Proposition de participation à un panel "Preserving Empire" - Colloque, janvier 2011, Boston.

We are looking for 1-2 papers and a commentator to join a panel for the 2011 AHA conference in Boston (January 6-9), provisionally titled "Preserving Empire". This panel will address questions of stewardship, preservation, and colonial/post-colonial relations between imperial powers and their colonies. Stewardship long served as a justification of European imperialism, but it was often only in the 20th century, as empires faced new strains and tensions, that imperial governments found themsel..