Paris in the Age of Absolutism by Orest Ranum, ISBN 0271022213
By the eighteenth century Paris was one of the great wonders of Europe, renowned for its magnificent royal monuments and as a center for science, Literature, and the arts. More so than any other European city, Paris reflected the spirit of an age -- an age that reached its zenith with the reign of France's Sun King, Louis XIV. No book better captures that spirit than Orest Ranum's Paris in the Age of Absolutism, first published in 1968 and now reissued in a revised and expanded edition.
Ranum's tour of Paris begins in the late 1500s with a French capital city exhausted by the violence of the Wars of Religion and proceeds through the long century that ends with the death of Louis XIV in 1715. Henry IV (1589-1610), head of the Bourbon branch of the royal family, laid the foundations of modern Paris, but it was during the mature years of his grandson, Louis XIV, and during the service of his visionary minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, that a New Rome was created. By 1715 the city was far different from what it had been in 1590. There were now large geometrical public squares with statues of the King at their focal point. There were arches of triumph, hospital-prisons, a new and gigantic wing on the Louvre, handsome stone bridges, streetlights, and massive stone quays along the Seine.
Ranum ranges widely through the streets and quarters of Paris, attentive to the achievements of town planners, architects, and engineers as well as to city politics, social currents, and the spirit of religious reform. Behind it all lay the rule-creating authoritarianism of the absolute state, which, ironically, unleashed Parisians' creative impulses in everything from literature, painting, and music toarchitecture, mathematics, and physics.
Paris in the Age of Absolutism is one of those rare books that combines elegant prose with stunning erudition, making it both captivating for general readers and challenging to scholars.
England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism by James Chandler, ISBN 0226101088
In 1819, writers Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth produced their most acclaimed work, and the craze for Walter Scott's historical novels reached a zenith. Here James Chandler shows how literature engaged the volatile politics of the day and became, in effect, history writing itself. To demonstrate his point, Chandler offers a series of cases of his own built around key texts from the era. Photos.
England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism by James Chandler, ISBN 0226101088 
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Football and Fascism: The National Game Under Mussolini
This is a cultural history of Italian Fascism viewed through the lens of soccer. The 1930s were the zenith of achievement for Italian football--Italy hosted and won the 1934 World Cup and retained the trophy in 1938. At club level, Calcio was reorganized into a national league, after which the first Italian club teams emerged to dominate European competition. It was at this time that Mussolini's party institutionalized soccer as a fascist game. Italian Fascism fully exploited the opportunities football provided to shape public opinion, penetrate daily life, and reinforce conformity. By politicizing the game, Fascism also sought to enhance the regime's international prestige and inculcate nationalist values." Football and Fascism" is an original look at the appropriation of sport to serve political ends during a dark period of Italian history.
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Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers by Harwood, Herbert H., Jr., ISBN 0253341639
Invisible Giants is the Horatio Alger-esque tale of a pair of reclusive Cleveland brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, who rose from poverty to become two of the most powerful men in America. They controlled the country's largest railroad system -- a network of track reaching from the Atlantic to Salt Lake City and from Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico. On the eve of the Great Depression they were close to controlling the country's first coast-to-coast rail system -- a goal that still eludes us. They created the model upper-class suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, with its unique rapid transit access. They built Cleveland's landmark Terminal Tower and its innovative "city within a city" complex. Indisputably, they created modern Cleveland.
Yet beyond a small, closely knit circle, the bachelor Van Sweringen brothers were enigmas. Their actions were aggressive, creative, and bold, but their manner was modest, mild, and retiring. Dismissed by many as mere shoe-string financial...
Invisible Giants: The Empires of Cleveland's Van Sweringen Brothers by Harwood, Herbert H., Jr., ISBN 0253341639
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The CET Study Guide by Joseph A. Risse, ISBN 0070529337
Professional electronic technicians preparing to take a Certified Electronics Technician (CET) exam will find this book an extremely helpful resource. Designed to serve as an overall review guide, it covers a wide range of information readers must know in order to pass the Associate-level section of the Certified Electronics Technician Exam and both the Consumer and the Computer Journeyman-level tests. Subjects covered include three-terminal amplifying circuits in consumer products, VCRs and compact disc players, televisions, digital and computer systems, and text equipment and troubleshooting. Review questions with all answers are included at the end of each chapter. Three complete 75-question exams and answers are provided at the end of the book.
The CET Study Guide by Joseph A. Risse, ISBN 0070529337
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