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Les populations du Sahara occidental
In this book, Journalist Attilio Gaudio, specialist of Morocco and the Sahara, recalls the history of the people of this alive desert. Islam has allowed the development of numerous brotherhoods, with their important historic-religious literature, as a support to mysticism being both popular and scholarly. From these Arabic texts old, the archives of the Spanish colonization as well as the works of European authors, Attilio Gaudio traces the history, genealogies and lifestyles of the main Saharan tribes and analyzes their relations with each other. He shows that the socio-economic and cultural organization is well adapted to the hard living conditions.
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Mary and Mariology
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Maxime Weygand
During the armistice proceedings and at the Peace Conference after World War I, French General Maxime Weygand served as chief aid to Marshal Foch. Called out of retirement in the late 1930s, Weygand again served his country during World War II, becoming commander in chief of the French Army. His call for enhanced French unity, military preparedness, and adaptation to a new kind of war dominated by tank mobility might have saved France the humiliating defeat in 1940 at the hand of the Nazis, had it been heeded. Weygand's recognition of the Nazi threat earned him the respect of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. Weygand's Vichy Resistance led to his imprisonment from late 1942 through the end of the war. French archival sources, available oral testimony and Weygand's private papers contribute to a fascinating biography of one of World War II's unsung heroes.
Le jeu de l'épargne et de l'investissement à l'âge industriel
C'est un lieu commun, que la croissance et la puissance des sociétés industrielles contemporaines dépendent des capitaux techniques (machinisme, etc.) qu'elles produisent et emploient. Or, aussi bien dans les pays dits capitalistes, qu'en URSS et dans le Tiers Monde, la formation de ces capitaux est fonction de certaines sources de financement (en premier lieu, de l'épargne) et de plans d'investissement. Économiste et financier, Achille Dauphin-Meunier, depuis plus de quinze ans, s'est appliqué à faire jouer - à l'épargne et à l'investissement - tout leur rôle stratégique dans une politique de croissance harmonisée. Sur les mobiles, les moyens, les limites et les effets des actes d'épargner et d'investir, sur les mécanismes complexes de la formation du capital à l'âge industriel — dans un style clair et dépouillé, écartant à dessein les formulations abstraites ou mathématiques, fort de son expérience — il exprime l'essentiel de ce que chacun doit aujourd'hui savoir.
Paul VI
Following after brilliant authoritarian Pope Pius XII and good-humored Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI seemed hesitant, anxious, even tormented. Yet the impact of his fifteen-year-long papacy was colossal: not a single aspect of Church life was left untouched in the whirlwind of change unleashed by the Ecumenical Council he guided and sought to implement. Who was this man, Giovanni Battista Montini (1897-1978), who so altered the face, the voice, the bearing of Catholicism? Versatile historian Yves Chiron is equal to the challenge of portraying this multifaceted and in many ways enigmatic figure, who was ordained a priest without passing through the seminary and never held a simple parish assi...
Black France
"[W]ithout a doubt one of the most important studies so far completed on literature in French grounded in the experiences of migrants of sub-Saharan African origin." —Alec Hargreaves, Florida State University France has always hosted a rich and vibrant black presence within its borders. But recent violent events have raised questions about France's treatment of ethnic minorities. Challenging the identity politics that have set immigrants against the mainstream, Black France explores how black expressive culture has been reformulated as global culture in the multicultural and multinational spaces of France. Thomas brings forward questions such as—Why is France a privileged site of civilization? Who is French? Who is an immigrant? Who controls the networks of production? Black France poses an urgently needed reassessment of the French colonial legacy.
Living Ruins, Value Conflicts
Using monuments and ruins by way of illustration, this fascinating book examines the symbolic, ideological, geographical and aesthetic importance of Greek classical iconography for the Western world. It examines how classical Greek monuments are simultaneously perceived as sublime national symbols and as a mythological and archetypal reference against which Western modernism is measured. The book investigates the dialogue this double identity leads to, as well as frequent clashes between ancient (but also later) monuments and their modern urban or regional environment. Living Ruins, Value Conflicts examines the complex historical process of monument restoration and enhancement, and analyses the nexus of changing perceptions, aesthetic visions and formal principles over the past two centuries. The book shows the ways in which archaeology and monumentality affect modern life, the modern aesthetic, our notions of nationhood, of place, of self - and the limits to and possibilities for national development imposed by the need to ensure ruins are kept 'alive'.
Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco
Exploring the concept of ‘colonial cultures,’ this book analyses how these cultures both transformed, and were transformed by, their various societies. Challenging both the colonial vulgate, and the nationalist paradigm, Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco, examines the lesser known specificities of particular moments, practices and institutions in Morocco, with the aim of uncovering a ‘new colonial history.’ By examining society on a micro-level, this book raises the profiles of the mass of Moroccans who were highly influential in the colonial period yet have been excluded from the historical record because of a lack of textual source material. Introducing social and cultural hi...
