In this Book
- Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: Duke University Press
- Series: Radical perspectives
In Bringing the Empire Back Home, the inventive cultural historian Herman Lebovics provides a riveting account of how intense disputes about what it means to be French have played out over the past half-century, redefining Paris, the regions, and the former colonies in relation to one another and the world at large. In a narrative populated with peasants, people from the former colonies, museum curators, former colonial administrators, left Christians, archaeologists, anthropologists, soccer players and their teenage fans, and, yes, leading government officials, Lebovics reveals contemporary French society and cultures as perhaps the West’s most important testing grounds of pluralism and assimilation. A lively cultural history, Bringing the Empire Back Home highlights not only the political significance of France’s efforts to synthesize the regional, national, European, ethnic postcolonial, and global but also the chaotic beauty of the endeavor.
Table of Contents
- Title, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. i-vi
- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- About the Series
- pp. x-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- 1 Gardarem lo Larzac!
- pp. 13-57
- 3 Combating Guerilla Ethnology
- pp. 83-114
- 5 The Dance of the Museums
- pp. 143-178
- Conclusion
- pp. 179-190
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 219-222
Additional Information
Copyright
2004