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  • REVOLUTION AND REACTION
    ROGER PRICE
    This book, first published in 1975, examines the events of the French Second Republic, the themes of protest and repression in particular. It analyses how popular discontent is mobilised and becomes political protest and revolution, and how the machinery of government operates in a crisis situation. ...

    $960.00

  • THE ECONOMIC MODERNISATION OF FRANCE
    ROGER PRICE
    First published in 1975, The Economic Modernisation of France presents the study of economic developments in France between 1730 and 1880. This period is conceived as one of growth in production within pre-industrial economic structures, succeeded from 1840-50 by rapid structural transformation and the creation of an industrial economy. Divided into four major parts it discusse...

    $860.00

  • A SOCIAL HISTORY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
    ROGER PRICE
    First published in 1987, A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France argues that the social impact of the French Revolution has been greatly exaggerated, and that in 1815 France was still predominantly a rural and pre-industrial society. The revolution introduced only very limited changes in social structures and relationships – the daily lives of ordinary people remained vir...

    $960.00

  • THE MODERNIZATION OF RURAL FRANCE
    ROGER PRICE
    This book, first published in 1983, is a major contribution to our understanding of how and why French rural peasant society became modernised by radical changes in the communications system – in particular, the coming of the railways. The author argues that complex changes in the transport systems, and their effects on agricultural market structures, finally brought traditiona...

    $1,560.00

  • NAPOLEON III AND THE SECOND EMPIRE
    ROGER D. PRICE
    In Napoleon III and the Second Empire, Roger D. Price considers the mid-century crisis which provided Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte with the opportunity to gain elective office as President. The author outlines the objectives of Napoleon III and provides: * A historiographical review of the ruler and his regime * Details of changing historical attitudes to the period * A survey of N...

    $1,120.00

  • WHEN JUDAISM MEETS SCIENCE
    ROGER L. PRICE
    This book seeks to confront the challenge that science presents to the traditional pillars of Judaism. It identifies and analyzes a wide variety of issues, including some contemporary sacred cows. First, the book considers what is fact and what is fiction in the primary stories contained in Judaism's foundational texts. Then, drawing on Jewish ethical teachings, it seeks to det...

    $763.00