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  • The Dark Years
    Raymond Allard
    A sweeping historical novel of love, courage, and moral complexity set in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.In the quiet rural village of Saint-Éloi, young schoolteacher Élise Moreau lives a peaceful life-until the German invasion shatters everything. As occupation tightens its grip, she falls deeply in love with wounded Resistance fighter Jacques Lefèvre and becomes a v...
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    13,25 €

  • The History of Early Modern Prussia
    Raymond Allard
    Few states in European history have provoked such polarized interpretation as Prussia. To some, it has been the archetype of disciplined, enlightened absolutism that demonstrated how a small, resource-poor territory could rise to great-power status through administrative efficiency, military innovation, and calculated diplomacy. To others, it has appeared as the cradle of an au...
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    19,19 €

  • Western Capitalism and Slavery in the Early Modern Era
    Raymond Allard
    In the spring of 1788, a group of Liverpool merchants gathered in a paneled counting house to review their quarterly returns. Among the ledgers documenting cotton imports, sugar futures, and tobacco shipments lay another set of accounts detailing a more disturbing commodity: human beings. The ship Enterprize had recently completed a profitable voyage, carrying 394 enslaved Afri...
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    19,65 €

  • Economic History of the Ottoman Empire
    Raymond Allard
    For more than six centuries, the Ottoman Empire stood as one of history’s most formidable political and economic powers, stretching at its height from the gates of Vienna to the Persian Gulf, from the steppes of Ukraine to the deserts of North Africa. Between its founding around 1299 and its dissolution in 1922, this vast empire controlled some of the world’s most strategically...
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    20,07 €

  • History of the Atlantic Economies in the Early Modern Era
    Raymond Allard
    The Atlantic Ocean, once a barrier separating three continents and their distinct societies, transformed between the late fifteenth and early nineteenth centuries into a vast arena of economic exchange, exploitation, and innovation. This book examines how Europe, Africa, and the Americas became integrated into a single economic system that fundamentally reshaped human history. ...
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    20,10 €

  • The French Nobility During the Seven Years’ War
    Raymond Allard
    The Seven Years’ War, which engulfed Europe, North America, the Caribbean, West Africa, India, and the Philippines between 1756 and 1763, represented far more than another dynastic conflict in the seemingly endless series that had marked European politics since the Middle Ages. For France, and particularly for its nobility, the war became a crucible that exposed fundamental ten...
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    19,59 €

  • Political History of European Embassies in the 19th Century
    Raymond Allard
    The nineteenth century witnessed the transformation of the European embassy from an essentially personal representation of one sovereign to another into a complex bureaucratic institution that served as the nervous system of international politics. This transformation was neither smooth nor uniform across the continent, but it fundamentally altered how states interacted, how wa...
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    18,84 €

  • The Church and the French Revolution
    Raymond Allard
    In this gripping historical account, readers will discover the extraordinary story of how the Catholic Church survived the most systematic attempt to eradicate Christianity from Western society. When revolutionary France unleashed unprecedented persecution against Catholicism in 1789, no rational observer expected the Church to endure. Yet through heroic martyrdom, clandestine ...
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    21,51 €

  • The Golden Age’s Twilight
    Raymond Allard
    When an aging Spanish gentleman named Alonso Quixano became so obsessed with chivalric romances that he reimagined himself as the knight-errant 'Don Quixote,' literature changed forever. But behind this revolutionary tale of windmill-tilting and impossible dreams lies a fascinating historical reality-the twilight of Spain’s Golden Age, when the world’s first global empire stood...
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    21,42 €

  • A Social History of France in the 16th Century
    Raymond Allard
    This comprehensive social history illuminates one of the most transformative centuries in French history, tracing the nation’s evolution from medieval kingdom to early modern state through the lived experiences of its people. Spanning from the dawn of the Renaissance under Louis XII to the religious settlement of Henri IV, this work examines how ordinary French men and women na...
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    20,14 €