Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
Cultured Force: Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire de Barnett Singer

Cultured Force: Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire

Autor Barnett Singer, John Langdon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 feb 2008
Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era through the Fifth Republic.  They ask us to rethink and reevaluate, pulling away from the usual shoal of simplistic condemnation.  In a series of finely-etched biographical studies, and with much detail on both imperial culture and wars (including World War I and II), they offer a balanced, deep, strong portrait of key makers and defenders of the French Empire, one that will surely stimulate much historical work in the field.
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 24190 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 363
Preț estimativ în valută:
4629€ • 4869$ • 3868£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 08-22 ianuarie 25

 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299199043
ISBN-10: 0299199045
Pagini: 496
Ilustrații: 7 b-w photos, 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press

Recenzii

"No course in modern French history should be without this book. . . . Drawing on the political-military and political-cultural insights of . . . a new generation of colonial historians emerging in North America and France, the authors give a fresh new reading to the entire enterprise of French colonial history. It is as if the massive silent portraits on the dark walls of the Musée de l'Armée came alive for a while and let their human side be known."—Frederick Quinn, International Journal of African Historical Studies

"Singer and Langdon’s book offers informative portraits and interesting psychological profiles of the makers and defenders of the French empire. Easy to read, with helpful summaries of the expansive history of French imperialism, their work is a useful counterpoint to the typically negative depictions of empire."—Richard L. Derderian, Journal of Modern History

"Vividly written, [Cultured Force] challenges those determined to see nothing beneficial in European colonialism, or, more precisely in the achievements of France's pre-eminent military proconsuls of the past two hundred years. . . . The book is valuable in its attempt to reconstruct the familial backgrounds and circumstantial difficulties that so often shaped the outlook and actions of the individuals studied. . . . Both subtle and well informed."—Martin Thomas, Modern and Contemporary France

"A fascinating set of biographies that explore the military proconsuls who established and maintained France's far-flung colonial empire. This book combines elements of traditional biography, narrative military history, and psychological and intellectual interpretation in a study that offers a good deal more than a mere collective prosopography of some of France's most prominent or 'greatest' imperialists. . . . Scholars of metropolitan and colonial France, military historians, and intellectual historians alike will find that this creative project offers a robust revisionist understanding of colonial proconsuls as cultured, multi-faceted individuals enmeshed in the complex and brutal business of creating, maintaining, and defending the French empire."—Daniel Ringrose, Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction

"Singer and Langdon have given us an important and timely book. . . . Important because it broaches a subject of which very little is known in the English-speaking world—and currently somewhat neglected in the Francophone world."—Sir Allan Ramsay, Contemporary Review

"I agree with Singer and Langdon who point out over and over again that the conquerors and the conquered shared in both the benefits and the sacrifices of imperialism. All this makes for a notable work."—William A. Hoisington, Jr., Emeritus Professor of Modern European & French Colonial History, University of Illinois at Chicago

"Scholarly and yet passionately personal—without in any way drifting from the essential bibliographic and archival moorings. . . . A splendid overall addition to the always growing literature."— John C. Cairns, University of Toronto

Notă biografică

Barnett Singer is professor emeritus of history at Brock University, and his books include Modern France: Mind, Politics, Society and Village Notables in Nineteenth-Century France. John Langdon is professor of history at Le Moyne College and author of July 1914 and coauthor with Edward H. Judge of A Hard and Bitter Peace and The Cold War: A History Through Documents.

Descriere

Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era through the Fifth Republic.  They ask us to rethink and reevaluate, pulling away from the usual shoal of simplistic condemnation.  In a series of finely-etched biographical studies, and with much detail on both imperial culture and wars (including World War I and II), they offer a balanced, deep, strong portrait of key makers and defenders of the French Empire, one that will surely stimulate much historical work in the field.