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Extrait: "Nous osons croire, à l'honneur du siècle o nous vivons, qu'il n'y a point dans toute l'Europe un seul homme éclairé qui ne regarde la tolérance comme un droit de justice, un devoir proscrit par l'humanité, la conscience, la religion; une loi nécessaire à la paix et à la prospérité des États."
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"Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers" Jonathan Israel is professor of modern history at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy (Princeton).
How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French Revolution
Historians of the French Revolution used to take for...
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"Our sense of eighteenth-century poetic territory is immeasurably expanded by [this] excellent historical and cultural" study of UK women poets of the era (Cynthia Wall, Studies in English Literature).
This major work offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major...
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Originally published in 1824, this firsthand account describes how, in June 1822, young English seaman Aaron Smith was taken captive by Cuban pirates when his ship was boarded en route from Jamaica to England. A skilled navigator, fluent in Spanish, and regarded as what was then acceptable as a ship's surgeon, he was an attractive candidate for conscription. Forced to work as a navigator and participate in pirate boarding parties for ten months, he...
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This book takes an entertaining peek at the secrets and scandals of Regency Britain, a period in which the heir to the throne was making merry with his mistress whilst his ailing father attempted to keep a grip on both his crown and his finances. From Princess Caraboo to the Peterloo Massacre, the Regency was a period of immense upheaval in both personal and public lives as well as in politics. We'll see how the advent of the modern media brought...
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Extrait : "Je n'ai pas entreprise ce livre pour redire, dans son détail quotidien, la néfaste histoire du tribunal révolutionnaire. J'ai tenté de reconstituer l'aspect et la vie du Palais durant les mauvais jours de la Révolution, de silhouetter le petit groupe de déclassés qui, à cette époque, s'emparèrent, en intrus, de l'antique demeure du Parlement et assumèrent la tâche stigmatisante d'appliquer les lois impitoyables qu'extorqua la...
407) Les Mémoires
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Extrait : "L'histoire a été, dans tous les siècles, une étude si recommandée, qu'on croirait perdre son temps d'en recueillir les suffrages, aussi importants par le poids de leurs auteurs que par leur nombre. Dans l'un et dans l'autre, on ne prétend compter que les catholiques, et on sera encore assez fort ; il ne s'en trouvera même aucun de quelque autorité dans l'Eglise qui ait laissé par écrit aucun doute sur ce point."
408) Rembrandt
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Rembrandt is indisputably the greatest artist of the seventeenth century, and many would say the greatest artist of all time. His mastery of composition, paint, and line-he was a superlative etcher-over a lifetime's work has rarely been emulated, let alone surpassed. At a time when other artists specialized, his themes covered history, pastoral and Biblical scenes, group paintings, and most celebrated of all, portraits. Although excruciately little...
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"The US Constitution never established a presidential cabinet-the delegates to the Constitutional Convention explicitly rejected the idea. So how did George Washington create one of the most powerful bodies in the federal government? On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries-Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph-for the first cabinet meeting. Why did he wait two and a half years into...
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John Connelly is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History and director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education and From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews. He lives in Kensington, California.
A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe...
412) Championess
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"Elizabeth Wilkinson's passion is bare-knuckle boxing. While working odd jobs to help her sister Tess pay off substantial debt, she earns extra coin fighting in back alleys and pubs. But when Tess's debts suddenly come due, Elizabeth bets everything on boxing to save Tess from debtors' prison. As she trains to become the best female fighter in London, she must face her family's painful past, confront the boxing rival from her childhood, and defy the...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Benjamin Franklin en moins d'une heure !
Personnalité emblématique de l'histoire des États-Unis, Benjamin Franklin est le symbole même du self-made-man. Né dans une modeste famille, il quitte les bancs de l'école à l'âge de dix ans pour subvenir aux besoins de sa famille et intègre l'imprimerie de son frère. Épris de culture et de science, Benjamin Franklin deviendra quelques années plus...
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The analysis of land management, lineage and family through the case study of early modern Spanish nobility from sixteenth to early nineteenth century is a major issue in recent historiography. It aims to shed light on how upper social classes arranged strategies to maintain their political and economic status. Rivalry and disputes between old factions and families were attached to the control and exercise of power. Blood, land management and honour...
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Dutiful daughter, frustrated wife, passionate lover, domineering mother, doting grandmother, devoted friend, tireless legislator, generous patron of artists and philosophers-the Empress Catherine II, the Great, was all these things, and more. Her reign, the longest in Russian Imperial history, lasted from 1762 until her death in 1796; during those years she built on the work begun by her most famous predecessor, Peter the Great, to establish Russia...
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Extrait: "Pendant la guerre de sept ans, l'Empire employa dans ses armées, sous le nom de Pandours, un corps franc extrêmement redouté. On appelait alors corps franc, une réunion d'hommes, tirés de toute sorte de nations, ne recevant point de solde en campagne, et vivant uniquement de rapines et de brigandage."
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La série en sept tomes, Les-Bourbons.
Club, vous présente son quatrième opus sur les rois Bourbons qui ont marqué l'Histoire
Orphelin à l'âge de 2 ans, Louis XV succède à son arrière-grand-père à la tête du Royaume à l'âge de cinq ans et prend officiellement la direction du gouvernement en 1715, à l'âge de treize ans. Son règne, jusqu'en 1774, dura plus de cinquante-huit ans. Malgré quelques grands succès militaires sur le continent,...
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London in the middle of the 1800s was a subject endlessly sketched by artists, studied by social reformers, and discussed by writers. This comprehensive collection of drawings by Gustave Doré, France's most celebrated graphic artist of the period, presents a panoramic portrait of that engrossing city - from fashionable ladies riding in a sunlit park to ragged wretches in a shadowy side street. Here are amazingly perceptive sketches of workaday London,...
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A history of America's military on horseback.
For three thousand years, the horse soldier has played a key role in both war fighting and in peace keeping all over the world, not only as a highly mobile strike force in battle but also as an instrument of reconnaissance and occupation, exploration, and irregular warfare.
The American tradition of the mounted warrior is a proud one. But in the first days of our revolution, it looked as if George Washington...