Anatomy of Empire

Stephen Glain

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Overview Empires are like lawsuits that never end. Authority that is imposed rather than earned breeds mutual contempt and unhealthy dependencies that mutate with each generation. A recent exhibition in Paris of France’s colonial experience in Indochina artfully revealed the consequences of forcible conjugation between two worlds.