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Mission France
Author | : Kate Vigurs |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300258844 |
The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate Resistance work overseas. The organization’s F section sent more than four hundred agents into France, thirty-nine of whom were women. But while some are widely known—Violette Szabo, Odette Sansom, Noor Inayat Khan—others have had their stories largely overlooked. Kate Vigurs interweaves for the first time the stories of all thirty-nine female agents. Tracing their journeys from early recruitment to work undertaken in the field, to evasion from, or capture by, the Gestapo, Vigurs shows just how greatly missions varied. Some agents were more adept at parachuting. Some agents’ missions lasted for years, others’ less than a few hours. Some survived, others were murdered. By placing the women in the context of their work with the SOE and the wider war, this history reveals the true extent of the differences in their abilities and attitudes while underlining how they nonetheless shared a common mission and, ultimately, deserve recognition.
Monterey in 1786
Author | : Jean-François de Galaup comte de La Pérouse |
Publisher | : Heyday |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
On the afternoon of September 14, 1786, two French ships appeared off the coast of Monterey, the first foreign vessels to visit Spain's California colonies. Aboard was a party of eminent scientists, navigators, cartographers, illustrators, and physicians. For the next ten days the commander of this expedition, Jean François de La Pérouse, took detailed notes on the life and character of the area: its abundant wildlife, the labors of soldiers and monks, and the customs of Indians recently drawn into the mission. These observations provide a startling portrait of California two centuries ago.
Apostles of Empire
Author | : Bronwen McShea |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1496229088 |
Apostles of Empire contributes to ongoing research on the Jesuits, New France, and Atlantic World encounters, as well as on early modern French society, print culture, Catholicism, and imperialism.
French Theory
Author | : François Cusset |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0816647321 |
Explores how the French theory of philosophy, which became popular during the last three decades of the twentieth century, spread to America and examines the critical practices that French theory inspired.
The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought
Author | : Lawrence D. Kritzman |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231107907 |
This valuable reference is an authoritative guide to 20th century French thought. It considers the intellectual figures, movements and publications that helped define fields as diverse as history, psychoanalysis, film, philosophy, and economics.
Mission and Method
Author | : Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992-09-25 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521404068 |
In Mission and Method Ann La Berge shows how the French public health movement developed within the socio-political context of the Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy, and within the context of competing ideologies of liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and statism. The dialectic between liberalism, whose leading exponent was Villermé, and statism, the approach of Parent-Duchâtelet, characterized the movement and was reflected in the tension between liberal and social medicine that permeated nineteenth-century French medical discourse. Professor La Berge also challenges the prevalent notion that the British were the leaders in the nineteenth-century public health movement and set the model for similar movements elsewhere. She argues that an active and influential French public health movement antedated the British and greatly influenced British public health leaders.
Modern France
Author | : Vanessa R. Schwartz |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2011-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195389417 |
The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.