The Perilous Crown

Author : Munro Price
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780330539371

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The Perilous Crown by Munro Price Pdf

Was it inevitable that France should become a republic? In this fascinating account of the period 1814-48, Munro Price attempts to answer this most difficult of questions. Using substantial unpublished research as he did in his celebrated The Fall of the French Monarchy, Price focuses on the amazing political machinations of Madame Adelaide, sister of King Louis Philippe. Though only mentioned rarely in other histories of the time, The French Revolutions shows how her intelligence and behind the scenes wrangling secured her brother the throne, thereby creating France's only long lasting experiment with a constitutional monarchy. Munro Price vividly brings the period alive with all its instability and political intrigue, while at the same time illuminating our understanding of a difficult and tumultuous time. The French Revolutions is an ambitious, exciting and masterful work of history that is sure to delight and inform for many years to come.

Author : A. A. Attanasio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Brothers and sisters
ISBN : 0340696303

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The Perilous Order by A. A. Attanasio Pdf

In a pagan land of Celts and Saxons, of bloodthirsty battles and venerated heroes, a beardless fifteen-year-old boy is declared king...

Author : Raymond Arroyo
Publisher : Crown Books For Young Readers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780553539592

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The Relic of Perilous Falls by Raymond Arroyo Pdf

"A thrill-seeking twelve-year-old boy with a mysterious family heritage discovers ancient objects of rare power--and must protect them from the terrifying demons who will do anything to possess them"--

Author : A. A. Attanasio
Publisher : A. A. Attanasio
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983608448

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The Wolf and the Crown by A. A. Attanasio Pdf

Though he possesses the legendary sword Excalibur, the boy-king "Arthor" discovers that he must earn the respect of the warring lords of Britain before he can truly claim his place as their leader. The third volume in Attanasio's epic re-creation of the Arthurian cycle follows young Arthor through his first difficult year of kingship. This is a flamboyant, magical retelling of the saga of Camelot.

Author : John S. C. Abbott
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547780861

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The Rise and Fall of Austria or the Habsburg Empire by John S. C. Abbott Pdf

The Rise and Fall of Austria or the Habsburg Empire embraces all that is wild and wonderful in history; early struggles for aggrandizement, the fierce strife with the Turks, as wave after wave of Muslim invasion rolled up the Danube, the long conflicts and bloody persecutions of the Reformation, the thirty years' religious war, the intrigues of Popes, the enormous pride, power and encroachments of Louis XIV, the warfare of the Spanish succession and the Polish dismemberment. All these events combine in a sublime tragedy which fiction may in vain attempt to parallel.

Author : Alan Forrest
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250018151

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Napoleon by Alan Forrest Pdf

From Alan Forrest, a preeminent British scholar, comes an exceedingly readable account of the man and his legend On a cold December day in 1840 Parisians turned out in force to watch as the body of Napoleon was solemnly carried on a riverboat from Courbevoie on its final journey to the Invalides. The return of their long-dead emperor's corpse from the island of St. Helena was a moment that Paris had eagerly awaited, though many feared that the memories stirred would serve to further destabilize a country that had struggled for order and direction since he had been sent into exile. In this book Alan Forrest tells the remarkable story of how the son of a Corsican attorney became the most powerful man in Europe, a man whose charisma and legacy endured after his lonely death many thousands of miles from the country whose fate had become so entwined with his own. Along the way, Forrest also cuts away the many layers of myth and counter myth that have grown up around Napoleon, a man who mixed history and legend promiscuously. Drawing on original research and his own distinguished background in French history, Forrest demonstrates that Napoleon was as much a product of his times as their creator.

Author : Christopher Guyver
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137597403

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The Second French Republic 1848-1852 by Christopher Guyver Pdf

This book follows the story of the Second French Republic from its idealistic beginnings in February 1848 to its formal replacement in December 1852 by the Second Empire. Based on original archival research, The Second French Republic gives a detailed account of the internal tensions that irrevocably weakened France’s shortest republic. During this short period French political life was buffeted by strong and often contrary forces: universal manhood suffrage, fear of socialism, the President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, and the political ambitions of the military high command for the restoration of the monarchy.

Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Austria
ISBN : IND:30000132275052

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Austria, Its Rise and Present Power by John Stevens Cabot Abbott Pdf

Author : John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Austria
ISBN : HARVARD:HWHIKJ

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The Empire of Austria by John Stevens Cabot Abbott Pdf

Author : Ute Frevert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350345904

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Writing the History of Emotions by Ute Frevert Pdf

Emotions make history, and they have a history. They influence historical events such as revolutions, riots and protest movements. At the same time, they are shaped by historical experiences tied to family upbringing, educational and cultural institutions, work and the home. Writing the History of Emotions shows how emotions like love, trust, honour, pride, shame, empathy and greed have impacted historical change since the 18th century and were themselves dependent on social, political and economic environments. Importantly, this book provides a timely exploration of racialized, gendered, class-based notions of emotions. This exciting addition to Bloomsbury's successful Writing History series analyses how emotions matter in and to history, and how they are themselves objects of history. Here, leading scholar Ute Frevert eschews a traditional chronological history of emotions in favour of an innovative collection which transgresses time periods to illustrate the different emotional meanings one particular material object has had throughout history. This book sheds light on how emotions have been used, instrumentalised and manipulated both to propel and suspend democratic politics. In doing so, it opens a rich new avenue of research for the history of emotions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : World history
ISBN : UVA:X030513322

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The Nations of the World: Austria: its rise and present power by Anonim Pdf

Author : F. R. GRAHAME (pseud. [i.e. Catherine Laura Johnstone.])
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018368307

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The Archer and the Steppe; Or, the Empires of Scythia: a History of Russia and Tartary, from the Earliest Ages Till the Fall of the Mongul Power in Europe, in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century. (Appendix: Poems Describing the Places and Manners of the Country and People of Russia-1568 ... by G. Turberville.). by F. R. GRAHAME (pseud. [i.e. Catherine Laura Johnstone.]) Pdf

Author : Heidi Mehrkens,Frank Lorenz Müller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137454980

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Sons and Heirs by Heidi Mehrkens,Frank Lorenz Müller Pdf

Bringing together an international team of specialists, this volume considers the place of royal heirs within their families, their education and accommodation, their ability to overcome succession crises, the consequences of the death of an heir and finally the roles royal heirs played during the First World War.

Author : Owen Heathcote
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3039105515

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Balzac and Violence by Owen Heathcote Pdf

Violence is one of the main themes in the novels of Hanore de Balza. Executions, muders, savagery and death accompany the conspiracies and the turbulence that characterise his post-Revolutionary times, from the terror to Napoleonic campaigns and then to the upheavals of 1830 and 1848. Despite the importance of violence in Balzac, this is the first book-length study of the topic. The book begins by tracing the links between violence and Balzac's approach to the novel, not merely in terms of violent content, but, equally importantly, in terms of the form associated with that content. From and content combine to perpetuate and naturalise violence and suffering. After charting examples of this combination in one of Balzac's earliest fictions, the books moves on to the links between violence and place violence and history (Catherine de Medicis; the Terror), between violence and place(from his native Touraine to sickness in Paris), and between violence and gender/sexuality. It alos examines the representiation of violence in the form of spoken or written death. Throughout the analysis, the bokk asks the following question: do Balzac's novels reinforce or counteract the literary text's apparent love-affair with violence?

Author : Graeme Mercer Adam,George Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015068419822

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The Canadian Monthly and National Review by Graeme Mercer Adam,George Stewart Pdf