Claire Eldridge: 2 books
France's Lost Empires
Fragmentation, Nostalgia, and la fracture coloniale
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
France's Lost Empires brings together ten essays that collectively investigate the historical, cultural, and political legacies of French colonialism and, specifically, the endings of the French empire(s). Combining analyses of three "lost" territories (Canada, India, and Saint Dominigue)...
From empire to exile
History and memory within the pied-noir and harki communities, 1962–2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This book explores the memory of the war of independence in France as viewed by the former European settlers (pieds-noirs) and the harkis, those Algerians who worked for the French security forces. It examines how the memorial dynamics of the two groups are related both to each other and to other memories of the war.