| Contents |
Introduction: empires, republics, and French political culture in the long nineteenth century -- The Second Empire's imperial ideologies in Mexico and Algeria -- Redefining republic and empire after 1870-71 -- Creating a republican Algeria -- Expeditions and expansion between Algeria and Senegal -- New colonial vocabularies and overseas conquest in Vietnam -- Defending a "colonial empire" in republican France -- Conclusion: the imperial paradoxes of French republicanism. |
| Abstract |
By highlighting the connections between domestic political struggles and overseas imperial structures, The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850́1900 explains how and why French Republicans embraced colonial conquest as a central part of their political platform. Christina B. Carroll explores the meaning and value of empire in late-nineteenth-century France, arguing that ongoing disputes about the French state's political organization intersected with racialized beliefs about European superiority over colonial others in French imperial thought. For much of this period, French writers and politicians did not always differentiate between continental and colonial empire. By employing a range of sourceśfrom newspapers and pamphlets to textbooks and novelśCarroll demonstrates that the memory of older continental imperial models shaped French understandings of, and justifications for, their new colonial empire. She shows that the slow identification of the two types of empire emerged due to a politicized campaign led by colonial advocates who sought to defend overseas expansion against their opponents. This new model of colonial empire was shaped by a complicated set of influences, including political conflict, the legacy of both Napoleons, international competition, racial science, and French experiences in the colonies. The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850́1900 skillfully weaves together knowledge from its wide-ranging source base to articulate how the meaning and history of empire became deeply intertwined with the meaning and history of the French nation. -- Publisher description. |
| Abstract |
"The Politics of Imperial Memory in France examines the shifting role played by the memory of continental-and especially Napoleonic-imperial models in the contested construction of France's expansive "new" colonial empire during the second half of the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Carroll, Christina B., 1984- Politics of imperial memory in France, 1850-1900. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 9781501763120 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021054747 |
| ISBN | 9781501763083 |
| ISBN | 1501763083 |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
