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Elizabeth and John
A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia’s most respected historians. Elizabeth and John Macarthur were the first married couple to travel voluntarily from Europe to Australia, arriving in 1790, both aged 23, within three years of the initial invasion. John Macarthur soon became famous in New South Wales and beyond as a wool pioneer, a politician, and a builder of farms at Parramatta and Camden. For a long time, Elizabeth’s life was regarded as contingent on John’s and, more recently, John’s on Elizabeth’s. In Elizabeth and John, Alan Atkinson, the prizewinning author of The Europeans in Australia, draws on his work on the Maca...
French Emigrants in Revolutionised Europe
The French emigration was an exilic movement triggered by the 1789 French Revolution with long-lasting social, cultural, and political impacts that continued well into the nineteenth century. At times paradoxical, the political and legal implications of being an émigré are detangled in this edited collection, thus bringing to light unexpected processes of tensions and compromises between the exiles and their host societies. The refugee/host contact points also fostered a series of cultural transfers. This book argues that the French emigration ought to be seen within the broader context of an ‘Age of Exile’, a notion that better encompasses the dynamics of migration that forced many to re-imagine their relation to a nation and define their displaced identities. Revisiting the historiography of the last twenty years from an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume challenges pre-existing beliefs on the journeys and re-settlements – in Europe and beyond – of the French émigré community.
La Bretagne
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Through Faith & Fire
The fascintating tale of hardship and triumph of THROUGH FAITH & FIRE begins in France, where monastic communities of all kinds found themselves struggling to survive in the wake of the French Revolution. A small band of Trappist monks set out on a years-long quest to find a new home--a quest that took them to Switzerland, Russia, Belgium, Canada and ultimately to New England and their present home among the hills of Spencer, MA. As the story unfolds, a succession of courageous abbots and brothers face travails from poor harvests, diseases, and physical deprivations to their perpetual nemesis of devastating fires. Their ability to rise above it all, against all odds, testifies to the power of their faith and committment to the highest principles. Thoroughly researched and lovingly told, Father Bentoniere brings this compelling history and its cast of characters to life, as generation after generation strives to maintain a life dedicated to prayer, work and contemplation.
Landeleau
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Le Finistère marial (1)
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
Religious Change in Europe, 1650-1914
This collection ranges across Europe to discuss the nature of religious change over more than two centuries. Contributors include Robin Briggs, Derek Beales, Owen Chadwick, and William Doyle.
Ancêtres et terroirs : onze générations de paysans en Basse-Bretagne
L'auteur a consacré cet ouvrage à quatre de ses ascendants, qui vécurent en Basse Bretagne entre 1655 et 1920 (onze générations). Le premier fut : paysan marchand de toile, le deuxième : maire et juge de paix pendant la Révolution, le troisième : paysan aisé, et le quatrième : meunier. Tout en prenant ses ancêtres en filature, Louis Elégoët les replace dans leur contexte historique. Il décrit le microcosme dont ils faisaient partie, et tamise le terreau culturel sur lequel ils ont poussé et qui les a fait vivre. Le véritable propos de cet ouvrage : faire sortir - de la foule des humbles - quelques « silencieux de l'Histoire », c'est-à-dire des anonymes, qu'on ne considère habituellement qu'en termes de masses, et non en tant qu'individus.
Jean-François de La Marche, évêque-comte de Léon (1729-1806)
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
