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 | | The Cambridge Illustrated History of France (Cambridge Illustrated Histories) by Colin Jones, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (Foreword) ISBN-10: 9780521432948 ISBN-10: 0-521-43294-4 ISBN-13: 9780521432948 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-43294-8 Hardcover 1995-01-27 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description In a tour de force, Colin Jones gives a gripping, superbly and intelligently illustrated account of the political, social and cultural history of France, placing an innovatory emphasis on the impact of regionalism, class, gender and race in French heritage. Ranging from prehistoric menhirs to the Pompidou Centre, from Louis XIV's Versailles to twentieth-century highrises, from Marie Antoinette to Marie Claire, The Cambridge Illustrated History of France is host to lively and penetrating new insights that take us through the shaping of France from the earliest times to the brink of a new millennium. Combining superb illustration with outstanding scholarship, the diversity of the French heritage--scientific and artistic, national and regional--is explored with an engrossing and accessible style. Special features on places, people and events, a glossary, and a further reading section enhance this engaging book that will appeal to history buffs and students of French history and culture. Colin Jones is also the author of the Longman Companion to the French Revolution and The Cultural Atlas of France. | ||
Book Description In a tour de force, Colin Jones gives a gripping, superbly and intelligently illustrated account of the political, social and cultural history of France, placing an innovatory emphasis on the impact of regionalism, class, gender and race in French heritage. Ranging from prehistoric menhirs to the Pompidou Centre, from Louis XIV's Versailles to twentieth-century high-rises, from Marie Antoinette to Marie Claire--a host of lively and penetrating new insights take us through the shaping of France from the earliest times to the brink of a new millennium. | ||
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Wonderfully readable history of France Context: I'm not an academic or a scholar; I've been to France for several vacations and I'm taking my daughter for the first time this summer. I wanted to know more than the few pages in Fodor's. This books was perfect. It has intertesting illustrations, and is written at a level that a layperson can easily understand. It was engaging to read. I got a lot from it, and if you have an interest in France as a traveller, I imagine it would be time well spent for you as well. | ||
Liberté, Liberté chérie, Reviewing this excellent book on French history for the layperson makes me feel inadequate to the task - it is that good. What can one say about the best, but superlatives. You will want to read this at one sitting, but unless you read very, very fast you must try to pace yourself. It is that engrossing. This is a thorough, but not pedantic, history of the largest country in Europe. From prehistoric times before the end of the last ice age, to the end of the twentieth century, a great people and a beautiful language developed under the anvil of continual challenges. It is true, this is something of a 'coffee table' book; but it is quite meaty. I meant by that gratuitous remark, that it is well illustrated but not in a way that detracts from the excellent text. The author is an expert in his field, be sure of that. Reading this book is a great adventure; you won't think the same about the French nation after this. | ||
entertaining history This is an excellent book for those interested in learning about French history. Very readable, with wonderful illustrations and side pieces. I wish my textbooks had been like this when I was in school! | ||
Pointless! 352 pages of fact after fact without information. You might get the "when" and "what" of France - if even that. But no way will you know "why" or "how" or even care when you're done with this book. I'd burn it but I have to read it for a class. | ||
Just plain horrible This is the only book I have ever returned. Unreadable. | ||