Versailles and the Mechanics of Power
Author | : Ad Graafland |
Publisher | : 010 Publishers |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9789064504921 |
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Author | : Ad Graafland |
Publisher | : 010 Publishers |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9789064504921 |
Author | : Arie Graafland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789064504921 |
Author | : Jan Karski |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 541 |
Release | : 2014-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 144222665X |
This definitive study provides a comprehensive diplomatic history of Poland during the most seminal period in its existence, when its destiny lay in the hands of France, Great Britain, and the United States. Although sovereign in principle, Poland was little more than an object of the Great Powers’ politics and rapidly changing relationships from the end of WWI to the end of WWII. Focusing on the shifting policies of the Great Powers toward Poland from the Treaty of Versailles to Yalta, the book ends with Poland’s tragic abandonment by the West into the hands of the Soviet Union. Enriched by unique anecdotal and archival material, this book will be essential reading for all those seeking to understand Poland’s role in twentieth-century history.
Author | : Colin Jones |
Publisher | : Apollo |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9781541673441 |
The vivid story of the creation, renovation, and enduring legacy of the most famous building in France: the palace of Versailles Nothing represents the glorious and fraught history of France quite like the Palace of Versailles. Made famous by the absolutist king Louis XIV, Versailles became legendary for the splendor of its revels-but then, after the Revolution of 1789, it fell into disrepute as a reminder of royal excess and abuse of power. Subsequent French governments struggled with how to handle the opulent palace and grounds-should the site be memorialized, trivialized, rehabilitated, or even destroyed outright' Drawing on a new wave of recent research, historian Colin Jones masterfully traces the evolution of Versailles as a space of royal politics and aristocratic pleasures, a building of mythic status, and one of the world's great tourist destinations. Accessible and compelling, this book is a must-read for all Francophiles.
Author | : Xavier Salmon |
Publisher | : Paul Holberton Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
This lavish and beautiful book illustrates and discusses 52 French drawings dating from the late 17th to the early 19th century, all from the extraordinary collection Chateau de Versailles. Together the drawings tell the story of the major buildings at Versailles, its gardens, the court, and the personalities associated with the palace of Louis XIV and later French kings. Among the artists represented are many of the major figures of this magnificent period of French art, including Le Brun, Lemoine, Cochin, Claude-Joseph, Horace Vernet, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Paul Delaroche, and Jacques-Louis David, whose splendid compositional study for his Oath of the Tennis Court, the event that marked the beginning of the French Revolution, is of particular interest.
Author | : Harm Kaal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Communication in politics |
ISBN | : 9789004291959 |
This volume examines modes of political communication between rulers and ruled from antiquity to the present by applying the concept of representation. It explores the dynamic relationship between elites and the people which is shaped by self-representation and representative claims.
Author | : John Maynard Keynes |
Publisher | : Simon Publications LLC |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781931541138 |
John Maynard Keynes, then a rising young economist, participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as chief representative of the British Treasury and advisor to Prime Minister David Lloyd George. He resigned after desperately trying and failing to reduce the huge demands for reparations being made on Germany. The Economic Consequences of the Peace is Keynes' brilliant and prophetic analysis of the effects that the peace treaty would have both on Germany and, even more fatefully, the world.
Author | : Philip Mansel |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 669 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022669092X |
Louis XIV was a man in pursuit of glory. Not content to be the ruler of a world power, he wanted the power to rule the world. And, for a time, he came tantalizingly close. Philip Mansel’s King of the World is the most comprehensive and up-to-date biography in English of this hypnotic, flawed figure who continues to captivate our attention. This lively work takes Louis outside Versailles and shows the true extent of his global ambitions, with stops in London, Madrid, Constantinople, Bangkok, and beyond. We witness the importance of his alliance with the Spanish crown and his success in securing Spain for his descendants, his enmity with England, and his relations with the rest of Europe, as well as Asia, Africa, and the Americas. We also see the king’s effect on the two great global diasporas of Huguenots and Jacobites, and their influence on him as he failed in his brutal attempts to stop Protestants from leaving France. Along the way, we are enveloped in the splendor of Louis’s court and the fascinating cast of characters who prostrated and plotted within it. King of the World is exceptionally researched, drawing on international archives and incorporating sources who knew the king intimately, including the newly released correspondence of Louis’s second wife, Madame de Maintenon. Mansel’s narrative flair is a perfect match for this grand figure, and he brings the Sun King’s world to vivid life. This is a global biography of a global king, whose power was extensive but also limited by laws and circumstances, and whose interests and ambitions stretched far beyond his homeland. Through it all, we watch Louis XIV progressively turn from a dazzling, attractive young king to a belligerent reactionary who sets France on the path to 1789. It is a convincing and compelling portrait of a man who, three hundred years after his death, still epitomizes the idea of le grand monarque.
Author | : Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Architecture and state |
ISBN | : 9781558592285 |
Tracing the transformation of Louis XIII's modest hunting lodge into the spectacular showplace of the French monarchy, photographs of the architecture, interiors, and gardens include research on the architecturally innovative and influential palace.
Author | : Chandra Mukerji |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1997-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521599597 |
In seventeenth-century France, land took on new importance for the practice of politics and rituals of court life. In her major new book, Chandra Mukerji highlights the connections between the two seemingly disparate activities of engineering and garden design. She shows how, at Versailles in particular, the royal park showcased French skills in using nature and art to design a distinctively French landscape and create a naturalized political territoriality. She challenges the association of state power with social and legal structures alone and demonstrates the importance for Louis XIV and his state of a controlled physical site, a demarcated French territory within the wider European geo-political continent.