Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century
10 best books like Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century (Ruth Harris): The Warrior King and the Invasion of France: Henry V, Agincourt, and the Campaign that Shaped Medieval England, The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain, 1789-1837, The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism, Courtesans: The Demi-Monde in Nineteenth Century France, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life, Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar, The Great Political Theories, Volume 2, The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches, Destiny in the Desert: The Story Behind El Alamein - the Battle That Turned the Tide
| Author | Desmond Seward |
| ISBN | 1605986445 |
In the course of the Hundred Years War, Henry V was the English figure most responsible for the mutual antipathy that existed between France and England. His art of attacking an opponent by making total war on civilians, as well as soldiers, created tremendous distrust and enmity between the two countries,...
| Author | Ben Wilson |
| ISBN | 1594201161 |
Ben Wilson's "The Making of Victorian Values" is the history of an era rather like our own-a time when dissenters and rebels were hemmed in by conformists and hardheaded authoritarians, a time when a nation on the eve of global domination fretted about its future. It was, however, a period when those...
| Author | Anne Somerset |
| ISBN | 0312330170 |
The Affair of the Poisons, as it became known, was an extraordinary episode that took place in France during the reign of Louis XIV. When poisoning and black magic became widespread, arrests followed. Suspects included those among the highest ranks of society. Many were tortured and numerous executions...
| Author | Darren Dochuk |
| ISBN | 0393066827 |
From Bible Belt to Sun Belt tells the dramatic and largely unknown story of “plain-folk” religious migrants: hardworking men and women from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas who fled the Depression and came to California for military jobs during World War II. Investigating this fiercely pious community...
| Author | Joanna Richardson |
| ISBN | 0785818294 |
I'm reading this book in tandem with Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans by Virginia Rounding and rereading Alexandre Dumas fils' La Dame aux Camellias as research for a talk I'm to give on Verdi's La Traviata. Ms Richardson gives a general outline of...
| Author | Lori D. Ginzberg |
| ISBN | 0809094932 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a brilliant activist-intellectual. That nearly all of her ideas—that women are entitled to seek an education, to own property, to get a divorce, and to vote—are now commonplace is in large part because she worked tirelessly to extend the nation’s promise of radical...
| Author | Adam Nicolson |
| ISBN | 0060753625 |
In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth-century world-dominating empire. Adam Nicolson's...
| Author | Michael Curtis |
| ISBN | 0380012359 |
The philosophy of politics
This carefully selected compilation of the significant writings of the great political philosophers, scientists, and thinkers will be an invaluable guide to the general reader as well as to the serious student of history, political science, and government....
| Author | Brian MacArthur |
| ISBN | 0140176195 |
Great leaders of history have sought to take their followers to the promised land through the uplifting power of speech. Editor Brian MacArthur surveys the greatest oratory past and present. From Moses to Abraham Lincoln, he shows that great speeches can be placed alongside the work of artists, poets,...
| Author | Jonathan Dimbleby |
| ISBN | 1846684447 |
This is a unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein - 'the end of the beginning' - and the bloody battle that followed...It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'it is not the end nor is it the beginning of...
| Author | Paul O'Keeffe |
| ISBN | 1468311301 |
In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared,...
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Long regarded as the most magical of the European dynasties, the Rothschild family today remains one of the most powerful and wealthy in the world. No family in the past two centuries has been so constantly at the center of Europe's great events, has featured such...
| Author | Pierre Berton |
| ISBN | 0385658389 |
The Canada–U.S. border was in flames as the War of 1812 continued. York's parliament buildings were on fire, Niagara-on-the-Lake burned to the ground and Buffalo lay in ashes. Even the American capital of Washington, far to the south, was put to the torch. The War of 1812 had become one of the nineteenth...
Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914
| Author | Richard Holmes |
| ISBN | 0007137532 |
From the bestselling author of Tommy and Redcoat, a magnificent and rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire, making full use of personal accounts of soldiers who served in the vast and varied nation that made up the jewel in Britain's imperial crown. Sahib is a broad...
| Author | A.J.P. Taylor |
| ISBN | 0192801406 |
Beginning on August 4, 1914, the day Britain entered the "Great War," this book guides us through three decades of unparalleled upheaval and change in Britain that eventually lead to the defeat of Japan in 1945--a momentous event that marked the end of the Second World War. Twin themes of international...
| Author | Jan Morris |
| ISBN | 0156302861 |
Conceptually weak, yet readable, popular history of the British empire, this 3rd book in a 3-part series deals with the last years of the 19th century through the middle part of the 20 century, focusing mainly on geopolitical strategy, armed conflict, leadership figures, and popular sentiment within...
For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus
| Author | Frederick Brown |
| ISBN | 0307266311 |
Frederick Brown, cultural historian, author of acclaimed biographies of Émile Zola (“Magnificent”—The New Yorker) and Flaubert (“Splendid . . . Intellectually nuanced, exquisitely written”—The New Republic) now gives us an ambitious, far-reaching book—a perfect joining...
| Author | Margaret MacMillan |
| ISBN | 0500278989 |
In the nineteenth century, at the height of colonialism, the British ruled India under a government known as the Raj. British men and women left their homes and traveled to this mysterious, beautiful country–where they attempted to replicate their own society. In this fascinating portrait, Margaret...
| Author | Richard W. Sonnenfeldt |
| ISBN | 1559708166 |
In this gripping memoir by the chief American interpreter at the Nuremberg trials, Richard Sonnenfeldt recounts a remarkable life. By the time he was 18, Sonnenfeldt had grown up in Germany, escaped to England, been deported to Australia as a "German enemy alien", arrived in the U.S., and joined the...
| Author | Elaine Forman Crane |
| ISBN | 0801440025 |
"It was Rebecca's son, Thomas, who first realized the victim's identity. His eyes were drawn to the victim's head, and aided by the flickering light of a candle, he 'clapt his hands and cryed out, Oh Lord, it is my mother.' James Moills, a servant of Cornell . . . described Rebecca 'lying on the floore, with...
| Author | Michael Grant |
| ISBN | 0684829568 |
This fall of the Roman Empire has always been regarded as one of the most significant transformations in the whole of human history. A hundred years before it occurred, Rome was an immense power defended by an invincible army. A hundred years later, the power and the army had vanished.
The Fall...
Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire
With the return of Hong Kong to the Chinese government in 1997, the empire that had lasted three hundred years and "upon which the sun never set" finally lost its hold on the world and slipped into history. But the question of how we understand the British Empire--its origins, nature, purpose, and effect...
| Author | Maimonides |
| ISBN | 0226502309 |
This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its literal meaning....
| Author | Simon Critchley |
| ISBN | 1844677370 |
The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant cliché of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war. Somehow, the secular age seems to have been replaced by a new era, where political action flows directly...
A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution
| Author | Theodore Draper |
| ISBN | 0679776427 |
I decided to read this book after listening to an old interview with the late Christopher Hitchens in which he recommended Mr Draper's book as a excellent read for those who wished to better understand the germinal factors that led up to and caused the American Revolution to occur how and when it did.
I...
