An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti

As the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford's An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing nineteenth-century world opinion of this momentous event. This new edition is the first to appear since the original publication in 1805. Rainsford, a career officer in the British army, went to Haiti to recruit black …

Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722)

This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical linkages to contemporary Caribbean theories of creolization and archipelagic thinking. Using Édouard Glissant’s notion of points o…

Work and Occupation in French and English Mental Hospitals, c.1918-1939

This open access book demonstrates that, while occupation has been used to treat the mentally disordered since the early nineteenth century, approaches to its use have varied across different countries and in different time periods. Comparing how occupation was used in French and English mental institutions between 1918 and 1939, one hundred years after the heyday of moral therapy, the book is …

Memoirs of Duke de Richelieu volume 1

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

623553744

Collation

cdl; americana

Series Title

-

Call Number

920 RIC m

Old time Paris: a plain guide to its chief survivals

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The Walls Have the Floor: Mural Journal, May '68

The graffiti of the French student and worker uprising of May 1968, capturing participatory politics in action."Fifty years ago, in 1968, barricades were erected in the streets of Paris for the first time since the Paris Commune of nearly one hundred years before. The events of May 1968 began with student protests against the Vietnam War and American imperialism but quickly expanded to rebellio…

A gallery of recuperation

"A brutal takedown of post-'68 French intellectuals and an analysis of how revolutionary thought gets appropriated, diluted, and assimilated by the very society it opposes"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

You know you're Black in France when... :the fact of everyday antiblackness

"How daily antiblackness in mainland France, rooted in enslavement and coloniality, legitimizes antiblack dehumanization in spite of the "official" state position of raceblindness, echoing structural racism conversations worldwide"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Marseille mix

"An architectural, social and cultural history of the city of Marseille"--"Originally published in 2010 by Architectural Association"--Colophon.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The great Easter :ambulation

"The first-person account of what it is actually like to be what Deleuze & Guattari call a "schizo on a stroll.""--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.