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ATLANTIC REVERBERATIONS: French Representations of an American Presidential Election. By Paul C. Adams. xii and 240 pp.; diagrs., ills., bibliog., index, Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2007. [pounds sterling]89.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780754670230.
When I teach political geography I sometimes ask my students to tell me which countries they believe have the most important militaries. The United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, and Russia are typically nominated first. After a little more consideration, countries such as Australia and China usually come up. I then tell them they are ignoring a country that has one of the largest military budgets in the world--a European state that, at the 2006 Mackinder Forum in Great Britain, was listed by a British admiral as having one of the five most serious armies in the world. Even with these hints I often find myself having to tell my students that the country they are neglecting is France.
Lack of general awareness in the United States of France's military might arguably reflects a particular narrative about that...
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