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The Cambridge Illustrated History of France
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by Colin Jones and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Sales Rank: 84398
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List Price: $39.99
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 352 pages
Published by: Cambridge University Press August 1, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0521669928
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521669924
Book Dimensions:
9.9 x 8 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 2.6 pounds
Midwest Book Review
If only one title on France were to be chosen for a general library collection, it should be this: chapters provide a strong introduction and historical survey of French politics and social life; from pre-Roman to modern times. Add a peppering of fine-quality color photographs and illustrations and you have an involving, educational volume reaching high school ages on up.
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"Lavishly illustrated, filled with superb maps, this coffee-table survey of French history is a quality read.Jones captures in a lively style the historical vicissitudes, complexity, and diversity of France." Religious Studies Review
"Evenhanded, readable, with a finely calculated use of pictorial art." Philadelphia Inquirer
"Lavishly illustrated, with a striking use of photographs for the 20th century, this volume is an important work of synthesis as well as a handsome introduction to France and the French for the general reader.Scholars will also be impressed by Jones's ability to integrate the all-too-often fragmentary results of their specialized researches." Choice
"If only one title on France were to be chosen for a general library collection, it should be this.an involving, educational volume reaching high school ages and up." The Bookwatch
"Explores the diversity of the French heritage and offers insight into the formation of the modern nation in a lively history of France that combines awesome illustration with exceptional scholarship and includes features on places, people and events." Book Alert
Reader Reviews
This is an outstanding introduction to French history and yet another excellent volume in the Cambridge Illustrated Histories series. I must admit to being somewhat confused by the two-star review it received, and especially confused by the grounds upon which it was granted only two stars. The book on the one hand is working with a preordained format, so that it will be consistent with other books in the series. On the other hand, the book is an introductory work, and excessive detail should not be expected in any introductory work. The book contains an exhaustive bibliography, and if greater detail is needed on any of the subjects discussed, one is pointed in the right direction. But as someone who has read the book from cover to cover and who did not see the need for returning it, let me firmly assert that this is a flat out magnificent introductory work. Colin Jones does a marvelous job of balancing several aspects of history narrative in this volume. On the one hand, he does not neglect the "great men", covering all the primary and familiar figures in French history, from Charlemagne to Henry IV to Richelieu to Louis XIV to Napoleon to the present. But neither does he neglect the lives of everyday folk. He does an especially good job of discussing the status of women through France's history, a subject left out of too many general surveys. Jones also does a good job of balancing a discussion of military, economic, religious, and cultural factors from generation to generation in France. By the end of the volume, the reader will have been exposed to virtually every aspect of French history. This is an extraordinarily handsome and well-made, large-format paperback. There are numerous full color illustrations, marvelously chosen, many with detailed asides on the subject illustrated. In short, if you are looking for a superb introduction to French history, you will be hard pressed to do better than this volume.
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