Synopses & Reviews
Challenging the notion that there was no "popular imperialism" in France, this 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 and the relationship between imperialism, republicanism, and nationalism. It analyzes the representations of empire, traces the development of a colonial "science" and discusses the enduring importance of images and symbols of empire in contemporary France.
About the Author
Tony Chafer is Principal Lecturer in French and African Studies at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth.
Amanda Sackur is Senior Lecturer in International History at London Guildhall University.
Table of Contents
Introduction *
Part I: The Empire and Public Opinion * Popular Enthusiasm for Empire in France--Gilles de Gantès * A Colonial Propaganda Campaign: Gallieni, Lyautey and the Defence of the Military Regime in Madagascar, 1899-1900--Pascal Venier * Drawing Settlers to New Caledonia: French Colonial Propaganda in the Late Ninteenth Century--Isabelle Merle * The Dissenters: Anticolonialism in France c. 1900-40--Jonathan Derrick *
Part II: Representations of Empire * Imperial Façades: Muslim Institutions and Propaganda in Inter-War Paris--Neil MacMaster * The French Provinces and "La Plus Grande France"--Odile Goerg * Alienation or Political Strategy? The Colonised Defend the Empire--Catherine Atlan & Jean-Hervé Jézéquel * Propagating Patriarchy: Marianne and Joan of Arc in French Propaganda and Cambodian Nationalism--Penny Edwards * Miscegenation and the Popular Imagination--Owen White *
Part III: The Empire and Science * "Faire Naître" vs. "Faire du Noir": Race Regeneration in France and West Africa, 1895-1930--Alice Conklin * Colonial Ethnography and Racism in France Around 1900--Emmanuelle Sibeud * Direct or Indirect Rule: Propaganda Around a Scientific Controversy--Véronique Dimier *
Part IV: Remembering Empire * The Representations of the Colonies in War Memorials--Bill Kidd * Defending the Empire in Retrospect: The Discourse of the Extreme Right--Chris Flood & Hugo Frey * Colonial Paris: Traces of the Empire in the Paris Landscape--Robert Aldrich