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Imperialism and the corruption of democracies / Herman Lebovics.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lebovics, Herman.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imperialism.
- Imperialism--History.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Herman Lebovics, a preeminent cultural historian of France shows how empire and the postcolony have pervaded, and corroded, Western cultural, intellectual, and social life from the mid 19th century.
- Contents:
- Not the right stuff : shrinking colonial administrators
- Pierre Bourdieu's own cultural revolution
- Jean Renoir's voyage of discovery : from the shores of the Mediterranean to the banks of the Ganges
- France's Black Venus
- John Locke, imperialism, and the first stage of capitalism
- Why, suddenly, are the Americans doing cultural history?
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [121]-158) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822387794
- 0822387794
- OCLC:
- 1139397707
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