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Paris Between Empires

Monarchy and Revolution 1814-1852

By: Philip Mansel

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Paris Between Empires

Monarchy and Revolution 1814-1852

By: Philip Mansel

Paris between 1814 and 1852 was the capital of Europe, a city of power and pleasure, a magnet for people of all nationalities that exerted an influence far beyond the reaches of France. Paris was the stage where the great conflicts of the age, between nationalism and cosmopolitanism, revolution and royalism, socialism and capitalism, atheism and Catholicism, were fought out before the audience of Europe. As Prince Metternich said: When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold. Not since imperial Rome has one city so dominated European life. Paris Between Empires tells the story of this golden age, from the entry of the allies into Paris on March 31, 1814, after the defeat of Napoleon I, to the proclamation of his nephew Louis-Napoleon, as Napoleon III in the Hôtel de Ville on December 2, 1852. During those years, Paris, the seat of a new parliamentary government, was a truly cosmopolitan capital, home to Rossini, Heine, and Princess Lieven, as well as Berlioz, Chateaubriand, and Madame Recamier. Its salons were crowded with artisans and aristocrats from across Europe, attracted by the freedom from the political, social, and sexual restrictions that they endured at home. This was a time, too, of political turbulence and dynastic intrigue, of violence on the streets, and women manipulating men and events from their salons. In describing it Philip Mansel draws on the unpublished letters and diaries of some of the city's leading figures and of the foreigners who flocked there, among them Lady Holland, two British ambassadors, Lords Stuart de Rothesay and Normanby, and Charles de Flahaut, lover of Napoleon's step-daughter Queen Hortense. This fascinating book shows that the European ideal was as alive in the nineteenth century as it is today.

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832

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St. Martin's Press

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146686690X

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9781466866904

Tarot de Paris

By: J. Phillip Thomas,J. Philip Thomas

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Tarot de Paris

By: J. Phillip Thomas,J. Philip Thomas

The extraordinary power and intensity of Tarot de Paris reflects the energy and inspiration of its creator, J. Philip Thomas, over a period of 20 years. The result is a deck of 78 breathtaking images incorporating a dazzling array of classic and contemporary art and architecture from what is arguably the world's most beautiful city. The 22 Major Arcana cards portray the stages of the Fool's journey, and the four suits of the Minor Arcana are expressed as their elements of Fire, Air, Water and Matter. With a fully illustrated book detailing each card and offer a number of new readings devised just for this set, along with a stunning silk cloth for laying out the cards, Tarot de Paris is a revelatory experience.

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166

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Macmillan

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0312304226

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9780312304225

Iran at the Paris Peace Conference

International Diplomacy and the Pursuit of Imperial Nationalism

By: Philip Grobien

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Iran at the Paris Peace Conference

International Diplomacy and the Pursuit of Imperial Nationalism

By: Philip Grobien

The end of the Qajar era in Iran, despite the accepted narrative of decline, was in fact an occasion of modern and forward-thinking nationalism. Iran developed an imperial nationalism, which was informed by its experiences under British and Russian hegemony and the absorption of Western modern ideas and practices, and which now looked towards a future as a sovereign and independent state within the foundational framework of its previous Empire. Emboldened by post-WWI notions of self-determination and the development of international institutions devoted to peace, Iran spearheaded its new-found diplomacy by sending a delegation to the peace talks in Paris in 1919. This book shows how Iran's immediate post-war diplomacy came about, the conduct of Iran's delegation to Paris, frustrations with the Anglo-Persian Agreement, and ultimately how Iran's progress became the victim of British imperialism. Throwing a spotlight on an under-researched period of Iranian history, it will be of interest to readers of Iranian history, and those interested in the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0755651871

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9780755651870

From Appomattox to Montmartre

Americans and the Paris Commune

By: Philip Mark Katz

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From Appomattox to Montmartre

Americans and the Paris Commune

By: Philip Mark Katz

The American Civil War and the Paris Commune of 1871, Philip Katz argues, were part of the broader sweep of transatlantic development in the mid-nineteenth century--an age of democratic civil wars. Katz shows how American political culture in the period that followed the Paris Commune was shaped by that event. The telegraph, the new Atlantic cable, and the news-gathering experience gained in the Civil War transformed the Paris Commune into an American national event. News from Europe arrived in fragments, however, and was rarely cohesive and often contradictory. Americans were forced to assimilate the foreign events into familiar domestic patterns, most notably the Civil War. Two ways of Americanizing the Commune emerged: descriptive (recasting events in American terms in order to better understand them) and predictive (preoccupation with whether Parisian unrest might reproduce itself in the United States). By 1877, the Commune became a symbol for the domestic labor unrest that culminated in the Great Railroad Strike of that year. As more powerful local models of social unrest emerged, however, the Commune slowly disappeared as an active force in American culture.

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Harvard University Press

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0674323483

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Paris Between Empires

Paris Between Empires

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Tarot de Paris

Iran at the Paris Peace Conference

Iran at the Paris Peace Conference

From Appomattox to Montmartre

From Appomattox to Montmartre

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