France's Lost Empires
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Author | : Kate Marsh |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780739148839 |
ISBN-13 | : 0739148834 |
Rating | : 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis France's Lost Empires by : Kate Marsh
Book excerpt: This collection of essays investigates the fundamental role that the loss of colonial territories at the end of the Ancient Regime and post-World War II has played in shaping French memories and colonial discourses. In identifying loss and nostalgia as key tropes in cultural representations, these essays call for a re-evaluation of French colonialism as a discourse informed not just by narratives of conquest, but equally by its histories of defeat.