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"This work traces the meaning of identity in the Basque Country of France between the late eighteenth century and the present, including French state-building efforts in promoting a French national identity, attempts to encourage French and Basque sentiment, and the emergence of Basque nationalism with its emphasis on a Basque national identity"--Provided by publisher.
A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson Congress adjourns early in March, and Jefferson goes home to Monticello for a month. After his return to Washington, he corresponds with territorial governors concerning appointments to legislative councils. He peruses information about Native American tribes, Spanish and French colonial settlements, and the geography of the Louisiana Territory. He seeks the consent of Spanish authorities to a U.S. exploration along the Red River while asserting privately that Spain “has met our advances with jealousy, secret malice, and ill faith.” A new law extends civil authority over foreign warships in U.S. harbors, ...
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Flight of the Phoenix provides insights to the series of management initiatives seeping the workplace, such as re-engineering, restructuring, and reinvention. This title shows how employees can assert themselves and redress imbalances wrought by wave upon wave of management fads that masquerade as mutually beneficial but in fact serve the existing power structure. Flight of the Phoenix delivers a useful, positive message for the individual employee. It presents strategies, insights, tools and case histories to help employees claim their rightful reward as an organisations most important asset. It includes over 200 true stories of individuals all creating a new and better way to work.
Susan Zuccotti narrates the life and work of Père Marie-Benoît, a courageous French Capuchin priest who risked everything to hide Jews in France and Italy during the Holocaust. Who was this extraordinary priest and how did he become adept at hiding Jews, providing them with false papers, and helping them to elude their persecutors? From monasteries first in Marseille and later in Rome, Père Marie-Benoît worked with Jewish co-conspirators to build remarkably effective Jewish-Christian rescue networks. Acting independently without Vatican support but with help from some priests, nuns, and local citizens, he and his friends persisted in their clandestine work until the Allies liberated Rome...
Considère les nouvelles prérogatives de la construction urbaine, en placant la critique et l'intellectuel au sein de la production citadine.
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
Des circonstances geographiques, autant qu'un interet scientifique commun aux membres du reseau Lumieres, ont rassemble historiens et litteraires autour d'un moment historique et d'un objet sur lequel l'histoire litteraire francaise, toujours prompte a operer des decoupages et a tracer des frontieres, ne s'attarde pas suffisamment: l'entre-deux siecles, en l'occurrence la periode que certains historiens ont nommee secondes Lumieres . Qu'entend-on par secondes Lumieres ? Si elles croisent necessairement le romantisme allemand, voire les anti-Lumieres, elles ne constituent pas un mouvement - tout au plus designent-elles un champ en friches ou de bataille laisse en France et dans une partie de ...