French Mediterraneans

• Hardcover | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• While the Mediterranean is often considered a distinct, unified space, recent scholarship on the early modern history of the sea has suggested that th... Lees meer

A Workman Is Worthy of His Meat

Jeremy Rich

• Hardcover | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• 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 ... Lees meer

The French Colonial Mind, Volume 2

• Paperback | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• 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 territor... Lees meer

Colonial Suspects

Kathleen Keller

• Hardcover | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• A Vietnamese cook, a German journalist, and a Senegalese student--what did they have in common? They were all suspicious persons kept under surveillan... Lees meer

Making Space

Melissa K Byrnes

• Hardcover | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• 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 ... Lees meer

The French Army and Its African Soldiers

Ruth Ginio

• Hardcover | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• 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 pr... Lees meer

The French Colonial Mind, 2-Volume Set

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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 ... Lees meer

Hostages of Empire

Sarah Ann Frank

• Hardcover | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• 2022 Heggoy Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society Royal Historical Society's 2022 Gladstone Book Prize Shortlist Hostages of Empire combin... Lees meer

A Frail Liberty

Tessie P Liu

• Hardcover | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• A Frail Liberty traces the paradoxical actions of the first French abolitionist society, the Société des Amis des Noirs (Society of the Friends of Bla... Lees meer

Contesting French West Africa

Harry Gamble

• Hardcover | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• After the turn of the twentieth century, schools played a pivotal role in the construction of French West Africa. But as this dynamic, deeply research... Lees meer

The Moroccan Soul

Spencer D Segalla

• Paperback | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• Following the French conquest of Morocco in 1911 the French established a network of colonial schools for Moroccan Muslims designed to further the age... Lees meer

Colonial Metropolis

Jennifer Anne Boittin

• Paperback | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• 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... Lees meer

French St. Louis

• Paperback | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• A gateway to the West and an outpost for eastern capital and culture, St. Louis straddled not only geographical and political divides but also cultura... Lees meer

French Colonialism Unmasked

Ruth Ginio

• Paperback | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• 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 ... Lees meer

Beyond Papillon

Stephen A Toth

• Paperback | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• For French criminologists and colonialists of the mid-nineteenth century, the penal colonies of Guiana and New Caledonia seemed to satisfy two needs, ... Lees meer

The Moroccan Soul

Spencer D Segalla

• Hardcover | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• Before French conquest, education played an important role in Moroccan society as a means of cultural reproduction and as a form of cultural capital t... Lees meer

A Workman Is Worthy of His Meat

Jeremy Rich

• Paperback | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• 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 ... Lees meer

Cinema in an Age of Terror

Michael F O'Riley

• Hardcover | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• Cinema in an Age of Terror looks at how cinematic representations of colonial-era victimization inform our understanding of the contemporary age of te... Lees meer

Madah-Sartre

Alek Baylee Toumi

• Paperback | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• "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 ... Lees meer

Bad Subjects

Jennifer J Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• In a lively account that spans continents, Jennifer J. Davis considers what it meant to be called a libertine in early modern France and its colonies.... Lees meer

Paradise Destroyed

Christopher M Church

• Paperback | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• 2017 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize Winner Over a span of thirty years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the French Caribbean island... Lees meer

From Near and Far

Tyler Stovall

• Hardcover | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• From Near and Far relates the history of modern France from the French Revolution to the present. Noted historian Tyler Stovall considers how the hist... Lees meer

Franco-America in the Making

Jonathan K Gosnell

• Hardcover | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• Every June the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, celebrates Franco-American Day, raising the Franco-American flag and hosting events designed to commemor... Lees meer

To Hell and Back

Samira Bellil

• Paperback | Engels | France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization
• Every now and then violence erupts in the banlieues of France allowing the world a glimpse into the grimmest corners of these multiethnic suburban ghe... Lees meer