"Nineteen sixty eight was the climactic year of New Left protest all over the Western world, and especially in France where in May of that year ten million workers transformed a student protest into a revolutionary movement by joining it in the streets. In the short space of a month France was overthrown and restored, but not without suffering a shock which resounds to this day. Like many an unsuccessful revolution before it, the May Events triumphed in the political culture of the society that defeated it in the streets. Although the Events occurred in France, they reveal many of the underlying causes of student protest throughout the advanced capitalist world, including the United States.
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May (1968) Events Archive
"Nineteen sixty eight was the climactic year of New Left protest all over the Western world, and especially in France where in May of that year ten million workers transformed a student protest into a revolutionary movement by joining it in the streets. In the short space of a month France was overthrown and restored, but not without suffering a shock which resounds to this day. Like many an unsuccessful revolution before it, the May Events triumphed in the political culture of the society that defeated it in the streets. Although the Events occurred in France, they reveal many of the underlying causes of student protest throughout the advanced capitalist world, including the United States.
The Siege and Commune of Paris
"This site contains links to over 1200 digitized photographs and images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris cir.1871. In addition to the images in this set, the Library's Siege & Commune Collection contains 1500 caricatures, 68 newspapers in hard-copy and film, hundreds of books and pamphlets and about 1000 posters. Additions are made regularly. The originals are located in the Charles Deering McCormick of Special Collections in the Deering Library at Northwestern University.
Portraits; Landscapes/Architecture; Political Caricatures; Documentation (handwritten notes on obverse of photographs); Master Index (Title)(122K); Subject Index (73K)"
Napoleonic Satires
"The Napoleonic satires housed in the Anne S. K. Brown Military collection of the John Hay Library represent several important gifts made to the library in the 20th century. In addition to the Napoleonic satires located in the military collection bequeathed by Ms. Brown, Paul Revere Bullard (Class of 1897) and William H. Hoffman contributed a variety of significant objects with a Napoleonic theme. In addition to print caricatures and satires, their donations include historical volumes, manuscripts, sculpture, and some paintings.
The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, 1769-1794
"The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe project uses database technology to map the trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a celebrated Swiss publishing house that operated between 1769 and 1794.
As the STN sold the works of other publishers alongside its own editions, their archives can be considered a representative source for studying the history of the book trade and dissemination of ideas in the late Enlightenment.
Using state of the art database, web interface and GIS technology, the project will provide a user-friendly resource for use by scholars, teachers and students of French literature and history, book history, the Enlightenment and bibliography more generally.
This resource will be publically launched in mid-2011, and will be freely available on this website."
Encyclopedia of Diderot and D'Alembert
"This site has been designed to make accessible to teachers, students, and other interested English- language readers translations of articles from the Encyclopédie edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert in the 18th century."
Modern Editions of Early Modern French Sources
"Art; Colonialism and New France; Correspondence; Crime and Jurisprudence; Education; Encyclopedie; Enlightenment: Anthologies; Enlightenment: Authors; History Writing; Homosexuality; Literary Sources; Louix XIV; Memoirs and Journals; Music; Philosophy; Political History; Political Thought; Religion; Revolution; Science; Social History; Travels; Utopias; War; Witchcraft; Women"
Selected Images from the Encyclopédie
"... [S]elected pages from the copy of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert in the the Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library.
... Selected Images
From volume 1
* Frontispiece
* Title page
* Foldout diagram - the system of human knowledge
From volume 7 of the Planches (plates)
* Plate 1 - typesetting, composing stick, and the words "GLOIRE à DIEU. Honneur au Roi. Salut aux ARMES."
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