Histories of France

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486 - 987    -  The Franks


(Merovingian books - Ian Wood, Patrick Geary - VERY EXPENSIVE)


Barbero, Alessandro.  Charlemagne: Father of a Continent  (2004)  428 pages. 

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987 - 1453   -   State Building



Le Roy Laudurie, Emanuel.  Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error  (1978, 2008)  374 pages. 

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1453-1715   -   Early Modern France

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1715-1815  -   The French Revolution and Napoleon

Jones, Colin.  The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon  (2002)  688 pages.

Carlyle, Thomas.  The French Revolution: A History (1839)  848 pages.  (historical)

Palmer, Robert.  Catholics and Unbelievers in 18thCentury France (1939, 1966 new Ed)  248 pages.

Sutherland, D.M.G.  France, 1789-1815: Revolution and Counterrevolution (1986)  486 pages. 

Schama, Simon.  Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1990)  976 pages.

Aftalion, Florin.   The French Revolution an Economic Interpretation  (1990)  248 Pages.

Forrest, Alan.  The French Revolution  (1995)  208 pages.

Prickett, Stephen.  England and the French Revolution (1989) 200 pages.   

Doyle, William.  The Oxford History of the French Revolution (1989, 2002)  496 pages. 

 

Kates, Gary (ed.).  The French Revolution: Recent Debates and Controversies (1998)  304 pages.

Gill, John.  1809: Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs, Vol I - Abensburg   (2006)  512 pages.

Gill, John.  1809:  Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs, Vol II -  The Fall of Vienna and the Battle of Aspern (2014)  464 pages.

Gill, John.  1809:  Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs, Vol III -  Wagram and Znaim  (2007)  480 pages.

Scurr, Ruth. Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution  (2007)  448 pages.

Hunt, Lynn.  Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution: With a New Preface, 20th Anniversary Edition (1984, 2004) 272 pages.

Tackett, Timothy. The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution  (2015)  476 pages.

Israel, Jonathan. Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre  (2014)  888 pages.

Broers, Michael.  Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny  (2015)  609 pages.

Roberts, Andrew. Napoleon: A Life  (2015)   976 pages. 

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1815 - 1914