Promoting the Colonial Idea
Subtitle: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France
Contributors: Tony Chafer (Editor); Amanda Sackur (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780333791806
Subjects: Colonization & independence; European history: from c 1900 -; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Sociology; History: World; France; Anthropology - General; Emigration & Immigration; Europe - France; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Colonies; History; Propaganda, French; Public opinion; Racism
First sentence: Until relatively recently, it was widely accepted that, with brief exceptions, late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century empire enjoyed little popular support and generated no great mass enthusiasm in Europe.