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Univ of California Press
Subjects and Sojourners : A History of Indochinese in France
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9780520396845
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9780520396845
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$101.13
Subjects and Sojourners : A History of Indochinese in France
$101.13
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--
| Author: Charles Keith |
| Publisher: Univ of California Press |
| Publication Date: Mar 05, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 399 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 0520396847 |
| ISBN-13: 9780520396845 |
