Download or read book France and the American Civil War written by Stève Sainlaude and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France's involvement in the American Civil War was critical to its unfolding, but the details of the European power's role remain little understood. Here, Steve Sainlaude offers the first comprehensive history of French diplomatic engagement with the Union and the Confederate States of America during the conflict. Drawing on archival sources that have been neglected by scholars up to this point, Sainlaude overturns many commonly held assumptions about French relations with the Union and the Confederacy. As Sainlaude demonstrates, no major European power had a deeper stake in the outcome of the conflict than France. Reaching beyond the standard narratives of this history, Sainlaude delves deeply into questions of geopolitical strategy and diplomacy during this critical period in world affairs. The resulting study will help shift the way Americans look at the Civil War and extend their understanding of the conflict in global context.
Download or read book The Liberty of Strangers written by Desmond King and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry S. Truman once said, "Ours is a nation of many different groups, of different races, of different national origins." And yet, the debate over what it means--and what it takes--to be an American remains contentious. Nationalist solidarity, many claim, requires a willful blending into the assimilationist alloy of these United States. Others argue that the interests of both nation and individual are best served by allowing multiple traditions to flourish--a salad bowl of identities and allegiances, rather than a melting pot. Tracing how Americans have confronted and relinquished, but mostly clung to group identities over the past century, Desmond King here debunks one of the guiding assumptions of American nationhood, namely that group distinction and identification would gradually dissolve over time, creating a "postethnic" nation. Over the course of the twentieth century, King shows, the divisions in American society arising from group loyalties have consistently proven themselves too strong to dissolve. For better or for worse, the often-disparaged politics of multiculturalism are here to stay, with profound implications for America's democracy. Americans have now entered a post-multiculturalist settlement in which the renewal of democracy continues to depend on groups battling it out in political trenches, yet the process is ruled by a newly invigorated and strengthened state. But Americans' resolute embrace of their distinctive identities has ramifications not just internally and domestically but on the world stage as well. The image of one-people American nationhood so commonly projected abroad camouflages the country's sprawling, often messy diversity: a lesson that nation-builders worldwide cannot afford to ignore as they attempt to accommodate ever-evolving group needs and the demands of individuals to be treated equally. Spanning the entire twentieth century and encompassing immigration policies, the nationalistic fallout from both world wars, the civil rights movement, and nation-building efforts in the postcolonial era, The Liberty of Strangers advances a major new interpretation of American nationalism and the future prospects for diverse democracies.
Download or read book Une journ e dans la mort de l Am rique written by Gary Younge and published by Grasset. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaque jour, ce sont près de sept enfants ou adolescents qui meurent par balle aux États-Unis. Cette statistique glaçante ne peut rendre compte à elle seule des vies détruites par les armes à feu, Gary Younge a donc décidé de raconter le destin des jeunes gens tués au cours d’une journée choisie au hasard. Ils sont dix à être abattus le 23 novembre 2013, dix enfants et adolescents âgés de 9 à 19 ans : sept noirs, deux hispaniques, un blanc. Gary Younge consacre un chapitre à chacune de ces victimes tuées par balle, parfois par accident, parfois lors d’un règlement de comptes : Jaiden, Kenneth, Stanley, Pedro, Tyler, Edwin, Samuel, Tyshon, Gary et Gustin. En recoupant les entretiens qu’il a menés avec leurs proches, les rapports de la police, du « 911 » et des journalistes locaux, il reconstitue la vie et les dernières minutes de ces jeunes, victimes de leur condition sociale, de la négligence des adultes, des lobbys. Vibrante immersion dans ces dix courtes vies, Une journée dans la mort de l’Amérique est un ouvrage aussi précis qu’intense. Gary Younge déploie tout son savoir-faire narratif pour nous immerger dans les États-Unis d’aujourd’hui et nous inviter à réfléchir, sans tabou, à cette tragédie américaine.
Download or read book U S A written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Of Latitudes Unknown written by Alice Mikal Craven and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Latitudes Unknown is a multi-faceted study of James Baldwin's radical imagination. It is a selective and thoughtful survey that re-investigates the grounds of Baldwin studies and provides new critical approaches, subjects, and orientations for Baldwin criticism. This volume joins recent critical collections in un-fragmenting Baldwin and establishing further conjunctions in his work: the essay and the novel; the polemical and the aesthetic; his use of and participation in visual forms; and his American as well as international identities. But it goes beyond other recent studies by focusing on new entities of Baldwin's radical imagination: his English and French language selves; his late encounters with Africa; his appearances on French television and interviews with French journalists; and his unrecognized literary journalism. Of Latitudes Unknown also addresses Baldwin's relations with the Arab world, his anticipation of contemporary film and media studies, and his paradoxical public intellectualism. As it reassesses Baldwin's contributions to and influences on world literary history, Of Latitudes Unknown equally explores why the critical appreciation of Baldwin's writing continues to flourish, and why it remains a vast territory whose parts lie open to much deeper exploration and elaboration.
Download or read book The Harvard Guide to African American History written by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.
Download or read book Contemporary United States written by Pierre Lagayette and published by Editions Bréal. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adaptation of Migrants from the Caribbean in the European and American Metropolis written by H. E. Lamur and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaicans in London, Dominicans in New York, Martiniquais in France, Surinamers in Holland.
