The Contentious French
Charles Tilly
Hardcover 1986 / Paperback
The Diehards
Gregory D. Phillips
Hardcover 1979
Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467-1680
Lee Butler
An institution in decline, possessing little power or authority in a warrior-dominated age, or a still potent symbol of social and political legitimacy? Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan traces the fate of the imperial Japanese court from the lowest point in terms of influence and prosperity in the turbulent sengoku period to its more stable position in the Tokugawa period. In showing how the court adapted and survived, the author examines internal court politics and protocols, external court relations, court finances, court structure, and ceremonial observances. Emperor and courtiers, he concludes, adjusted to the warrior elite, while retaining the ideological advantage bestowed by culture, tradition, and birth.
Hardcover 2002
Europe in the 18th Century
George Rude
Paperback
Exiles at Home
Shirley Elizabeth Thompson
Hardcover 2009
Highbrow/Lowbrow
Lawrence Levine
In this unusually wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century and covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera, and vaudeville, a leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable and dynamic cultural boundaries have been and how fragile and recent the cultural categories we have learned to accept as natural and eternal are.
Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990
The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson) Gaskell
Edited by J. A. V. Chapple
Edited by Arthur Pollard
Hardcover 1966
The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie
Sarah Maza
Who, exactly, were the French bourgeoisie? Unlike the Anglo-Americans, who widely embraced middle-class ideals and values, the French--even the most affluent and conservative--have always rejected and maligned bourgeois values and identity.In this new approach to the old question of the bourgeoisie, Sarah Maza focuses on the crucial period before, during, and after the French Revolution, and offers a provocative answer: the French bourgeoisie has never existed.
Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
Pont-de-Montvert
Patrice Higonnet
In the seventeenth century, both rich and poor of Pont-de-Montvert had their own politics; one century later, the political differences had vanished though the social ones remained. During the nineteenth century, its social structure was transformed, as were its connections with politics. In this book, Higonnet explains these changes and describes the conditions of life for different people at different times in a village that is both a part of France and a world unto itself.
Hardcover 1971
Praying for Power
Timothy Brook
Hardcover
Reluctant Icon
Ann Saab
Hardcover 1991
Unmaking the Public University
Christopher Newfield
Unmaking the Public University is the story of how conservatives have maligned and restructured public universities in a campaign to end public education’s democratizing influence on American society.
Hardcover 2008
The Village of Cannibals
Alain Corbin
Arthur Goldhammer, Translator
In August 1870 in the French village of Hautefaye, a young nobleman, falsely accused of shouting republican slogans, was savagely tortured for hours by a mob of peasants who later burned him alive. The Village of Cannibals is a fascinating inquiry into the social and political ingredients of an alchemy that transformed ordinary people into brutal executioners in nineteenth-century France.
Hardcover 1992 / Paperback