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Historical dictionary of France / Gino Raymond.

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by Raymond, Gino.
Call Number 944.003
Publication Date 2008
Summary Presents a thorough history of France, including entries that cover kings, politicians, authors, architects, composers, artists, and philosophers.
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Algeria : France's undeclared war / Martin Evans.

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by Evans, Martin, 1964-
Call Number 965.046 22
Publication Date 2012
Summary Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from Normandy or Brittany. The depth and scale of the colonization process explains why the Algerian War of 1954 to 1962 was one of the longest and most violent of the decolonization struggles. An undeclared war in the sense that there was no formal beginning of hostilities, the war produced huge tensions that brought down four government.
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Queens and mistresses of Renaissance France / Kathleen Wellman.

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by Wellman, Kathleen Anne, 1951- author.
Call Number 944.0209252 23
Publication Date 2013
Summary This title tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses, beginning with Agnès Sorel, the first officially recognised royal mistress in 1444, including Anne of Brittany, Catherine de Medici, Anne Pisseleu, Diane de Poitiers, Marguerite de Valois among others, and concluding with Gabrielle d'Estrées, Henry IV's powerful mistress during the 1590s.
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Globalizing tobacco control : anti-smoking campaigns in California, France, and Japan / Roddey Reid.

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by Reid, Roddey, 1952-
Call Number 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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Inheriting madness : professionalization and psychiatric knowledge in nineteenth-century France / Ian R. Dowbiggin.

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by Dowbiggin, Ian Robert, 1952-
Call Number 616.890094409034 20
Publication Date 1991
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Incurable and Intolerable [electronic resource] : Chronic Disease and Slow Death in Nineteenth Century France.

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by Szabo, Jason.
Call Number 616.044
Publication Date 2009
Summary Terminal illness and the pain and anguish it brings are experiences that have touched millions of people in the past and continue to shape our experience of the present. Hospital machines that artificially support life and monitor vital signs beg the question: Is there not anything that medical science can offer as solace? Incurable and Intolerable looks at the history of incurable illness from a variety of perspectives, including those of doctors, patients, families, religious counsel, and policy makers. This compellingly documented and well-written history illuminates the physical, emotional.
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Suzanne Noël : cosmetic surgery, feminism and beauty in early twentieth-century France / Paula J. Martin.

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by Martin, Paula J., author.
Call Number 617.9520944 23
Publication Date 2014
Summary Working at the forefront of cosmetic surgery at the turn of the twentieth century, Dr Suzanne Noël was both a pioneer in her medical field and a firm believer in the advancement of women. Today her views on the benefits of aesthetic surgery to women may seem at odds with her feminist principles, but by placing Noël in the context of turn-of-the-century French culture, this book is able to demonstrate how these two worldviews were reconciled. This book sheds much valuable light on advances in aesthetic surgery, twentieth-century beauty culture, women and the public sphere, and the 'new woman'.
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Infection of the innocents [electronic resource] : wet nurses, infants, and syphilis in France, 1780-1900 / Joan Sherwood.

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by Sherwood, Joan, 1929-
Call Number 614.54720944 22
Publication Date 2010
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Progress in French Tourism Geographies : Inhabiting Touristic Worlds.

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by Stock, Mathis.
Call Number 304.2
Publication Date 2021
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The French revolution / Thomas Carlyle ; introduced and selected by Ruth Scurr.

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by Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Call Number 944.04 22
Publication Date 2010
Summary In 1837 Thomas Carlyle published his work The French Revolution: A History and overnight became a celebrity. The work was filled with a passionate intensity, hitherto unknown in historical writing. In a politically-charged Europe, filled with fears and hopes of revolution, Carlyle's account of the motivations and urges that inspired the events in France became powerfully relevant. Carlyle's style emphasized this, continually pointing to the urgency of action - often using the present tense. For him, chaotic events demanded 'heroes' to take control over the competing forces erupting within society. In Carlyle's view only dynamic individuals could master events and direct these energies effectively. As soon as ideological formulas replaced heroes and human action, society became dehumanized. As Ruth Scurr shows in her masterly introduction and through the texts she has selected from Carlyle's masterpiece of historical writing, The French Revolution needs still to be read for its relevance and as one of the finest examples of English prose writing ever.
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The A to Z of the French Revolution.

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by Hanson, Paul R.
Call Number 944.0403 23
Publication Date 2007
Summary The French Revolution remains the most examined event and period in world history. Most historians would argue that it was the first ""modern"" revolution, an event so momentous that it changed the very meaning of the word revolution to its current connotation of a political and/or social upheaval that marks a decisive break with the past, moving the society in a forward or progressive direction. No revolution has occurred since 1789 without making reference to this first revolution, and most have been measured against it. When revolution shook the foundations of the Old Regime in France, shoc.
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Henri Poincar�e [electronic resource] : a scientific biography / Jeremy Gray.

