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- Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age (Radical
- ISBN
- 9780822332602
- Book Title
- Bringing the Empire Back Home : France in the Global Age
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Globalization, Europe / France, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
- Item Width
- 7in
- Item Weight
- 16.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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Thirty years ago, an international antiglobalization movement was born in the grazing lands of France's Larzac plateau. In the 1970s, Larzac farmers were joined by others from around the world in their efforts to prevent the expansion of a local military base: by ecologists, religious pacifists, and urban leftists, and by social activists including American Indians and South American peasant leaders. In 1999 some of the same farmers who had fought the expansion of the base in the 1970s--including Jos Bov --dismantled the new local McDonald's. That gesture was part of a protest against U.S. tariffs on specified French exports including Roquefort cheese, the region's primary market product. The two struggles--the one against expanding a French army camp intended to train troops for postcolonial wars, the other against American economic might--were landmarks in the global campaign to preserve local cultures. They were also key episodes in the decades-long attempt by the French to define their cultural heritage within a much changed nation, a new Europe, and, especially, an American-dominated world. 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.
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Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822332604
ISBN-13
9780822332602
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6066515
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bringing the Empire Back Home : France in the Global Age
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Globalization, Europe / France, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Publication Year
2004
Genre
History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
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Jn2610.R4l42 2004
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"Scholars have been talking for some time about the colonial 'legacies' of the postcolonial present. French scholars have only recently and tentatively entered that conversation. Bringing the Empire Back Home makes an analytic and political leap as it takes us to new terrain of insight and locations of connection. Herman Lebovics's version of what counts as French history is compelling, powerful, sensible, and deep. In setting out the direct lines between decolonization in the l960s and the antiglobalization movements that followed, he traces what joined New Caledonian separatists and Larzac farmers, protests against the 'postcolonial military-industrial complex' and the rise of the radical right, the new regionalisms in France in the l970s and the folk hero Bové who smashed McDonald's windows. He identifies how imperial and capitalist expansion have been challenged in forms of popular demonstration, ingenuity, and spectacle that have repeatedly called into question what the 'Republic' is, who has a right to decide its boundaries, and who has what rights in it today. This is a must read that redefines the tenor and terrain of postcolonial scholarship."-Ann Laura Stoler, author of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things, "Scholars have been talking for some time about the colonial 'legacies' of the postcolonial present. French scholars have only recently and tentatively entered that conversation. Bringing the Empire Back Home makes an analytic and political leap as it takes us to new terrain of insight and locations of connection. Herman Lebovics's version of what counts as French history is compelling, powerful, sensible, and deep. In setting out the direct lines between decolonization in the l960s and the antiglobalization movements that followed, he traces what joined New Caledonian separatists and Larzac farmers, protests against the 'postcolonial military-industrial complex' and the rise of the radical right, the new regionalisms in France in the l970s and the folk hero Bov who smashed McDonald's windows. He identifies how imperial and capitalist expansion have been challenged in forms of popular demonstration, ingenuity, and spectacle that have repeatedly called into question what the 'Republic' is, who has a right to decide its boundaries, and who has what rights in it today. This is a must read that redefines the tenor and terrain of postcolonial scholarship."--Ann Laura Stoler, author of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things, "Scholars have been talking for some time about the colonial 'legacies' of the postcolonial present. French scholars have only recently and tentatively entered that conversation. Bringing the Empire Back Home makes an analytic and political leap as it takes us to new terrain of insight and locations of connection. Herman Lebovics's version of what counts as French history is compelling, powerful, sensible, and deep. In setting out the direct lines between decolonization in the l960s and the antiglobalization movements that followed, he traces what joined New Caledonian separatists and Larzac farmers, protests against the 'postcolonial military-industrial complex' and the rise of the radical right, the new regionalisms in France in the l970s and the folk hero Bové who smashed McDonald's windows. He identifies how imperial and capitalist expansion have been challenged in forms of popular demonstration, ingenuity, and spectacle that have repeatedly called into question what the 'Republic' is, who has a right to decide its boundaries, and who has what rights in it today. This is a must read that redefines the tenor and terrain of postcolonial scholarship."--Ann Laura Stoler, author of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things, "How-and even whether-to preserve their once-homogeneous culture in today's open world is one of France's supreme challenges today. With five sharply-etched case studies of cultural conflict-from the World Cup to museums to the defense of the Larzac plateau-Herman Lebovics casts penetrating light on French struggles to establish who they are and who they want to be."