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Le Middle ground : Indiens, empires et républiques dans la région des Grands lacs, 1650-1815
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ISBN: 9782914777445 2914777442 Year: 2009 Publisher: Toulouse : Anacharsis,

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Immense fresque narrative, ce chef-d'oeuvre de la littérature historique raconte comment, près de deux siècles durant, les Blancs et les Indiens de la région des Grands Lacs ont tâché de construire ensemble, malgré des logiques conflictuelles et divergentes, un monde mutuellement compréhensible. De cette rencontre est né le " Middle Ground ", un " terrain d'entente ", une société singulière fondée sur des pratiques, des codes, des usages et des moeurs partagés, sans cesse malmenés et remis en question mais toujours renaissants. Jusqu'au rejet définitif de la recherche de cet accommodement au début du XIXe siècle. Autrement dit, jusqu'à la ruine du monde commun, le refoulement des Indiens dans une altérité immuable, et l'oubli même de l'existence du Middle Ground. Comme un continent englouti surgissant des flots, Richard White révèle les couleurs et la vie de cet univers prétendument " périphérique ", très nettement ignoré par l'historiographie traditionnelle. Ce faisant, il oblige à repenser les mécanismes coloniaux dans leur ensemble, aussi bien que les moments fondateurs de la naissance des États-Unis d'Amérique. Avec l'élaboration de sa fertile métaphore du Middle Ground, White pose ici une pierre angulaire epistémologique comparable à la " Méditerranée " de Fernand Braudel.


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Living waters
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ISBN: 0791477126 1441604928 9781441604927 9780791477120 0791477037 0791477045 9780791477038 9780791477045 Year: 2009 Publisher: Albany Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press

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In Living Waters, Margaret Wooster canoes, portages, camps beside, and wades into eight Great Lakes watersheds across New York and Québec, returning with her pockets full of original stories from these beautiful, boggy, and prehistoric waterways. From the history of hydropower development on the Niagara River to the search for a wizard's cave in the Zoar Valley, from a portrait of an urban creek in Buffalo, to the origins and demise of New France on the St. Lawrence, Living Waters offers a fascinating, first-person exploration of the rivers that impact our world's largest freshwater ecosystem.


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The great African war : Congo and regional geopolitics, 1996-2006
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ISBN: 9780521111287 0521111285 9780521169059 9780511596698 9780511596292 0511596294 0511593317 9780511593314 0511596693 0521169054 1107188253 1282303236 9786612303234 0511592388 0511595247 0511595891 9781107188259 9781282303232 6612303239 9780511592386 9780511595240 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This book examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996, when the war started, to 2006, when elections formally ended the political transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A unique combination of circumstances explain the unravelling of the conflicts: the collapsed Zairian/Congolese state; the continuation of the Rwandan civil war across borders; the shifting alliances in the region; the politics of identity in Rwanda, Burundi and eastern DRC; the ineptitude of the international community; and the emergence of privatised and criminalised public spaces and economies. This book seeks to provide an in-depth analysis of concurrent developments in Zaire/DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda in African and international contexts. By adopting a non-chronological approach, it attempts to show the dynamics of the inter-relationships between these realms and offers a toolkit for understanding the past and future of Central Africa.


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From genocide to continental war: the "Congolese" conflict and the crisis of contemporary Africa
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ISBN: 9781850656654 9781850655237 9781850659587 1850656657 Year: 2009 Publisher: London Hurst

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Following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the largely Tutsi RPF government built a repressive regime after a short pretence at national reconciliation, while hundreds of thousands of Hutu, many of whom had perpetrated the genocide, fled to Zaire. The two parties clashed when the Rwandan government attacked the refugee camps in September 1996, forcing some of the refugees back home and killing others. Their military success led the victorious Rwandan forces to push their advantage and overthrow President Mobutu with the help of several African allies and the discreet support of the United States. The collapse of the Zairian regime marked the passing of an era and the implosion of the Cold War postcolonial order in Africa. As a result the heart of the African continent has been engulfed in a low intensity but high civilian casualty conflict involving seven countries directly and another seven indirectly. The international community has shown little interest, yet this massive conflict will probably play a key role in reshaping the continent's future in terms of border definition, governance and economic change, all of which are addressed in this work.


