Bringing the Empire Back Home
Bringing the Empire Back Home
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将帝国带回家
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2004
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H. Lebovics
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H. Lebovics
30年前，一场国际反全球化运动在法国拉扎克高原的牧场上诞生。在20世纪70年代，拉扎克的农民和来自世界各地的人们一起努力阻止当地军事基地的扩张：包括生态学家、宗教和平主义者、城市左派，以及包括美国印第安人和南美农民领袖在内的社会活动家。1999年，一些曾在70年代反对基地扩张的农民——包括何塞·博夫——拆除了当地的新麦当劳。这一姿态是抗议美国对法国特定出口产品征收关税的一部分，其中包括该地区主要市场产品洛克福奶酪。这两场斗争——一场是反对扩建法国军营，目的是为后殖民战争训练军队，另一场是反对美国的经济实力——是保护当地文化的全球运动中的里程碑。几十年来，法国人试图在一个发生了巨大变化的国家、一个新的欧洲，尤其是一个美国主导的世界中定义自己的文化遗产，这些事件也是其中的关键事件。
Thirty years ago, an international antiglobalization movement was born in the grazing lands of France’s Larzac plateau. In the 1970s, Larzac farmers were joined by others from around the world in their efforts to prevent the expansion of a local military base: by ecologists, religious pacifists, and urban leftists, and by social activists including American Indians and South American peasant leaders. In 1999 some of the same farmers who had fought the expansion of the base in the 1970s—including Jose Bove—dismantled the new local McDonald’s. That gesture was part of a protest against U.S. tariffs on specified French exports including Roquefort cheese, the region’s primary market product. The two struggles—the one against expanding a French army camp intended to train troops for postcolonial wars, the other against American economic might—were landmarks in the global campaign to preserve local cultures. They were also key episodes in the decades-long attempt by the French to define their cultural heritage within a much changed nation, a new Europe, and, especially, an American-dominated world.
In Bringing the Empire Back Home , the inventive cultural historian Herman Lebovics provides a riveting account of how intense disputes about what it means to be French have played out over the past half-century, redefining Paris, the regions, and the former colonies in relation to one another and the world at large. In a narrative populated with peasants, people from the former colonies, museum curators, former colonial administrators, left Christians, archaeologists, anthropologists, soccer players and their teenage fans, and, yes, leading government officials, Lebovics reveals contemporary French society and cultures as perhaps the West’s most important testing grounds of pluralism and assimilation. A lively cultural history, Bringing the Empire Back Home highlights not only the political significance of France’s efforts to synthesize the regional, national, European, ethnic postcolonial, and global but also the chaotic beauty of the endeavor.