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“kory olson”

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  • The Routledge Handbook of the History of Paris since 1789

    Edited by Kory Olson, Amanda Shoaf Vincent, Erin-Marie Legacey ...
    This handbook assembles a vibrant collection of original scholarship highlighting new and exciting research themes on Paris in the Modern Era. It provides an innovative selection and use of primary sources, broadens the notion of “archive,” and includes diverse voices and multiple perspectives.The contributors, representing a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, ... Read more

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  • The Bonjour Effect

    The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed

    by Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau ...
    Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Story of French

    by Jean-Benoît Nadeau, Julie Barlow ...
    Why does everything sound better if it's said in French? That fascination is at the heart of The Story of French, the first history of one of the most beautiful languages in the world that was, at one time, the pre-eminent language of literature, science and diplomacy.In a captivating narrative that spans the ages, from Charlemagne to Cirque du Soleil, Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow unravel ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Paris

    The Biography of a City

    by Colin Jones ...
    From the Roman Emperor Julian, who waxed rhapsodic about Parisian wine and figs, to Henry Miller, who relished its seductive bohemia, Paris has been a perennial source of fascination for 2,000 years. In this definitive and illuminating history, Colin Jones walks us through the city that was a plague-infested charnel house during the Middle Ages, the bloody epicenter of the French Revolution, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Paris Dreams, Paris Memories

    The City and Its Mystique

    by Charles Rearick ...
    "A rich and entertaining history of the French capital's predominant myths and 'image-making' from the nineteenth century to the present." —Roxanne Panchasi, H-France ReviewHow did Paris become the world favorite it is today? Charles Rearick argues that we can best understand Paris as several cities in one, each with its own history and its own imaginary shaped by dream and memory. Paris has long ... Read more

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  • Modern France

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Vanessa R. Schwartz ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A lively and informative short volume that shows that France is not a faded glory but rather a place that has defined and shaped the key issues of our contemporary world, such as democracy and universal human rights, the emergence of a culture of consumerist spectacle, the tensions between nationalism and contemporary multiculturalism, and the role of religion in the modern state. ... Read more

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  • A Programme of Absolute Disorder

    Decolonizing the Museum

    by Françoise Vergès ...
    Translated by Melissa Thackway ...
    “A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition”—Publishers Weekly“An impressive critique of the universal museum as complicit in the damages inflicted by colonial power”—Isaac Julien, artist and filmmaker“Should fascinate anyone interested in social justice, post-colonialism and the arts”—Euronews“Powerful and so relevant”—DiacritikThe Western museum is a bat... ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Paris Commune

    A Brief History

    by Carolyn J. Eichner ...
    Series series Reinventions of the Paris Commune
    At dawn on March 18, 1871, Parisian women stepped between cannons and French soldiers, using their bodies to block the army from taking the artillery from their working-class neighborhood. When ordered to fire, the troops refused and instead turned and arrested their leaders. Thus began the Paris Commune, France’s revolutionary civil war that rocked the nineteenth century and shaped the twentieth. ... Read more

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  • Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution

    Edited by Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, Dominic Thomas ...
    This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Beheading the Saint

    Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec

    by Geneviève Zubrzycki ...
    Through much of its existence, Québec's neighbors called it the "priest-ridden province." Today, however, Québec society is staunchly secular, with a modern welfare state built on lay provision of social services—a transformation rooted in the "Quiet Revolution" of the 1960s.In Beheading the Saint, Geneviève Zubrzycki studies that transformation through a close investigation of the annual Feast of ... Read more

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  • In the Museum of Man

    Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850–1950

    by Alice L. Conklin ...
    In the Museum of Man offers new insight into the thorny relationship between science, society, and empire at the high-water mark of French imperialism and European racism. Alice L. Conklin takes us into the formative years of French anthropology and social theory between 1850 and 1900; then deep into the practice of anthropology, under the name of ethnology, both in Paris and in the empire before ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • A Social Laboratory for Modern France

    The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State

    by Janet R. Horne ...
    As a nineteenth-century think tank that sought answers to France’s pressing “social question,” the Musée Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded on an optimistic faith in social science. In A Social Laboratory for Modern France Janet R. Horne presents the story of this institution, offering a nuanced explanation of how, despite centuries of deep ideological ... Read more

    $25.19 USD