Colonial Monarchy and Decolonization in the French Empire
Schedule
Mon Mar 16 2026 at 12:00 pm to 01:30 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Buchanan Tower | Vancouver, BC
About this Event
Monday March 16, 2026 | 12-1:30pm | Room 1112, Buchanan Tower
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The Vietnamese emperor Bao Dai has gone down in history as a colonial puppet. He lies today beneath a black, nondescript tomb- stone in a Parisian cemetery. Meanwhile, millions of visitors stream through ornate monuments in Rabat and Phnom Penh to pay homage to the fathers of the Moroccan and Cambodian nations, Mohammed V and Norodom Sihanouk. The French had crowned them all as their colonial monarchs during the colonial period, but only two became the national icons of their post-colonial states. Why did some colonially conceived monarchs survive decolonization while others did not? In this talk, Christopher Goscha will try to provide a few possible answers to that question using a comparative framework of analysis.
Christopher Goscha is a professor of international relations in the history department of the Université du Québec à Montréal. He has recently published the award-winning The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First Vietnam War (Princeton, 2022). He is currently finishing a global history of the wars for Indochina (1288-1998).
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