Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Creation of a Colonial Culture in France, from the Colonial Era to the "Memory Wars" -- Part 1. The Creation of a Colonial Culture -- Foreword: French Colonization: An Inaudible History -- 1 Antislavery, Abolitionism, and Abolition in France from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the 1840s -- 2 Milestones in Colonial Culture under the Second Empire (1851-1870) -- 3 Exhibitions, Expositions, Media Coverage, and the Colonies (1870-1914) -- 4 Science, Scientists, and the Colonies (1870-1914) -- 5 Literature, Song, and the Colonies (1900-1920) -- 6 Entertainment, Theater, and the Colonies (1870-1914) -- 7 School, Pedagogy, and the Colonies (1870-1914) -- 8 Dying: The Call of the Empire (1913-1918) -- Part 2. Conquering Public Opinion -- Foreword: History's Mark (1931-1961) -- 9 Dreaming: The Fatal Attraction of Colonial Cinema (1920-1950) -- 10 Spreading the Word: The Agence Générale des Colonies (1920-1931) -- 11 To Civilize: The Invention of the Native (1918-1940) -- 12 Selling the Colonial Economic Myth (1900-1940) -- 13 The Athletic Exception: Black Champions and Colonial Culture (1900-1939) -- 14 The Colonial Bath: Colonial Culture in Everyday Life (1918-1931) -- 15 The Colonial Exposition (1931) -- 16 National Unity: The right and left "Meet" around the Colonial Exposition (1931) -- Part 3. The Apogee of Imperialism -- Foreword: Images of an Empire's Demise -- 17 Colonizing, Educating, Guiding: A Republican Duty -- 18 Promotion: Creating the Colonial (1930-1940) -- 19 Influence: Cultural and Ideological Agendas (1920-1940) -- 20 Education: Becoming "Homo Imperialis" (1910-1940) -- 21 Manipulation: Conquering Taste (1931-1939) -- 22 Control: Paris, a Colonial Capital (1931-1939) -- 23 Imperial Revolution: Vichy's Colonial Myth (1940-1944).

24 The Colonial Economy: Between Propaganda Myths and Economic Reality (1940-1955) -- 25 French Unity: The Dream of a United France (1946-1960) -- Part 4. Toward the Postcolony -- Foreword: Moussa the African's Blues -- 26 Decolonizing France: The "Indochinese Syndrome" (1946-1954) -- 27 Immigration and an Emerging African Elite in the Metropole (1946-1961) -- 28 North Africans Settle in the Metropole (1946-1961) -- 29 Crime: Colonial Violence in the Metropole (1954-1961) -- 30 Modernism, Colonialism, and Cultural Hybridity -- 31 The Meanders of Colonial Memory -- 32 The Impossible Revision of France's History (1968-2006) -- 33 National History and Colonial History: Parallel Histories (1961-2006) -- 34 The Illusion of Decolonization (1956-2006) -- 35 The Difficult Art of Exhibiting the Colonies -- Part 5. The Time of Inheritance -- Foreword: The Age of Contempt, or the Legitimization of France's Civilizing Mission -- 36 Trouble in the Republic: Disturbing Memories, Forgotten Territories -- 37 Competition between Victims -- 38 The Army and the Construction of Immigration as a Threat (1961-2006) -- 39 Postcolonial Culture in the Army and the Memory of Overseas Combatants (1961-2006) -- 40 Republican Integration: Reflections on a Postcolonial Issue (1961-2006) -- 41 Colonial Influences and Tropes in the Field of Literature -- 42 From Colonial History to the Banlieues (1961-2006) -- 43 Can We Speak of a Postcolonial Racism? (1961-2006) -- 44 From Colonial Stereotypes to the Postcolonial Gaze: The Need for an Evolution of the Imaginary -- 45 Postcolonial Cinema, Song, and Literature: Continuity or Change? (1961-2006) -- 46 Ethnic Tourism: Symbolic Reconquest? (1961-2006) -- 47 Francophonie and Universality: The Evolution of Two Intertwined Notions (1961-2006) -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K.

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