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Aphrodite's island
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Anne Salmond |
Aphrodite's Island is a bold new account of the European discovery of Tahiti, the Pacific island of mythic status in Western imaginings about sexuality, the exotic, and the nobility or bestiality of … |
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Constructing Muslims in France
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Jennifer Fredette |
The standing of French Muslims is undercut by a predominant and persistent elite public discourse that frames Muslims as failed and incomplete French citizens. This situation fosters the very separat… |
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Whites, Jews, and Us
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Hedi El Kholti,Houria Bouteldja |
«Pourquoi j'écris ce livre? Parce que je partage l'angoisse de Gramsci: "le vieux monde se meurt. Le nouveau est long à apparaître et c'est dans ce clair-obscur que surgissent les monstres". Le monst… |
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Lest innocent blood be shed
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Philip Paul Hallie |
Tells of the struggle of a Protestant village in Nazi-controlled France to save Jews from persecution. Despite the obvious risks and the many sacrifices, the people of Le Chambon succeeded in hiding … |
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Jews and gender in liberation France
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K. H. Adler |
This book takes a new look at occupied and liberated France through the dual prism of race (specifically Jewishness) and gender - core components of Vichy ideology. The imagining of liberation, and t… |
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