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Book A Lexicon of French Borrowings in the German Vocabulary  1575 1648

Download or read book A Lexicon of French Borrowings in the German Vocabulary 1575 1648 written by William Jervis Jones and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1976 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Studia Linguistica Germanica, founded in 1968 by Ludwig Erich Schmitt and Stefan Sonderegger, is one of the standard publication organs for German Linguistics. The series aims to cover the whole spectrum of the subject, while concentrating on questions relating to language history and the history of linguistic ideas. It includes works on the historical grammar and semantics of German, on the relationship of language and culture, on the history of language theory, on dialectology, on lexicology / lexicography, text linguisticsand on the location of German in the European linguistic context.

Book An Empire Divided

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  • Author : J.P. Daughton
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2006-11-02
  • ISBN : 019534569X
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book An Empire Divided written by J.P. Daughton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1880 and 1914, tens of thousands of men and women left France for distant religious missions, driven by the desire to spread the word of Jesus Christ, combat Satan, and convert the world's pagans to Catholicism. But they were not the only ones with eyes fixed on foreign shores. Just as the Catholic missionary movement reached its apex, the young, staunchly secular Third Republic launched the most aggressive campaign of colonial expansion in French history. Missionaries and republicans abroad knew they had much to gain from working together, but their starkly different motivations regularly led them to view one another with resentment, distrust, and even fear. In An Empire Divided, J.P. Daughton tells the story of how troubled relations between Catholic missionaries and a host of republican critics shaped colonial policies, Catholic perspectives, and domestic French politics in the tumultuous decades before the First World War. With case studies on Indochina, Polynesia, and Madagascar, An Empire Divided--the first book to examine the role of religious missionaries in shaping French colonialism--challenges the long-held view that French colonizing and "civilizing" goals were shaped by a distinctly secular republican ideology built on Enlightenment ideals. By exploring the experiences of Catholic missionaries, one of the largest groups of French men and women working abroad, Daughton argues that colonial policies were regularly wrought in the fires of religious discord--discord that indigenous communities exploited in responding to colonial rule. After decades of conflict, Catholics and republicans in the empire ultimately buried many of their disagreements by embracing a notion of French civilization that awkwardly melded both Catholic and republican ideals. But their entente came at a price, with both sides compromising long-held and much-cherished traditions for the benefit of establishing and maintaining authority. Focusing on the much-neglected intersection of politics, religion, and imperialism, Daughton offers a new understanding of both the nature of French culture and politics at the fin de siecle, as well as the power of the colonial experience to reshape European's most profound beliefs.

Book The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires  Volume I

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Modern Empires Volume I written by Owen White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together twenty-one articles that explore the diverse impact of modern empires on societies around the world since 1800. Colonial expansion changed the lives of colonised peoples in multiple ways relating to work, the environment, law, health and religion. Yet empire-builders were never working with a blank slate: colonial rule involved not just coercion but also forms of cooperation with elements of local society, while the schemes of the colonisers often led to unexpected outcomes. Covering not only western European nations but also the Ottomans, Russians and Japanese, whose empires are less frequently addressed in collections, this volume provides insight into a crucial aspect of modern world history.

Book The Naval History of Great Britain

Download or read book The Naval History of Great Britain written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Publisher : KARTHALA Editions
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  • ISBN : 9782811101046
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book written by and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University of Colorado Studies

Download or read book University of Colorado Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book    Inqui  tude  in the work of Pierre Mac Orlan

Download or read book Inqui tude in the work of Pierre Mac Orlan written by Roger W. Baines and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major study in English of the work of the French novelist, essayist, journalist, poet and ‘chansonnier’ Pierre Mac Orlan (1882-1970). It assesses Mac Orlan's contribution to the post-1918 phenomenon of intellectual disillusionment and disorientation which was termed the ‘nouveau mal du siècle’, or ‘inquiétude’. Although he has largely been ignored by critics thus far, Mac Orlan was part of mainstream French literary production and a major exponent of ‘inquiétude’. Where he differs from his contemporaries is in his subject matter, in his use of sociological, rather than abstract, intellectual material. His expression of ‘inquiétude’ encompasses: ‘le fantastique social’; adventure; marginality; ‘le cafard’; and sadistic sexuality. His originality lies in his invention of ‘le fantastique social’, in his constant use of certain techniques, as well as the subject matter, of German Expressionism via the depiction of the disturbing landscape of the modern city, post-1918 inflation and decadence, prostitutes and criminals, doomed adventurers, the mystery of modern technology, and in the expression of a morbid interest in sexual violence. This volume will be of particular interest to students of inter-war French literature and thought.

Book The Naval History of Great Britain

Download or read book The Naval History of Great Britain written by William James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed, authoritative history of the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, first published between in the 1820s.

Book University of Colorado Studies

Download or read book University of Colorado Studies written by University of Colorado and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Naval History of Great Britain  1797 1799

Download or read book The Naval History of Great Britain 1797 1799 written by William James and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original five volumes were published in 1822-24, with a six-volume edition appearing in 1826. Previously, the work has only been available to scholars through specialist libraries. This new hardcover edition, with an introduction by the noted naval historian Andrew Lambert as well as an index for each volume, provides both scholars and maritime enthusiasts an accessible and affordable edition of this important work. Illustrated with charts, diagrams, and images, the work remains an essential source for all those who are interested in the operation of the Royal Navy in this period.

Book War and Government in the French Provinces

Download or read book War and Government in the French Provinces written by David Potter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Potter's detailed examination of war and government in Picardy, a region of France hitherto neglected by historians, has much to say about the development of French absolutism and the participation of the nobility in the government of the kingdom.

Book In Search of Tunga

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  • Author : André Chappatte
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2022-11
  • ISBN : 0472055658
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book In Search of Tunga written by André Chappatte and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of young male Muslim "adventurers" in a Malian town

Book Shifting Frontiers of France and Francophonie

Download or read book Shifting Frontiers of France and Francophonie written by Yvette Rocheron and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume consists of selected papers from a conference organised under the aegis of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France at the University of Leicester in September 2000"--P. [9].

Book Widows  Pariahs  and Bayad  res

Download or read book Widows Pariahs and Bayad res written by Binita Mehta and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes how French dramatists reproduced certain images of India such as the burning widow, the lowly pariah or untouchable, and the exotic 'bayadere' or dancing girl in four plays and one ballet written from the eighteenth century through the twentieth centuries. Addressing questions of Orientalism, the book also argues that it was because the French lost their Indian colonies to the Briish in the eighteenth centuries that India became a part of the French literary imagination.

Book A Concordance to Marivaux s Comedies in Prose

Download or read book A Concordance to Marivaux s Comedies in Prose written by Donald C. Spinelli and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chevalier D Eon and His Worlds

Download or read book The Chevalier D Eon and His Worlds written by Simon Burrows and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays draw on new research into Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual life, exploring how a gender identity could come to be negotiated over time.