To answer this question, Gabrielle Hecht has forged an innovative combination of technology studies and cultural and political history in a book that, as Michel Callon writes in the new foreword to this edition, “not only sheds new light ...

Reliable, informed and exceptionally good-looking, The Rough Guide to France is your vital travelling companion. Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to France.

From the French Revolution―after which neither France nor the world would be the same again―to the storming of the Bastille, from the Vichy regime and the Resistance to the end of the Second World War, A History of France is packed with ...

This famous work has a long-established reputation as a clear, accessible and authoratative account of this fascinating period.

The book introduces social and economic change as well as cultural developments and French overseas expansion.

This fascinating study looks at representations of contemporary warfare in postrevolutionary France and explores the important role these immensely popular images played in reshaping understandings of conflict and national collectivity.

Describes the history, geography, government, economy, people, and culture of France.

The newspaper press was an essential aspect of the political culture of the French Revolution. Revolutionary News highlights the most significant features of this press in clear and vivid language.

This book reviews the substantial changes that occurred in France during the period in which a left wing president and government controlled the nation's destiny.

In this 1994 book, Xavier de Planhol and Paul Claval, two of France's leading scholars in the field, trace the historical geography of their country from its roots in the Roman province of Gaul to the 1990s.