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Au temps de Charlemagne (Des enfants dans l'histoire)
By Françoise Lebrun. 1999
"Au temps de Charlemagne" est un titre faisant partie d'une collection destinée aux jeunes lecteurs. L'enfant est initié à des…
pans de l'histoire. Ici, il se retrouve avec Charlemagne, empereur d'Occident, alors qu'il combattait les musulmans d'Espagne. Années 3-6. 1999.Chevaliers et miracles: la violence et le sacré dans la société féodale (Collection Les enjeux de l'histoire)
By Dominique Barthélemy. 2004
La France de l'an mil est celle des chevaliers et des miracles. Les seigneurs de châteaux, les princes de petites…
régions ont un peu éclipsé les rois, et il semble par moments que les saints, grands faiseurs de miracles, portent ombrage à Dieu lui-même. Les uns et les autres, violents et vindicatifs, s'opposent, nouent et dénouent des alliances, occupent enfin tout l'espace social. En somme, si le système féodal a pu durer, c'est parce qu'il était chrétien, c'est parce que la religion, dans ses pompes et ses oeuvres, est venue prêter son concours à un ordre politique très peu respectueux des commandements divins. 2004.Korruption!: au coeur du système nazi (Au fil de l'histoire)
By Frank Bajohr, Laurent Cantagrel. 2017
L'ouvrage de Frank Bajohr apporte un éclairage édifiant : le régime nazi reposait sur une corruption quasi organique. Le système…
récompensait les plus fidèles, enrichissait les plus zélés, spoliait les bannis. Argent, demeures, entreprises, oeuvres d'art changèrent de mains en quelques mois sans que les institutions garantes du droit n'aient réagi. Le vol, le pillage, occultés par une idéologie omniprésente, furent bien les leviers indispensables du pouvoir nazi et un rouage essentiel de la Shoah. Comment tout cela fut-il possible dans ce grand empire allemand, traditionnellement attaché à ses lois ? Le livre est nourri des scandales de ces SS avides, à la cupidité sans limite, affranchis de la moindre humanité. Budgets publics détournés, petits et grands arrangements, incompétence généralisée témoignent contre la supposée bonne gestion nazie . Mais l'auteur va plus loin : les comportements des dirigeants érigés en modèles firent école en libérant nombre d'Allemands tout à fait normaux des scrupules qui les retenaient encore. Un Rubicon moral avait été franchi. 2017.Histoires de croisades ((Champs. Histoire ; 960).)
By Alessandro Barbero, Jean-Marc Mandosio. 2010
" C'est donc ainsi que commencent les croisades, c'est-à-dire l'aventure de ces chrétiens qui ont entendu l'appel du pape, en…
sont restés fascinés et se sont engagés dans une entreprise qu'avec nos valeurs d'aujourd'hui nous jugeons assez discutable, mais qui pour eux était sacro-sainte : ils partent pour Jérusalem, à pied, en se taillant un chemin par la force, et prennent la ville. C'est la première croisade ; mais il y en aura ensuite beaucoup d'autres. Car les musulmans, de leur côté, ne restent pas inertes à la vue d'une horde de barbares sanguinaires venus on ne sait d'où - mécréants, qui plus est -, entrant en terre d'Islam, semant la destruction et venant conquérir une de leurs villes saintes. Ils ont évidemment ressenti comme une grande offense le fait que ces mécréants d'Occident se soient emparés de Jérusalem et du tombeau du Christ. Le monde islamique se mobilise donc aussitôt pour reconquérir la Ville sainte et chasser les envahisseurs. Voilà pourquoi la chute de Jérusalem en 1099 est suivie par deux siècles de croisades. " Titre uniforme: Benedette guerre : Crociate e Jihad.Histoire de chambres (La librairie du XXIe siècle)
By Michelle Perrot. 2009
De l'Antiquité à nos jours, M. Perrot esquisse une généalogie de la chambre, creuset de la culture occidentale, et explore…
quelques-unes de ses formes : la chambre du roi (Louis XIV à Versailles), la chambre d'hôtel, du garni ou du palace, la chambre conjugale, la chambre d'enfant, celle des domestiques, ou encore celle du malade et du mourant. Nid et noeud, la chambre est un tissu de secrets. 2009.Great hatred, little room: making peace in Northern Ireland
By Jonathan Powell. 2008
Kosovo: a short history
By Noel Malcolm. 1998
History of a disputed area in southeastern Europe that was once part of Yugoslavia. Both Serbs and Albanians contest the…
region known as Kosovo, based on historical records and mythology. Explores the impacts of Ottoman expansion in Europe, the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, national developments in 1912, World War II, and the years of Marshal Tito's rule until 1980. 1998.Patrice Chaplin tells the true story of the Englishwoman entrusted with the legacy of Rennes-le-Chateau. Rich with photographs, letters and…
historical documents, it fills in key gaps in one of the most compelling mysteries of all time. 2007.Calum's road
By Roger Hutchinson. 2006
Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay, Scotland, since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona…
lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until semi-automation in 1967 reduced his responsibilities. 'So what he decided to do,' says his last neighbour, Donald MacLeod, 'was to build a road out of Arnish in his months off. With a road he hoped new generations of people would return to Arnish and all the north end of Raasay...' And so, at the age of 56, Calum MacLeod, the last man left in northern Raasay, set about single-handedly constructing the 'impossible' road. 2006.Britain's best kept secret: Ultra's base at Bletchley Park
By Ted Enever. 1999
In 1938 the British Government's Code and Cypher School moved to Bletchley Park where dedicated teams unpicked Germany's Enigma codes…
bringing about the ultimate Allied victory of 1945. Although thousands of people worked at Bletchley, they never spoke openly of their work and the German high command believed that Enigma remained unbroken throughout the war. Only in 1975 did the story begin to be known and became Britain's best kept secret. The author traces the Park's early history and provides a guide to the key wartime buildings and what went on behind the scenes, as well as describing how the complex was recently saved from demolition. 1999.“Assassination” is the revelation of a 1000-year curse that has shaken the monarchy from Canute to Elizabeth II. Maislish uncovers…
the murder or attempted murder of every single King and Queen. 2012.Istanbul: city of majesty at the crossroads of the world
By Thomas F Madden. 2016
Perched at the tip of Europe, gazing across the shores of Asia, Istanbul remains as much a city of crossroads…
as it has for the past two millennia. The history of this fabled metropolis--known as Byzantium, then Constantinople, now Istanbul--is at once glorious, outsized, and astounding. Madden's biography of this city captures centuries of triumph and defeat, riches and poverty, seen through the eyes of those who inhabited it: the emperors and empresses, craftsmen and architects, sailors and fishermen, street vendors and harem concubines. 2016.Ivory Vikings: the mystery of the most famous chessmen in the world and the woman who made them
By Nancy Marie Brown. 2015
In the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved…
from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Who carved them? Where? Brown explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. 2015.Ireland and the Irish: a short history
By Karl S Bottigheimer. 1982
In search of the Dark Ages
By Michael Wood. 1981
Imperial reckoning: the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
By Caroline Elkins. 2005
Recovers the lost history of the last days of British colonialism in Kenya. In the aftermath of World War II…
and the triumph of liberal democracy over fascism, the British detained and brutalised hundreds of thousands of Kikuyu - the colony's largest ethnic group - who had demanded their independence. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2005.As the Second World War and the Nazi assault on Europe ended, some 25,000 Jews walked out of the forests…
of Eastern Europe. For three years, these people had miraculously survived. They had escaped from the Nazi ghettos and slave labour camps and formed secret partisan camps in the surrounding forests. The forest not only protected them, it also became their base for sabotage and resistance efforts against the Germans and their allies. This is their story. 2009, c1998.Digging for Troy: from Homer to Hisarlik
By Jill Rubalcaba, Eric H Cline, Sarah S Brannen. 2011
After retelling a legend of the Trojan War based on Homer's Iliad the authors profile the archaeologists who have sought…
to excavate the remains of the city of Troy, beginning with amateur Heinrich Schliemann. For grades 5-8 and older readers. Some descriptions of violence. c2011.In 1989 the Berlin Wall was dismantled, and Communism gave way to democracy. Since that time the former borderlands of…
the old Hapsburg and Soviet Empires have been trying to invent their own versions of democracy and market-driven economics. But these experiments have led to a widening gap between rich and poor, the worldwide economic crisis has tested Central Europe's determination to live peaceably, and there are many disquieting signs of racial tensions returning. Winner of the 2011 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for political writing. 2010.In medieval Europe (from the years 1000 to 1500), whatever work you got, you were stuck with. You might be…
a barber, chopping off people's hair (and sickly limbs), a rich lord, or work in a castle, the Church, or in law and order. It might have been fun or exciting to be a knight or an actor, but wait till you find out what a Gong Farmer did! Grades 3-6. Bestseller 2004. 2003.