A Concise History of France |
 Roger Price
ISBN: 052136809X
This book provides a clear and well-informed guide to French history from the emergence of a strong state in the Ile-de-France in the early middle ages, to the trente glorieuses following the Second World War and the Mitterrand presidency. As such, it...(read more) |
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A History of French Passions Vol 1: Ambition, Love, and Politics |
Theodore Zeldin
ISBN: 0198221770
This is a history of the French, which tries to explain their idiosyncrasies, enthusiasms and prejudices. It goes beyond a recital of events to investigate their attitudes and behaviour over an unusually wide range of activities. This first part...(read more) |
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A History of French Passions Vol 2: Intellect, Taste, and Anxiety |
 Theodore Zeldin
ISBN: 0198221789
This is a history of the French, which tries to explain their idiosyncrasies, enthusiasms and prejudices. It goes beyond a recital of events to investigate their attitudes and behaviour over an unusually wide range of activities. The first part...(read more) |
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Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation 1940-44 |
 Charles Glass
ISBN: 0007228538
'Charles Glass's fascinating and absorbing account of American civilians trapped in Paris under the Nazi occupation ... he makes us think again about the nature of life in occupied Paris and refreshes what many would consider something of a tired and...(read more) |
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Citizens |
 Simon Schama
ISBN: 0140172068
From the author of "The Embarrassment of Riches", this is a history of the French Revolution. At the heart of this account is the story of the transformation of "subjects" to "citizens". The author aims to show a France infatuated with novelty and...(read more) |
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Eiffel's Tower |
 Jill Jonnes
ISBN: 0670020605
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France in Modern Times |
 Gordon Wright
ISBN: 0393967050
This text charts the political history of France from the 18th century to the present, interspersing narrative with chapters on society, the economy, culture and historiography. This edition reflects recent research on the French Revolution, taking into...(read more) |
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Friend or Foe: An Anglo-Saxon History of France |
 Alistair Horne
ISBN: 0297848941
In the centenary year of the Entente Cordiale between France and Britain, a new history of France by Britain's premier historian of France, at a moment when via the Euro, development of the European Union and the Tunnel, Franco-British destinies are...(read more) |
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Grandes Horizontales: Courtesans of Nineteenth-Century Paris |
 Virginia Rounding
ISBN: 1582342601
This witty and stylish book explores the "legends" and heated fantasies about four of the most famous 'grandes horizontales'. |
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Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris |
 Michel Carmona
ISBN: 156663427X
This biography of Baron Haussmann, the famous "architect" of modern Paris is not only about the controversial prefect of the Seine, but also sets his life against the background of 19th-century European society. It covers Haussmann's early...(read more) |
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Hemingway : The Paris Years |
Michael S. Reynolds
ISBN: 0393318796
This work looks at the 1920s in Paris, considered the pivotal years in Ernest Hemingway's apprenticeship as a writer, whether sitting in cafes or at the feet of Gertrude Stein. These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short stories, F. Scott...(read more) |
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In Praise of Joy: White-Washing Fences with Jim Haynes... A Celebration |
 Jim Haynes
ISBN: 0889628467
Jim has been the subject of innumerable articles and profiles, from print to television. "The Financial Times" headline in 1999 stated "Always open to every experience and never one to be ashamed, Jim Haynes still believes in the Sixties...(read more) |
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Is Paris Burning? |
 Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre
ISBN: 0446392251
Although this books title does not do justice to the content , do not pass it over. For those of you who love historical accounts that also have the 'human' element, this is a book for you. The text is skillfully written and successfully uses...(read more) |
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Luminous Debris |
 Gustaf Sobin
ISBN: 0520222458
This text explores the landscapes of Provence and Languedoc, drawing on prehistory, protohistory, and Gallo-Roman antiquity, focusing on a particular place or artifact for the relevance inherent in each. A Bronze Age earring or the rippling wave pattern...(read more) |
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Metro Stop Paris: An Underground History of the City of Light |
Gregor Dallas
ISBN: 0802716954
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Paris After the Liberation |
 Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper
ISBN: 0141015543
The authors explore virtually every facet of life in Paris between 1944 and 1949. Behind colourful anecdotes they puncture national myths without swapping them for distorted, jingoistic legends. |
