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Author Childers, Kristen Stromberg, author.

Title Seeking imperialism's embrace : national identity, decolonization, and assimilation in the French Caribbean / Kristen Stromberg Childers.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "This book explores France's complex history of integration and national identity by tracing the unique and historically significant political journey of the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, the French Antilles"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Second World War as a turning point in the French Caribbean -- Liberation choices -- Geography, history, identity -- The struggle over history in the Antilles -- Difference and belonging : the illusions of equality -- The gender and family dynamics of departmentalization -- Migration flows and the politics of exclusion.
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Subject West Indies, French -- Race relations -- History.
Martinique -- Race relations -- History.
Martinique.
Race relations.
History.
Guadeloupe -- Race relations -- History.
Guadeloupe.
West Indies, French -- Colonial influence.
Nationalism -- West Indies, French -- History.
Nationalism.
Decolonization -- West Indies, French -- History.
Decolonization.
Acculturation -- West Indies, French -- History.
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- West Indies, French -- History.
Acculturation.
West Indies, French -- Relations -- France.
France -- Relations -- West Indies, French.
Imperialism -- Social aspects.
Relations.
Imperialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
France.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Colonial influence.
International relations.
Lesser Antilles -- West Indies, French.
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Childers, Kristen Stromberg. Seeking imperialism's embrace. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016 9780195382839 (DLC) 2015018331 (OCoLC)927617964
ISBN 9780190494926 (electronic book)
0190494921 (electronic book)
9780190494940 (electronic book)
0190494948 (electronic book)
9780195382839 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
0195382838 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)