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Autore |
Aldrich Robert <1954-> |
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Titolo |
Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France [[electronic resource] ] : Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories / / by Robert Aldrich |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-28295-9 |
9786610282951 |
0-230-00552-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (IX, 383 p.) |
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History |
History, Modern |
Architecture |
European History |
Modern History |
History of France |
Architecture, general |
Europe History |
France History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book offers the first comprehensive study of 'sites of memory' in France connected to the history of French imperialism and colonialism, and the ways that the French have remembered or forgotten their colonial past. Through a study of monuments, memorials, museum collections and other 'sites of memory' in France connected with France's overseas empire this book analyzes the way in which French authorities marked the Paris and provincial landscapes with these reminders of France's colonial 'mission' during the period of imperial expansion, and the fate of these sites in the post-colonial period and what that evolution reveals about French memory and amnesia of the |
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