| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 633 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : the creation of a colonial culture in France, from the colonial era to the "memory wars" / Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, and Dominic Thomas -- The creation of a colonial culture. Foreword : French colonization: an inaudible history / Marc Ferro ; Antislavery, abolitionism, and abolition in France from the end of the eighteenth century to the 1840s / Marcel Dorigny ; Milestones in colonial culture under the Second Empire (1851-1870) / Sandrine Lemaire, Pascal Blanchard, and Nicolas Bancel ; Exhibitions, expositions, media coverage, and the colonies (1870-1914) / Sandrine Lemaire and Pascal Blanchard ; Science, scientists, and the colonies (1870-1914) / Gilles Boëtsch ; Literature, song, and the colonies (1900-1920) / Alain Ruscio ; Entertainment, theater, and the colonies (1870-1914) / Sylvie Chalaye ; School, pedagogy, and the colonies (1870-1914) / Gilles Manceron ; Dying : the call of the empire (1913-1918) / Éric Deroo -- Conquering public opinion. Foreword : history's mark (1931-1961) / Didier Daeninckx ; Dreaming : the fatal attraction of colonial cinema (1920-1950) / Olivier Barlet and Pascal Blanchard ; Spreading the word : the Agence générale des colonies (1920-1931) / Sandrine Lemaire ; To civilize : the invention of the native (1918-1940) / Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard ; Selling the colonial economic myth (1900-1940) / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch ; The athletic exception : black champions and colonial culture (1900-1939) / Timothée Jobert, Stanislas Frenkiel, and Nicolas Bancel ; The colonial bath : colonial culture in everyday life (1918-1931) / Nicolas Bancel ; The Colonial Exposition (1931) / Steven Ungar ; National unity : the right and left "meet" around the Colonial Exposition (1931) / Pascal Blanchard -- The apogee of imperialism. Foreword : images of an empire's demise / Benjamin Stora ; Colonizing, educating, guiding : a republican duty / Françoise Vergès ; Promotion : creating the colonial (1930-1940) / Sandrine Lemaire ; Influence : cultural and ideological agendas (1920-1940) / David Murphy, Elizabeth Ezra and Charles Forsdick ; Education : becoming "homo imperialis" (1910-1940) / Nicolas Bancel and Daniel Denis ; Manipulation : conquering taste (1931-1939) / Sandrine Lemaire ; Control : Paris, a colonial capital (1931-1939) / Pascal Blanchard and Éric Deroo ; Imperial revolution : Vichy's colonial myth (1940-1944) / Pascal Blanchard and Ruth Ginio ; The colonial economy : between propaganda myths and economic reality (1940-1955) / Sandrine Lemaire, Catherine Hodeir, and Pascal Blanchard ; French unity : the dream of a united France (1946-1960) / Jacques Frémeaux -- Toward the postcolony. Foreword : Moussa the African's blues / Abdourahman A. Waberi ; Decolonizing France : the "Indochinese syndrome" (1946-1954) / Daniel Hémery ; Immigration : the emergence of an African elite in the metropole (1946-1961) / Philippe Dewitte ; Immigration : North Africans settle in the metropole (1946-1961) / Pascal Blanchard, Éric Deroo, Driss el Yazami, Pierre Fournié, and Gilles Manceron ; Crime : colonial violence in the metropole (1954-1961) / Jean-Luc Einaudi ; Modernism, colonialism, and cultural hybridity / Herman Lebovics ; The meanders of colonial memory / Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard ; The impossible revision of France's history (1968-2006) / Suzanne Citron ; National history and colonial history : parallel histories (1961-2006) / Sandrine Lemaire ; The illusion of decolonization (1956-2006) / Jean-Pierre Dozon ; The difficult art of exhibiting the colonies / Robert Aldrich -- The time of inheritance. Foreword : the age of contempt, or the legitimization of France's civilizing mission / Bruno Etienne ; Trouble in the republic : disturbing memories, forgotten territories / Françoise Vergès ; Competition between victims / Esther Benbassa ; The army and the construction of immigration as a threat (1961-2006) / Mathieu Rigouste ; Postcolonial culture in the army and the memory of overseas combatants (1961-2006) / Christian Benoît, Antoine Champeaux, and Éric Deroo ; Republican integration : reflections on a postcolonial issue (1961-2006) / Vincent Geisser ; Colonial influences and tropes in the field of literature / Jean-Marc Moura ; From colonial history to the banlieues (1961-2006) / Dominique Vidal ; Can we speak of a postcolonial racism? (1961-2006) / Saïd Bouamama and Pierre Tevanian ; From colonial stereotypes to the postcolonial gaze : the need for an evolution of the imaginary / Dominique Wolton ; Postcolonial cinema, song, and literature : continuity or change? (1961-2006) / Delphine Robic-Diaz and Alain Ruscio ; Ethnic tourism : symbolic reconquest? (1961-2006) / Nicolas Bancel ; Francophonie and universality : the evolution of two intertwined notions (1961-2006) / Gabrielle Parker |
| Summary |
This collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture and how it continues to inform thinking about history, memory, and identity. This reexamination of French colonial culture provides the basis for a revised understanding of its cultural, political, and social legacy and its lasting impact on postcolonial immigration, the treatment of ethnic minorities, and national identity |
| Notes |
Originally published in French as: Culture coloniale en France : de la Révolution française à nos jours (Paris : CNRS : Autrement, 2008), with the collaboration of the Groupe de recherche ACHAC |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-605) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Imperialism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Ethnic relations
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French colonies
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Imperialism
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Intellectual life
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Manners and customs
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Social aspects
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France -- Colonies -- Social aspects
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France -- Colonies -- History
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France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051441
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France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051442
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France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051505
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France -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051506
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France -- Ethnic relations
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France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blanchard, Pascal, author, editor
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Lemaire, Sandrine, author, editor
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Bancel, Nicolas, author, editor
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Thomas, Dominic Richard David, editor
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Pernsteiner, Alexis, translator
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| ISBN |
0253010535 |
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9780253010537 |
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