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Workman Is Worthy of His Meat
Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary
Av Jeremy Rich
Inbunden, 2007
532 kr
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In Libreville, the capital of the African nation of Gabon, the colonial past has evolved into a present indelibly marked by colonial rule and ongoing French influence. This is especially evident in areas as essential to life as food. In this complex, hybrid culinary culture of Libreville, …
Madah-Sartre
The Kidnapping, Trial, and Conver(sat/s)ion of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir
Häftad, 2007
187 kr
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"Hell is other people," Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote in No Exit. The fantastic tragicomedy Madah-Sartre brings him back from the dead to confront the strange and awful truth of that statement. As the story begins, Sartre and his consort in intellect and love, Simone de Beauvoir, are on their way …
To Hell and Back
The Life of Samira Bellil
Häftad, 2008
233 kr
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Every now and then violence erupts in the banlieues of France allowing the world a glimpse into the grimmest corners of these multiethnic suburban ghettos. From such a corner comes the story of Samira Bellil, who by raising her voice and telling her tale broke the "code of silence" imposed by many …
Bourdieu in Algeria
Colonial Politics, Ethnographic Practices, Theoretical Developments
Av Jane E. Goodman, Paul A. Silverstein
Häftad, 2009
389 kr
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The shadow cast by Pierre Bourdieu's theory is large and well documented, but his early ethnographic work in Algeria is less well known and often overlooked. This volume, the first critical examination of Bourdieu's early fieldwork and its impact on his larger body of social theory, represents an …
French Colonialism Unmasked
The Vichy Years in French West Africa
Av Ruth Ginio
Häftad, 2008
284 kr
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Before the Vichy regime, there was ostensibly only one France and one form of colonialism for French West Africa (FWA). World War II and the division of France into two ideological camps, each asking for legitimacy from the colonized, opened for Africans numerous unprecedented options. French …
Moroccan Soul
French Education, Colonial Ethnology, and Muslim Resistance, 1912-1956
Inbunden, 2009
708 kr
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Before French conquest, education played an important role in Moroccan society as a means of cultural reproduction and as a form of cultural capital that defined a person's social position. Primarily religious and legal in character, the Moroccan educational system did not pursue European …
Beyond Papillon
The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952
Häftad, 2008
226 kr
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For French criminologists and colonialists of the mid-nineteenth century, the penal colonies of Guiana and New Caledonia seemed to satisfy two needs, namely, to incarcerate a growing number of criminals and to supply manpower for these developing colonies. But were these two goals not …
French Colonial Mind, Volume 1
Mental Maps of Empire and Colonial Encounters
Häftad, 2012
518 kr
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What made France into an imperialist nation, ruler of a global empire with millions of dependent subjects overseas? Historians have sought answers to this question in the nation's political situation at home and abroad, its socioeconomic circumstances, and its international ambitions. But all these …
French Colonial Mind, Volume 2
Violence, Military Encounters, and Colonialism
Av Martin Thomas, Martin Thomas
Häftad, 2012
518 kr
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Violence was prominent in France's conquest of a colonial empire, and the use of force was integral to its control and regulation of colonial territories. What, if anything, made such violence distinctly colonial? And how did its practitioners justify or explain it? These are issues at the heart of …
Workman Is Worthy of His Meat
Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary
Av Jeremy Rich
Häftad, 2009
284 kr
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In Libreville, the capital of the African nation of Gabon, the colonial past has evolved into a present indelibly marked by colonial rule and ongoing French influence. This is especially evident in areas as essential to life as food. In this complex, hybrid culinary culture of Libreville, …
Cinema in an Age of Terror
North Africa, Victimization, and Colonial History
Inbunden, 2010
528 kr
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Cinema in an Age of Terror looks at how cinematic representations of colonial-era victimization inform our understanding of the contemporary age of terror. By examining works representing colonial history and the dynamics of spectatorship emerging from them, Michael F. O'Riley reveals how the …
Colonial Metropolis
The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris
E-bok, 2010
312 kr
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World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes—either overseas or metropolitan. Neither group, however, was willing to be discarded. Between the world wars, …
French Colonial Mind, 2-volume Set
2012
1031 kr
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Volume 1: What made France into an imperialist nation, ruler of a global empire with millions of dependent subjects overseas? Historians have sought answers to this question in the nation's political situation at home and abroad, its socioeconomic circumstances, and its international ambitions. But …
Silence Is Death
The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout
Av Julija Sukys
Inbunden, 2007
368 kr
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On May 26, 1993, the Algerian novelist and poet Tahar Djaout was gunned down in an attack attributed to Islamist extremists. An outspoken critic of the extremism roiling his nation, Djaout, in his death, became a powerful symbol for the "murder of Algerian culture," as scores of journalists, …
Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World
Av Hafid Gafaïti, Patricia M. E. Lorcin m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
446 kr
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The dissolution of the French Empire and the ensuing rush of immigration have led to the formation of diasporas and immigrant cultures that have transformed French society and the immigrants themselves. Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World examines the impact of this …
