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James R. Gaines For liberty and glory
Washington, Lafayette, and their revolutions
They began as courtiers in a hierarchy of privilege, but history remembers them as patriot-citizens in a commonwealth of equals. On April 18, 1775, a riot over the price of flour broke out in the French city of Dijon; that same night, across the Atlantic, Paul Revere mounted the fastest horse he could find. So began what have been called the "sister revolutions" of France and America. In a single narrative, this book tells the story of those revolutions and shows just how deeply intertwined they...
Engels | 533 pagina's | W. W. Norton, New York [etc.] | 2007
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James R. Gaines Een avond in het paleis van de rede
Bach en Frederik de Grote in het tijdperk van de verlichting
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 326 pagina's | De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam [etc.] | 2006
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