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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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