Colonial culture in France since the revolution / / edited by Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, and Dominic Thomas ; translated by Alexis Pernsteiner.

• TeilnehmendeR: Blanchard, Pascal.; Lemaire, Sandrine.; Bancel, Nicolas.; Thomas, Dominic Richard David.; Pernsteiner, Alexis.
• Place / Publishing House: Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, [2014]; 2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English; French
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (644 pages)
• Notes: Originally published in French as: Culture coloniale en France : de la Revolution francaise a nos jours (Paris : CNRS : Autrement, 2008), with the collaboration of the Groupe de recherche ACHAC.
• Other title: Culture coloniale en France. English.; Introduction : the creation of a colonial culture in France, from the colonial era to the "memory wars" /; The creation of a colonial culture.; Foreword : French colonization: an inaudible history /; Antislavery, abolitionism, and abolition in France from the end of the eighteenth century to the 1840s /; Milestones in colonial culture under the Second Empire (1851-1870) /; Exhibitions, expositions, media coverage, and the colonies (1870-1914) /; Science, scientists, and the colonies (1870-1914) /; Literature, song, and the colonies (1900-1920) /; Entertainment, theater, and the colonies (1870-1914) /; School, pedagogy, and the colonies (1870-1914) /; Dying : the call of the empire (1913-1918) / Eric Deroo. --; Conquering public opinion.; Foreword : history's mark (1931-1961) /; Dreaming : the fatal attraction of colonial cinema (1920-1950) /; Spreading the word : the Agence generale des colonies (1920-1931) /; To civilize : the invention of the native (1918-1940) /; Selling the colonial economic myth (1900-1940) /; The athletic exception : black champions and colonial culture (1900-1939) /; The colonial bath : colonial culture in everyday life (1918-1931) /; The Colonial Exposition (1931) /; National unity : the right and left "meet" around the Colonial Exposition (1931) /; The apogee of imperialism.; Foreword : images of an empire's demise /; Colonizing, educating, guiding : a republican duty /; Promotion : creating the colonial (1930-1940) /; Influence : cultural and ideological agendas (1920-1940) /; Education : becoming "homo imperialis" (1910-1940) /; Manipulation : conquering taste (1931-1939) /; Control : Paris, a colonial capital (1931-1939) /; Imperial revolution : Vichy's colonial myth (1940-1944) /; The colonial economy : between propaganda myths and economic reality (1940-1955) /; French unity : the dream of a united France (1946-1960) /; Toward the postcolony.; Foreword : Moussa the African's blues /; Decolonizing France : the "Indochinese syndrome" (1946-1954) /; Immigration : the emergence of an African elite in the metropole (1946-1961) /; Immigration : North Africans settle in the metropole (1946-1961) /; Crime : colonial violence in the metropole (1954-1961) /; Modernism, colonialism, and cultural hybridity /; The meanders of colonial memory /; The impossible revision of France's history (1968-2006) /; National history and colonial history : parallel histories (1961-2006) /; The illusion of decolonization (1956-2006) /; The difficult art of exhibiting the colonies /; The time of inheritance.; Foreword : the age of contempt, or the legitimization of France's civilizing mission /; Trouble in the republic : disturbing memories, forgotten territories /; Competition between victims /; The army and the construction of immigration as a threat (1961-2006) /; Postcolonial culture in the army and the memory of overseas combatants (1961-2006) /; Republican integration : reflections on a postcolonial issue (1961-2006) /; Colonial influences and tropes in the field of literature /; From colonial history to the banlieues (1961-2006) /; Can we speak of a postcolonial racism? (1961-2006) /; From colonial stereotypes to the postcolonial gaze : the need for an evolution of the imaginary /; Postcolonial cinema, song, and literature : continuity or change? (1961-2006) /; Ethnic tourism : symbolic reconquest? (1961-2006) /; Francophonie and universality : the evolution of two intertwined notions (1961-2006) /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780253010452 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780253010537
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, and Dominic Thomas ; translated by Alexis Pernsteiner.