Originally published in French as: Culture coloniale en France : de la R�evolution fran�caise �a nos jours (Paris : CNRS : Autrement, 2008), with the collaboration of the Groupe de recherche ACHAC.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the creation of a colonial culture in France, from the colonial era to the "memory wars" / Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, and Dominic Thomas -- The creation of a colonial culture. Foreword : French colonization: an inaudible history / Marc Ferro -- Antislavery, abolitionism, and abolition in France from the end of the eighteenth century to the 1840s / Marcel Dorigny -- Milestones in colonial culture under the Second Empire (1851-1870) / Sandrine Lemaire, Pascal Blanchard, and Nicolas Bancel -- Exhibitions, expositions, media coverage, and the colonies (1870-1914) / Sandrine Lemaire and Pascal Blanchard -- Science, scientists, and the colonies (1870-1914) / Gilles Bo�etsch -- Literature, song, and the colonies (1900-1920) / Alain Ruscio -- Entertainment, theater, and the colonies (1870-1914) / Sylvie Chalaye -- School, pedagogy, and the colonies (1870-1914) / Gilles Manceron -- Dying : the call of the empire (1913-1918) / �Eric Deroo. --

Conquering public opinion. Foreword : history's mark (1931-1961) / Didier Daeninckx -- Dreaming : the fatal attraction of colonial cinema (1920-1950) / Olivier Barlet and Pascal Blanchard -- Spreading the word : the Agence g�en�erale des colonies (1920-1931) / Sandrine Lemaire -- To civilize : the invention of the native (1918-1940) / Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard -- Selling the colonial economic myth (1900-1940) / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch -- The athletic exception : black champions and colonial culture (1900-1939) / Timoth�ee Jobert, Stanislas Frenkiel, and Nicolas Bancel -- The colonial bath : colonial culture in everyday life (1918-1931) / Nicolas Bancel -- The Colonial Exposition (1931) / Steven Ungar -- National unity : the right and left "meet" around the Colonial Exposition (1931) / Pascal Blanchard. --

The apogee of imperialism. Foreword : images of an empire's demise / Benjamin Stora -- Colonizing, educating, guiding : a republican duty / Fran�coise Verg�es -- Promotion : creating the colonial (1930-1940) / Sandrine Lemaire -- Influence : cultural and ideological agendas (1920-1940) / David Murphy, Elizabeth Ezra and Charles Forsdick -- Education : becoming "homo imperialis" (1910-1940) / Nicolas Bancel and Daniel Denis -- Manipulation : conquering taste (1931-1939) / Sandrine Lemaire -- Control : Paris, a colonial capital (1931-1939) / Pascal Blanchard and �Eric Deroo -- Imperial revolution : Vichy's colonial myth (1940-1944) / Pascal Blanchard and Ruth Ginio -- The colonial economy : between propaganda myths and economic reality (1940-1955) / Sandrine Lemaire, Catherine Hodeir, and Pascal Blanchard -- French unity : the dream of a united France (1946-1960) / Jacques Fr�emeaux. --

Toward the postcolony. Foreword : Moussa the African's blues / Abdourahman A. Waberi -- Decolonizing France : the "Indochinese syndrome" (1946-1954) / Daniel H�emery -- Immigration : the emergence of an African elite in the metropole (1946-1961) / Philippe Dewitte -- Immigration : North Africans settle in the metropole (1946-1961) / Pascal Blanchard, �Eric Deroo, Driss el Yazami, Pierre Fourni�e, and Gilles Manceron -- Crime : colonial violence in the metropole (1954-1961) / Jean-Luc Einaudi -- Modernism, colonialism, and cultural hybridity / Herman Lebovics -- The meanders of colonial memory / Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard -- The impossible revision of France's history (1968-2006) / Suzanne Citron -- National history and colonial history : parallel histories (1961-2006) / Sandrine Lemaire -- The illusion of decolonization (1956-2006) / Jean-Pierre Dozon -- The difficult art of exhibiting the colonies / Robert Aldrich. --

The time of inheritance. Foreword : the age of contempt, or the legitimization of France's civilizing mission / Bruno Etienne -- Trouble in the republic : disturbing memories, forgotten territories / Fran�coise Verg�es -- Competition between victims / Esther Benbassa -- The army and the construction of immigration as a threat (1961-2006) / Mathieu Rigouste -- Postcolonial culture in the army and the memory of overseas combatants (1961-2006) / Christian Beno�it, Antoine Champeaux, and �Eric Deroo -- Republican integration : reflections on a postcolonial issue (1961-2006) / Vincent Geisser -- Colonial influences and tropes in the field of literature / Jean-Marc Moura -- From colonial history to the banlieues (1961-2006) / Dominique Vidal -- Can we speak of a postcolonial racism? (1961-2006) / Sa�id Bouamama and Pierre Tevanian -- From colonial stereotypes to the postcolonial gaze : the need for an evolution of the imaginary / Dominique Wolton -- Postcolonial cinema, song, and literature : continuity or change? (1961-2006) / Delphine Robic-Diaz and Alain Ruscio -- Ethnic tourism : symbolic reconquest? (1961-2006) / Nicolas Bancel -- Francophonie and universality : the evolution of two intertwined notions (1961-2006) / Gabrielle Parker.

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