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Cultured Force Makers and Defenders of the French Colonial Empire Barnett Singer and John Langdon “No course in modern French history should be without this book. . . . A fresh new reading to the entire enterprise of French colonial history.” — Frederick Quinn, International Journal of African Historical Studies “Vividly written, [Cultured Force] challenges those determined to see nothing beneficial in European colonialism, or, more precisely in the achievements of France's pre-eminent military proconsuls of the past two hundred years. . . . The book is valuable in its attempt to reconstruct the familial backgrounds and circumstantial difficulties that so often shaped the outlook and actions of the individuals studied. . . . Both subtle and well informed.”—Martin Thomas, Modern and Contemporary France Barnett Singer is associate professor of history at Brock University, Ontario, and the author of Modern France: Mind, Politics, Society and Village Notables in Nineteenth-Century France. John Langdon is professor of history at Le Moyne College. He is the author of July 1914 and coauthor, with Edward H. Judge, of A Hard and Bitter Peace and The Cold War: A History through Documents. Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)

FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION April 2004 LC: 2003021174 JV 496 pp. 6 x 9   7 b/w photos, 3 maps Paper $29.95 s ISBN 978-0-299-19904-3 ADD TO CART   The cloth edition ISBN 978-0-299-19900-5 is out of print.

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