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  • The First Total War

    Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

    de David A. Bell ...
    "A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel" (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of modern European history, UCLA).The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David A. Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Napoleon

    A Very Short Introduction

    de David A. Bell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction might prove disappointing to those expecting an introduction to a very short man. Dispelling the myth of Napoleon Bonaparte's short stature, as well as the other rumors and legends, David A. Bell provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. This book emphasizes the ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Napoleon: A Concise Biography

    de David A. Bell ...
    This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good and ill--that Napoleon represented. By his late twenties, Napoleon was already one of the greatest generals in European history. At thirty, he had become absolute master ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Men on Horseback

    The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution

    de David A. Bell ...
    An immersive examination of why the age of democratic revolutions was also a time of hero worship and strongmen."In his lucid and bracing history, Bell helps us better understand how [a] charismatic grifter came to occupy the most powerful office in the world . . . Bell's description of our predicament makes for essential reading." — Los Angeles Review of BooksIn Men on Horseback, the Princeton ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • French Revolutionary Lives

    Edición de David A. Bell, Colin Jones ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Historians have long used biography and life narratives as a means of understanding the French Revolution, as classic studies on major figures such as Robespierre and Napoleon attest. At the current moment, however, many of the most creative such studies are focusing on relatively minor revolutionary figures. Such work, which combines the techniques of classic biography and microhistory, reveals ... Leer más

    $125.99 USD

  • The Cult of the Nation in France

    Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800

    de David A. Bell ...
    In a work of lucid prose and striking originality, Bell offers the first comprehensive survey of patriotism and national sentiment in early modern France, and shows how the dialectical relationship between nationalism and religion left a complex legacy that still resonates in debates over French national identity today.Table of Contents:PrefaceIntroduction: Constructing the NationThe National and ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Shadows of Revolution

    Reflections on France, Past and Present

    de David A. Bell ...
    Renowned historian, essayist, and journalist David A. Bell has long made France and its history the subject of his scholarly gaze and the object of his enduring affection. Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present gathers together his writing, composed over a period of more than 25 years, into a single volume. As the title of this collection suggests, Bell views much of French ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Defining the Age

    Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours

    de Paul Starr, Julian E. Zelizer, Jenny Andersson, David A. Bell, Steven Brint, Stefan Eich, Michael Kazin, Jan-Werner Muller, Margaret O'Mara, Fred Turner ...
    The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell’s major books—The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)—became hotly debated frameworks for understanding the era when they ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Staging Civilization

    A Transnational History of French Theater in Eighteenth-Century Europe

    de Rahul Markovits, David A. Bell ...
    Traducido por Jane Marie Todd ...
    Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era’s international scene. Considering the emblematic case of the theater, Rahul Markovits goes beyond the idea of "French Europe" to offer a serious consideration of the intentions and goals of those involved in making this so. Drawing on extensive archival research, Staging Civilization reveals that between ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Defining the Age

    Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours

    de Paul Starr, Julian E. Zelizer, Jenny Andersson, David A. Bell, Steven Brint, Stefan Eich, Michael Kazin, Jan-Werner Muller, Margaret O'Mara, Fred Turner ...
    The sociologist Daniel Bell was an uncommonly acute observer of the structural forces transforming the United States and other advanced societies in the twentieth century. The titles of Bell’s major books—The End of Ideology (1960), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), and The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976)—became hotly debated frameworks for understanding the era when they ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Le culte des chefs

    Charisme et pouvoir à l'époque des révolutions

    de David A. Bell ...
    En Europe comme en Amérique, l’expérience révolutionnaire mena souvent au pouvoir suprême de chefs militaires charismatiques. Pascal Paoli, George Washington, Napoléon Bonaparte, Toussaint Louverture, Simon Bolívar suscitèrent tous en leur temps l’enthousiasme des populations, au point de s’imposer à la tête de leurs pays.En faisant résonner ces destins hors du commun, David A. Bell révèle combien ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Napoleon: A Concise Biography

    de David A. Bell ...
    This book provides a concise, accurate, and lively portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte's character and career, situating him firmly in historical context. David Bell emphasizes the astonishing sense of human possibility--for both good and ill--that Napoleon represented. By his late twenties, Napoleon was already one of the greatest generals in European history. At thirty, he had become absolute master ... Leer más

    $13.29 USD