Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life
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For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary...
Germaine de Stael: A Political Portrait
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Germaine de Stael (1766-1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and...
Passion, Wit and Politics: Fanny Burney and Mme de Stael
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Frances Burney, known as Fanny and Anne Louise Germaine Necker were born in England and France...
Daniel O'Connell: A Graphic Life: 2016
Jody Moylan and Mateusz Nowakowski
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Daniel O'Connell - 'The Liberator' - lived a big, great and graphic life. Born in Kerry in 1775, he...
Sewing, Fighting and Writing: Radical Practices in Work, Politics and Culture
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Paris, along with New York, was one of the main centres of the fashion industry in the nineteenth...
Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion, and Secularism in Quebec
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Through much of its existence, Quebec's neighbors called it the "priest-ridden province." Today,...
Anthology
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"I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great...
Portraits of the Insane: Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy
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In the early 1820s, in the gloomy aftermath of the 1789 Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, the...
The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy Over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate Between Religion and Science
Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz
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The Dendera zodiac--an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling adorned with mysterious symbols of the...
Just Property: Volume Two: Enlightenment, Revolution, and History
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Property remains the bedrock of the societies we all inhabit. It underpins our core institutions -...