Louis XXX
Louis XXX

Author: Georges Bataille

Publisher:

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780957121355

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Louis Riel
Louis Riel

Author: Chester Brown

Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly

Published: 2021-04-22

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1770460853

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Chester Brown reinvents the comic book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel. Brown won the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for his compelling, meticulous, and dispassionate retelling of the charismatic, and perhaps insane, nineteenth-century Metis leader's life. Brown coolly documents with dramatic subtlety the violent rebellion on the Canadian prairie led by Riel, an embattled figure in Canadian history, regarded by some as a martyr who died in the name of freedom, while others consider him a treacherous murderer.

There Once Was a Girl Who Created a World
There Once Was a Girl Who Created a World

Author: Louis Cannizzaro

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 1524866490

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Slip into the remarkable world of Louis XXX’s visual poetry, which finds simplicity in the infinite and infinity in the simple. “Louis’s books just plain make life better." —Greg Behrendt, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller He’s Just Not That Into You Self-published poet and painter Louis Cannizzaro invites you into a universe of playful and haunting poetry with There Once Was a Girl Who Created a World, his most enchanting collection to date. Using his famous and immediately recognizable art and resonant poetry, Cannizzaro paints a world that is sometimes whimsical and sometimes poignant, often set in a city, under the stars, or the bright afternoon sun.

The Etablissements de Saint Louis
The Etablissements de Saint Louis

Author: F. R. P. Akehurst

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1512800031

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As the earliest major monument of the customary law in the region to the south and southwest of the Ile de France, the book known as the Etablissements de Saint Louis greatly amplifies our knowledge of feudal and private law in the French kingdom. Frequently cited by legal historians, it has nonetheless remained inaccessible to readers unable to master its difficult Old French. Now, F. R. P. Akehurst presents the text's first English translation, making this vital component of the vernacular law of thirteenth century France available to a wide range of scholars. A hybrid text, the Etablissements was probably compiled by a lawyer around the year 1273. The book takes its name from its first part, a set of nine ordinances of Louis IX giving the rules of procedure for the court of the Chatelet in Paris. The second part, made up of one hundred and sixty-six short chapters, is a collection of the customary laws of the Touraine-Anjou region; the thirty-eight chapters of the third section record the laws of the Orleans region. Whereas the Touraine-Anjou material presents a broad treatment of many aspects of the law, the Orleans customary reveals a preoccupation with problems of jurisdiction in a region where the king and local authorities were in sharp competition for power.

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

Author: David Carrithers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 627

ISBN-13: 1351572237

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The French philosophe Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) was a political and social thinker of enormous depth, range, originality, and influence. The essays by eminent scholars reprinted in this volume explore significant aspects of his contributions to political, constitutional, and religious thought during the epoch of the French Enlightenment. Topics highlighted include his Persian Letters (1721), his history of Rome (1734), and the views he expressed in The Spirit of Laws (1748) on natural law, forms of government, English constitutionalism, religion, commerce, international relations, and the philosophy of history. Supplemented by a detailed introduction that contextualizes the papers selected for this volume, as well as an extensive bibliography, this work serves as an authoritative reference to the best scholarship on Montesquieu's political thought. The volume is edited and introduced by David W. Carrithers, Adolph Ochs Professor of Government at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and author of numerous publications on Montesquieu.

Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV
Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV

Author: Steven L. Kaplan

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 817

ISBN-13: 1783084790

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A new edition of Kaplan’s landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on research in all the Parisian depots and more than fifty departmental archives and specialized and municipal libraries, Kaplan’s classic work constitutes a major contribution to the study of the subsistence problem before the French Revolution and the political economy of deregulatory reform. Anthem Press is proud to reissue this path breaking work together with a significant new historiographic companion volume by the author, “The Stakes of Regulation: Perspectives on ‘Bread, Politics and Political Economy’ Forty Years Later.”

Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson

Author: Reginald Charles Terry

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780877455127

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In recent years there has been a wave of enthusiasm for the author of these works, with the publication of major biographies and collections of his letters.