Author: Richard Snailham
Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
Keywords: brittany, normandy
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1986-05-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0297785990
ISBN-13: 9780297785996

Author: Greg Ward
Publisher: Rough Guides
Keywords: normandy, brittany, guide, rough
Number of Pages: 421
Published: 2001-09-10
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1858287111
ISBN-13: 9781858287119

This guide to Britany and Normandy features: detailed accounts of the region’s historic sites, from the megaliths of Carnac to the D-Day beaches; reviews of the best places to eat and stay in all price ranges; tips on reaching even remote areas by bike, bus, car or train; and background culture.

Author: Nancy Locklin
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: century, brittany, eighteenth, identity, work, women
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2007-11-20
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754658198
ISBN-13: 9780754658191

Based on a solid foundation of archival research that ranges from tax rolls to notarial records, this study adds an important chapter to our understanding of women in pre-industrial Europe. Through a rigorous examination of primary documents peculiar to eighteenth-century Brittany, the author demonstrates the difficulties engendered in broad generalities about European women, and makes a strong case for the necessity for historians to account for regional differences in women’s experiences. In particular, Nancy Locklin makes a compelling argument for the need to incorporate a broader bas

Authors:Elsie Masson, Amena Pendleton, Thornton Oakley,
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: brittany, tales, folk
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2010-05-23
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1161627030
ISBN-13: 9781161627039

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Author: James B. Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: modern, studies, history, cambridge, brittany, order, classes, estates
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2003-01-30
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0521533147
ISBN-13: 9780521533140

This book uses the Breton experience to address two fundamental historiographical issues: the meaning of absolutism and the nature of early-modern French society. It abandons the old framework that opposed orders to classes, and instead seeks to find the central meaning of the evolution of the French state in the maintenance of order (especially the preservation of property). Professor Collins’s main purpose, illustrated by his fusion of economic, social and institutional approaches, is to combine social and political/institutional history, so long separated in works on this field. Contr