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by Gray, Jeremy, 1947-
Call Number 509.2 23
Publication Date 2013
Summary "Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time--he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel Prize for physics and a prominent philosopher of science whose fresh and surprising essays are still in print a century later. The first in-depth and comprehensive look at his many accomplishments, Henri Poincaré explores all the fields that Poincaré touched, the debates sparked by his original investigations, and how his discoveries still contribute to society today. Math historian Jeremy Gray shows that Poincaré's influence was wide-ranging and permanent. His novel interpretation of non-Euclidean geometry challenged contemporary ideas about space, stirred heated discussion, and led to flourishing research. His work in topology began the modern study of the subject, recently highlighted by the successful resolution of the famous Poincaré conjecture. And Poincaré's reformulation of celestial mechanics and discovery of chaotic motion started the modern theory of dynamical systems. In physics, his insights on the Lorentz group preceded Einstein's, and he was the first to indicate that space and time might be fundamentally atomic. Poincaré the public intellectual did not shy away from scientific controversy, and he defended mathematics against the attacks of logicians such as Bertrand Russell, opposed the views of Catholic apologists, and served as an expert witness in probability for the notorious Dreyfus case that polarized France. Richly informed by letters and documents, Henri Poincaré demonstrates how one man's work revolutionized math, science, and the greater world"--
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Giacomo Meyerbeer : reputation without cause? : a composer and his critics / by Jennifer Jackson.

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by Jackson, Jennifer.
Call Number 782.1092 22
Publication Date 2011
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Jean Paul Marat : tribune of the French Revolution / Clifford D. Conner.

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by Conner, Clifford D., 1941-
Call Number 944.04092 23
Publication Date 2012
Summary "Jean-Paul Marat's role in the French Revolution has long been a matter of controversy among historians. Often he has been portrayed as a violent, sociopathic demagogue. This biography challenges that interpretation and argues that without Marat's contributions as an agitator, tactician, and strategist, the pivotal social transformation that the Revolution accomplished might well not have occurred. Clifford D. Conner argues that what was unique about Marat - which set him apart from all other major figures of the Revolution, including Danton and Robespierre - was his total identification with the struggle of the propertyless classes for social equality. This is an essential book for anyone interested in the history of the revolutionary period and the personalities that led it."--Publisher's website.
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Joan of Arc by herself and her witnesses / Régine Pernoud ; translated from the French by Edward Hyams.

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by Pernoud, Régine, 1909-1998.
Call Number 944.0260924 22
Publication Date 1982 1964
Summary Using historical documents and translated by Régine Pernoud, Joan of Arc seeks to answer the questions asked by Joan's contemporaries as well as us: Who was she? Whence came she? What had been her life and exploits?
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Robespierre : a revolutionary life / Peter McPhee.

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by McPhee, Peter, 1948-
Call Number 944.04092 23
Publication Date 2012
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Brown-Séquard : an improbable genius who transformed medicine / Michael J. Aminoff.

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by Aminoff, Michael J. (Michael Jeffrey)
Call Number 610.92 22
Publication Date 2011
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The winemaker's year : in Beaujolais / by Michael Buller ; photographs by Pierre Cottin ; preface by Paul Bocuse & Gerard Canard.

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by Buller, Michael
Call Number ARC 641.22230944 BUL
Publication Date 1993
Summary "The annual arrival of the "Beaujolais Nouveau" is one of the most exciting events in the wine-lover's calendar. Every year, thousands eagerly anticipate the promise of the new vintage - a wine that is reminiscent of the warmth and charm of the place where it is grown."--BOOK JACKET. "Michael Buller takes us on an intimate tour of the unique Beaujolais legion of France, where we visit the small family-owned vineyards, the grand wine chateaux, and the cafe's and restaurants. Pierre Cottin's vivid photography captures the energy of the harvest, the exuberance of the harvest festivals, and the "pride of place" that is as much a part of the Beaujolais region as the wine itself. We meet the people of Beaujolais, too, who are as vigorous and expressive as the wine they produce: Papa Louis Brechard, age 86, who organized the first winegrowers' cooperative; Comte Henri de Rambuteau, owner of Chateau Des Granges; Georges Duboeuf, famous negotiant; and the celebrated chefs of Lyon, including Paul Bocuse and La Mere Brazier."--BOOK JACKET. "Complete with recipes for regional culinary specialties, a list of wine cellars open to the public for tasting, Beaujolais vocabulary and more, In Beaujolais is a testimonial to a way of life that is steeped in its own traditions of winemaking and the wine trade yet continues to give thanks and respect to the bounty that nature has so generously provided."--BOOK JACKET.
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Between the queen and the cabby : Olympe de Gouges's Rights of woman / John R. Cole.

