50 years after the independance of African States, the history of the interest and active support of the United States in the development of the Francophonie.

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This book addresses what is called the "crisis of representation". Parting from the idea that this is a rhetorical issue, it attempts to shed light on the truth of representative systems.

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How do new immigrants integrate themselves into culturally sensitive cities in the United States and the United Kingdom? Despite multicultural tensions, local players have succeeded in transcending their differences. Is this a model France could follow?

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The term "Righteous of France" makes reference to "Righteous Among the Nations" created by the Hebrew State. The expression has been reclaimed by French public powers. The author confrontes several of questions posed by contemporary debates on memory.

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The essays cover four major themes: the political situation on the eve of the 2007 elections, the role of France in relations between Western/Eastern Europe after 1989, the link between politics and culture, and the metamorphoses of the modernizing state.

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Gender is a central organizer of contemporary neoliberal globalization. Uniting international specialists on issues rarely confronted, this work renews criticism of the economic, social, political, cultural, ideological consequences of globalization.

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For three decades, in light of evolutions of the global migratory system and technological transformations, migrants retain closer ties to theirs countries of origin. The focus of this innovative work is to present a panorama of these transformations.

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This work takes an unconventional form. Two stories comprise the plot: one is of a woman from a "hard town", the other from the rural world. Through these tales, the question of the effects of the changes of French society on personal politics is posed.

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An analysis of the political behavior of the pieds-noirs (French colonials born in Algeria) from 1871 to 2002, in light of the trauma of the Algerian war and their subsequent return to France.

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This economic history text describes the profitable relationship between France and Switzerland. If the subject is rather pointed, it offers an incomparable perspective on the battle France waged to recover money hidden in Switzerland.

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In this passionate history of the CFDT (Confédération française démocratique du travail), Nicolas Defaud shows how the CFDT has shifted from management-based socialism to apolitical reformism in less than a generation.

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This book crosses histories and associations of tourism, popular leisure, and of the labor movement in order to shed new light on the hope, born in 1936, of the people's tourism, both social and educational.

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A provocative and simple analysis of the European integration process. Nicolas Jabko demonstrates that the European Commission deployed a strategy that invoked mulitple dimensions of the logic of the "market" to promote its political objectives.

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An analysis of the American democratic system throughout the course of the 20th century, as illuminated by the Nixon presidency.

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An history of contemporay Cambodia.

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The aim of this book is to examine the changing nature of the European social model and its capacity to deal with both domestic and external challenges in the early 21st Century.

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This book is not just a simple biography : it is a rare opportunity to discover a usually closed-off universe and a CEO's daily work.

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This work offers an analysis of the (re)production of power ties via military practices, founded on the logics by which gender, class, and race inequalities permeate militancy.

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