created their own communal government, which was so pleasant to them that they refused to be "rescued" and had to be removed to the colonies by force. Their ideological descendants later banded with runaway slaves and other discontents to form multi-ethnic, multilingual pirate navies that hindered the transatlantic traffic in metals, jewels, and captive humans. Some of the men and women involved in these pirate bands, this "Atlantic proletariat," put their skills at the service of the American Revolution, which, in the author's view, "ended in reaction as the Founding Fathers used race, nation, and citizenship to discipline, divide, and exclude the very sailors and slaves who had initiated and propelled the revolutionary movement." The fire of rebellion soon spread all the same, they note, to such places as Haiti, Ireland, France, even England, helped along by these peripatetic and unsung rebels.
Linebaugh and Rediker's book is provocative and often brilliant, opening windows onto little-known episodes in world history. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Marie Antoinetteby Katie Daynes, Nilesh MistryISBN 0794510493 (0-7945-1049-3)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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The Marquis De Sade: An Essay by Simone De Beauvoirby Marquis De SadeISBN 0802131034 (0-8021-3103-4)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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Napoleonby Lucy Lethbridge, Robin LawrieISBN 0794510507 (0-7945-1050-7)
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Napoleon Bonaparteby J. M. ThompsonISBN 0750927593 (0-7509-2759-3)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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Napoleon: The Immortal Emperorby Gerard Gengembre, Pierre-Jean Chalencon, David ChanteranneISBN 0865652333 (0-86565-233-3)
Hardcover, Hachette Illustrated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Napoleon: The Immortal Emperor'Book summary:This lavishly illustrated book retraces the meteoric career of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), the "little Corsican" who rose from the ashes of the ancien régime to become the most charismatic and powerful European leader since Alexander the Great. Accompanied by paintings, drawings, engravings, caricatures, sculpture, film stills, posters, and other examples of Napoleonic iconography, the text tells the story of the leader's life, his myth, and his enduring fame over two centuries.
An inspired master of propaganda, Bonaparte was acutely aware of his image at every stage of his progress, from the lean man of action painted by Gros in the 1790s through Ingres's Zeus-like sovereign of 1806, to the tragic, fallen hero apotheosized in stone by Rude. Later depictions of Napoleon cast him as Romantic hero and unsurpassed military strategist but also as Corsican despot and anti-Christ. In addition to work by artists ranging from the court painter David to Larry Rivers in our own time, the book presents clothing, jewels, furniture, porcelain, and silver from Malmaison and other Napoleonic residences, each a paradigm of Empire elegance. All ?nd a place in a book whose fascinating combination of history, biography, and the arts is sure to ?nd a wide audience. [via]
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The Paris Commune, 1871by Stewart EdwardsISBN 0812902599 (0-8129-0259-9)
Hardcover, Quadrangle Books
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The Pickwick Papersby Charles DickensISBN 0812967275 (0-8129-6727-5)
Softcover, Modern Library
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Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolutionby Paul FriedlandISBN 0801439825 (0-8014-3982-5)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Political and Social Writings, 1946-1955: From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Positive Content of Socialismby Cornelius CastoriadisISBN 0816616175 (0-8166-1617-5)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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A series of writings by the man who inspired the students of the Workers' Rebellion in May of 1968.
"Given the rapid pace of change in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and the radical nature of these transformations, the work of Cornelius Castoriadis, a consistent and radical critic of Soviet Marxism, gains renewed significance. . . . these volumes are instructive because they enable us to trace his rigorous engagement with the project of socialist construction from his break with Trotskyism to his final breach with Marxism . . . and would be read with profit by all those seeking to comprehend the historical originality of events in the USSR and Eastern Europe." Contemporary Sociology
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- Political and Social Writings, 1946-1955: From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Positive Content of Socialism: ISBN 0816616167 (0-8166-1616-7)
Political and Social Writings, 1955-1960: From the Workers' Struggle Against Bureaucracy to Revolution in the Age of Modern Capitalismby Cornelium CastoriadisISBN 0816616191 (0-8166-1619-1)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Political and Social Writings, 1961-1979: Recommencing the Revolution From Socialism to the Autonomous Societyby Cornelius CastoriadisISBN 0816621683 (0-8166-2168-3)
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Prelude to Power: The Parisian Radical Press, 1789-1791by Jack Richard CenserISBN 0801818168 (0-8018-1816-8)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolutionby Caroline WeberISBN 0805079491 (0-8050-7949-1)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution'Book summary:In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France[via]Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's "Revolution in Dress," covering each phase of the queen's tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl, struggling to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour (twelve-foot-wide hoopskirts, whalebone corsets that crushed her organs). As queen, Marie Antoinette used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power and wage war against her enemies. Gradually, however, she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt "unqueenly" outfits (the provocative chemise) that, surprisingly, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her.
