Promoting the Colonial Idea

TONY CHAFER is Principal Lecturer in French and African Studies at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth. He is on the editorial board of Modern and Contemporary France and the Journal of European Area Studies. - AMANDA SACKUR is Senior Lecturer in International History at London Guildhall University. Her main research areas are gender and cultural change in Francophone West Africa.

• Acknowledgements Table of Contents Abbreviations Glossary Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: THE EMPIRE AND PUBLIC OPINION Popular Enthusiasm for Empire in France; G.de Gantés A Colonial Propaganda Campaign: Gallieni, Lyautey and the Defence of the Military Regime in Madagascar, 1899-1900; P.Venier Drawing Settlers to New Caledonia: French Colonial Propaganda in the Late Nineteenth Century; I.Merle The Dissenters: Anticolonialism in France c.1900-40; J.Derrick PART II: REPRESENTATIONS OF EMPIRE Imperial Facades: Muslim Institutions and Propaganda in Inter-War Paris; N.MacMaster The French Provinces and 'La Plus Grande France'; O.Goerg Alienation or Political Strategy? The Colonised Defend the Empire; C.Atlan & J.Jézéquel Propagating Patriarchy: Marianne and Joan of Arc in French Propaganda and Cambodian Nationalism; P.Edwards Miscegenation and the Popular Imagination; O.White PART III: THE EMPIRE AND SCIENCE 'Faire Naître vs. 'Faire du Noir': Race Regeneration in France and West Africa, 1895-1930; A.Conklin Colonial Ethnography and Racism in France around 1900; E.Sibeud Direct or Indirect Rule: Propaganda around a Scientific Controversy; V.Dimier The Representation of the Colonies in War Memorials; B.Kidd Defending the Empire in Retrospect: The Discourse of the Extreme Right; C.Flood & H.Frey Colonial Paris: Traces of the Empire in the Paris Landscape; R.Aldrich Select Bibliography Index