Download or read book L Am rique comme mod le l Am rique sans mod le written by Jacques Portes and published by Presses Univ. Septentrion. This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Etats-Unis ont continuellement offert des modèles au reste du monde développé annonçant l'avenir proche; en même temps, leur société a sécrété des contres-modèles qui peuvent également préfigurer des lendemains qui ne chantent guère.Le présent volume se veut une approche de ces phénomènes, de façon nullement exhaustive mais pénétrante. La religion comme l'imaginaire américain sont explorés à travers les exemples du réveil religieux du XVIIIe siècle, du grand poète Thoreau, maître-à-penser de plusieurs générations ou du climat pré-psychanalytique de la fin du XIXe siècle. Ces études font apparaître que les Américains ne parviennent pas toujours à se situer par rapports à leurs propres modèles. L'autre grand domaine abordé est celui de la ville industrielle que les Américains ont façonné sinon inventé; précocité des banlieues et des quartiers d'immigrants, complication de l'expression politique de ces populations diverses sont étudiées à travers les cas de New York et de Los Angeles. Enfin, la puissance de la culture américaine et son expansion internationale font l'objet d'études croisées qui donnent la mesure du phénomène tout au long du XXe siècle.ainsi, de 1880 à 1993 - comme le montre finalement l'exemple extraordinaire d'un cow-boy français devenu banquier - les Etats-Unis sont de plein pied dans "leur siècle". Jacques Portes est professeur de civilisation des Etats-Unis à l'Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille III. Il y dirige la Jeune Equipe correspondant au Centre de Recherches l'ELAN (Etude Lilloise sur l'Amérique du Nord). Il a notamment publié, Une fascination réticente, Histoire des Etats-Unis depuis 1945 et Les Américains et la guerre du Vietnam. Ont colaboré à cet ouvrage: Annette BeckerMaître de conférences à l'Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille IIIPatrick Di MascioMaître de conférences à l'Université de RouenCynthia Ghorra-GobinMaître de conférences à l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de ParisPierre GuerlainProfesseur agrégé à l'Université d'Evry Val d'EssonneAndré KaenelProfesseur à l'Université de Nancy IIRichard PellsProfesseur d'histoire à l'Université du Texas à AustinJacques PortesProfesseur à l'Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille IIICatherine PouzouletMaître de conférences à l'Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille IIIFranbçoise SammarcelliMaître de conférences à l'Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille III
Download or read book Marguerite Yourcenar and the USA written by Bérengère Deprez and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a very welcome contribution to the debate on the real effect of the United States on Yourcenar'slife and thought, a good read on a fascinating subject which critics have often treated dimissively. Future scholarship will be obliged to weigh Berengere Deprez's arguments and evidence seriously, and thank her for her clearheaded thoroughness. Prof. Brian Gill, University of Calgary, Canada --
Download or read book Sexualit et textualit dans la litt rature am ricaine contemporaine written by Yves-Charles Grandjeat and published by Presses Univ de Bordeaux. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Le Nouveau Monde written by Oscar Comettant and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L Amerique Protestants written by William Rey and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of French Film Directors written by Philippe Rège and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-12-11 with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema has been long associated with France, dating back to 1895, when Louis and Auguste Lumi_re screened their works, the first public viewing of films anywhere. Early silent pioneers Georges MZli_s, Alice Guy BlachZ and others followed in the footsteps of the Lumi_re brothers and the tradition of important filmmaking continued throughout the 20th century and beyond. In Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Philippe Rège identifies every French director who has made at least one feature film since 1895. From undisputed masters to obscure one-timers, nearly 3,000 directors are cited here, including at least 200 filmmakers not mentioned in similar books published in France. Each director's entry contains a brief biographical summary, including dates and places of birth and death; information on the individual's education and professional training; and other pertinent details, such as real names (when the filmmaker uses a pseudonym). The entries also provide complete filmographies, including credits for feature films, shorts, documentaries, and television work. Some of the most important names in the history of film can be found in this encyclopedia, from masters of the Golden Age_Jean Renoir and RenZ Clair_to French New Wave artists such as Fran_ois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.
Download or read book Regards europ ens sur le monde anglo am ricain written by and published by Presses Paris Sorbonne. This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Presidency of James Earl Carter Junior written by Silvio Berardi and published by Edizioni Nuova Cultura. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the International Conference The Presidency of James Earl Carter Junior. Between Reformism, Pacifism and Human Rights, held in Rome on April 28, 2016, at the Institute Santa Maria in Aquiro, with the Senate of the Italian Republic patronage. Forty years after his election to the White House, it was deemed necessary to reflect on the political activity of a President little considered, until now, by the Italian historiography. The Carter Presidency, inspired since its inception by a predominant religious sentiment, was marked by a clear break with the past. Themes such as the respect for human rights, dialogue with the historic Soviet enemy, pacifism as a weapon of the Middle East problem resolution, industrial development through a sustainable approach were introduced right from the thirty-ninth occupant of the White House. At the presidential elections of 1980, which saw him clash with the Republican Ronald Reagan, Carter paid especially the failures of his reform and economic policy: the US economic difficulties and the significant increase in the unemployment rate were the main reasons that cost him his reelection. Reformism, pacifism, respect for human rights: concepts that would continue to inspire Carter’s policy, despite the defeat against Reagan.
