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  • - Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France since 1954
    af Spencer D. Segalla
    740,95 kr.

    Spencer D. Segalla examines natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization in Algeria, Morocco, and France and explores how environmental catastrophes impacted the dissolution of France's empire in North Africa.

  • - The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout
    af Julija Sukys
    329,95 kr.

    On May 26, 1993, the Algerian novelist and poet Tahar Djaout was gunned down in an attack attributed to Islamist extremists. This title considers the life and work of Djaout in light of his murder and his role in the conflict that raged between Islamist terrorist cells and Algeria's military regime in the 1990s.

  • - Trans-Mediterranean France and the Construction of French Modernity
    af Gavin Murray-Miller
    632,95 kr.

    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 examining the idiomatic use of modernity in French cultural and political discourse.

  • - Regenerating the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis
    af Richard C. Parks
    574,95 kr.

    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 ideas of a "modern" city and empire, they undertook a program to significantly alter the physical and social realities by which the people of Tunisia lived, often in ways that continue to influence life today.Medical Imperialism in French North Africa demonstrates the ways in which diverse members of the Jewish community of Tunis received, rejected, or reworked myriad imperial projects devised to foster the social, corporeal, and moral "regeneration" of their community. Buttressed by the authority of science and medicine, regenerationist schemes such as urban renewal projects and public health reforms were deployed to destroy and recast the cultural, social, and political lives of Jewish colonial subjects. Richard C. Parks expands on earlier scholarship to examine how notions of race, class, modernity, and otherness shaped these efforts. Looking at such issues as the plasticity of identity, the collaboration and contention between French and Tunisian Jewish communities, Jewish women's negotiation of social power relationships in Tunis, and the razing of the city's Jewish quarter, Parks fills the gap in current literature by focusing on the broader transnational context of French actions in colonial Tunisia. 

  • - Catastrophe and Citizenship in the French Caribbean
    af Christopher M. Church
    381,95 - 670,95 kr.

    Explores the impact of natural and man-made disasters in the turn-of-the-century French Caribbean, examining the social, economic, and political implications of shared citizenship in times of civil unrest.

  • - The Creole Nation Within
    af Jonathan K. Gosnell
    622,95 kr.

    Examines the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North America, especially New England and southern Louisiana. To shed light on the French cultural legacy in North America, Gosnell seeks out hidden French or ""Franco"" identities and sites of memory in North America that quietly proclaim an intercontinental French presence.

  • - Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa
    af Kathleen Keller
    574,95 kr.

    A Vietnamese cook, a German journalist, and a Senegalese student. What did they have in common? They were all suspicious persons kept under surveillance by French colonial authorities in West Africa in the 1920s and 1930s. Colonial Suspects looks at the web of surveillance set up by the French government during the twentieth century as France's empire slipped into crisis.

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    426,95 kr.

    Explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Goree, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis experienced and reacted to French colonialism and how gendered readings of colonization, decolonization, and social movements cast new light on the history of French colonization and of black France.

  • - Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World
    af Andrea E. Duffy
    583,95 kr.

    An exploration of the relationship between Mediterranean mobile pastoralism and nineteenth-century French forestry through case studies in Provence, French colonial Algeria, and Ottoman Anatolia.

  • af Albert Memmi
    900,95 kr.

    This anthology presents Albert Memmi's insights on the legacies of the colonial era, critical theories of race, and his own story as a French writer of Tunisian and Jewish descent, allowing readers to appreciate the full arc of one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century.

  • - Transnational and Imperial Histories
     
    690,95 kr.

    Offers a collection of scholarship that reveals the important French element in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century creation of the singular Mediterranean. These essays provide a critical study of space and movement through new approaches to rethinking the maps, migrations, and margins of the sea in the French imperial and transnational context.

  • - Settler Colonialism and the Press in French Algeria, 1860-1914
    af Charlotte Ann Legg
    579,95 kr.

    The New White Race is a cultural history of the development of the press in Algeria under French rule.

  • - Colonial Prisoners of War in Vichy France
    af Sarah Ann Frank
    740,95 kr.

