Author : Kate Marsh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739148834
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Book Synopsis France's Lost Empires by : Kate Marsh
Download or read book France's Lost Empires written by Kate Marsh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays investigates the fundamental role that the loss of colonial territories at the end of the Ancient Regime and post-World War II has played in shaping French memories and colonial discourses. In identifying loss and nostalgia as key tropes in cultural representations, these essays call for a re-evaluation of French colonialism as a discourse informed not just by narratives of conquest, but equally by its histories of defeat.