"In A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey Gábor Kármán reconstructs the life story of a lesser-known Hungarian orientalist, Jakab Harsányi Nagy. The discussion of his activities as a school teacher in Transylvania, as a diplomat and interpreter at the Sublime Porte, as a secretary of a …
by Helvig, Jean-Michel, Hessel, Stéphane
fromTémoignages pour l'histoire
by Helvig, Jean-Michel, Hessel, Stéphane
fromTémoignages pour l'histoire
"Etre partout sans être enfermé nulle part, telle pourrait être la devise de Stéphane Hessel. Homme d'engagement et de culture, ce grand résistant devenu ambassadeur de France est avant tout un citoyen du monde. Entré dans la carrière diplomatique après la Seconde Guerre mondial…
The outrageous true story of the French plot to supply arms and ammunition to Washington's Continental Army, and the bold French spy, inventor,playwright, and rogue behind it all.
The outrageous true story of the French plot to supply arms and ammunition to Washington's Continental Army, and the bold French spy, inventor, playwright, and rogue behind it all.
by ProQuest (Firme), Steuer, Daniel, Siemann, Wolfram
"Metternich has a reputation as the epitome of reactionary conservatism. Historians treat him as the archenemy of progress, a ruthless aristocrat who used his power as the dominant European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century to stifle liberalism, suppress nati…
This is a major biography of Clemens von Metternich (1773-1859), perhaps the most important European politician of the first half of the nineteenth century. Metternich held the highest civilian posts in the Austrian Empire without interruption from 1809 to 1848, helped determine…