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Paris Changing: Revisiting Eugene Atget's Paris |
 Christopher Rauschenberg
ISBN: 1568986807
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Paris in the Fifties |
 Stanley Karnow
ISBN: 0812927818
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Paris in the Sixties |
 George Perry (Editor)
ISBN: 1862054118
(Hardcover) Paris in the sixties was a volatile place to be, as student unrest took hold of the city, especially in 1968, but it was still a city that was home to remarkable creativity, Yves Saint Laurent, Jeanne Moreau, etc. Seminal images of the time...(read more) |
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Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949 |
Antony Beevor (Author), Artemis Cooper (Author)
ISBN: 0142437921
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Paris: Biography of A City |
 Colin Jones
ISBN: 0713993219
In this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining new history, Colin Jones seeks to give a sense of the city of Paris as it was lived in and experienced over time. The focal point of generation upon generation of admirers and detractors, a...(read more) |
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Paris: The Secret History |
 Andrew Hussey
ISBN: 0141011130
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Sandrine's Paris: A Cultural History of the World's Most Romantic City |
 Sandrine Voillet
ISBN: Paris. The most romantic city in the world, and a
Paris. The most romantic city in the world, and a city with an amazingly rich cultural history. From the Renaissance to the French Revolution, from the construction of the Eiffel Tower to Mitterrand's grands projets, Paris has borne witness to...(read more) |
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Scents of Time |
 Edwin Morris
ISBN: 3791322176
This book reveals perfume's widespread and permanent place in our culture of the senses, through illustrations, artefacts and paintings dating from 2000 BCE. The reader is guided through the ages through the bronze vessels of Babylon, kohl containers...(read more) |
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Seven Ages of Paris |
 Alistair Horne
ISBN: 0330488643
A new history of one of the greatest cities in the world by an internationally acclaimed historian Alistair Horne takes the history of the city and breaks it down to seven distinct ages, with a foreword taking in Julius Caesar to Philip-Augustus, the...(read more) |
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Seven Ages of Paris |
 Alistair Horne
ISBN: 0679454810
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The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968, What Happened, Why it Happened |
Angelo Quattrocchi (Author), Tom Nairn (Author)
ISBN: 1859842909
In May 1968, France stood on the verge of full-blooded revolution. Here a rhythmic, vivid evocation from eyewitness Angelo Quattrocchi is complemented by Tom Nairn's cool and elegant appraisal to tell the astonishing story of the heady days. Paris is a...(read more) |
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of France |
 Colin Jones
ISBN: 0521669928
Combining illustration with text, this is a political and social history of France from earliest times to the present day. It emphasizes social, economic and cultural issues throughout. The diversity of the French heritage - scientific and artistic,...(read more) |
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The Discovery of France |
 Graham Robb
ISBN: 0330427601
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The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renassaince King |
 HRH Princess Michael of Kent
ISBN: 0743251040
Henri was bartered in marriage to Catherine de Medici, an unattractive commoner and despised foreigner who stood miserably by as Henri became Dauphin and later King, all the while growing more devoted to his famously beautiful mistress. Together Henri...(read more) |
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The Treasures of the Tour De France |
 Serge Laget (Author), Luke Edwardes-Evans (Author)
ISBN: 1844420655
(Hardcover) "The Treasures of the Tour de France" comprises an authoritative narrative account of each major era in the sport up to and including the controversial 2006 Tour. The reportage is complemented by features on the superstars and the...(read more) |
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Twentieth-Century France |
 James F. McMillan
ISBN: 0340522399
This is a wide-ranging survey of 20th-century French history. Originally published under the title "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this book has been revised and extended to bring the account up to the present day. Additional material has been added which looks...(read more) |
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Women of Paris |
 Lorraine Liscio
ISBN: 1892145774
To visit a city is to wander through its stories and glimpse its ghosts. This book evokes Paris from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century through ten exceptional women whose lives intersected with Paris in remarkable ways and whose eventual...(read more) |
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Writers in Paris Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light |
David Burke
ISBN: 1593761570
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