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9780195162950

Empire of Love Histories of France and the Pacific

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    9780195162950

  • ISBN10:

    0195162951

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-01-13
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

In this broad-ranging survey of Paris, Tahiti, Indochina, Japan, New Caledonia, and the South Pacific generally, Matt Matsuda illustrates the fascinating interplay that shaped the imaginations of both colonizer and colonized. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Matsuda describes the constitution of a "French Pacific" through the eyes of Tahitian monarchs, Kanak warriors, French politicos and prisoners, Asian revolutionaries and Central American laborers, among others. He argues that French imperialism in the Pacific, both real and imagined, was registered most forcefully in languages of desire and love--for lost islands, promised wealth and riches, carnal and spiritual pleasures--and political affinities. Exploring the conflicting engagements with love for and against the empire in the Pacific, this book is an imaginative and ground-breaking work in global imperial and colonial histories, as well as Pacific histories.

Author Biography


Matt K. Matsuda is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he teaches Modern European and Asia and Pacific comparative histories. He is the author of The Memory of the Modern (OUP, 1996).

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION Empire of Love: Histories of France and the Pacific 3(14)
ONE Rochefort: The Family Romance of the French Pacific 17(26)
TWO Panama: Geopolitics of Desire 43(26)
THREE Wallis and Futuna: Martyrs and Memories 69(22)
FOUR Society Islands: Tahitian Archives 91(22)
FIVE New Caledonia: Prisoners of Love 113(24)
SIX Indochina: Romance of the Ruins 137(24)
SEVEN Japan: The Tears of Madame Chrysantheme 161(24)
AFTER WORD The Lost Continent 185(6)
Notes 191(34)
Index 225

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