Comprehensive and convincing

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	• The French Encounter With Africans: White Response to Blacks, 1530-1880 William B. Cohen Indiana University Press, 2003 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Comprehensive and convincing

When William Cohen edited the French version of this book in 1981, The French press was really aggressive and bitter.

This book is a classic,because it destroys the French myth of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" , ( Liberté, égalité, Fraternité) between human beings.

The French scholars of the 18 and 19 th centuries are highly involved in the modern theory of "superior" and "inferior" races, with one central example : The count Gobineau.

We know that the ideas displayed in his book( in fact a summary of his french contempories fellow scholars) inspired some guys in Germany. We all know the dramatic result...

A French scholar ( canadian citizen), Pierre H Boulle wrote a book in 2007 : "Race et esclavage dans la France de l'Ancien Régime".

And this book confirms William B Cohen views on french racism 28 years ago.

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