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The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon

The New Penguin History of France

Author: Colin Jones  

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Designed to replace Alfred Cobban's old history of 18th century France which sold well over 150,000 copies in Pelican/Penguin

There can be few more mesmerizing historical narratives than the story of how the confident monarchy left by Louis XIV in 1715 became the discredited failure toppled by revolution in 1789. This brilliant new book is the first in forty years to describe the whole period, from the last days of the aSun Kinga to the wars of Napoleon. In a groundbreaking work of scholarship, Colin Jones argues that, contrary to popular belief, the house of Bourbonas downfall was hardly a foregone conclusion. Producing an illuminating account of a society torn apart from within, he recounts the saga of how a dynamic French societyathe heart of the Enlighten-mentafell prey to the debt and humiliation of its wars against Britain.

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Designed to replace Alfred Cobban's old history of 18th century France which sold well over 150,000 copies in Pelican/Penguin

There can be few more mesmerizing historical narratives than the story of how the confident monarchy left by Louis XIV in 1715 became the discredited failure toppled by revolution in 1789. This brilliant new book is the first in forty years to describe the whole period, from the last days of the aSun Kinga to the wars of Napoleon. In a groundbreaking work of scholarship, Colin Jones argues that, contrary to popular belief, the house of Bourbonas downfall was hardly a foregone conclusion. Producing an illuminating account of a society torn apart from within, he recounts the saga of how a dynamic French societyathe heart of the Enlighten-mentafell prey to the debt and humiliation of its wars against Britain.

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There can be few more mesmerizing historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, "the Sun King", left to his successors in 1715 became the discredited, debt-ridden failure toppled by Revolution in 1789. The further story of the bloody unravelling of the Revolution until its seizure by Napoleon is equally astounding. This work describes the whole period. Jones' key point in this narrative is that France was not doomed to Revolution and that the "ancien regime" did remain dynamic and innovatory, twisting and turning until finally stoven in by the intolerable costs and humiliation of its wars with Britain.

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Critic Reviews

““The fullest and most reliable history we have of eighteenth-century France.” (William Doyle, Independent ) “This is a work that merits the French designation magistral: masterly and authoritative.” (Robin Buss, Financial Times )”

"The fullest and most reliable history we have of eighteenth-century France." --William Doyle, Independent"This is a work that merits the French designation magistral: masterly and authoritative." --Robin Buss, Financial Times

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About the Author

Colin Jones is Professor of History at the University of Warwick and is now writing PARIS: A HISTORY for Allen Lane.

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This book introduces the reader to modern algebraic geometry. It presents Grothendieck's technically demanding language of schemes that is the basis of the most important developments in the last fifty years within this area. A systematic treatment and motivation of the theory is emphasized, using concrete examples to illustrate its usefulness. Several examples from the realm of Hilbert modular surfaces and of determinantal varieties are used methodically to discuss the covered techniques. Thus the reader experiences that the further development of the theory yields an ever better understanding of these fascinating objects. The text is complemented by many exercises that serve to check the comprehension of the text, treat further examples, or give an outlook on further results. The volume at hand is an introduction to schemes. To get startet, it requires only basic knowledge in abstract algebra and topology. Essential facts from commutative algebra are assembled in an appendix. It will be complemented by a second volume on the cohomology of schemes. Prevarieties - Spectrum of a Ring - Schemes - Fiber products - Schemes over fields - Local properties of schemes - Quasi-coherent modules - Representable functors - Separated morphisms - Finiteness Conditions - Vector bundles - Affine and proper morphisms - Projective morphisms - Flat morphisms and dimension - One-dimensional schemes - Examples Prof. Dr. Ulrich G

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books | Penguin Books Ltd
Published
31st December 2003
Edition
1st
Pages
688
ISBN
9780140130935

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