Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa 1880-1985
Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa 1880-1985

Author: Patrick Manning

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988-06-16

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780521338868

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History of the French-speaking countries of Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Zaire and the Central African Republic, ruled by the French and Belgians from the late nineteenth century until their independence after World War II.

Francophone Literatures
Francophone Literatures

Author: M. H. Offord

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780415198394

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Unique in its analysis both of literary and linguistic techniques, this text draws together extracts from novels written in French by writers from Francophone areas outside Europe, including North Africa, Black Africa, the Caribbean and North America.

Politics in Francophone Africa
Politics in Francophone Africa

Author: Victor T. Le Vine

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9781588262493

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Explores the elements that have shaped the particular political dynamics of the 14 former French colonies in west and equatorial Africa while allowing them to remain part of a unique francophone sociopolitical community.

The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa
The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Ian Taylor

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 0826434010

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"Despite the myth of marginality and irrelevance, Africa has always been inextricably linked to the global stage and has long played an important - often-vital - role in international politics. Critically analyzing the modalities of governance in large parts of Africa, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the continent's international relations, arguing that contra to the notion that Africa is a passive bystander to global processes, its elites have generally proven themselves excellent arch-manipulators of the international system. Chapters on American, British, French, Chinese, Indian and European interactions with the continent engage with chapters on the role of the World Bank and IMF and the "new" scramble for Africa's oil to explain such processes." --Book Jacket.

Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914 [2 volumes]
Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914 [2 volumes]

Author: Carl C. Hodge

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2007-11-30

Total Pages: 969

ISBN-13: 0313043418

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In 1800, Europeans governed about one-third of the world's land surface; by the start of World War I in 1914, Europeans had imposed some form of political or economic ascendancy on over 80 percent of the globe. The basic structure of global and European politics in the twentieth century was fashioned in the previous century out of the clash of competing imperial interests and the effects, both beneficial and harmful, of the imperial powers on the societies they dominated. This encyclopedia offers current, detailed information on the major world powers and their global empires, as well as on the people, events, ideas, and movements, both European and non-European, that shaped the Age of Imperialism.

A History of Modern Africa
A History of Modern Africa

Author: Richard J. Reid

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-01-17

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0470658983

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Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the continent, the new 2nd Edition of A History of Modern Africa recounts the full breadth of Africa's political, economic, and social history over the past two centuries. Adopts a long-term approach to current issues, stressing the importance of nineteenth-century and deeper indigenous dynamics in explaining Africa's later twentieth-century challenges Places a greater focus on African agency, especially during the colonial encounter Includes more in-depth coverage of non-Anglophone Africa Offers expanded coverage of the post-colonial era to take account of recent developments, including the conflict in Darfur and the political unrest of 2011 in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya

Franco-America in the Making
Franco-America in the Making

Author: Jonathan K. Gosnell

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2018-07-01

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1496207157

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Every June the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, celebrates Franco-American Day, raising the Franco-American flag and hosting events designed to commemorate French culture in the Americas. Though there are twenty million French speakers and people of French or francophone descent in North America, making them the fifth-largest ethnic group in the United States, their cultural legacy has remained nearly invisible. Events like Franco-American Day, however, attest to French ethnic permanence on the American topography. In Franco-America in the Making, Jonathan K. Gosnell examines the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North America, especially New England and southern Louisiana. To shed light on the French cultural legacy in North America long after the formal end of the French empire in the mid-eighteenth century, Gosnell seeks out hidden French or “Franco” identities and sites of memory in the United States and Canada that quietly proclaim an intercontinental French presence, examining institutions of higher learning, literature, folklore, newspapers, women’s organizations, and churches. This study situates Franco-American cultures within the new and evolving field of postcolonial Francophone studies by exploring the story of the peoples and ideas contributing to the evolution and articulation of a Franco-American cultural identity in the New World. Gosnell asks what it means to be French, not simply in America but of America.