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The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture The Haitian Revolution began in...
An Affectionate Portrait Of An Intellectual People
Sudhir Hazareesingh's How the French Think is a warm yet incisive exploration of the French intellectual tradition, and its exceptional place in a nat...
'God was bored with Napoleon,' wrote Victor Hugo, and the Emperor was duly defeated at Waterloo in 1815 and exiled to St Helena, where he died an agon...
The Second Empire and the Emergence of Modern French Democracy
From Subject to Citizen offers an original account of the Second Empire (1852-1870) as a turning point in modern French political culture: a period in...
Modern France and the Myth of De Gaulle
Charles De Gaulle's leadership of the French while in exile during World War II cemented his place in history. In contemporary France, he is the stuff...
Five Studies in Nineteenth-Century French Political Thought
This innovative study of French political culture re-examines the origins of modern republicanism through the lives and political thought of five nine...
Disillusion and Decline
This work examines the emergence and subsequent demise of intellectual identification with the French Communist Party, arguing that after 1978, politi...
Celebrations of Sovereignty in Nineteenth-Century France
In 1852, President Louis Napoleon of France declared that August 15—Napoleon Bonaparte’s birthday—would be celebrated as France's national day. ...
Political Traditions in Modern France offers a clear and accessible introduction to the modern French political system which differs from the narrativ...
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