Weber's queen is sublime, human, and surprising: a sometimes courageous monarch unwilling to allow others to determine her destiny. The paradox of her tragic story, according to Weber, is that fashion--the vehicle she used to secure her triumphs--was also the means of her undoing. Weber's book is not only a stylish and original addition to Marie Antoinette scholarship, but also a moving, revelatory reinterpretation of one of history's most controversial figures.More editions of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution:
Realism and Revolution: Balzac, Stendhal, Zola and the Performances of Historyby Sandy PetreyISBN 0801422167 (0-8014-2216-7)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Reason and Revolution: The Political Thought of the Abbe Sieyesby Murray ForsythISBN 0841911436 (0-8419-1143-6)
Hardcover, Continuum International Publishing Group, Limited
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Red and the Blackby Stendhal, Diane Johnson, Burton RaffelISBN 0812972074 (0-8129-7207-4)
Softcover, Modern Library
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The Red and the Black, Stendhals masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorels quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters along the way, are delineated with an unprecedented psychological depth and realism. At the same time, Stendhal weaves together the social life and fraught political intrigues of postNapoleonic France, bringing that world to unforgettable, full-color life. His portrait of Julien and early-nineteenth-century France remains an unsurpassed creation, one that brilliantly anticipates modern literature.
Neglected during its time, The Red and the Black has assumed its rightful place as one of the worlds great books, and Burton Raffels extraordinary new translation, coupled with an enlightening Introduction by Diane Johnson, helps it shine more brightly than ever before.
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The Red and the Black: Mimetic Desire and the Myth of Celebrityby Jefferson HumphriesISBN 0805783520 (0-8057-8352-0)
Hardcover, Gale Group
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The Reveries of a Solitary Walkerby Jean J. RousseauISBN 0833743589 (0-8337-4358-9)
Hardcover, Lenox Hill Pub
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A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The Abbe Sieyes and What Is the Third Estateby William H. SewellISBN 0822315386 (0-8223-1538-6)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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This book studies the powerful rhetoric of the great pamphlet and the brilliant but enigmatic thought of its author. William H. Sewells insightful analysis reveals the fundamental role played by the new discourse of political economy in Sieyess thought and uncovers the strategies by which this gifted rhetorician gained the assent of his intended readerseducated and prosperous bourgeois who felt excluded by the nobility in the hierarchical social order of the old regime. He also probes the contradictions and incoherencies of the pamphlets highly polished text to reveal fissures that reach to the core of Sieyess thoughtand to the core of the revolutionary project itself.
Combining techniques of intellectual history and literary analysis with a deep understanding of French social and political history, Sewell not only fashions an illuminating portrait of a crucial political document, but outlines a fresh perspective on the history of revolutionary political culture.More editions of A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The Abbe Sieyes and What Is the Third Estate:
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Robespierre and the French Revolution in World Historyby Tom McGowenISBN 0766013979 (0-7660-1397-9)
Hardcover, Enslow Pub Inc
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Rousseau and the Republic of Virtue: The Language of Politics in the French Revolutionby Carol BlumISBN 0801495571 (0-8014-9557-1)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italyby Laurence SterneISBN 0809567326 (0-8095-6732-6)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815by Isabel V. HullISBN 0801482534 (0-8014-8253-4)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Social Movements; between the Balcony and the Barricadeby Ron E. Roberts, Robert Marsh KlossISBN 0801641349 (0-8016-4134-9)
Hardcover, Mosby
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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern Worldby Barrington MooreISBN 0807050733 (0-8070-5073-3)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Threshold of Terror: The Last Hours of the Monarchy in the French Revolutionby Rodney AllenISBN 0750927100 (0-7509-2710-0)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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Turbulent City: Paris 1783-1871by A. CastelotISBN 0836953207 (0-8369-5320-7)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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Vanity Fairby William Makepeace ThackeryISBN 0804901384 (0-8049-0138-4)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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A Vindication of the Rights of Womanby Mary WollstonecraftISBN 0760754942 (0-7607-5494-2)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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Vindiciae Gallicae And Other Writings on the French Revolutionby James MacKintosh, Donald WinchISBN 0865974632 (0-86597-463-2)
Softcover, Liberty Fund
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Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century FranceISBN 0801488486 (0-8014-8848-6)
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Visualizing the Nation: Gender, Representation, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Franceby Joan B. LandesISBN 080143811X (0-8014-3811-X)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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War and Peaceby Leo TolstoyISBN 0815203977 (0-8152-0397-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolutionby Olwen H. HuftonISBN 0802068375 (0-8020-6837-5)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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The Works of Joseph De Maistreby Joseph Marie Maistre, Jack LivelyISBN 0805203044 (0-8052-0304-4)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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Writing: The Political Testby Claude Lefort, David Ames CurtisISBN 0822325209 (0-8223-2520-9)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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The Year of the Frenchby Thomas FlanaganISBN 0805010203 (0-8050-1020-3)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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