ISBN:
9780520396845
,
9780520396852
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 383 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Keith, Charles, 1977- Subjects and sojourners
DDC:
305.800944
Keywords:
Indochinese History
;
Colonialism & imperialism
;
Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
;
Ethnische Gruppen und multikulturelle Studien
;
Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
;
POL045000
;
SOC008060
;
SOC068000
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
;
France
;
Frankreich
Abstract:
"Subjects and Sojourners explores how French colonial rule in Indochina extended Indochina's colonial society into France. Perhaps two hundred thousand Indochinese sojourned in France between conquest in the 1850s and decolonization a century later. They came from all parts of colonial society, from ruling monarchs to the most marginal laborers. In France, they studied, labored, fought, and lived in contexts that, although still within the empire, remained profoundly different from their places of origin. Their French sojourns were socially, culturally, and politically transformative. And when these sojourners returned to Indochina, virtually all parts of colonial society bore traces of their experiences abroad. Subjects and Sojourners shows, in short, that Indochina did not simply receive and refashion 'France' in the colony: they went and lived it for themselves"--
Abstract:
During the era of French colonial rule in Indochina, as many as two hundred thousand Indochinese sojourned in France. Subjects and Sojourners is a vivid and comprehensive social, cultural, and political history of this diverse group, which ranged from ruling monarchs to the most marginal laborers. Drawing from a range of rich but underused archives, Charles Keith explores how French colonialism extended Indochina s colonial society into France, where Indochinese subjects studied, labored, fought, and lived in imperial spaces and contexts that were profoundly different from those they had left behind. Time in France transformed these sojourners, and when they returned to Indochina, they in turn transformed colonial society. Indochinese, in short, did not simply encounter France in the colony: they went and lived it for themselves
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- To the docks -- Crossings -- From contact to conquest -- Cultural sojourners -- Labor sojourners -- Daily life -- Political sojourners from peace to war -- Political sojourners from war to decolonization -- Returns -- Coda : final voyages.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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