A study of the widespread belief in the existence of a Jesuit conspiracy in 19th-century France. The book examines the range of polemical literature through which the conviction of Jesuitical plots was expressed, and explores political attitudes within and outside the Catholic C…
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This book examines one of the most remarkable political myths of the modern era. The image of a Jesuit conspiracy against state, society, and modern civilization haunted the imaginations of European liberals for most of the nineteenth century. This book examines the operations a…
This book examines one of the most remarkable political myths of the modern era. The image of a Jesuit conspiracy against state, society, and modern civilization haunted the imaginations of European liberals for most of the nineteenth century. This book examines the operations a…
"This book argues that the social impact of the French Revolution has been greatly exaggerated, and that in 1815 France was still predominantly a rural and pre-industrial society. The Revolution introduced only very limited changes on social structures and relationships, the dai…
Tombs looks at France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation, subjecting every aspect of the period to close scrutiny.
Tombs looks at France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation, subjecting every aspect of the period to close scrutiny.
Le site de l'éditeur indique : "The final volume of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking trilogy chronicling the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of history's most complex and charismatic leaders. This meticulously researched study opens with Napoleon no longer in power, b…
-- Philip Dwyer closes his ambitious trilogy exploring Napoleon's life, legacy and myth by moving from those first months of imprisonment, through the years of exile, up to death and then beyond, examining how the foundations of legend that had been laid by Napoleon during his l…
"The final volume of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking trilogy chronicling the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of history's most complex and charismatic leaders. This meticulously researched study opens with Napoleon no longer in power, but instead a prisoner in a dres…
