France: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present

This accessibly written reference for students and general readers contains alphabetically arranged entries on important people, events, and places in French history from the Renaissance to the present. A sampling of topics includes Leon Blum, the Crimean War, the French Resistance, Huguenots, mile Zola, and the Treaty of Aix-la- Chapelle. The volume also features a short historical narrative by Roberts (history, Fairleigh Dickinson U.), maps, and a chronology of events.

Searching for Cioran

Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's critical biography of the Romanian-born French philosopher E. M. Cioran focuses on his crucial formative years as a mystical revolutionary attracted to right-wing nationalist politics in interwar Romania, his writings of this period, and his self-imposed exile to France in 1937. This move led to his transformation into one of the most famous French moralists of the 20th century. As an enthusiast of the anti-rationalist philosophies widely popular in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century, Cioran became an advocate of the fascistic Iron Guard.

Superior Rendezvous-Place: Fort William in the Canadian Fur Trade

Jean Morrison has written a fascinating and important book, full of drama and colourful historical figures. Rare paintings, drawings, maps and archival photographs complement her impeccable research and lively text. Superior Rendezvous-Place encompasses the French predecessors of Fort William, Native Peoples of the time and the evolution of the fur trade, with an emphasis on the North West Company era.
 

French Religious Wars 1562 - 98

The eight French Wars of Religion began in 1562 and lasted for 36 years. Although the wars were fought between Catholics and Protestants, this books draws out in full the equally important struggle for power between the king and the leading nobles, and the rivalry between the nobles themselves as they vied for control of the king. In a time when human life counted for little, the destruction reached its height in the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre when up to 10,000 Protestants lost their lives.

The English Civil War Recreated in Colour Photographs

In some 170 color photographs, this book brings to life the armies of Prussia and Austria, the King's German Legion, Brunswick and Saxony, as they have appeared at commemorations of the great battles of Jena and Wagram, Leipzig and Waterloo. As a bonus for modellers, wargamers, re-enactors and other students of these legendary campaigns, the authors include a selection of stunning photos of recreated British and French foot, horse and guns which have taken part in recent Continental battle re-enactments.