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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: leopard, the lion, and the cock
    sub title: colonial memories and monuments in Belgium
  name:
    name part: Stanard, Matthew G.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: be
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 338 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The 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 mémoires 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.
  note: Matthew G. Stanard.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-be---
  subject:
    topic: Monuments
    geographic: Belgium
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    topic: Memorials
    geographic: Belgium
    topic: Public opinion
  subject:
    topic: Public opinion
    geographic: Belgium
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Belgium
    topic: Colonies
    topic: Public opinion
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: DH677 .S725 2019
  classification: 949.304/4
  identifier: 9462701792
  identifier: 9789462701793
  identifier: 9789461662804
  identifier: 2019404779
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190215
    record change date: 20191021075944.0
    record identifier: in00004067819