    Hostages of Empire is a social, cultural, and political history of the colonial prisoners of war.

  • - Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy
     
    740,95 kr.

    French St. Louis places St. Louis, Missouri, in a broad colonial context, shedding light on its francophone history.

  • - Battles over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900-1950
    af Harry Gamble
    333,95 - 539,95 kr.

    Critically examines the move toward educational integration that took shape during the immediate postwar period. Growing linkages to the metropolitan school system ultimately had powerful impacts on the course of decolonisation and the making of postcolonial Africa.

  • - The Jesuits and New France
    af Bronwen McShea
    333,95 - 622,95 kr.

    Offers a revisionist history of the French Jesuit mission to indigenous North Americans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, offering a comprehensive view of a transatlantic enterprise in which secular concerns were integral.

  • af Tyler Stovall
    329,95 - 1.106,95 kr.

    From Near and Far takes a transnational approach to the history of France by considering the many ways in which people and places beyond the conventionally accepted borders of the nation shaped its life.

  • af Jay Gitlin
    381,95 kr.

    French St. Louis places St. Louis, Missouri, in a broad colonial context, shedding light on its francophone history.

  • af Melissa K. Byrnes
    332,95 - 1.113,95 kr.

  • - The Kidnapping, Trial, and Conver(sat/s)ion of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
    af Alek Baylee Toumi
    168,95 kr.

    "Hell is other people," Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote in No Exit. This title brings him back from the dead to confront the strange and awful truth of that statement. It is one of the most imaginative and provocative plays of our era.

  • - The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris
    af Jennifer Anne Boittin
    329,95 - 443,95 kr.

    Offers a study of the connections between French colonial migrants and white women in Paris between the world wars.

  • - The French Overseas Penal Colonies, 1854-1952
    af Stephen A. Toth
    228,95 kr.

    Through an analysis of criminal case files, administrative records, and prisoner biographies, this book reconstructs life in the penal colonies and examines how the social sciences, tropical medicine, and sensational journalism evaluated and exploited the inmates' experiences.

  • - The Promise, the Glory, and the Despair of Louisbourg's Last Decade
    af A. J. B. Johnston
    236,95 kr.

    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. This book presents the dramatic military and social history of this short-lived and significant fortress, seaport, and community, and the citizens who made it their home.

  • af Jonathan R. Dull
    243,95 kr.

    The Seven Years' War was the world's first global conflict, spanning five continents and the critical sea lanes that connected them. Winner of the 2005 France-Ameriques Prize, this book is the account written of the French navy's role in the hostilities.

  • - The Vichy Years in French West Africa
    af Ruth Ginio
    279,95 kr.

    Analyzes three dramatic years in the history of FWA, from 1940 to 1943, in which the Vichy regime tried to impose the ideology of the National Revolution in the region. This book shows how this was a watershed period in the history of the region by providing an in-depth examination of the Vichy colonial visions and practices in FWA.

  • - Colonial Politics, Ethnographic Practices, Theoretical Developments
     
    375,95 kr.

    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 original and much-needed contribution to the field.

  • - French Education, Colonial Ethnology, and Muslim Resistance, 1912-1956
    af Spencer D. Segalla
    333,95 - 631,95 kr.

    Following the French conquest of Morocco in 1911 the French established a network of colonial schools for Moroccan Muslims designed to further the agendas of the conquerors. This book examines the history of the French educational system in colonial Morocco, the development of French conceptions about the ""Moroccan soul,"" and the effect these ideas had on pedagogy, policy making, and politics.

  • - Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary
    af Jeremy Rich
    348,95 - 623,95 kr.

    In this compelling study of food culture and colonialism, Jeremy Rich explores how colonial rule intimately shaped African life and how African townspeople developed creative ways of coping with colonialism as European expansion threatened African self-sufficiency.

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    438,95 kr.

    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 postcolonial immigration on identity in France and in the Francophone world.

  • - Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade
    af Carolyn Podruchny
    340,95 kr.

    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. This title reveals the contours of voyageurs' lives, world views, and values.