Bringing the empire back home : France in the global age
著者
書誌事項
Bringing the empire back home : France in the global age
（Radical perspectives）
Duke University Press, 2004
- : hbk
大学図書館所蔵 全4件
注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 Jose Bove-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.
目次
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
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