Regeneration Through Empire
French Pronatalists and Colonial Settlement in the Third Republic
Inbunden, 2015
766 kr
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Following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870–71, French patriots feared that their country was in danger of becoming a second-rate power in Europe. Decreasing birth rates had largely slowed French population growth, and the country's population was not keeping pace with that of its …
French Mediterraneans
Transnational and Imperial Histories
Av Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Todd Shepard
Inbunden, 2016
766 kr
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While the Mediterranean is often considered a distinct, unified space, recent scholarship on the early modern history of the sea has suggested that this perspective is essentially a Western one, devised from the vantage point of imperial power that historically patrolled the region’s seas and …
French Army and Its African Soldiers
The Years of Decolonization
Av Ruth Ginio
Inbunden, 2017
708 kr
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As part of France’s opposition to the independence of its former colonies in the years following World War II, its army remained deeply invested in preventing the decolonization of the territories comprising French West Africa (FWA). Even as late as the 1950s, the French Army clung to the hope that …
Endgame 1758
The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg's Last Decade
Häftad, 2008
226 kr
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The story of what happened at the colonial fortified town of Louisbourg between 1749 and 1758 is one of the great dramas of the history of Canada, indeed North America. The French stronghold on Cape Breton Island, strategically situated near the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, was from soon …
French Navy and the Seven Years' War
Häftad, 2007
255 kr
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The Seven Years' War was the world's first global conflict, spanning five continents and the critical sea lanes that connected them. This book is the fullest account ever written of the French navy's role in the hostilities. It is also the most complete survey of both phases of the war: the French …
Regeneration Through Empire
French Pronatalists and Colonial Settlement in the Third Republic
E-bok, 2015
678 kr
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Following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870–71, French patriots feared that their country was in danger of becoming a second-rate power in Europe. Decreasing birth rates had largely slowed French population growth, and the country's population was not keeping pace with that of its …
Medical Imperialism in French North Africa
Regenerating the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis
Inbunden, 2017
649 kr
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French-colonial Tunisia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed shifting concepts of identity, including varying theories of ethnic essentialism, a drive toward “modernization,” and imperialist interpretations of science and medicine. As French colonizers worked to realize …
I, Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist
Av Baya Gacemi
Häftad, 2006
284 kr
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The Algerian journalist Baya Gacemi takes a dangerous political step in writing the "autobiography" of a young Algerian woman whom she met through a program for female victims of Islamist violence in Algiers. Nadia, from a small town in central Algeria that has been especially affected by the …
Colonial Metropolis
The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris
Häftad, 2015
343 kr
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World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes—either overseas or metropolitan. Neither group, however, was willing to be discarded. Between the world wars, …
Franco-America in the Making
The Creole Nation Within
Inbunden, 2018
708 kr
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Every June the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, celebrates Franco-American Day, raising the Franco-American flag and hosting events designed to commemorate French culture in the Americas. Though there are twenty million French speakers and people of French or francophone descent in North America, …
Making the Voyageur World
Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade
Häftad, 2006
343 kr
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French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popularly known as voyageurs. Scholars and public historians alike have cast them in the romantic role of rugged and merry heroes who paved the way for …
French Mediterraneans
Transnational and Imperial Histories
Av Patricia M. E. Lorcin, Todd Shepard
E-bok, 2016
678 kr
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While the Mediterranean is often considered a distinct, unified space, recent scholarship on the early modern history of the sea has suggested that this perspective is essentially a Western one, devised from the vantage point of imperial power that historically patrolled the region’s seas and …
Cult of the Modern
Trans-Mediterranean France and the Construction of French Modernity
Inbunden, 2017
708 kr
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The Cult of the Modern focuses on nineteenth-century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs during the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. Gavin Murray-Miller rethinks the subject by …
Making Space
Neighbors, Officials, and North African Migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon
Inbunden, 2024
1160 kr
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Since the 2005 urban protests in France, public debate has often centered on questions of how the country has managed its relationship with its North African citizens and residents. In Making Space Melissa K. Byrnes considers how four French suburbs near Paris and Lyon reacted to rapidly growing …
Nomad's Land
Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World
Inbunden, 2019
649 kr
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2020 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser AwardDuring the nineteenth century, the development and codification of forest science in France were closely linked to Provence’s time-honored tradition of mobile pastoralism, which formed a major part of the economy. At the beginning of the century, pastoralism also …
