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_aJV2811 _b.S735 2019 |
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_aStandard, Matthew G., _eauthor. |
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_aThe Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock : _bColonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium / _cMatthew G. Stanard. |
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_aBaltimore, Maryland : _bProject Muse, _c2019 |
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_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2019 |
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_a1 online resource (338 pages): _billustrations (some color) |
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_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia |
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_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
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500 | _aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. | ||
504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [307]-334) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | _aBelgians and the colonial experience before 1960 -- Reminders and remainders of empire, 1960-1967 -- Quiescence, 1967-1985 -- Commemoration and nostalgia, 1985-1994 -- A new generation, 1994-2010 -- 2010 and beyond. | |
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_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star |
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520 | _aThe 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 memoires 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. | ||
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_aPublic opinion _zBelgium _xHistory. |
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_aMemorials _zBelgium _xPublic opinion. |
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_aMonuments _zBelgium _xPublic opinion. |
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_aImperialism _xSocial aspects _zBelgium _xHistory. |
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_aBelgium _xColonies _xPublic opinion _xHistory. |
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_aElectronic books. _2local |
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_aProject Muse, _edistributor. |
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_iPrint version: _z9789462701793 |
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830 | 0 | _aBook collections on Project MUSE. | |
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_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/65135/ |
945 | _aProject MUSE - 2019 Complete | ||
945 | _aProject MUSE - 2019 History | ||
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