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Outre-Mers eBook Series

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  • The Congo Free State: What Could Archives Tell Us?

    New light and research perspective

    Edited by Patricia Van Schuylenbergh, Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi ...
    Series Book 9 - Outre-Mers
    This multi-authored volume explores the significant importance and key information extracted from recently opened, or rediscovered, archival holdings as part of a new, in-depth, document-based field of study. In doing so, and in an age when information, facts and data matter more than ever, this volume will be an asset to readers who need an accurate and lesser-known approach to the Congo Free ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

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    A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

    by Adam Hochschild ...
    The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." — Christian Science Monitor“As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread.” — Los Angeles Times Book ReviewA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A New Y... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Congo

    The Epic History of a People

    by David Van Reybrouck ...
    "A magnificent, epic look at the history of the region. . . . A monumental contribution to the annals of Congo scholarship" ( Christian Science Monitor).The International BestsellerFrom the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo: The Epic History ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Passage to Europe

    How a Continent Became a Union

    by Luuk van Middelaar ...
    As financial turmoil in Europe preoccupies political leaders and global markets, it becomes more important than ever to understand the forces that underpin the European Union, hold it together and drive it forward. This timely book provides a gripping account of the realities of power politics among European states and between their leaders. Drawing on long experience working behind the scenes, ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • A Brief History of France, Revised and Updated

    by Cecil Jenkins ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    When we think of France, we tend think of fine food and wine, the elegant boulevards of Paris or the chic beaches of St Tropez. Yet, as the largest country in Europe, France is home to extraordinary diversity.The idea of 'Frenchness' emerged through 2,000 years of history and it is this riveting story, from the Roman conquest of Gaul to the present day, that Cecil Jenkins tells: of the forging of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Congo from Leopold to Kabila

    A People's History

    by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja ...
    The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful political history makes clear, the Congolese people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down and have fought over ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Contemporary France

    Politics and Society since 1945

    by D. L. Hanley, A. P. Kerr, Miss A P Kerr, N. H. Waites ...
    Many recent studies of French politics have tended to concentrate on the French political system in isolation. Contemporary France aims to set the working of the French political system into its historical, social and economic context. The first section gives a succinct description of the main developments since 1944 in all major contexts - economy, society, domestic politics and foreign relations ... Read more

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  • The French Revolution in Global Perspective

    Edited by Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson ...
    The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms—at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing—were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues.Believe iSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • In the Forest of No Joy

    The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism

    by J. P. Daughton ...
    The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire.The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • France, 1814-1940

    by J.P.T. Bury ...
    This celebrated classic now includes a new introduction by Robert Tombs.The history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century France has often seemed complex and confusing. France, 1814-1940 has a long-established reputation as a clear, accessible and authoritative account of this fascinating period.It describes the characteristics of France's different regimes and their leading personalities and ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • France Since 1945

    by Robert Gildea ...
    The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy, searching for a stable political system. It has also been a time of anxiety and doubt. The French have had to come to terms with the legacy of the German Occupation, the loss of Empire, the political and social implications of the influx of foreign ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • France 1814 - 1914

    by Robert Tombs ...
    Series series Longman History of France
    Here is an incomparably rich portrait of France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation. The survey begins with an exploration of national obsessions and attitudes. It considers the tendency to revolution and war, the preoccupation with the idea of a New Order and the deep strain of national paranoia that ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD