Download or read book The Return of Martin Guerre written by Natalie Zemon Davis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1984-10-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer’s day in 1560, a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of Martin Guerre became a legend, still remembered in the Pyrenean village where the impostor was executed more than 400 years ago. Now a noted historian, who served as consultant for a new French film on Martin Guerre, has searched archives and lawbooks to add new dimensions to a tale already abundant in mysteries: we are led to ponder how a common man could become an impostor in the sixteenth century, why Bertrande de Rols, an honorable peasant woman, would accept such a man as her husband, and why lawyers, poets, and men of letters like Montaigne became so fascinated with the episode. Natalie Zemon Davis reconstructs the lives of ordinary people, in a sparkling way that reveals the hidden attachments and sensibilities of nonliterate sixteenth-century villagers. Here we see men and women trying to fashion their identities within a world of traditional ideas about property and family and of changing ideas about religion. We learn what happens when common people get involved in the workings of the criminal courts in the ancien régime, and how judges struggle to decide who a man was in the days before fingerprints and photographs. We sense the secret affinity between the eloquent men of law and the honey-tongued village impostor, a rare identification across class lines. Deftly written to please both the general public and specialists, The Return of Martin Guerre will interest those who want to know more about ordinary families and especially women of the past, and about the creation of literary legends. It is also a remarkable psychological narrative about where self-fashioning stops and lying begins.

Download or read book La guerre du Vietnam et la soci t am ricaine written by Bernadette Rigal-Cellard and published by Presses Univ de Bordeaux. This book was released on 1991 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Une guerre difficile written by Emily Spencer and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’ouvrage intitulne guerre difficile : Points de vue sur l’insurrection et les FOS aborde les concepts thiques liaux insurrections et a pratique de la guerre irrli. Le prnt volume s’intsse dans une large mesure aux forces d’options spales, car elles constituent un ment intal des mesures de contre insurrection. Ce recueil aidera les membres de la profession des armes omprendre ce qu’est l’insurrection, ou plus prsnt peut-e, la contre-insurrection et ses ments connexes caractstiques. De plus, Une guerre difficile jette un airage particulier sur ce type de guerre complexe qui peut revr diverses formes. C’est un ouvrage utile et accessible qui saura intsser tant le lecteur profane que l’expert militaire, ou toutes les personnes li ou intss a profession des armes. Ce manuel qui vient enrichir le corpus de connaissances actuelles sur les mesures de contre insurrection et les forces d’options spales prnte le sujet de fa thique et historique et fait le lien entre le passt les options en Afghanistan. Plus prsnt, des chapitres sont consacrau renseignement, au terrorisme, a privatisation de la sritans les conflits ’anger, a guerre non conventionnelle comme ce fut le cas en Afghanistan durant l’occupation sovique, et aux options en cours des forces de la coalition, en Afghanistan.

Download or read book L art de la guerre russe written by Jacques Baud and published by Max Milo. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pourquoi l’Ukraine est en train de perdre la guerre contre la Russie ? Comment les deux camps pensent et mènent leurs opérations ? Quelles ont été les erreurs de part et d’autre ? Comment l’Occident a contribué à la défaite ukrainienne ?... Pour répondre à ces questions et à bien d’autres, Jacques Baud s’appuie sur des informations officielles, des documents américains, occidentaux et russes. Il explique la manière dont la Russie comprend et conduit la guerre. Il montre combien l’incapacité des Occidentaux à comprendre cette réalité et leur détermination à affaiblir la Russie s’est retournée contre l’Ukraine. Après les best-sellers Poutine, le maître du jeu ?, Opération Z et Ukraine entre guerre et paix dont le travail d’analyse a été salué dans le monde entier et dont les ouvrages ont été traduits dans plusieurs pays, l’auteur revient sur la guerre en Ukraine. Il expose la manière dont la Russie l’a menée et comment l’image qu’en ont donné les Occidentaux a conduit l’Ukraine vers l’échec.

Download or read book Chienne de Guerre written by Anne Nivat and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two years ago, when she was thirty years old, Anne Nivat decided to see first-hand what war was all about. Russia had just launched its second brutal campaign against Chechnya. And though the Russians strictly forbade Westerners from covering the war, the aspiring French journalist decided she would go. There are two very real dangers in Chechnya: being arrested by the Russians and being kidnapped by the Chechens. Nivat strapped her satellite phone to her belly, disguised herself in the garb of a Chechen peasant, and sneaked across the border. She found a young guide, Islam, to lead her illegally through the war zone. For six months they followed the war, travelling with underground rebels and sleeping with Chechen families or in abandoned buildings. Anne trembled through air raids; walked through abandoned killing fields; and helped in the halls of bloody hospitals. She interviewed rebel leaders, government officials, young widows, and angry fighters, and she reported everything back to France. Her reports in Lib'ration led to antiwar demonstrations outside the Russian embassy in Paris. Anne's words move. They are not florid, but terse, cool, dramatic. More than just a war correspondent's report, Chienne de Guerre is a moving story of struggle and self-discovery -- the adventures of one young woman who repeatedly tests her own physical and psychological limits in the extremely dangerous and stressful environment of war.

Download or read book La Reconstruction en Europe Apr s la Premi re Et la Seconde Guerre Mondiale Et Le R le de la Conservation Des Monuments Historiques written by Nicholas Bullock and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with History focuses on a particular aspect of heritage preservation in the twentieth century: destruction and postwar reconstruction in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and The Netherlands. This book establishes a status quaestionis for the historiography of wartime and postwar preservation, and sets these particular developments in preservation history in the context of the general evolution of architecture and urbanism. The authors investigate the specific role of conservationists and heritage institutions and administrations in the overall reconstruction and examine the part played by architects and planners in heritage preservation.

Download or read book Le Rouleau de la guerre written by J.P.M. van der Ploeg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The War of the Poor written by Éric Vuillard and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Booker Prize Finalist The Spectator (UK): Best Book of the Year From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants’ War (1524–25) that shows striking parallels to class conflicts of our time. In the sixteenth century, the Protestant Reformation launched an attack on privilege and the Catholic Church, but it rapidly became an established, bourgeois authority itself. Rural laborers and the urban poor, who were still being promised equality in heaven, began to question why they shouldn’t have equality here and now on earth. There ensued a furious struggle between the powerful—the comfortable Protestants—and the others, the wretched. They were led by a number of theologians, one of whom has left his mark on history through his determination and sheer energy. His name was Thomas Müntzer, and he set Germany on fire. The War of the Poor recounts his story—that of an insurrection through the Word. In his characteristically bold, cinematic style, Éric Vuillard draws insights from this revolt from nearly five hundred years ago, which remains shockingly relevant to the dire inequalities we face today.

Download or read book La Guerre Est Finie Semprun Resnais written by Jorge Semprun and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The script to the 1966 film by Alain Resnais profiling the effect of the Spanish Civil War on the lives of a group of anti-Franco exiles living in France, and still actively working for the overthrow of the dictatorship. Called an incomparable thriller by some critics, it is also a beautiful love story and a moving document of our time. This volume presents the complete scenario by Jorge Semprun and 114 frame-enlargements from the film itself, carefully keyed to the text.

Download or read book Histoire Critique Et Militaire Des Guerres de la Revolution Campagne de 1799 written by Antoine Henri baron de Jomini and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Histoire Critique Et Militaire Des Guerres de la Revolution Campagne de 1793 written by Antoine Henri baron de Jomini and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cruisers and La Guerre de Course written by Ian H. Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishingly effective campaign waged by a handful of Confederate raiders during the Civil War was keenly watched in France and Russia, and above all in Britain. In the fifty years which followed, the most sensitive area in the balance of naval power was the potential damage to worldwide commerce which could be caused by raiders. The steel-built protected cruiser, as a warship type, was evolved to counter this threat. Many countries engaged in the development of cruisers, some to give force to the threat, and some for commerce protection.

Download or read book Acta Guerre arm e et m dias de Gutenberg nos jours written by Mihail E. Ionescu and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of conference held 10-15 August 2003 in Bucharest, Romania.

Download or read book C est la Guerre written by Louis Calaferte and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy's account of the nasty goings-on in a French village during World War II, some narrated in prose-poetry: "The man clips off the kneeling woman's hair. / The people shout with joy. / The hair is falling all around the woman. / The woman is crying. / The people yell piece of shit."

Download or read book Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries written by Anaïs Fléchet and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries is the first book to highlight the significance of the idea of 'postwar transition' in the field of music and to demonstrate how the contribution of musicians, composers, and their publics have influenced contemporary understandings of war. At the intersection of four domains including: the relationship between music and war culture, commemorative and consolatory dimensions of music, migration and exile, and the links between music, cultural diplomacy, and propaganda, leading historians, political scientists, psychologists, and musicologists explore disruptions and connections to music through the backdrop of war. In turn, this volume sheds new light on what has been a blind spot in a growing historiography"--

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Download or read book Monthly Bulletin written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Teachers' bulletin", vol. 4- issued as part of v. 23, no. 9-