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“... history could exert a crippling hold which only the historian, as therapist, could break. One of Linda Colley’s many triumphs is to encompass the immense complexity of Namier’s personality in such a brief space. Another is to tread with tact over many sensitive areas: the matter of academic anti-semitism and ostracism, Namier’s sometimes paranoid ...”

“... she published the year before her death a refutation of his Reflections on the Revolution in France. Yet she died, as Wollstonecraft noted, ‘without sufficient respect being paid to her memory’. Her books have, as far as I know, never been reprinted. And as Hill herself admits, ‘she is no longer read.’ But does she actually deserve anything ...”

“... country, after a century as a dependency of Denmark, became little more than an extension of France. The period of the Crusades, indeed, saw the beginning of something more than the Continent’s genetic aggrandisement: the reach of its culture overcame anything that could be called typically English. This happened elsewhere. ‘England, Sicily and ...”

“... the plans of the békés, or planter class, who wanted the colony to look like France) and after Abolition climbed the slopes of the outlying hills, to try to found a community of former slaves in order to break their dependence on rehire at starvation wages on the same old plantations. Here, as in Saint-Pierre, Esternome set to work with ...”

“... becoming more visible as a major force in the American avant-garde ... and she was acknowledged in France for an “oeuvre that is complete and distinctive, worthy of commanding the public’s attention”,’ as the critic André Mellerio wrote. How did a young woman from Pittsburgh arrive at this summit? The rest of Pollock’s book is an answer to that ...”

“... suits and tutus. Sometimes she let slip a detail about her life. She said she had come from France to New York City with her mother, just at the end of childhood. I asked her once what had brought her to Chicago. Instead of answering, she changed the subject; apparently she’d once spent a whole year travelling the world on a freighter; her employers ...”

“... or defeated tended to be the ones that underwent the most fundamental changes. Germany, Japan and France all gained new constitutions after 1945. By contrast, neither the UK, which was seemingly a victor power, nor the US, which was certainly a victor power, changed its political system in the wake of the Second World War. Instead, in both countries, victory ...”

“... way foreigners had sliced off portions of its historic territory under a Russian-imposed King. And France, even as Johnson spoke, was still echoing with applause at the return from exile of the magistrates of the parlements on the accession of Louis XVI, an event hailed by their supporters as a patriotic triumph. By 1789 the word ‘patriotic’ in ...”

“... throughout the whole extent of the British Empire during the first 250 years of its history, that Linda Colley’s new book is concerned. Stories of captivity, almost always of Europeans at the hands of indigenous peoples, have for long been a staple of North American historiography. The materials are rich, and they offer extraordinary, often unsettling ...”

“... turned down by twenty British publishers and, until now, has not received a review in the UK – Linda Melvern believes that the Rwandan tragedy represents the unravelling of the new international order built on the defeat of Nazism. The Convention on Genocide was, she points out, the world’s first human rights treaty and if the UN was founded with one ...”

“... to give up his Chancellorship or to die until 1811. Only when defeat in America and revolution in France made both universities’ ideological support more crucial than usual to the government were some singularly ruthless heads of houses able to transform Cambridge’s political image and restore it to full favour. The wider value of this detailed account is ...”

“... A disciple and wilful misreader of Conrad, he gave Third Worldism, as it came to be known in France and elsewhere, a bad name. He didn’t deny that terrible things had happened in such places as the Congo, but, he said, there was idealism of effort, too (remember Father Huisman in A Bend in the River); and monstrous post-colonial abuse had followed. He ...”

“... as the world’s eighth most stable, extroverted nation (just ahead of Germany), while Hungary and France ranked as the most neurotic and introverted. The fact that the US came out as the nation in the best psychological health should perhaps have raised some doubts in the authors’ minds about their methods. Given the empirical difficulty and political ...”

“... were seen in Britain, Germany and the United States, the great painterly response occurred in France. In Paris, from the 1850s on, artistic radicals made female figures – and especially the female nude – emblems of their revolt against tradition. In the painting of modern life, women were everywhere, loaded with meaning, fascination, beauty, seduction ...”

“... histoire de transformation se cristallisaient des tas de choses.’ It sold remarkably well in France, though many suspected that this was another one-shot wonder whose sales were based on the comic novelty of the plot and a generous amount of sex and violence. But Darrieussecq went to the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the press took care to tell its ...”