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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (166599)7/20/2005 12:52:19 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Cultured Force : Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire
by Barnett Singer, John Langdon

# Hardcover: 488 pages
# Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press; 1st edition (April 15, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN: 0299199002

DR Singer and Professor Langdon have given us an important and timely book (Cultured Force: Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire. Barnett Singer and John Langdon. University of Wisconsin Press. [pounds sterling]29.95/US$ 45.00. 488 pages. ISBN 0-299-19900-2). Important because it broaches a subject of which very little is known in the English-speaking world--and currently somewhat neglected in the Francophone world. Timely because of what is called 'American Imperialism'. The problems confronting President Bush in Iraq or Afghanistan today are the same as those which confronted the proconsuls and colonisers who are the subject of this study. They had to learn on their feet. So must he.

The book is the fruit of ten years assiduous research by Dr Singer, a contributor to Contemporary Review. Professor Langdon provided more research at a later stage. It is well written--though a purist might find it a little too colloquial in places and...
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