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  • Elephant Slaves & Pampered Parrots

    Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris

    by Louise E. Robbins ...
    Series series Animals, History, Culture
    This lively history "adds a new dimension to our understanding of 18th-century France" by exploring the Parisian fashion of importing exotic animals ( American Historical Review).In 1775, a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta's Grande Ménagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris would have seen two tigers, several kinds of monkeys, an armadillo, an ocelot, and a condor—in all, forty-two live animals. In ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown

    Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library

    by Louise S. Robbins ...
    In 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service, ostensibly because she had circulated subversive materials. In truth, however, Brown was fired because she had become active in promoting racial equality and had helped form a group affiliated with the Congress of Racial Equality.Louise S. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots

    Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris

    by Louise E. Robbins ...
    Series series Animals, History, Culture
    In 1775, a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta's Grande Ménagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris would have seen two tigers, several kinds of monkeys, an armadillo, an ocelot, and a condor—in all, forty-two live animals. In Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots, Louise Robbins explains that exotic animals from around the world were common in eighteenth-century Paris. In the streets of the city, ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Louis Pasteur and the Hidden World of Microbes

    by Louise E. Robbins ...
    Series series Oxford Portraits in Science
    Chronicling Louis Pasteur's rise from humble beginnings to international fame, Louis Pasteur and the Hidden World of Microbes investigates the complex life of a man who revolutionized our understanding of disease. Alongside Pasteur's pioneering work with microorganisms, his innovative use of heat to kill harmful organisms in food--a process now known as "pasteurization"--and his development of the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Librarian Spies

    Philip and Mary Jane Keeney and Cold War Espionage

    by Louise Robbins ...
    Series series Praeger Security International
    In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy declared that the State Department was a haven for communists and traitors. Among famous targets, like Alger Hiss, the senator also named librarian Mary Jane Keeney and her husband Philip, who had been called before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee to account for friendships with suspected communists, memberships in communist fronts, and authorship of ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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    The Happy Lion

    by Louise Fatio ...
    Narrated by Rex Robbins ...

    Unabridged

    6 min

    “Louise Fatio’s timeless tale about friendship still sparkles...” —School Library JournalThe lion at the little French zoo is a favorite of all the townspeople. Every day they stop by to feed him tidbits and say, “Bonjour, Happy Lion.” Naturally, when the lion finds his door open, he decides it would only be proper to visit all his friendly neighbors in return. But, wait—sacré bleu! Why is ... Read more

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    And Other Episodes in French Cultural History

    by Robert Darnton ...
    **The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.“Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar, and the sensitivity of a novelist.” —New Republic**When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the ... Read more

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  • The Return of Martin Guerre

    by Natalie Zemon Davis ...
    The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer’s day in 1560, a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the continent. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of ... Read more

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  • The Soul of America

    The Battle for Our Better Angels

    by Jon Meacham ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.“Gripping and inspiring, The Soul of America is Jon Meacham’s declaration of his faith in America.”—NewsdayONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • A BEST BOOK OF THE ... Read more

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  • The Information Master

    Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

    by Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge"Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • An Intellectual History of Cannibalism

    by Catalin Avramescu ...
    Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth ...
    The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine cannibals and related horrible stories of shipwrecked travelers eating each other. An Intellectual History of Cannibalism is the first book to ... Read more

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  • The Begum's Millions

    by Jules Verne ...
    Translated by Stanford L. Luce ...
    Series series Early Classics of Science Fiction
    When two European scientists unexpectedly inherit an Indian rajah's fortune, each builds an experimental city of his dreams in the wilds of the American Northwest. France-Ville is a harmonious urban community devoted to health and hygiene, the specialty of its French founder, Dr. François Sarrasin. Stahlstadt, or City of Steel, is a fortress-like factory town devoted to the manufacture of high ... Read more

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