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A Tale of Ritual Murder in the Age of Louis XIV: The Trial of Raphael Levy, 1669

Product Description: In the late seventeenth century, France prided itself for its rationality and scientific achievements. Yet it was then that Raphaël Lévy, a French Jew, was convicted, tortured, and executed for an act he did not commit, a fiction deriving from medieval anti-Jewish myth: the ritual murder of a Christian boy to obtain blood for satanic rituals...read more

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans)

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9780804774048 | Stanford Univ Pr, October 3, 2012, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In the late seventeenth century, France prided itself for its rationality and scientific achievements.

Empire's Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies

Product Description: Europe’s imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers.When Emmanuelle Saada discovered a 1928 decree defining the status of persons of mixed parentage born in French Indochina—the métis—she found not only a remarkable artifact of colonial rule, but a legal bombshell that introduced race into French law for the first time...read more

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans)

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9780226733081 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 2, 2012, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Europe’s imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers.

Tocqueville: The Ancien Regime and the French Revolution

Product Description: This new translation of an undisputed classic aims to be both accurate and readable. Tocqueville's subtlety of style and profundity of thought offer a challenge to readers as well as to translators. As both a Tocqueville scholar and an award-winning translator, Arthur Goldhammer is uniquely qualified for the task...read more

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9780521889803 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 27, 2011, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This new translation of an undisputed classic aims to be both accurate and readable.

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9780521718912 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 20, 2011, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This new translation of an undisputed classic aims to be both accurate and readable.

Democratic Legitimacy: Impartiality, Reflexivity, Proximity

Product Description: It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But in Democratic Legitimacy, Pierre Rosanvallon, one of today's leading political thinkers, argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding...read more

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans)

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9780691149486 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 5, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions.

Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement

Product Description: Neoconservatism has undergone a transformation that has made a clear identity almost impossible to capture. The Republican foreign policy operatives of the George W. Bush era seem far removed from the early liberal intellectuals who focused on domestic issues...read more

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans)

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9780674050518 | Belknap Pr, May 21, 2010, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Neoconservatism has undergone a transformation that has made a clear identity almost impossible to capture.

Montaigne in Motion

Product Description: Educated in the humanities and trained in psychiatry, Jean Starobinski is a central figure in the Geneva School of criticism. His classic work, Montaigne in Motion, is a subtly conceived and elegantly written study of the Essais of Montaigne, whose deceptively plainspoken meditations have entranced readers and stimulated philosophers since their first publication in 1580 and 1595...read more

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans)

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9780226771311 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, May 30, 2009), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Educated in the humanities and trained in psychiatry, Jean Starobinski is a central figure in the Geneva School of criticism.

The Languages of Paradise: Race, Religion, and Philology in the Nineteenth Century

Product Description: Michel Foucault observed that “the birth of philology attracted far less notice in the Western mind than did the birth of biology or political economy.” In this penetrating exploration of the origin of the discipline, Maurice Olender shows that philology left an indelible mark on Western visions of history and contributed directly to some of the most horrifying ideologies of the twentieth century...read more

By Maurice Olender

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9780674510524 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $57.50 | About this edition: Michel Foucault observed that “the birth of philology attracted far less notice in the Western mind than did the birth of biology or political economy.

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9780674030626 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 15, 2008, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Michel Foucault observed that “the birth of philology attracted far less notice in the Western mind than did the birth of biology or political economy.

Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century

Product Description: The fear of oblivion obsessed medieval and early modern Europe. Stone, wood, cloth, parchment, and paper all provided media onto which writing was inscribed as a way to ward off loss. And the task was not easy in a world in which writing could be destroyed, manuscripts lost, or books menaced with destruction...read more

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans)

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9780812220469 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, September 30, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The fear of oblivion obsessed medieval and early modern Europe.

The Demands of Liberty: Civil Society in France Since the Revolution

Product Description: How does France reconcile the modern movement toward pluralism and decentralization with a strong central governing power? One of the country's most distinguished political historians offers a radical new interpretation of the development of democracy in France and the relationship between government and its citizens...read more

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans) and Pierre Rosanvallon

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9780674024960 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 30, 2007, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: How does France reconcile the modern movement toward pluralism and decentralization with a strong central governing power?

