Tombs, France 1814-1914 (1996)

Robert Tombs.
France 1814-1914.
Harlow, England: Longman (Pearson Education Limited), 1996.
London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), 2014.

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Author Information:

• Robert Tombs, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.
• Robert Tombs (b. 1949), Wikipedia.
• Robert Tombs. The War Against Paris 1871. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
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• J.P.T. Bury and R.P. Tombs. Thiers 1797-1877: A Political Life. London: Allen & Unwin, 1986.
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• Robert Tombs. The Paris Commune 1871. 1999. London: Routledge, 2013.
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• Robert Tombs and Isabelle Tombs. That Sweet Enemy: Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship. 2006. New York: Vintage Books, 2008.
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• Robert Tombs. The English and Their History. 2014. New York: Vintage Books, 2016.
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• Robert Tombs. This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe. London: Allen Lane, 2021.
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Wikipedia Articles:

• France in the long nineteenth century.
  • French First Republic, 1792–1804.
  • First French Empire, 1804–1814/1815.
  • Bourbon Restoration in France, 1814/1815–1830.
  • July Monarchy, 1830–1848.
  • French Second Republic, 1848–1852.
  • Second French Empire, 1852–1870.
  • French Third Republic, 1870–1940.
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• Economic history of France: 1789–1914.
• History of rail transport in France.
• History of education in France: Growth 1815 to 1907.

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In Our Time Episodes on Nineteenth Century France:

• See my post for Gildea, Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 (2008).
  I found these episodes very insightful and complimentary to reading books, a little like attending university seminars. Also, Robert Tombs appears in the episode on the Dreyfus affair.

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Tombs' book France 1814-1914 is the best book on French history that I have read so far. Gildea's Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 (2008) is a good descriptive, chronological, introductory, survey of Nineteenth Century France, perhaps necessary to prepare one for Tombs' book. But don't stop with Gildea's book. Your preparation with Gildea's book will be rewarded by Tombs' book.

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Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors (2008)

William Shakespeare.
The Comedy of Errors.
Edited by Charles Whitworth.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
(This edition first published in 2002.)

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Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• The Comedy of Errors, written sometime between 1589 and 1595, according to Wikipedia.
  In the Introduction Charles Whitworth argues that the play was written in 1594 and first performed in late December of that year.
  It "was not published until it appeared in the First Folio in 1623" (Wikipedia).
• Plautus (c. 254 – 184 BC), Menaechmi.
  Note: This Oxford World's Classics edition of The Comedy of Errors includes the text of Plautus' Menaechmi translated into English by William Warner (1558–1609) and first published in 1595.
• Plautus, Amphitryon.
• Apollonius of Tyre.
• Shakespearean comedy.

English Renaissance Drama:

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English Renaissance theatre.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603), Queen of England 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• James VI and I (1566–1625), King of England as James I, 1603–1625.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

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