Rafe Blaufarb: 3 books
Bonapartists in the Borderlands
French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815–1835
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Bonapartists in the Borderlands recounts how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe and the Caribbean joined forces with Latin American insurgents, Gulf pirates, and international adventurers to seek their fortune in the Gulf borderlands. The U.S. Congress welcomed the French to America...
The Great Demarcation
The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
What does it mean to own something? What sorts of things can be owned, and what cannot? How does one relinquish ownership? What are the boundaries between private and public property? Over the course of a decade, the French Revolution grappled with these questions. Punctuated by false starts, contingencies,...
by Jacob Melish, Judith DeGroat, Cynthia Truant
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
In the eighteenth century, French women were active in a wide range of employments-from printmaking to running whole-sale businesses-although social and legal structures frequently limited their capacity to work independently. The contributors to Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France reveal...