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  • Conquest and resistance in West Africa

    The Jeandet Affair and the illusion of colonial justice

    par Ruth Ginio ...
    Collections series Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
    This book is an enthralling account of a legal scandal, which erupted in colonial Senegal in 1890 and reached the French metropolitan press and the parliament. The murder of a colonial administrator, Abel Jeandet, by one of his soldiers led to the brutal and illegal executions without trial of the killer and two local dignitaries. The volume follows the fascinating story of Ndiereby Ba, the widow ... En savoir plus

    $139.99 CAD

  • The French Army and Its African Soldiers

    The Years of Decolonization

    par Ruth Ginio ...
    Collections series 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 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 it was possible to retain FWA as a colony, believing that its relations with African soldiers could ... En savoir plus

    $65.99 CAD

  • Shadows of War

    A Social History of Silence in the Twentieth Century

    Modifié par Efrat Ben-Ze’ev, Ruth Ginio, Jay Winter ...
    Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores how different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silences that have followed violence in twentieth-century Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. These essays show that ... En savoir plus

    $122.99 CAD

  • Violence and Non-Violence in Africa

    Modifié par Pal Ahluwalia, Louise Bethleham, Ruth Ginio ...
    Collections series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    This unique volume seeks both to historicize and to deconstruct the pervasive, almost ritualistic, association of Africa with forms of terrorism as well as extreme violence, the latter bordering on and including genocide.Africa is tendentiously associated with violence in the popular and academic imagination alike. Written by leading authorities in postcolonial studies and African history, as well ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

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    par Laurent Dubois ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country's devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history.Even before the devastating 2010 earthquake, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption, blamed by many for its own wretchedness. But as acclaimed historian Laurent ... En savoir plus

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  • Violence

    par Slavoj Zizek ...
    Collections series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    par John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Black Spartacus

    The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

    par Sudhir Hazareesingh ...
    Winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize" Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time . . . An extraordinarily gripping read." —David A. Bell, The GuardianA new interpretation of the life of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint LouvertureAmong the defining figures of the Age of ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

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  • The Selected Works of Edward W. Said, 1966 - 2006

    par Edward W. Said ...
    **The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era’s most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously published books, making it a definitive one-volume source."Said is a brilliant and unique amalgam of scholar, aesthete, and political activist...[He] challenges and ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to International Law

    Modifié par James Crawford, Martti Koskenniemi ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Law
    This intellectually rigorous introduction to international law encourages readers to engage with multiple aspects of the topic: as 'law' directing and shaping its subjects; as a technique for governing the world of states and beyond statehood; and as a framework within which several critical and constructivist projects are articulated. The articles situate international law in its historical and ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • White Thinking

    'Profound' The Sunday Times

    par Lilian Thuram ...
    Traduit par David Murphy, Aedín Ní Loingsigh, Cristina Johnston ...
    'Profound' The Sunday Times'Truly Significant' The Independent'Ambitious' The ConversationWhat does it mean to be white? Beyond just a skin colour, is it also a way of thinking? If so, how did it come about, and why?In this book, drawing on history, personal experience and activist literature, the former footballer and World Champion Lilian Thuram looks at the origins and workings of white ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The New Vichy Syndrome

    Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism

    par Theodore Dalrymple ...
    Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at last created an ideal social and political system in which man can live comfortably. In many ways, things have never been better on the old continent. On the other hand, there is growing anxiety that Europe is quickly falling behind in an aggressive, ... En savoir plus

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