Herman Lebovics

Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 163mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336976
• ISBN-10: 0822336979
• Artikelnr.: 21697117

Autorenporträt

Herman Lebovics

Inhaltsangabe

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