Empire and Culture : The French Experience, 1830-1940
by
M. Evans
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0333791819
ISBN-13
9780333791813
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 30th, 2004
Print length
212 Pages
Weight
408 grams
Product Classification:
FranceGeneral & world historyGeneral and world history
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By 1931, the time of the huge Colonial Exhibition in Paris, France had the second largest empire in the world extending to the four corners of the globe. In this way the volume underlines that there was not just one single image of empire but many ranging from the extreme right to the extreme left.
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.
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