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French cuisine may or may not be the world's best, but it certainly is the most widely influential cooking style, and it is unquestionably the standard against which all other cuisines are measured. In this culinary history, Ferguson traces how [...]![]()
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The fast-paced zouk of Kassav', the romantic biguine of Malavoi, the jazz of Fal Frett, the ballads of Mona, and reggae of Kali and Pôglo are all part of the burgeoning popular music scene in the French Caribbean. In this lively book, Brenda F. [...]![]()
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Alexis de Tocqueville ; Harvey C. Mansfield ; Delba Winthrop | The University of Chicago Press | 2000Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both[...]![]()
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United States Army, Auteur ; Rick Atkinson, Préfacier, etc. | The University of Chicago Press | 2008As American soldiers fanned out from their beachhead in Normandy in June of 1944 and began the liberation of France, every soldier carried that reminder in his kit. A compact trove of knowledge and reassurance, Instructions for American Servicem[...]![]()
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Robert Kehew, Editeur scientifique ; Ezra Pound, Traducteur ; W. D. Snodgrass, Traducteur | The University of Chicago Press | 2005Although the troubadours flourished at the height of the Middle Ages in southern France, their songs of romantic love, with pleasing melodies and intricate stanzaic patterns, have inspired poets and song writers ever since, from Dante to Chaucer[...]![]()
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Adler, through her exploration of the events central to Duras's career, including her affair with and eventual denunciation of a Nazi collaborator and her childhood in Indochina, reveals Duras as the consummate pragmatist. She has combed through[...]![]()
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Georges Duby ; Eleanor Levieux, Traducteur ; Barbara Thompson, Traducteur | The University of Chicago Press | 1976Recognizing that a work of art is the product of a particular time and place as much as it is the creation of an individual, Duby provides a sweeping survey of the changing mentalities of the Middle Ages as reflected in the art and architecture [...]