Camus At Combat: Writing 1944-1947

Product Description: Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men's blood...read more

By David Carroll (foreword by), Arthur Goldhammer (trans) and Jacqueline Levi-Valensi (editor)

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9780691120041 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 27, 2005, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night.

The Kill

A new translation of the French naturalism classic, the second in the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart saga, follows the incestuous affair of Ren�e Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, in the wake of her husband's frenzied speculation and Paris's entry into the modern world. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans) and Emile Zola

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9780679642749 | Modern Library, August 1, 2004, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A new translation of the French naturalism classic follows the incestuous affair of Ren�ee Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, in the wake of her husband's frenzied speculation and Paris's entry into the modern world.

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9780812966374 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, July 12, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A new translation of the French naturalism classic, the second in the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart saga, follows the incestuous affair of Ren�e Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, in the wake of her husband's frenzied speculation and Paris's entry into the modern world.

Paris: Capital of the World

Product Description: In an original and evocative journey through modern Paris from the mid-eighteenth century to World War II, Patrice Higonnet offers a delightful cultural portrait of a multifaceted, continually changing city. In examining the myths and countermyths of Paris that have been created and re-created over time, Higonnet reveals a magical urban alchemy in which each era absorbs the myths and perceptions of Paris past, adapts them to the cultural imperatives of its own time, and feeds them back into the city, creating a new environment...read more

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans) and Patrice Higonnet

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9780674008878 | Belknap Pr, October 18, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A cultural study of Paris from the mid-eighteenth century to World War II portrays the city as a capital of revolution, science, empire, literature, and art, examining the area in different times and from various perspectives to consider its perpetually shifting urban dynamics.

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9780674017580 | Belknap Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $26.50 | About this edition: In an original and evocative journey through modern Paris from the mid-eighteenth century to World War II, Patrice Higonnet offers a delightful cultural portrait of a multifaceted, continually changing city.

The Languages of Paradise: Aryans and Semites, a Match Made in Heaven

Product Description: Michel Foucault observed that "the birth of philology attracted far less notice in the Western mind than did the birth of biology or political economy." In this penetrating exploration of the origin of the discipline, Maurice Olender shows that philology left an indelible mark on Western visions of history, and contributed directly to some of the most horrifying ideologies of the twentieth century...read more

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans) and Maurice Olender

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9781590510254 | Revised edition (Other Pr Llc, January 1, 2003), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Michel Foucault observed that "the birth of philology attracted far less notice in the Western mind than did the birth of biology or political economy.

The Measure of the World: A Novel

A novel based on the 1792 attempt to measure the prime meridian follows a group of scientific pioneers sent by the revolutionary government of France to accomplish this important task.

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans) and Denis Guedj

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9780226310305 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: A novel based on the 1792 attempt to measure the prime meridian follows a group of scientific pioneers sent by the revolutionary government of France to accomplish this important task.

Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV

Product Description: The Duke of Saint-Simon (1675—1755) was by all accounts, including his own, a sensitive, self-obsessed, ill-tempered man. A courtier and phenomenal chronicler of court life under Louis XIV, he produced the monumental work Memoirs, running to thousands of pages, in which the intrigues, personalities, activities, and gossip of life at Versailles are recorded in acerbic detail...read more

By Jean-Francois Fitou, Arthur Goldhammer (trans) and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

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9780226473208 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The Duke of Saint-Simon (1675—1755) was by all accounts, including his own, a sensitive, self-obsessed, ill-tempered man.

Antiquities

Offers thrity-nine articles, chapters, or prefaces by noted figures in French Greco-Roman studies. (view table of contents)

By Arthur Goldhammer (editor), Nicole Loraux (editor), Gregory Nagy and Laura M. Slatkin (editor)

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9781565843769 | New Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $40.00 | also contains Antiquities | About this edition: Offers thrity-nine articles, chapters, or prefaces by noted figures in French Greco-Roman studies.

