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    Promised land Solms, Castro, and Sam Houston's colonization contracts / by Morgenthaler, George J.

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…Context -- France meets Texas -- The colonization contracts -- Shifting diplomatic winds -- The nobles and the pilgrims -- France sours, Germany ponders -- Setbacks and preparations -- Solms -- The journey -- Welcome to Texas -- West to San Antonio -- Competition -- Missed connections -- Priorities -- The founders depart -- The tides turn -- The outcome -- Aftermath.…”
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    Arabs of the Jewish faith the civilizing mission in colonial Algeria / by Schreier, Joshua, 1969-

    Published 2010
    “…Algeria Colonization History 19th century.…”
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    The killer trail a colonial scandal in the heart of Africa / by Taithe, Bertrand

    Published 2009
    “…Africa, Central Colonization.…”
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    Our new husbands are here households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule / by Osborn, Emily Lynn

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : households, gender, and politics in West African history -- Origins : the founding of Baté, 1650/1750 -- Growth : warfare and exile, commerce and expansion, 1750/1850 -- Conflict : warfare and captivity, 1850/81 -- Occupation : Samori Touré and Baté, 1881/91 -- Conquest : warfare, marriage, and French statecraft -- Colonization : households and the French occupation -- Separate spheres? …”
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    Colonial culture in France since the revolution /

    Published 2014
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    Cold War holidays American tourism in France / by Endy, Christopher

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…Consumerism, the Cold War, and globalization -- Rationed pleasure : leisure before and after the war -- Fellow travelers : the rise of tourism in U.S. foreign policy -- Radiance or colonization? : French divisions over American tourism -- Making France safe for middle-class Americans -- French hotel industry -- Pleasure with a purpose : the struggle to create an Atlantic community -- The ugly American : the travel boom and the debate over mass culture -- The rude French : modernity and hospitality in De Gaulle's France -- The dollar challenge : the persistence of consumerism in the 1960s.…”
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    The French Revolution in global perspective

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…The global underground : smuggling, rebellion, and the origins of the French Revolution / Michael Kwass -- The global financial origins of 1789 / Lynn Hunt -- The fall from Eden : the free-trade origins of the French Revolution / Charles Walton -- 1685 and the French Revolution / Andrew Jainchill -- Colonizing France : revolutionary regeneration and the first French Empire / William Max Nelson -- Foreigners, cosmopolitanism, and French revolutionary universalism / Suzanne Desan -- Feminism and abolitionism : transatlantic trajectories / Denise Z. …”
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    Empire lost France and its other worlds /

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…The centrality of language to identity and representations in Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée / Kathy Richman -- Shadowing Assia Djebar / André Benhaïm -- L'esprit de corps: French civilization and the death of the colonized soldier / Karl Ashoka Britto -- Franco-African artistic and cultural cooperation / Jean-Loup Amselle -- Conclusion: My mother tongue, my paternal languages / Michel Serres.…”
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