San Antonio College Library

Presents a historical dictionary of the European country with entries on the important events in its history, institutions, political and social figures, a chronology, a list of rulers, and a collection of maps.

"Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual history and a bracing treatise on how we should understand and experience our lives. In it, one of Europe's most prominent intellectuals explores the foundations, limits, and possibilities of humanist thinking. Through his critical but sympathetic excavation of humanism, Tzvetan Todorov seeks an answer to modernity's fundamental challenge: how to maintain our hard-won liberty without paying too...

An introduction to the history of France, discussing its leaders, revolutions, artists and more.

This is the first study in English of a most fruitful half-century of music - that between 1869 and 1924. The composers who emerged between the death of Berlioz and the death of Faure include Gounod, Saint-Saens, Bizet, Massenet, Franck, Chabrier, d'Indy, Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Schmitt, Roussel, Milhaud, and Poulenc. The qualities of French music, as of French art, are those of logic, clarity, moderation and balance. Music in France, longer than elsewhere,...

"The Paris Commune or Fourth French Revolution (French: La Commune de Paris, IPA: [la kmyn d pai]) was a government that briefly ruled Paris from March 18 (more formally, from March 28) to May 28, 1871. In a formal sense, it acted as the local authority, the city council (in French, the "commune"), which exercised power in Paris for two months in the spring of 1871 ... The Siege of Paris, lasting from September 19, 1870? January 28, 1871, and the...

This absorbing narrative follows the craft community of French chocolatiers--members of a tiny group experiencing intensive international competition--as they struggle to ensure the survival of their businesses. Susan J. Terrio moves easily among ethnography, history, theory, and vignette, telling a story that challenges conventional views of craft work, associational forms, and training models in late capitalism.

An intriguing study of murder in France between the wars, when barely a week seemed to pass without a sensational murder occurring.

The illustrated weekly magazine "VU" ran over 600 issues between 21 March 1928 and 29 May 1940. Conceived as a beautiful ongoing film that would bring all of life within the range of the human eye, this weekly magazine was crammed with photographs and was designed to provide its readers with the same kind of experience as the cinema newsreels watched by millions of people each week. The text explains, the photo proves was the magazines editorial motto....