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The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock

Autor Matthew G. Stanard
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 apr 2019
The degree to which the late colonial era affected Europe has been for long underappreciated, and only recently have European countries started to acknowledge not having come to terms with decolonization. In Belgium, the past two decades have witnessed a growing awareness of the controversial episodes in the country's colonial past. This volume examines the long-term effects and legacies of the colonial era on Belgium after 1960, the year the Congo gained its independence, and calls into question memories of the colonial past by focusing on the meaning and place of colonial monuments in public space.
The book foregrounds the enduring presence of empire in everyday Belgian life in the form of permanent colonial markers in bronze and stone, lieux de m moires of the country's history of overseas expansion. By means of photographs and explanations of major pro-colonial memorials, as well as several obscure ones, the book reveals the surprising degree to which Belgium became infused with a colonialist spirit during the colonial era. Another key component of the analysis is an account of the varied ways that both Dutch- and French-speaking Belgians approached the colonial past after 1960, treating memorials variously as objects of veneration, with indifference, or as symbols to be attacked or torn down. The book provides a thought-provoking reflection on culture, colonialism, and the remainders of empire in Belgium after 1960.
--Guy Vanthemsche, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789462701793
ISBN-10: 9462701792
Pagini: 338
Ilustrații: Illustrated
Dimensiuni: 154 x 232 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Leuven University Press

Notă biografică

Matthew G. Stanard is professor of history at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia, USA.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Belgians and the Colonial Experience before 1960 Chapter 2: Reminders and Remainders of Empire, 1960-1967 Chapter 3: Quiescence, 1967-1985 Chapter 4: Commemoration and Nostalgia, 1985-1994 Chapter 5: A New Generation, 1994-2010 Chapter 6: 2010 and Beyond Epilogue Appendix Notes References Index