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Publisher: TheBookEdition

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Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 2959593901

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Visualizing the Nation
Visualizing the Nation

Author: Joan B. Landes

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1501727532

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Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political participation was curtailed, female allegories of liberty, justice, and the republic played a crucial role in the passage from old regime to modern society. In her lavishly illustrated and gracefully written book, Joan B. Landes explores this paradox within the workings of revolutionary visual culture and traces the interaction between pictorial and textual political arguments. Landes highlights the widespread circulation of images of the female body, notwithstanding the political leadership's suspicions of the dangers of feminine influence and the seductions of visual imagery. The use of caricatures and allegories contributed to the destruction of the masculinized images of hierarchic absolutism and to forging new roles for men and women in both the intimate and public arenas. Landes tells the fascinating story of how the depiction of the nation as a desirable female body worked to eroticize patriotism and to bind male subjects to the nation-state. Despite their political subordination, women too were invited to identify with the project of nationalism. Recent views of the French Revolution have emphasized linguistic concerns; in contrast, Landes stresses the role of visual cognition in fashioning ideas of nationalism and citizenship. Her book demonstrates as well that the image is often a site of contestation, as individual viewers may respond to it in unexpected, even subversive, ways.

LE NAUFRAGE DU VAISSEAU DES POUVOIRS
LE NAUFRAGE DU VAISSEAU DES POUVOIRS

Author: DAMELUS EZECHIEL PETIT-BOIS

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2016-07-30

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1463425260

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Les noirs en Amérique du Nord, du Sud, du centre, dans les Antilles, plus particulièrement en Haiti, avaient porté le poids de la malédiction de l'esclavage. Les Africains étaient répandus du Nord au Sud. Les Européens les y amenaient, dans le but de les faire travailler, afin de multiplier et réhausser l'économie de l'Europe. En effet, les douleurs des fils de l'Afrique en Amérique, se sont réflétées sur le visage de l'Alma-mater, à cause de la férocité de la mainmise de ces mêmes exploiteurs qui l'avaient aussi colonisée. Ce fardeau de l'esclavage, et les doléances perpétuelles du grand débat des noirs à travers les siècles, sont peints sur le tableau des réminiscences, en quatre continents peuplés de blancs contre un. Voilà la raison de l'endurance, la force de la balance sur laquelle ils étaient pesés, mesurés, et la racine de tant de mépris et de peine dont ils étaient l'objet. Aujourd'hui encore, les séquelles de ce drame de la civilisation, restent et demeurent actives dans divers aspects de notre société.

Vichy, Resistance, Liberation
Vichy, Resistance, Liberation

Author: Hanna Diamond

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2005-02-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1845207149

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Bringing together key international scholars, Vichy, Resistance, Liberation: New Perspectives on Wartime France offers original insight into this critical period of modern France. It shifts the focus away from straightforward political history to reflect the current interest in socio-cultural aspects of the Second World War and breaks down traditional chronological barriers.In seeking to understand war from a social perspective, the contributors focus on individuals and communities. Wars are moments which forever alter the emphasis of social expression. Rumours emerge as a major aspect of daily life. Wars are also periods offering new possibilities to individuals. Several contributors explore the lives of previously little known individuals in Vichy France Paulette Bernge, Daniel Gurin, Georges Mauco, Franois Perroux. Other contributors emphasize some of the forgotten actors of the period, most notably the anarchists. Other contributors uncover new information about womens experience in Vichy France.Vichy, Resistance, Liberation moves away from the trend of synthesis history and presents path-breaking research and new trajectories of interest in the field. The collection pays tribute to the work of H.R. Kedward, the world-renowned specialist on Occupied France.

Haiti: Re-Foundation of a Nation
Haiti: Re-Foundation of a Nation

Author: Nicolas L. Pauyo

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-05-18

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1463405669

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Th is book is one of the fi rst ever published on Haiti after the catastrophic Earthquake of January 12 2010. In Haiti:Th e Refoundation of a Nation we are introduced to the fruit of the authors long refl ection and diligent research on the nature of the Haitian state and its diffi cult evolution through more than two hundred years of history. In it, the author believes that Haitis errors began as far back as 1804, and therein lies the primary reason for its troubles. Th e state has unwittingly underdeveloped the country, thus any solution will inevitably work via the reconstruction eff orts of the state and contribute to the development, at last, of the Nation. Th e earthquake of January 12, 2010, that destroyed Port-au-Prince and all physical symbols of governance within, added to the already existing concept of reconstruction of the Haitian state not only institutional applications, but now also a physical, infrastructural aspect; crafting the state and also rebuilding its house. As it relates to infrastructure, Dr. Pauyo relies on the recommendations of experienced planners, geologists, architects and other scientifi c experts. He believes that it is time we learn to trust these scientists, those with knowledge and experience, and not amateurs or self-taught builders. Despite the challenges posed by the monstrous physical and institutional ruins of January 12th, Pauyos work is a bold endeavor towards discovery. Haiti must fl ush out the erroneous tracks leading her nowhere. Her sons and daughters, welded with the international community, must pave new paths for the full development of this country, and the emergence of a just society and a proud nation!