4025 results for '"Pierre Destrée (Editor)'

Tous deux Atheniens et disciples de Socrate, Platon et Xenophon appartiennent a la meme generation aristocratique qui, a la fin du Ve siecle, subit la defaite de la guerre du Peloponnese et les...

In this collection of provocative essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality, on the study of classics. Foucault's famous...

Presenting the first continental-scale assessment of reactive nitrogen in the environment, this book sets the related environmental problems in context by providing a multidisciplinary introduction...

Full of gripping historical vignettes and evocative photographs, an accessible overview of the dynamic figures who resisted colonization, from India, Senegal, and Algeria to Vietnam, Kenya, and Congo...

Text: French

Recounts major highlights in the two centuries of French-Jewish history separating the French Revolution and the desecration of the cemetery at Carpentras in 1990. Utilizing an interpretive rather...

C'est le premier ouvrage collectif sur le sport pendant cette période de notre histoire nationale. Les sports et les sportifs ont-ils échappé à l'oppression allemande que ce soit en zone libre ou...

Text: French

Text: French

The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur photographers - the family snapshots, the holiday prints, the wedding portraits - may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal activity...

This book brings together a group of leading economic historians to examine how institutions, innovation, and industrialization have determined the development of nations. Presented in honor of Joel...

The National Book Award winner from Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg is now celebrating its 40th anniversary. The talents he nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest...

Text: French, Greek

Shows and describes toy trains from 1840 to 1955, looks at stylistic and technological changes, and describes major manufacturers