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This book crosses the chronological boundary of 1789 to bring the histories of the Old Regime, Revolution, Empire, and Restoration together.
In Reproducing the French Race, Elisa Camiscioli argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France, and she examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time. Camiscioli demonstrates that mass immigration provided politicians, jurists, industrialists, racial theorists, feminists, and others with ample opportunity to explore questions of French racial belonging, France’s relationship to the colonial empire and the rest of Europe, and the connections between race and national anxieties regarding depopulation and degeneration. She also shows that discussions of the nation and its ...
This book approaches the English Channel as a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.
International directory of archives / Annuaire international des archives.
The Dreyfus affair remains one of the most famous miscarriages of justice in modern times. Eric Cahm's study does justice to the human drama, whilst also throwing light on the wider society and politics of the Third Republic in the traumatic years after the Franco-Prussian War. This wide-ranging survey - the only short modern account in English anchors the Affair in its full social and political context. Organised round a narrative of events, it offers portraits of all the main characters, substantial extracts from key sources in fresh translations, a comprehensive bibliography and a detailed chronology.
A l'occasion du cinquantenaire de la libération de la France, ce livre-catalogue rassemble de manière consensuelle le point de vue des militaires et celui des résistants, deux mondes qui se sont souvent ignorés. Il couvre la période 1940-1945 : plus de 300 documents provenant d'archives de particuliers sont rassemblés. Textes de grands témoins ou d'historiens. « Copyright Electre »