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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"French Empire."”.
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The Struggle for Terroir in French Algeria: Land, Wine, and Contested Identity in the French Empire
This dissertation explores the history of the French Algerian wine industry. The product of an ecological disaster in Europe the wine industry in French North Africa became the fourth largest producer of wine in the world by the mid-twentieth century. French Algeria played a leading role in …
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Nourishing the political body: Banquets in early Third Republic France, 1878 – 1914
… as the form of government, and expansion of the French empire – were advanced at banquets, ritualized gatherings over food and drink. Drawing on the key historical success of banquets as a means of political mobilization during the prelude to the Revolution of 1848, socialists/anarchists, …
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Ireland and the Waterloo campaign of 1815
… and a half decades, since the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. Allied victory over Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo meant a permanent end to the First French Empire, and ushered in a welcome interlude of relative European stability and prosperity. Events in 1815 also signified a …
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'French like the others': Colonial Migrants in Wartime France, 1939-1947
… 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 declaration …
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The concept of citizenship in France from 1789 to Napoleon
My thesis argues that the French Revolution brought about the depoliticisation of the concept of citizenship. In 1789, citizenship was broadly conceived in two ways. One understanding of the concept, inherited from classical citizenship, consisted in having the power to participate in political …
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Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Travel Writing in Algeria: Representation, Ambivalence, and Empire
… representation of Algerians and responses to the French Empire in Algeria in the non-fictional and fictional works of traveller-writers, Eugène Fromentin, Théophile Gautier, Emile-Félix Gautier, Isabelle Eberhardt, and Paul Bowles. Taking its bearings from postcolonial theory as put forward by …
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Facilitating Euro-Moroccan Musical Encounters: the Process and Politics of Jazz Interculturalism in and beyond Morocco
… Elizabeth McGregor’s work on jazz in the French Empire (2016), this thesis contributes to discussions about jazz as a diasporic, transnational music-making practice (TJS 2022; Johnson 2019) by arguing that Morocco’s jazz community evolved precisely through the blurry interzone of …
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Chaos and Cossacks, two fatal vendettas : the invasions of Russia in 1708 and 1812
… talking of the destroyer, than the founder of an Empire. Charles XII and Napoleon were both the preeminent generals of their age. But unlike the French emperor, Charles is a relatively unknown figure today. He was the last of the Northern Vikings, the last Nordic warrior king to lead his men into …
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Guiana and the shadows of empire : colonial and cultural negotiations at the edge of the world.
… of these three Guianas, now known as Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname, is considered briefly, emphasizing their similarities and regional homogeny when compared to other areas. Second, the study considers the administrative policies of each of the country's colonizers, Britain, France, and …
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Migration, Colonialism, and Belonging: Tunisians Around the First World War, 1911-1925
… for. Integrating materials from the Arabic and French popular press, colonial archives, and unexplored personal audiovisual archives from Tunisia, France, Italy, and Switzerland, it reveals how the contingencies of war created spaces for unprecedented encounters between North Africans and their …