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Africa's world war: Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe
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ISBN: 9780195374209 9780199754205 0199754209 0195374207 Year: 2009 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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From the Publisher: The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when some two million refugees--a third of Rwanda's population--fled to exile in Zaire in 1996. The new Rwandan regime then crossed into Zaire and attacked the refugees, slaughtering upwards of 400,000 people. The Rwandan forces then turned on Zaire's despotic President Mobutu and, with the help of a number of allied African countries, overthrew him. But as Prunier shows, the collapse of the Mobutu regime and the ascension of the corrupt and erratic Laurent-Desire Kabila created a power vacuum that drew Rwanda, Uganda, Angola, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and other African nations into an extended and chaotic war. The heart of the book documents how the whole core of the African continent became engulfed in an intractable and bloody conflict after 1998, a devastating war that only wound down following the assassination of Kabila in 2001. Prunier not only captures all this in his riveting narrative, but he also indicts the international community for its utter lack of interest in what was then the largest conflict in the world. Here then is a gripping eyewitness account of the bloodiest upheaval of recent times, a book of passionate and unblinking intensity that is our best record to date of one of the great tragedies of the post-Cold War era.


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Recovery of gray wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States : an endangered species success story
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ISBN: 1441927638 0387859519 9786612019388 1282019384 0387859527 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : Springer,

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The western Great Lakes region of the United States is the only portion of the lower 48 states where wolves were never completely extirpated. This region contains the areas where many of the first modern concepts of wolf conservation and research were developed, and where many early proponents of wolf conservation such as Aldo Leopold, Sigurd Olson, and Durward Allen lived and worked. The Great Lakes region also is the first place in the U. S. where "endangered" wolf populations recovered. During this recovery, we learned much about wolf biology and ecology, endangered species management, carnivore conservation, landscape ecology, depredation management, and social aspects of wildlife conservation. "Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States," traces wolf recovery from diverse perspectives ranging from ecology, management, and policy to the cultural, social, and historical significance of wolves.

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Endangered species --Great Lakes Region (North America). --- Gray wolf --Conservation --Great Lakes Region (North America). --- Gray wolf --- Endangered species --- Vertebrates --- Animal Sciences --- Ecology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Zoology --- Agriculture --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Conservation --- Endangered animal species --- Endangered animals --- Endangered wildlife --- Threatened animal species --- Threatened animals --- Threatened species --- Threatened wildlife --- Vanishing species --- Vanishing wildlife --- Wildlife, Endangered --- Wildlife, Threatened --- Wildlife, Vanishing --- Canis lupus --- Timber wolf --- Wolf --- Environment. --- Animal ecology. --- Landscape ecology. --- Community ecology, Biotic. --- Environmental law. --- Environmental policy. --- Environmental management. --- Nature conservation. --- Nature Conservation. --- Animal Ecology. --- Environmental Management. --- Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice. --- Landscape Ecology. --- Community & Population Ecology. --- Species --- Wildlife conservation --- Rare animals --- Canis --- Wolves --- Ecology. --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Environment law --- Environmental control --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- Environmental policy --- Law --- Sustainable development --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Management --- Animals --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Law and legislation --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Environment and state --- Environmental management --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Government policy


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The dynamics of violence in Central Africa
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ISBN: 9780812241204 0812241207 9780812220902 Year: 2009 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa University of Pennsylvania Press

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The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa provides a thorough exploration of the contemporary crises in the region. By focusing on the historical and social forces behind the cycles of bloodshed in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, René Lemarchand challenges much of the conventional wisdom about the roots of civil strife in former Belgian Africa. --from publisher description.

