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  • Ghosts of International Law

    The Figure of the Foreign Fighter in a Cultural Perspective

    by Alberto Rinaldi ...
    Series Book 191 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Heroes and villains, idealists and mercenaries, freedom fighters and religious fanatics. Foreign fighters tend to defy easy classification. Good and bad images of the foreign combatant epitomize different conceptions of freedom and are used to characterize the rightness or wrongness of this actor in civil wars. The book traces the history of these figures and their afterlife. It does so through an ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • People, Places and Business Cultures

    Essays in Honour of Francesca Carnevali

    by Paolo Di Martino, Ken Lipartito, Leslie Hannah, Lucy Newton, Matthew Hilton, Peter Scott, Andrew Popp, Alberto Rinaldi0, Andrea Colli1, Anna Spadavecchia2, Chris Wickham3, James T. Walker4 ...
    This collection brings together new research into nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European economic history, socio-cultural history and business history. It is inspired by the work and legacy of Francesca Carnevali who, throughout her career, encouraged a lively dialogue between these different disciplines. The book offers innovative views and perspectives on key debates and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • 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

    $40.99 CAD

  • Rednecks and Barbarians

    Uniting the White and Racialized Working Class

    by Houria Bouteldja ...
    Translated by Rachel Valinsky ...
    “Houria Bouteldja is one of the most interesting antiracist decolonial activists. Known for her incisive analysis, Bouteldja offers a strong argument for unity between ‘rednecks’ and ‘barbarians’” Françoise Vergès, author of A Programme of Absolute Disorder“Bouteldja throws all our certainties into the air, and with brilliant precision, reassembles them. Clear and uncompromising, she points ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frantz Fanon

    A Biography

    by David Macey ...
    Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon (1925–61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyon before taking up a post in colonial Algeria. He had already experienced racism as a volunteer in the Free French Army, in which he saw combat at the end of the Second World War. In Algeria, Fanon came into contact with the Front de Libération Nationale, whose ruthless struggle for independence was met with exceptional ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Postcoloniality

    The French Dimension

    by Margaret A. Majumdar ...
    “Postcolonial theory” has become one of the key issues of scholarly debates worldwide; debates, so the author argues, which have become rather sterile and are characterized by a repetitive reworking of old hackneyed issues, focussing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular. Gradually, a gulf has emerged between Anglophone and Francophone thinking in this area. The author ... Read more

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  • Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution

    Edited by Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, Dominic Thomas ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Our fighting sisters

    Nation, memory and gender in Algeria, 1954–2012

    by Natalya Vince ...
    Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the twentieth century’s most violent wars of decolonisation. This is the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence in 1962. Based on new oral history interviews with women who participated in the war in a wide range of roles, from urban bombers to members of ... Read more

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  • The Long '68

    Radical Protest and Its Enemies

    by Richard Vinen ...
    The 'long 68' saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary - around 10 million French workers struck and the whole state teetered on the brink of collapse. Others were more easily contained, but had profound longer term implications - terrorist groups, feminist collectives, gay rights activists could all trace important roots ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Who’s Afraid of the Black Blocs?

    by Francis Dupuis-Déri ...
    Faces masked, dressed in black, and forcefully attacking the symbols of capitalism, Black Blocs have been transformed into an anti-globalization media spectacle. But the popular image of the window-smashing thug hides a complex reality.Francis Dupuis-Déri outlines the origin of this phenomenon, its dynamics, and its goals, arguing that the use of violence always takes place in an ethical and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Who's Afraid of the Black Blocs?

    Anarchy in Action around the World

    by Francis Dupuis-Déri ...
    Translated by Lazer Lederhendler ...
    Faces masked, dressed in black, and forcefully attacking the symbols of capitalism, Black Blocs have been transformed into an anti-globalization media spectacle. But the popular image of the window-smashing thug hides a complex reality.Francis Dupuis-Déri outlines the origin of this international phenomenon, its dynamics, and its goals, arguing that the use of violence always takes place in an ... Read more

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  • Frantz Fanon

    Gender, Torture and the Biopolitics of Colonialism

    by Azzedine Haddour ...
    ‘Haddour is a foremost interpreter of Fanon – and here sheds important new light on this critical giant of the twentieth century, challenging the assumptions of many postcolonial readers’ Judith Still, Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham‘Few works have more creatively and comprehensively explored Fanon’s perspective on gender relations, the family, and women’s resistance to sexual ... Read more

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