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« For centuries, historians have narrated the arrival of Europeans using terminology (discovery, invasion, conquest, and colonization) that emphasizes their agency and disempowers that of Native Americans. This book explores firsting, a discourse that privileges European (...) suite
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« What happens when authorities you venerate condone something you know is wrong ?
Every major religion and philosophy once condoned or approved of slavery, but in modern times nothing is seen as more evil. Americans confront this crisis of authority when they erect statues (...) suite
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« This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperation between, in which the two empires were often frères ennemis. It argues that in crucial ways the British and French colonial (...) suite
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« How do the things which connect us also serve to divide us ? Electric News in Colonial Algeria traces how news circulated in a particularly divided society : Algeria under French rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells a different history of (...) suite
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« Over the course of the Great War, a quarter of million settlers and subjects from Algeria served in French forces. Thousands more crossed the Mediterranean to work in the war industries of metropolitan France. On the Algerian Home Front, men, women, and children of all (...) suite
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« A large-scale study of plantation slavery in West Africa with a focus on the nineteenth-century Sokoto caliphate, this book draws on diverse sources including oral testimony, Arabic material, and extant scholarly works about the caliphal state. Plantation Slavery in the (...) suite
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« La souveraineté n’est pas simplement une question juridique d’autodétermination et de liberté d’expression. Elle pose surtout le problème de la capacité (ou non) de faire des choix pour soi et de les assumer totalement, à l’intérieur et hors de ses frontières. Voilà pourquoi la (...) suite
