Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France

by T. Chafer, A. Sackur

Overview

Challenging the notion that there was no 'popular imperialism' in France, this important new 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 in France and the relationship between French imperialism, republicanism and nationalism. It analyses metropolitan representations of empire, traces the development of a colonial 'science' and discusses the enduring importance of images and symbols of empire in contemporary France. It will be of interest to students of imperial, social and cultural history as well as to historians of contemporary France.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333791806
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/14/2001
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)
Lexile:	1690L (what's this?)

About the Author

ROBERT ALDRICH University of Sydney CATHERINE ATLAN Université de Provence ALICE CONKLIN University of Rochester JONATHAN DERRICK VÉRONIQUE DIMIER Université de Bordeaux IV PENNY EDWARDS Monash University CHRIS FLOOD University of Surrey HUGO FREY University of Surrey GILLES DE GANTÉS Université de Provence ODILE GOERG Université de Strasbourg JEAN-HERVÉ JÉZÉQUEL Université de Provence BILL KIDD University of Stirling NEIL MACMASTER University of East Anglia ISABELLE MERLE CNRS/EHESS, Marseille EMMANUELLE SIBEUD EHESS, Paris PASCAL VENIER University of Salford OWEN WHITE University of Oxford

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Table of Contents Abbreviations Glossary Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: THE EMPIRE AND PUBLIC OPINION Popular Enthusiasm for Empire in France; G.de Gantés A Colonial Propaganda Campaign: Gallieni, Lyautey and the Defence of the Military Regime in Madagascar, 1899-1900; P.Venier Drawing Settlers to New Caledonia: French Colonial Propaganda in the Late Nineteenth Century; I.Merle The Dissenters: Anticolonialism in France c.1900-40; J.Derrick PART II: REPRESENTATIONS OF EMPIRE Imperial Facades: Muslim Institutions and Propaganda in Inter-War Paris; N.MacMaster The French Provinces and 'La Plus Grande France'; O.Goerg Alienation or Political Strategy? The Colonised Defend the Empire; C.Atlan & J.Jézéquel Propagating Patriarchy: Marianne and Joan of Arc in French Propaganda and Cambodian Nationalism; P.Edwards Miscegenation and the Popular Imagination; O.White PART III: THE EMPIRE AND SCIENCE 'Faire Naître vs. 'Faire du Noir': Race Regeneration in France and West Africa, 1895-1930; A.Conklin Colonial Ethnography and Racism in France around 1900; E.Sibeud Direct or Indirect Rule: Propaganda around a Scientific Controversy; V.Dimier The Representation of the Colonies in War Memorials; B.Kidd Defending the Empire in Retrospect: The Discourse of the Extreme Right; C.Flood & H.Frey Colonial Paris: Traces of the Empire in the Paris Landscape; R.Aldrich Select Bibliography Index