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Burgundy: The Splendid Duchy. Stories and Sketches in South Burgundy
In 'Burgundy: The Splendid Duchy. Stories and Sketches in South Burgundy,' Percy Allen presents an insightful foray into the historical tapestry that weaves together the European continent with its opulent heart, Burgundy. Through a blend of enchanting narratives and meticulous research, Allen excavates the richness of Burgundy as a bastion of Roman influence and its pivotal role in shaping Western civilization. His literary style employs both the sweep of historical analysis and the intimacy of anecdotal vignettes, capturing the intricate relationship between a place and the unfolding of history within its borders. The book shines in its contextual placement among esteemed historical litera...
Chequy Sonnets
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The Language of Flowers
The author traces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through its later transformations in England and America. At the heart of the book is a depiction of what the three most important flower books from each of the countries divulge about the period and the respective cultures. Seaton shows that the language of flowers was not a single and universally understood correlation of flowers to meanings that men and women used to communicate in matters of love and romance. The language differs from book to book, country to country. To place the language of flowers in social and literary perspective, the author examines the ninet...
By Sword and Plow
In 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. Victory did not salvage his regime from revolution, but it began the French conquest of Algeria, which was continued and consolidated by the succeeding July Monarchy. In By Sword and Plow, Jennifer E. Sessions explains why France chose first to conquer Algeria and then to transform it into its only large-scale settler colony. Deftly reconstructing the political culture of mid-nineteenth-century France, she also sheds light on policies whose long-term consequences remain a source of social, cultural, and political tensions in France and its former colony. In Sessions's view, French expansion...
Bibliotheca Osleriana
During his tenure as the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 1905-1919, Sir William Osler amassed a considerable library on the history of medicine and science. A Canadian native, Osler had studied at McGill University and decided to leave his collection of 7,600 items to its Faculty of Medicine. A catalogue, the Bibliotheca Osleriana, was compiled - a labour of love that took ten years to complete and involved W.W. Francis, R.H. Hill, and Archibald Malloch. Osler himself laid down the broad outlines of the catalogue and wrote many of the annotations.
Le Creusot
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
