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Empire and Culture
Martin Evans
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Description for Empire and Culture
Hardback. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333791813
SKU
V9780333791813
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About Martin Evans
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) ... Read more
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