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  • Routledge Handbook of Francophone Africa

    Edited by Tony Chafer, Margaret A. Majumdar ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Francophone Africa brings together a multidisciplinary team of international experts to reflect on the history, politics, societies, and cultures of French-speaking parts of Africa.Consisting of approximately 35% of Africa’s territory, Francophone Africa is a shifting concept, with its roots in French and Belgian colonial rule. This handbook develops and problematizes the ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Francophone Africa at fifty

    Edited by Tony Chafer, Alexander Keese ...
    France’s presence on the African continent has often been presented as ‘cooperation’ and part of French cultural policy by policy-makers in Paris – and quite as often been denounced as ‘the longest scandal of the republic’ by French academics and African intellectuals. Between the last years of French colonialism and France’s sustained interventions in former African colonies such as Chad or Côte ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Peace Operations in the Francophone World

    Global governance meets post-colonialism

    Edited by Bruno Charbonneau, Tony Chafer ...
    Series series Cass Series on Peacekeeping
    This book critically examines peacebuilding, humanitarian intervention and peace operation practices and experiences in francophone spaces.Francophone Africa as a specific space is relatively little studied in the peace and security literature, despite the fact that almost half of all peacekeepers are deployed or were deployed in this part of Africa during the last decade. It is an arena for ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • From Rivalry to Partnership?

    New Approaches to the Challenges of Africa

    by Gordon Cumming ...
    'From Rivalry to Partnership' is the first to study a potentially valuable way forward in tackling the challenges of Africa, namely bilateral partnerships. The book evaluates the significance and strength of the emerging Anglo-French partnership and explores how far this and other forms of 'bilateral' and 'bi-multi' cooperation might serve as a valuable alternative or complement to traditional ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

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  • Burkina Faso

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    by Ernest Harsch ...
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  • Citizenship between Empire and Nation

    Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960

    by Frederick Cooper ...
    A groundbreaking history of the last days of the French empire in AfricaAs the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the inhabitants of French colonies possessed the rights of French citizens. Moreover, they did not have to conform to the French civil code that regulated marriage and inheritance. One could, in principle, be a ... Read more

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  • Contemporary France

    An Introduction to French Politics and Society

    by David Howarth, Georgios Varouxakis ...
    At least since the French Revolution, France has the peculair distinction of simultaneously fascinating, charming and exasperating its neighbours and foreign observers. Contemporary France provides an essential introduction for students of French politics and society, exploring contemporary developments while placing them in a deeper historical, intellectual, cultural and social context that makes ... Read more

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  • Canadian Foreign Policy: 1945-2000

    Major Documents and Speeches (Rideau Series #1)

    by Arthur E. Blanchette ...
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  • The Sarkozy Phenomenon

    by Nick Hewlett ...
    Series Book 56 - Societas
    After his victory at the Presidential elections in May 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy quickly became both deeply controversial and intriguing. It was clear from the start that his rule was to be the most autocratic since Charles de Gaulle's; Prime Minister, government and parliament found themselves eclipsed by the ever-present, hyperactive President who sought to take many decisions on his own and to ... Read more

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  • Native Sons

    West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century

    by Gregory Mann, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the “new imperial history,” Gregory Mann argues that this shared military experience between France and Africa was fundamental not only to their ... Read more

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  • Living by the Gun in Chad

    Combatants, Impunity and State Formation

    by Marielle Debos ...
    Translated by Andrew Brown ...
    How do people live in a country that has experienced rebellions and state-organised repressions for decades and that is still marked by routine forms of violence and impunity? What do combatants do when they are not mobilised for war? Drawing on over ten years of fieldwork conducted in Chad, Marielle Debos explains how living by the gun has become both an acceptable form of political expression ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD