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  • Contemporary French Cultural Studies

    by William Kidd, Sian Reynolds ...
    The study of French culture has long ceased to be purely centred on literature. Undergraduate French courses now embrace all forms of cultural production and consumption, and students need to have a broad knowledge of everything from day-time TV and the latest detective novels to debates about national identity and immigration policies.This stimulating text is an introduction to the full range of ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Memory and Memorials

    The Commemorative Century

    by William Kidd, Brian Murdoch ...
    The twentieth century, perhaps more than any other, was shaped by war and conflict. In particular, the two world wars have had a profound influence on the development of world history, especially in western Europe. The aim of Memory and Memorials, however, is not to seek the effects war has had on the twentieth century, but rather to explore how societies chose to remember wars and manipulate this ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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    The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

    by Modris Eksteins ...
    Named "One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada" (The Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Springis a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed scholar and writer Modris Eksteins.Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, Rites of Spring probes the origins, the impact and the ... Read more

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  • The Vertigo Years

    Change and Culture in the West, 1900-1914

    by Philipp Blom ...
    The most breathtaking work of history since Paris 1919.Europe, early in the 20th century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The hot topics of the day — terrorism and globalization, immigration, consumerism, the lack of moral values, and rivaling superpowers — could make one forget that it is a century ago that this era vanished into the trenches of the Somme and ... Read more

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  • France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944

    by Julian Jackson ...
    The French call them 'the Dark Years'... This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history. Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration, resistance, and liberation, it uncovers the conflicting memories of occupation which ensure that even today France continues to debate the legacy of the Vichy ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Bad Faith

    A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France

    by Carmen Callil ...
    Bad Faith tells the story of one of history’s most despicable villains and con men—Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and “Commissioner for Jewish Affairs” in France’s Vichy government.Darquier set about to eliminate Jews in France with brutal efficiency, delivering 75,000 men, women, and children to the Nazis and confiscating Jewish property, which he used for his own gain. Carmen ... Read more

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  • Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

    The Great War in European Cultural History

    by Jay Winter ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Testimony from the Nazi Camps

    French Women's Voices

    by Margaret Anne Hutton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This interdisciplinary study intergrates historiographical, literary and cultural methodologies in its focus on a little known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps. Comprising epistemological and literary analyses of the accounts and an examination of the construction of deportee identities, it will interest those working in the fields of modern French ... Read more

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  • Meetings in No Man's Land

    Christmas 1914 and Fraternisation in the Great War

    by Marc Ferro, Malcolm Brown, Rémy Cazals, Olaf Mueller ...
    The soldiers' 'football match' and the unofficial ceasefire of Christmas 1914 has become a legend of the Great War, but fraternization between enemy troops was actually widespread. In winter 1914, after months of marching, soldiers on both fronts began to dig trenches, and the war became a battle of attrition in which young men faced each other across what was often only a few yards of the muddy, ... Read more

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  • Napoleon

    Passion, Death and Resurrection 1815–1840

    by Philip Dwyer ...
    'Vibrant and illuminating ... [Dywer] tells a fascinating tale' The Times**'Refreshing scholarship … Energetic, readable and filled with colourful detail … Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection is a thoroughly enjoyable book which divides well the reality of exile from the legend that sprang from it' Literary ReviewThis meticulously researched study opens wit... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 3, Civil Society

    Edited by Jay Winter ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the First World War
    Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those institutions and practices outside the state through which the war effort was waged. Drawing on 25 years of historical scholarship, it sheds new light on culturally significant issues such as how families ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War

    Edited by Vincent Sherry ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Great War of 1914–1918 marks a turning point in modern history and culture. This Companion offers critical overviews of the major literary genres and social contexts that define the study of the literatures produced by the First World War. The volume comprises original essays by distinguished scholars of international reputation, who examine the impact of the war on various national ... Read more

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