2,427円 Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank and artful record of adventures ranging from his vividly recounted love affair with a Covent Garden actre...

933円 Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award Finalist: Los Angeles Times Book Prize The captivating and definitive account of the most consequential natural disaster of modern times. On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring perhaps 9.0 (or higher) on the moment ma...

12,103円 The book covers Hume’s biographical development; his self appraisal as a 'man of letters’; his philosophical writings with emphasis on their direct and indirect economic content; his self-aware criticism of his approach to the Treatise and the development of his rhetorical understanding of the ne...

4,643円 How did the French Revolution’s ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? Timothy Tackett offers a new interpretation of this turning point in world history. Penetrating the mentality of Revolutionary elites on the eve of the Terror, he reveals how suspicion an...

7,048円 Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding. In this exceptionally wide-ranging study, Phillip...

9,162円 This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlining the Church of England's key role in the incre...

5,831円 The Lower Canadian Rebellion of 1837 has been called the most important event in pre-Confederation history. Previously, it has been explained as a response to economic distress or as the result of manipulation by middle-class politicians. Lord Durham believed it was an expression of racial confli...

5,831円 Many people assume that a French-English cleavage has always existed and historians have been uncertain as to just how it unfolded. This book provides the answer. Greenwood re-creates a Quebec in which trust between French and English Canadians was an early casualty of the execution of Louis XVI ...

1,500円 Extrait : "L'histoire a été, dans tous les siècles, une étude si recommandée, qu'on croirait perdre son temps d'en recueillir les suffrages, aussi importants par le poids de leurs auteurs que par leur nombre. Dans l'un et dans l'autre, on ne prétend compter que les catholiques, et on sera encore ...

1,500円 Extrait :"Par un phénomène d'idiosyncrasie, dont je ne me vante ni ne m'excuse, je n'ai jamais eu peur de Paris. Il est vrai que j'y suis né..."

830円 Le 18 Brumaire an VIII (9 novembre 1799) dont on commémore en cette fin de siècle le 200e anniversaire, constitue l'un des événements les plus considérables de l'histoire de France. Il a non seulement permis à Napoléon Bonaparte de modifier la carte et la politique de l'Europe, mais il a eu une i...

164円 William James (January 11, 1842 - August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pra...