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Louisiana, Napoleon and the United States
This informative first-time translation of the autobiography of Pierre-Clement de Laussat (1756-1835), offers a portrait of the middle-man in the transaction of 1803 which gave the United States the Louisiana territory. The life of this 'transfer agent' reads like a novel amply detailed with the love, pride, ambition, and courage that drove him to make a mark on history. Appointed by Napoleon in 1803 as Colonial Prefect for Louisiana and Commissioner General, Pierre-Clement de Laussat negotiated the cession of the Louisiana Territory to France from Spain and fended off the danger of foreign occupation and internal insurrections threatening Louisiana during the interim of the switch of control by the countries involved. It was he who represented France at the ceremonies of cession of Louisiana on December 20, 1803 and who received the French flag when it was lowered in Jackson Square to be replaced by the American colors. And it was he who continued to maintain peace in the newly-acquired territory until William C. Claiborn assumed governship for the United States. Translated with an introduction by Sister Agnes-Josephine Pastwa. Compiled by Sister Joan LaVerne Rutz.
La Chambre de L'Arsenal
" Les annales judiciaires des peuples contiennent souvent des enseignements que l'histoire aurait tort de d�daigner. Alors m�me qu'il s'agit de personnalit�s exceptionnelles et de crimes dont l'�tranget� repousse toute conclusion syst�matique, les r�v�lations de certains proc�s permettent de saisir en quelque sorte sur le fait des tendances, des moeurs, des passions, qui, sans les circonstances violentes o� elles sont amen�es sur la sc�ne, resteraient � peu pr�s inconnues. Gr�ce aux enqu�tes, aux informations de la justice, et surtout aux d�nonciations des accus�s, la lumi�re, une lumi�re �clatante et parfois effrayante, se fait tout � coup autour ...
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Des marchands entre deux mondes
"A partir du XVe siècle, les voyages entrepris par les Portugais vers l'est et par les Castillans vers l'ouest ouvrirent de nouvelles routes, initiant le processus de l'expansion européenne. L'axe de la Méditerranée - comme l'avait souligné Perre Chaunu il y des années - allait alors être transféré à l'Atlantique, bouleversant les espaces anciens et créant postérieurement de nouveaux espaces géopolitiques, tel l'axe transpacifique. Aux conséquences politiques de ce fait nouveau que constitua la création des empires modernes s'ajoutèrent les conséquences sociales, puisque les déplacements humains qu'il entraîna - à une échelle inattendue et dans des régions jusqu'alors i...
Les Émeutes Sous Louis XIV
" On a d�j� beaucoup �crit sur Louis XIV et les �v�nements de son r�gne sans que le sujet soit �puis�, sans qu'on se lasse m�me de le discuter dans ses grandes lignes comme dans ses d�tails. Les sciences naturelles, nous en avons la preuve par les progr�s qu'elles font tous les jours, ont des attraits irr�sistibles, et les probl�mes qu'elles posent � l'intelligence passionnent des milliers d'esprits chercheurs et ing�nieux. Quoi d'�tonnant que l'homme s'int�resse plus vivement encore � l'analyse et � la connaissance approfondie de ses semblables, soit que la Providence les ait marqu�s du sceau du g�nie, soit que, chefs d'empire, leur nom serve � pe...
The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815
In the last generation the classic Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution has been challenged by the so-called revisionist school. The Marxist view that the Revolution was a bourgeois and capitalist revolution has been questioned by Anglo-Saxon revisionists like Alfred Cobban and William Doyle as well as a French school of criticism headed by François Furet. Today revisionism is the dominant interpretation of the Revolution both in the academic world and among the educated public. Against this conception, this book reasserts the view that the Revolution - the capital event of the modern age - was indeed a capitalist and bourgeois revolution. Based on an analysis of the latest historical scholarship as well as on knowledge of Marxist theories of the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the work confutes the main arguments and contentions of the revisionist school while laying out a narrative of the causes and unfolding of the Revolution from the eighteenth century to the Napoleonic Age.
The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.
Ageing Masculinities in Contemporary European and Anglophone Cinema
This volume offers a unique exploration of how ageing masculinities are constructed and represented in contemporary international cinema. With chapters spanning a range of national cinemas, the primarily European focus of the book is juxtaposed with analysis of the social and cultural constructions of manhood and the "anti-ageing" impulses of male stardom in contemporary Hollywood. These themes are inflected in different ways throughout the volume, from considering how old age is not the monolithic and unified life stage with which it is often framed, to exploring issues of queerness, sexuality, and asexuality, as well as themes such as national cinema and dementia. Offering a diverse and multifaceted portrait of ageing and masculinity in contemporary cinema, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of film and screen studies, gender and masculinity studies, and cultural gerontology.
