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 in France 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.
Summary
"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.
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