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Algeria and France, 1800-2000: Identity, Memory, Nostalgia
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The relationship between Algeria and France that formed during the 132 years of colonial rule did not end in 1962 when Algeria gained its indepen...
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New Orleans, Louisiana, and Saint-Louis, Senegal: Mirror Cities in the Atlantic World, 1659-2000s
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This book explores the intertwined histories of Saint-Louis, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Although separated by an ocean, both cities wer...
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Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Taking a fresh look at the first two centuries of French colonialism in the Americas, this book answers the long-standing question of how and how...
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Transnational Frontiers, Volume 29: The American West in France
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /When Buffalo Bill's Wild West show traveled to Paris in 1889, the New York Times reported that the exhibition would be "managed to suit French ide...
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Making Space: Neighbors, Officials, and North African Migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Since the 2005 urban protests in France public debate has often centered on questions of how the country has managed its relationship with its Nort...
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Sea of the Unknown: Monsters and Mishaps on my Journey to Paris
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /For anyone who ever launched themselves towards their dreams only to be rebuffed...The Sea of the Unknown lays before us, cold and callous. Behind ...
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Josephine: Singer dancer soldier spy
PaperbackOriginal price $13.50 - Original price $13.50Original price $13.50$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Born into poverty in a racially segregated Amercia, Josephine Baker flees to France where she embraces the hedonistic lifestyle on offer in Paris o...
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Insight Guides Explore Vietnam (Travel Guide with Free eBook)
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Insight Guides Explore Vietnam Travel made easy. Ask local experts. Focused travel guide featuring the very best routes and itineraries, now wi...
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Ecologies of Imperialism in Algeria
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$76.99$76.99 - $76.99Current price $76.99| /Between 1865 and 1872 widespread death and disease unfolded amid the most severe ecological disaster in modern North African history: a plague of l...
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The Man Who Murdered Admiral Darlan: Vichy, the Allies and the Resistance in French North Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /In November 1942 Anglo-American forces landed in French North Africa, which soon afterwards broke with Marshal Pétain's Vichy regime in France and...
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Empire and Catastrophe: Decolonization and Environmental Disaster in North Africa and Mediterranean France Since 1954
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Empire and Catastrophe examines natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization in Algeria, Morocco, and France and explores...
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, wh...
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Lonely Planet Fast Talk French 5
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /Although you can get by in France without speaking the language, knowing just a few essential phrases can help you make friends, enjoy service with...
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Algeria: France's Undeclared War
HardcoverOriginal price $67.00 - Original price $67.00Original price $67.00$82.99$82.99 - $82.99Current price $82.99| /Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers , Algeria was different from other...
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Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Black France, White Europe illuminates the deeply entangled history of European integration and African decolonization. Emily Marker maps the hor...
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Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary 8
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Lonely Planet's French Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful French ...
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The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A provocative rethinking of France's long relationship with the Arab worldTo fully understand both the social and political pressures wracking co...
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Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark wo...
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Napoleon in Egypt / Edition 250
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Napoleon's conquest of Egypt in 1798 was the first contact between a Western power with imperial goals and an ancient regime of an African societ...
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Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general's reasons for leading th...
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