The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France write by Itay Lotem. This book was released on 2021-03-12. The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores national attitudes to remembering colonialism in Britain and France. By comparing these two former colonial powers, the author tells two distinct stories about coming to terms with the legacies of colonialism, the role of silence and the breaking thereof. Examining memory through the stories of people who incited public conversation on colonialism: activists; politicians; journalists; and professional historians, this book argues that these actors mobilised the colonial past to make sense of national identity, race and belonging in the present. In focusing on memory as an ongoing, politicised public debate, the book examines the afterlife of colonial history as an element of political and social discourse that depends on actors’ goals and priorities. A thought-provoking and powerful read that explores the divisive legacies of colonialism through oral history, this book will appeal to those researching imperialism, collective memory and cultural identity.
Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe
Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe write by Andrea L. Smith. This book was released on 2006-08-21. Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "[I]ntersects with very active areas of research in history and anthropology, and links these domains of inquiry spanning Europe and North Africa in a creative and innovative fashion." —Douglas Holmes, Binghamton University Maltese settlers in colonial Algeria had never lived in France, but as French citizens were abruptly "repatriated" there after Algerian independence in 1962. In France today, these pieds-noirs are often associated with "Mediterranean" qualities, the persisting tensions surrounding the French-Algerian War, and far-right, anti-immigrant politics. Through their social clubs, they have forged an identity in which Malta, not Algeria, is the unifying ancestral homeland. Andrea L. Smith uses history and ethnography to argue that scholars have failed to account for the effect of colonialism on Europe itself. She explores nostalgia and collective memory; the settlers' liminal position in the colony as subalterns and colonists; and selective forgetting, in which Malta replaces Algeria, the "true" homeland, which is now inaccessible, fraught with guilt and contradiction. The study provides insight into race, ethnicity, and nationalism in Europe as well as cultural context for understanding political trends in contemporary France.
The Colonial Legacy in France
The Colonial Legacy in France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Colonial Legacy in France write by Nicolas Bancel. This book was released on 2017-05-01. The Colonial Legacy in France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Debates about the legacy of colonialism in France are not new, but they have taken on new urgency in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Responding to acts of religious and racial violence in 2005, 2010, and 2015 and beyond, the essays in this volume pit French ideals against government-sponsored revisionist decrees that have exacerbated tensions, complicated the process of establishing and recording national memory, and triggered divisive debates on what it means to identify as French. As they document the checkered legacy of French colonialism, the contributors raise questions about France and the contemporary role of Islam, the banlieues, immigration, race, history, pedagogy, and the future of the Republic. This innovative volume reconsiders the cultural, economic, political, and social realities facing global French citizens today and includes contributions by Achille Mbembe, Benjamin Stora, Françoise Vergès, Alec Hargreaves, Elsa Dorlin, and Alain Mabanckou, among others.
Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa
Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa write by Andrew W.M. Smith. This book was released on 2017-03-01. Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: development, contingency and entanglement. The chapters consider the ways in which decolonization was governed and moderated by concerns about development and profit. A complementary focus on contingency allows deeper consideration of how colonial powers planned for ‘colonial futures’, and how divergent voices greeted the end of empire. Thinking about entanglements likewise stresses both the connections that existed between the British and French empires in Africa, and those that endured beyond the formal transfer of power.
Empires of the Mind
Empires of the Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empires of the Mind write by Robert Gildea. This book was released on 2019-02-28. Empires of the Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea dissects the legacy of empire for the former colonial powers and their subjects.
