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April 25, 2024

French Invasions of Britain and Ireland, 1797-1798 The Revolutionaries and Spies who Sought to Topple the Government of

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Free Download Paul L Dawson, "French Invasions of Britain and Ireland, 1797-1798: The Revolutionaries and Spies who Sought to Topple the Government of"
English | ISBN: 1399068083 | 2023 | 264 pages | EPUB | 1450 KB
Not since 1066 – at least in popular myth – has an enemy force set foot on British soil. The Declaration of War with Revolutionary France in 1793 changed all that. In Ireland, the desire for home rule led Irish republicans to seek support from France and like-minded radicals in England. The scene was set for the most dangerous period in British history since William the Conqueror.

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April 25, 2024

French Cinema A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

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Free Download French, Cinema: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Dudley Andrew
English | January 26, 2024 | ISBN: 0198718616 | 192 pages | PDF | 2.89 Mb
It is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompassed all genres, from popular entertainment to avant-garde practice. The French invented the "auteur" and the "cine-club"; they incubated criticism from the 1920s to our own day that is unrivalled; and they boast more film journals, fan magazines, TV shows, and festivals devoted to film than anywhere else.

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April 25, 2024

Free and French in the Caribbean Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire, and Narratives of Loyal Opposition

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Free Download Free and French in the Caribbean: Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire, and Narratives of Loyal Opposition (Blacks in the Diaspora) by John Patrick Walsh
English | April 12, 2013 | ISBN: 0253006279, 0253006309 | True EPUB | 206 pages | 2.3 MB
In Free and French in the Caribbean, John Patrick Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the decolonializing of the French Caribbean: the revolution that freed the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1803 and the departmentalization of Martinique and other French colonies in 1946.

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April 25, 2024

Anthropology, Colonial Policy and the Decline of French Empire in Africa

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Free Download Douglas W. Leonard, "Anthropology, Colonial Policy and the Decline of French Empire in Africa"
English | ISBN: 1788315200 | 2019 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Conceived as both a vehicle to national prestige and as a civilizing mission, the second French colonial empire (1830-1962) challenged soldiers, scholars, and administrators to understand societies radically different from their own. The resultant networks of anthropological inquiry, however, did not have this effect. Rather, they opened pathways to political and intellectual independence framed in the language of social science, and in the process upended the colonial political system and reshaped the nature of human inquiry in France. While still unequal, French colonial rule in Africa revealed the durability and strength of non-European modes of thought.

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April 25, 2024

An atheism that is not humanist emerges in French thought

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Free Download An atheism that is not humanist emerges in French thought By Geroulanos, Stefanos
2010 | 423 Pages | ISBN: 0804774242 | EPUB | 1 MB
This book seeks to explain the critiques of humanism and the "negative" philosophical anthropologies that dominated mid-century philosophy and traces the appearance of a new, non-humanist atheism in twentieth-century French thought.

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