Robert Aldrich
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Aldrich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Aldrich |
| SIGNATURE | ALDRICH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2042-7055 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 84 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 79 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1927 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Colonisations: Notre histoire , a roundtable discussion
The collected volume Colonisations: notre histoire (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2023) is a landmark publication that offers a critical assessment of France’s fraught role in global history, ranging from the precolonial era to the present. It makes a powerful case for the continuing relevance of the complex history of colonialism in France and the world today. This roundtable features reflections on the volume by four historians working on different…
Exils impériaux: Le Bannissement Des Souverains Traditionnels
La déposition et l'exil de souverains autochtones offraient une stratégie par laquelle les colonisateurs ont essayé de se débarrasser de monarques et autres chefs héréditaires qui s'opposaient à leurs conquêtes, s'engageaient dans des rébellions ou ne trouvaient plus une place dans la politique coloniale. Parmi les exemples dans l'outre-mer français, nous portons notre attention sur les princes d'Annam, la dernière reine de Madagascar et plusieur…
Customs and Traditions
Economy and Society in Burgundy Since 1850
Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present
In Empires of the Mind, Robert Gildea, the distinguished Oxford historian of modern France, offers little less than an overview of modern international history seen through the prism of British and French colonialism and what he considers neo-colonialism or neo-imperialism. In the fast-paced first two chapters, the book traces colonialism from the era of European discoveries and the chartered trading companies through the Second World War, regula…
Kingdoms, empires and the French Republic: Colonisers and indigenous monarchs in the Asia-Pacific
Though France was a republic after 1870, French officials had to treat with monarchs in colonial ‘protectorates’, including in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Polynesia. Though they hoped to use feudatory rulers to galvanise support, the French were never able fully to do so. With rare exceptions, the monarchs for their part found it difficult either to influence colonial overrule or to spearhead nationalist independence movements. Even if protectora…
Monarchies and decolonisation in Asia
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century
500 entries from more than 100 contributors, profiling gay and lesbians throughout history, ranging from Sappho to Andre Gide; most entries are accompanied by a bibliography.
Identity, Culture and Politics
The Ends of Empire: The Last Colonies Revisited
Apologies, Restitutions, and Compensation: Making Reparations for Colonialism
Coming to terms with an imperial past has involved difficult and often divisive questions of how far the inhabitants of former imperial powers should accept responsibility for the deeds of their predecessors, how far back into the past one might go to remedy such injustices, and what happens when the reparative demands of injured parties conflict with the security and well-being of others. This chapter looks at a range of cases and claims for res…
Locating Guyane
Guyane Française is known largely because of Devil’s Island—part of the penitentiary established in 1851—and the country’s perilous equatorial landscape and climate, though more recently it is associated with the European spaceport at Kourou. Guyane is one of France’s oldest colonies, tentatively settled in the mid-1600s, and since 1946, it has been a département d’outre-mer. With 281,000 inhabitants, it remains sparsely populated, but the territ…
Royals on tour: Politics, pageantry and colonialism
Royals on Tour explores visits by European monarchs and other members of royal families to overseas colonies, and by indigenous royals from the colonies to Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It presents case studies of travel by royals from Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium to the overseas possessions (and, in some cases, potential possessions) of their countries, and of visits to Europe by …
Decolonisation and the Pacific: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire, by Tracey Banivanua Mar
The decolonisation of the Pacific islands is generally considered one of the final chapters in the history of the end of empire—Samoa was the first state to gain independence, in 1962, and the process continued until 1980. It is also thought to have involved little pressure by militant Indigenous populations and political groups, with independence given by a Britain eager to disengage from Oceania, not given by the United States and France, which…
Banished potentates: Dethroning And Exiling Indigenous Monarchs Under British And French Colonial Rule, 1815- 1955
The deposition and exile of native monarchs was a key strategy in British and French efforts to secure control over their possessions in Asia and Africa. Taken as prisoners of war, implicated in rebellions or charged with misgovernment or immorality, indigenous rulers were dethroned and their dynasties sometimes abolished. They were then banished to distant places, in hopes they could not escape or serve as rallying-points for anti-colonial agita…
Mobile citizens: French Indians in Indochina, 1858–1954, by Natasha Pairaudeau
On the eve of World War II, 3,000 French Indians lived in Indochina, primarily in Saigon and Cochinchina. Most came from Pondichery, one of five small enclaves France retained in India after the ei
Crowns and Colonies: European Monarchies and Overseas Empires
Crowns and Coloniesis a set of sixteen original essays by distinguished international scholars that explore the relationship between European monarchies and overseas empires. The essays argue that during much of the history of colonialism there existed a direct and important link between most colonial empires and the institutions of monarchy. The contributions, which encompass the British, French, Dutch, Italian and German empires, examine the co…
Crowns and Colonies: European Monarchies and Overseas Empires
Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration
Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration
Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration explores the phenomenon of exile within and from colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries from several disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, gender studies, literature, history, and Asian, Australian, and Pacific studies. Chapters cover myriad contexts from Colombo to Cape Town, from New Caledonia to New South Wales, from Burma to Banda; French, British, and Dutc…
Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka: Sex and Serendipity
Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, was long known to travellers for its luxuriant landscapes, colourful temples and friendly inhabitants – the island once named Serendip. This book explores the sojourns of gay visitors from the late 1800s to the modern day, providing a history of homosexuality, travel and cultural encounter on the island. The book offers profiles of major figures in Sri Lankan culture and of homosexual visitors, both famous and infamous, to t…
The Routledge History of Western Empires
Routledge History of Western Empires
Specters of Violence in a Colonial Context: New Caledonia, 1917. By Adrian Muckle
"Specters of Violence in a Colonial Context: New Caledonia, 1917. By Adrian Muckle." The Journal of Pacific History, 48(1), pp. 104–105 Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobert Aldrich University of Sydney
The last blank spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia
Homosexuality and the City: An Historical Overview
Ever since the time of ancient Athens and the Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah, homosexuality has been associated with the city. Historians over the past decade have chronicled urban gay and lesbian groups in Renaissance Italy, Enlightenment France and Britain, and modern America and Australia, and social scientists have also identified emerging gay communities in Asia. Their researches show how homosexuals formed urban networks of sociability and sol…
Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France
This book offers the first comprehensive study of 'sites of memory' in France connected to the history of French imperialism and colonialism, and the ways that the French have remembered or forgotten
The Last Colonies
This comprehensive and authoritative book is about the last colonies, those remaining territories formally dependent on metropolitan powers. It discusses the surprisingly large number of these territories, mainly small isolated islands with limited resources. Yet these places are not as obscure as might be expected. They may be major tourist destinations, military bases, satellite tracking stations, tax havens or desolate, underpopulated spots th…
France's Overseas Frontier: Départements et territoires d'outre-mer
This 1992 book is a full-length study in English of the 'confetti of empire', the former French colonies which have not gained their independence but remain part of France as the départements et territoires d'outre-mer (DOM-TOMs). More recent French governments have shown a determination to retain these possessions, despite independence movements (notably in New Caledonia) and international criticism. The authors' comprehensive description of the…
Colonial museums in a postcolonial Europe
Colonialists made great efforts to mark cities with signs of empire, the monuments that commemorated battles lost and won, the ministries from which imperial power reached to the moving frontiers of the known world, churches enshrining the relics of martyrs to the faith, the remains of colonial exhibitions. Particularly potent among these imperial creations were museums that exhibited empire. This article explores the metamorphosis of museums in …
Colonial Past, Post-Colonial Present History Wars French-Style
The spectre of colonialism haunts post-colonial France. From revelations about torture in colonial Algeria to disputes about the wearing of ‘ostentatious’ religious symbols by Muslim students in present-day France, from political movements by the descendants of colonial migrants to urban riots, France is being forced to re-examine its colonial past and the legacy it left. The passing of a law, in February 2005, mandating the teaching of the ‘posi…
Homosexuality in the French Colonies
2002). Homosexuality in the French Colonies. Journal of Homosexuality: Vol. 41, No. 3-4, pp. 201-218
Royals on tour: Politics, pageantry and colonialism
Royals on Tour explores visits by European monarchs and other members of royal families to overseas colonies, and by indigenous royals from the colonies to Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It presents case studies of travel by royals from Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium to the overseas possessions (and, in some cases, potential possessions) of their countries, and of visits to Europe by …
Banished potentates: Dethroning And Exiling Indigenous Monarchs Under British And French Colonial Rule, 1815- 1955
The deposition and exile of native monarchs was a key strategy in British and French efforts to secure control over their possessions in Asia and Africa. Taken as prisoners of war, implicated in rebellions or charged with misgovernment or immorality, indigenous rulers were dethroned and their dynasties sometimes abolished. They were then banished to distant places, in hopes they could not escape or serve as rallying-points for anti-colonial agita…
Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized Peoples, 1886–1940
The Decolonisation of the Pacific Islands
At the end of the Second World War, the islands of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia were all under foreign control. The Netherlands retained West New Guinea even while control of the rest of the Dutch East Indies slipped away, while on the other side of the South Pacific, Chile held Easter Island. Pitcairn, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Fiji and the Solomon Islands comprised Britain's Oceanic empire, in addition to informal overlordship of T…
Kingdoms, empires and the French Republic: Colonisers and indigenous monarchs in the Asia-Pacific
Though France was a republic after 1870, French officials had to treat with monarchs in colonial ‘protectorates’, including in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Polynesia. Though they hoped to use feudatory rulers to galvanise support, the French were never able fully to do so. With rare exceptions, the monarchs for their part found it difficult either to influence colonial overrule or to spearhead nationalist independence movements. Even if protectora…
Commemorating Colonialism in a Post-Colonial World
Colonialists erected monuments, statues and other edifices to commemorate empire-building. Since the era of decolonisation, the construction of lieux de mémoire has continued, though now with commemoration of anti-colonialist nationalism and independence movements as well. Yet recent efforts show the paradoxes and challenges in trying to monumentalise colonialism and opposition to it. Examples of monuments to King Leopold of the Belgians, Henry M…
Remembrances of Empires Past
This paper argues that the colonial legacy is ever present in contemporary Europe. For a generation, most Europeans largely tried, publicly, to forget the colonial past, or remembered it only through the rose-coloured lenses of nostalgia; now the pendulum has swung to memory of that past – even perhaps, in the views of some, to a surfeit of memory, where each group agitates for its own version of history, its own recognition in laws and ceremonie…
Rediscovering the Pacific: A critique of French geopolitical analysis
Aldrich Robert. Rediscovering the Pacific : a critique of French geopolitical analysis. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 87, 1988-2. pp. 57-71
L'Australie et la France dans le Pacifique: Contentieux actuel et arrière-plan historique
Aldrich Robert. L'Australie et la France dans le Pacifique : contentieux actuel et arrière-plan historique. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 84, 1987-1. pp. 93-98
George Thomson, publisher
H. H. Milman and Popular Education, 1846
H. H. Milman and popular education, 1846
(1973). H. H. Milman and popular education, 1846. British Journal of Educational Studies: Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 172-179
Homosexuality in France
The Building of Manhattan-Sur-Seine
Louis Chevalier, Historien De Paris Et Des Parisiens
New Caledonia: The Current Crisis in Historical Perspective
L'Australie et la France dans le Pacifique: Contentieux actuel et arrière-plan historique
Aldrich Robert. L'Australie et la France dans le Pacifique : contentieux actuel et arrière-plan historique. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 84, 1987-1. pp. 93-98
Rediscovering the Pacific: A critique of French geopolitical analysis
Aldrich Robert. Rediscovering the Pacific : a critique of French geopolitical analysis. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 87, 1988-2. pp. 57-71
An Economic and Social History of Europe, 1890-1939. An Economic and Social History of Europe from 1939 to the Present
A Note on the Renewal of Colonial Studies in France
French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842-1940
Le lobby colonial de l'Océanie française
Colonial lobby groups played an important role in French expansion overseas. Among then was the Oceanic lobby, which promoted the French colonies of the South Pacific. Several individual writers and explorers argued for a French presence in Oceania from the late 1700s onwards, but it was only in the works of Paul Deschanel in the 1880s that a coherent theory of the importance of the South Pacific was articulated. Deschanel argued that the opening…
European Expansion in the Island Pacific. A Historiographical Review
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The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842–1940
An examination of France's presence in the South Pacific after the takeover of Tahiti. It places the South Pacific in the context of overall French expansion and current theories of colonialism and im
Colonists, Administrators and Imported Labourers
Colonists were both cause and result of the conquest of overseas territory. The presence of citizens of one nation in foreign territory, no matter how unauthorised their residence, created an interest there for the migrants’ mother country. These citizens, although required to obey the laws of the host state, could claim some legal protection or diplomatic intercession from their home country; most states felt honour-bound to come to the rescue o…
France's Overseas Frontier: Départements et territoires d'outre-mer
This 1992 book is a full-length study in English of the 'confetti of empire', the former French colonies which have not gained their independence but remain part of France as the départements et territoires d'outre-mer (DOM-TOMs). More recent French governments have shown a determination to retain these possessions, despite independence movements (notably in New Caledonia) and international criticism. The authors' comprehensive description of the…
France and the South Pacific Since 1940
The Economic History of the French Territories
Before the arrival of the French, the economies of New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna had begun to undergo economic change. Trading vessels, including a few French ships, exchanged textiles, metal instruments, alcohol, weapons and other goods for island produce. Melanesians and Polynesians sold sandalwood and trepang for the Chinese market and copra for European factories. Passing ships replenished their larders with tropical f…
La classe ouvriere australienne vue par un syndicaliste francais: Le rapport Thomsen
France's Overseas Frontier: Departements et territoires d'Outre-mer
The Last Colonies
This comprehensive and authoritative book is about the last colonies, those remaining territories formally dependent on metropolitan powers. It discusses the surprisingly large number of these territories, mainly small isolated islands with limited resources. Yet these places are not as obscure as might be expected. They may be major tourist destinations, military bases, satellite tracking stations, tax havens or desolate, underpopulated spots th…
The Decolonisation of the Pacific Islands
At the end of the Second World War, the islands of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia were all under foreign control. The Netherlands retained West New Guinea even while control of the rest of the Dutch East Indies slipped away, while on the other side of the South Pacific, Chile held Easter Island. Pitcairn, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Fiji and the Solomon Islands comprised Britain's Oceanic empire, in addition to informal overlordship of T…
Imperial Mise en Valeur and Mise en Scène: Recent Works on French Colonialism
This review looks at English- and French-language books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French colonial history published since 1995. It considers issues of ideology, imperial governance, the mise en valeur (development and ‘improvement’) of colonies (for instance, in health and education policy), the representation of empire in art and architecture, and decolonization. Special attention is paid to Indochina. Recent works have stressed the e…
Homosexuality in the French Colonies
2002). Homosexuality in the French Colonies. Journal of Homosexuality: Vol. 41, No. 3-4, pp. 201-218
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