Europe - France
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Seven Ages of Paris
$25.00 Add to cartIn this luminous portrait of Paris, the celebrated historian gives us the history, culture, disasters, and triumphs of one of the world’s truly great cities. While Paris may be many things, it is neve… [more below]
- Author: Horne, Alistair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 13 2004
- ISBN10: 1400034469
- Language: English
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Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
$18.00 Read more“The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. The sight dazed and disturbed us profoundly. I was on the edge of tears. Someth… [more below]
- Author: Follett, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 198488025X
- Language: English
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A History of the Barricade
$17.95 Read more- Author: Hazan, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1784781282
- Language: English
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The Paris Commune: A Brief History
$22.95 Read moreThe Paris Commune, France’s revolutionary civil war, rocked the nineteenth century and shaped the twentieth. A pivotal moment in history, it is the linchpin between revolutionary pasts and futures and… [more below]
- Series: Reinventions of the Paris Commune
- Author: Eichner, Carolyn J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1978827687
- Language: English
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Enemy of the Disaster: Selected Political Writings of Renaud Camus
$22.95 Read moreEnemy of the Disaster is the first authorized translation to appear in English of Renaud Camus’ political writings and includes his notorious 2010 speech, “The Great Replacement.” Though forty-two yea
- Author: Camus, Renaud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Paris 1944: Occupation, Resistance, Liberation: A Social History
$35.00 Add to cartA moving, dramatic social history of the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the most inspiring and momentous events of the twentieth century.
The fall of Paris to the Nazis on June 14th, 1940, was on- Author: Bishop, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367039
- Language: English
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In France Profound: The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People
$30.00 Read moreFrom the National Book Award-longlisted author of Finding Florida, a sparkling, sweeping chronicle of the author’s life and discoveries in an ancient town in “Deep France,” from nearby prehistoric cav… [more below]
- Author: Allman, T. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0802127843
- Language: English
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Paris: A Short History
$24.95 Add to cartOnce described as “that metropolis of dress and debauchery” by the Scottish poet David Mallet, Paris has always had a reputation for a peculiar joie de vivre, from art to architecture, cookery to cout
- Series: Short History #4
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0500027080
- Language: English
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Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great Wa
$37.43 Add to cartMcAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the 20th century, where creative dynamos set their respective circles on fire with their revolutionary visions and discoveries. But all was not w… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1442276134
- Language: English
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Paris Journal, 1944-1955
$17.99 Add to cartHere is a continuation of selections from Flanner’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature ” Gen黎.” With clarity and authority,… [more below]
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 0156709481
- Language: English
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Left Bank
$25.99 Add to cartAn incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris.
In this- Author: Poirier, Agn?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1250231469
- Language: English
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The Man in the Red Coat
$35.00 Read moreFrom the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending–a rich, witty, revelatory tour of Belle ?poque Paris, told through the remarkable life story of the pioneering surgeon, Samuel Pozzi… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0525658777
- Language: English
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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
$24.99 Add to cartThe spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris.
On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and- Author: Rosbottom, Ronald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0316217433
- Language: English
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Versailles: A Biography of a Palace
$22.99 Add to cartCalled “fast-paced” (Kirkus Reviews) and “highly engrossing” (Publishers Weekly), this is the behind-the-scenes story of the world’s most famous palace.
The story of Versailles is one of high historic- Author: Spawforth, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 16 2010
- ISBN10: 0312603460
- Language: English
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The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe Napoleonic Wars have an all-important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries, they provided the stimulu… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0199590966
- Language: English
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The Rival Queens: Catherine De’ Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
$19.99 Read moreThe riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de’ Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestu… [more below]
- Author: Goldstone, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0316409669
- Language: English
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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
$39.00 Add to cartA riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation.
On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by- Author: Jager, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0316224510
- Language: English
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A Concise History of France
$35.00 Add to cartThis is the most up-to-date and comprehensive study of French history available ranging from the early middle ages to the present. Amongst its central themes are the relationships between state and so… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Price, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107603439
- Language: English
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The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s
$27.99 Add to cartCaught between the memory of a brutal war won at frightful cost and fear of another cataclysm, France in the 1930s suffered a failure of nerve. Brilliantly chronicled here by a master historian, this … [more below]
- Author: Weber, Eugen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0393314790
- Language: English
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Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic
$30.00 Read moreA French-Algerian journalist, born and brought up in a neglected Paris suburb, offers unique insight into crisis-ridden France from a very different perspective to the establishment elites
France, t- Author: Ramdani, Nabila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703251
- Language: English
