Related Books

Cholera in Post-Revolutionary Paris
Language: en
Pages: 464
Authors: Catherine J. Kudlick
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-12-22 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Cholera terrified and fascinated nineteenth-century Europeans more than any other modern disease. Its symptoms were gruesome, its sources were mysterious, and i
France After Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Denise Z. Davidson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Davidson provides a reevaluation of prevailing views on the effects of the French Revolution, and particularly on the role of women. Arguing against the idea th
Taming Cannabis
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: David A. Guba Jr
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-23 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Despite having the highest rates of cannabis use in the continent, France enforces the most repressive laws against the drug in all of Europe. Perhaps surprisin
Reflections
Language: en
Pages: 174
Authors: Therese-Adèle Husson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-02-01 - Publisher: NYU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the 1820s, several years before Braille was invented, Therese-Adele Husson, a young blind woman from provincial France, wrote an audacious manifesto about he
Plagues in World History
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: John Aberth
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-16 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, i