The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France: The Sins of Silence

IntroductionSection I FranceChapter 1 The Case for SilenceChapter 2 A Silence that Never Was? Appropriating the Algerian WarChapter 3 Devoir de mémoire on the Road to 2005: The Emergence of Memory Activism Chapter 4 Memory as Republican Critique: Race and Anti-racism after 2005Chapter 5 Memory as the Marker of Political Affiliation Section II BritainChapter 6 Postcolonial Silence through Britain's Long DecolonisationChapter 7 The Tale of the Imperial Balance SheetChapter 8 Breaking the Chains? The Memory of Slavery in Britain's Public SpacesChapter 9 Piercing through NostalgiaConclusion