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Informationen zum Autor Herman Lebovics Klappentext "Scholars have been talking for some time about the colonial 'legacies' of the postcolonial present. French scholars have only recently and tentatively entered that conversation. "Bringing the Empire Back Home" makes an analytic and political leap as it takes us to new terrain of insight and locations of connection. Herman Lebovics's version of what counts as French history is compelling, powerful, sensible, and deep. In setting out the direct lines between decolonization in the l960s and the antiglobalization movements that followed, he traces what joined New Caledonian separatists and Larzac farmers, protests against the 'postcolonial military-industrial complex' and the rise of the radical right, the new regionalisms in France in the l970s and the folk hero Bove who smashed McDonald's windows. He identifies how imperial and capitalist expansion have been challenged in forms of popular demonstration, ingenuity, and spectacle that have repeatedly called into question what the 'Republic' is, who has a right to decide its boundaries, and who has what rights in it today. This is a must read that redefines the tenor and terrain of postcolonial scholarship."--Ann Laura Stoler, author of "Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's" History of Sexuality "and the Colonial Order of Things" Zusammenfassung A study of the meaning of culture in contemporary France with an emphasis on anti-globalization and post-colonial regionalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations ix About the Series xi Preface xiii Introduction 1 1. Gardarem lo Larzac! 13 2. “What You Did in Africa, Can You Come Back to France and Do It?” 58 3. Combating Guerilla Ethnology 83 4. The Effect Le Pen: Pluralism or Republicanism? 115 5. The Dance of the Museums 143 Conclusion 179 Notes 191 Acknowledgments 219 Index 223
