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This book offers the first comprehensive study of 'sites of memory' in France connected to the history of French imperialism and colonialism, and the ways that the French have remembered or forgotten their colonial past. Through a study of monuments, memorials, museum collections and other 'sites of memory' in France connected with France's overseas empire this book analyzes the way in which French authorities marked the Paris and provincial landscapes with these reminders of France's colonial 'mission' during the period of imperial expansion, and the fate of these sites in the post-colonial period and what that evolution reveals about French memory and amnesia of the colonial epoch.
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Front Matter
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About the author
ROBERT ALDRICH is Lecturer in Modern French History and Colonial History at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of The French in the South Pacific, 1840-1940, France and the South Pacific since 1940, Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion and Colonialism and Homosexuality.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vestiges of Colonial Empire in France
Authors: Robert Aldrich
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230005525
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3370-6Published: 10 December 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51679-7Published: 01 January 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-00552-5Published: 10 December 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 383
Topics: European History, Modern History, History of France, Architecture, general