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The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 19471957
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I attended the Golden Age of Couture display at the Victoria & Albert Museum last October. It was sensational, but as I was travelling back to Australia was unable to purchase the book at the time. The book is exquisitely presented and provides images and words to almost transport one there. I highly recommend it to any fashionistas.... »
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
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I've read some great history books before, including 1776 and America's Longest War. But this is the best. It shows in astonishing detail that the greatest errors made in 1919 by President Wilson were not in allowing the British and French to impose overly punitive reparations on Germany (though that is partly true, this familiar thesis is turns out ... »
The Return of Martin Guerre
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This companion volume to the film (it was written as that, expressly) can be read and enjoyed by someone who's never seen that film. That would be me, as it happens. A 16th Century peasant named Martin Guerre abandons his wife and child, and disappears from his home area completely for many years. When a man arrives in their village claimi... »
Security, Territory, Population (Lectures at th
This text is as close as you will get to hearing Foucault's voice (unless of course you listen to bootlegs of his lectures or the cassette tapes at the Ce... »
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
In this sweeping historical narrative, Barbara Tuchman writes of the cataclysmic 14th century, when the energies of medieval Europe were devoted to fight... »
For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, a
Hardly any of us knows Washington and marquis de Lafayette in other than the romantic model of heroes of long, long ago. If one is willing to gaini a more... »
Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Eu
I finished it in three days, it reads like a novel! What a journey, I was absolutely blown away by it. I loved every page of it!... »
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions (Metropoli
Georges Seurat: The Drawings
Parisian painter Georges Seurat (1859-1891) is perhaps best known as the founder of Neo-impressionism (Pointillism). His most famous painting, Sunday Afte... »
Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Ba
Liberty, equality, and fraternity are all well and good, a champion of French culture once remarked. But, he continued, what made France truly superior to... »
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