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Author |
: Robert Aldrich |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 1996-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781349247295 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1349247294 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greater France by : Robert Aldrich
Greater France provides a comprehensive account of French overseas expansion from 1830 to 1962. After a prologue on the overseas empire of the old regime, chapters examine the conquest of a second empire in Africa, Asia and the islands of the South Seas in the era of the 'new imperialism'. Subsequent chapters explore the ideology behind expansion and the culture of colonialism in France, the migration of French men and women to overseas possessions, the economic history of the colonies, and the phenomenon of decolonisation. An epilogue surveys France's continued links with its former colonies and remaining outposts.
Author |
: Gary Wilder |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2005-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226897684 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226897680 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The French Imperial Nation-State by : Gary Wilder
France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of public debate. The French Imperial Nation-State focuses on two intersecting movements that redefined imperial politics—colonial humanism led by administrative reformers in West Africa and the Paris-based Negritude project, comprising African and Caribbean elites. Gary Wilder develops a sophisticated account of the contradictory character of colonial government and examines the cultural nationalism of Negritude as a multifaceted movement rooted in an alternative black public sphere. He argues that interwar France must be understood as an imperial nation-state—an integrated sociopolitical system that linked a parliamentary republic to an administrative empire. An interdisciplinary study of colonial modernity combining French history, colonial studies, and social theory, The French Imperial Nation-State will compel readers to revise conventional assumptions about the distinctions between republicanism and racism, metropolitan and colonial societies, and national and transnational processes.
Author |
: Marie Cartier |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2016-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781785332296 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1785332295 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis The France of the Little-Middles by : Marie Cartier
The Poplars housing development in suburban Paris is home to what one resident called the “Little-Middles” – a social group on the tenuous border between the working- and middle- classes. In the 1960s The Poplars was a site of upward social mobility, which fostered an egalitarian sense of community among residents. This feeling of collective flourishing was challenged when some residents moved away, selling their homes to a new generation of upwardly mobile neighbors from predominantly immigrant backgrounds. This volume explores the strained reception of these migrants, arguing that this is less a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before.
Author |
: Polly Platt |
Publisher |
: Culture Crossings Limited |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:49015002258326 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis French Or Foe? by : Polly Platt
About the etiquette, social life and customs in France from a humoristic perspective.
Author |
: David McCullough |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 578 |
Release |
: 2011-05-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781416576891 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1416576894 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Greater Journey by : David McCullough
The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough. Not all pioneers went west. In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. Another was Charles Sumner, whose encounters with black students at the Sorbonne inspired him to become the most powerful voice for abolition in the US Senate. Friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse worked unrelentingly every day in Paris, Morse not only painting what would be his masterpiece, but also bringing home his momentous idea for the telegraph. Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Paris to escape the controversy generated by her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Three of the greatest American artists ever—sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent—flourished in Paris, inspired by French masters. Almost forgotten today, the heroic American ambassador Elihu Washburne bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris, and the nightmare of the Commune. His vivid diary account of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris is published here for the first time. Telling their stories with power and intimacy, McCullough brings us into the lives of remarkable men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens’ phrase, longed “to soar into the blue.”
Author |
: John J. Miller |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2007-12-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307419187 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307419185 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Our Oldest Enemy by : John J. Miller
Liberté? Egalité? Fraternité? Or just plain gall? In this provocative and brilliantly researched history of how the French have dealt with the United States, John J. Miller and Mark Molesky demonstrate that the cherished idea of French friendship has little basis in reality. Despite the myth of the “sister republics,” the French have always been our rivals, and have harmed and obstructed our interests more often than not. This history of French hostility goes back to 1704, when a group of French and Indians massacred American settlers in Deerfield, Massachusetts. The authors also debunk the myth of French aid during the Revolution: contrary to popular notions, the French did not enter the war until very late and were mainly interested in hurting their rivals, the British. After the war, the French continued to see themselves as major players in the Western hemisphere and shaped their policies to limit the growth and power of the new nation. The notorious XYZ affair, involving French efforts to undermine the government of George Washington, led to an undeclared naval war with France in 1798. During the Civil War, the French supported the Confederacy and installed a puppet emperor in Mexico. In the twentieth century, Americans clashed with the French repreatedly. The French victory over President Wilson at Versailles imposed a short-sighted and punitive settlement on Germany that paved the way for the rise of fascism in the 1930s. During World War II, Vichy French troops killed hundreds of American soldiers in North Africa, and diehard French fascist units fought against the Allies in the rubble of Berlin. During the Cold War, Charles DeGaulle yanked France out of NATO and obstructed our efforts to roll back Soviet expansion. The legacy of French imperial power has been no less disastrous. The French left Haiti in a shambles, got us into Vietnam, and educated many of the world’s worst tyrants at their elite universities, including Pol Pot, the genocidal Cambodian dictator. The fascist Baath regimes in Iraq and Syria are another legacy of failed French colonialism. Americans have been particularly irritated by French cultural arrogance—their crusades against American movies, McDonalds, Disney, and the exclusion of American words from their language have always rubbed us the wrong way. This irritation has now blossomed into outrage. Our Oldest Enemy shows why that outrage is justified.
Author |
: Hilary Mantel |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 770 |
Release |
: 2006-11-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780312426392 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0312426399 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Place of Greater Safety by : Hilary Mantel
Set during the French Revolution, this "riveting historical novel" ("The New Yorker") is the story of three young provincials who together helped destroy a way of life and, in the process, destroyed themselves.
Author |
: Pascal Blanchard |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 644 |
Release |
: 2013-12-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253010537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253010535 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution by : Pascal Blanchard
This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture, provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on postcolonial immigration, the treatment of ethnic minorities, and national identity.
Author |
: Colin Jones |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 1999-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521669928 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521669924 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Illustrated History of France by : Colin Jones
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.
Author |
: Vanessa R. Schwartz |
Publisher |
: OUP USA |
Total Pages |
: 153 |
Release |
: 2011-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195389418 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195389417 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modern France by : Vanessa R. Schwartz
The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.