This superb study explores the imaginative transformation of the city by African, Asian, Caribbean and South Pacific writers since the 1950s.
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La pensée chinoise
by Granet, Marcel, Vandermeersch, Léon
fromBibliothèque de l'Evolution de l'Humanité
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A humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising--Paris in 1871 was a shambles, and the question loomed, "Could this extraordinary city even survive?" Mary McAuliffe takes the reader back to these perilous years following the abrupt coll…
"L'Europe est le grand chantier du XVIIIe siècle. Diplomates, militaires, étudiants, négociants, aristocrates et aventuriers sillonnent en tous sens l'espace européen. La correspondance et la presse tissent leur toile à travers le continent, se jouant des frontières et de la cen…
Weimar thought: a contested legacy
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Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American cult…
Making the Soviet Intelligentsia explores the formation of educated elites in Russian and Ukrainian universities during the early Cold War. In the postwar period, universities emerged as training grounds for the military-industrial complex, showcases of Soviet cultural and econo…
"Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was caused by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social…
