... of metropolitan France, several monographs come easily to mind. Mark Cioc’s The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815–2000 (2002) treated the heavy imprint of industrialization on the river; Sara Pritchard foregrounded an enviro-technical approach in Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône...

...Emile Chabal While many other democracies in the world celebrate or simply tolerate public expressions of difference, France has traditionally remained hostile toward them in the name of republican universalism. The rise of identity politics in recent decades, however, has posed a serious challenge...

...W. E. B. Du Bois Excerpts from a Current History essay published in 1925. © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 West Africa France colonialism race How can this raising of the issue of color by colored folk be avoided? It can be avoided only by a social uplift...

... antidiscrimination rules, including requirements for employers to offer reasonable accommodations to disabled workers, that were subsequently adopted by member states. But a comparison of disability policy in France and Sweden shows that divergent approaches to labor rights remain in place, with France relying...

... of California Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie art culture museums colonialism restitution cultural heritage patrimony France Emmanuel Macron Benin Nigeria Museum Black Civilizations Dakar Senegal Berlin Humboldt Forum PERSPECTIVE Momentum Builds for the Restitution of African Art...

... Brexit Maastricht Treaty France Netherlands Italy Five Star Movement central banks 1968 83 Everyone can see that European politics is changing. In January, the British Parliament delivered a stinging defeat to Prime Minister Theresa May s plan to take the United Kingdom out of the European...

... colonial legacies legal system education policy Eric Anchimbe Africa Cameroon language conflict France Britain colonialism postcolonial ethnic rivalry Anglophone Problem 169 [T]he intertwined nature of language, politics, and identity permeates the nation, its institutions...

... in northern Mali was a culmination of a long history of failed peace agreements negotiated between government officials in Bamako and Tuareg rebels. Tuareg movements have been challenging the status quo in Mali since the West African country gained in- dependence from France in 1960. By January 2012, various...

... Jennifer Fredette France terrorist attacks state emergency civil liberties religious freedom secularism Islam headscarves laicite Hollande Le Pen Macron Sarkozy 101 Underlying the debate on the state of emergency and terrorism are deep tensions over the place of religion in French...

... review euro crisis European Union France Germany Greece economic policy currency debt ideology Joseph Stiglitz Marcus Brunnermeier Harold James Jean-Pierre Landau For economists, the euro crisis is the gift that never stops giving. Casual observers might think it is on the back...

...-Busse Europe European Union Eastern Germany Angela Merkel Hungary Viktor Orbán Greece immigration asylum Christianity Islam NATO France National Front Britain UK Independence Party 89 Eastern Europe remains poorer and less democratically experienced than West- ern Europe...

... Investigation , by Kamel Daoud Other Press , 2015 © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Joshua Lustig Emmanuel Todd Kamel Daoud Paris France Muslims Charlie Hebdo Islamic State Algeria Manuel Valls Je Suis public...

... national self-determination nationalism internationalism hegemony world war one Europe civilization globalization great war trenches France Germany Russia czar czarist dominate ottoman empire Wilson east Asia Middle East colonies imperial depression bolshevik soviet Clark...

... international laws that might deter war, or at least inhibit war s worst cruelties. These meet- ings worked through newly professionalized networks of international lawyers, as well as the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a remarkable organization devised by bureaucrats and parlia- mentarians from France, Britain...

... genocide genocidaire great Armenia geopolitical overlooked hidden mobilization ethnic groups catalyst Nestorian Iraq ISIS world war one Europe civilization globalization great war trenches France Germany Russia czar czarist dominate ottoman empire Wilson east Asia Middle...

... and the growing self-assertion of Japan in East Asia and the Pacific, but also through subtle transformations in the colonial domain. At one level, Britain and France engaged in the last great colonial scramble as they divided up the for- mer German colonies in Africa and Asia as well as the Ottoman provinces...

... civilization globalization great war France Germany Russia czar czarist debt reparations dominate ottoman empire Wilson east Asia Middle East colonies imperial depression bolshevik soviet Clark suffering cost Japan Turkey parallax united states US 1918 1914 324 The modern...

..., and humiliated, and that did not turn out well for France two decades later. The Bolsheviks and their admirers learned that imperialism-cum- capitalism explained 1914, and reacted by creating Communism, which killed far more people than did the First World War. We should recall, meanwhile, that not every country...

... by Britain and France) as the primary force in nurturing a reformed postwar order. Its leaders recognized the need to enlarge demo- cratic participation at home (especially through a wider suffrage) and to ameliorate conditions in their empires. Tooze argues that support for self-determination...

...Stephen W. Smith Long gone … is the inbred elite connivance between Paris and the francophone capitals in Africa. Stephen Smith France Africa Mali Francois Hollande Charles de Gaulle Ivory Coast Houphouët-Boigny postcolonialism intervention © 2013 Current History. All rights...