Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America

Alexis De Tocqueville

• Hardcover | Engels
• Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocrat of twenty-five, worried deeply about the future of France as well as his own fate in his native country, whi... Lees meer

The Sociology of the State

Bertrand Badie

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Original Paperbacks
• Too often we think of the modern political state as a universal institution, the inevitable product of History rather than a specific creation of a ve... Lees meer

Chagas Disease

François Delaporte

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• François Delaporte's Chagas Disease chronicles Brazilian medicine's encounter with a disease, an insect, and a history of discovery. Between 1909 and ... Lees meer

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty

• Hardcover | Engels
• A New York Times #1 Bestseller An Amazon #1 Bestseller A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Sunday Times Bestseller A Guardian... Lees meer

Quantitative Methods in the Humanities

Claire Lemercier, Claire Zalc

• Hardcover | Engels
• This timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical periods and topics in the humanities and social sciences--... Lees meer

A Vital Rationalist

Georges Canguilhem

• Paperback | Engels | A Vital Rationalist
• Georges Canguilhem is one of France's leading philosophers and historians of science. Trained as both a medical doctor and a philosopher, Canguilhem o... Lees meer

The Kill

Emile Zola

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Library Classics
• Here is a true publishing event-the first modern translation of a lost masterpiece by one of fiction's giants. Censored upon publication in 1871, out ... Lees meer

A Tale of Ritual Murder in the Age of Louis XIV

Pierre Birnbaum

• Hardcover | Engels | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
• In the late seventeenth century, France prided itself for its rationality and scientific achievements. Yet it was then that Raphaël Lévy, a French Jew... Lees meer

Montaigne in Motion

Jean Starobinski

• Paperback | Engels
• Educated in the humanities and trained in psychiatry, Jean Starobinski is a central figure in the Geneva School of criticism. His classic work, Montai... Lees meer

Democracy in America: The Arthur Goldhammer Translation, Volume Two

Alexis de Tocqueville

• Paperback | Engels
• Democracy in America is arguably the most perceptive and influential book ever written about American politics and society. The Library of America now... Lees meer

History of Women in the West

• Paperback | Engels | History of Women in the West | nr. 3
• Volume III of A History of Women draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in a context of work, marriage, and... Lees meer

The Village of Cannibals

Alain Corbin

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Cultural History
• In August 1870, during a fair in the isolated French village of Hautefaye, a gruesome murder was committed in broad daylight that aroused the indignat... Lees meer

Tocqueville

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
• This new translation of an undisputed classic aims to be both accurate and readable. Tocqueville's subtlety of style and profundity of thought offer a... Lees meer

The Demands of Liberty

Pierre Rosanvallon

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard Historical Studies
• Arguing that the French have cherished and demonized Jacobinism at the same time—their hearts following Robespierre, but their heads turning toward Be... Lees meer

History of Private Life, Volume IV: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War

Michelle Perrot

• Hardcover | Engels | History of Private Life (Hardcover) | nr. 4
• The 19th century was the golden age of private life, a time when supreme individual and existential values emerged. The fourth book in this popular se... Lees meer

History of Women in the West

• Paperback | Engels | History of Women in the West | nr. 2
• Drawing on myriad sources--from the faint traces left by the rocking of a cradle at the site of an early medieval home to an antique illustration of E... Lees meer

Realms of Memory

• Hardcover | Engels | European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• This text is the second of three volumes looking at the history of France. This volume examines how and why events and figures become part of a people... Lees meer

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty

• Paperback | Engels
• Translation of the author's Le capital au XXIe siaecle. Lees meer

Counter-Democracy

Pierre Rosanvallon, Arthur Goldhammer

• Hardcover | Engels | Seeley Lectures | nr. 7
• Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the... Lees meer

In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way

Marcel Proust

• Paperback | Engels
• With its sweeping digressions into the past and reflections on the nature of memory, Proust's oceanic novel In Search of Lost Time looms over twentiet... Lees meer

Neoconservatism

Justin Vaisse

• Paperback | Engels
• Neoconservatism has undergone a transformation that has made a clear identity almost impossible to capture. This title gives neoconservatism its due a... Lees meer

Gold and Freedom

Nicolas Barreyre

• Hardcover | Engels | Nation Divided
• Historians have long treated Reconstruction primarily as a southern concern isolated from broader national political developments. Yet at its core, Re... Lees meer

Inscription and Erasure

Roger Chartier

• Paperback | Engels | Material Texts
• The fear of oblivion obsessed medieval and early modern Europe. Stone, wood, cloth, parchment, and paper all provided media onto which writing was ins... Lees meer

Realms of Memory

• Hardcover | Engels | European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Archives, monuments, celebrations: there are not merely the recollections of memory but also the foundations of history. Symbols, the third and final ... Lees meer