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  • Women and Business since 1500

    Invisible Presences in Europe and North America?

    de Béatrice Craig ...
    Series series Gender and History
    This volume surveys the role women have played in various types of business as owners, co-owners and decision-making managers in European and North American societies since the sixteenth century. Drawing on up-to-date scholarship, it identifies the economic, social, legal and cultural factors that have facilitated or restricted women's participation in business. It pays particular attention to the ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Female Enterprise Behind the Discursive Veil in Nineteenth-Century Northern France

    de Béatrice Craig ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume explores the role of women in business in nineteenth-century Northern French textile centers. Lille and the surrounding towns were then dominated by big and small family businesses, and many were run by women. Those women did not withdraw into the parlour as the century progressed and the ‘separate ideology’ spread. Neither did they become mere figure heads - most were business persons ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists

    The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada

    de Beatrice Craig ...
    In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper St. John River in an area known as the Madawaska Territory. This newly created economy was visibly part of the Atlantic capitalist system yet different in several major ways.In Backwoods ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

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  • The Bonjour Effect

    The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed

    de Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau ...
    Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Paris Reborn

    Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Quest to Build a Modern City

    de Stephane Kirkland ...
    A "wide-ranging and readable history" of Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and one of the greatest transformations of a major city in modern history ( The New Yorker ).Traditionally known as a dirty, congested, and dangerous city, 19th-century Paris, France was transformed in an extraordinary period from 1848 to 1870, when the government launched a huge campaign to build streets, squares, parks, ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • Au Contraire!

    Figuring Out the French

    de Gilles Asselin, Ruth Mastron ...
    "I find Au Contraire! delightfully validating - a great piece of work." - Nancy Bragard, Franco-American interculturalist, trainer and coachThe French are famously enigmatic: fiercely independent yet deeply romantic,conservative yet avant-garde, rational yet emotional. What is it, exactly, that makes the French so . . . French?Written for anyone interacting with the French-tourists, businesspeople ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Social Structures of the Economy

    de Pierre Bourdieu ...
    Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions corresponding to them, and so on. But one has only to examine an economic transaction closely, as Pierre Bourdieu does here for the buying and selling of ... Leer más

    $23.00 USD

  • Along a River

    The First French-Canadian Women

    de Jan Noel ...
    French-Canadian explorers, traders, and soldiers feature prominently in this country's storytelling, but little has been written about their female counterparts. In Along a River, award-winning historian Jan Noel shines a light on the lives of remarkable French-Canadian women — immigrant brides, nuns, tradeswomen, farmers, governors' wives, and even smugglers — during the period between the ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Erotic Exchanges

    The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris

    de Nina Kushner ...
    Nina Kushner's Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris brings to life a vibrant but relatively unknown part of early modern urban life, the world of the demimonde, the quasi-respectable underworld, with its elite prostitutes, wealthy patrons, and juicy scandals.... Kushner reveals the complexity and influence of this corner of Parisian social and cultural life ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • An Infinite History

    The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries

    de Emma Rothschild ...
    An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generationsMarie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record through two documents: a power of ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • Selling Beauty

    Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society, 1750–1830

    de Morag Martin ...
    Series series The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    An "enjoyable" history of the French cosmetic industry and the evolution of beauty standards and commercial culture during a revolutionary era ( European History Quarterly).As the French citizenry rebelled against the excesses of the aristocracy, there was a parallel shift in consumer beauty practices. Powdered wigs, alabaster white skin, and rouged cheeks disappeared in favor of a more natural ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • French Management

    Elitism in Action

    de Jean-Louis Barsoux, Peter Lawrence ...
    This fascinating book is an account of management in the contemporary French business world. The formal nature of work relations and the rituals of French business life are analyzed and set against the role of senior executives, and the book looks at the corporate culture of four leading, but very different companies* Michelin* L'Air Liquide* L'Oreal* Carrefour.Also included is an examination of ... Leer más

    $132.99 USD