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Partez à la découverte de Charles Baudelaire avec ce Grand Article Universalis!
Paul Valéry, dans une conférence de 1924 dont le texte, Situation de Baudelaire, fut publié dans le recueil Variété (1924-1944), a fait du poète des Fleurs du mal le pionnier de la modernité; pour lui Rimbaud, Verlaine et Mallarmé constituent la triade majeure. Telle ...
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en savoir plus sur Charles...
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Extrait : "Il existerait une immense lacune dans cette immense galerie de portraits, o figurent tous les types qui particularisent les diverses classes de la société française, si nous omettions d'y comprendre celui qui les embrasse et les reflète tous, celui du détenu, autrement dit de l'habitué de nos prisons et de nos bagnes."
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Few men from the 71st Highland Light Infantry who sailed from Cork with Wellington to Portugal in 1808 returned to the Irish port six years later. The author of Vicissitudes in the Life of a Scottish Soldier was one of the survivors and claims only four other men from his company came through the entire six years with him. As one of Wellington's elite Light Infantry units the 71st were in the fore of the fighting in some of the hardest fought battles...
2584) Thomas and Abraham Skidmore Migrate to Lamar County Texas From Morgan County Alabama in the 1830's
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About 10 years ago I began to create my family tree on ancestry, I started with information from my grandfather Samuel Skidmore that he had gathered over the years. Photos, records, letters, post cards and the countless hours he put into contacting various people and government offices in trying to put together the Skidmore family history. My aunt Ophelia Payne added at CD that she had purchased; The CD has a vast amount of information that had been...
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When historical geographer Sam B. Hilliard's book Hog Meat and Hoecake was published in 1972, it was ahead of its time. It was one of the first scholarly examinations of the important role food played in a region's history, culture, and politics, and it has since become a landmark of foodways scholarship.
In the book Hilliard examines the food supply, dietary habits, and agricultural choices of the antebellum American South, including Arkansas,...
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A comprehensive history of the first three decades of underwater exploration in antebellum America.
Beginning in 1837, some of the most brilliant engineers of America's Industrial Revolution turned their attention to undersea technology. Inventors developed practical hard-helmet diving suits, as well as new designs of submarines, diving bells, floating cranes, and undersea explosives. These innovations were used to clear shipping lanes, harvest pearls,...
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Legacies in Steel is focused on historical edged weapons of the German military from 1800 to 1990. Nearly 100 examples have been carefully selected from some of the most important private collections in the world as well as German museums, the largest compendium of personalized edged weapons published to date. Through the photographic lens, details of these elegant and beautiful objects are featured. Many of these edged weapons belonged to nobility,...
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We now know the Oregon Trail as the main passage through the mountains of California to Oregon. It was one of the most important projects in early American history. Many people used the trail to get to the west coast, despite the dangers there. Let's explore the Oregon Trail, and the life on it. Learn from this good read.
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, local leaders around the Qing empire attempted to rebuild in the aftermath of domestic rebellion and imperialist aggression. At the same time, the enthronement of a series of children brought the question of reconstruction into the heart of the capital. Chinese scholars, Manchu and Mongolian officials, and writers in the press all competed to have their ideas included in the education of young rulers....
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la Commune de Paris en moins d'une heure !
Entre 1789 et 1871, la France connaît de nombreux soubresauts politiques. Entre révolutions, tentatives républicaines, restauration de la monarchie et prestige impérial, elle n'a pas eu un instant de répit. En 1870, sa cuisante défaite contre la Prusse attise à nouveau la colère du peuple. Du 18 mars au 28 mai 1871, un dernier soulèvement secoue Paris...
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The Cradle of Texas Road encircles the Lone Star landscapes that nurtured so much of the state's early history, from European settlement through the Texas Republic. The first attempt at Texan liberation ended in the bloodiest battle in Texas history, after the insurgents divided their forces along racial lines at Medina in 1813. It required Sam Houston's more collaborative approach at the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836 to finally realize the dream...
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"Winner of the 14th Annual (2012) Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University" "Co-winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association" "Co-Winner of the 2011 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012" Simon Gikandi is the Robert Schirmer Professor...
2593) The Mexican-American War
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The Mexican War was a war of conquest led by the United States to take the lands north of the Rio Grande and Gila rivers from Mexico. Even today, the debate continues as to the morality of the U.S. invasion although it paved the way for the United States to become a dominant world power. Engaging narrative enhanced by excerpts from primary sources and images will enthrall students as they learn about the circumstances that led to the war, the people...
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This ebook is purpose built and is proof-read and re-type set from the original to provide an outstanding experience of reflowing text for an ebook reader. Field-Marshal Von der Goltz was one of the most widely read military authors of the late 19th century; his ideas and theories of the "Nation in Arms" were to be brought into practice during the First World War, during which he served. His wide military experience ranged from the practical during...
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Extrait: "De toutes les professions calomniées, celle-ci est la plus calomniée, la plus méconnue. Ceux qui en parlent, l'outrage à la bouche, sont presque tous des trembleurs, des vanités froissées, des grands hommes ignorés, des gloires bâtardes ; ils se vengent, avec de petites morsures obscures, des grands coups de pied qu'ils ont reçus à la face du ciel."
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Fort Selden was a small frontier fort built in 1865 with the mission of protecting the citizens of the Mesilla Valley in southern New Mexico. This book tells the story of Fort Selden's beginning, its years of service, and its eventual abandonment. Throughout Fort Selden's history, its troopers conducted patrols, provided escort for wagon trains, and chased horse thieves, bandits, and Apaches through spring dust storms, drenching rains, winter cold,...
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Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life's work "The History of the British Army", issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar has attempted to cover such a large and diverse subject in its entirety; but Sir John did so and with aplomb, leading to a readable and comprehensive study....
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Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life's work "The History of the British Army", issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar has attempted to cover such a large and diverse subject in its entirety; but Sir John did so and with aplomb, leading to a readable and comprehensive study....
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[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles of the Indian Mutiny] By 1857, British power in India had been largely undisputed for almost fifty years, however, the armies of the East India Company were largely recruited from the native people of India. But in 1858 the Sepoy soldiers turned against their erstwhile British employers. The events that led up to the Revolt were many and varied, including British highhandedness,...
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As Napoleon moved through the former Polish territories in his battles against the Prussians, volunteers from the former Polish territories organized themselves to join the French against their oppressors. One of these units was raised by a Polish nobleman under the name, "Legion Du Nord" (Legion of the North). Augmented by Prussian supplies and French officers the Legion Du Nord was accepted into French service and fought with them against the Prussians...