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...The Life of Louis XVI, by John Hardman, Yale, RRP£25/$40 A lifetime’s learning and love for 18th-century French history elevate Hardman’s biography into the fullest, most convincing portrait of Louis XVI...
...Both Scott and Macaulay were beneficiaries of a wave of writing that began in the later 18th century by the likes of the costume historian Joseph Strutt and the eccentric vegetarian radical Joseph Ritson...
...This was a journey of several years’ duration, and that also resulted in the founding of four forts along the way – Niagara in 1679, Saint Joseph and Crevecoeur in 1680, and Saint Louis in 1682....
...Mueller, III....
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...Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy By Eric D....
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