French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848 0801883865, 9780801883866

French salons: high society and political sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848 9780801877292, 9780801883866

Among the most enduring of French cultural institutions, the salon, is among the most misunderstood. Seen primarily as a

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Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848 9780511096785, 9780521234429, 9780521299510

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Utopia's Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution 9780226768700

The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by bo

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Utopia's garden: French natural history from Old Regime to Revolution 0226768627, 0226768635, 9780226768625, 9780226768632

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Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin 9780300242713

During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of

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The Old Regime and the French Revolution [ebook ed.] 0307773655, 9780307773654

The most important contribution to our understanding of the French Revolution was written almost one hundred years ago b

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The French Idea of Freedom: The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789 9780804788168

“The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789” is the French Revolution’s best known utterance. By 1789,

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The Colonial Machine English; French: French Science and Overseas Expansion in the Old Regime 9782503532608, 2503532608

The rise of modern science and European colonial and imperial expansion are indisputably two defining elements of modern

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Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France 9780226522890

From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of th

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Writers and Revolution: Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848 9781108842532, 9781108909792, 2020046737, 2020046738, 9781108829373

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