by
Parrott, David.
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944.032 21
Publication Date
2001
Summary
It is assumed widely that 'war made the state' in seventeenth-century France. Yet this study challenges the traditional interpretations of the role of the army as an instrument of the emerging absolutist state, and shows how the expansion of the French war effort contributed to weakening Richelieu's hold upon France. Runner up in the History Today Awards 2002.
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52746.8242
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Romani, Roberto.
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941.07 21
Publication Date
2002
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Romani considers a distinction between 'national character' as a static and stereotype-laden concept, and 'public spirit' as a notion suggesting the necessity of certain qualities to operate free institutions. Many major authors of the period 1750-1914 (like Montesquieu, Voltaire, Hume, Millar, Burke, Tocqueville, Spencer, Hobson and Durkheim) are considered.
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52746.1523
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Henaut, Stéphane, author.
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394.120944 HEN
Publication Date
2018
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52745.9023
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Whalen, Logan E.
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841.1 22
Publication Date
2008
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52745.4453
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Bertucci, Paola, author.
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509.4409033 23
Publication Date
2017
Summary
What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound craftsmen? Making a radical change of historical protagonists, the author places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment. At a time of great colonial, commercial, and imperial concerns, artistes planned encyclopedic projects and sought an official role in the administration of the French state. The Société des Arts, which they envisioned as a state institution that would foster France's colonial and economic expansion, was the msot ambitious expression of their collective aspirations. This work provides the first in-depth study of the Société, and demonstrates its legacy in scientific programs, academies, and the making of Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopédie. Through insightful analysis of textual, visual, and material sources, the author provides a ground-breaking perspective on the politics of writing on the mechanical arts and the development of key Enlightenment concepts such as improvement, utility, and progress.
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52745.2695
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Jones, Peter, 1949-
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944.034 22
Publication Date
2003
Summary
This is the first 'comparative micro-historical' study to have been attempted for the period between the old and the new France, 1760-1820, which offers a strikingly new perspective on the rural history of France during an epoch of momentous change.
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Reid, Roddey, 1952-
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362.2967 22
Publication Date
2005
Summary
Traces the culture and politics of anti-smoking efforts in three sites with distinct social histories.
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52744.5664
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Jasper, James M.
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333.7924 20
Publication Date
2014
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Why did nuclear energy policies in France, Sweden, and the United States, very similar at the time of the oil crisis of 1973 and 1974, diverge so greatly in the following years? In answering this question, James Jasper challenges one of the most popular trends in political analysis: explanations relying exclusively on political and economic structures to account for public policies. Jasper proposes a new cultural and state-centered approach--one heeding not only structural factors but cultural meanings, individual biographies, and elite discretion. Surveying the period from the successful c.
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52744.4258
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Maza, Sarah C., 1953-
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944.034 20
Publication Date
1993
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52744.3438
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Maza, Sarah C., 1953-
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944.034 20
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1993
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52744.3438
by
Dowbiggin, Ian Robert, 1952-
Call Number
616.890094409034 20
Publication Date
1991
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52744.1914
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Loew, Sebastian.
Call Number
720.9440904 22
Publication Date
1998
Summary
Modern Architecture in Historic Cities illustrates why France has been so successful in combining conservation and modernity, and points to important lessons for other countries which can be drawn from the French experience.
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