Empire and Culture

MARTIN EVANS is Reader in Contemporary History at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of The Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War 1954-62 (Oxford: Berg, 1997) and the co-author (with Emmanuel Godin) of France 1815-2003 (London: Edward Arnold, 2004). He is also the co-editor of War and Memory in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Berg, 1997) and The Algerian War and the French Army: Experiences, Images, Testimonies (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). He is presently writing a history of contemporary Algeria to be published by Yale University Press.

• Preface The French Empire and Culture: An Overview; M.Evans PART I: FILM Poor Propaganda: French Colonial Films of the 1930s; M.O'Shaugnessy Un de la Legion: Myth, Conception and Misconceptions; M.Heurtaud PART II: PHOTOGRAPHY Surrealism, Communism and Photography; D.Bate Documents Against Civilisation; D.Evans PART III: FOOD, MUSIC AND DANCE Indigestible Indochina: Attempts to Introduce Food into France in the Inter-War Period; E.Peters The "Ballet Blance et Noir": A Study of Racial and Cultural Identity During the 1931 Colonial Exhibition; D.Hale Frenchmen in Disguise: French Musical Exoticism and Empire; T.Cooper PART IV: PROMOTING THE FRENCH EMPIRE Making Indochina French: Promoting the Empire Through Education; N.Cooper The Empire and the Nation: The Place of Colonial Images in the Republican Visions of the French Nation; T.Baycroft Portrait of the Young Woman as a Coloniale; M.Ha "All the World's A Stage", Especially In The Colonies: L'Exposition de Hanoi, 1902-03; M.Vann