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France and Globalization in the Late 18th Century: The Kourou Disaster

Noted British historian Emma Rothschild recalls a terrible turning point in French efforts to expand into the New World.
Posted: 3/14/2005

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Cultivating global citizens
Cindy Fan, interim vice provost for international studies and professor of geography, shares her experiences cultivating global citizens in the summer Travel Study program in China. Studying and living abroad offers students incomparable learning opportunities. . .

Bureaucracy Stifles Help for India's Poor
Akhil Gupta, UCLA professor of anthropology, was interviewed Nov. 28 on the BBC radio program "Thinking Allowed" about his new book “Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India,” which explores how India's state bureaucracy hinders the fight against poverty.

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