To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Pierre Goubert is perhaps the foremost contemporary historian of the French ...

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The arrival in the United States, between 1830 and 1840, and thereafter increasingly, of large numbers of degraded peasantry created for the first time in this country distinct social classes ...

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If you think about the French revolutionary tradition, you’re most likely to picture the storming of the Bastille and the ...

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