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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"French Colonial"”.
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A Paleopathological Analysis of the Moran French Colonial Cemetery
… whole fits the expected demographic profile of a colonial settlement. The health patterns revealed also accord with individuals who endured harsh childhoods and died from acute rather than chronic causes as they sought new lives in the New World. </p>
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Ancestral Analysis of the French Colonial Moran Cemetery, Biloxi, Mississippi
… from 1719 to 1723 and is the earliest known French Colonial cemetery in the United States. Historical records suggest that those interred likely represent immigrants from Western Europe as well as Africa who were relocated in an effort to colonize the Louisiana Territory. Given the variety of …
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Réception and Indigenous representation: French colonial theatre in Nouvelle France 1606-1727
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Visions of Race and Gender: Press Coverage of the French Colonial Expositions of 1922 and 1931
… in the empire amongst the public via elaborate colonial expositions. The colonial expositions of Marseille (1922) and Paris (1931) served as a means to celebrate the empire and to educate the French about the benefits of living within Greater France, an entity that included the metropole and the …
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Mapping myths of the medina : French colonial urbanism, Oriental brandscapes and the politics of tourism in Marrakesh
Before the French Protectorate of Morocco was established in 1912, Marrakesh was both a major trading node in North Africa and one of the royal cities in Morocco. Yet as the number of colonists surged and the pieds noirs population settled in the ville nouvelle, Marrakesh's native inhabitants were …
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Living French colonial theory : an examination of France's complex relationship with Islam in its African colonies as viewed through the lives of Octave Houdas and Xavier Coppolani
In current scholarship, the colonial period within Africa has long been defined as a controversial era, almost encapsulating the entirety of Occidental hubris in one distinct age of time. By and large, the European powers invaded foreign lands, claimed them as their own by right of superior …
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Colonialism in contention: the 1874 and 1898 Siming gongsuo riots in Qing China
… between a local commercial guild and the French authority in the French concession in Shanghai. Arguably, these two incidents were the greatest popular disturbances in the history of foreign concessions in Shanghai. Although previous scholarship has shed light on the reasons for and the …
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The Governor, the Merchant, the Soldier, the Nun, and their Slaves
… of Montréal became a crossroads that connected colonial French, Indigenous, and African worlds. A study of the geo-cultural landscapes of Montréal presents an opportunity to analyze the commercial, social, and familial networks of diverse peoples in a space defined by mobility, fluidity, and …
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Spaces of Resistance: Reflections on Algerian Domesticity
… research engages critically with the legacy of French colonial housing projects in Algiers by confronting colonial practices that disregarded the cultural and social needs of Algerian families and challenging them by integrating indigenous architectural principles to enable a built environment …
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'French like the others': Colonial Migrants in Wartime France, 1939-1947
… unknown history of how migrants from across the colonial empire experienced the Second World War in France. By the 1930s France possessed the second-largest colonial empire in the world. Although people from across the French empire had resided in the métropole during the interwar period, the …
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Assembling Caliban: French and Other European Depictions of American Bodies in the Sixteenth Century
… tropes and figures employed by a select group of French and European commentators and artists in their attempt to contextualize New World discovery. Utilizing travel narratives, voyager reports, and literary materials, this study traces a specific thematic genealogy from the late thirteenth …
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SHOP/VEND : reconciling the future of (in)formal exchange in Saigon's public market
… exterior of the Ben Thanh Market, the existing French colonial building acts as a fortress -- a spatial construct of exclusion that prevents the potentially fruitful intermingling and reconciliation of the formal shop owner with the informal street vendor. This thesis analyzes the condition of …
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The social base of divide-and-rule : left-Islamist opposition alliances in North Africa’s Arab Spring
… despite their similar culture, demography, and French colonial heritage, have such different histories of left-Islamist alliances? Using a multi-method approach, including over 100 Arabic field interviews and an original dataset, this paper argues that left-Islamist alliances form as a …
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Water First : a political history of hydraulics in Vietnam's Red River Delta
… Contract system in 1981. Underlying both the French colonial and communist visions of modernity and economic development was a belief that improving agricultural productivity, of which large-scale hydraulic infrastructure was an important component, could catalyse growth in the rural economy, …
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Water First : a political history of hydraulics in Vietnam's Red River Delta
… Contract system in 1981. Underlying both the French colonial and communist visions of modernity and economic development was a belief that improving agricultural productivity, of which large-scale hydraulic infrastructure was an important component, could catalyse growth in the rural economy, …
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The Atlantic Revolutions and the Movement of Information in the British and French Caribbean, c. 1763-1804
… among select colonies in the British and French Caribbean during a series of military conflicts from 1763 to 1804, including the American War of Independence (1775-1783), French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802), and the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). The colonies included in this study are …
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In Each Other’s Arms: France and the St. Lawrence Mission Villages in War and Peace, 1630-1730
… Valley. A diversity of peoples, whom the French lumped under the rubrics of “Algonquins”, “Montagnais”, “Hurons”, “Iroquois”, “Abenakis” and “Loups”, migrated to these villages in the hope of bettering their lives in trying times. This dissertation retraces the formation and the early …
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Mapping the River in Black and White: Trajectories of Race in the Niger Bend, Northern Mali
… articulated ideas about ""race"" in pre-colonial times, distinguishing, at the most basic level, between ""Whites"" (bid&dotbelow;an¯ ), for those with Arab pedigrees, and ""Blacks"" (sudan ). During the period of French colonial rule (1894-1960), racial discourses became central to …
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