-Robert O. Paxton, author of Europe in the 20th Century"This is a must read that redefines the tenor and terrain of postcolonial scholarship." Ann Laura Stoler, author of Race and the Education of Desire"For those eager to understand the social tensions recently so evident in contemporary France, this book makes an excellent starting point."--History, 2007, "As usual, Herman Lebovics gives us an innovative and stimulating new perspective, now, on France in the age of globalization."-Patrick Weil, senior research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (University of Paris I-Sorbonne) and author of Qu'est-ce qu'un Français? Histoire de la nationalité française depuis la Révolution ( What is a Frenchman? The History of French Nationality from the Revolution to the Present Day ), "As usual, Herman Lebovics gives us an innovative and stimulating new perspective, now, on France in the age of globalization."--Patrick Weil, senior research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (University of Paris I-Sorbonne) and author of Qu'est-ce qu'un Français? Histoire de la nationalité française depuis la Révolution ( What is a Frenchman? The History of French Nationality from the Revolution to the Present Day ), "How-and even whether-to preserve their once-homogeneous culture in today's open world is one of France's supreme challenges today. With five sharply-etched case studies of cultural conflict-from the world soccer cup to museums to the defense of the Larzac plateau-Herman Lebovics casts penetrating light on French struggles to establish who they are and who they want to be."-Robert O. Paxton, author of Europe in the 20th Century, "How--and even whether--to preserve their once-homogeneous culture in today's open world is one of France's supreme challenges today. With five sharply-etched case studies of cultural conflict--from the world soccer cup to museums to the defense of the Larzac plateau--Herman Lebovics casts penetrating light on French struggles to establish who they are and who they want to be."--Robert O. Paxton, author of Europe in the 20th Century, “As usual, Herman Lebovics gives us an innovative and stimulating new perspective, now, on France in the age of globalization.â€�-Patrick Weil, senior research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (University of Paris I-Sorbonne) and author of Qu’est-ce qu’un Fran ais? Histoire de la nationalit fran aise depuis la R volution ( What is a Frenchman? The History of French Nationality from the Revolution to the Present Day ), "How--and even whether--to preserve their once-homogeneous culture in today's open world is one of France's supreme challenges today. With five sharply-etched case studies of cultural conflict--from the World Cup to museums to the defense of the Larzac plateau--Herman Lebovics casts penetrating light on French struggles to establish who they are and who they want to be."--Robert O. Paxton, author of Europe in the 20th Century "This is a must read that redefines the tenor and terrain of postcolonial scholarship." Ann Laura Stoler, author of Race and the Education of Desire "For those eager to understand the social tensions recently so evident in contemporary France, this book makes an excellent starting point."--History, 2007, “Scholars have been talking for some time about the colonial ‘legacies’ of the postcolonial present. French scholars have only recently and tentatively entered that conversation. Bringing the Empire Back Home makes an analytic and political leap as it takes us to new terrain of insight and locations of connection. Herman Lebovics’s version of what counts as French history is compelling, powerful, sensible, and deep. In setting out the direct lines between decolonization in the l960s and the antiglobalization movements that followed, he traces what joined New Caledonian separatists and Larzac farmers, protests against the ‘postcolonial military-industrial complex’ and the rise of the radical right, the new regionalisms in France in the l970s and the folk hero Bov who smashed McDonald’s windows. He identifies how imperial and capitalist expansion have been challenged in forms of popular demonstration, ingenuity, and spectacle that have repeatedly called into question what the ‘Republic’ is, who has a right to decide its boundaries, and who has what rights in it today. This is a must read that redefines the tenor and terrain of postcolonial scholarship.â€�-Ann Laura Stoler, author of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things, “How-and even whether-to preserve their once-homogeneous culture in today’s open world is one of France’s supreme challenges today. With five sharply-etched case studies of cultural conflict-from the world soccer cup to museums to the defense of the Larzac plateau-Herman Lebovics casts penetrating light on French struggles to establish who they are and who they want to be.â€�-Robert O. Paxton, author of Europe in the 20th Century, "As usual, Herman Lebovics gives us an innovative and stimulating new perspective, now, on France in the age of globalization."--Patrick Weil, senior research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (University of Paris I-Sorbonne) and author of Qu'est-ce qu'un Franais? Histoire de la nationalit franaise depuis la Rvolution ( What is a Frenchman? The History of French Nationality from the Revolution to the Present Day )
Table of Content
Illustrations ix About the Series xi Preface xiii Introduction 1 1. Gardarem lo Larzac! 13 2. "What You Did in Africa, Can You Come Back to France and Do It?" 58 3. Combating Guerilla Ethnology 83 4. The Effect Le Pen: Pluralism or Republicanism? 115 5. The Dance of the Museums 143 Conclusion 179 Notes 191 Acknowledgments 219 Index 223
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2003-025001
Dewey Decimal
306/.0944
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Radical Perspectives Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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