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Decolonising Imperial Heroes - Cultural legacies of the British and French Empires (Paperback)
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Decolonising Imperial Heroes - Cultural legacies of the British and French Empires (Paperback)
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The heroes of the British and French empires stood at the vanguard
of the vibrant cultures of imperialism that emerged in Europe in
the second-half of the nineteenth century. Their stories are well
known. Scholars have tended to assume that figures such as
Livingstone and Gordon, or Marchand and Brazza, vanished rapidly at
the end of empire. Yet imperial heroes did not disappear after
1945, as British and French flags were lowered around the world. On
the contrary, their reputations underwent a variety of
metamorphoses in both the former metropoles and the former
colonies. This book develops a framework to understand the complex
legacies of decolonisation, both political and cultural, through
the case study of imperial heroes. We demonstrate that the
'decolonisation' of imperial heroes was a much more complex and
protracted process than the political retreat from empire, and that
it is still an ongoing phenomenon, even half a century after the
world has ceased to be 'painted in red'. Whilst Decolonising
Imperial Heroes explores the appeal of the explorers, humanitarians
and missionaries whose stories could be told without reference to
violence against colonized peoples, it also analyses the
persistence of imperial heroes as sites of political dispute in the
former metropoles. Demonstrating that the work of remembrance was
increasingly carried out by diverse, fragmented groups of non-state
actors, in a process we call 'the privatisation of heroes', the
book reveals the surprising rejuvenation of imperial heroes in
former colonies, both in nation-building narratives and as heritage
sites. This book was originally published as a special issue of the
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
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