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The Invention of Green Colonialism
GUILLAUME BLANC
Translated by Helen Morrison
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Originally published in French as L’invention du colonialisme vert. Pour en finir avec le mythe d’Éden africain. Préface de François-Xavier Fauvelle © Flammarion, Paris, 2020
This English edition © Polity Press, 2022
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Preface to the English Edition History as a Starting Point
The Invention of Green Colonialism. By virtue of its title, as soon as it was published, this book was associated with postcolonial studies, even with ‘decolonial’ thinking. These fields of study have of course influenced my work, but what I wanted first and foremost was to write a book focusing on environmental