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International relations. Foreign policy --- Polemology --- Internal politics --- Congo --- Great Lakes Region [Africa] --- Political violence --- Geopolitics --- Genocide --- Violence politique --- Géopolitique --- Génocide --- Africa, Central --- Afrique centrale --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions --- Ethnic relations --- Political aspects. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Conditions économiques --- Relations interethniques --- Aspect politique --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:327.5H21 --- #SBIB:328H41 --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Crime --- World politics --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Vrede – oorlog, oorlogssituaties --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Africa, Equatorial --- Central Africa --- Equatorial Africa --- Economic history. --- Genocide. --- Geopolitics. --- Politics and government. --- Political violence. --- Völkermord. --- Krieg. --- Gewalttätigkeit. --- Since 1960. --- Africa, Central. --- Africa --- Gro�e Seen . --- Kongo . --- Große Seen . --- Géopolitique --- Génocide --- Conditions économiques --- Génocide rwandais (1994) --- Affrontements ethniques --- Grands lacs africains (région) --- Congo (République démocratique) --- 20e siècle --- 1960-.... --- Génocide rwandais (1994) --- Grands lacs africains (région) --- 20e siècle --- Congo (République démocratique)


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De grote Afrikaanse oorlog: Congo in de regionale geopolitiek, 1996-2006
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ISBN: 9789085421733 Year: 2009 Publisher: Antwerpen Meulenhoff/Manteau

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anno 2000-2009 --- Congo --- Great Lakes Region [Africa] --- 851 Burgeroorlogen --- 881.2 Centraal-Afrika --- BPB0905 --- Géographie politique --- Guerre civile --- af-cong 337 --- oorlogen --- Politieke geografie --- Burgeroorlog --- politiek - Congo --- Politiek: Congo-Kinshasa --- Politiek: Congo-Kinshasa. --- Internal politics --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Polemology --- anno 1990-1999 --- Afrique --- Afrika --- Civil war --- Great Lakes Region (Africa) --- Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Politics and government --- 1997 --- -Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Foreign relations --- -Civil war --- -Politiek: Congo-Kinshasa. --- -Internal politics --- -851 Burgeroorlogen --- Aafrika --- Африка --- África --- Afrikka --- Afryka --- Africa --- Āfrika --- Αφρική --- africké krajiny --- χώρες της Αφρικής --- африкански држави --- africké země --- país da África --- afrikanske lande --- Afrika országai --- African countries --- afrikanska länder --- vendet Afrikane --- país de África --- afričke zemlje --- paesi dell'Africa --- země Afriky --- Afrikas länder --- africké státy --- státy Afriky --- Afrikan maat --- afrikai országok --- Afrikos šalys --- pays africains --- paesi africani --- Aafrika riigid --- pays d'Afrique --- Länder Afrikas --- país africano --- Afrikaanse landen --- țări africane --- Afrikaans land --- afrikanische Länder --- afrikai államok --- αφρικανικές χώρες --- civil war --- občanská válka --- wojna domowa --- burgeroorlog --- εμφύλιος πόλεμος --- državljanska vojna --- гражданска война --- kodusõda --- Bürgerkrieg --- sisällissota --- borgerkrig --- грађански рат --- pilietinis karas --- guerra civile --- pilsoņu karš --- občianska vojna --- граѓанска војна --- inbördeskrig --- gwerra ċivili --- guerra civil --- polgárháború --- război civil --- luftë civile --- građanski rat --- vzpoura --- востание --- felkelés --- insurecție --- sukilimas --- insurrection --- povstání --- kapina --- sacelšanās --- lázadás --- guerra interna --- kryengritje --- ustanak --- pobuna --- povstanie --- resistenza --- ülestõus --- politický zemepis --- geografía política --- political geography --- politinė geografija --- geografia polityczna --- poliitiline geograafia --- gjeografi politike --- politisk geografi --- politieke geografie --- politische Geografie --- πολιτική γεωγραφία --- politikai földrajz --- politična geografija --- geografia politica --- ġeografija politika --- politiskā ģeogrāfija --- geografaíocht pholaitiúil --- geografia política --- politický zeměpis --- политичка географија --- geografie politică --- poliittinen maantiede --- политическа география --- politička geografija --- politická geografie --- politische Geographie --- An Afraic --- cogadh cathartha --- Géographie politique --- guerre civile

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