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by Cole, John R. (John Richard), 1941-
Call Number 305.42092 23
Publication Date 2011
Summary "Students of the French Revolution and of women's right are generally familiar with Olympe de Gouges's bold adaptation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. However, her Rights of Woman has usually been extracted from its literary context and studied without proper attention to the political consequences of 1791. In Between the Queen and the Cabby, John Cole provides the first full translation of de Gouges's Rights of Woman and the first systematic commentary on its declaration, its attempt to envision a non-marital partnership agreement, and its support for persons of colour. Cole compares and contrasts de Gouges's two texts, explaining how the original text was both her model and her foil. By adding a proposed marriage contract to her pamphlet, she sought to turn the ideas of the French Revolution into a concrete way of life for women. Further examination of her work as a playwright suggests that she supported equality not only for women but for slaves as well. Cole highlights the historical context of de Gouges's writing, going beyond the inherent sexism and misogyny of the time in exploring why her work did not receive the reaction or achieve the influential status she had hoped for. Read in isolation in the gender-conscious twenty-first century, de Gouges's Rights of Woman may seem ordinary. However, none of her contemporaries, neither the Marquis de Condorcet nor Mary Wollstonecraft, published more widely on current affairs, so boldly attempted to extend democratic principles to women, or so clearly related the public and private spheres. Read in light of her eventual condemnation by the Revolutionary Tribunal, her words become tragically foresighted: "Woman has the right to mount the Scaffold; she must also have that of mounting the Rostrum."--Publisher's website.
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Henry VIII and Francis I : the final conflict, 1540-1547 / by David Potter.

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by Potter, David, 1948-
Call Number 942.052 22
Publication Date 2011
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Diary of a witness : 1940-1943 / Raymond-Raoul Lambert ; translated from the French by Isabel Best ; edited with an introduction by Richard I. Cohen.

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by Lambert, Raymond-Raoul, 1894-1943.
Call Number 940.5318092 22
Publication Date 2007
Summary Raymond-Raoul Lambert's Diary has been among the most important untranslated records of the experience of French Jews in the Holocaust. Lambert, a leader of the Union of French Jews (UGIF), was, in the words of the historian Michael Marrus, ""arguably the most important Jewish official in contact with the Vichy government and the Germans."" Lambert's Diary survived the war and was published in France in 1985. It reveals Lambert's efforts to save the Jews in France, particularly the children.
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The Yankee Division in the First World War [electronic resource] : in the highest tradition / Michael E. Shay.

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by Shay, Michael E., 1945-
Call Number 940.41273 22
Publication Date 2008
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The Napoleonic Wars : the Empires Fight Back 1808-1812.

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by Fisher, Todd.
Call Number 944.05092 21
Publication Date 2013
Summary First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Escape to freedom / Leon Rubinstein ; foreword by Michael Berenbaum.

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by Rubinstein, Leon, 1923-
Call Number 940.5318142092
Publication Date 2007
Summary As a ten-year-old child, Leon Rubinstein fled Germany with his parents in 1933 to Luxembourg and then Belgium, which they fled again on the morning of the Nazi invasion. They dwelt quietly as refugees in the south of France until the Vichy government began its roundup of foreign Jews for deportation. After his father's arrest, Leon endeavors to save himself and his mother with a daring journey to the border towns of southeastern France. Among their encounters, they hitch a ride with German SS officers, while disguising their identities. Their arduous journey leads them to Switzerland, where the memoir provides a rare look at the lives of Jewish refugees in the Swiss work camps. <br /><br />Throughout this deeply felt story is Rubinstein's awareness of his transformation from adolescence to young manhood amid the catastrophic losses and dislocations of the war years in Europe. His personal story resonates with anyone who remembers discovering love, as well as the necessity of choices and sacrifices.
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Revered commander, maligned general : the life of Clarence Ransom Edwards, 1859-1931 / Michael E. Shay.

