1,500円 Le Traité sur la tolérance, écrit par le célèbre philosophe des Lumières, Voltaire, est une œuvre majeure qui aborde avec finesse et perspicacité la question de la tolérance religieuse. Publié en 1763, ce court texte incisif et engagé est une véritable plaidoirie en faveur de la liberté de consci...

5,573円 Throughout his life, James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might, he could not reconcile the truths of his era with those of his religious upbringing. Boswell’s Enlightenment examines the conflicting credos of reason and faith, progress and tradition that pu...

524円 This book deals with an ordinary man from the 21st century (Michael), through a fault in the Essentia’s admin database, being time exchanged with the soul of a dead naval lieutenant from another century and there is no going back. In our century, Michael is a sarcastic and cheeky individual, but ...

561円 Rembrandt is indisputably the greatest artist of the seventeenth century, and many would say the greatest artist of all time. His mastery of composition, paint, and lineーhe was a superlative etcherーover a lifetime’s work has rarely been emulated, let alone surpassed. At a time when other artist...

11,772円 Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 tells the stories of the intertwined lives of African and British peoples over more than three centuries. In seven chapters and an epilogue, Myles Osborne and Susan Kingsley Kent explore the characters that comprised the British presence in Af...

3,183円 Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. Ho...

12,684円 Although many refer to the American South as the "Bible Belt", the region was not always characterized by a powerful religious culture. In the seventeenth century and early eighteenth century, religion-in terms both of church membership and personal piety-was virtually absent from southern cultur...

7,048円 Arguably the leading British historian of his generation, Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) is most celebrated and admired as the author of essays. This volume brings together some of the most original and radical writings of his careerーmany hitherto inaccessible, one never before published, all dem...

1,500円 Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur John Adams en moins d’une heure ! Si les États-Unis d'aujourd’hui doivent beaucoup à John Adams, le président a longtemps occupé un rôle secondaire dans l’histoire américaine. Son apport est pourtant capital. Partisan de la rupture avec la Grande-Bret...

5,300円 Patrice Gueniffey is the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age. This book, hailed as a masterwork on its publication in France, takes up the epic narrative at the heart of this turbulent period: the life of Napoleon himself, the man whoーin Madame de Staël’s wordsーmade...

1,500円 Extrait : "Les noms que j'ai réunis dans le groupe de moralistes dont nous allons nous occuper ne figurent pas, à l'exception de Vauvenargues, au premier rang des écrivains du XVIIIe siècle, et les doctrines morales et politiques de la plupart de ces auteurs sont loin d'appartenir à la meilleure ...

10,613円 Louis Mandrin led a gang of bandits who brazenly smuggled contraband into eighteenth-century France. Michael Kwass brings new life to the legend of this Gallic Robin Hood and the thriving underworld he helped to create. Decades before the storming of the Bastille, surging world trade excited a re...