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imperialism in Africa was to strengthen the French economy. They also wanted to gain more land that had been lost. This would help the French pay their indemnity to Prussia and recover from the Great Depression in the 1870s. French imperialists also intended to spread their ideas of the enlightenment and to glorify French culture. The Berlin Conference gave France a chance to gain power and become one of Europe’s greatest powers again. Other reasons for French imperialism were religion, trade,…

Napoleon started as a soldier, then became Director, then First Consul, then crowned himself Emperor. The French accepted him as Emperor because he led the French army against France’s enemies, and the army was the only thing France could brag about. While he was Emperor he banned all presses so no one could spread rumors about him. His downfall was due to his tyrannical ways. Napoleon believed he could beat Russia which had never been defeated. He lost the war against the Russians due to…

Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation by Paul Silverstein, provides ethnography of the Algerian existence in France as well as the transnational Berber movement. Silverstein approaches his subjects through the medium of everyday life, following the random individuals he met during his field work in the 1990s, using an ethnographical methodology with a very critical and self-reflexive alertness of the environment he shared with them. His book is a critical work where it gives a…

Annotated Bibliography Secondary Sources Andress, David. The French Revolution and the People. London: Hambledon and London, 2004. Andress?s publication provides the perspective of the people and the revolution. In a three-pronged review of the influences of the French revolution, the history of the people, the documentation by the philosophers, and the history of the monarchs are equally important. Birmingham, David. Switzerland: A Village History. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire:…

Some substantial of freedoms guaranteed by liberalism are the minority rights and language rights. Quite frequently minority groups have to struggle to receive the same freedoms as their majority counterparts. In a society governed by liberalism, minority groups do not usually have to fight as much as they would have to in a illiberal…

1. Explain through examples taken from Tea in the Harem how the main protagonist, Majid, maintains two cultural identities, one French and one Algerian. Which one seems to predominate in your opinion, if one does? For me the best example of the cultural differences that Majid is living in, is the door to home. “Majid goes straight into his flat without knocking. The front door’s always open…Levesque, on the other hand, has to ring his doorbell several times before his wife comes to let him…

Toussant Louverture Toussant Louverture was born on May 20, 1743 (This Week 30) and died April 7, 1803 alone, in a French prison (Norton 6.) His impact on the history of Haiti will eternally be visible and the effects will continue forward for all time. To clarify a historical context: Haiti was discovered by Christopher Colombus and was promptly colonized. Spain was quite happy to claim it and quite happy to use its natural resources as many other powerful European countries were doing; however…

Algiers” directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, highlights the efforts of the Muslim Algerian population fighting for independence of their country from the French government. The movie had a documentary type theme to it, making the movie more realistic and actually encounter what’s really happening. Two particular foes stood out throughout the movie. On the French side was Paratrooper Colonel Mathieu, whose sole mission is to stay in Algeria to erase any chance of an Algerian rebellion. The Algerian…

French Colonialism in Vietnam undoubtably had a profound impact on the nation’s development and formation. The effects of French rule, while extended and pervasive, were not felt equally in the entire nation. French rule left a far different legacy in northern Vietnam as opposed to southern Vietnam. By establishing themselves in the South first, the French had a much different influence there in Cochinchina than they did in the Tonkin in the North. Since French rule began in the South, many…

art,architecture, and Food French Art The origins of French art were very much influenced by Flemish art and by Italian art at the time of the Renaissance The 17th century was the period when French painting became prominent and individualised itself through classicism. Louis 14th’s prime minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert founded in 1648 the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture to protect these artists, and in 1666 he created the still-active French Academy in Rome to have direct…