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Gabriel de Broglie

"Le changement dynastique n'est que l'un des effets de la révolution de 1830. Les Trois Glorieuses et la monarchie qu'elles engendrèrent, portées par les parties les plus dynamiques de la société gens de plume, artistes, entrepreneurs, jeunesse étudiante, par l'impressionnante galerie des hommes nouveaux, par la frange la plus éclairée de l'aristocratie et des catholiques, ne sacrifièrent guère à l'utopie. La volonté d'implanter en France des moeurs et des institutions libérales était un projet solide, réaliste, conçu pour l'avenir. C'est lui qu'il faut créditer du progrès des libertés, du développement économique, du maintien de la paix au prix de quelques déconvenues et même de l'exceptionnelle floraison romantique. Si ces avancées, cette acclimatation au parlementarisme, cet enrichissement, certes bien inégalitaire, du pays ont fini emporté par le torrent de 1848, c'est en partie parce que les équipes dirigeantes, à l'épreuve du pouvoir, n'ont pas bien su accompagner le projet : défaut d'imagination devant l'événement, routine, rivalités personnelles, aveuglement ou sincérité douteuse du roi, scandales, résistance au changement, particulièrement en matière sociale, tout vint pervertir et gauchir une construction qui aurait peutêtre assuré à la France un avenir meilleur. On aurait tort de condamner les idées et les aspirations des hommes de 1830 au motif que le régime a sombré dans le discrédit et a partiellement échoué à unir la nation. Nourri & Ultime connaissance que son auteur a de l'orléanisme, éclairé par de longs passages dus à d'illustres témoins de Hugo à Chateaubriand, de Tocqueville à Guizot, de Rémusat à Louis Blanc ..., enrichi dés recherches et des problématiques les plus récentes, ce livre offre la synthèse précise et vivante qui manquait. Un grand pan de notre histoire, longtemps négligé, nous est ainsi révélé." P. [4] of cover.

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Robert Phillip Kolker, Peter Beicken

The Films of Wim Wenders traces the development of one of the most well known directors of the New German Cinema, which flourished in the seventies and early eighties. Examining Wenders career from his early film-school productions, through his mature works of the seventies, this book also analyzes his more recent films, as well as the themes and preoccupations that unite his oeuvre. As the authors note, Wenders' works have been profoundly influenced by American films, especially the "road movie" genre. They often feature characters who are always on the move in an attempt to capture a glimpse of their identity and place in the world. They also represent a generation of postwar Germans seeking to redeem themselves and the history of their country by turning to American popular culture, particularly its music and movies. In such films as The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road, and The American Friend, Wenders offers an articulate cinematic vision of the emotional landscape of postwar Germany. In his most recent films, such as Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire, and Until the End of the World, Wenders continues his quest for certainty for a safe domestic and romantic haven, in a style that transforms modernism into post-modern pastiche and in which such elements as melodrama, fantasy and desire are fused. Providing close analyses of Wenders' most important works, The Films of Wim Wenders serves as a useful introduction to a serious filmmaker for whom cinema represents nothing less than the redemption of the imagination and reclamation of history.

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(by) Barbara Cartland

For lovely young Atalanta Lynton, the proposed marriage to her cousin William, Viscount Cottesford, seemed an answer to her prayers-- until she found herself deeply in love with Paul Beaulieu, a handsome young painter. Atalanta is forced to choose between happiness and wealth in this passionate love story that vividly contrasts the glittering life of Paris with the color artist's life of Montmartre. In the Paris of 1880's the lively romantic world of the brilliant, impoverished Impressionists, lovely young Alalanta must choose between the colorful artist' life of Montmartre, and a secure and wealthy marriage to her cousin.

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Paul A. Shackel and Barbara J. Little

The Chesapeake Bay area's economy, ecology, and history have made it an extraordinarily rich area for archaeological study for nearly a century. Ranging across many methods of historical archaeology, this volume represents current work on the Chesapeake's western shore dealing with early European settlements, plantations and landscapes, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life. Historical Archaeology of the Chesapeake presents a history of past excavations, as well as a sampling of recent historical archaeological discoveries. The essays include an examination of seventeenth-century decorated tobacco pipes as evidence of possible African-made material culture, a detailed analysis of the decline of Alexandria's sugar industry, and a comparison of household objects from a working-class neighborhood with those of the nearby Hooker's Division, once the red-light district of Washington, D.C. Using an array of theoretical orientations, the contributors analyze relationships among Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans, as well as among economic and occupational groups. Their findings illuminate changing social and political situations, including stratification within cities, between urban and rural areas, and between the Old and New Worlds.