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17 - Anticolonialism and Nationalism in the French Empire

from Part ii - Paradigm Shifts and Turning Points in the Era of Globalization, 1500 to the Present

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2023

By
Michael Goebel
Edited by
Cathie Carmichael ,
Matthew D'Auria  and
Aviel Roshwald
Cathie Carmichael
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Matthew D'Auria
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia
Aviel Roshwald
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

Over recent years the traditionally Eurocentric field of nationalism studies has changed, so as to include Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Although there have long been prominent exceptions to these regions’ previous neglect in studies of nationalism,1 such accounts have had a limited impact on the field’s theory building. This earlier marginality was all the more lamentable considering that these regions’ histories are central to the historical question of why and how the nation-state became something like a global gold standard of political organization during the past 250 years – and with reinvigorated speed in the two decades following the Second World War, during which many European colonies in Asia and Africa gained independent statehood.

Keywords

FranceAfricaDecolonizationColonialismEmpire
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The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism , pp. 376 - 398
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Cooper, Frederick, Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014).Google Scholar
Goebel, Michael, Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jennings, Eric, Vichy in the Tropics: Pétain’s National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940–1944 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002).Google Scholar
Lewis, Mary Dewhurst, Divided Rule: Sovereignty and Empire in French Tunisia, 1881–1938 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014).Google Scholar
Pedersen, Susan, The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shepard, Todd, The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008).Google Scholar
Shipway, Martin, Decolonization and its Impact: A Comparative Approach to the End of the Colonial Empires (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008).Google Scholar
Thomas, Martin, Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).Google Scholar
Thompson, Elizabeth, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).Google Scholar

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