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Napoléon a joué un rôle déterminant dans l’Histoire. Mais il n’a pas gagné tous ses combats. Celui qu’il a dû mener contre de sympathiques petites lésions rougeâtres au matin de sa toute dernière bataille l’aurait amené à… frapper son Waterloo ! Plusieurs autres évènements bizarres, drôles ou en apparence anodins ont eu une spectaculaire incidence sur le cours de l’Histoire. Certains ont transformé des vies, d’autres ont littéralement changé le monde que nous connaissons. Amusez-vous à imaginer ce qui serait arrivé : Si Hitler avait réussi sa première tentative de suicide.

La construction du mur de Berlin. L’impensable guerre des Malouines. Le massacre de la Saint-Barthélémy. Les conquêtes chinoises avortées. Si la grande Histoire fait souvent une place de choix aux triomphes et aux coups d’éclat,elle est aussi parfois le fruit du hasard,d’erreurs stupides, de fiascos diplomatiques et de décisions complètement absurdes.

"I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." -Dan Rather At a moment of crisis over our national identity, venerated journalist Dan Rather has emerged as a voice of reason and integrity, reflecting on-and writing passionately about-what it means to be an American. Now, with this collection of original essays, he reminds us of the principles upon which the United States was founded.

What are the origins of slavery and race-based prejudice in the mainland American colonies' How did the Atlantic slave trade operate to supply African labor to colonial America' How did African-American culture form and evolve' How did the American Revolution affect men and women of African descent' Previous editions of this work depicted African-Americans in the American mainland colonies as their contemporaries saw them: as persons from one of the four continents who interacted economically, socially, and politically in a vast, complex Atlantic world.

Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism, and television, and then flourished during the Romantic period on both sides of the Atlantic.

Modern Spain: 1808 to the Presentis a comprehensive overview of Spanish history from the Napoleonic era to the present day. -Places a large emphasis on Spain's place within broader European and global history -The chronological political narrative is enriched by separate chapters on long term economic, social and cultural developments -This presentation of modern Spanish history incorporates the latest thinking on key issues of modernity, social movements, nationalism, democratization and democracy

The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam Gebhardt reveals for the first time the scale of this human tragedy, which continued long after the hostilities had ended.

Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication ' what we call the media. In this book, historian Frederic Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of the first great 'media revolution' in the West: Gutenberg's invention of the printing press in the mid fifteenth century.

It begins with the founding of Halifax; the development of Nova Scotia and how it devolved into the Maritime provinces (ca.1785); the failure of Maritime Union, evolution of responsible government and the Canadian Confederation.

John O'Brien first learned about Oak Island in 1958 at the age of twelve, listening intently as his pharmacist father and a Saint Mary's University professor debated, for an entire winter, the merits of existing theories of Oak Island and the mysterious lost treasures of the world.