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Impossible Engineering
The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising political significance. The waterway was a marvel that connected modern state power to human control of nature just as surely as it linked the ocean to the sea. The Canal du Midi is typically characterized as the achievement of Pierre-Paul Riquet, a tax farmer and entrepreneur for the canal. Yet Chandra Mukerji argues that it...
Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia draws on recent research to underscore the various ways Iberian women influenced and contributed to their communities, engaging with a broader academic discussion of women's agency and cultural impact in the Iberian Peninsula. By focusing on women from across the socioeconomic and religious spectrum--elite, bourgeois, and peasant Christian women, Jewish, Muslim, converso, and Morisco women, and married, widowed, and single women--this volume highlights the diversity of women's experiences, examining women's social, economic, political, and religious ties to their families and communities in both urban and rural environments. Comprised of twelve essays from both established and new scholars, Women and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia showcases groundbreaking work on premodern women, revealing the complex intersections between gender and community while highlighting not only relationships of support and inclusion but also the tensions that worked to marginalize and exclude women.
Conjunction.World
My uncle, the renowned Ingo Swann, was a man of mystery and intrigue. As one of the US Government’s top psychic spies, he held secrets that few knew and even fewer understood. One day, he confided in me with a hushed tone and a glint in his eye: “We are not alone on this planet.” This wasn’t entirely new to me. I had encountered numerous inexplicable events, but I couldn’t believe they were actually real. It just seemed too impossible. Years later, however, my curiosity drove me to learn more. Amidst this learning adventure, I stumbled upon a declassified briefing from 1973 stating a group of Nazis was to blame for releasing an arcane terror upon the world. Unless one is deeply roo...
Bibliographie Internationale de Sociologie 1987
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Lourdes
Studies how the miracle that occurred near the tiny French town of Lourdes has affected the development of the Catholic church and the faith of millions.
Fées et gestes
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
L'immigration étrangère en Quercy
À l'ère industrielle, les deux départements du Lot et du Tarn et Garonne, qui constituent le Quercy, appartiennent à l'un des plus importants foyers de dépopulation en France. En partie pour cette raison, ils ont connu, selon les mots de l'auteur, « un chassé-croisé d'arrivées et de départs, une compensation d'excédents de décès par des excédents d'immigration, qui se sont produits derrière une évolution en apparence plus neutre ». Réfugiés, main-d'œuvre appelée pour combler les carences locales, Espagnols et Italiens ont précédé - jusqu'à la Seconde Guerre mondiale - les réfugiés d'Algérie des années soixante. La minutie des recherches, des données démographiq...
Fantômes du Périgord
Du fantôme de Cro-Magnon dans la grotte de Lascaux à la Dame blanche de Puymartin, du fantôme sans tête du seigneur de Biron aux curieuses manifestations de l'abbaye de Cadouin, Alain Bernard convoque dans cet ouvrage toutes les créatures extraordinaires qui hantent le Périgord. Si certaines légendes, connues de tous, sont devenues indiscutables, le doute subsiste quant à la réalité de faits révélés par les témoignages inédits glanés par l'auteur dans des lieux où les esprits aiment venir à la rencontre des visiteurs... Maisons hantées, apparitions curieuses, signes venus d'une autre époque, tout est là pour semer le doute, et nous faire finalement penser qu'il existe bel et bien quelques fantômes périgordins...
Aux sources de l'éternel féminin
Les contributions à cet ouvrage collectif (textes théoriques et religieux, pièces de théâtre, nouvelles) renvoient dos à dos puritanisme bourgeois et féminisme culpabilisateur, et plaident pour un "retour à la femme vraie, à l'éternel féminin".
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