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Empire and Culture

The French Experience, 1830-1940

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  1. Martin Evans

    1. University of Portsmouth, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Culture and Empire, 1830–1962: An Overview

    1. Culture and Empire, 1830–1962: An Overview

      • Martin Evans
      Pages 1-23

  3. Film

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Poor Propaganda: French Colonial Films of the 1930s

      • Martin O’Shaughnessy
      Pages 27-40

    3. Un de la Légion: Myth Conception and Misconceptions

      • Marie-Hélène Heurtaud-Wright
      Pages 41-53

  4. Photography

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. Surrealism, Colonialism and Photography

      • David Bate
      Pages 57-70

    3. Documents against Civilization

      • David Evans
      Pages 71-88

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 192-212
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About this book

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. Yet, intriguingly the multi-various impact of the empire upon French culture and society has been largely ignored by historians. This volume aims to redress this balance and will explore how the idea of empire was expressed in film, photography, painting and monuments. It analyzes how the image of the universal, civilising 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 volume underlines that there was not just one single image of empire but many ranging from the extreme right to the extreme left. It contains an 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Portsmouth, UK

    Martin Evans

About the editor

MARTIN EVANS is Reader in Contemporary History at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War 1954-62 (Oxford: Berg, 1997) and the co-author (with Emmanuel Godin) of France 1815-2003 (London: Edward Arnold, 2004). He is also the co-editor of War and Memory in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Berg, 1997) and The Algerian War and the French Army: Experiences, Images, Testimonies (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). He is presently writing a history of contemporary Algeria to be published by Yale University Press.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Empire and Culture

  • Book Subtitle: The French Experience, 1830-1940

  • Editors: Martin Evans

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230000681

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-79181-3Published: 30 July 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-41902-9Published: 01 January 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-00068-1Published: 30 July 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 212

  • Topics: Social History, Cultural History, European History, Modern History, History of France

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