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  • Algeria Revisited

    History, Culture and Identity

    Edición de Rabah Aissaoui, Claire Eldridge ...
    On 5 July 1962, Algeria became an independent nation, bringing to an end 132 years of French colonial rule. Algeria Revisited provides an opportunity to critically re-examine the colonial period, the iconic war of decolonisation that brought it to an end and the enduring legacies of these years.Given the apparent centrality of violence in this history, this volume asks how we might re-imagine ... Leer más

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  • From empire to exile

    History and memory within the pied-noir and harki communities, 1962–2012

    Series series Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
    This book explores the commemorative afterlives of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), one of the world's most iconic wars of decolonisation. It focuses on the million French settlers - pieds-noirs - and the tens of thousands of harkis - the French army's native auxiliaries - who felt compelled to migrate to France when colonial rule ended.Challenging the idea that Algeria was a 'forgotten ... Leer más

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  • France's Lost Empires

    Fragmentation, Nostalgia, and la fracture coloniale

    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    France's Lost Empires brings together ten essays that collectively investigate the historical, cultural, and political legacies of French colonialism and, specifically, the endings of the French empire(s). Combining analyses of three "lost" territories (Canada, India, and Saint Dominigue) of the "first" French colonial empire, that of the Ancien Regime, with investigations of the decolonization of ... Leer más

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  • Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Interpreting the Republic

    Marginalization and Belonging in Contemporary French Novels and Films

    de Vinay Swamy ...
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  • Collective Memory

    France and the Algerian War (1954-62)

    de Jo McCormack ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    Collective Memory examines the difficult transmission of memory in France of the Algerian war of independence (1954-62). Emphasizing the current lack of transmission of memories of this war through a detailed case study of three crucial vectors of memory: the teaching of school history, coverage in the media, and discussion in the family, author McCormack argues that lack of transmission of ... Leer más

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  • Action Directe

    Ultra Left Terrorism in France 1979-1987

    In defining Action Directe's mixture of millenarianism, workerism and nihilism, this study explains why the group turned to a strategy of murderous strikes and how a revolutionary political faction emerged in a stable western society. ... Leer más

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  • Political Belief in France, 1927-1945

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    In the inter war era, the rise of the largest political movement in modern French history, the powerful Croix de Feu (1927–1936), and its successor, the Parti Social Français, or PSF (1936–1945), led to a sharp rightward turn in France’s political culture. Political Belief in France, 1927–1945 traces the central role of women in this shift, arguing that they transformed the Croix de Feu/PSF from a ... Leer más

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  • Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France, 1921–1939

    Series Libro 22 - Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
    In December 1921, France broadcast its first public radio program from a transmitter on the Eiffel Tower. In the decade that followed, radio evolved into a mass media capable of reaching millions. Crowds flocked to loudspeakers on city streets to listen to propaganda, children clustered around classroom radios, and families tuned in from their living rooms. Radio and the Politics of Sound in ... Leer más

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  • France since the 1970s

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  • What Is a Canadian?

    Forty-Three Thought-Provoking Responses

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