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  • The French Language in Russia

    A Social, Political, Cultural, and Literary History

    par Derek Offord, Vladislav Rjéoutski, Gesine Argent ...
    Collections series Languages and Culture in History
    With support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK and the Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau , The French Language in Russia provides the fullest examination and discussion to date of the adoption of the French language. ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

  • European Francophonie

    The Social, Political and Cultural History of an International Prestige Language

    Modifié par Vladislav Rjéoutski, Gesine Argent, Derek Offord ...
    Collections Livre 1 - Historical Sociolinguistics
    This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomenon of French language usage is explored in a wide variety of communities, namely Bohemian, Dutch, medieval English, German (Prussian), Italian, Piedmontese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Each chapter offers unique insight into ... En savoir plus

    $135.99 CAD

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  • How the French Think

    An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People

    par Sudhir Hazareesingh ...
    Sudhir Hazareesingh's How the French Think is a warm yet incisive exploration of the French intellectual tradition, and its exceptional place in a nation's identity and lifestyleWhy are the French an exceptional nation? Why do they think they are so exceptional? An important reason is that in France intellectual activity is regarded not just as the preserve of the thinking elite but for almost ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Dreyfus Affair

    The Scandal That Tore France in Two

    par Piers Paul Read ...
    July 20, 1894. The German Military Attache in Paris. Colonel Maximillien von Schwarzkoppen received a visit from a seedy-looking middle-aged Frenchman who would not give his name. He told Schwarzkoppen that he was a French army officer serving on the General Staff; that he was in desperate need of money; and was therefore prepared to sell military secrets to the Germans.Captain Alfred Dreyfus, ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Hedgehog And The Fox

    An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History

    par Isaiah Berlin ...
    Collections series W&N Essentials
    Isaiah Berlin's classic essay on Tolstoy - an exciting new edition with new criticism and a foreword.'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' This fragment of Archilochus, which gives this book its title, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Tolstoy. There have been various interpretations of Archilochus' fragment; Isaiah Berlin has simply ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Russian Thinkers

    par Isaiah Berlin ...
    Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, which he addresses in his most famous essay, 'The Hedgehog and the Fox,' Berlin considers the social and ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Dreyfus

    Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century

    par Ruth Harris ...
    The definitive, award-winning history of the infamous Dreyfus Affair, a scandal that shook nineteenth-century France and stunned the world.National Jewish Book Awards WinnerIn 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully convicted of being a spy for Germany and was imprisoned on Devil's Island. Over the following years, attempts to correct this injustice tore France ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Past Imperfect

    French Intellectuals, 1944-1956

    par Tony Judt ...
    A "marvelously readable" critique of Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir, and other French postwar intellectuals that "consistently entertains and provokes" ( The Washington Post).The uniquely prominent role of French intellectuals in European cultural and political life following World War II is the focus of this book by the acclaimed author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Tony Judt analyzes ... En savoir plus

    $25.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Fire in the Minds of Men

    Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

    par James Billington ...
    This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became ... En savoir plus

    $96.99 CAD

  • France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History

    par Michael Burns ...
    The unjust conviction of French Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus on charges of treason started the Dreyfus affair, a major event in European anti-Semitism. “This documentary history is designed to introduce the broad outlines and significant legacies of the Dreyfus affair, from the captain’s arrest in 1894 to the 1998 centennial of J’Accuse, Émile Zola’s scathing indictment of the French military... ... En savoir plus

    $17.85 CAD

  • Simon Leys

    Navigator between Worlds

    par Philippe Paquet ...
    Traduit par Julie Rose ...
    An award-winning biography of one of the greats.Simon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans, who was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australian National University and was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney from 1987 to 1993. He died in 2014.Writing in three languages – French, Chinese and English – he played an ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Conquering Peace

    From the Enlightenment to the European Union

    par Stella Ghervas ...
    A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer lasting peace.Political peace in Europe has historically been elusive and ephemeral. Stella Ghervas shows that since the eighteenth century, European thinkers and leaders in pursuit of lasting peace fostered the idea of European unification.Bridging ... En savoir plus

    $46.19 CAD