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Robert Gildea presents an ambitious and wide-ranging but succinct history of France from 1945 to 2024, which seeks to provide a sympathetic understanding of the forces that have shaped a country that is so close to Britain and yet so different. This third edition,...
'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of decolonisation and neo-colonialism which have shaped the postwar...
By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves. This new and exciting study of "Europe's...
Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumultuous century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the French...
This is a comprehensive survey of European history from the coup d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte in France to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo, which led to the First World War. It concentrates on the twin themes of revolution and nationalism, which...
The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy, searching for a stable political system. It has also been a time of anxiety and doubt.The French have had to come to terms...
Phénomène protéiforme, les Empires français et britannique furent d’abord « informels », puis la course à l’empire à la fin du XIXe siècle établit des gouvernements directs. Après la poussée décolonisatrice des années 1960, les leviers de la puissance restèrent souvent...
Une histoire humaine plus que politique de la Résistance, par un grand professeur d'Oxford. Une histoire humaine plus que politique de la Résistance, par un grand professeur d'Oxford. Un regard historique inédit : Le livre est le fruit de plusieurs dizaines d'années de...
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