France in the Enlightenment

Product Description: A panorama of a whole civilization, a world on the verge of cataclysm, unfolds in this magisterial work by the foremost historian of eighteenth-century France. Since Tocqueville's account of the Old Regime, historians have struggled to understand the social, cultural, and political intricacies of this efflorescence of French society before the Revolution...read more

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans) and Daniel Roche

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9780674317475 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 20, 1998, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Explores the social, cultural, and political developments in France in the period before the Revolution

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9780674001992 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 10, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A panorama of a whole civilization, a world on the verge of cataclysm, unfolds in this magisterial work by the foremost historian of eighteenth-century France.

A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem

Product Description: Georges Canguilhem is one of France's foremost historians of science. Trained as a medical doctor as well as a philosopher, he combined these practices to demonstrate to philosophers that there could be no epistemology without concrete study of the actual development of the sciences and to historians that there could be no worthwhile history of science without a philosophical understanding of the conceptual basis of all knowledge...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Georges Canguilhem, Francois Delaporte (editor) and Arthur Goldhammer (trans)

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9780942299731 | Zone Books, February 28, 2000, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Georges Canguilhem is one of France's foremost historians of science.

Jewish Destinies: Citizenship, State, and Community in Modern France

An indepth exploration of citizenship and its relationship to minorities focuses on the culture of France and the history of Jewish citizens there, showing how antiSemitism has waxed and waned since the Revolution and offering provocative conclusions about modernday racism (view table of contents)

By Pierre Birnbaum and Arthur Goldhammer (trans)

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9780809061013 | 1 edition (Hill & Wang Pub, February 1, 2000), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An exploration of citizenship and its relationship to minorities focuses on the culture of France and the history of Jewish citizens there, showing how anti-semitism has waxed and waned since the Revolution.

Literary Debate: Texts and Contexts

Product Description: Key texts from the leading theorists in postwar French literary criticism. In Literary Debate, the second volume in the Series, editors Denis Hollier and Jeffrey Mehlman present a selection of texts, many available in English for the first time, that together offer an illuminating and provocative overview of French literary criticism, its revolutions and obsessions, institutions and interpretations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans), Denis Hollier (editor) and Jeffrey Mehlman (editor)

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9781565842892 | New Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Key texts from the leading theorists in postwar French literary criticism.

The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga

Product Description: From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. With masterful erudition, Le Roy Ladurie deepens and expands the historical contexts of these accounts and, in the process, brings to life the customs, perceptions, and character of an age poised at the threshold of modernity...read more

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans) and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

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9780226473246 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, June 6, 1998), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons.

Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past : Symbols

Product Description: Archives, monuments, celebrations:there are not merely the recollections of memory but also the foundations of history. Symbols, the third and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental Realms of Memory, includes groundbreaking discussions of the emblems of France's past by some of the nation's most distinguished intellectuals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans) and Lawrence D. Kritzman (editor)

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9780231109260 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Archives, monuments, celebrations:there are not merely the recollections of memory but also the foundations of history.

History Continues

Product Description: In this engaging intellectual autobiography, Georges Duby looks back on a career that has led him to be called one of the most distinguished historians in the Western world.Since its beginning in the 1940s, Duby's career has been rich and varied, encompassing economic history, social history, the history of mentalites, art history, microhistory, urban history, the history of women and sexuality, and, most recently, the Church's influence on feudal society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Georges Duby and Arthur Goldhammer (trans)

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9780226167756 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 15, 1994, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: In this engaging intellectual autobiography, Georges Duby looks back on a career that has led him to be called one of the most distinguished historians in the Western world.

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9780226167824 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1998), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: In this engaging intellectual autobiography, Georges Duby looks back on a career that has led him to be called one of the most distinguished historians in the Western world.

The Roman Empire

Product Description: This compact book--which appeared earlier in the multivolume series A History of Private Life--is a history of the Roman Empire in pagan times. It is an interpretation setting forth in detail the universal civilization of the Romans—so much of it Hellenic—that later gave way to Christianity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans) and Paul Veyne

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9780674777712 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, October 1, 1997), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: This compact book--which appeared earlier in the multivolume series A History of Private Life--is a history of the Roman Empire in pagan times.

Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past : Traditions

By Arthur Goldhammer (trans), Lawrence D. Kritzman (editor) and Pierre Nora (editor)

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9780231106344 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Archives, monuments, celebrations:there are not merely the recollections of memory but also the foundations of history.

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