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This comprehensive and readable history of contemporary France sets the changing fortunes of government and people in a broad, international context. Larkin details the evolution of French political...

An engaging exploration of the relationship between avant-garde art and American network television from the 1940s through the 1970s The aesthetics and concepts of modern art have influenced...

This book, an important reference work, discusses the publication, dissemination, and official reception of the entire corpus of Western writing in post-Stalin Russia, especially n the decade 1954-64.

In this broad-ranging exploration of the nature of comedy Professor Charney considers its popular roots as well as the major issues in comic theory.

Spartan Law byDM MacDowell

“An enthralling tale of a secret resistance movement run by Black women in pre-Civil War New Orleans.”—Time“Stirring . . . In telling this important, neglected history with imagination-fueled...

One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome. The city's most notorious astrologer--Orazio Morandi, abbot of the monastery of Santa Prassede--was brought before the governor's court...

En 1981, Maurice Papon, ancien préfet de police de Paris, ancien ministre de la Ve République, est l’objet d’une plainte pour crimes contre l’humanité. Sabatier, Leguay inculpé, qui aura à répondre...