Related Books

The Invention of Decolonization
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Todd Shepard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separation of Algeri
Remaking France
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Brian A. McKenzie
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Public diplomacy, neglected following the end of the Cold War, is once again a central tool of American foreign policy. This book, examining as it does the Mars
Boundaries
Language: en
Pages: 375
Authors: Peter Sahlins
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-04-28 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is an account of two dimension of state and nation building in France and Spain since the seventeenth century--the invention of a national boundary li
The Radiance of France, new edition
Language: en
Pages: 497
Authors: Gabrielle Hecht
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-31 - Publisher: MIT Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or “radiance,” which also means “radiation” in French) became synonymous in France as now
The Remaking of France
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Michael P. Fitzsimmons
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This 1994 book examines the National Assembly's restructuring of the French state between 1789 and 1791.