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China's second continent : how a million migrants are building a new empire in Africa
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ISBN: 9780307946652 9780307956989 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York Knopf

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An exciting, hugely revealing account of China's burgeoning presence in Africa: a developing empire already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. A prizewinning foreign correspondent and former New York Times bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa, Howard French is uniquely positioned to tell the story of China in Africa. Through meticulous on-the-ground reporting-conducted in Mandarin, French, and Portuguese, among other languages-French crafts a layered investigation of astonishing depth and breadth as he engages not only with policy-shaping moguls and diplomats, but also with the ordinary men and women navigating the street-level realities of cooperation, prejudice, corruption, and opportunity forged by this seismic geopolitical development. With incisiveness and empathy, French reveals the human face of China's economic, political, and human presence across the African continent-and in doing so reveals what is at stake for everyone involved. Bron : http://www.amazon.com


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Born in Blackness : Africa, Africans, and the making of the modern world, 1471 to the Second World War
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ISBN: 9781631495823 1631495828 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Liveright Publishing Corporation

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"Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in America, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the 'darkest' continent. Born in Blackness dramatically retrieves the lives of major African historical figures whose stories have been repeatedly etiolated and erased over centuries, from unimaginably rich medieval African emperors who traded with Asia; to Kongo sovereigns who heroically battled seventeenth-century European powers; to ex-slaves who liberated Haitians from bondage. In doing so, French tells the story of gold, tobacco, sugar, and cotton--and the greatest 'commodity' of all, the millions of people brought in chains from Africa to the New World, whose reclaimed histories fundamentally help explain our present world"--

A continent for the taking: the tragedy and hope of Africa
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ISBN: 1400030277 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Vintage Books

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A continent for the taking: the tragedy and hope of Africa
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ISBN: 0375414614 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Knopf

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Everything under the heavens : how the past helps shape China's push for global power
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ISBN: 9780385353328 9780385353335 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York Alfred A. Knopf

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For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set aside. China has asserted its place among the global heavyweights, revealing its plans for pan-Asian dominance by building its navy, increasing territorial claims to areas like the South China Sea, and diplomatically bullying smaller players. Underlying this attitude is a strain of thinking that casts China's present-day actions in decidedly historical terms, as the path to restoring the dynastic glory of the past. If we understand how that historical identity relates to current actions, in ways ideological, philosophical, and even legal, we can learn to forecast just what kind of global power China stands to become--and to interact wisely with a future peer.

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