Paris 2011 (99¢ Cities) - Travel guide & French phrasebook, history of Paris, travel tips, and more

Paris 2011 (99¢ Cities) - Travel guide & French phrasebook, history of Paris, travel tips, and more Review

Paris 2011 is one of a new series of travel guides for the Amazon Kindle, dedicated to providing you with top notch travel advice at an extremely reasonable price - welcome to 99¢ Cities!

This guidebook series is formatted as a periodical (like a magazine or blog) instead of a book. That means that you can quickly jump to the table of contents no matter where you are, and you can quickly skip from section to section, perfect for a guidebook!

This guide includes travel topics such as dining, shopping, accommodations, and transportation, maps and pictures of the city, notes on staying safe and healthy in Paris, a full length French phrasebook, and more. There is a substantial overview of the city, and each district (arrondissement) has a separate section with further details for the area.

Paris is best enjoyed on foot, letting you take your time in the historic cafes and on the broad boulevards of the City of Lights. Spend more time enjoying the city and less time fumbling through guidebooks with Paris 2011.

French Global: A New Approach to Literary History

French Global: A New Approach to Literary History Review

Recasting French literary history in terms of the cultures and peoples that interacted within and outside of France's national boundaries, this volume offers a new way of looking at the history of a national literature, along with a truly global and contemporary understanding of language, literature, and culture.

The relationship between France's national territory and other regions of the world where French is spoken and written (most of them former colonies) has long been central to discussions of "Francophonie." Boldly expanding such discussions to the whole range of French literature, the essays in this volume explore spaces, mobilities, and multiplicities from the Middle Ages to today. They rethink literary history not in terms of national boundaries, as traditional literary histories have done, but in terms of a global paradigm that emphasizes border crossings and encounters with "others." Contributors offer new ways of reading canonical texts and considering other texts that are not part of the traditional canon. By emphasizing diverse conceptions of language, text, space, and nation, these essays establish a model approach that remains sensitive to the specificities of time and place and to the theoretical concerns informing the study of national literatures in the twenty-first century.

A Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799

A Short History of the French Revolution, 1789-1799 Review

Albert Soboul has held the Chair of the History of the French Revolution at the Sorbone since 1967, and is probably the leading Marxist scholar working in that field today. The book translated here should be regarded more as a synopsis of Professor Soboul's interpretation of the Revolution than as a detailed account of the course of events; it is an essay in analysis rather than a narrative. In it the author argues that the French Revolution can only be understood in terms of class struggle, and that any attempt to diminish the significance of class conflict as its motive force obscures the meaning of the events of the Revolution and rends them ultimately incomprehensible.
The course of the Revolution and its final outcome, which was clear by the time Napoleon seized power in 1799, were the products of a complex class struggle enacted simultaneously on many levels, leading finally to the triumph of the bourgeoisie, the defeat of the aristocracy, and the fragmentation and collapse of the popular forces, who as the allies of the bourgeoisie had played a vital part in securing its victory.
Professor Soboul shows that although the Revolution was caused initially by specific factors peculiar to the structure of French society at the end of the Old Regime, it came to constitute the definitive type of the bourgeois revolution and opened the way for the ascendary of industrial capitalism in the next century, not merely in France, but in the rest of Europe and the world at large.