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Cultured Force: Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire
Singer, Barnett, Langdon, John
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Description for Cultured Force: Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire
Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages, 7 b/w photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QD; HBG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 662.
Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era through the Fifth Republic. They ask us to rethink and reevaluate, pulling away from the usual shoal of simplistic condemnation. In a series of finely-etched biographical studies, and with much detail on both imperial culture and wars (including World War I and II), they offer a balanced, deep, strong portrait of key makers and defenders of the French Empire, one that will surely stimulate much ... Read more
Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era through the Fifth Republic. They ask us to rethink and reevaluate, pulling away from the usual shoal of simplistic condemnation. In a series of finely-etched biographical studies, and with much detail on both imperial culture and wars (including World War I and II), they offer a balanced, deep, strong portrait of key makers and defenders of the French Empire, one that will surely stimulate much ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299199043
SKU
V9780299199043
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About Singer, Barnett, Langdon, John
Barnett Singer is associate professor of history at Brock University, Ontario, and the author of Modern France: Mind, Politics, Society and Village Notables in Nineteenth-Century France. John Langdon is professor of history at Le Moyne College. He is the author of July 1914 and coauthor, with Edward H. Judge, of A Hard and Bitter Peace and The Cold War: ... Read more
Reviews for Cultured Force: Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire
No course in modern French history should be without this book.... A fresh new reading to the entire enterprise of French colonial history." — Frederick Quinn, International Journal of African Historical Studies "Vividly written, [Cultured Force] challenges those determined to see nothing beneficial in European colonialism, or, more precisely in the achievements of France's preeminent military proconsuls of the ... Read more