Colin Jones

Un nuevo y ameno relato sobre Francia, nación que durante siglos ha jugado un papel importante en la historia y la civilización europea, y cuya riquez cultural e intelectual ha tenido una enorme influencia. 50 mapas elaborados especialmente para esta obra y 385 ilustraciones cuidadosamente seleccionadas, abarcan los temas y los lugares de mayor interés. Fotografías, esquemas e ilustraciones a todo color.

Colin Jones followed an unusual path into photography having been a dancer with the Royal Ballet until his late twenties. It was among his colleagues in the company that he began to take photographs and through dancing that he learnt of the tremendous physical labour involved in creating something of beauty. While on tour in the north of England he began to take pictures of the mining communities and it was not long before he had given up dancing to begin his new career, landing a job at the Observer alongside photographers such as Philip Jones Griffiths and Don McCullin. Colin Jones` subjects are working people miners, shipbuilders, dockers and dancers. This book comprises Jones` best work from to date. Timeless and beautiful, it is a revealing tale of industrial post-war Britain, and a moving portrait of poverty and physical hardship endured with dignity.

Combining superb illustration with authoritative text, this is a major political and social history of France from earliest times to the eve of the new millennium. Colin Jones offers not only an expert's account of political, social and cultural developments, but also a fresh and full interpretation of French history. The Cambridge Illustrated History of France places an innovatory emphasis on the importance of issues of regionalism, class, gender and race in the French heritage. Ranging across social, political, geographical and cultural lines - from prehistoric menhirs to the Pompidou Centre, from Louis XIV's Versailles to twentieth-century high-rises, from Marie Antoinette to Marie Claire - the author provides a host of lively and penetrating new insights into the shaping of the modern nation.

In this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining new history, Colin Jones seeks to give a sense of the city of Paris as it was lived in and experienced over time. The focal point of generation upon generation of admirers and detractors, a source of attraction or repulsion even for those who have never been there, Paris has witnessed more extraordinary events than any other major city. No spot on earth has been more walked around, written about, discussed, painted and photographed. With an eye for the revealing, startling and (sometimes) horrible detail, Colin Jones takes the reader from Roman Paris to the present, recreating the ups and downs in the history of the city and its inhabitants.

24 horas en la vida de una de las figuras más emblemáticas de la Revolución Francesa, el gran arquitecto del Terror. El día 9 de Termidor (27 de julio de 1794) supuso un punto de inflexión en la historia de la Revolucion Francesa. A medianoche, Maximilien Robespierre, el miembro mas relevante del comite de Salvacion Publica que habia dirigido Francia durante mas de un año, hacia frente a un complot que amenazaba su vida y ponia en peligro el curso de la Revolucion. A la medianoche siguiente, tras 24 horas llenas de incertidumbre, sorpresas y contratiempos, su mundo esta patas arriba. Considerado un forajido, en busca y captura acusado de conspirar contra la Republica, Robespierre se ve acorralado y siente que su vida y su carrera revolucionaria estan acabadas. Durante el forcejeo de su arresto recibe un disparo y, el dia siguiente, medio muerto, calumniado y ante el regocijo popular es victima de la guillotina. La caida de Robespierre es un frenetico viaje al Paris revolucionario en el que hora a hora, minuto a minuto, vemos los acontecimientos que llevaron a la muerte de Robespierre, desde los pequeños detalles a los eventos mas trascendentales de la Revolucion.