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Colonizer or colonized : the hidden stories of early modern French culture / Sara E. Melzer.
LIBRA DC33.4 .M44 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melzer, Sara E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization.
- Philosophy.
- History.
- France--Civilization--History.
- France.
- France--Civilization--Philosophy.
- France--Civilization--Classical influences.
- France--Colonies--America.
- Colonies.
- America.
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]
- Contents:
- Part I France's Colonial Relation to the Ancient World
- Chapter 1 The Quarrel Between the Ancients and the Moderns as a Colonial Battle: The Memory Wars over "Our Ancestors the Gauls" 31
- Chapter 2 The Return of the Submerged Story About France's Colonized Past in the Quarrel over Imitation 54
- Part II France's Colonial Relation to the New World
- Chapter 3 Relating the New World Back to France: The Development of a New Genre, the Relations de Voyage 75
- Chapter 4 France's Colonial History: From Sauvages into Civilized, French Catholics 91
- Part III Weaving the Two Colonial Stories Together: Escaping Barbarism
- Chapter 5 Interweaving the Nation's Colonial and Cultural Discourses 125
- Chapter 6 Imitation as a Civilizing Process or as a Voluntary Subjection? 136
- Chapter 7 Imitation and the "Classical" Path 173
- Chapter 8 Using the Sauvage as a Lever to Decolonize France from the Ancients 199.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812243635
- 0812243633
- OCLC:
- 724643651
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