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  • Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919

    by Leonard V. Smith ...
    Series series The Greater War
    We have known for many decades that the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 "failed", in the sense that it did not prevent the outbreak of World War II. This book investigates not whether the Paris Peace Conference succeeded or failed, but the historically specific international system it created. It explores the rules under which that system operated, and the kinds of states and empires that inhabited ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Embattled Self

    French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War

    by Leonard V. Smith ...
    How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The Embattled Self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war. In order to do so, they used a variety of narrative tools at hand—rites ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • French Colonialism

    From the Ancien Régime to the Present

    by Leonard V. Smith ...
    Series Book 65 - New Approaches to European History
    France had the second largest empire in the world after Britain, but one with very different origins and purposes. Over more than four centuries, the French empire explained itself in many different ways through many different colonial regimes. Beginning in the early modern period, a vast mercantile empire based on furs and fish in the New World and sugar cultivated by the enslaved in the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong

    Why We Love France but Not the French

    by Julie Barlow, Jean Benoit Nadeau ...
    A historical and cultural guide revealing the French approach to land, food, privacy, language, and more and how globalization led France to become one of the unlikeliest influential countries in the world.Discover the captivating allure of France as you delve into the intricate fabric of its unique culture with Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong. This thought-provoking book explores the ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong

    by Jean-Benoit Nadeau ...
    The French drink, smoke and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet they live longer and have fewer heart problems than the English and the Americans. They work 35-hour weeks and take seven weeks' paid holiday each year, yet they are the world's fourth-biggest economic power.So how do they do it? From a distance modern France looks like a riddle. It is both rigidly authoritarian, yet incredibly ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Decolonization

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Dane Kennedy ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Millions of Africans, Asians, and other peoples were the subjects of colonial rule by overseas empires through the mid-twentieth century. By the end of the century, however, nearly all of these peoples had become citizens of independent nation-states. The United Nations grew from 51 member states at its founding in 1945 to 193 today. Its nearly four-fold increase is one measure of the historic ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A History of Algeria

    by James McDougall ...
    Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country. Drawing on substantial new scholarship and over a decade of research, McDougall places Algerian society at the centre of the story, tracing the continuities and the resilience of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • African Perspectives on European Colonialism

    by A. Adu Boahen ...
    In this book, one of the pioneers of twentieth century African history examines the perceptions and responses of Africans to European colonialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This edition of Boahen's text, originally published in 1989, is contextualized in a new foreword by John Lonsdale, updating some of Boahen's findings and interpretations while maintaining that the "best ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Congo from Leopold to Kabila

    A People's History

    by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja ...
    The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful political history makes clear, the Congolese people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down and have fought over ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • My Life in Politics

    by Jacques Chirac ...
    Along with Mikhail Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl, and Francois Mitterand, Jacques Chirac is one of the most iconic statesmen of the twentieth century. Two-time president of France, mayor of Paris, and international politician, a recent poll voted him the most admired political figure in France, with current president Nicolas Sarkozy ranking in 32nd place. This memoir covers the full scope of Chirac's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Europe after Empire

    Decolonization, Society, and Culture

    by Elizabeth Buettner ...
    Series Book 51 - New Approaches to European History
    Europe after Empire is a pioneering comparative history of European decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the long-term development of post-war decolonization processes as well as the histories of inward and return migration from former empires which followed. She shows that not only were former colonies remade as a result ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The French Revolution in Global Perspective

    Edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson ...
    The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms—at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing—were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.Believe iSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern ... Read more

    $23.79 USD