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pro vyhledávání: '"Mornand, Félix"'
Autor:
Keith Reader
A cultural history of one of Paris's most fascinating and variegated areas, whose history can be summarized as ‘from riches to rags and back again.'The Marais was the beating heart of fashionable Paris from the Middle Ages through to the time of Lo
Autor:
Judith Surkis
This is a masterful study of the ways in which sex and law were inextricably intertwined in the elaboration of French rule in Algeria. Its great virtue is to demonstrate in careful detail, with an impressive range of material (from court records to n
Autor:
Jennifer E. Sessions
In 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. Victory did not salvage his regime from revolution, but it began the French conquest of Algeria, which was continued and consolidated by the succee
Autor:
Peter Scholliers
For a long time, everything revolved around bread. Providing more than half of people's daily calories, bread was the life-source of Europe for centuries. In the middle of 19th century, a third of household expenditure was spent on bread. Why, then,
Autor:
Claude Lecouteux
• Explores the schools of Solomonic magic around the world and works such as The Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon the King and The Hygromancy of Solomon • Examines Solomon's magical possessions, including his famous ring that gave him command o
Autor:
Janell Watson
This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming, classifying and describing the curiosities, antiques and objets d'art that proliferated in French literary texts during the last decades of the nineteenth century. After Balzac made such issues
Autor:
Christopher Fletcher
Everyday Political Objects examines a series of historical case studies across a very broad timescale, using objects as a means to develop different approaches to understanding politics where both internal and external definitions of the political pr