The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock : Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium

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Géographique

Belgique

Thématique

mémoire coloniale, monument

Disciplinaire

histoire

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Titre The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock : Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium
Type de publication Livre
Langue principale de la publication anglais
Année de publication 2019
Auteur Matthew G. STANARD
Nombre de pages 338
Éditeur Leuven University Press
Ville Leuven
Genre essai - étude
Pays d'édition Belgique
ISBN (Forme EAN-13) 9789462701793
Résumé/Présentation "[...] 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 mémoire 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 in which 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." (site de l'éditeur, 03.2020)
Référence complète Stanard, Matthew. The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock : Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium. Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2019, 338 p. - ISBN : 9789462701793

Auteurs

Matthew G. STANARD

Biographie : Associate Professor of History at Berry College where he is the 2014 recipient of the Mary S. and Samuel Poe Carden Award for outstanding teaching, scholarship, and service. He has published a number of books, journal articles, and book chapters on nineteenth- and twentieth-century European overseas empire. He has been a participant in the National History Center's Decolonization Seminar in Washington, D.C., a Wolfsonian-FIU Fellow in Miami Beach, Florida, and a Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellow in Brussels, Belgium. He lives in Rome, Georgia [...]. (https://congoinharlem.squarespace.com/bwana-kitoko/ - 2014.10)