Perrin, 2012. 201 p. ISBN10: 2262038279 ISBN13: 978-2262038274. OCR. Peut-on laisser tout dire, tout écrire au prétexte que la « grande » histoire serait parfois trop complexe, ou pas assez « folklorique » ? En quelques chapitres courts, incisifs, Colette Beaune bat en brèche tous les lieux communs qui circulent encore aujourd’hui sur la plus célèbre de nos grandes figures...
Perrin, 2012. 201 p. ISBN10: 2262038279 ISBN13: 978-2262038274. Peut-on laisser tout dire, tout écrire au prétexte que la « grande » histoire serait parfois trop complexe, ou pas assez « folklorique » ? En quelques chapitres courts, incisifs, Colette Beaune bat en brèche tous les lieux communs qui circulent encore aujourd’hui sur la plus célèbre de nos grandes figures...
Tempus Perrin, 2013. — 240 p. 2012 a marqué le 600e anniversaire de la naissance de Jeanne d'Arc. Née le 6 janvier 1412, elle connaît un destin extraordinaire et inimaginable pour une jeune paysanne. Dans un court ouvrage, la médiéviste qui est aussi la meilleure spécialiste de Jeanne d'Arc bat en brèche tous les lieux communs qui circulent encore aujourd'hui sur l'une des plus...
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim., 1897. — 126 p. The love story of Ferdinand Lassalle and Helene von Donniges constitutes a tragedy which is worthy of being made known to the whole world, on account of its intensely interesting details, and also because of the moral lessons which it enforces and illustrates. Most of the actors in that exciting drama have passed off the...
Verso, 2015. — 220 p. A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself heard in a world inimical to the voices of strong-willed women. She overcame physical infirmity and the prejudice she faced as a Jew to become an active revolutionary whose...
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 64 p. — ISBN10: 1849083215 ISBN13: 9781849083218. This book looks closely at the life, military experiences and key battlefield exploits of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Born on July 4, 1807 in the city of Nice, the turning point in his life occurred in April 1833 when he met Giovanni Battista Cuneo, a member of the secret movement known as "Young Italy."...
Rizzoli, 1963. 596 pagine. Giuseppe Garibaldi, figura storica del Risorgimento italiano, incarna l'orgoglio di appartenere a una patria e la convinzione di essere allo stesso tempo "cittadino del mondo". Paladino della libertà, da difendere con tutte le forze, acerrimo nemico delle manovre sotterranee e dei giochi dei politici di professione, l'eroe dei due mondi è diventato...
Winnipeg, Canada: Echo Books, 1970. — 133 p. Few cemeteries in the world have as diverse occupants as the cemetery Pere-Lachaise, in Paris. Here are found the tombs of Heloise and Abelard, Moliere, Balzac, Chopin and Sarah Bernhardt. It was on this cemetery that the Paris Commune of 1871 made its last stand, that thousands of the communards met their death and were interred....
Yale University Press, 2008. — 496 p. Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success. For thirty years Garibaldi was involved in every combative event in Italy. His...
Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2014. — 637 p.: ill. "The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist" is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Bandera and the first in-depth study of his political cult. In this fascinating book, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe illuminates the life of a mythologized personality and scrutinizes the...
[location not given] : We Cant Be Beat LLC, 2016. — 162 p. Joan of Arc--Her very name inspires a sense of heroism and bravery. But the story of one of Europe’s most valiant soldiers is plagued with intrigue and deception, and the brightness of her character obscured by charges of witchcraft and more. How did a peasant girl wind up leading a revolution? How did an illiterate pen...
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1950. — 327 p. Prefase A Child of War Paris, the Crucible of Revolution Carrying the Torch to Switzerland Weitling's "System" A Martyr's Crown A London Interlude Weitling and Marx The German Revolution of 1848-49 A Radical Journalist in America On Tour for the Cause The Workingmen's League Banks, Co-operatives, and Railroads...
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