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“daniel foliard”

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  • The violence of colonial photography

    by Daniel Foliard ...
    The late nineteenth century saw a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in which the camera began to be widely available. Colonial authorities were quick to recognise the power of this new technology, which they used to humiliate defeated opponents and to project an image of supremacy across the world.Drawing on a wealth of visual ... Read more

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  • Dislocating the Orient

    British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921

    by Daniel Foliard ...
    While the twentieth century’s conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well documented, the origins of the concept of the Middle East itself have been largely ignored. With Dislocating the Orient, Daniel Foliard tells the story of how the land was brought into being, exploring how maps, knowledge, and blind ignorance all participated in the construction of this imagined region. ... Read more

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    The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

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  • The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century

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  • That Sweet Enemy

    Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship

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    That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac’s slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled breadth of cultural, economic, and political influence it has wrought ... Read more

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  • War and Our World

    by John Keegan ...
    John Keegan, widely considered the greatest military historian of our time and the author of acclaimed volumes on ancient and modern warfare--including, most recently, The First World War*,* a national bestseller--distills what he knows about the why’s and how’s of armed conflict into a series of brilliantly concise essays.Is war a natural condition of humankind? What are the origins of war? Is ... Read more

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  • The Tropical Utopia Khartoum

    British Colony 1898-1910

    by Marina d'Errico ...
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  • Frantz Fanon

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    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

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  • The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 3, Civil Society

    Edited by Jay Winter ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the First World War
    Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those institutions and practices outside the state through which the war effort was waged. Drawing on 25 years of historical scholarship, it sheds new light on culturally significant issues such as how families ... Read more

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  • Colonialist Photography

    Imag(in)ing Race and Place

    Edited by Eleanor M. Hight, Gary D. Sampson ...
    Colonialist Photography is an absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and European and American colonialism. The book is packed with well over a hundred captivating images, ranging from the first experiments with photography as a documentary medium up to the decolonization of many regions after World War II.Reinforcing a broad range of Western ... Read more

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  • Postcoloniality

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    “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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