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This is the inspiring and, until now, untold story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work. Most had never left home, never experienced a different culture. None had any guarantee of success. That they achieved so much for themselves and their country profoundly altered American history. Elizabeth...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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This is the inspiring and, until now, untold story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work. Most had never left home, never experienced a different culture. None had any guarantee of success. That they achieved so much for themselves and their country profoundly altered American history. Elizabeth...
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Books for Libraries Press
Pub. Date
[1971]
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English
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Contains selections from the diaries kept by Gouverneur Morris while he served as U.S. ambassador to France in the late eighteenth century that provide insights into the early years of the French Revolution and share details of his personal life.
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Examines the role of citizen privateers, seamen who raided British trade ships around the Atlantic Ocean, in America's battle for independence from Britain, detailing their strategic and political significance, as well as the part they played in the slave trade.
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the eighteenth century to today, revealing how being free has...
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2010
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English
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With trademark imagination, T.C. Boyle presents a collection of fourteen short stories. In the volume's title story, Victor, a feral boy in Napoleonic France, is captured and is introduced to civilization for the first time. However, it's the child's captors that end up learning the most about humanity and civility.
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Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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""After D-Day" fits into a growing but still small body of works that examine the Allied liberators of France. This study focuses especially on what the French experience of the U. S. military was both during the liberation and shortly afterward. It complements Fuller's The Struggle for Cooperation, Liberated France and the American Military (2018), which examines the French government's interaction with the Allies during the same period. Using research...
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English
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"Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear - including her beloved library. After the invasion, as the Nazis declare...
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Time Museum volume 1
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First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
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IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Teaming up with the Epoch Squad under the command of Richard Nixon, Delia and her fellow time travelers visit 1778 Versailles to save a historic alliance between France and the United States.
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English
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"An authoritative, sweeping, and fresh new biography of the nation's first president, Colin G. Calloway's book reveals fully the dimensions and depths of George Washington's relations with the First Americans."--Provided by publisher.
This book shows that Washington recognized that the new country's fate depended less on grand rhetoric of independence and self-governance, and more on land--Indian land. This book reveals the full extent and complexity...
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Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
c1992
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English
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The author was a fledgling art historian when she became intrigued by Victorine Meurent, the model who appears in Edouard Manet's most famous paintings, only to vanish from history in a haze of degrading hearsay. Had this bold and spirited beauty really descended into prostitution, drunkenness, and early death? Or had she taken a different course altogether that was hidden to history? The search for the answer combines the suspense of a detective...
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