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by Shay, Michael E., 1945-
Call Number 355.0092 23
Publication Date 2011
Summary Annotation Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards is a vital figure in American military history, yet his contribution to the U.S. efforts in World War I has often been ignored or presented in unflattering terms. Most accounts focus on the disagreements he had with General John J. Pershing, who dismissed Edwards from the command of the 26th (Yankee) Division just weeks before thewar's end. The notoriety of the Pershing incident has caused some to view Edwards as simply a political general with a controversial career. But Clarence Edwards, though often a divisive figure, was a greater man than that. A revered and admired officer whose men called him Daddy, Edwards attained an impressive forty-year career, one matched by few wartime leaders . Michael E. Shay presents a complete portrait of this notable American and his many merits inRevered Commander, Maligned General. This long-overdue first full-length biography of General Clarence Edwards opens with his earlyyears in Cleveland, Ohio and his turbulenttimes at West Point. The book details the crucial roles Edwards filled in staff and field commands for the Army before the outbreak of World War I in 1917: Adjutant-General with General Henry Ware Lawton in the Philippine-American War, first chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, and commander of U.S. forces in the Panama Canal Zone. Revered Commander, Maligned Generalfollows Edwards as he forms the famous Yankee Division and leads his men into France. The conflict between Edwards and Pershing is placed in context, illuminating the disputes that led to Edwards being relieved of command. This well-researched biography quotes a wealth of primary sources in recounting the life ofan important American, a man of loyalty and service who is largely misunderstood. Photographs of Edwards, his troops, and his kinmany from Edwards own collectioncomplement the narrative. In addition, several maps aid readers in following General Edwards as his career moves from the U.S. to Central America to Europe and back stateside. Shays portrayalof General Edwards finally provides a balancedaccount of this unique U.S. military leader.
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Medical synonym lists from medieval Provence [electronic resource] : Shem Tov ben Isaac of Tortosa : Sefer ha-Shimmush, Book 29.

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by Shem Tov ben Isaak, of Tortosa, active 13th century.
Call Number 610.14 22
Publication Date 2010
Summary This critical edition and lexicological analysis of the first of the two glossaries of Book 29 of Shem Tov ben Isaac's "Sefer ha-Shimmush" contains more than 700 entries and offers an extensive overview of the formation of medieval medical terminology in the romance (Old Occitan and in part Old Catalan) and Hebrew languages, as well as within the Arabic and Latin tradition.
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Search Results for France - Narrowed by: France.

Historical dictionary of France / Gino Raymond.

Algeria : France's undeclared war / Martin Evans.

Queens and mistresses of Renaissance France / Kathleen Wellman.

Globalizing tobacco control : anti-smoking campaigns in California, France, and Japan / Roddey Reid.

Inheriting madness : professionalization and psychiatric knowledge in nineteenth-century France / Ian R. Dowbiggin.

Incurable and Intolerable [electronic resource] : Chronic Disease and Slow Death in Nineteenth Century France.

Suzanne Noël : cosmetic surgery, feminism and beauty in early twentieth-century France / Paula J. Martin.

Infection of the innocents [electronic resource] : wet nurses, infants, and syphilis in France, 1780-1900 / Joan Sherwood.

Progress in French Tourism Geographies : Inhabiting Touristic Worlds.

The French revolution / Thomas Carlyle ; introduced and selected by Ruth Scurr.

The A to Z of the French Revolution.

Henri Poincar&#xFFFD;e [electronic resource] : a scientific biography / Jeremy Gray.

Giacomo Meyerbeer : reputation without cause? : a composer and his critics / by Jennifer Jackson.

Jean Paul Marat : tribune of the French Revolution / Clifford D. Conner.

Joan of Arc by herself and her witnesses / Régine Pernoud ; translated from the French by Edward Hyams.

Robespierre : a revolutionary life / Peter McPhee.

Brown-Séquard : an improbable genius who transformed medicine / Michael J. Aminoff.

The winemaker's year : in Beaujolais / by Michael Buller ; photographs by Pierre Cottin ; preface by Paul Bocuse & Gerard Canard.

Between the queen and the cabby : Olympe de Gouges's Rights of woman / John R. Cole.

Henry VIII and Francis I : the final conflict, 1540-1547 / by David Potter.

Diary of a witness : 1940-1943 / Raymond-Raoul Lambert ; translated from the French by Isabel Best ; edited with an introduction by Richard I. Cohen.

The Yankee Division in the First World War [electronic resource] : in the highest tradition / Michael E. Shay.

The Napoleonic Wars : the Empires Fight Back 1808-1812.

Escape to freedom / Leon Rubinstein ; foreword by Michael Berenbaum.

Revered commander, maligned general : the life of Clarence Ransom Edwards, 1859-1931 / Michael E. Shay.

Medical synonym lists from medieval Provence [electronic resource] : Shem Tov ben Isaac of Tortosa : Sefer ha-Shimmush, Book 29.

Henri Poincar�e [electronic resource] : a scientific biography / Jeremy Gray.