Research Catalog

Title

Promoting the colonial idea : propaganda and visions of empire in France / edited by Tony Chafer and Amanda Sackur.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chafer, Tony
• Sackur, Amanda.

Description

xii, 248 p. : maps; 23 cm.

Summary

Challenging the notion that there was no 'popular imperialism' in France, this important new book examines the importance of France's colonial role in the development of French society and culture after 1870. It assesses the impact of colonial propaganda on public attitudes in France and the relationship between French imperialism, republicanism and nationalism. It analyses metropolitan representations of empire, traces the development of a colonial 'science' and discusses the enduring importance of images and symbols of empire in contemporary France. It will be of interest to students of imperial, social and cultural history as well as to historians of contemporary France.

Subject

• Public opinion > France > History
• Propaganda, French > History
• Racism > France
• France > Colonies > Public opinion > History
• France > Colonies > Race relations > Historiography

Genre/Form

• History
• Congresses (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-234) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Migration to Indochina / Gilles de Gantés -- Campaign to colonial propaganda / Pascal Ventier -- Drawing settlers to New Caledonia / Isabelle Merle -- Dissenters / Jonathan Derrick -- Impreial fascades / Neil MacMaster -- French Provinces and 'greater France' / Odile Goerg -- Alienation or political strategy? The colonised defend the empire / Catherine Atlan and Jean-Hervé Jézéquel -- t 'Propagender' / Penn Edwards -- Miscegenation and the popular imagination / Owen White -- Faire naítre v. faire du noir / Alice Conklin -- 'Negrophilia', 'negrology' or 'Africanism'? Colonial ehtnography and racism in France around 1900 / Emmanuelle Sibeud -- Direct or indirect rule / Véronique Dimier -- Representation or Recuperation? The french colonies and 1914-1918 war memorials / William Kidd -- Defending the empire in retrospect the discourse of the extreme right / Christopher Flood and Hugo Frey -- Putting the colonies on the map / Robert Aldrich.

ISBN

0333791800

LCCN

^^2001032731

OCLC

• 46872338
• SCSB-11622187

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library