Crystal palaces and railway stations, greenhouses and arcades, church windows and shop frontages, wine glasses and lamp shades: from the monumental to the minuscule, glass became increasingly pervasive in nineteenth-century France. Yet as the bombshells and fires of the Année Te…
Crystal palaces and railway stations, greenhouses and arcades, church windows and shop frontages, wine glasses and lamp shades: from the monumental to the minuscule, glass became increasingly pervasive in nineteenth-century France. Yet as the bombshells and fires of the Année Te…
Describes what daily life was like in turn of the century France, looks at the impact of new technology and social change, and discusses the theater, tourism, bicycles, bathing, art, and clothing.
A social history of civilization in France in the last two decades of the nineteenth century.
Describes some of the world's most famous fires including the Ringling Brothers Circus fire in 1944, the great fire of London in 1666, and the disaster of the dirigible Hindenburg in 1936.
Sketches France's political and intellectual development and comments on social divisions and customs from the late 1840's through the Second World War.