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Informationen zum Autor Herman Lebovics is Professor of History at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age, also published by Duke University Press; Mona Lisa’s Escort: André Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture; and True France: The Wars Over Cultural Identity, 1900–1945. Klappentext 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-nineteenth century to the present day Zusammenfassung Develops an historical argument with contemporary relevance - Empire abroad inevitably undermines democracy at home. Focusing on France and to a lesser extent on the United Kingdom! this title shows how empire and the post-colony have pervaded - and corroded - Western cultural! intellectual! and social life from the mid-19th century onwards. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Acknowledgments xix 1. Not the Right Stuff: Shrinking Colonial Administrators 1 2. Pierre Bourdieu’s Own Cultural Revolution 22 3. Jean Renoir’s Voyage of Discovery: From the Shores of the Mediterranean to the Banks of the Ganges 34 4. France’s Black Venus 60 5. John Locke, Imperialism, and the First Stage of Capitalism 87 6. Why, Suddenly, are the Americans Doing Cultural History 100 Afterword 113 Notes 121 Selected Works of American Cultural History Writing 155 Index 159
