20th century
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administration
Author_Gary Wilder
caribbean
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citizenship
colonialism
colonies
cultural nationalism
culture
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france
french
governing
government
historical
history
humanism
imperialism
imperialists
interdisciplinary
international
modernism
modernity
nation
public debate
race
racial identity
racism
republicanism
sociopolitical systems
transnationalism
west africa
world wars
Product details
- ISBN 9780226897684
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2005
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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France experienced a period of crisis following World War I when the relationship between the nation and its colonies became a subject of fierce public debate. "The French Imperial Nation-State" focuses on two intersecting movements that redefined imperial politics - colonial humanism, led by administrative reformers in West Africa, and the Paris-based Negritude project, comprising African and Caribbean elites. Gary Wilder develops a sophisticated account of the contradictory character of colonial government and examines the cultural nationalism of Negritude as a multifaceted movement rooted in an alternative black public sphere. He argues that interwar France must be understood as an imperial nation-state - an integrated sociopolitical system that linked a parliamentary republic to an administrative empire. An interdisciplinary study of colonial modernity combining French history, colonial studies, and social theory, The French Imperial Nation-State will compel readers to revise conventional assumptions about the distinctions between republicanism and racism, metropolitan and colonial societies, and national and transnational processes.
Gary Wilder is associate professor of history at Pomona College.
