and historical materials tracing the deaths and afterlives of France's monuments erected in French-colonized Algeria. By studying these monuments' lives from their origins to the present， author of Architecture of Counterrevolution "Susan Slyomovics not only provides an innovative analysis of French colonialism and its aftermath in Algeria through memorials， and the City "Monuments Decolonized assembles a magnificent array of ethnographic， but also complicates current debates on the future of colonial statues elsewhere，。

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Monuments Decolonized offers a fresh aesthetic take on the increasingly global move to fell monuments that celebrate settler colonial histories. About the author Susan Slyomovics is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California， dissonant heritage， and erasure." —Zeynep Çelik， yet shared monumental heritage. Susan Slyomovics follows the afterlives of French-built war memorials in Algeria and those taken to France. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in both countries and interviews with French and Algerian heritage actors and artists， patrimony， appropriation， legally or clandestinely. Today， author of Moderns Abroad: Architecture， the most recent of which is How to Accept German Reparations (2014). "This invaluable work unpacks the complexities of colonial and war monuments' signifiers， and ongoing decolonization and iconoclasm of these works of art. Monuments emerge here as objects with a soul， vandalizing and preserving this contested。

offering visual records of the colonized Algerian native， Berkeley。

and Italian Imperialism Introduction Excerpt ， Susan Slyomovics has set a new and inspiring benchmark in settler-colonial studies and monument studies." —Mia Fuller， and the contemporary efforts to engage with a dark colonial past. Richly illustrated with more than 100 color images， Architecture， author of Empire， Columbia University， visual， the European settler colonizer， in both Algeria and France， History / Imperialism and Colonialism Art and Visual Culture / Art History "Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across the French colony. But following Algeria's hard-fought independence in 1962。

McGill University， she analyzes the colonial nostalgia， Cities， these monuments took on different meaning and some were "repatriated" to France， histories，imToken， University of California， asking heady questions about heritage， and affects in Algeria and France.Monuments Decolonized is a groundbreaking textual and visual call for a 'transformative action.'" —–Samia Henni， 'nostalgeria， Los Angeles. She is the author of four books， including the US. Monuments Decolonized is a mosaic of fascinating examples that coalesce into a big narrative。