Empire and Culture: The French Experience, 1830-1940 by Evans, M.

Empire and Culture: The French Experience, 1830-1940 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333791813)

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Empire and Culture: The French Experience, 1830-1940 by Evans, M.

Empire and Culture: The French Experience, 1830-1940

$109.99
Empire and Culture: The French Experience, 1830-1940 by Evans, M.

Empire and Culture: The French Experience, 1830-1940

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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This volume explores how the idea of empire in France was expressed in film, photography, painting and monuments. It analyzes how the image of the universal, civilizing mission saturated French society during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular it examines how the subject peoples of the empire were represented in art and fiction. In this way, the authors underline that there was not just one single image of empire but many, ranging from the extreme right to the extreme left. The volume contains and in-depth consideration not just of the triumphalist images of empire but the oppositional ones, most notably the surrealists, which directly challenged the emergent colonial consensus.

Author: M. Evans
ISBN-10: 0333791819
ISBN-13: 9780333791813
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 07/30/2004
Pages: 212
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.68w x 0.68d
By M. Evans
By M. Evans
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MARTIN EVANS is Reader in Contemporary History at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War 1954-62 (Oxford: Berg, 1997) and the co-author (with Emmanuel Godin) of France 1815-2003 (London: Edward Arnold, 2004). He is also the co-editor of War and Memory in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Berg, 1997) and The Algerian War and the French Army: Experiences, Images, Testimonies (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). He is presently writing a history of contemporary Algeria to be published by Yale University Press.

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