...note is that these thinkers dealt with such issues at the level of theory and eschewed the politics of colonial and post-colonialFrance. Their engagement with politics was either purely theoretical or limited to philosophical exegesis. Sartre, here, offers...
...population through the popular press, exotic literature, and schoolmanuals. The exhibition reinforced the political action of colonialFrance in creatingthe Union indochinoise by conflating image with political desire. In the groundsof the Parc de Vincennes, this...
...only for the periodof origins.When the theory was exploded with the brusqueness of a bombshellin the midst of the anti-colonialFrance of the eighties, it received thereception that one would expect. To an almost uncomprehending silenceat first, there...
...Historical Society /[David Buisseret, editor].p. cm.ISBN 0870134485 (alk. paper)1. France -- Colonies -- North America -- History --Congresses. 2. Franc -- Colonies -- Caribbean Area -- History-- Congresses. 3...
...Quinn.p. cm.Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN 0-275-96799-9 (alk. paper)1. France -- Colonies -- History. I. Title.JV1811.Q56 2000909'.0971244 -- dc21 99-046409British Library Cataloguing in Publication...
...Data Cohen, William B 1941--The French encounter with Africans.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History. 2. Africa -- Colonization.3. Africa -- History -- To 1844. 4. Africa -- Race relations...
...For the last thirty-five years or so, social memories have become more "problematicat least to manage--in France. French historian Jean-Pierre Rioux in his book La France perd la memoire (France is Losing its Memory) situates this shift in the early 1970s and clearly laments challenges to...
......difference (ethnic, racial, and religious) in post-colonialFrance. Through an examination of various social and cultural...Silverstein sees the "ambivalent character of a post-colonialFrance vacillating between republican logics of universalist citizenship......
......possibility of French Communist participation in a new Fourth Republic government. Furthermore, the Algerian War, fought by colonialFrance, a strategic and valued US ally, had multiple multilateral ramifications, placing at risk American relations with the......
......were of utmost concern during the Empire, in the contact zone, now the same concern is manifesting itself in post-colonialFrance. In my discussion I will draw on a representative selection of films and texts together with relevant scholarly studies......
......argument that French America is more 'native' than French and that Canada owes its survival to the native worlds and not to colonialFrance. Bill Marshall homes in on Quebec City itself describing its geography, history and demography in some detail. Like his......
......socially invisible and limited to the private sphere. To illustrate this discussion in the historical context of post-colonialFrance, I will turn to the three most significant cultural projects implemented by the French government to acknowledge and make......
......were still under colonial rule and majority of Francophone African states used the French Franc as their currency following colonialFrance's decision to destroy and stop any circulation of indigenous African currencies. But on 20 July 1944 as a signatory to......
......Festival. "Look at post 1917 Russia, post-World War I Germany, post-World War II Italy, post-1959 Cuba, post-colonialFrance in the late 50s--all started producing dynamic films. This energy tends to be dispersed when things are going well......
......Minh (later backed by the Soviet Union and the young People's Republic of China) had begun to push for liberation from colonialFrance and from Japanese occupation forces that had invaded Indochina. After Japan's defeat, Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam independent......
...A FRENCH author calls it "the confetti of empire." Critics call it imperialism. Since the end of World War II, the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand have abandoned most of their colonies in the South Pacific, but France - at a cost of tens of millions of dollars in aid - has clung...
...WHERE IS INDOCHINA? In the widest sense, Indochina describes the entire southeast Asian peninsula, from Malaysia through Thailand, Burma, Laos and Cambodia to Vietnam (in effect the countries between India and China). More generally, the term is understood to mean the colonial empire developed by...
......Algiers; Morocco; Tripoli, Libya; and Tunisia - who had preyed on American shipping early in the 19th century. Soon, colonialFrance took over Algeria and seized Morocco, while Spain took the Spanish Sahara. Morocco became independent in 1956 after sultan......
......Stora, a French historian who specialises in the late colonial period, said: "In some ways the army was less racist than colonialFrance. Blood sacrifice and the fraternity of combat were taken seriously. Native troops were not pushed systematically into......
......view of France is very often akin to how it looked in the early-1950s. French Radio London (FRL) will reflect a post-colonialFrance, with all of its influences from French-speaking nations," said a spokesman for the station. Mr Grierson added that......
......mysterious place. The first independent black state, set up 200 years ago after a rebellion by African slaves against colonialFrance, the mountainous island is home to exotic birds and animals and mist-shrouded tropical forests. But it is no paradise......
......independence in a successful slave revolt, to pay again for their freedom," the letter states. By 1804 a Haitian revolt against colonialFrance made it the first independent former black slave republic. But faced with threats of a French blockade, invasion, and......
......hope of America playing a benevolent role for his small Far East nation. Four wars pushed away that dream (first with colonialFrance, then with the cold-war United States, later with Khmer-Rouge Cambodia, and finally with a bullying China). But......
......prince prefers to stress his royal links as the son of one of the many wives of King Norodom Sihanouk, who was crowned by colonialFrance's Nazi-backed Vichy regime in 1941. He is also pushing an anti-Vietnamese platform, which many perceive as racist......
......Catholic Church, which has about 6 million adherents in Vietnam, was once viewed with suspicion because of its connection to colonialFrance, the Buddhist church played an anti-imperialist role in the 1970s and is far more popular, with an estimated 20 million......
...A FRENCH author calls it "the confetti of empire." Critics call it imperialism. Since the end of World War II, the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand have abandoned most of their colonies in the South Pacific, but France - at a cost of tens of millions of dollars in aid - has clung...
...For the last thirty-five years or so, social memories have become more "problematicat least to manage--in France. French historian Jean-Pierre Rioux in his book La France perd la memoire (France is Losing its Memory) situates this shift in the early 1970s and clearly laments challenges to...
...WHERE IS INDOCHINA? In the widest sense, Indochina describes the entire southeast Asian peninsula, from Malaysia through Thailand, Burma, Laos and Cambodia to Vietnam (in effect the countries between India and China). More generally, the term is understood to mean the colonial empire developed by...
......difference (ethnic, racial, and religious) in post-colonialFrance. Through an examination of various social and cultural...Silverstein sees the "ambivalent character of a post-colonialFrance vacillating between republican logics of universalist citizenship......
......Algiers; Morocco; Tripoli, Libya; and Tunisia - who had preyed on American shipping early in the 19th century. Soon, colonialFrance took over Algeria and seized Morocco, while Spain took the Spanish Sahara. Morocco became independent in 1956 after sultan......
......Stora, a French historian who specialises in the late colonial period, said: "In some ways the army was less racist than colonialFrance. Blood sacrifice and the fraternity of combat were taken seriously. Native troops were not pushed systematically into......
......view of France is very often akin to how it looked in the early-1950s. French Radio London (FRL) will reflect a post-colonialFrance, with all of its influences from French-speaking nations," said a spokesman for the station. Mr Grierson added that......
......mysterious place. The first independent black state, set up 200 years ago after a rebellion by African slaves against colonialFrance, the mountainous island is home to exotic birds and animals and mist-shrouded tropical forests. But it is no paradise......
......independence in a successful slave revolt, to pay again for their freedom," the letter states. By 1804 a Haitian revolt against colonialFrance made it the first independent former black slave republic. But faced with threats of a French blockade, invasion, and......
......hope of America playing a benevolent role for his small Far East nation. Four wars pushed away that dream (first with colonialFrance, then with the cold-war United States, later with Khmer-Rouge Cambodia, and finally with a bullying China). But......
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