Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “philip boucher”
Skip side bar filters

  • France and the American Tropics to 1700

    Tropics of Discontent?

    by Philip P. Boucher ...
    "An important addition to the literature on Caribbean history and colonial societies in the 17th century." — ChoiceTraditionally, the story of the Greater Caribbean has been dominated by the narrative of Iberian hegemony, British colonization, the plantation regime, and the Haitian Revolution of the eighteenth century. Relatively little is known about the society and culture of this region—and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cannibal Encounters

    Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492–1763

    by Philip P. Boucher ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture
    A history and analysis of European colonizers' relationship with and literary depiction of the aborigines of the Lesser Antilles.Philip Boucher analyzes the images—and the realities—of European relations with the people known as Island Caribs during the first three centuries after Columbus. Based on literary sources, travelers' observations, and missionary accounts, as well as on French and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shaping of the French Colonial Empire

    A Bio-Bibliography of the Careers of Richelieu, Fouquet, and Colbert

    by Philip P. Boucher ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: World Empires
    This bio-bibliography, first published in 1985, of the colonial "ministries" of Cardinal Richelieu, Nicholas Fouquet and Jean-Baptiste Colbert examines the primary and secondary sources available for a re-evaluation of the formative era of the French overseas empire. This volume will be of great interest to students of history and imperialism. ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Low-Carbon Energy Controversies

    Edited by Thomas Roberts, Paul Upham, Sarah Mander, Clair Gough, Philip Boucher, Dana Abi Ghanem, Carly McLachlan ...
    Governments, big business and communities are coming under increased pressure to develop low carbon energy supply technologies. Within the context of the climate change debate a delicate balance has to be reached between local environmental protection and our need for reliable low carbon energy.This books brings together ten years of research conducted by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change ... Read more

    $317.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The French Revolution in Global Perspective

    Edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson ...
    The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms—at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing—were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.Believe iSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A Companion to the French Revolution

    Edited by Peter McPhee ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to European History
    A Companion to the French Revolution comprises twenty-nine newly-written essays reassessing the origins, development, and impact of this great turning-point in modern history.Examines the origins, development and impact of the French RevolutionFeatures original contributions from leading historians, including six essays translated from French.Presents a wide-ranging overview of current historical ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • A Social History of the French Revolution

    by Norman Hampson ...
    The revolutionary movement which began in 1787 disrupted every aspect of French society, rising to a pitch of such extreme violence that the effects are still felt in France today. The Revolution was the product of social tensions that developed throughout France in the second half of the eighteenth century. Norman Hampson analyses the nature of these social conflicts within their political ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution

    by Olwen Hufton ...
    Series series Heritage
    The French masses overwhelmingly supported the Revolution in 1789. Economic hardship, hunger, and debt combined to put them solidly behind the leaders. But between the people's expectations and the politicians' interpretation of what was needed to construct a new state lay a vast chasm. Olwen H. Hufton explores the responses of two groups of working women – those in rural areas and those in Paris ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Madeleine's Children

    Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies

    by Sue Peabody ...
    Madeleine's Children uncovers a multigenerational saga of an enslaved family in India and two islands, Réunion and Mauritius, in the eastern empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A tale of legal intrigue, it reveals the lives and secret relationships between slaves and free people that have remained obscure for two centuries. As a child, Madeleine was pawned ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • From Artisan to Worker

    Guilds, the French State, and the Organization of Labor, 1776–1821

    by Michael P. Fitzsimmons ...
    From Artisan to Worker examines the largely overlooked debate over the potential reestablishment of guilds that occurred from 1776 to 1821. The abolition of guilds in 1791 overturned an organization of labor that had been in place for centuries. The disorder that ensued - from concerns about the safety of the food supply to a general decline in the quality of goods - raised strong doubts about ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • A Colony of Citizens

    Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804

    by Laurent Dubois ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean. Dubois examines this Caribbean revolution by focusing on Guadeloupe, where, in the early 1790s, insurgents on the island fought for equality and freedom and formed alliances with besieged ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Economic Sophisms and “What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen”

    by Frédéric Bastiat ...
    Series Book 3 - The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat
    This volume, the third in our Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat, includes two of Bastiat’s best-known works, the collected Economic Sophisms and the pamphlet What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen. We are publishing here for the first time in English the Third Series of Economic Sophisms, which Bastiat had planned but died before he could complete the project.Both Economic Sophisms and What Is Seen ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD