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Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era to the Fifth Republic.

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No course in modern French history should be without this book.... A fresh new reading to the entire enterprise of French colonial history." — Frederick Quinn, International Journal of African Historical Studies

"Vividly written, [Cultured Force] challenges those determined to see nothing beneficial in European colonialism, or, more precisely in the achievements of France's preeminent military proconsuls of the past two hundred years.... The book is valuable in its attempt to reconstruct the familial backgrounds and circumstantial difficulties that so often shaped the outlook and actions of the individuals studied.... Both subtle and well informed." — Martin Thomas, Modern and Contemporary France

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      Publisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
      Publication Date: 2/28/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780299199043, 978-0299199043
      ISBN10: 0299199045

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era to the Fifth Republic.

      Trade Review
      No course in modern French history should be without this book.... A fresh new reading to the entire enterprise of French colonial history." — Frederick Quinn, International Journal of African Historical Studies

      "Vividly written, [Cultured Force] challenges those determined to see nothing beneficial in European colonialism, or, more precisely in the achievements of France's preeminent military proconsuls of the past two hundred years.... The book is valuable in its attempt to reconstruct the familial backgrounds and circumstantial difficulties that so often shaped the outlook and actions of the individuals studied.... Both subtle and well informed." — Martin Thomas, Modern and Contemporary France

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