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  • France Since 1945

    by Robert Gildea ...
    The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy, searching for a stable political system. It has also been a time of anxiety and doubt. The French have had to come to terms with the legacy of the German Occupation, the loss of Empire, the political and social implications of the influx of foreign ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Backbone of the Nation

    Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85

    by Robert Gildea ...
    A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their familiesForty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in British history. A deep sense of pride existed within Britain’s mining communities who thought of themselves as the backbone of the nation’s economy. But ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Fighters in the Shadows

    A New History of the French Resistance

    by Robert Gildea ...
    The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. 'La Résistance française' was not simply a national effort to free the country from German occupation, but a wider struggle, filled with conflicts and division. It included Spanish republicans, Italian and even German anti-Nazis. The defence against the Holocaust brought in Jewish resisters and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Marianne In Chains

    by Robert Gildea ...
    For the last fifty years, the German Occupation of France has been regarded as a period characterised by four things: cold, hunger, the absence of freedom and above all fear; a time when the indigenous population was cruelly and consistently oppressed by the army of occupation. The people of France were either bold members of the Resistance or craven collaborators. In this riveting and provocative ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Fighters in the Shadows

    A New History of the French Resistance

    by Robert Gildea ...
    The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its image has been carefully curated through a combination of French politics and pride, ever since jubilant crowds celebrated Paris’s liberation in August 1944. Robert Gildea’s penetrating history of ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • France Since 1945

    by Robert Gildea ...
    The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy, searching for a stable political system. It has also been a time of anxiety and doubt. The French have had to come to terms with the legacy of the German Occupation, the loss of Empire, the political and social implications of the influx of foreign ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD

  • Empires of the Mind

    The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present

    by Robert Gildea ...
    Series series The Wiles Lectures
    'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of decolonisation and neo-colonialism which have shaped the postwar world. Even after the rush of French and British decolonisation in the 1960s, the strings of economic and military power too often ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • France Since 1945

    by Robert Gildea ...
    Robert Gildea presents an ambitious and wide-ranging but succinct history of France from 1945 to 2024, which seeks to provide a sympathetic understanding of the forces that have shaped a country that is so close to Britain and yet so different. This third edition, following the second in 2002 and first in 1996, takes into account twenty more years of French history, history writing, and changing ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Children of the Revolution

    The French, 1799-1914

    by Robert Gildea ...
    Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumultuous century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the French Revolution's 'children' would experience their own wars, revolutions and terrors.From soldiers to priests, from peasants to Communards, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • What Is History For?

    by Robert Gildea ...
    Series series What Is It For?
    “History”, suggests Robert Gildea, “is a battlefield.” Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still go to war over their interpretation of history. Yet accounts of history are just as prone to fabrication as fake news, so how can we tell good history from bad? How can history be critical, learning from the past and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • France 1870-1914

    by Robert Gildea ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    The period 1870 - 1914 in France saw the consolidation of republican government and the recovery of national self-confidence. Though political crises such as the Dreyfus Affair threatened to tear it apart, the Republic established firm parliamentary rule, built up an Empire and an army which was to see it through the Great War. The new edition of this key text - first published as The Third ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Barricades and Borders

    Europe 1800-1914

    by Robert Gildea ...
    Series series Short Oxford History of the Modern World
    This is a comprehensive survey of European history from the coup d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte in France to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo, which led to the First World War. It concentrates on the twin themes of revolution and nationalism, which often combined in the early part of the century but which increasingly became rival creeds. Going beyond traditional political and ... Read more

    $121.59 CAD